"_Maliki Law_" by F. H. Buxton has appeared with the imprint of Luzac and Company. This is a summary from French Translations of the "_Mukhtasar of Sidi Khalil_" by Captain Buxton of the Political Department of Nigeria. It was published by order of Sir F. D. Sugard, Governor-General of Nigeria. "_Native Life in South Africa before and since the European War and the Boer Rebellion_" by Sol. T. Plaatje has been published by P. S. King. This work is especially valuable for students of Negro History in that they may obtain from it the other side of the race problem in that country. The author is an educated native who has served the government as an interpreter, and now edits for a native syndicate _Tsala ea Batho_ (The People's Friend). The purpose of the writer is to explain the grievances of the natives and especially that one resulting from the Land Act of 1913. Allen and Unwin have published the third volume of "_The History of South Africa from 1795 to 1872_" by G. McCall Theal. The work is to be completed in five volumes. Among Putnam's recent publications is F. W. Seward's "_Reminiscences of a War Time Statesman and Diplomat_," being his father William H. Seward. The University of Chicago Press has published "_Slavery in Germanic Society during the Middle Ages_." C. R. Hall has published through the Princeton University Press his "_Andrew Johnson: Military Governor of Tennessee_." Stokes has published J. A. B. Scherer's _Cotton as a World Power_. Mr. Henry B. Rankin's "_Personal Recollections of Abraham Lincoln_" has come from the press of the Putnams. This book is interesting and valuable in that it is written by a man who studied law under Lincoln and Herndon. The Chicago Historical Society has published a booklet entitled "_The Convention that nominated Lincoln_," giving its outward and local aspects. In C. J. Heatwole's _History of Education in Virginia_, published by Macmillan, passing mention is given the effort to enlighten the Negroes in that State. The writer is mainly concerned with the efforts for the uplift of the Negro since emancipation. He seemed to be ignorant of the many efforts at education put forth by the Negroes with the help of their friends even before the Civil War. E. S. Green's _History of the University of South Carolina_ has been published by the State Publishing Company at Columbia. In treating the period during which the Negroes were in control of that institution the author is adversely critical of the freedmen in general, but mentions some colored graduates and pays a tribute to the high character of Richard Theodore Greener, who served there as instructor. "_The South To-day_" by John M. Moore has been published by the Missionary Education Movement of the United States and Canada.