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966 Notes and News ford; and a "Biographical Sketch of Hon. John Peter Altgeld, Twentieth Governor of Ilhnois ", by Edward O. Brown. " The Old Kaskaskia Records ", an address read before the Chicago Historical Society. February 2, 1906, has been published by the society. The finding of these records was noted in the issue of the Review for April, 1906. The next publication of the Club for Colonial Reprints will be of a document entitled Invitation Serieuse aux Habitants dcs Illinois, signed " Un Habitant des Kaskaskia ", reprinted from the copy of 1772 in the possession of the Library Company of Philadelphia. The Union Cause in Kentucky, 1860-1865, by Captain Thomas Speed, adjutant of the twelfth Kentucky infantry, has appeared from the press of G. P. Putnam's Sons. The May Register of the Kentucky State Historical Society con- tains sketches of governors Stephenson and Leslie, by Mrs. Jennie C. •Morton, a paper on the separation of Kentucky from Virginia, by Z. T. Smith, and a " talk " on the life and work of George Rogers Clarke, by Colonel R. T. Durrett. Branches of the society are being organized over the state. Mr. Joshua W. Caldwell has revised and enlarged his work Studies in the Constitutional History of Tennessee { Cincinnati. The Robert Clarke Company). Investigators of Western and Southwestern history have long felt the need of a comprehensive guide to the extensive manuscript materials in the possession of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin. This want has been met by the society in its Descriptive List of Manuscript Col- lections, recently issued under the editorship of Dr. Reuben G. Thwaites (Madison, 1906, pp. viii, 197). By far the inost important collection of manuscripts in the society's possession is that known as the Draper Manuscripts. The description of this collection occupies, in the volume before us, 104 pages, whereas all the other manuscripts belonging to the society are described in 14 pages. There is an appendix containing summarized statements concerning important historical manuscript col- lections elsewhere in the Old Northwest and in other states adjacent to Wisconsin. The accounts given of these collections, " as reported by their custodians ", are, with one or two exceptions, rather summary. It is to be hoped that these several agencies will prepare for the benefit of investigators a more detailed account of the manuscript materials in their possession. We have received the Proceedings of the Wisconsin Historical So- ciety for 1906. The "Green Bay and Prairie du Chien Papers" (99 folio volumes), bearing upon the Fox- Wisconsin valley, have been bound. As was noted in the January issue, the society has acquired from the estate of Morgan L. Martin a (|uantity of valuable papers, which will in many essential points sup|)Ienicnt the Crrccn Bay and Prairie du Chien