The objects of this Association are literary, social, antiquarian, festive and historical ; and its aims are thoroughly independent research into the materials of early Anglo-American history and literature. The Association is known as THE HERCULES CLUB, whose Eurystheus is Historic Truth and whose appointed labours are to clear this field for the historian of the future. “Sinking the individual in the Association the Hercules Club proposes to scour the plain and endeavour to rid it of some of the many literary, historical, chronological, geographical and other monstrous errors, hydras and public nuisances that infest it . . . . Very many books, maps, manuscripts and other materials relating alike to England and to America are well known to exist in various public and private repositories on both sides of the Atlantic. Some unique are of the highest rarity, are of great historic value, while others are difficult of access, if not wholly inaccessible, to the general student. It ís one of the purposes therefore of the Hercules Club to ferret out these materials, collate, edit and reproduce them with extreme accuracy, but not in facsimile. The printing is to be in the best style of the Chiswick Press. The paper with the Club’s monogram in each leaf is made expressly for the purpose”. The following ten works were selected as the first field of the Club’s investigations, and to form the first series of its publications. 1. Waymouth (Capt. George) Voyage to North Virginia in 1605. By James Rosier. London, 1605, 4° 2. Sil. Jourdan’s Description of Barmuda. London, 1610, 4° 3. Lochinvar. Encouragements for such as shall have intention to bee Vndertakers in the new plantation of Cape Breton, now New Galloway. Edinburgh, 1625, 4° 4. Voyage into New England in 1623-24.. By Christopher Levett. London, 1628, 4° 5. Capt. John Smith’s True Relation of such occurrences of Noate as hath hapned in Virginia. London, 1608, 4° 6. Gosnold’s Voyage to the North part of Virginia in 1602. By John Brereton. London, 1602, 4° 7. A Plain Description of the Barmudas, now called Sommer Islands. London, 1613, 4° 8. For the Colony in Virginia Brittania, Lavves Divine Morall and Martiall, &c. London, 1612, 4° 9. Capt. John Smith’s Description of NewEngland, 16l4-15, map. London, 1616, 4° 10. Hariot (Thomas) Briefe and true report of the new foundland of Virginia. London, 1588, 4° ‘Mr. Secretary Outis’ undertook the task of seeing the reprints of the original texts of these ten volumes through the Press, and almost the whole of this work he actually accomplished.