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The LITERATURE OF AMERICAN LOCAL HIsToRY, a


photographed Essay; by Hermann E. Ludewig


corresponding member of the National Institute
and of the New York Ethnographical Society


lSOpp.


The author of this little volume is an adopted cit
izen, formerly an eminent lawyer Of Dresden in
Saxony, and the work before US is strong proof Of
his industry, patience, and love for his subject. No
study be more useful than that of photography,
no task more disinterested than that of collecting
and indicating the materials for the future historian
The work before US is particularly useful by noting
the publisher, place Of printing, year.
form, number Of pages, &C., Of each book pamph-
let furnishing thus excellent basis for the future
historical inquirer The object is the most nationa
one imaginable, and well calculated not only to aid
but to induce historical inquiry. The historical So
cieties of New York, New Hampshire, Georgia,
Boston, (New England Historical Society," and
men of the highest philosophical attainments such
as Bancroft, Sparks, Hall, Mitchell, King, Charles
ton, S. c., Judge Hall, Cincinnati, and Savage, in
this country, as well as dc Tocquevie, Chevelier,
&C., in France, have pronounced themselves in this
sense on the merit ofthe work.


We recommend to the reader particularly the
appendix on Oregon, and the enumerations Of the
various United States exploring expeditions, which
go far to show what the spirit of American inquiry
may accomplish without the pomp and parade OF
similar expeditions from Europe. Since 1904, mol
less than tosIus such expeditions we're organized,
any of which would have been sufficient to earn
monarchical laurels in Eurone


The hint thrown out by the author, in his intro
duction, in regard to an historical library to be
nected with the Smithsonian Institute in this city, j.
deserving the attention Of the regents Of that ins
tute. The foundation Of such library, we under
stand, has already been laid in Cambridge, tHar.
ward Univsrsity,) and the capital of the Union ought
certainly not t. remain behndhsnd in such lsudablt
literary enterprise.


