Rare and valuable. Pages 109-25 contain a venomous account of Birkbeck’s settlement in Illinois. In Library of Wisconsin State Historical Society. _Vermont. Records of the Council of Safety and Governor and Council of the State of Vermont, to which are prefixed the Records of the general Conventions from July, 1775, to December, 1777. Montpelier: J. & J. M. Poland, 1873-80._ 8 vols. Vol. VI., 431-2 contains remarks of Governor Galusha on the scarcity of food in 1816. _Virginia Patriot and Richmond mercantile Advertiser. Richmond, Va., Apr.-Dec., 1816._ In Library of Wisconsin State Historical Society. Sept. 7, 11, 21, 1816, tell of the cold in New England and the drought in the South. VOLNEY, CONSTANTIN FRANÇOIS CHASSE-BŒUF. _A View of the Soil and Climate of the United States of America: with supplementary Remarks upon Florida; on the French Colonies on the Mississippi and Ohio, and in Canada; and on the aboriginal Tribes of America. Philadelphia, 1804. London, 1804._ xxv. + 446 pp. Translated by C. B. Brown. The author gives a moderately full description of the Illinois of the close of the 18th century. Valuable for characterization of the inhabitants. WASHBURNE, ELIHU BENJAMIN. _Sketch of Edward Coles, second Governor of Illinois, and of the slavery Struggle of 1823-4. Prepared for the Chicago Historical Society. Chicago: Jansen, McClurg & Co., 1882._ 253 pp. Indispensable for a specialist in this period of Illinois history. Well written. Quotes many letters. —— _Editor_. _The Edwards Papers. (Volume II. of the Chicago Historical Society’s Collections.) Chicago: Fergus Printing Co., 1884._ 8 + xxviii. + 633 pp. Pages 86-90 give Capt. Thos. E. Craig’s official report to Governor Edwards of the attack on Peoria in 1812. The volume has a description of Peoria in 1827, and considerable information concerning the Indian troubles of that year. WELBY, ADLARD, Esq. _A Visit to North America and the English Settlements in Illinois, with a winter Residence at Philadelphia; __ solely to ascertain the actual Prospects of the emigrating Agriculturist, Mechanic, and Commercial Speculator. London: J. Drury,_ 1821. 16mo. xii.+224 pp. _Wheeling, Va. Report of a Meeting of Workingmen in the City of Wheeling, Virginia, on forming a Settlement in the State of Illinois._ 12 pp. The report is dated Oct. 4, 1830. Printed without place and publisher’s name. In Library of Chicago Historical Society. Rare. It set forth a scheme for purchasing and settling a county in Illinois. WILLIAMS, SAMUEL. _Sketches of the War, between the United States and the British Isles: intended as a faithful History of all the material Events from the Time of the Declaration in 1812 to and including the Treaty of Peace in 1815. Rutland, Vt.: Fay & Davison_, 1815. 496 pp. Contains Capt. Heald’s official account of the massacre at Fort Dearborn, August 15, 1812.