Johnson's _From Dixie to Canada_ is a little volume of 194 pages, in which are reprinted some of the many stories first published by him in the _Lake Shore Home Magazine_ during the years 1883 to 1889 under the heading, "Romances and Realities of the Underground Railroad." The data that most of these tales embody were accumulated by research, and while the names of operators, towns and so forth are authentic, the writer allows himself the license of the story-teller instead of restricting himself to the simple recording of the information secured. His investigations have given him an acquaintance with the routes of northeastern Ohio and the adjacent portions of Pennsylvania and New York. Hope's volume, published in 1894, does not increase the number of our sources of information, inasmuch as its materials are derived from Still's _Underground Railroad Records_ and Coffin's _Reminiscences_. It was written by an Englishman apparently as a popular exposition of the hidden methods of the abolitionists. To these books should be added a pamphlet of thirty pages, entitled _The Underground Railroad_, by James H. Fairchild, D.D., ex-President of Oberlin College, published in 1895 by the Western Reserve Historical Society.[6] The author had personal knowledge of many of the events he narrates and recounts several underground cases of notoriety; he thus affords a clear insight into the conditions under which secret aid came to be rendered to runaways. [6] _Tract No. 87_, in Vol. IV, pp. 91-121, of the publications of the Society. It is surprising that a subject, the mysterious and romantic character of which might be supposed to appeal to a wide circle of readers, has not been duly treated in any of the modern popular magazines. During the last ten years a few articles about the Underground Railroad have appeared in _The Magazine of Western History_,[7] _The Firelands Pioneer_,[8] _The Midland Monthly_,[9] _The Canadian Magazine of Politics, Science, Art and Literature_[10] and _The American Historical Review_.[11] Three of these publications, the first two and the last, are of a special character; the other two, although they appeal to the general reader, cannot be said to have attempted more than the presentation of a few incidents out of the experience of certain underground helpers. From time to time the _New England Magazine_ has given its readers glimpses of the Underground Road by its articles dealing with several well-known fugitive slave cases, and a biographical sketch of the abductor Harriet Tubman.[12] But it would be quite impossible for any one to gain an adequate idea of the movement from the meagre accounts that have appeared in any of these magazines. [7] March, 1887, pp. 672-682. [8] July, 1888, pp. 19-88. This periodical is issued by the Firelands Historical Society of Ohio. The bulk of the number mentioned is made up of contributions in regard to the Underground Road in northwestern Ohio.