National Treasurer. MRS. VIOLET BLAIR JANIN, 12 Lafayette Square, Washington, D. C. National Chaplain. MRS. THOMAS R. NOBLE, 1855 Mintwood Place, Washington, D. C. OCTOBER MEETING, 1907. The National Board of Management, Children of the American Revolution held its regular monthly meeting at the residence of Miss Tulloch, 937 Rhode Island Avenue, Washington, D. C., at 10 o'clock on the morning of October 10, with Miss McBlair, the National Vice-President presiding in the chair. The following were present: Miss McBlair, Mrs. Bond, Mrs. March, Miss Hooper, Miss Hetzel and Miss Tulloch. The national chaplain being absent the meeting was opened by the repetition of the Lord's Prayer, after which the minutes of the June meeting were read and approved. The national corresponding secretary reported having issued the following supplies: 124 application blanks. 103 poems. 103 pledges. 78 copies of the Constitution. 60 leaflets of information. 10 lists of societies. 9 permits. 10 letters written, and notices of Mrs. Lothrop's offer C. A. R. and to presidents of local societies. The report was accepted. The national registrar reported the names of 39 applicants for admission to the society, and the secretary was instructed to cast the ballot in their favor provided all dues had been paid. This was accordingly done and the applicants declared members of the N. S. C. A. R. The report was accepted. The national treasurer reported as follows: Balance June 1, Receipts to September 30, Total, $128 65 146 55 $275 20 The vice-president in charge of organization presented the following names for confirmation: Mrs. Susie Chapman Worthy, Oklahoma City, to be state director for Oklahoma. Mrs. J. C. Canty, Galveston, to be state director for Texas. Mrs. Willis E. Ford to organize a society at Utica, N. Y. Mrs. R. W. Baker to organize a society at Mexico, N. Y., vice Mrs. Wm. Osborne, resigned. Mrs. Henry B. Clark to organize a society at Pulaski, N. Y. Mrs. J. C. Canty to be president of a society she is forming at Galveston, Texas. Mrs. George H. Burns to organize a society of very young members, some of whom are to be transferred from "Old Glory" at Lake Mills, Wis. Mrs. Wm. Christian (conditionally) to organize a society at Houston, Texas. For state promoters in New York: Mrs. Henry S. Bowron, assistant historian general D. A. R., Graham Court, N. Y. Mrs. Newell B. Woodworth, vice-president state society D. A. R., and president Syracuse Chapter. Mrs. Dennis McCarthy, honorary regent and founder of Onondaga Chapter, D. A. R., Syracuse, N. Y. Mrs. F. W. Hopkins, Ft. Green Chapter, D. A. R., Brooklyn, N. Y. Names for new societies: Count Pulaski, Pulaski, N. Y. Commodore Stockton, Riverton, N. J. New Star, Oklahoma City, Okla. Letters received since June meeting, 58. Letters written since June meeting, 77. On motion these names were confirmed, and the report accepted. The secretary presented Mr. Nichol's bill for printing cards of notification of meetings, and one from the Mugler Engraving Co. for half tones, and the treasurer was authorized to pay them. The treasurer was also authorized to reimburse Mrs. Bond in the sum of $3.00 which she had expended for a list of the regents of the D. A. R. chapters. The subject of procuring a room for headquarters of the society was discussed, and Miss McBlair and Miss Hooper chosen as a committee to seek a suitable place. Mrs. Bond gave notice that at the next meeting she will offer the following amendment: I move to amend Article 8 of the Constitution by adding another section as follows: Section 2. A local society in default of payment of its national dues for three years shall thereby forfeit both its name and charter; but this penalty shall not affect the standing of individual members of such local society who have paid their dues to the national society. If this amendment shall be adopted, Mrs. Bond will offer the following amendment to Section 1 of Article 9 of the By-Laws: After the word "society" at the end of the section add the words "except through forfeiture under the provisions of Section 2 of Article 8 of the Constitution." The meeting then adjourned. Respectfully submitted, ELIZA COLMAN TULLOCH, Secretary. Mrs. S. H. Edmunds, Hopkinsville, Kentucky, the new chairman of the magazine committee, is thoroughly wide-awake, and preparing for a rigorous campaign in the interests of the magazine. Berks County Chapter, Reading, Pennsylvania, has enrolled five members from one family, Mrs. Benjamin F. Owens and her four daughters. The four daughters came in on their father's line, after which Mrs. Owen discovered that she was eligible on her own line. Mrs. Owen's ancestor was Adam Kunkle, born in Northampton county, July 15, 1750, and died November 27, 1827. He was a lieutenant in the Third Company, Sixth