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720 Notes and News American Public Men, by John A. Larkin (Dodd, Mead, and Com- pany), is intended as a manual for autograph collectors. It contains, for example, lists of the members of the Stamp Act Congress, of the generals of the Revolutionary War, of the signers of the Declaration of Independence, Articles of Confederation, and Constitution, of the members of the Continental Congress, of the governors or presidents of the thirteen independent colonies, of the parents and ancestors of the Presidents of the United States, of the justices of the Supreme Court, and of many other groups of public men, including a somewhat apocryphal list of the signers of the Mecklenburg Declaration of Inde- pendence. The volume should prove of use for the purpose intended. Four American Leaders, by Charles W. Eliot (Boston, American Unitarian Association), is a group of addresses dealing with the in- fluence upon American life and progress exerted by Franklin, Washing- ton, Channing, and Emerson. The Pennsylvania German for March continues its symposium on " German Migrations in the United States and Canada ". The November and December issues of the German American Annals continue the diary of Rev. Andreas Rudman from July 25, 1696, to June 14, 1697, and contain (December) the address on Carl Schurz delivered by Professor Eugene Kiihnemann in Carnegie Hall, New York, on November 21, 1906. ITEMS CHRONOLOGICALLY ARRANGED Sophus Rtige et ses Vues sur Colomh, by Mr. Henry Vignaud, ha.< been reprinted from the Journal de la Socictc dcs Amcricanistes de Paris, tome III., numero i. The Sociedad Astronomica de Mexico has printed a little volume of the proceedings in commemoration of the four hundredth anniversary of the death of Columbus (Mexico, J. I. Duran y cia.). It contains among other matters a paper by Jesus GaHndo y Villa : " Algunas Re- miniscencias sobre la Navigacion Maritima despues del Descubrimiento de America ". In a communication to the Nation for January 10, 1907, Mr. G. R. F. Prowse, of Manitoba, states that he has recently discovered evidence by which he is convinced that the island designated as " Litus incogni- tum " in Waldseemueller's World Map of 1507 was copied at first hand from the lost chart made by Cabot in 1497. He claims thus to place beyond dispute the fact of Cabot's landfall on June 24, 1497, at Cape Bonavista, and to determine approximately the extent of his explora- tion from Cape Freels around Bonavista Bay to Catalina Harbor, in Trinity Bay. In the series of " Original Narratives of Early American History " the second volume (third to be issued), Spanish Explorers in the Southern United States, 1528-1^4^, has now appeared. The fourth