the English and Creole literature of Louisiana, consult Alcée Fortier, _Louisiana Studies--Literature, Customs and Dialects, History and Education_ (New Orleans, 1894). For administration: see reports of the various executive officers of the state (Baton Rouge); the various constitutions are printed in the report of the Secretary of State, as well as in B. Perley Poore's _Constitutions_ (2 vols., Washington, 1877); a special account of the government of the territorial period may be found in D. Y. Thomas, _History of Military Government in Newly Acquired Territory of the United States_ (Columbia University Studies in History, Economics and Public Law, vol. xx. No. 2, 1904); for the Civil War and Reconstruction period compare below, also American Historical Association, _Annual Report_, 1892; (for courts during Civil War); also John R. Ficklen, _History and Civil Government of Louisiana_ (Chicago, New York, c. 1899), a brief and popular account; on education, in addition to the Biennial Reports of the Board of Education, consult annual reports of the U.S. Commissioner of Education. For history: the standard work is that of Charles E. A. Gayarré, coming down to the war, based on deep and scholarly research, and greatly altered in successive editions. The style is that of the classic school, that of Prescott and Motley, full of colour, characterization and spirit. The editions are as follows: _Romance of the History of Louisiana_ (New York, 1837, 1848); _Histoire de la Louisiane_ (2 vols., Nouvelle Orléans, 1846-1847); _Louisiana: its Colonial History and Romance_ (N.Y., 1851); _Louisiana: its History as a French Colony_, Third Series of Lectures (N.Y., 1852); then, based upon the preceding, _History of Louisiana: The French Domination_ (2 vols., N.Y., 1854) and _The Spanish Domination_ (N.Y., 1854); _The American Domination_ (N.Y., 1867); and third edition (4 vols., New Orleans, 1885). More important for the recent period is Alcée Fortier; _A History of Louisiana_ (N.Y., 4 vols., 1904) devoting two volumes to American domination. The _History and General Description of New France_ of P. F. X. de Charlevoix (best ed. by J. G. Shea, New York, 1866, 6 vols.) is a famous old work, but now negligible. Judge F. X. Martin's _History of Louisiana_ (2 vols., New Orleans, 1827-1829, later ed. by J. F. Condon, continued to 1861, New Orleans, 1882) is also valuable and supplements Gayarré. Le Page du Pratz, author of _Histoire de la Louisiane_ (3 vols., Paris, 1758; 2 vols., London, 1763), was the first historian of Louisiana. Berquin-Duvallon, _Vue de la colonie espagnole du Mississippi_ (Paris, 1805; published in English under the name of John Davis, New York, 1806); L. N. Baudry de Lozières, _Voyage à la Louisiane_ (Paris, 1802) and _Second Voyage à la Louisiane_ (Paris, 1803) may be mentioned among the travels just preceding, and A.