Describes Shawneetown and gives some information in regard to routes. Very slight, however, in respect to Illinois. Criticism: _The Inter Ocean, August 3, 1904._ CUTLER, JULIA PERKINS. _Life and Times of Ephraim Cutler. Prepared from his Journals and Correspondence. Cincinnati: Robert Clarke & Co._, 1890. 353 pp. Cutler early settled in Ohio. This work gives good examples of the difficulties of travel, between 1795 and 1809, on some of the Alleghany routes frequented by emigrants to Illinois. The driving of western cattle to market is also described. CUTLER, WILLIAM PARKER, and CUTLER, JULIA PERKINS. _Life, Journals and Correspondence of Rev. Manasseh Cutler_, LL. D. Cincinnati: Robert Clarke & Co., 1888. 2 vols. 9 + 524; 495 PP. Considerable information concerning early eastern opposition to western settlement is given. Dr. Cutler kept a diary from 1765 to 1823, of which nine years are missing. DE PEYSTER, J. WATTS, LL. D. _Miscellanies, by an Officer_ [Colonel Arent Schuyler de Peyster, B. A.], 1774-1813. _New York: A. E. Chasmar & Co._, 1888. 80 pp., and an appendix of cci. pp. Pages xxvi.-xxvii. contain a letter from Arent De Peyster to Capt. McKee describing an Illinois expedition against St. Josephs in 1780 or 1781. Letter dated Detroit, Feb. 1, 1781. _Draper Collection of Manuscripts._ This collection, made by Lyman C. Draper, is the property of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin. It has been of more value to the writer than any other single source, being especially helpful for the hitherto obscure period immediately succeeding the expedition of George Rogers Clark, 1779-1790. Most important of all are the Harmar Papers, although the Illinois MSS., the Clark MSS., and Draper’s Notes were much used. The Hinde MSS. have little historical value, consisting as they do, largely of religious musings of the writer’s old age. DUDEN, GOTTFRIED. _Bericht über eine Reise nach den westlichen Staaten Nordamerika’s and einen mehrjährigen Aufenthalt am Missouri (in den Jahren 1824-1827) in Bezug auf Auswanderung und Uebervölkerung. 1st ed. of 1500 copies. 2d ed. Bonn, In Commission bei Eduard Weber_, 1834. lviii. + 404 pp. Contains a prediction of Illinois future greatness. Gives valuable information concerning the cost and manner of transportation, and concerning social life. Comparison of American and European conditions. DUNN, JACOB PIATT, _Compiler. Slavery Petitions and Papers. In Indiana Hist. Soc. Pub., II., 443-529. Indianapolis: The Bowen-Merrill Company_, 1894. “The following papers are the petitions to Congress from Northwest and Indiana Territories for the suspension of the sixth article of compact of the Ordinance of 1787, and the admission of slavery to the Territory, together with the counter-petitions, the reports on them, and the accompanying documents,”—Compiler’s introduction. _Edwardsville Spectator. Edwardsville, Ill.: Hooper Warren, pub., Apr. 18, 1820-Feb. 8, 1825, and 1820-22._