References to Illinois are very few, but are important. The volume is the third in the author’s four-volumed History of the Catholic Church in the United States. SIEBERT, WILBUR HENRY. _The Underground Rail Road from Slavery to Freedom; with an Introduction by Albert Bushnell Hart. New York; The Macmillan Co., 1898._ viii. + iii. + 478 pp. Has notes of great interest on the U. G. R. R. in Illinois before 1830. Criticism: _Am. Hist. Rev._, IV., 557. SMITH, THEODORE CLARKE. _The Liberty and Free Soil Parties in the Northwest. New York: Longmans, Green & Co., 1897._ vii. + 351 pp. (_Harvard Hist. Studies_, VI.) A well-written book, but only the first chapter concerns the period before 1830. This chapter is, however, well worth attention. STEINHARD, S. _Deutschland und sein Volk. Gotha: Hugo Scheube, 1856-7._ 2 vols. I., x. + 658; II., 826 pp. Pages 28-46 of volume II. are on the Germans in the United States and contain a few important facts, including statistics, for our period. The Vandalia (Ill.) settlement of 1820 is mentioned. STEVENS, ABEL, LL. D. _History of the Methodist Episcopal Church in the United States of America. New York: Phillips & Hunt, 1884._ 4 vols. I., 423; II., 511; III., 510; IV., 522 pp. The fourth volume of this history has interesting notes on Benjamin Young and Jesse Walker, respectively. These men came to Illinois as pioneer ministers; the former in 1804, the latter in 1806. STRONG, MOSES M., A. M. _History of the Territory of Wisconsin, from 1836 to 1848. Preceded by an Account of some Events __ during the Period in which it was under the Dominion of Kings, States or other Territories, previous to the Year 1836. Madison, Wis.: Democrat Printing Co., State Printers_, 1885. 16mo. 637 pp. A valuable book. Its chief interest for us is its sketches of early settlement in the Galena lead region. SULTE, BENJAMIN. _Histoire des Canadiens-Français, 1608-1880. Montreal: Wilson & Cie._, 1882-4. 8 vols. 8vo. About 160 pp. per vol. _Montreal: Granger Frères._ 40 parts, paper, $10; 4 vols, cloth. Gives only slight attention to the French of Illinois. A popular work, but quite useful for a study of social institutions. SUMMERS, THOMAS O. _Biographical Sketches of eminent itinerant Ministers distinguished, for the most Part, as Pioneers of Methodism within the Bounds of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South. Nashville, Tenn.: Southern Methodist Publishing House_, 1859. 374 pp. Pages 48-56 give a character sketch of Jesse Walker and an idea of the character of the men to whom he preached in Illinois in 1807. SWAYNE, WAGER. _The Ordinance of 1787; and the War of 1861. An Address delivered before the N. Y. Commandery of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion. New York: C. G. Burgoyne_, [c. 1893]. 90 pp. Contains interesting notes on George Rogers Clark and on slavery in Illinois.