Edward Everett Hale, The Life of Washington studied anew. 1888. N.Y., Washington Irving, Life of George Washington. 5 vols. N.Y., 1855-59Bradley Tyler Johnson, General Washington. (Great Commanders series.) N.Y., 1894. Charles Cooper King, George Washington. London, 1894. Henry Cabot Lodge, George Washington. (American Statesmen John Marshall, Life of George Washington. 5 vols. Phila., 1804-07. Also an abridged edition in 2 vols. 1832. Horace Elisha Scudder, George Washington: An Historical Biography. (Riverside Library for Young People series.) Boston, 1889. [Mrs.] Elizabeth Eggleston Seelye, The Story of Washington. N.Y., 1893. Jared Sparks, The Life of George Washington. Boston, 1839. Charles Janeway Stillé, Major-General Anthony Wayne and the Pennsylvania Line in the Continental Army. Phila., 1893. George T. Curtis, Life of Daniel Webster. 2 vols. N.Y., 1870. Peter Harvey, Reminiscences and Anecdotes of Daniel Webster. Boston, 1877. Henry Cabot Lodge, Daniel Webster. (American Statesmen series.) Boston, 1883. Horace Elisha Scudder, Noah Webster. (American Men of Letters series.) Boston, 1882. Thurlow Weed Barnes, Memoir of Thurlow Weed. Boston, 1884. William Sloane Kennedy, John Greenleaf Whittier, the Poet of Freedom. (American Reformers series.) N.Y., 1892. Henry Martyn Dexter, As to Roger Williams. Congregational Publishing Society, Boston. [Copyright, 1876.] James Davis Knowles, Memoir of Roger Williams. Boston, 1834. Oscar Solomon Straus, Roger Williams: The Pioneer of Religious Liberty. N.Y., 1894. Robert C. Winthrop, Life and Letters of John Winthrop. Boston, 1864. Joseph Hopkins Twichell, John Winthrop. (Makers of America series.) N.Y., 1891. J. P. Kennedy, Memoirs of William Wirt. 2 vols. Phila., 1849. George Gibbs, Memoirs of the Administrations of Washington and John Adams. N.Y., 1820. John S. Jenkins, Life of Silas Wright. Auburn, 1847. John Witherspoon Du Bose, The Life and Times of William Lowndes Yancey. Birmingham, Ala., 1892. Joseph Hodgson, The Cradle of the Confederacy; or. The Times of Troup, Quitman, and Yancey. Mobile, 1876. George Quayle Cannon, Life of President Brigham Young. [In preparation.] § 26. Periodicals. Much valuable material, both secondary and original, is buried in the sets of American periodicals. Few of them are wholly devoted to historical matters, but many contain occasional articles. Out of the following list of periodicals the most serviceable in an historical library would be the American Historical Review, Atlantic Monthly, Century (especially for the Civil War), Democratic Review, Forum, North American Review (old series to 1878), Magazine of American History, Political Science Quarterly, Scribner's Magazine, and the Yale Review. Until the publication of Poole's Index to Periodicals such matter was almost inaccessible. At present, by means of this aid and Jones's Index to Legal Periodicals, it is easy to assemble material either as a basis of historical knowledge or for topical work. The value of a library is much increased by these publications, including the supplements to Poole. There are also special indexes to Harper's, North American Review, and the New York Nation. Of the earlier periodicals the most valuable for its historical material is Niles's Register (1811-46); for the last thirty years the New York Nation (since 1865); the North American Review fills the gap between. The only periodical wholly devoted to American history has been the Magazine of American History, now discontinued: but, in October, 1895, appeared the first number of the American Historical Review, which is intended to be a national clearing-house for historical writers and readers. The Political Science Quarterly and the Yale Review have also much historical matter. For a record of current events and criticisms Public Opinion is useful. The illustrated magazines have some historical articles frequently gathered into later volumes. The Forum and North American Review deal rather with current political and social questions than with historical questions. 26 List of Periodicals Containing Historical Material. American Law Review. Boston, 1867-. The American. Philadelphia, 1881–. The American Antiquarian. Chicago, 1878-. The American Whig Review. 16 vols. N.Y., 1845-52. The Andover Review. Boston, 1884-93. Appleton's Journal. 15 vols. N.Y., 1869–76. — New series, II vols. 1876-81. The Atlantic Monthly. Boston, 1857-. Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science. Phila., 1890-. The Bangor Historical Magazine. 