In general only the boldest outlines of immigration to Illinois are sketched. The slavery struggle in Illinois (1822-24) is treated with comparative fullness. Criticism: _Boston Herald, July 2, 1888_. HOSKINS, NATHAN. _A History of the State of Vermont, from its Discovery and Settlement to the Close of the Year 1830. Vergennes: J. Shedd, 1831._ 12 mo. 316 pp. Tells of the unusually cold summer of 1816. HOWE, HENRY. _Historical Collections of the great West: containing Narratives of the most important and interesting Events in western History—remarkable individual Adventures—Sketches of frontier Life—Descriptions of natural Curiosities: to which is appended historical and descriptive Sketches of Oregon, New Mexico, Texas, Minnesota, Utah and California. Cincinnati: Henry Howe, 1853._ 8vo. 440 pp. Compiled from a large number of sources, largely secondary. HUBBARD, GEORGE D. _A Case of geographic Influence upon human Affairs._ Pages 145-157 of _Bulletin of the American Geographical Society_, XXXVI., No. 3, _March_, 1904. _Pub. by the Society, New York._ A scientific discussion of the effect of glaciation upon the character of the people of different portions of Illinois. HULBERT, ARCHER BUTLER. _Red-Men’s Roads. The Indian Thoroughfares of the central West. Columbus, Ohio: Fred J. Heer & Co., 1900._ 37 pp. The book has many maps and is a help toward an understanding of the ways by which early settlers reached Illinois. HYNES, Rev. THOMAS W. _History of a Century. An Address delivered at Greenville, Bond Co., Ill., on July 4, 1876._ A newspaper clipping, bound, without the name of the paper from which it was taken, in _Illinois Local History Pamphlets_, V., in Library of the Wisconsin State Historical Society. It contains a valuable historical letter from Mrs. Almira Morse, a resident as early as 1820. _Illinois. Historical Encyclopedia of Illinois. Chicago and New York: Munsell Pub. Co., 1900._ 608 pp. Edited by Newton Bateman, LL. D., and Paul Selby, A. M. Much more reliable than many books of the same literary type. _International Monthly. Burlington, Vt._, IV., 794-820. See Turner, Frederick Jackson. JAMES, EDMUND JANES, and LOVELESS, MILO J. _A Bibliography of Newspapers published in Illinois prior to 1860. Springfield, Ill., Phillips Bros., State Printers, 1899._ 94 pp. A very valuable work. An appendix gives a list of the Illinois and Missouri papers (1808-1897) in the St. Louis Mercantile Library, while a second appendix enumerates the county histories of Illinois and tells where they may be found. JOHNSON, ERIC and PETERSON, C. F. _Svenskarne i Illinois. Chicago: W. Williamson, 1880._ 471 pp. Chiefly valuable for a later period. The salient points of early Illinois history are canvassed.