This is a reprint, in a condensed and convenient form, of a work written some twenty years ago by Mrs. John H. Kinzie of Chicago. It is a real contribution to the early history of the North-west, and contains enough of romantic adventure to form the basis of half a dozen novels. The story of the massacre of Chicago in 1812 is one of the most thrilling in American history, and it is here told by an eye-witness. Still, it is difficult to realize that sixty years ago a wagon-load of children were tomahawked by Indians in what is now the heart of the great City of the Lakes. The family of Kinzie had certainly a remarkable history, beginning with the female ancestor who was captured by savages in the early history of the country, through that generation who were the founders of Chicago, down to the living representative of the family, who in 1830 entered one hundred and sixty acres of the present town at the government price, one dollar and twenty-five cents per acre, and only paid for one hundred, thinking, as he said, that that quantity of land would be all he should ever want or could find a use for. The rejected portion is now worth from two to three millions of dollars. A hundred years hence, when Chicago will perhaps contain a million or two of inhabitants, the name of this family of pioneers will be as memorable as that of Winthrop in Boston or Stuyvesant in New York. _Books Received._ De Witt's Acting Plays: No. 142. Dollars and Cents: A Comedy. By L. J. Hollenius.--No. 145. First Love: A Comedy. From the French of Eugene Scribe. By L. J. Hollenius. New York: R. M. De Witt. Memoirs of the Founding and Progress of the United States Naval Observatory. By Professor J. E. Nourse, U.S.N. Washington Government Printing-Office. America Picturesque: A Visit to the Academy. By Henry Blackburn, late editor of "London Society." New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons. Expression: Its Anatomy and Philosophy. By Sir Charles Bell, K. H. Illustrated. New York: S.R. Wells. The Mystery of Metropolisville. By Edward Eggleston. Illustrated. New York: Orange Judd & Co. Bits of Talk about Home Matters, By H. H., author of "Bits of Travel." Boston: Roberts Brothers. The Lawrences: A Twenty-Years' History. By Charlotte Turnbull. New York: American News Co. The Forty-five Guardsmen. By Alexandre Dumas. Philadelphia: T. B. Peterson & Brothers. Lars: A Pastoral of Norway. By Bayard Taylor. Boston: James R. Osgood & Co. The New York City "Ring." By S. J. Tilden. New York: Press of John Polhemus. Poems of the Plains. By William Darwin Crabb. Cambridge: Riverside Press. Woman's Wrong. By Mrs. Eiloart. Philadelphia: T. B. Peterson & Brothers. Adventures of Kwei, the Chinese Girl. By Myra. Boston: Henry Hoyt.