8 vols. Bangor, 1885-93. The Baptist Quarterly Review. Bibliotheca Sacra. II vols. N.Y., 1867–77. Andover, 1844-83; Oberlin, 1884-. Carey's American Museum. IO vols. Phila., 1787-92. The Catholic World. N.Y., 1865-. The Century Magazine. N.Y., 1881-. The Cosmopolitan. N.Y., 1887-. De Bow's Commercial Review. 29 vols. New Orleans, 1846-60. 5 vols. War series," 8 vols., 1866-70. New Orleans, 1860-64. · "After the The Democratic Review. 43 vols. N.Y., 1838-59. William Henry Egle, editor, Notes and Queries, Historical and Genealogical, chiefly relating to Interior Pennsylvania. Harrisburg, 1881-95. The Forum. N.Y., 1886-. The Galaxy. 24 vols. N.Y., 1866–77. The Granite Monthly. 9 vols. Concord, N.H., 1878–86. Harper's New Monthly Magazine. N.Y., 1850-. Harvard Law Review. Cambridge, 1887-. Samuel Hazard, editor, Register of Pennsylvania (1828-35). 16 vols. Phila., 1828-36. The Historical Magazine (Dawson's). 23 vols. Boston, etc., 1857-75. The International Review. 14 vols. N.Y., 1874-83. Johns Hopkins University Studies in Historical and Political Science. Baltimore, 1883-. The Knickerbocker Magazine. 64 vols. N.Y., 1833-64. § 26 a.] Periodicals. 103 Magazine of American History. N.Y., 1877-94. Magazine of New England History. 2 vols. Newport, 1891-93. Magazine of Western History. 14 vols. Cleveland, N. Y., 1884-91. Continued as The National Magazine. Vols. XV-XIX. N.Y., 1891-94. Maine Historical and Genealogical Recorder. Portland, 1884-. William Maxwell, editor, The Virginia Historical Register, and Literary Advertiser. 6 vols. Richmond, 1848-53. The Methodist Quarterly. N.Y., 1841-. The Narragansett Historical Register. 8 vols. Hamilton, R.I., 1882-91. The Nation. N.Y., 1865-. The National Geographic Magazine. Washington, 1889-. The New England Historical and Genealogical Register. Boston, 1847-. New Princeton Review. 6 vols. N.Y., 1886–88. The New Englander. 56 vols. New Haven, etc., 1843-92. The New England Magazine. 9 vols. Boston, 1831-35. The Newport Historical Magazine. Vols. I-IV. Newport, 1880-83. - Continued as The Rhode Island Historical Magazine. Vols. V-VII. Newport, 1884-87. The North American Review. Boston, 1815-77; N.Y., 1878-. Ohio Archæological and Historical Quarterly (1887-89). 2 vols. Columbus [1887-89]. The Penn. Monthly. 12 vols. Phila., 1870-82. The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography. — The official publication of the Pennsylvania Historical Society. Phila. 1877-. Political Science Quarterly. N.Y., 1886-. The Portfolio (Dennie's). 34 vols. Phila., 1809-25. Potter's American Monthly. 14 vols. Phila., 1875-81. The Presbyterian Quarterly Review. 6 vols. N.Y., 1872-77. N.Y., 1880-89. The Princeton Review. 43 vols. Princeton, 1829–71. N.Y., 1878-84. The Quarterly Journal of Economics. Boston, 1886–. New series, Scribner's Monthly. 22 vols. N.Y., 1870-81.- New series, Scribner's Magazine, N.Y., 1887-. Southern Historical Magazine. Vol. I, Nos. 1-6. Charleston, W.Va., 1892. Southern Literary Messenger. 29 vols. Richmond, 1835-59. The Southern Quarterly Review. 27 vols. Charleston, 1842-56. The Southern Review. 8 vols. Charleston, 1828-32. Boston, 1874-91. The Universalist Quarterly. 48 vols. Boston, 1844-91. Western Law Journal. 10 vols. Cincinnati, 1843-53. § 27. Newspapers. Newspapers are difficult to use for historical purposes, and their record of events is apt to be imperfect or distorted by the political views of the editor. Early newspapers, especially in colonial times, had very little important news in them, and are useful principally for the unintentional information of advertisements and items. Newspapers of the present day are hard to handle, owing to their bulk and to the lack of systematic arrangement. In general such material ought to be used rather for illustration and corroboration; it is not safe to make newspapers the sole, or even the principal, dependence for an historical narrative. The system of newspaper clippings employed in some schools has the serious drawback of failing to instil discrimination in the selection of material. The following books about American newspapers may be found suggestive : Joseph T. Buckingham, Specimens of Newspaper Literature. 2 vols. Boston, 1850. Frederic Hudson, History of Journalism in the United States, from 1690 to 1872. N.Y., 1873. S. N. D. North, History and Present Condition of the Newspaper and Periodical Press in the United States. (Publications of the Tenth Census.) Washington, 1884. Isaiah Thomas, History of Printing in America. 2 vols. Worcester, 1810. Second edition. 2 vols. Albany, 1874. A most useful newspaper for historical purposes is Niles's Register, in which appear significant extracts from a variety of the papers of the day. The New York Tribune and New York Times represent the two sides from about 1840 to 1865. The Nation at |