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America 965 In its April issue The Old Xorthi^vst Genealogical Quarterly con- cludes " The Autobiography of Allen Trimble ". The Ohio Archaeological and Historical Quarterly for April has an article on " Welsh Settlements in Ohio ", by William Harvey Jones. An account of the annual meeting of the society is given in this number. In the department " Editorialana " are reprinted two sermons of the Reverend Morgan John Rhys, preached before the officers and army of General Wayne, at Greenville, July 4 and 5, 1795. We welcome the Quarterly Publication of the Historical and Philo- sophical Society of Ohio, of which the four numbers constituting vol- ume I. (1906) have appeared. The first number (January-March) con- sists of the " Personal Narrative of William Lytle ". The writer was a youthful etnigrant from Pennsylvania to Kentucky in 1780, and was engaged in a number of expeditions against the Indians, among them the expedition under Logan against the Mac-o-chee Indians in 1786. The narrative ends abruptly in 1788, in the midst of the so-called " Grant's Defeat ". In the April-June issue are printed some letters of Hiram Powers, the sculptor, to Nicholas Longworth, 1856 and 1858. The issue for July-September is devoted to " Selections from the Towner Papers (which are in the manuscript collections of the society), ar- ranged and edited by Isaac J. Cox. The selections here printed are letters of four brothers Findlay, all of whom were more or less engaged in politics about 1830. They illustrate the substratum of politics in the Jacksonian era. The Indiana Quarterly Magazine of History for !March presents an article : " The First Thoroughfares ", being number i of a series dealing with the history of internal improvements in the state. A map. showing the stage-coach routes in 1838, accompanies the article. Number 2 of the Indiana. Historical Society Publications, vol. IV. is composed of a paper on " The ^^'ord Hoosier ", by Jacob Piatt Dunn, and a sketch of "John Finley ", by ^Mrs. Sarah A. Wrigley (his daughter). Finley, it appears, did not coin the w-ord Hoosier in his poem " The Hoosier's Nest ", but found it in verbal use when he wrote (about 1830). "The Hoosier's Nest" is here printed in what is probably its original form. Among the recent manuscript acquisitions of the Chicago Historical Society are these: Thirty-two documents relative to the "Mormon War" in Illinois (June, 1844), the gift of Dr. O. L. Schmidt; day-book _of the Chicago-American, 1837-1841 ; fecord of arrivals and clearances of vessels at the port of Chicago, 1838. The society has in press " Father Pierre-Franqois Pinet, S.J., and His Mission of the Guardian Angel of Chicago, 1 696-1 699 ", by Frank P. Grover; and " Gurdon Saltonstall Hubbard, a Biographical Sketch ", by Henry E. Hamilton. The Chicago Historical Society has issued a " Biographical Sketch of Hon. Joseph Duncan, Fifth Governor of Illinois ", by E. W. Blatch-