The leading article in the July Publications of the Southern History Association is a very excellent sketch of President William L. Wilson, who will perhaps be better remembered as Postmaster General under President Cleveland. In its preparation the writer has drawn extensively on President Wilson's private diary, so that the paper partakes largely of the nature of an autobiography. Another article that will interest especially Southern readers is Mrs. M. E. Robertson's account of President Davis's Last Official Meeting, at which were present such of his officers and members of his Cabinet as were with him in Georgia just previous to his capture.

In the September Publications Prof. Ficklen, of Tulane University, has a paper entitled Was Texas Included in the Louisiana Purchase? A more extended review of it will be given in the January Quarterly, when the writer's reasons for maintaining the negative against Prof. Henry Adams will be critically examined.

The only other article in this issue is by Miles White, Jr., on Henry Baker and Some of His Descendants. Baker was one of the ancestors of Johns Hopkins.

How to cite:
"Publications of the Southern History Association", Volume 005, Number 2, Southwestern Historical Quarterly Online, Page 161. http://www.tsha.utexas.edu/publications/journals/shq/online/v005/n2/review_11.html
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