h attention.

HAMILTON, HENRY EDWARD. _Incidents and Events in the Life of Gurdon
Saltonstall Hubbard, collected from personal Narrations and other Sources,
and arranged by his Nephew, Henry E. Hamilton. Chicago: Rand, McNally &
Co., 1888._ 189 pp.

Very valuable for the history of northern and eastern Illinois from 1818
to the close of the Black Hawk war. Most of the work is autobiographical.
Mr. Hubbard was an employee of the American Fur Company. Later he was in
business in Danville and Chicago.

HARDING, BENJAMIN. _A Tour through the Western Country, A. D. 1818 & 1819.
New London: Samuel Green, 1819._ 8vo. 17 pp.

The inducements which Illinois offered to emigrants are described with a
degree of sense rarely displayed in the period to which the work belongs
by writers of advice to emigrants. The American Bottom and the prairies
are described.

HARRIS, WILLIAM TELL. _Remarks made during a Tour through the United
States of America, in the Years 1817, 1818, and 1819._

Describes Shawneetown (1818), and speaks of the great number of wagons,
horses, and passengers which crossed the ferry there.

HECKE, J. VAL. _Reise durch die Vereinigten Staaten von Nord-Amerika in
den Jahren 1818 und 1819. Nebst einer kurzen Uebersicht der neuesten
Ereignisse auf dem Kriegs-Schauplatz in Sud-Amerika und West-Indien.
Berlin: H. Ph. Petri_, 1820-21. 2 vols. 16mo. I., 228; II., xvi. + 326.
pp.

Interesting and incorrect. The author tells well both of what he knows and
what he does not know. Tells foreigners how to reach Illinois.

HENRY, WILLIAM WIRT. _Patrick Henry. Life, Correspondence, and Speeches.
New York: Charles Scribners Sons_, 1891. 3 vols. I., 20 + 622; II., 652;
III., 672 pp.

The third volume contains instructions issued by Gov. Henry to officers of
the County of Illinois, and some correspondence of those officers.

_Historical Register of the United States. Philadelphia: G. Palmer_,
1814-1816.

II., 60-62 (second pagination) gives Capt. Heald's official report of the
massacre at Fort Dearborn on August 15, 1812.

HODGSON, ADAM. _Remarks during a Journey through North America in the
Years 1819-21, in a Series of Letters: with an Appendix, containing an
Account of several of the Indian Tribes, and the principal missionary
Stations, &c. New York: Samuel Whiting, 1823._ 8vo. iv. + 335 pp.

The author did not visit Illinois, but he gives an interesting criticism
of Mr. Birkbeck's venture in Illinois. He conversed