it presents to the public numerous
historical evidences which were for so many years inaccessible.

The First Republic in America. One volume. Houghton, Mifflin and
Company, Boston and New York. This work gives an account of the
origin of the nation, written from the records long concealed in
England. It not only is not based on the printed histories of
the day, but expressly repudiates them as false and unjust, and
as written in the interest of the Court Party. Much discredit is
thrown upon the narratives of Capt. John Smith. The author says;
"He never returned there (Virginia) and--if every one else had
done exactly as he did, there would have remained no colonists
in Virginia, but mountains of books in England, conveying
incorrect ideas, and filled with a mass of vanity, 'excellent
criticism' and 'good advice,' amounting really to nothing." In a
later work Mr. Brown says of The First Republic in America; "I
wrote from the point of the Patriot Party. It was the first
effort to restore to our foundation as a nation the inspiring
political features of which it was robbed by those who
controlled the evidences and histories under the crown."

English Politics in Early Virginia History. One volume. Houghton,
Mifflin and Company, Boston and New York. The book is divided
into five parts. The First Part gives an outline of the efforts
of the "Patriot Party" in England to plant popular government in
America and of the Court Party to prevent. Part Two recites the
effort of the Court to obliterate the true history of the origin
of Virginia. In Part Three the author shows the influence of
politics on the historic record while the crown retained control
of the evidences. Part Four shows what has been done both
towards correcting and to perpetuating the error. In the Fifth
Part is given a review of some of the features of the struggle
of the "Patriot Party" and the Court Party.

Bruce, Philip Alexander.--Economic History of Virginia in the
Seventeenth Century. Two volumes. Printed by the Macmillan
Company, New York. This work treats of aboriginal Virginia, of
the agricultural development after the coming of the English,
the acquisition of title to land, the system of labor, the
domestic economy of the planters, the part played by
manufactures in the colony, the inconvenience occasioned by