he author. This, together with the
sincere and straightforward manner in which the book is written,
leaves the impression of accuracy and trustworthiness.

Journals of the Council of Virginia as Upper House. Manuscript
copies made of incomplete records in the State Library at
Richmond, in the Library of the Virginia Historical Society.
Arranged in three volumes as follows: I, 1685-1720; II,
1722-1747; III, 1748-1767. These journals are by no means so
important as those of the House of Burgesses. They are devoted
quite largely to routine matters and reflect but little of the
political life of the colony. The historian, if he gives careful
study to their pages, will be rewarded by passages here and
there which draw aside the veil, and give fleeting pictures of
the strife between the Council and the Burgesses.

Journals of the House of Burgesses.--In the State Library. Session
of 1619; manuscript copies of sessions from 1680 to 1718, and
from 1748 to 1772. These journals, so many of which have been
buried for centuries in English archives, throw a flood of light
upon the political life of the colony. They constitute by far
the most important source of information upon the long and
tireless struggle of the middle class in Virginia for a share in
the conducting of the government. Something of this, of course,
may be gleaned from the official correspondence of the
governors, but this evidence is partisan in spirit and does
injustice to the commons of Virginia. Hening gives in the main
only bare statutes, and the discussions, the quarrels and the
passions of the sessions are omitted. The journals are to
Hening's work what the living person is to the stone image. It
is a matter of the deepest regret that the journals from 1619 to
1680 are missing, for they leave a gap in Virginia history that
it is impossible to fill.

Keith, Sir William.--The History of the British Plantations in
America. Part One contains the History of Virginia. Printed by
S. Richardson, London, 1738. The work is devoted almost entirely
to the colony under the London Company. It contains little of
value, following John Smith's account throughout and presenting
nothing new either of documentary evidence or of criticism.

Long, Charles M.--Virginia County Names, Two Hundred and Seventy
Years of Virginia History. T