. WINSLOW MEMORIAL. Family Records of Winslows and their Descendants in America, with the English Ancestry as far as known. KENELNI WINSLOW. Vol. II. By David Parsons Holton, A.M., M.D., and his wife, Mrs. Frances K. (Norward) Holton. New York, 1888. 8vo, pp. 529-1057. Appendix, pp. 179: Indexes, 72. Sixteen portraits, besides other illustrations. This noble volume completes the work upon which our late esteemed confrere Dr. D. P. Holton was engaged during the later years of his life; and is a monument not only to his research and industry, but, also, to the wifely loyalty and courage of Mrs. Holton. Despite ill-health, discouragements and accidents almost overwhelming, she has persevered with unconquerable courage; and now has the happiness of seeing her good husband's life-work fitly completed and rendered useful to hundreds of the Winslow connection, who ought-if they do not-to "rise up and call her Blessed!" The two volumes, as they now stand, possess an interest far wider than the mere Winslow name. Looking over these pages we seem to be reading an epitome of New England-yes-even of American history; and we glean from them some idea of what is meant by the "diffusion of blood in ancestral lines; of its varieties, its subtile combinations, its preservative and conservative qualities, its value in the making of character-and hence, of the importance of guarding the transmission of the "best blood" in the community, by the formation of a high public moral sense in regard to the sanctity and purpose of marriage. The Winslow Memorial is especially rich in biographical detail, that element which gives to genealogical work its truest value; and lifts it out of its mere "dryas-dust" sphere, with that of scientific value and instruction. Genealogies without biographies, have their mere legal value, as do parchment records and mouldering gravestones; but, with biographies, they become living fountains of wholesome truth, surrounded by ever-blooming flowers of poesy and romance, which serve to keep the memory of departed generations ever green. H. R. S. THE DRIVER FAMILY: A Genealogical Memoir of the Descendants of Robert and Phebe Driver, of Lynn, Mass. With an Appendix containing Twenty-three Allied Families. 1592-1887. Compiled by a Descendant, Harriet Ruth (Waters) Cooke, of New York City. 8vo, pp. 531. Cambridge, Mass., John Wilson & Son, University Press, 1889. This elaborate and beautifully printed volume is, as the author tells us, the results of three years careful inquiry into all known sources of information relating to the Driver family. In this undertaking, as well as in tracing the history of the allied families, Mrs. Cooke had the valuable aid of Mr. Perley Derby, the well-known genealogist of Salem, Mass. One needs only to glance through the book to see that it is considerably more than a mere collection of names and dates, and that it is full of matter of interest to the general reader. Wills, deeds, letters, newspaper extracts and other valuable data, are profusely distributed through the volume, and greatly enliven the dryer details of family history. The Appendix occupies considerably more than half the book, and is devoted to an account of twenty-three allied families; of these, the histories of fifteen are now published for the first time. They include the names of Archer, Babbidge, Beckford, Cash, Crowninshield, Daland, Flint, Ives, Luscomb, Metcalf, Moses, Palmer, Patterson, Saunders, and Wellman. While the author has evidently taken great care to secure general accuracy, she will doubtless receive many valuable additions and corrections from interested readers. An account, for instance, of the descendants of Mr. Daniel King (1601-1672) and wife Elizabeth, of Lynn, Mass., would include about all of the name of King to be found in the book. This statement must except the Hon. Samuel Ward King, Governor of Rhode Island, who, by the way, was not descended from William and Dorothy King, of Salem, Mass., as stated on page 157. Governor King's ancestor was probably Clement King, of whom an account may be found in "Austin's Biographical Dictionary of the Early Settlers of Rhode Island." 4 8vo. THE MAINE GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY. By-Laws. 12mo. Portland, 1889. THE CONNECTICUT HISTORICAL SOCIETY. Two Hundred and Fiftieth Anniversary of THE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION OF UNION COLLEGE. Report. 8vo. 1889. THE ATTORNEY-General of tHE U. S. Report. 8vo. Washington, 1889. Los Angeles, 1889. Annual Publication. 8vo. JOHN BODINE THOMPSON. John Thompson and Family. Svo. Williamsport, Pa., 1889. E. N. SHEPPHARD. Reports of the Boston Record Commissioners. IO vols. 8vo. E. DUFOSSÉ. Americain Bulletin du Bouquiniste, 6 Ser., No. 4. Paris, 1889. C. C. BALDWIN. The Baldwin Genealogy Supplement, by C. C. Baldwin. Cleveland, O., 1889. H. SENIOR & Co. 1889. Broadsheet Illustrations of Wood Engraving. 2 copies. New York, THE BAKER AND TAYLOR Co. The Farnham Genealogy. 2d edition. By Rev. J. M. MAURICE TRIPET. Armoiries des Familles Neuchâteloises, 1660, by Maurice Tripet. Neuchâtel, Switzerland, 1889. Mrs. MORRIS P. FERRIS. The Schepen's Dream, by Mrs. Ferris. New York, 1889. HENRY F. WATERS. Ancestry of Washington, by Henry F. Waters. Boston, 1889. FRANK E. RANDALL. Epitaphs from Colchester, Conn.. WILLIAM HENRY LEE. History of New Britain, etc., 1640-1889, by David N. Camp, A.M. New Britain, 1889. E. M. BARTON, Esq. Life and Services of Maj.-Gen. Samuel Elbert, by Charles C. Jones, jr., LL.D. Cambridge, 1889. WILLIAM ALFRED JONES. Lives of American Merchants. Vol. I. By Freeman Hunt, A.M. New York, 1856. MAURICE TRIPET. L'Art Héraldique à L'Exposition Universelle de 1889, by Raymond Richebé. Neuchâtel, 1889. Gen. JAS. GRANT WILSON. The Life and Letters of Fitz-Greene Halleck. New York, 1869-Memorials of Washington Bartlett, 1888; George Francis Choate, 1883; Alexander Del Mar, 1884; Arthur and Lewis Tappan, 1883. : |