MOWRY, WILLIAM AUGUSTUS. _The territorial Growth of the United States. New York: Silver, Burdett & Co., 1902._ 225 pp. The chapter on the Northwest Territory tells of various cessions of land comprised in the present Illinois. MURAT, ACHILLE. _America and the Americans. New York: William H. Graham, 1849._ Duodecimo. vii. + 260 pp. Too late in date to be of much service, although some valuable suggestions as to the social and political development of the frontier can be obtained. The writer was an acute observer. He treats politics, slavery, society, religion, justice, etc. The book was written about 1829. Describes customs and extra legal proceedings in the West. _Nashville, Tennessee, History of, with full Outline of the natural Advantages.... Nashville, Tenn.: Pub. House of the M. E. Church, South, 1890._ 656 pp. Tells of passage of emigrants from North Carolina to Illinois in 1780, of French traders from Illinois to Tennessee in 1779, of Tennesseeans getting head rights from George Rogers Clark. _North American Review, Boston._ Volume LI., 92-140 (July, 1840) has an exhaustive review of Peck’s Gazetteer of Illinois. The review is probably of much more historical interest than the Gazetteer. PALMER, B. M. _Slavery in Illinois. (Dubuque semi-weekly Telegraph, Tues., Sept. 19, 1899.)_ Gives the bill of sale, taken from the county records of Jo Daviess County, Ill., and executed in that county in 1830, of a negro mother and child. PATTERSON, ROBERT WILSON. _Early Society in southern Illinois. Chicago: Fergus Printing Co._, 1879. Pp. 103-131 of _Fergus historical Series_ No. 14. A characterization, in general terms, of early Illinois society, its manners and its origin. This was a lecture read before the Chicago Historical Society, Oct. 19, 1880. PECK, Rev. JOHN MASON, _Editor. __“__Father Clark__”__ or the Pioneer Preacher. Sketches and Incidents of Rev. John Clark, by An Old Pioneer. New York: Sheldon, Lamport & Blakeman_, 1855. 287 pp. Gives considerable religious and Indian material for Illinois history from 1790 to 1833, but chiefly on the earlier part of that period. —— _An historical Sketch of the early American Settlements in Illinois, from 1780-1800. Read before the Ill. State Lyceum, at its anniversary_, Aug. 16, 1832. (_Western monthly Mag._, I., 73-83. Feb. 1833.) Popular, but of some value. POST, Rev. T. M. [Author of pp. 93-102.] _Contributions to the ecclesiastical History of Connecticut; prepared under the Direction of the General Association, to commemorate the Completion of one hundred and fifty Years since its first annual Assembly. New Haven: Wm. L. Kingsley_, 1861. xiv. + 562 pp. A symposium. The article by Rev. Mr. Post is on “The Mission of Congregationalism at the West.” It is suggestive on the moral effects of frontier life.