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America 727 and Mary College " ; and prints the oath of allegiance imposed by the legislature of Virginia in 1780, together with other documentary material. A timely publication in view of the Jamestown Exposition is Mrs. Mary Newton Stanard's The Story of Bacon's Rebellion (Neale Pub- lishing Company). We are glad to note the First Biennial Report of the Department of Archives and History of the State of West Virginia, by Virgil A. Lewis, state historian and archivist (Charleston, W. Va., 1906, pp. 271). The report contains an account of the various efforts that have been made to promote the historical interests of the state of West Virginia, the act of February. 1905, establishing the Bureau of Archives and History, and a description of the material now in the custody of the bureau. There are printed a list of the regular sessions of the legislature of West Virginia, an account of the legislative archives, bibliographical accounts of the public documents and state papers relating to the period of the reorganized government, and of the same class of material emanating from the government of Virginia and relating to West Vir- ginia, together with much information respecting the seals and flags of the state, members of Congress from that part of Virginia now in- cluded in the state of West Virginia, newspapers printed within the state, pioneer forts, stockades and block-houses, Indian names of rivers in West Virginia, etc. It is encouraging to note that an effort is being made in North Carolina to secure proper treatment for the state archives, which have long been neglected. We have received recently a pamphlet reprinted by the North Carolina Historical Commission from the North Carolina Booklet, which contains an address delivered by Mr. R. D. W. Connor before the North Carolina Literary and Historical Association on A State Library Building and Department of Archives and Records. Mr. Connor describes graphically the disordered state of the archives and points out clearly the urgent need of making immediate and adequate provision for their security and arrangement. The legislature has just made an appropriation of $5,000 for the maintenance of the Historical Commission, which will probably enable active measures to be taken at once. The critical examination by Miss Adelaide L. Fries of the Moravian evidence to the Mecklenburg " Declaration of Independence ", men- tioned in this section of the last issue, has been reprinted from the Wachovia Moravian in pamphlet form, The Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence as Mentioned in Records of JVachovia (Raleigh, Edwards and Broughton), illustrated with several photographic fac- similes. The South Carolina Historical and Genealogical Magazine for Oc- tober and Tanuarv continues the series of letters from Lafavette to