Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1898-01-23
Rcvie,rs of New books.


CURRENT HISTORY. Third Quarter
1897. 256 pages. Edited by Alfred s.
johnson. Phi. ID. Price, H.50 year;
Single Numbers 40 cents; Specimen
Pages Free. Boston: The New Eng
land Publishing Company.
This well-known quarterly review of the
history Of our own times, formerly pub
lished in Buffalo, n. Y, is now issued
by the New England Publishing Com
pany. OF Boston. Mass, there being no
change in the editorial management
Owing to the transfer, the present No.
is late in it's appearance, but more
than makes up for this In the literary
and typographical excellence Of its con-
tents; in the breadth of its field. which
covers all countries and all interests,
and in the assurance it gives that the
long-recognized high standard of his In
valuable publication for accuracy, clear
ness, concseness. and impartiality or
statement, and for comprehensiveness of
grasp of affairs. will be more than fully
maintained. 1t contains more portraits
/ than usual; and maps are more abundant,
| adding much to the value of the record.
/ No newspaper notice can do justice TO
the table of contents, which makes the
! present No, like its predecessors,
| complete handbook of the worlds history
| during the quarter. Such a systematic
register OF passing events has never be-
/ fore been published IL puts the reader
I'm close touch with the progress OF the
great world around him, widening his
view Of the incidents and movements that
| are making history, and deepening his
! perception Of their significance. Specially
noteworthy among the articles In TINS
! No. are those reviewing the Great
coal strike; the discovery Of and rush to
the Klondike gold-helds; the adjustment
! Of the Graeco-Turkish question; the
| Crbau revolt; the European alliances; the
! tariff. currency Boring Sea, and Ha-
waiian questions; the business and Indus
trial situation; the British engineering
| strike; the crisis in Austria-HunSary; the
! Zionist movement; the assassination OF
| Castillo: Australasian federation; scien-
tifc progress; mechanical inventions; the
Mesa Encantada the Bogla. the Lambeth
conference, and the career OF General
| Neal Dow.
THE VIRGINIA MAGAZINE OF HIS
TORY AND BIOGRAPHY. Published
Quarterly by the Virginia Historical So
ciety Richmond, va.
Publication Committee-Archer Ander-
son. Charles V. Meredith. Lyon q. Tyler
e. V. Valentine, William ii. Palmer.
EdItor of the magazine-Philip A. Bruce.
Table Of Contents:
Proceedings of the Virginia Historical
Society.
/ Decisions of the General Court.
2. List of Early Land Patents and
Grants.
g. The Governors Land.
4 Tithables of Lancaster county, Va,
5. Price Lists and Diary Of Colonel
Fleming.
6. The Meherrin Indians.
7 The Trial OF Criminal Cases.
q oath and Duties of the Viewers 1859.
o Petition Of John Mercer
10 Abstracts Of Rappahannock County
Wills.
II Rev. Francis Doughty.
H. Letters to Thomas ADAMS i"l-fs'
a. Letters of William Fitzhugh.
"A Arms of the Cooke Family.
* cenealogv-The Cooke, Moseley, and
Markham Families.
10. Abstracts of Virginia Land Patents.
H. Neurology.
Is Historical Notes and Queries.
10. Book Reviews.
WILLIAM AND MARY COLLEGE
QUARTERLY HISTORICAL MAGA-
zTNE Editor, Lyon G. Tyler, NJ. A.,
II, n President of William and Mary
College. william and Mary College,
Williamsburg, va.
Table OF Contents:
/ Berkeley Manuscripts-Whis OF Jonn
Mann. Mary Mann. Thomas Nelson, OF
Sso~utovvn. Family Record Of the GrymeS-
~ 81 VVuIe ~ ..Oseph Ring. William Sedg-
49, md Joseph Walker; Record OF the
% Ie,-er of Ralph Wormeley QIsO,
cling an interesting account OF the
family. ,.. ., p.,nb
Wormeley's Bible. =, u
THE Genealogy of General ]. E. b.
Stuart with some account OF the tam
nils strothers. Bankses, Bruces. etc.
library of Colonel William Fleming,
Of the Revolution. <-.,,
G. Armistead Family Continued from
page SD. c.,.., ,,,ro,r,a par,
" The Higher Education.
s,udents in 1854 at William and
Mary ,,,u,,a ara
q Accounts of Salaries at william ana
Mary In ITO. ,,,,, uo,r,,.s
m Poster OF captain william Henrys
c,as,.,,arv ~ Minute Men at Northampton
Courthouse. ,.-,., .,o.o.
~ Book Reviews.
THE DAILY NEWS ALMANAC AND
poi q'IcAL REGISTER for 1873. COM
plled by George +. Plumpe' a. d., - ~
rourteenth Year. Issued bye the
Chicago Daily News Company. 40
Pages. Price, 2c. ~,
The fourteenth annual issue OF the Ch'j
caro DaiIy News Almanac and Ponticai
register for 1898 is at hand.
one new and valuable feature Is the
mage devoted to the movements or po-
iitIcai parties during the year when: m
view Of the congressional eiecuoh 'niS
wear. 1898 is Of great importance ana IN
sercst. The annexation OF Hawaii; the
eastern war; deep waterways from the
lakes 10 tidewater; Alaska, with us eoio-
fields and boundaries; domestic COM