ifflin & Co., 1885._ viii. + 433 pp.

Useful as giving an insight into the character of a neighboring state from
which many of the early settlers of Illinois came. One of the best of the
American Commonwealths series.

SHEA, JOHN GILMARY. _History of the Catholic Church in the United States,
1808-1843. New York: John G. Shea, 1890._ vii. + 731 pp.

References to Illinois are very few, but are important. The volume is the
third in the author's four-volumed History of the Catholic Church in the
United States.

SIEBERT, WILBUR HENRY. _The Underground Rail Road from Slavery to Freedom;
with an Introduction by Albert Bushnell Hart. New York; The Macmillan Co.,
1898._ viii. + iii. + 478 pp.

Has notes of great interest on the U. G. R. R. in Illinois before 1830.
Criticism: _Am. Hist. Rev._, IV., 557.

SMITH, THEODORE CLARKE. _The Liberty and Free Soil Parties in the
Northwest. New York: Longmans, Green & Co., 1897._ vii. + 351 pp.
(_Harvard Hist. Studies_, VI.)

A well-written book, but only the first chapter concerns the period before
1830. This chapter is, however, well worth attention.

STEINHARD, S. _Deutschland und sein Volk. Gotha: Hugo Scheube, 1856-7._ 2
vols. I., x. + 658; II., 826 pp.

Pages 28-46 of volume II. are on the Germans in the United States and
contain a few important facts, including statistics, for our period. The
Vandalia (Ill.) settlement of 1820 is mentioned.

STEVENS, ABEL, LL. D. _History of the Methodist Episcopal Church in the
United States of America. New York: Phillips & Hunt, 1884._ 4 vols. I.,
423; II., 511; III., 510; IV., 522 pp.

The fourth volume of this history has interesting notes on Benjamin Young
and Jesse Walker, respectively. These men came to Illinois as pioneer
ministers; the former in 1804, the latter in 1806.

STRONG, MOSES M., A. M. _History of the Territory of Wisconsin, from 1836
to 1848. Preceded by an Account of some Events __ during the Period in
which it was under the Dominion of Kings, States or other Territories,
previous to the Year 1836. Madison, Wis.: Democrat Printing Co., State
Printers_, 1885. 16mo. 637 pp.

A valuable book. Its chief interest for us is its sketches of early
settlement in the Galena lead region.

SULTE, BENJAMIN. _Histoire des Canadiens-Francais, 1608-1880. Montreal:
Wilson & Cie._, 1882-4. 8 vols. 8vo. About 160 pp. per vol. _Montreal:
Granger Freres._ 40 parts, paper, $10; 4 vols, cloth.

Gives only slight attention to the Fren