732 Notes and News 'e have received a volume of nearly 600 pages devoted to Cuban local history: Historia de la Villa de Sagua la Grande y sii Jurisdiccion, by Sr. Antonio M. Alcover y Beltran, author of El Periodismo en Sagua. The volume is made up of " documentos, apuntes, reseiias, monografias, y consideraciones " (Mexico City, Tip. Alcover y Hermano), and treats in detail a wide variety of local topics. Noteworthy articles in periodicals: James A. Burns, Early Mission Schools of the Franciscans (Catholic University Bulletin, January) ; P. A. Bruce, The Social Life of England's First Colony (Gentleman's Magazine, January) ; George S. Hellman, Some Unpublished Letters of George Washington (Harper's Magazine, January) ; C. W. Bowen, A French Officer with JVashington and Rochambeau (Century Maga- zine, February) ; W. M. Sloane, Von Moltkc's Viezu of Washington's Strategy (Century Magazine, February) ; C. O. Paullin, The Massa- chusetts Navy in the American Revolution (New England Magazine, January) ; William S. Rossiter, The First Census of the United States (Outlook, December 29, 1906) ; Burt E. Powell, Jefferson and the Con- sidar Service (Political Science Quarterly, January) ; John F. Simmons, The Monroe Doctrine: Its Status (Michigan Law Review, February) ; A. T. Mahan, Our Navy Fifty Years Ago (Harper's Magazine, Febru- ary) ; Morris Schafif, The Spirit of Old West Point (Atlantic Monthly, February, March) ; E. P. Oberholtzer, Jay Cooke and the Financing of the Civil War (running i« the Century Magazine) ; E. P. Alexander, The Battle of Bull-Run (Scribner's Magazine, January) ; E. P. Alexan- der, Grant's Movement against Petersburg (Scribner's Magazine, Feb- ruary) ; F. T. Hill, The Alabama Arbitration Case (Harper's Magazine, January) ; Id., The Hayes-Tilden Contest (ibid., March) ; Ida M. Tar- bell, The Tariff in Our Times (running in the American Magazine).
