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THE MAGAZINE OF AMERICAN HISTORY.

Vol. XX.

CONTENTS FOR AUGUST, 1888.

Portrait of Roscoe Conkling.

Roscoe Conkling. His Home in Utica.

No. 2.

Frontispiece.

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89

Rev. ISAAC SMITHSON HARTLEY, D.D.
Illustrations.-The Home of Roscoe Conkling in Utica-The Grounds of the Conkling Mansion
at Utica-The Entrance to the Conkling Mansion at Utica-The Drawing Room of the Conkling
Mansion at Utica.

About Philadelphia in 1750.

E. W. B. CANNING.

Personal Recollections of General Grant.

The Conquest of the Mayas.

Part III. (Conclusion.)

Montejo in the Interior, and Foundation of Merida.
ALICE D. LE PLONGEON.

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Incidents of Border Life in Ohio. Louis Wetzell.
An Englishman's Pocket Note-book in 1828. What he Saw in America. Part V. ..
Journal of Lieutenant Tjerck Beekman, 1779, Of Sullivan's Expedition Against the
Six Nations.
JAMES R. GIBSON, Jr.
A Frenchman's Estimate of Washington in 1781. An Unpublished Portrait, and
Four Unpublished Washington's Letters.
ILLUSTRATIONS.-Washington Profile Portrait on Back of a Playing Card-Fac-simile of Two of
Washington's Letters to George Augustine Washington.

Minor Topics. John Van Arnam Taking Arsenic in the Court Room to Win a Case, by
A. D. P. Van Buren-Centennial of New Hartford, New York, by C. W. D.-Con-
cerning Shakespeare's Characters, by G. G. H.-The New England Primer, by
Clement Furguson-Decoration Day, a Poem by R. H. Stoddard.
Original Documents. Petition to the Earl of Bellomont, Governor of New York, dated
1698, from Mrs. Pierre Van Cortlandt.

Notes. Queer Leather and Strange Use-Zacatecas, extracted from "Notes on a Mexican
Trip" by Miss Catharine Weed Barnes-About Marietta, Ohio-An Old Advertise-
ment-Historic Kingston, New York.

Queries. Famous Authors-The Oldest Statue in the World.
Replies. Juan Manuel de Solcedo-Local History..

Societies. The Connecticut Historical Society-The New York Genealogical and Bio-
graphical Society-The Rochester Historical Society-The Rhode Island Historical
Society.

Historic and Social Jottings.

Book Notices. American Fishes, by Goode-A Manual of the Constitutional History of
Canada, by Bourinot-Lives of the Presidents, Harrison, Tyler, Polk, by Stoddard-
Brief Institutes of General History, by Andrews-Greene's Short History of the
English People, Revised Edition-Constitutional History of the United States, by
Sterne-Collections of Virginia Historical Society, Vol. VII., New Series-Indiana
Historical Society-France and the Confederate Navy, by Bigelow-Yankee Girls in
Zulu Land, by Sheldon-Three Introductory Lectures on the Science of Thought, by
Muller-How to Judge a Picture, by Van Dyke-Memorial to My Honored Kindred,
by Darling-Missouri, by Carr.

Advertisements-Books, Schools, etc., 1 to 8-Periodicals and Miscellaneous, 9 to 18.

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