list of "Americana" published in America. It covers the writers who were born or who flourished in Spanish America, and of course includes works not relating to the New World. It has become the rarest of all American bibliographical works which have been put on sale.

THE first newspaper printed and published west of the Mississippi was the Missouri Gazette. The first number (weekly) was issued on the twelfth day of July, 1808. It was gotten out by Joseph Charless, assisted by Jacob Hinkle. It was printed upon a sheet of foolscap paper, twelve and one-half inches by seven and three-fourths inches, in small pica type, and was worked off on an old-fashioned Ramage press. The paper was published until 1822, when its name was changed to the Missouri Republican, under which name it still continues.

MORE than one hundred delegates to the ninth general meeting of the American Library association assembled in Milwaukee on July 7. The president, W. F. Poole, of the Chicago public library, delivered an able addrees. One among the many effective points he made was this: "What this association has done in bringing the public libraries and the public schools into close relations-the work of one supplementing the work of the other in the general system of education-is an object of sufficient importance to justify its ex

istence." The session of three days' continuance was one of great interest.

"THERE is," says the Rev. Horace Edwin Hayden of Wilkesbarre, Pennsylvania, "no better stock in America, distinguished as it is by good sense, religious ferver, strong convictions and steadiness of purpose, than the Scotch-Irish." This we believe to be true; and, appropos of this, we may state that Dr. William Henry Egle of Harrisburg, Pennsyl uania, has recently published a book of seven hundred and twenty pages, entitled "Pennsylvania Genealogies, Scotch, Irish and German." It contains sixty distinct pedigrees, including seventy families. Forty-five of the former are those of the Scotch-Irish families, and the rest of German and Swiss families. As many of these have a direct bearing upon, and an intimate association with, trans-Alleghany annals, the importance of the work will be readily appreciated by the student of western history.

THE first newspaper published in Virginia was the Virginia Gazette, issued weekly by William Parks, proprietor. The first number appeared on the first day of July, 1736. Mr. Parks died in 1750, and some months after his death, the paper was discontinued. It was revived in 1751, the first number appearing in February of that year. The Gazette was continued until the commencement of the Revolution.

To the Editor of the MAGAZINE OF WESTERN HISTORY:

BANCROFT THE HISTORIAN.

In the editorial notes of the July number of the MAGAZINE OF WESTERN HISTORY, page 411, you correct some errors in 'Bancroft's History of the United States' "relative to Major Robert Rogers' tour to Detroit in 1760, to take possession of that post, etc., etc."

Permit me to call attention to another error of this eminent historian and scholar, who as you justly say "'is seldom at fault in statements of fact." In the fourth volume of his 'History of the United States,' page 313, it is said that "the people of Frederictown had chosen him (Colonel George Washington) their representative."

Did the distinguished historian mean Fredericksburg, a city on the Rappahannock? Frederic City could not have been intended, for that is in Frederic county, Maryland. If he had written it Frederick county he would have been correct, for the people of that county (Winchester being the county-seat) did elect Colonel George Washington a member of the house of burgesses of Virginia at an election held July 24, 1758. For proof, see letter of Lord Thomas Fairfax, page 98, in volume entitled 'The Fairfaxes of England and America,' which announced that he was a candidate. He had two competitors but came out the successful candidate, as is stated in foot-note to the aforesaid letter which bore date July 5, 1758. Colonel Washington, in 1758, was a prominent man in Frederick county. He surveyed much of it for the Fairfaxes between the years 1748 and 1752, and soon after Braddock's defeat in July, 1755, he, as colonel commandant, commenced the erection of Fort London in Winchester, for protection against attacks by hostile savages; and after its completion,

late in 1756, he remained its commanding officer, actively as such until early summer in 1758, when, with the provincial troops, he joined General Forbes' army and crossed the Alleghany mountains to effect the reduction of Fort Du Quesne at the head of the Ohio river. Of course, then, he was a conspicuous man in the Virginia valley, and while absent on this expedition to the Ohio country he was chosen Frederick county's and not Frederictown's representative in the colonial legislature of the "Red Dominion." And while occupying this seat he, on January 17, 1759, entered into married relations with Mrs. Martha Custis.

J. S.

To the Editor of the MAGAZINE OF WESTERN HIS

TORY.

April 7, 1787, forty-seven men, under command of General Rufus Putnam, landed on the eastern bank of the Muskingum river, near its junction with the Ohio. They laid out the town of Marietta, the first American settlement in the territory of the United States northwest of the River Ohio. It is proposed to celebrate this event, by holding appropriate memorial exercises in the public schools of Ohio, April 7, 1888. That the children may be prepared to understand the significance of such a celebration, the Ohio Historical society will prepare a brief history of Ohio and will urge the study of western history in the schools for the next two years. Already the teachers are evincing much interest in this commendable movement. We know of no effort on the part of educators of more beneficial importance than this, and one that will arouse greater interest in Ohio's Centennial Exposition. Full information regarding these matters may be had by addressing the secretary of the Exposition Board, Mr. A. A. Graham at Columbus. A. A. G.

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