Pages 13-137 are devoted to the history of Illinois. The author is conspicuously accurate and treats a large number of topics. A valuable secondary work. _Glimpses of the Monastery. Scenes from the History of the Ursulines of Quebec during two hundred Years, 1639-1839. By a Member of the Community. Second edition, completed by Reminiscences of the last fifty Years, 1839-1889. Quebec: L. J. Domers & Frère_, 1897. ix.+418+184 pp. Pages 84-93 of the first pagination give a suggestive discussion of the capability of the Indian for civilization. GREEN, THOMAS MARSHALL. _Historic Families of Kentucky. (First Series.) Cincinnati: Robert Clarke & Co._, 1889. 304 pp. Gives a few facts concerning John Todd and John Todd Stuart, who were active in Illinois. The latter was a cousin of Mary Todd Lincoln and had much early influence upon Lincoln. The volume deals with McDowells, Logans, and Allens. Well written and valuable. HAIGHT, WALTER C., _B. L. The Ordinance of 1787._ (pp. 343-402 of _Pub. of the Mich. Pol. Sci. Ass’n._ II.), 1896, 1897. A discussion of the binding effect of the Ordinance of 1787. The question has a close connection with slavery in Illinois. HALL, B. F. _The early History of the North Western States, __ embracing New York, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Iowa and Wisconsin, with their land Laws, etc., and an Appendix containing the Constitutions of those States. Buffalo: Geo. H. Derby & Co., 1849._ Duodecimo. 477 pp. Statements made in this book must be carefully verified. The rise of conflicting land titles is fairly well treated. HARRIS, N. DWIGHT, Ph. D. _The History of Negro Servitude in Illinois and of the slavery Agitation in that State 1719-1864. Chicago: A. C. McClurg & Co., 1904._ 276 pp. An erudite work, compiled from many sources previously unused. HAYES, A. A., Jr. _The Metropolis of the Prairies. (Harper’s New Monthly Mag._, LXI., 711-730, Oct. 1880). A readable popular article. Chiefly concerned with events later than 1830. HEATON, JOHN L. _The Story of Vermont. Boston: D. Lothrop Co., 1889._ 319 pp. Has an interesting chapter of twenty pages on The Great West. More reliable than so popular a book usually is. HENDERSON, JOHN G. _Early History of the __“__Sangamon Country,__”__ being Notes on the first Settlements in the Territory now comprised within the Limits of Morgan, Scott and Cass Counties. Davenport, Iowa: Day, Egbert & Fidlar, 1873._ 33 pp. Of great interest for a study of early troubles with the Indians. Treats of East _vs._ South in Illinois and of Regulators. Deals almost exclusively with the period before 1830. Compiled largely from interviews with old settlers, hence not wholly reliable. HINSDALE, BURKE AARON. _The Old Northwest with a View of the thirteen Colonies as constituted by the royal Charters. New York: Townsend MacCoun, 1888._ 8vo. 440 pp. _2d ed., rev. New York: Silver, Burdett & Co., 1899._ $2.50.