Fiske, _American Revolution_; Garden, _Ancedotes of the Revolutionary War_; Green, _Short History of the English People_; _Journals of the Continental Congress_; Lossing, _Pictorial Field-Book of the Revolution_; Elkanah Watson, _Men and Times of the Revolution_; _Select Letters of Christopher Columbus, with other Original Documents_ (Hakluyt Society); _Memorials of Columbus ... translated from the Spanish and Italian_; Lives of Columbus by Irving, Lamartine, and Winsor; _Story of the Pilgrim Fathers_ (Arber Reprint); _Mourt’s Relation_; _Old South Leaflets_; George Washington, _Journal of my Journey over the Mountains_, also his _Writings_; Ford, _Washington and the Theatre_; George Washington Parke Custis, _Recollections and Private Memoirs of Washington_, by his Adopted Son; Headley, _Illustrated Life of George Washington_; Irving, _Life of Washington_; Lossing, _Mary and Martha, the Mother and the Wife of George Washington_; Lodge, _George Washington_, (American Statesmen Series); John Paul Jones’s _Letters_, also lives of him by De Koven, Headley, and Mackenzie; Lives of William Penn, by Dixon, Hodges, Janney, Stoughton; Lives of John Marshall, and addresses in his memory, by Beveridge, Binney, Flanders, Rawle, Sallie E. Marshal Hardy (in _The Green Bag_), Justice Story, and Chief Justice Waite; Peters, Haym Salomon; Franklin’s _Autobiography_; Humphreys, _Life of the Honourable Major General Israel Putnam_ (material obtained largely from Putnam himself); _Jonathan Trumbull, Governor of Connecticut_, by his descendant Jonathan Trumbull; correspondence, diaries, and speeches of John Adams, John Quincy Adams, Abigail Adams, Patrick Henry, Jefferson, Lafayette, Pitt, Lincoln, and Webster. In writing the South American stories, the following have been most useful: Biggs, _History of Don Francisco de Miranda’s Attempt to Effect a Revolution in South America_; Palacio Fajardo, _Outline of the Revolution in Spanish America_; _Encyclopedia of Latin America_; Koebel, _British Exploits in South America_, also his _South America_; Captain Basil Hall, _Extracts from a Journal_; Larrazábal, _Simón Bolivar_; Mahoney, _Campaigns and Cruises in Venezuela and New Grenada_; Mehegan, _O’Higgins of Chile_; General Miller, _Memoirs in the Service of the Republic of Peru_; Bartolomé Mitre, _Emancipation of South America_; Pan-American Union, _Bulletin_; Petre, _Simón Bolivar_; Robertson, _Rise of the Spanish-American Republics_, also his _Francisco de Miranda_ (American Historical Association); Smith, _History of the Adventures and Sufferings of Moses Smith_; also a number of volumes of travel including Lord Bryce, _South America_; and Winter, _Argentina_, and _Chile_. CONTENTS OCTOBER 12 COLUMBUS AND DISCOVERER’S DAY COLUMBUS, _Joaquin Miller_ 2 THE SEA OF DARKNESS 3 THE FORTUNATE ISLES 5