ndix gives a list of the Illinois and
Missouri papers (1808-1897) in the St. Louis Mercantile Library, while a
second appendix enumerates the county histories of Illinois and tells
where they may be found.

JOHNSON, ERIC and PETERSON, C. F. _Svenskarne i Illinois. Chicago: W.
Williamson, 1880._ 471 pp.

Chiefly valuable for a later period. The salient points of early Illinois
history are canvassed.

KINGDOM, WILLIAM, Jr. _America and the British Colonies, an abstract of
all the most useful Information relative to the United States of America,
and the British Colonies of Canada, the Cape of Good Hope, New South
Wales, and Van Diemen's Island. London: G. and W. B. Whittaker, 1820._
16mo. 359 pp.

Pages 61-73 describe Illinois and give some judicious advice to emigrants.
Conservative, but not cynical. Entire pages are reprinted from other
authors, notably Fearon, without the use of quotation marks.

KINGSTON, Hon. JOHN T. _Early Western Days._ (In _Wis. Hist. Coll._, VII.,
297-344). _Madison, Wis.: E. B. Bolens, 1876._

Gives a short account of the slavery struggle in Illinois in 1822-24.

---- _Slavery in Illinois. Necedah, Wis.: Necedah Republican._ 6 pp.
Reprinted, without date, in pamphlet form. In Library of State Historical
Society of Wisconsin.

A very short sketch of slavery in Illinois from its introduction in
1719-20.

KIRKLAND, JOSEPH. _The Story of Chicago. Chicago: Dibble Pub. Co., 1892._
470 pp.

The book makes large reference to authorities and is in consequence
valuable for reference.

KOeRNER, GUSTAV. _Das deutsche Element in den Vereinigten Staaten von
Nordamerika, 1818-1848. Cincinnati: A. E. Wilde & Co., 1880._ 16mo. 461
pp.

The 12th chapter (pp. 244-81) treats of German settlement in Illinois.
Tells of the first German and Swiss settlements in the state. Naturally
this chapter and the work as a whole is largely concerned with a period
later than 1830.

LAW, Judge JOHN. _Address delivered before the Vincennes Historical and
Antiquarian Society, February 22, 1839. Louisville, __ Ky.: Prentice &
Weissinger_, 1839. 48 pp. Enlarged and reprinted as _The colonial History
of Vincennes. Vincennes: Harvey, Mason & Co_., 1858. 156 pp.

Of great value on account of its description of Clark's campaign, and its
notes on Mermet, Gibault, Hamilton, Tecumseh, La Balme, and on the public
lands.

LAWRENCE, JOHN. _The History of the Church of the United Brethren in
Christ. Dayton, Ohio: W. J. Shuey_