THE NATIONAL MAGAZINE. CONTENTS. NOVEMBER 1891. RARE PORTRAIT OF COLUMBUS[1]— FRONTISPIECE. EXPLORATIONS OF THE NORTH AMERICAN COAST, PREVIOUS TO THE VOYAGE OF HENRY HUDSON. Benjamin F. De Costa, D. D. 1 From advance sheets of “The Memorial History of New York.” EARLY AMERICAN LITERATURE, T. J. Chapman 27 THE OHIO SOCIETY IN NEW YORK AND OHIO IN NEW YORK, James Harrison Kennedy 33 Gen. Thomas Ewing—Col. William F. Strong—Hon. George Hoadly. DE SOTO’S CAMPS IN THE CHICKASAW COUNTRY, 1540-1. T. H. Lewis 57 CHICAGO PIONEERS, Howard Louis Conard 62 Hon. Isaac N. Arnold. SOME ANCIENT METHODS OF PUNISHMENT IN MASSACHUSETTS, Hon. F. C. Sessions 67 GEN. WILLIAM E. STRONG,—A Memorial. 76 MISTAKES IN HISTORY; THE PILGRIMS NOT PURITANS, BUT SEPARATISTS, D. W. Manchester 82 WERE THE DUTCH ON MANHATTAN ISLAND IN 1598? Daniel Van Pelt, A.M. 91 A FAMOUS POLITICAL CONTEST IN ILLINOIS, W. H. Maguire 97 Hon. Henry H. Evans. EDITORIAL AND HISTORICAL NOTES, 102 The Change of Name—What it Means—Field of American History—Material for War History—Growth of Historical Societies—Value of Their Papers—Historic Interest in Legend and Tradition—The Memorial History of New York—Preserving the Field of Valley Forge—Monument to Red Jacket—International Pan-Republic Congress—The Washington State Historical Society. NOTES FROM THE HISTORICAL SOCIETIES, 105 RECENT HISTORICAL PUBLICATIONS, 107 Adam’s Historical Essays—Minnesota Historical Society’s Collections—Beginnings of Literary Culture in the Ohio Valley—J. Freeman Clarke’s Autobiography Diary and Correspondence—Howe’s Historical Collections of Ohio—Ohio Historical Society, Vol. III. [1] Said by the present Duke of Veragua to be the most representative of the known portraits. Published Monthly—Entered at New York Post Office as Second Class Mail Matter. NOTICE. With this NOVEMBER Number, the Magazine of Western History, appears under its new name THE NATIONAL MAGAZINE. A Journal devoted to American History. (_See Editorial Notes._) [Illustration: Engᵈ. by E. G. Williams & Bro. N.Y.] The National Magazine. _Vol XV._ NOVEMBER, 1891. _No. 1_ EXPLORATIONS OF THE NORTH AMERICAN COAST PREVIOUS TO THE VOYAGE OF HENRY HUDSON.