C. W. Johnston, a Des Moines lawyer of thirty years standing, “concluded to discontinue and enter upon a period of travel.” _Along the Pacific by Land and Sea_ (Chicago, 1916) contains a series of breezy letters which he wrote back to the Des Moines _Register and Leader_. They contain the reactions of this son of the Middle West toward the new environment afforded by a visit, apparently his first, to various cities on the Pacific coast. Through dint of reiterated remarks on the subject the reader leaves the book with the not entirely valid conviction that one of the “certainties” for which Des Moines bears the palm among her sister cities is that of being the dirtiest place in the United States. The importance of religious denominations in the growth of our State and national history is being recognized more and more by historical students. In the _Indiana Magazine of History_, June, 1917, appears an interesting article by Rev. Elmo A. Robinson entitled “Universalism in Indiana.” While the writer deals primarily with the growth of that denomination in Indiana, yet mention is also made of the influences of Universalism in the other states of the Old Northwest. A review of the proceedings of the Northwest Conference of Universalists shows that the Wisconsin delegates figured prominently in the activities of this denomination. [Illustration: CORDELIA A. P. HARVEY From a photograph in the Wisconsin Historical Library] VOL. I, NO. 3 MARCH, 1918 THE WISCONSIN MAGAZINE OF HISTORY [Illustration: Printer’s Logo] PUBLICATIONS OF THE STATE HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF WISCONSIN. Edited by MILO M. QUAIFE, Superintendent CONTENTS Page A WISCONSIN WOMAN’S PICTURE OF PRESIDENT LINCOLN _Cordelia A. P. Harvey_ 233 THE DUTCH SETTLEMENTS OF SHEBOYGAN COUNTY _Sipko F. Rederus_ 256 PIONEER RECOLLECTIONS OF BELOIT AND SOUTHERN WISCONSIN _Lucius G. Fisher_ 266 DOCUMENTS: Chicago Treaty of 1833: Charges preferred against George B. Porter; Letter from George B. Porter to President Andrew Jackson 287 HISTORICAL FRAGMENTS: The Disputed Michigan-Wisconsin Boundary; An Early Wisconsin Play 304 EDITORIAL: The Professor and the Finger Bowl; The Printing of Historical Publications; Is War Becoming More Horrible?; Some Leaves from the Past; The Development of Humanitarianism; Other Agencies; Some Facts and Figures; Bravery Then and Now; Schrecklichkeit 309 QUESTION BOX: The First Settler of Baraboo; The Chippewa River during the French and British Régimes; The Career of Colonel G. W. Manypenny; Treaty Hall and Old La Pointe 319