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Vol. VII. (Pt. 2). Military Journal of Major Ebenezer Denny, an Officer in the Revolutionary and Indian Wars. With an Introductory Memoir. By William H. Denny. 9 Illust. a. c. Index, 2 col. pp. 493-498. (1860.)

... Ebenezer Denny lived from 1761 to 1822. Two of the illustrations are portraits of Major Ebenezer Denny and General Josiah Harmar, the latter engraved by John Sartain, after Peale.

At the end (pp. 478-485) is an Indian Vocabulary of words in use with the Delaware and Shawanee Indians, compiled 1785-6.

Vol. VIII. Minutes, The, of the Committee of Defence of Philadelphia: 1814-1815. (1867.)

.. This volume is printed from the original Minutes in the handwriting of John Goodman, of the Incorporated Northern Liberties of Philadelphia, who was Secretary of the Committee, and who a few years before his decease presented the original Manuscript to the Society.

Vols. IX. and X. Correspondence between William Penn and James Logan, Secretary of the Province of Pennsylvania, and others: 1700-1750. From the Original Letters in the possession of the Logan Family. With Notes by the late Mrs. Deborah Logan. Edited with additional Notes by Edward Armstrong. (1870-72.)

.: James Logan (1674-1751) was Secretary to William Penn, becoming later Governor of the Province. His Library is the "Loganian Library," now preserved in the Philadelphia Library, at Broad and Christian Streets.

Two Volumes only are published at present (March, 1888). They comprise Introductory matter (lix. pp.), giving Memoirs of the Penn Family-Mrs. Deborah Logan-her ancestors-and James Logan-and Introductory Remarks to the Correspondence by Mrs. Deborah Logan, with Correspondence covering from 1700 to the end of 1711.

The second Volume of the Correspondence has an etched Portrait of James Logan by H. B. Hall, as its Frontispiece.

An Index will be furnished to all the Volumes on "the completion of the "Series."

Vol. XI. History, A, of New Sweden; or, the Settlements on the River Delaware. By Israel Acrelius. Translated from the Swedish, with an Introduction and Notes, by Dr. William M. Reynolds. Published under the joint auspices of the Historical Societies of Pennsylvania and Delaware. Index, 2 col. pp. 445–458. (1874.)

... The Author (1714-1800) was formerly Provost of the Swedish Churches in America and Pastor at Christina, but afterwards Provost and Pastor in Fellingsbro, and originally published this work in Stockholm in 1759.

This is a valuable contribution to the historical discussion of the superior rights of the Swedes or the Netherlanders to settle upon the Delaware by right of possession, or of the English by right of discovery.

He discusses the Swedish, Holland, and English Administrations separately, and gives details of the "State of the Church" from 1655 to 1696, under the heads of the different Pastors and Congregations.

Chapters IX. and X., Part III. pp. 156–164, describing the manners and customs of the people generally, with details of the furniture, the fashion of their clothes,

their order of meals, and a recital of the 48 drinks used in North America, record many curious particulars of that early period.

Vol. XII. History, Manners, and Customs of The Indian Nations who once inhabited Pennsylvania and the neighbouring States. By the Rev. John Heckewelder. New and Revised Edition. With an Introduction and Notes by the Rev. William C. Reichel of Bethlehem, Pa. Index, 2 col. pp. 443-450. (1876.)

... John Gottlieb Ernestus Heckewelder (1743-1823) was one of the Moravian Missionaries, a class of men "whose time was necessarily divided between the "discharge of spiritual and secular duties, who preached in houses built by their 66 own hands, and wielded the axe as well as the Sword of the Spirit."

This work first appeared in 1818. Part III. consists (pp. 437-450) of "Words, “Phrases, and Short Dialogues in the Language of the Lenni Lenape, or Delaware "Indians."

A Portrait of the Author is given as a Frontispiece. The merits of the History are very variously estimated. Nathan Hale, in the North American Review, panegyrized it, declaring there was no work on the subject to bear comparison with it, and Mr. Rawle (of the Historical Society) warmly defended it in his Paper on the subject (Vol. IV. p. 268), whilst General Lewis Cass ridiculed it as a work in which the most idle traditions become sober history and the defects in Indian character are converted into their corresponding virtues.

