sent
State of Mexico and South America, and also of the native Tribes of the
New World. Newcastle-upon-Tyne: Mackenzie & Dent, 1819._ viii. + 432 pp.

The four pages devoted to Illinois are interesting and fairly reliable,
though scarcely up to date. The author mentions eighteen works used in
compiling his book.

MCLAUGHLIN, ANDREW C. _Lewis Cass. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin & Co., 1891._
363 pp. $1.25.

Describes the expedition of General Cass to northern Illinois during the
Sauk outbreak of 1827. Criticism: _Nation_, LIII., 204.

MARIETTA, O. _Report of the Commissioners of the National Centennial
Celebration of the Early Settlement of the Territory North West of the
Ohio River, ... held at Marietta, O., July 15-19, inclusive, 1888.
Columbus, O.: The Westbote Company, State Printers, 1889._ 292 pp.

Contains many speeches of varying historical accuracy and importance.

MASON, EDWARD GAY. _Chapters from Illinois History. Chicago: Herbert S.
Stone, 1901._ 322 pp.

Scholarly and accurate, and rich in citation of sources. Tells of Old Fort
Chartres, John Todd's Record-Book, the march of the Spaniards across
Illinois, and the Chicago massacre.

---- _March of the Spaniards across Illinois._ (In his _Chapters of Illinois
History, Chicago, 1901_; also in _Mag. of Am. Hist._ N. Y., XV., 457-469,
1886.)

Refers to a number of sources. The march is that of 1781 against St.
Joseph.

MATHER, IRWIN F. _The Making of Illinois. Chicago: A. Flanagan, 1900._ 292
pp.

The work is strong in the number of subjects which it treats. The Illinois
of our period is well covered. The bibliography cites many valuable
sources, but no references are given in the body of the work. The date of
the founding of the village of Kaskaskia is given as 1695--a confusion of
the mission on the Illinois River with the later village of the same name.

MAYO, A. D. _Western Emigration and Western Character._ (_Christian
Examiner_, N. Y., LXXXII., 265-82, 1867.)

The subject is well treated, but the value of the article for our purpose
is not so great as it would have been if confined to the early period.

MEIGS, WILLIAM M. _The Life of Thomas Hart Benton. Philadelphia and
London: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1904._ 535 pp.

The work throws much light upon the policy of the United States in regard
to the sale of public lands, and the attitude of the West towards that
policy.

MELISH, JOHN. _A geographical Description of the United States, with the