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NEW HAMPSHIRE HISTORICAL SOCIETY

The following officers were elected: NEW JERSEY HISTORICAL SOCIETYPresident-General, Hamilton Fish; Vice- The semi-annual meeting was held, May President-General, Dr. W. A. Irvine; 15, in the rooms of the Society, Dr. S. Secretary-General, Judge Advocate Asa H. Pennington in the chair. Judge Bird Gardner, LL. D., U. S. A.; Assistant Ricord reported for the Executive ComSecretary-General, Richard I. Manning; mittee, and paid a touching tribute to Treasurer-General, John Schuyler; As- the late ex-Governor M. L. Ward, and sistant Treasurer-General, Dr. Herman Gen. N. W. Halstead. An interesting Burgin. The delegates in attendance paper was read by J. F. Hageman were: From New Jersey-Colonel Stanly on Samuel Allinson, which was Sims, Hon. John Fitch (of New York), ceived with much applause. An informal Colonel Francis B. Ogden, William B. address was then delivered by Gen. Buck, General Stryker. From New James Grant Wilson, of New York, givYork : Hon. Hamilton Fish, John ing an agreeable account of his trip Schuyler, Major Christie, Professor Cros- through Spain a few months since, who by, General John Cochrane. From also presented to the Society a piece of the wall of the house in which Columbus Pennsylvania: General Grant Weidman, Hon. William Wayne, Richard Dale, was born near Genoa, and a relic from the house where he died. Edmund H. McCullough, Francis M. Caldwell. From South Carolina: Gen. Willmot C. De Sausure, Colonel Thomas Pinckney Loundes, Felix Warley, Louis De Sausure, James Simmons. From Rhode Island: Hon. Nathaniel Green, ex-Governor William W. Hoppin, Major Asa B. Gardner, Hon. Henry E. Turner, Hon. Daniel W. Lyman. Mass.: Hon. Samuel C. Cobb, Dr. Charles Homans, Winslow Warren, S. K. Lothrop, William Perkins. Governor Robert M. McLane of Md., and Gen. Henry J. Hunt, U.S.A., of Mass., were unable to be present. Among those designated as alternates were: Rt. Rev. W. S. Perry, Bishop of Iowa, Rear Admiral Charles H. Baldwin, U. S. N., commanding the European Fleet, James M. Varnum, and Henry T. Drowne The members of the Society were entertained by the State Society at dinner on the anniversary of the General Society dinner of the fifteenth of May, 1787, when President General Washington presided.

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held its sixty-second annual meeting at the Society's rooms in Concord, June 11, 1884, the President, Hon. Charles H. Bell, in the chair. The proceedings of the last annual meeting, and the report of the field day, were read by the Recording Secretary, Amos Hadley. Reports were also read by the Treasurer, and by various standing committees. A portrait of the late Judge Nathaniel G. Upham was presented to the Society by John Kimball, and accepted in behalf of the Society in a few well-chosen remarks by President Bell. The following officers were elected for the ensuing year: President, Charles H. Bell; Vice-Presidents, Jonathan E. Sargent, John M. Shirley; Corresponding Secretary, John J. Bell; Recording Secretary, Amos Hadley; Treasurer, Samuel S. Kimball; Librarian, Samuel C. Eastman. The next meeting will be held July 16, 1884.

BOOK NOTICES

A HISTORY OF THE BANK OF NEW YORK, 1784-1884. Compiled from Official Records and other Sources at the Request of the Directors. By HENRY W. DOMETT. 8vo, pp. 135. New York: 1884. G. P. Putnam's Sons.

