The speculative _American Bi-Monthly_, launched in Chicago in 1914, failed after publishing two numbers. In February, 1917, the Bohemian National Alliance in America started a monthly in Chicago, _The Bohemian Review_. In the initial number the editor, Dr. J. F. Smetanka, argues as follows: “If some two hundred thousand people[10] can support more than eighty publications in the Bohemian language, why should not three hundred thousand of their children, more used to the English language, establish and support just one organ devoted to their interests as Americans of Czech descent?” [10] The 1910 U. S. census has found in the country 539,392 people of Bohemian stock, of whom 228,738 were foreign born, 310,654 native born. In conclusion it may be added, that _The New Europe_, of London, though by no means a Bohemian or a Slavic magazine, has paid generous attention to Bohemian questions as affected by the war. Among the collaborators of _The New Europe_ are such able students of Austrian politics as Thomas G. Masaryk, late Professor at the Bohemian University of Prague, Dr. R. W. Seton-Watson of King’s College and H. Wickham Steed of the London _Times_. PLANS, MAPS. ETC. Of especial interest to the students of American Colonial history is the _Map of Virginia and Maryland this present Year 1670 Surveyed and Exactly Drawne by the Only Labour and Endeavour of Augustin Herrman, Bohemiensis_. A copy of this rare map is on file in the Library of Congress in Washington.[11] In addition to the Map of Maryland, Herrman made a sketch of New Amsterdam (New York) as that city looked in 1650. Herrman is reputed to be the first Bohemian immigrant to America, coming here in 1633. On the site of the former Bohemia Manor in Cecil County, Maryland, there is still preserved a tombstone bearing this inscription: “Avgvstine Herrmen Bohemian The First Fovnder Seater of Bohemea Manner Anno 1661.” Like Wenceslaus Hollar, John Amos Komenský, Paul Skála ze Zhoře, (the historian) and thousands of other Protestants, Herrman, the son of a minister of the gospel, was forced to flee from Bohemia after the overthrow of the Protestants there. [11] For Augustine Herrman’s life see _Památky Českých Emigrantů v Americe_ (Data on Bohemian Immigration to America), by Thomas Čapek, Omaha, 1907. J. V. Nigrin described Herrman’s map in the Chicago _Svornost_, August 2-9, 1914.