The July number of the Publications of the Southern History Association publishes The Journal of Thomas Nicholson, a Quaker minister born in North Carolina about 1685; a Letter from a Revolutionary Officer (Captain Philip Slaughter); A Brief Outline of Governor Richard Bennett, by I. T. Tichenor; and an essay on The Southern Planter of the Fifties, by Miss Louisa P. Looney. Besides these there are a number of book reviews and other notices.