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America 1 9 1 A third edition of Mr. Thomas Hudson McKee's manual The Na- tional Conventions and Platforms of all Political Parties, ijSg-igoo (Baltimore, Friedenwald Co.) has just been published. The collection is thus brought down to date. Messrs. Little, Brown and Co. announce a Z/'/c of Francis Parkinan, by Charles Haight Farnham, who has had much assistance from the his- torian's family and friends. The Macmillan Company will publish next month Stage- CoacA an, I Tavern Days, by Mrs. Alice Morse Earle. The Helman -Taylor Co. (Cleveland) have ready An Historical Ac- con nt of the Settlement of the Scotch Highlanders in America, prior to the Peace of JJ83, by J. P. MacLean. Mr. George Parker Winship, librarian of the John Carter Brown Library, at Providence, will shortly publish (London, Stevens) a volume of Cahot Bibliography, with an essay on the career of the Cabots. The book will be printed at the Chiswick Press. Under the title of The Fight with France for North America, Messrs. Archibald Constable are about to publish a short history, by A. G. Brad- ley, of the struggle between England and France for supremacy in North America. Mr. Bradley wrote the book on General Wolfe in the series of "Men of Action." Professor Marseille, rector of the Bismarck Gymnasium at Pyritz, Pomerania, has recently published the diary of a Hessian officer, Captain Freiherr von Dornberg, who served in the American War, at the siege of Charleston and afterwards on the staff of General Knyphausen. A Life of John Paul Jones, in two volumes, by Augustus C. Buell, has been published by Charles Scribner's Sons. Mr. Buell has discovered in Russia new material relating to Jones's services in the imperial navy. A former number of this Review, V. 290-319, contained an interest- ing selection from the diary of Philip Vickers Fithian, A.B., Princeton, 1772. It is now announced that the whole diary, with portions of the author's correspondence, will be published at Princeton this autumn by the Princeton Historical Society, Philip Vickers Fithian, Journal and Letters, ij6j-iYJ4, edited by Mr. John Rogers Williams, to whom we are indebted for the portion which we were privileged to print. The Funk and Wagnalls Co. (New York) have published 3.Jeffersonian Cyclopedia, being a comprehensive collection of the views of Thomas Jefferson, classified and arranged in alphabetical order under nine thou- sand titles. The work is edited by Mr. John P. Foley. Messrs. Houghton, Mifflin and Co. announce A Century of American Diplomacy, by the Hon. John W. Foster, formerly Secretary of State. This volume is concerned with the diplomatic relations of the United States from 1776 to 1876.