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1921 SHORT NOTICES 159 to the local and other libraries where the files are to be sought. It would have been impossible to avoid all inaccuracies in these closely-printed lists, which extend to more than three hundred pages of double columns, but the standard of accuracy seems, so far as we have been able to test it, to be high. For the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries, the list aims at being ■ practically exhaustive ', but for the eighteenth it is unavoid- ably incomplete. Even for students of that century it will, however, be a most useful guide and a starting-point for further compiling. There is an introduction of a dozen pages, somewhat miscellaneous, but containing some of the more interesting early references to newspapers, such as Richard Brathwaite's character of a ' Corranto-Coiner ' of 1631. The value of the volume might have been increased by the addition of a sys- tematic list of secondary works relating to the periodical press, and of such reprints as the facsimiles in which Mr. W. van Stockum, jun., reproduced the earliest group of English newspapers printed in Holland in 1620 and 1621, the group which justifies the word ' Tercentenary ' in the title of this Handlist. I. The subject-catalogue of American and English Genealogies in the Library of Congress at Washington, which was first published in 1910, though not noticed in this Review, has appeared in a second and greatly extended edition (Washington Government Printing Office, 1919). Over 3,000 new titles have been added, and the catalogue now contains nearly 7,000 entries, though a considerable proportion of these are biographical rather than genealogical. Viewed as a bibliography of American family history, the Congress catalogue is fairly exhaustive. For English pedigrees it is naturally less complete, and so, while supplementing, it fails to super- sede the family history section in Gatfield's Guide to Heraldry and Genealogy. H. H. E. C. The volume on Writings on American History, 1917 (New Haven, Connecticut : Yale University Press, 1919), compiled by Miss Grace G. Griffin, is the twelfth number of a continuous series, opening with 1906. Its value to students of American history does not admit of exaggeration. H. E. E. i The collection of Washington papers, purchased by the government of the United States in 1834, has recently been rearranged in 472 volumes. Mr. J. C. Fitzpatrick's List of the Washington Manuscripts, 1592-1775 (Washington : Government Printing Office, 1919), gives, with an index, the headings of the individual papers of the first fifteen volumes, which end immediately before George Washington's commission as commander- in-chief. L. Governments may do much to make the path of the historian easy : whether they may not attempt too much is the question suggested by the List of References on the Treaty-Making Power (Washington : Govern- ment Printing Office, 1920) which has been compiled under the direction of Mr. Herman H. B. Meyer, the chief bibliographer of the Library of Congress. There are 1,010 references, covering the power of making