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Very rare. In the Chicago Historical Society Library. A valuable book.

Describes the attack on Fort Dearborn in 1812.

MACKENZIE, E. _An historical, topographical, and descriptive View of the United States of America, and of Upper and Lower Canada ... the present State of Mexico and South America, and also of the native Tribes of the New World. Newcastle-upon-Tyne: Mackenzie & Dent, 1819._ viii. + 432 pp.

The four pages devoted to Illinois are interesting and fairly reliable, though scarcely up to date. The author mentions eighteen works used in compiling his book.

MCLAUGHLIN, ANDREW C. _Lewis Ca.s.s. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin & Co., 1891._ 363 pp. $1.25.

Describes the expedition of General Ca.s.s to northern Illinois during the Sauk outbreak of 1827. Criticism: _Nation_, LIII., 204.

MARIETTA, O. _Report of the Commissioners of the National Centennial Celebration of the Early Settlement of the Territory North West of the Ohio River, ... held at Marietta, O., July 15-19, inclusive, 1888.

Columbus, O.: The Westbote Company, State Printers, 1889._ 292 pp.

Contains many speeches of varying historical accuracy and importance.

MASON, EDWARD GAY. _Chapters from Illinois History. Chicago: Herbert S.

Stone, 1901._ 322 pp.

Scholarly and accurate, and rich in citation of sources. Tells of Old Fort Chartres, John Todd's Record-Book, the march of the Spaniards across Illinois, and the Chicago ma.s.sacre.

-- _March of the Spaniards across Illinois._ (In his _Chapters of Illinois History, Chicago, 1901_; also in _Mag. of Am. Hist._ N. Y., XV., 457-469, 1886.)

Refers to a number of sources. The march is that of 1781 against St.

Joseph.

MATHER, IRWIN F. _The Making of Illinois. Chicago: A. Flanagan, 1900._ 292 pp.

The work is strong in the number of subjects which it treats. The Illinois of our period is well covered. The bibliography cites many valuable sources, but no references are given in the body of the work. The date of the founding of the village of Kaskaskia is given as 1695-a confusion of the mission on the Illinois River with the later village of the same name.

MAYO, A. D. _Western Emigration and Western Character._ (_Christian Examiner_, N. Y., Lx.x.xII., 265-82, 1867.)

The subject is well treated, but the value of the article for our purpose is not so great as it would have been if confined to the early period.

MEIGS, WILLIAM M. _The Life of Thomas Hart Benton. Philadelphia and London: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1904._ 535 pp.

The work throws much light upon the policy of the United States in regard to the sale of public lands, and the att.i.tude of the West towards that policy.

MELISH, JOHN. _A geographical Description of the United States, with the contiguous British and Spanish Possessions. Philadelphia: John Melish, 1816._ 182 pp.

A trifle over one page is devoted to Illinois. Of interest only as showing what was presented to the East at the time concerning Illinois. Melish was a professional map and gazetteer maker. His work typifies that of the geographers of the time, who described the world with marvelous audacity.

-- _A geographical Description of the United States, with the contiguous Countries, including Mexico and the West Indies. Philadelphia: John Melish, 1822._ v.+491 pp.

Seven pages are devoted to Illinois. The description of several Illinois towns is useful. This was a second and much improved edition of the author's similar work of 1816.

-- _Information and Advice to Emigrants to the United States: and from the Eastern to the Western States: ill.u.s.trated by a Map of the United States and a Chart of the Atlantic Ocean. Philadelphia: John Melish, 1819._ 12mo.

v.+144 pp.

An entire chapter of twenty six pages is devoted to Birkbeck's settlement in Illinois. The map shows several routes in Illinois, but it must have been old. The book is a good type of its cla.s.s.