all closing with the fierce hand-to-hand death grapple on the blood-soaked, slippery floor of the rude stockade. Last of all the return to Plymouth, with the gory head of Wattawamat, ‘that bloody and bold villain,’ a ghastly freight, stowed in the rummage of their boat.... That Longfellow wrote very sweet verse none will deny; but, assuredly, he was not Homeric. At his hands your Weymouth history failed to have justice done it. The case is, I fear, irremediable.” Notwithstanding its many variations from the historical facts, the poet’s version of this affair, because of its poetical setting, is probably destined to be the only version to be widely known outside of the limited circle of historical students. Mr. Adams endeavors to establish as a fixed fact in Massachusetts history that Weymouth as a permanent European settlement antedated Boston by at least six years; and, moreover, that this fact has singular historical interest. That it was a struggle for possession between two forms of civilization and of religious faith; one being ecclesiastical and feudal, the other theological and democratic; the fate of the two settlements during the earlier and crucial period depending not on events in Massachusetts, but upon a struggle for supremacy going on in England. “Gorges represented Charles I; Winthrop, the Parliament. If the fortune of war had turned otherwise than it did turn, and Charles I. had emerged from the conflict victorious, there can be little question Sir Ferdinando Gorges, and not John Winthrop, would have shaped the destiny of Massachusetts. Its history would then have been wholly other than New England will find much of interest in it was.” Students will find much of interest in the three papers printed in this volume. THE FRANKLIN BOOK SHOP S. N. RHOADS, Proprietor. 1105 Walnut Street. Philadelphia, Pa. Old and Rare items in Nature Study and Americana. Publisher of Rhoads’ Reprint of Ord’s North American Zoology and the Mammals of Pennsylvania and New Jersey. In preparation, illustrated work on Peale’s MSS. Journals of the Long’s and Wilkes’ Exploring Expeditions, 1819, 1841. Send for Prospectus. Special discounts on last catalogue Geology, Ethnology, Etc. Send for it. * * * * * Transcriber’s note Minor punctuation errors have been changed without notice. Spelling has been retained as published except in the printer errors listed below. Inconsistencies in hyphenation have been standardized where the words exist in the same article. The following printer errors have been changed.