The history of the oldest bank in the State of New York, and one of the oldest in the United States, cannot fail to interest a large community of readers, particularly as its existence covers the century of development, with its peculiar monetary vicissitudes and the great changes in financial policy which have made it notable in the annals of the business world. The condition of the country at the time of the formation of the bank, and the general appearance of the city, are sketched by Mr. Domett as an agreeable background to the sharply-defined figure of the infant institution. The Bank of New York presents, from first to last, one of those honorable records of which a continent may well be proud. This bank was founded in 1784 by men of the highest integrity; and its officers and directors since that time-for a hundred well-rounded years-have been faithful to the trust confided to their care. No doubt has ever existed as to its soundness, no question as to its methods. Surviving the trials that have proved too severe for many other banking corporations, it has ever stood like a faithful auxiliary, a tower of strength to the public and to the government.

Mr. Domett has performed his task in the most acceptable manner. His statements all bear the stamp of accuracy, and are clear, concise and forcible, while the merely statistical is brightened on nearly every page with valuable information of historical or biographical significance. The volume is elegantly printed and illustrated. Thirteen fine steel portraits of officers of the bank during the century grace the work, together with a half dozen or more pictures of the buildings which the bank has occupied from time to time, and fac-similes of checks and bank notes.

EPITOME OF ANCIENT, MEDIÆVAL, AND MODERN HISTORY. By CARL

PLOETZ. Translated with Extensive Additions by William Hopkins Tillinghast. 12mo, pp. 618. Boston: 1884. Houghton, Mifflin & Co.

The distinguishing feature of this work is the arrangement whereby a brief connected narrative is accompanied by a clear, well graduated chronology, which emphasizes the sequence of events without breaking up the story or fatiguing the mind. It is intended for the use of upper classes

in the higher educational institutions, as a guide or handbook in the historical class-room. It is

adapted also for private use, and facilitates rapid acquisition of information concerning historical matters which has for the moment escaped the memory. Especial care seems to have been devoted to the index, which is very full, and thus the book may serve the purpose of a historical dictionary as well as a chronology.

Prof. Dr. Carl Ploetz is well known in Ger

many as a veteran teacher, and the author of many educational works of high reputation. The translation of this "Epitome" (now in its seventh edition) is particularly welcome to American scholars. Mr. Tillinghast has enlarged the book, greatly increasing its value and general usefulness in this country, and for his able and conscientious work is entitled to the heartiest thanks.

POLLOCK GENEALOGY. A BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH OF OLIVER POLLOCK, With ESQ., of Carlisle, Pa., 1776-1784. Genealogical Notes of his Descendants. Also Genealogical Sketches of other Pollock Families settled in Pennsylvania. By REV. HORACE EDWIN HAYDEN. Pamphlet, 8vo, pp. 59. Lane S. Hart, Printer, Harrisburg, Pa.

The growing interest in whatever concerns American history is shown in nothing more emphatically and conclusively than in the multiplication of works on genealogy, now being issued from the press in all parts of the country. Formerly the average citizen ridiculed the enthusiast who studied the family tree. At the present moment the really cultivated man or woman who takes no interest in ancestral questions is hard to find.

The Pollock family has an able genealogist in the author of this well-arranged and interesting pamphlet: The North Carolina Pollocks were intimately connected with Aaron Burr. Eunice Edwards, sister of Aaron Burr's mother, married Thomas Pollock, of Newbern, N. C., and they lived in Philadelphia from 1800 to 1806. The little work contains much interesting information aside from genealogy, and will be carefully treasured by all its fortunate possessors.

AIRS FROM ARCADY, and Elsewhere. By H. C. BUNNER. 16m0, pp. 109. 1884. New York Charles Scribner's Sons.

This is an agreeable collection of poems in which we trace something more and better than the versifying capacity of a bright and clever writer. Mr. Bunner is a young poet of promise,

whose name has not yet become familiar to the reading public through much utterance, but his work, although in the guise chiefly of society verse, shows that he is gifted with delicate perceptions of truth, strong and healthful sympathies, an emotional nature, and a musical ear. We should say without hesitation that he possesses the genuine poetical impulse, and shall look with interest for future productions from his spirited pen.