Battalion, Pennnylvania militia, who were occupied chiefly as rangers of the frontier, protecting the outlying settlements from the depredations of the Indians. "Upon the land, upon the sea, A beacon glow with steady light To show the way where right is might, IN MEMORIAM "To live in the hearts of those who love us, is not to die." MRS. FANNY CHURCH MCCONNELL, Mahoning Chapter, Youngstown, Ohio, passed away October 11, 1907. She was a useful and philanthropic woman, and her death is a loss not only to the chapter but to the community in which she lived. MRS. JULIA COGGES HALL, Deborah Avery Chapter, Lincoln, Nebraska, died October 15, 1907. She was a charter member and chaplain until her removal from the city. MRS. KATHARINE J. KIEFER, Conrad Weiser Chapter, Selinsgrove, Pennsylvania, died July 30, 1907. MRS. KATE Young Kessler, wife of John Kessler, and a member of Paul Revere Chapter, Muncie, Indiana, died October 4, 1907. She was active in many ways for human betterment. Her influence still lives. MRS. AMORETTE CHAPMAN CULVER, wife of John F. Culver, and charter member of Nequi-Antigo-Siebah Chapter, Antigo, Wisconsin, died March 2, 1907, at Elton, Wisconsin. MRS. GEORGE BEAKES, member of Minisink Chapter, Goshen, New York, passed away at Middletown, New York, August 6, 1907, after an illness of three years. Mrs. Beakes was one of the early members and much interested in the chapter. MRS. ARTHUR MACARTHUR, member of the Philip Schuyler Chapter, Troy, New York, died Oct. 18, 1907. Mrs. MacArthur was an active member of the Chapter, had held a number of different offices, and was at the time of her death a member of the Executive Board. She had a large circle of friends who loved her for her many admirable char-acteristics. The chapter attended her funeral in body. MRS. CLARA WOODBURY DAVIS, regent of Silas Towne Chapter, Mexico, New York, departed this life April 16, 1907. This chapter was organized in May, 1905, and the thought and energy expended by her prior to its formation can never be recorded. She was one of those rare spirits who made each person with whom she came in contact conscious of the best qualities in their own minds and natures. Mrs. Davis was an all-around woman; she knew how to do and she executed. She had read widely and along many different iines, searching for truth and reading to remember. It was of such that Ruskin wrote: "The path of a good woman is indeed strong with flowers, but they rise behind her steps not before them." MRS. EMELINE EAMES JOSLIN COLONY, wife of Hon. Horatio Colony, charter member and the second regent of Ashuelot Chapter, Keene, New Hampshire, died on the eleventh of October, 1907. A woman of much intelligence and cultivation, her unfailing work for this chapter as well as her beautiful face and her noble example will ever be mourned. BOOK NOTES JOHN CROWE AND HIS DESCENDANTS, A GENEALOGY. By Levi Crowell. New York, Thomas Y. Crowell & Co. 1903. 109 P. O. This is a well arranged genealogy of the descendants of John Crowe (1672) who settled in Yarmouth, Mass., in 1638. This work is purely of a genealogical nature, giving no biographical sketches. The daughters' marriages are given, but their lines are not carried down. The work is very complete as to dates of births, marriages, and deaths. The change of name from Crowe to Crowell was made in the third generation or earlier. There is an interesting account of the Crowell families of Yarmouth written in 1850 by Amos Otis. The typographical features of the book are excellent. A HISTORY OF THE CLAN LINN AND A GENEALOGY OF THE LINN AND RELATED FAMILIES. By George Wilds Linn. Lebanon, Pa. Report Print, 1905. 204 p. 8. A very complete and well prepared work on the Linn family and its various alliances, being a history of the clan as well as a genealogy. A work that should receive the hearty support of every member of the clan and cannot fail to be valuable in any library devoted to this subject. HERALDS OF AMERICAN LITERATURE. A GROUP OF PATRIOT WRITERS OF THE REVOLUTIONARY PERIODS. By Annie Russell Marble, M. A. 383 pp. 8 vo. Chicago, University of Chicago Press. $1.50 net. Illustrated by portraits and fac-simile reproductions of old title pages. The preface says "The aim of this book is to recount in detailed study and largely from original sources, the lives and services of a group of typical writers during the pioneer days of national growth, who revealed the standards of their time, and who announced the dawn of a national literature, although their own products were often immature and crude." The period covered is from 1765 to 1815, "the formative period of American federation." The writers-Francis Hopkinson, Philip Freneau, John Trumbull, "a group of Hartford wits (Timothy Dwight, Joel Barlow, David Humphrey, Theodore Dwight, Richard Alsop, |