BOOK NOTES AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

The publication of A History of the United States, by Dwight
Lowell Dumond (New York: Henry Holt & Co., 1942, pp. viii,
882, $4.00), has added an interesting and serviceable textbook
to the list of survey texts in American history and will evi-
dently meet a need in the conduct of the general survey course.
The story is divided into eight parts, and the distribution of
the pages among these parts is equitable. The book is well
supplied with good maps--fifty in all. The author suggests that
a number of reference works which he actually names should
be "available for use at all times, if library facilities permit;"
and he supplies each of the eight parts with a selected bibli-
ography "for additional reading and reference." The appendix
contains the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution of
the United States, and a table showing the admission, popula-
tion, and congressional apportionment of the states by decades.
It is the author's hope that the reader may get "some realiza-
tion of the matchless environment of the American way of life
and the obligations of intelligent citizenship," a hope which
we who teach American history certainly share with the author.

The University of Texas.

With the publication of Western Civilization: The Decline of
Rome to 1660 (Chicago: J. B. Lippincott & Co., 1942, pp. 783,
map, $3.25) under the editorship of Walter Consuelo Langsam,
the J. B. Lippincott Co. has put out a new textbook on a stand-
ard college course. The authors are Francis J. Tschan of Penn-
sylvania State College, Harold J. Grimm of Ohio State Univer-
sity, and J. Duane Squires of Colby Junior College. The book
is divided into four parts entitled The Early Middle Ages,
Feudal Times, Europe in the Late Middle Ages (1300-1500),
and The Early Modern Era (1500-1660). There are twenty-
five maps, some illustrations, and a considerable number of
reproductions of famous paintings. "The marginal paragraph
headings are intended to indicate the topics developed and to
serve, together with the detailed table of contents, as an out-
line guide for review." A bibliographical list and index com-
prising ninety-three pages complete the book.

R. L. BIESELE.

The University of Texas.

The Texas State Historical Association has received the fol-
lowing publications:

Fundamentos de la Historia de América, compliments of
Señor Edmundo O'Gorman, Archivo General de la Nación,
México, D. F.

University of Montana Publications in the Social Sciences,
No. 1, entitled The Hogen Site: A Prehistoric Village of the
Lower Yellowstone, by William Mulloy.

Proceedings of the Society, October, 1936-May, 19 41, by the
Massachusetts Historical Society and issued as Volume 68 of
its publications.

List of Books That Treat of Services and Life in the Regular
Army of the United States of America, compiled by Lt. Col.
C. G. Sturtevant, U.S.A., ret., and sponsored by the San Antonio
Public Library.

The Administration of the Public Domain in South Dakota,
offered as a doctoral dissertation by Charles Lowell Green and
published as Volume 20 of the South Dakota Historical Col-
lections.

Coral H. Tullis.

The University of Texas.

From the University of Iowa Press the Quarterly has received
Abstracts in History, IV. This is No. 293 of the Studies in the
Social Sciences and consists of abstracts from dissertations
accepted by the Department of History of the State University
of lowa in the session of 1938-1939. Of the fourteen articles,
six deal with American topics. The abstracts, "The Rise of the
Legislative Assembly in Provincial Massachusetts," by Dr. Mar-
tin L. Cole of Augustana College, Sioux Falls, South Dakota,
and "John Dickinson, Penman of the American Revolution,
1732-1767," by Dr. John H. Powell, Iowa State College, Ames,
Iowa, proved to be very instructive to me because of my in-
terest in the colonial period of American history.

R. L. Biesele.

The University of Texas.

The Quarterly acknowledges the receipt of The Historian
for spring, 1942, the semi-annual publication of Phi Alpha
Theta, the national honorary fraternity in history. The His -
torian is up to its usual high standard of quality. The number
of articles is less, but the articles are longer, the five articles of
this number comprising one hundred pages. F. H. Reisner's
article, "General Muehlenberg's Attempts to Capture Benedict
Arnold," is the only one on an American topic; the others, by
Waldemar B. Campbell, Winston B. Thorson, Outten J. Clinard,
and Tom Carlyle Smith, are on European and related topics.
The News Notes carry information about sixteen chapters of
the fraternity and announce the first issue, in March of this
year, of the Arkansas Historical Quarterly under the editorship
of Dr. D. Y. Thomas, co-founder of Phi Alpha Theta.

The University of Texas.

R. L. Biesele.

R. L. BIESELE.

How to cite:
Biesele, R. L., "Book Notes and Acknowledgements", Volume 46, Number 2, Southwestern Historical Quarterly Online, http://www.tsha.utexas.edu/publications/journals/shq/online/v046/n2/contrib_DIVL2666.html
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