The American Historical Review for January (Vol. VIII, No. 2) has several interesting articles. James Harvey Robinson contributes The Study of the Lutheran Revolt, a review of the literature of the Reformation. Herbert Darling Foster writes on Geneva Before Calvin (1387-1536). The Antecedents of a Puritan State. He outlines: 1. The development of Genevan political independence (1387-1536) and religious reform (1532-1536); 2. The resulting institutions and character before Calvin's arrival in August, 1536. One of his conclusions is that before Calvin's coming Geneva had developed neither democracy, religious liberty, nor personal liberty, and had not organized a new church. Her institutions were still plastic. The molding of them was left for Calvin. The Constitution and Finance of the Royal African Company of England, from its Foundation till 1720, by W. R. Scott, throws light upon the magnitude of early trading undertakings, upon the struggle against the exclusive privileges of the company in question, and upon seventeenth century methods of finance. Mr. L. D. Scisco's The Plantation Type of Colony is an interesting departure in the study of colonial institutions. Quite contrary to the traditional view, he sees in the earliest settlements in Virginia, New England, and New Netherland the same form of colonial institution—the “plantation type” of colony. This he defines as “an economic unity, based upon agriculture, under an exclusive local government which combine political jurisdiction with the powers of economic proprietorship.” In The State of Franklin, George Henry Alden describes the most notable independent effort at State making west of the Alleghany Mountains prior to the adoption of the constitution. The documents printed are A Letter of William Bradford and Isaac Allerton, 1623; and Letters of Samuel Cooper to Thomas Pownall, 1769-1777.

Vol. VI of the Publications of the Mississippi Historical Society contains a paper on the Route of De Soto's Expedition from Taliepacana to Huhasene by Professor T. H. Lewis, in which he essays to mark out the line of Moscoso's trip. Professor Lewis locates Guachoya, where Moscoso started, near Arkansas City, in southeastern Arkansas, on the Mississippi River. The salt lake in the province of Aguacay is placed about two miles south of Arkadelphia, on the west side of the Ouachita. The route is made to cross Red River at White Oak Shoals, about three miles east of the Texas line. Thence it turns westward, and the province of Aays, which was reached about eighteen days after crossing Red River is located south of Gainesville, Texas. The difficulty offered by the fact that the Aays (Aes) were in eastern Texas in the early part of the eighteenth century is removed by assuming their migration. At Soacatino, some two days march further west, the route turns southwest, and Guasco, reached later, is identified as the “earliest home of the Wacoes.” The Daycao River at which terminates the march of ten days west from Guasco is judged to be the Double Mountain fork of the Brazos. Thence the Spaniards return to the Mississippi the way they came.

The volume containing this paper is a book of over five hundred and fifty pages, which makes a most creditable showing for the Society. The credit due is reflected also on the State of Mississippi, which is giving the Society substantial support in its work. The example is one that Texas might well follow.

How to cite:
"The American Historical Review", Volume 006, Number 4, Southwestern Historical Quarterly Online, Page 331 - 332. http://www.tsha.utexas.edu/publications/journals/shq/online/v006/n4/review_16.html
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