Historical Notes; Wm. and Mary Qrtly., Vol. 1, No. 3

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Historical Notes

   William and Mary College Quarterly Historical Papers, Vol. 1, No. 3, (Jan., 1893)
   pp. 179-180.

                                HISTORICAL NOTES.

   The New York Churchman for Dec. 31, 1892, under the head of "Americana", reviews at some
length the magnificent work of Miss Kate Mason Rowland, "The Life and Times of George Mason".
'Parties and Patronage in the United States', by the Editor of this Quarterly, closes the list
of books, the reviewer speaking of it as "a very neat sequel to the LIfe of George Mason". 
This, in the Editor's opinion, is the very highest compliment that could be paid to his work.
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   Four of the early record books of Essex County have been copied and the copies are safely
lodged in the Capitol at Richmond.  The work of copying is progressing in York, Elizabeth City,
Henrico and Northampton.
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   At the last meeting of the Va. Historical Society held Dec. 22, '92, the following officers
were elected:  President, Joseph Bryan; Vice-Presidents, Dr. J.L.M. Curry, Col. Archer An-

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derson and Dr. William P. Palmer; Recording Secretary, D.C. Richardson, Corresponding Secretary,
Philip A. Bruce; Treasurer, R. T. Brooke; Executive Committee, Lyon G. Tyler of Williamsburg,
E. V. Valentine, C. V. Meredith, Orin L. Cottrell, Dr. B. W. Green, R. H. Gaines, B. B. Munford
of Richmond, Prof. R. H. Dabney of the University of Va., R. M. Hughes of Norfolk, Prof. J. B.
Henneman of Hampden Sidney College, T. C. Williams, Jr., and F. H. McGuire of Richmond.
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   The death of Mrs. Martha J. Lamb, editor of the Magazine of American History, is a subject
of gneral regret.  All who knew her loved her for her womanly instincts and refinement, as much
as they admired her for her splendid talents and acquirements.
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   Greg's "History of the United States" is exciting some interest in Virginia.  He is un-
questionably strong upon slavery and the late war between the States, buthe is a failure on 
nearly everything else.  His account of the Jefferson, Monroe and Tyler administration are mere
travesties.  He must have read very little upon them, and retails the idle rumors which abound
in the works of Dr. von Holst and Mr. Schouler, who are thoroughly prejudiced against the South.
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   And now the newspapers announce the death of Mr. E. N. Horsford, of Cambridge, Mass.  He was
at one time Professor in Harvard University, and had been distinguished for a long time in the
literary and scientific world.