Historical Society of Pennsylvania. PENNSYLVANIA and the [767] Federal Constitution, 1787-1788. Edited by John Bach McMaster and Frederick D. Stone. [Philadelphia:] The Historical Society. 1888. Large 8vo. Cloth, top edges gilt. Illust. a. c. Index, 2 col. pp. 791-803.

... This is an elaborate collection of all the stormy debates, pamphlets, and newspaper struggles over the ratification by Pennsylvania of the Federal Constitution. The Editors consider that the volume published by Thomas Lloyd in 1788 was one-sided, and that "the history of this contest has never been written." This is an attempt to "fairly represent both the Federal and the Antifederal side."

A series of fifteen Portraits adds considerably to the value of the volume. Nine of them are excellent etchings by Mr. Albert Rosenthal, and two are engravings by Messrs. John and Samuel Sartain respectively.

Historical Society of Pennsylvania. PENNSYLVANIA, Historical [768] Map of: showing the Indian Names of Streams, and Villages, and Paths of Travel; the Sites of old Forts and Battle-fields; the successive purchases from the Indians; and the Names and Dates of Counties and County Towns; with Tables of Forts and Proprietary Manors. Edited by P. W. Sheafer and others. [Philadelphia :]

Publication Fund of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania. 1875. 8vo. (folded Map). Cloth.

.. The "Historical Tables" cover the period from 1609 to 1876. The Map has in the margin a curious "supposed Map by the Indians" and some hieroglyphics, etc., traced by them.

Historical Society of Pennsylvania. PENNSYLVANIA MAGAZINE, [769] THE, of History and Biography. Philadelphia: Publication Fund of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania. 1877, etc. 8vo. Boards, with cloth backs, top edges gilt. Indexes, 2 col. see each vol. at end. [In course of publication.]

... This is the "periodical" of the Historical Society and contains a valuable collection of "variorum" on matters of biographical and local interest. It is accompanied by many excellent Portraits, Maps, and facsimiles of title-pages, etc., of early publications. The papers of Mr. Townsend Ward on the ancient houses and spots of Philadelphia and its neighbourhood (e. g., in North Second Street, Vol. IV. pp. 164-186) deserve special notice, and some of the illustrations, as, for instance (Vol. IV. p. 180), the Black Horse Inn Yard, and those incorporated with his eight papers (Vols. V. and VI.) upon the Germantown Road and its Associations, are more like reminiscences of the Borough, Southwark, near London, than “New World" spots. The preservation of prints of such places is always valuable for future historians.

Vol. VI. (1882) records the entry of the Society into its new buildings, at the corner of Thirteenth and Locust Streets, and some particulars are given, pp. v.-vi.

Only eleven complete volumes have been published to the present time (March, 1888).

Historical Society of Pennsylvania.-REMAINS of William Penn. See Harrison, George L.

Hitchcock, Rev. Roswell D.-HITCHCOCK'S New and Complete [770] Analysis of the Holy Bible, or the whole of the Old and New Testaments arranged according to subjects in 27 Books on the basis of Matthew Talbot as improved with Indexes, Tables, and other valuable matter by Nathaniel West. Illustrated with steel plate engravings and maps: The Engravings are from original drawings by the celebrated Artists Thomas Nast and F. B. Carpenter. Together with Cruden's Concordance to the Holy Scriptures, Revised by John Eadie, D.D. The whole designed to facilitate the study and to promote the better Understanding of the Word of God. Revised and Edited by Rev. Ros

well D. Hitchcock. Including also a Pronouncing Dictionary of Scripture Proper Names - An Interpreting Dictionary of Scripture Proper Names-Tables of Scripture Measures, Weights, and Coins, with full Explanations -A Dictionary of Religious Denominations, Sects, Parties, and Associations in the World-A History of the Bible and a Family Record. New York: A. J. Johnson. 1871. Impl. 8vo. Morocco, lettered and ornamented, edges gilt. Indexes, pp. 687-750.

The ponderous diffuseness of the Title-page almost dispenses with the need for any description. The Bible text is sorted out under headings-each text only appearing, however, in one place. The "Contents" cover no less than 35 double-column pages (pp. xiii.-xlvii.). The Analysis occupies 685 (2 col.) pages, followed by the Indexes. One value of the Analysis lies in all the references to Books not now extant, (as for example Jasher, Nathan, and Gad,) and such matters, being collected together.