MEMORIALS OF THE PILGRIM FATHERS. John Eliot and his Friends, of Nazing and Waltham Abbey. From original sources. Written for the Royal Historical Society. By W. WINTERS, F. R. Hist. Soc. Pamphlet, 12mo, pp. 8o. Published by the author. Churchyard, Waltham Abbey, Essex, England.

Mr. Winters has published in this little work (mainly for the benefit of his American friends) a valuable study of the Pilgrim Fathers, read before the Royal Historical Society. He says in the opening narrative: "It is well known that there is no county in Old England that can claim precedence of Essex for honest and intrepid men, especially those of the Reformation age, who, for the sake of truth and liberty endured the tortures of the rack and fagot; and others of a later period feared not to exercise the right of conscience and private judgment in things agreeable to their religious impressions, until, overcome by the heat of persecution, they were necessitated to cross the stormy Atlantic in search of a home in the dreary wilds of the far West." The author furnishes no insignificant amount of original data concerning the lives of the Pilgrim Fathers prior to their embarkation for the New World, although he modestly implies in his preface that he has done little more than provide material for history, and foreshadows the possibilities in store for future historical writers. Among the numerous interesting features of the little work, is a description of the Parish Church in which the Pilgrim Fathers and their ancestors worshiped. The seats were of oak, and carved at the ends with a variety of grotesque characters. The inside of the south porch remains about as it did; it is paved with red tiles edgeways, and portions of two very ancient, coffin-shaped gravestones. There are several monumental inscriptions in this church to the memory of the Palmers of Nazing-an old resident family of some position in the days of the Charleses. Descendants of the same family are occupants of a fine old mansion beautifully situated near the church and within the park. Near by is a curious ruin known to the Pilgrim Fathers as Nether Hall. In 1871 the Essex and St. Albans Archæological Society paid a formal

visit to the place; also to the famous Old Rye House, a short distance from the Hall.

CONCORD IN THE COLONIAL PERIOD. Being a History of the Town of Concord, Massachusetts, from the earliest settlement to the overthrow of the Andros Government. 1635-1689. By CHARLES H. WALCOTT. With map, 8vo, pp. 172. Boston: 1884. Estes & Lauriat.

The author of this volume tells us that the first houses in Concord were humble structures, with thatched roofs, and possibly wooden chimneys, and that oiled paper served in the place of window-glass. The second set of houses were more substantial in their construction, and some of them were dignified by the name of "mansion," but none survive at the present time.

The first church of Concord was organized in 1636, and the following year Rev. Peter Bulkeley was chosen teacher, and Rev. John Jones pastor. It is curious to trace in these pages many of the peculiar ideas of the people of that early period. Men were prosecuted for adversely criticising a preacher. One instance was that of Philip Read, who practiced medicine in Concord, and who imprudently said he could preach as well as Mr. Bulkeley, who was called by a company of blockheads, etc., and that the illness of one of his patients was caused by standing too long during the ceremony of administering the Lord's Supper. A flood of litigation descended upon him, he was fined £20, and finally went to live elsewhere. The volume before us has been prepared with painstaking care, the intention being to present the whole subject in the light of truth, without exaggeration or suppression of any facts of public interest. It is a contribution to history of permanent value.

ANNOUNCEMENT. - All lovers of American history will rejoice to learn that an extensive work, presenting specimens of American Literature from the earliest settlement of this continent to the present time, is soon to be given to the reading public. Its editors are Edmund C. Stedman, the well-known poet and littérateur,and Miss Ella M. Hutchinson, of the editorial staff of the New York Tribune. This "Library of American Literature" is to consist of ten handsome octavo volumes, containing distinctive, readable examples, from authoritative texts, of the writings of every class and period, and will form a collection that will be to our literature what a "National Gallery" is to national art. The extracts are longer than is usual in works of this character; and portraits of many of the authors are given. The first two volumes will be issued at an early date by Messrs. W. E. Dibble & Co. of Cincinnati. The work will be sold exclusively by subscription.

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