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Aviei'ica 725 Volume IX. of the Publications of the Buffalo Historical Society, edited by Frank H. Severance, contains, as usual, several contributions of more than ordinary historical value. " The Johnson's Island Plot , by F. J. Shepard, is an interesting monograph on one phase of the operations of the Confederate government in Canada and New York. " Millard Fillmore and His Part in the Opening of Japan ", by Dr. William E. Griffis, is said to mark the beginning by Dr. Griffis of an elaborate biographical study of President Fillmore; of particular in- terest perhaps is the information given by the writer respecting the destruction of Fillmore's papers. The two contributions just noted are followed by a long paper by Frank H. Severance relating to Joncaire, and by a number of shorter papers relating to the burning of Buffalo and to events of the Niagara frontier before and during the War of 1812. There should also be mentioned some documentary material re- lating to Louis Le Couteulx. In Cape J'inccnt and Its History (Watertown, N. Y., Hungerford- Holbrook Company) the compiler, Mrs. Nellie H. Casler, has in- cluded a large amount of documentary material taken from the tran- scripts of documents in the British archives, on file in the Dominion archives at Ottawa, relating to the Revolution and to the part played by Cape Vincent as a base of supplies and as a fortification. An Oneida County Printer, by John C. Williams (Scribner's Sons), is a bibliography of Utica imprints from 1803 to 1838, and an account of the life and work of William Williams. The leading article in the Pennsylvania IIaga::ine of History and Biography for October, 1906, is by Lina Sinnickson, on Frederika, Baroness Riedesel, the wife of the general commanding the Bruns- wick troops in the Revolution. The Baroness accompanied her husband to America, and the article, illustrated with several old prints, deals largely with her experiences in this country. Other articles and con- tributions are: "The Wilson Portrait of Franklin", by Charles H. Hart, " Journey of Isaac Zane to Wyoming, 1758 ", communicated by Joseph H. Coates, and continuations of documents already noted. The Maryland Historical Society prints in the December number of the Maryland Historical Magasine a paper read before the society by B. U. Campbell in 1846, on " Early Missions among the Indians in Maryland". Another paper, read in 1878, by Reverend George A. Leakin, on " The tabadists of Bohemia Manor ", is also printed. Several interesting documents find place in the present issue, especially a letter from a Jacobite exile, of June 2, 1717, and a letter from John R. Caldwell of August 31, 1807, relating to the capture of a French pirate. Part I. of Bernard C. Steiner's Maryland during the English Civil Wars has been published as Nos. 11-12, series XXIV., of the Johns Hopkins University Studies in Historical and Political Science. It is