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Of great interest for a study of early troubles with the Indians. Treats of East _vs._ South in Illinois and of Regulators. Deals almost exclusively with the period before 1830. Compiled largely from interviews with old settlers, hence not wholly reliable.

HINSDALE, BURKE AARON. _The Old Northwest with a View of the thirteen Colonies as const.i.tuted by the royal Charters. New York: Townsend MacCoun, 1888._ 8vo. 440 pp. _2d ed., rev. New York: Silver, Burdett & Co., 1899._ $2.50.

In general only the boldest outlines of immigration to Illinois are sketched. The slavery struggle in Illinois (1822-24) is treated with comparative fullness. Criticism: _Boston Herald, July 2, 1888_.

HOSKINS, NATHAN. _A History of the State of Vermont, from its Discovery and Settlement to the Close of the Year 1830. Vergennes: J. Shedd, 1831._ 12 mo. 316 pp.

Tells of the unusually cold summer of 1816.

HOWE, HENRY. _Historical Collections of the great West: containing Narratives of the most important and interesting Events in western History-remarkable individual Adventures-Sketches of frontier Life-Descriptions of natural Curiosities: to which is appended historical and descriptive Sketches of Oregon, New Mexico, Texas, Minnesota, Utah and California. Cincinnati: Henry Howe, 1853._ 8vo. 440 pp.

Compiled from a large number of sources, largely secondary.

HUBBARD, GEORGE D. _A Case of geographic Influence upon human Affairs._ Pages 145-157 of _Bulletin of the American Geographical Society_, x.x.xVI., No. 3, _March_, 1904. _Pub. by the Society, New York._

A scientific discussion of the effect of glaciation upon the character of the people of different portions of Illinois.

HULBERT, ARCHER BUTLER. _Red-Men's Roads. The Indian Thoroughfares of the central West. Columbus, Ohio: Fred J. Heer & Co., 1900._ 37 pp.

The book has many maps and is a help toward an understanding of the ways by which early settlers reached Illinois.

HYNES, Rev. THOMAS W. _History of a Century. An Address delivered at Greenville, Bond Co., Ill., on July 4, 1876._

A newspaper clipping, bound, without the name of the paper from which it was taken, in _Illinois Local History Pamphlets_, V., in Library of the Wisconsin State Historical Society. It contains a valuable historical letter from Mrs. Almira Morse, a resident as early as 1820.

_Illinois. Historical Encyclopedia of Illinois. Chicago and New York: Munsell Pub. Co., 1900._ 608 pp.

Edited by Newton Bateman, LL. D., and Paul Selby, A. M. Much more reliable than many books of the same literary type.

_International Monthly. Burlington, Vt._, IV., 794-820. See Turner, Frederick Jackson.

JAMES, EDMUND JANES, and LOVELESS, MILO J. _A Bibliography of Newspapers published in Illinois prior to 1860. Springfield, Ill., Phillips Bros., State Printers, 1899._ 94 pp.

A very valuable work. An appendix gives a list of the Illinois and Missouri papers (1808-1897) in the St. Louis Mercantile Library, while a second appendix enumerates the county histories of Illinois and tells where they may be found.

JOHNSON, ERIC and PETERSON, C. F. _Svenskarne i Illinois. Chicago: W.

Williamson, 1880._ 471 pp.

Chiefly valuable for a later period. The salient points of early Illinois history are canva.s.sed.

KINGDOM, WILLIAM, Jr. _America and the British Colonies, an abstract of all the most useful Information relative to the United States of America, and the British Colonies of Canada, the Cape of Good Hope, New South Wales, and Van Diemen's Island. London: G. and W. B. Whittaker, 1820._ 16mo. 359 pp.

Pages 61-73 describe Illinois and give some judicious advice to emigrants.

Conservative, but not cynical. Entire pages are reprinted from other authors, notably Fearon, without the use of quotation marks.

KINGSTON, Hon. JOHN T. _Early Western Days._ (In _Wis. Hist. Coll._, VII., 297-344). _Madison, Wis.: E. B. Bolens, 1876._

Gives a short account of the slavery struggle in Illinois in 1822-24.

-- _Slavery in Illinois. Necedah, Wis.: Necedah Republican._ 6 pp.

Reprinted, without date, in pamphlet form. In Library of State Historical Society of Wisconsin.