"This is Bulletin 1 and bears the date of May, 1931. It is an inclusive and valuable record of one of the most important libraries of America, located at San Marino, California.

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232 Book Reviewsmajor portion of the book. This is a reprint entire of Jesse A.Applegate's Recollections of my Boyhood (Roseburg, Oregon, Re-view Publishing Company, 1914). Owing to a small edition theitem has grown rare and difficult to obtain and its appearance inthis new form adds much to the value of the book under review.Jesse A. Applegate will be remembered as the son of Lindsay Apple-gate and a nephew of Jesse Applegate.Chapter VII contains a group of seven previously unprintedletters by Jesse Applegate to his Brother Lisbon bearing dates from1841 to 1847. The next Chapter is made up of Lindsay Applegate's"Notes and Reminiscences of Laying out and Establishing the oldEmigrant Road into Sottthern Oregon in the year 1846" as writtenin 1876 and printed in the Oregon Hristorical Qudrterly of March,1921. The final chapter is a tribute to Jesse Applegate by R. J. Hend-ricks, drawn from the Oregon Statesman of Janttary 7, 1930.The author has dedicated the book to the memory of het, grand-father, Lisbon Applegate, and her three great uncles, Lindsay,Charles, and Jesse Applegate.The Huntington Library Bulletin. (Cambridge, Massachusetts:Harvard University Press, 1931. Pp. 214.)This is Bulletin 1 and bears the date of May, 1931. It is aninclusive and valuable record of one of the most important librariesof America, located at San Marino, California. The contents in-clude a biography of Henry E. Huntington, fottnder, by Robert O.Schad, a paper "New England, 1830-1850," by Frederick JacksonTurner, and much information about the rare and important mate-rials in the library. One paragraph that will interest readers in thePacific Northwest is under the heading "Soliday, George W.," page78, as follows:"For over twenty years Mr. Soliday assembled materials onthe Pacific Northwest. When sold to Mr. Huntington in May, 1924,the resulting collection included some 3,000 items, of which about300 were printed books or pamphlets. There are materials on Alaska,British Columbia, Washington, and Oregon, especially with refer-ence to the early period and to the activities of the Hudson's BayCompany. Some of the printed books deal with the Chinook jargonand with Indian dialects. The bulk of the items are manuscripts,among which the records of the Hudson's Bay Company post atFort Nisqually on Puget Sound are remarkable for their fulness;Ward of the Redskins 233there are about a hundred small volumes of manuscript material.There are records also of the Puget Sound Agricultural Company."Warrd of the Redskins. By SHEBA HARGREAVES. (New York:Harper and Brothers, 1929. Pp. 299. $2.00.)Miss Hargreaves loves her Oregon. This book helps to demon-strate that fact. Essentially a love-story in the locale of old Ore-gon, the book is an interesting addition to the growing body of fic-tion of the Northwest. It will add to her reputation for faithfullyportraying Oregon life which she earned by her previous story, TheCabin at the Trail's End.Yukon, Land of the Klondik'e. By F. H. KITTO. (Ottawa, Canada:Department of the Interior, 1930. Pp.48.)Here is an attractive pamphlet prepared to meet the needs ofholiday seekers. It contains maps, many illustrations and the type ofdescriptive matter to be expected in tourist literature. An amountof carefully prepared data suggests its value to collectors of localhistory.War Paint and Powder Horn on the Old Stanta Fe Trail. ByVERNON QUINN. (New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company,1929. Pp.298. $2.50.)The days of the covered-wagon are lived again with all thedangers and triumphs in these thrilling pages. There appear suchfavorites as Kit Carson, Jim Bridger and Buffalo Bill. The sameauthor has written such other books as Beautiful America, Beauti-ful Canada, BieOiUtiful Mexico and The Exciting Adventures of Cap-tain John Smith.loway to Iowa. By IRVING BERDINE: RICHMAN. (Iowa City: TheState Historical Society of Iowa, 1931. Pp. 479.)The sub-title is "The Genesis of a Com and Bible Common-wealth." It is a beautiful book. The four illustrations are full-pagecolo; prints well selected. Far western readers will be interested inthe portion of the book beginning at page 359 entitled "That WesternSea" with subheads: "Oregon," "The Mormons," "Gold," "Rail-road Dreams," "Stagecoach and Pony Express," and "The UnionPacific Railroad."

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