How the World Makes Its Living by Logan Grant McPhersonThe William and Mary Quarterly, Vol. 25, No. 4 (Apr., 1917), p. 297Published by: Omohundro Institute of Early American History and CultureStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/1922718 .

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America. But if he was a Jew, he was a French Jew, as he was one of the Vignerons that came from Languedoc in France to teach the colonists how to raise grapes, for I assume that Elias La Guard and Elias Legardo was one and the same. The name, it is supposed, became anglicised into Ellegood, which was later the name of a prominent family in Princess Anne and Norfolk counties. The brochure of Mr. Huhner is very interesting.

How the World Makes Its Living. By Logan Grant McPherson. Pub- lished by the Century Co., New York City. Price $2.00.

An interesting work on economic activities interpreted in the light of evolution embodying the results of the author's study and experience for twenty years.

An Earthquake in New England During the Colonial Period. By Frederick E. Beasch. Reprinted from a Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America.

This is a reprint of a Lecture on Earthquakes by John Winthrop Hol- lisian Professor of Mathematics and Philosophy in Harvard College, November 26, I755; before the students of Harvard College.

Old Letters of a Student in Germany i856-57. Second Series. By Edward S. Joynes, M. A., LL. D., Emeritus Professor, University of South Carolina. Published in the Bulletin of the University of South Carolina. No. 50.

The great favor with which Dr. Joynes' first series of "Old Letters" was received has induced him to add this second and final series, descriptive of a vacation travel. They give a vivid account of conditions in Germany sixty years ago, and it is difficult to realize the wonderful changes in Germany and German life which have since ensued.

Correspondence of George Bancroft and Jared Sparks (i823-i832). By John Spencer Bassett, Smith College Studies in 1fistory, Vol. II, No. 2, Northampton, Mass.

Via Pacis: "How the Terms of Peace Can Be Automatically Prepared While the War Is Still Going On." A suggestion offered by an American, Harold McCormick: A. C. McClurg & Co., Chicago, I9I7.

Thomas Jeff erson and the First Monument of the Classical Revival in America. By Fiske Kimball, Ph. D., M. Arch., Assistant Professor of Architecture in the University of Michigan.

This is an interesting account of the capitol of Virginia at Richmond planned after the Maison quarree of Nismes, an ancient Roman temple.

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