Book Reviews - "Virginia, 1492 - 1892", 1893

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Book Reviews

   Virginia, 1492-1892
       Margaret Vowell Smith

      William and Mary College Quarterly Historical Papers, Vol. 2, No. 4. (Apr., 1894),
      pp. 279-280.

   VIRGINIA, 1492-1892.  A brief review of the discovery of the Continent of North America,
with a history of the executives of the colony and Commonwealth of Virginia.  In two parts.
By Margaret Vowell Smith.  Washington: W.H. Lowdermilk & Co.  1893.

   This is a very convenient work to the student of Virginia history.  Miss

Page 280.

Smith deserves much praise for her labors, and I cordially commend her work to the patronage
of the public.  Virginia has had 116 chief magistrates, and Miss Smith give a neat biography
of each.  Besides these sketches, Miss Smith gives a number of very important public papers,
among which the journal of the first House of Burbesses in 1619-'20 is esepcially interesting.