Year Book for Texas , Vol. II, (1902). Compiled by Caldwell Walton Raines, State Librarian. Austin: Gammel-Statesman Publishing Company. 1903. 8vo, pp. iv+483, illustrated; cloth.

In size, mechanical finish, and contents, Volume II surpasses its predecessor, in which Judge Raines so well began his undertaking. A detailed review of such a condensed summary is out of the question, but one may gain a comprehensive idea of its contents from the sub-titles, “Party Conventions, Election Returns, Inauguration of Governor Lanham and Lieutenant-Governor Neal, Legislative Work, Public Officials and Current Reports of Departments and State Institutions, Important Events, Obituaries of Distinguished Dead, Industrial Development, Statistics, Biographical Sketches, and Historical Manuscripts Never Before Published.” The manuscripts consist of two sets of documents, one set relating to Stephen F. Austin and the other to General Houston. The book has an adequate index; but lacks a table of contents, which would unquestionably enhance its value to the cursory reader. It seems, too, that the matter might be rendered more accessible by dividing the book into chapters, devoting one to each of the sub-titles given above, and grouping under it the material belonging thereto. Take, for example, the necrology; obituaries are scattered throughout the book. Obviously they might better be grouped and arranged alphabetically. The same is true of each of the other departments treated.

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