Hodgkin, Thomas.-ITALY AND HER INVADERS. Oxford: Claren[771] don Press. 1880, etc. 8vo. Half morocco, top edges

gilt. Illust. see each vol. a. c.

Indexes (to Vols. I. and

II.) 2 col. Vol. II. pp. 639–680, (to Vols. III. and IV.) 2 col. Vol. IV. pp. 743-798.

Only four volumes have been published to the present time (March, 1888), though several more are to follow. The illustrations include two or three excellent chromolithographs from drawings made by Mr. Nattress.

Vols. I. and II. discuss the Visigothic Invasion (A. D. 376–450) and the Hunnish Invasion and Herulian Mutiny, leaving off at A. D. 476.

Vols. III. and IV. did not appear until after a lapse of five years. Vol. III. deals with the Ostrogothic Invasion (A. D. 476–535), and Vol. IV. with the Imperial Restoration (A. D. 535-553).

Hoe, Robert.-[Bookbinding.] A LECTURE on Bookbinding as [772] a Fine Art, delivered before the Grolier Club, February 26, 1885. With 63 Illustrations. New York: Published by the Grolier Club. 1886. Demy 4to. Half cloth and boards, top edges gilt, others uncut. Illust. a. t.

... This is one of a limited Edition of 200 copies on Holland paper printed November, 1886. The Plates consist of page reproductions of bindings, and are placed together at the end of the book.

Probably by far the most interesting binding shown is a Dutch silver repoussé binding (Pl. 62) of the 17th century, executed in Holland. Similar bindings were much in vogue from 150 to 200 years ago.

Hoe, Robert, Jr.-PRINT COLLECTOR. See Maberly, J.

Hoey, Mrs. Cashel.-CAMILLE DESMOULINS. See Claretie, Jules.

Hoey, Mrs. Cashel.-MEMOIRS of Madame de Rémusat.

Rémusat, Madame.

Hoey, Mrs. Cashel.-THORVALDSEN. See Plon, Eugène.

See De

Hogenberg, Franz (ob. 1590), and Others.-LES GUERRES, CIV[773] ILES, de France et des Pays-Bas au Seizième Siècle. A Series of 380 engravings (including numerous portraits) of scenes and incidents during the religious wars of the XVIth Century. No title-page. Oblong folio. Red morocco, super extra. Binding by Chambolle-Duru, in drop case. ...This was purchased at the sale of Baron Seillière's Collection.

The work consists of 27 portraits scattered through the book and 353 plates, many of which are without any printed numeration and others numbered consecutively as forming portions or entireties of published series.

The book is unpaged and wholly without Index. The Copy under description has been paged in pencil and a descriptive List of the engravings prepared, with an alphabetical Index at the end of the List. Bryan states that Hogenberg (who was born at Mechlin) "settled in Cologne about 1577, where he produced many spirited plates re"presenting the events of the 16th century, in which the oppressors of his Country are "not spared."

Plate 101 gives a portrait of Thomas Percy, one of the Conspirators in the Gunpowder Plot, and two scenes connected with his arrest. Pl. 102 contains Portraits of Percy, Bates, Fawkes, Catesby, and four other of the Conspirators, together with a picture of their execution.

A large number of the Plates are scenes connected with the cruelties of the Duke Alva, who boasted that in the space of four years he had brought more than 18,000 persons to the scaffold.

A considerable number of these "scenes" were engraved by Tortorel and Perrissin (see Tortorel, below) on a larger scale and published in a separate volume.

It is believed that Francis [or Remigius] Hogenberg in 1573 executed the portrait of Archbishop Matthew Parker, which is supposed to have been the first that was engraved in England.

Hogenberg, Nicolas (1500-1544).—PROCESSION, THE, of Pope [774] Clement VII. and the Emperor Charles V. after the

Coronation at Bologna on the 24th February, MD.XXX., designed and engraved by Nicolas Hogenberg and now reproduced in facsimile. With an Historical Introduction by Sir William Stirling Maxwell, Baronet. Edinburgh:

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