Here we have the thoughts of almost every distinguished man who materially influenced the history of this country from the time of the discovery of America to the outbreak of the Civil War. The writer has drawn on the works of all classes, statesmen, sages, men of affairs, State officials, congressmen, senators, presidents, judges; ministers, doctors, lawyers, educators, novelists, essayists and travellers; poets and orators. Every section of the country, too, is represented in this collection and a few foreigners who have manifested peculiar interest in Americans have also been included. Some of these important subjects treated in these documents are such questions as "Expectations from the New World," "The First Immigrants," "Principles of Personal Liberty," "Extension of Colonial Freedom," "The American Revolution," "Independence of the United States," "Liberty in a Federal Constitution," "National Democracy," "The Frontier," "States Rights," "Slavery," "Nullification," and "The Popularization of Government." Important treatises having a special bearing on the Negro have not been omitted. Among these are Hinton Rowan Helpers' _Appeal to the Non-slaveholding Whites_, Benjamin Wade's _Defiance of Secession_, John Brown's _Last Speech of a Convicted Abolitionist_, William H. Seward's _Irrepressible Conflict_, Abraham Lincoln's _A House Divided against itself cannot Stand_, his _Meaning of the Declaration of Independence_, his _Philosophy of Slavery_, the _Gettysburg Address_, and the _Emancipation Proclamation_. The collection as a whole makes a valuable reference work for the modern teacher who is trying to explain the past in terms of present achievements. These materials are so arranged as to show that what we now call new problems in American life are issues of old, that the questions now arising as to how to manage the army and navy, how to deal with our colonies, how to maintain our position as a world power, and how to promote national preparedness, have all been discussed pro and con by leading statesmen in the past. Libraries in need of source material lying in this field would make no mistake in purchasing this valuable collection. A. H. CLEMMONS. FOOTNOTES: [120] All of these letters are taken from Roberts Vaux's "Memoirs of the Life of Anthony Benezet," pp. 25-62. [121] Written by Patrick Henry. NOTES Harrison and Sons, London, have published an "_Anthropological Report on Sierra Leone_," by Northcote W. Thomas, in three parts. Part I covers the law and customs of the Tinne and other tribes. Part II consists of a "Tinne-English dictionary" and part III of a grammar and stories. This firm has also brought out "_Specimens of Languages from Sierra Leone_" by the same author. This work contains tabular vocabularies with short stories and notes on Tones, illustrated with the Staff Notation. Macmillan and Company have published the "_My Yoruba Alphabet_" by R. E. Bennett.