The April number of The American Historical Review (Vol. XV, No. 3), opens with an account by the secretary, Professor Charles H. Haskins, of the annual meeting of the Association last December in New York City, and contains, besides, four important articles. Professor James F. Baldwin writes, as usual, on the constitutional history of England, his article being entitled “The King's Council and the Chancery”; Professor Guy S. Ford continues “Wöllner and the Prussian Religious Edict of 1788”; Hon. John W. Foster gives an account of the separation of Church and State in Mexico, in an article entitled “The Contest for the Laws of Reform in Mexico”; and Dr. James Ford Rhodes writes a stirring account of the operations of a lawless Irish labor organization, “The Molly Maguires in the Anthracite Region of Pennsylvania,” 1865-1876.

Among the book reviews one finds, of special interest to Texas readers, Professor Justin H. Smith's review of Professor Garrison's first volume of the Diplomatic Correspondence of the Republic of Texas, which was recently published by the American Historical Association as Volume II, Part I, of its Report for 1907. Professor Smith says in part: “Texas was for a time the most critical diplomatic battlefield of Christendom. The publication of her correspondence has therefore been a historical desideratum of no little consequence, and one has great reason for thankfulness in taking up the first of the two volumes which are to present it, edited by a scholar better qualified than any one else for his task and put forth by the American Historical Association in excellent form. The contents of the volume are in general the correspondence with the United States down to the close of 1842; and among the subjects upon which light is thrown are the internal conditions of Texas, the character and purposes of her public men, her relations with the government and the Federalists of Mexico, her southern and her northern boundary difficulties, her Indian troubles, the moral and the material assistance drawn from the United States, the Santa Fé expedition and its sequel, the question of postal arrangements with the United States and fugitives from justice, American relations with Mexico and action in behalf of Texan independence, the treaty of amity, navigation, and commerce with the country, political conditions here, the motives and aims of our statesmen, and—above all other subjects—the questions of recognition by this government and annexation to our Union.”

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"The American Historical Review", Volume 014, Number 1, Southwestern Historical Quarterly Online, Page 78 - 79. http://www.tsha.utexas.edu/publications/journals/shq/online/v014/n1/review_20.html
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