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America 469 volume immediately preceding it is written on folio paper with the water- mark of Britannia seated with shield and spear, in a circle surmounted by a crown, on one sheet, and the letters ' J. W.' on the other. The volume immediately succeeding is written on paper bearing the same figure of Britannia on one sheet, and the full name ' J. Whatman ' on the other. They were evidently made up of quires of the paper, by Charles Thom- son, and not by any binder." The Correspondence of William Pitt, edited by Miss Gertrude S. Kimball (London, New York, Macmillan ; two vols.), previously an- nounced in these columns, has appeared. Great credit for this valuable documentary publication is due to the Committee on Historic Research of the National Society of the Colonial Dames of America, a committee of which Mrs. Annie L. Sioussat is chairman. The volumes have been prepared and printed at the charge of the Colonial Dames. About half of the October issue of The American Catholic Histori- cal Researches is devoted to documents and incidents bearing on the general subject of "Catholics in the American Revolution". The Sterling Furnace and the West Point Chain (New York, De Vinne Press, privately printed, pp. 54) is an address delivered by Mac- grane Coxe at Sterling Lake on June 23, 1906, upon the occasion of the unveiling of a tablet by the Daughters of the Revolution of New York, in commemoration of the making of the chain. A useful little volume by W. Herbert Burk is a Guide to Valley Forge (Norristown, 1906). The volume is well illustrated and the topographi- cal and historical information, accompanied by a good map, are calcu- lated to make the visit of the tourist both profitable and interesting. The New York Historical Society has printed (John Divine Jones Fund Series, H.) The Journal of a Voyage from Charlestoivn, S. C, to London undertaken during the American Revolution by the Daughter of an Eminent American Loyalist in the Year 1778, and Written from Memory only in 1779. The writer was Louisa Susannah Wells, after- ward Mrs. Aikman. The Robert Lucas Journal of the War of 1S12, noted in these columns in the last issue, has been reprinted in an edition of four hundred copies from the /owa Journal of History and Politics for July. Number VL of the series of State Documents on Federal Relations, edited by Herman V. Ames, bears the subtitle Slavery and the Union, 1845-1861. Thirty-three documents, with ample historical and biblio- graphical notes, are included, and the series is now completed. The larger part of the October Annals of Iowa is devoted to a de- tailed account of "The Battle of Pleasant Hill, Louisiana", by S. F. Benson. Mr. Benson was a participant in the battle, and has made a careful study of the Red River campaign. The article is illustrated with a map.