the arrival by transfer into the woods and other byplaces. In the meantime, the guard set by the enemy to secure the pass at the North Bridge were alarmed by the approach of our people, who had retreated, as mentioned before, and were now advancing with special orders not to fire upon the troops unless fired upon. These orders were so punctually observed that we received the fire of the enemy in three several and separate discharges of their pieces before it was returned by our commanding officer. The firing then soon became general for several minutes, in which skirmish two were killed on each side and several of the enemy wounded. It may here be observed, by the way, that we were the more careful to prevent beginning a rupture with the king's troops as we were then uncertain what had happened at Lexington, and knew not that they had begun the quarrel there by first firing upon our party and killing eight men upon the spot. The British troops soon quitted their post at the Bridge and retreated in great disorder and confusion to the main body who were soon upon the march to meet them. For half an hour the enemy, by their marches and countermarches discovered great fickleness and inconstancy of mind, sometimes advancing, sometimes returning to their former posts, till at length they quitted the town and retreated by the way they came. In the meantime a party of our men (150) took the back way through the great fields into the East Quarter and had placed themselves to advantage, lying in ambush behind walls, fences and buildings ready to fire upon the enemy on their retreat.

III.

ANNOTATED LIST OF LETTERS, JOURNALS AND AUTOBIOGRAPHIES

1. Letters and Journals.

1774-82.

ADAMS, J. AND MRS. ABIGAIL-Familiar Letters.
Written during the Revolution by President John
Adams and his wife. Valuable for insight into the
social life of the United States of that time.

AGASSIZ, LOUIS-Life and Correspondence. A record of a broad-minded man. See letter to Emerson, Vol. II, page 619, and Emerson's reply to Agassiz, Vol. II, page 621. For expository letters, see letters to Darwin, Lyell, Dana, and others. Note his account of his college life at Heidelberg at the age of nineteen. See letters to his father on his decision to be a naturalist. (Argumentation.)

ALCOTT, LOUISA MAY-Life and Letters, by Mrs. Edna D. Cheney. These letters show the heroic struggle with poverty, made by a young girl. For some of Miss Alcott's hitherto unpublished letters, see Ladies' Home Journal, beginning September, 1901. There is a facsimile letter in the October number.

ALLSTON, WASHINGTON-Letters and Life, by J. B. Flagg. A glimpse into the life of one of the most eminent of early American artists.

AMIEL, HENRI FRÉDÉRIC-Journal; translated with introduction by Mrs. Humphry Ward. "Not a volume of memoirs, but the confidences of a solitary thinker.

Philosophy, science, letters, art, he has penetrated the spirit of them all."-Mrs. Humphry Ward.

ANDERSEN, HANS-Story of My Life. His letters to young people have the same airy fancy and charm that his fairy tales have. See the one to a naughty boy, p. 427, and to Marie, p. 428.

ARBLAY, MME. FRANCES (BURNEY) D'-Diary and Letters with Notes, by W. C. Ward. "As a diarist Miss Burney is with Pepys and Evelyn, as a letter-writer with Walpole and Chesterfield. And unlike all these, except Horace, she is a novelist as well."-George Saintsbury.

ARNOLD, MATTHEW-Letters. 1848-1882. 2 vols. "His friendly, chatty, confidential letters combine the simplicity of a child with all the mental and imaginative resources of a scholar, a philosopher, and a man of the world."-Herbert Paul.

This

AUDUBON, JOHN JAMES-Audubon and His Journals, by M. R. Audubon, with Notes by Elliott Coues. book is said to be an important addition to the historical and zoölogical literature of America. BASHKIRTSEFF, MARIE-Journal of a young artist, remarkable for enthusiastic expression and realistic detail. BISMARCK, OTTO EDW. LEOPOLD-Letters to his Wife, his Sister, and Others. See also his Love-Letters.

BOOTH, EDWIN-Letters, pp. 31-38. Letters to his daughter; they show the home life of an actor, and the tenderness of a father.

BRYANT, W. C.-Letters of Travel. Serious but entertaining; they illuminate geography. See ones upon Southern States. Letter XI, on the interior of South Carolina.

BROOKS, PHILLIPS-Letters of Travel. Those to Gertie in A Year of Travel in Europe and India make geography a living thing. See the ones written to Gertie from Kandy in Ceylon; to Gertie from Jey

pore; his visit to Tennyson, and his picture of the streets of Cairo, and of Athens, and of Rome. BROWN, THOS. EDW.-Letters; edited by S. T. Irwin. 2 vols. "A delightful book of letters, by a scholar, a humorist, a man full of noble qualities." See index to Vol. II for letters of comment upon writings of contemporary and ancient authors; upon the man's life and character; upon his walks and tours and studies. See pp. 145-147; see his comment on The Talisman; his pictures on his bedroom walls; letter to E. M. Oakley, p. 247, appendix.

BROWN, JOHN-Life and Letters, by Frank Sanborn. His letters show the man's religious zeal.

BROWNING, ROBERT AND MRS. ELIZABETH (BARRETT)-Letters, 1845-1846. 2 vols. "For solid value as a contribution to psychology, as a revelation of the inmost thoughts and impulses of two noble natures, for the wholesomeness of their display of simplicity, unselfishness and goodness of heart, interpreted in the finest literary medium, we do not, for the moment, recollect anything parallel to these letters of R. B. and E. B. B."-Saturday Review.

BROWNING, ELIZABETH BARRETT-Letters; edited by Frederic G. Kenyon. 2 vols. To read these letters is to live for the time with a sensitive, imaginative, brilliant woman; it is to share her appreciation of people and books and things and all the while to admire her vitality and grace of statement.

BURNS, ROBERT-Poems, Songs and Letters; edited by Alexander Smith. The letters in this volume contain all the moods of feeling found in Burns's poems; they are filled with love of nature, love of freedom, and love for his fellow beings.

BYRON, LORD-Letters. Byron's letters record his moods in a most remarkable way; they have in them an abandon that lends to them a great charm for many readers.

CARLYLE AND EMERSON-Correspondence. 2 vols.

This correspondence pictures two great men clasping hands across the Atlantic: Carlyle on his lonely moor thundering at the abuses of his age; Emerson, in lonely Concord, waiting for the word of the spirit. Every letter in the book is interesting. CARLYLE, JANE W.-Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh, by J. A. Froude. Vol. I, page 369. Letter to Nero, her dog-amusing. Her visit to Father Mathew, p. 163, shows her enthusiasm. To her uncle, p. 148; to T. Carlyle, pp. 158, 161, 197. Vol. II, page 154. All of Jane W. Carlyle's letters are fascinating and have a witchery about them. (Suitable for High School students.)

CARLYLE, T.-Early Letters. They give insight into the heart of the man in his home and in his early struggles. Like his other prose they have titanic force. CHESTERFIELD, LORD-Letters to his son. Advice to young men upon the externals of life; directions as to how one should deport himself in society. They have been reprinted for the agreeable form in which they are expressed.

CHILD, LYDIA MARIA-Letters; edited by Whittier. A collection of most delightful letters written in a most graceful style. They give a fine picture of the anti-slavery movement. The letters about Col. Robert G. Shaw are of especial interest.

CICERO, M. T. (106 B. C.)-Letters (Trans.) "Cicero wrote letters before daybreak, and at meal-time, and while taking exercise, and on his journeys. Whole volumes of them have perished, but we have some eight hundred left, and they are among the most interesting remains of all antiquity.”—Library NewsLetter.

COWPER, WILLIAM-Letters. See pp. 36-37. On p. 38 a budget of home news more cheerful than many of Cowper's letters-even entertaining to young peo