ch of Illinois. A popular work, but
quite useful for a study of social institutions.

SUMMERS, THOMAS O. _Biographical Sketches of eminent itinerant Ministers
distinguished, for the most Part, as Pioneers of Methodism within the
Bounds of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South. Nashville, Tenn.:
Southern Methodist Publishing House_, 1859. 374 pp.

Pages 48-56 give a character sketch of Jesse Walker and an idea of the
character of the men to whom he preached in Illinois in 1807.

SWAYNE, WAGER. _The Ordinance of 1787; and the War of 1861. An Address
delivered before the N. Y. Commandery of the Military Order of the Loyal
Legion. New York: C. G. Burgoyne_, [c. 1893]. 90 pp.

Contains interesting notes on George Rogers Clark and on slavery in
Illinois.

THOMSON, JOHN LEWIS. _Historical Sketches of the late War between the
United States and Great Britain. Philadelphia: Thos. Desilver_, 1816. 359
pp. _5th ed._, 1818.

Contains one of the earliest accounts of the massacre at Fort Dearborn,
August 15, 1812. The account is short, but tolerably correct. The work was
reprinted in 1887 [Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Co.], with a short
account of the war with Mexico added. 656 pp.

THOMPSON, ZADOCK. _History of the State of Vermont, from its earliest
Settlement to the Close of the Year 1832. Burlington: Edward Smith_, 1833.
12mo. 252 pp. _Reprinted with natural Hist. of Vt. and Gazetteer of Vt.
Burlington: Zadock Thompson_, 1853. 8vo. 224+224+200+63 pp.

Describes the cold season of 1816-17.

THWAITES, REUBEN GOLD. _Early Lead-mining in Illinois and Wisconsin._
Pages 191-196 of _Am. Hist. Ass'n. Rep't._, 1893. _Washington: Government
Printing Office_, 1894.

Contains several interesting statements concerning the early history of
the Galena region.

TUCKER, GEORGE. _Progress of the United States in Population and Wealth in
fifty Years, as exhibited by the decennial Census. Boston: Little & Brown,
1843._ 12mo. 211 pp.

The fifty years were 1790-1840. Very useful for material concerning the
relative growth of different sections of the country.

TURNER, FREDERICK JACKSON. _Middle West, The._ _International Monthly_,
IV., 794-820 (1901).

The article has a few suggestions that are of value for our period.

---- _The Significance of the Frontier in American History._ Pages 199-227
of _Rep't. of Am. Hist. Ass'n., 1893_.

Contains a valuable characterization of the French as colonizers.

VARNEY, GEORGE JONES. _A brief