New-England Historical and Genealogical Register. CONTENTS-APRIL, 1883. Illustration: Portrait of WILLIAM COGSWELL (to face page 117). I. MEMOIR OF THE REV. WILLIAM COGSWELL, D.D., THE FIRST EDITOR OF THE II. SIXTEENTH ANNUAL ADDRESS BEFORE THE NEW ENGLAND HISTORIC GENEA- V. EDWARD RANDOLPH. Com. by G. D. Scull, Esq. VL VII. VIII. FORGERY IN THE ADAMS PEDigree 117 129 142 148 155 159 161 162 163 170 189 JAMES HAINES OR HINDS OF SOUTHOLD, L. I. Com. by A. M. Haines, Esq. IX. BRAINTREE RECORDS. (Continued.) Com. by Samuel A. Bates, Esq. XII. NAMES OF CAPTIVES AT LANCASTER, 1676. Com. by Henry S. Nourse, Esq. Notes.-Mr. Bodge's articles on the soldiers in Philip's War; Savary, 199; Queries.-Phelps, N. Y., 200; Coley; Thomas Murdock, Levalley, Warner; Replies.-Early Bells of Massachusetts, 203; The Autographic Puzzle, 204. XIV. SOCIETIES AND THEIR PROCEEDINGS: New England Historic Genealogical Society; Maine Historical Society, 206; 198 199-205 206-208 XV. 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By WILLIAM FREDERICK POOLE, LL.D., Librarian of the Chicago Public Library. Third Edition, brought down to January, 1882, with the assistance as associate editor of WILLIAM T. FLETCHER, Assistant Librarian of the Watkinson Library, Hartford, Conn., and the co-operation of the American Library Association, and the Library Association of the United Kingdom. [Motto.] Boston: James R. Osgood & Company. 1882. Pp. xxvii. +1442. 66 The beginning of the present ponderous and notable volume-one of the most important publications of the American press for the year, if not for the past decadereaches backward thirty-five years; a period when there were fewer reviews and magazines published in America and England than at the present day. Moreover, of the sixty magazines and reviews published in 1848, and which were all that were included in the first edition of this Index, but twenty-four are now published, the remainder having been discontinued from time to time in the past. The little volume of which this royal quarto is the outcome, comprised but 154 pages, and was printed in a small edition under the title, Index to Subjects treated in the Reviews and other Periodicals." The auther, then a student at Yale, and in charge of one of the society libraries, had found the necessity of having an index in manuscript to such magazines and reviews as the library contained, as a help to the students in the preparation of their written exercises and society discussions. This index, when once prepared, was in such constant use in MS., that it was in danger of being annihilated; and was printed in order to save it from being completely worn out. This edition is now so scarce that it is regarded as a literary curiosity. In 1853 the second edition was issued-the references having been brought down to January, 1852-with the more brief and comprehensive title, "Index to Periodical Literature." It was an 8vo. volume of 531 pages-the edition comprising one thousand copies. It indexed the articles in sixty-three different magazines and reviews, but twenty-six of which are now published. During the period between the year 1852 and the present time there has been a complete change in our literary methods. Not only has the number of magazines. and reviews greatly increased, but their individuality and character have steadily improved. The most distinguished authors, the greatest statesmen, the deepest thinkers, the most profound theologians, instead of as formerly publishing a pamphlet or book, now give utterance to the public through a review or magazine-hence the special student of any subject, to become familiar with the best thoughts of the lead ing experts must seek their conclusions as published in the several great periodicals. But how can he become acquainted with this wealth of discussion and information; how know where to find what is latest and freshest upon a given topic? The successive volumes of the leading reviews for a period of thirty years, are as a great treasure-house of knowledge, but a labyrinth as well. Who will unlock this store-house, making the information accessible to the student by a complete general index? A gigantic and formidable work surely, but it must be done. From 1853 to the date of the completion of plans for the publishing of a new edition, Mr. Poole says, in his preface, scarcely a day passed that the mail did not bring to him some inquiry in regard to the making of a subsequent edition of the Index, bringing it up to date. But to have undertaken so great a task, individually and alone, with little hope of reasonable compensation, could not have been expected from the most self-sacrificing benefactor of the race of weary students, begging for a let-up from the exacting drudgery of literary labor. The interest in a new edition of the Index became so great, that at the meeting of the American Library Association at Philadelphia in 1876, Mr. Poole decided to continue the work on the coöperative plan—and that it has been so well accomplished may be regarded as a new evidence of the progressive spirit of the Centennial Era. A committee of this association, consisting of Mr. Justin Winsor of Harvard University, Mr. Charles A. Cutter of the Boston Athenæum, and Mr. William Frederick Poole of the Chicago Public Library-a trio of the most complete bibliographic ability in America-was constituted for consultation on the details for the work. In 1877 Mr. Poole visited England, and the plan of work was submitted by him to the International Conference of Libraries at London, and a committee of British librarians was there appointed to assist in carrying out the plan of the American committee. Thus organized the several librarians entered upon their genuine" labor of love." The chief labor of arranging the references was done by Mr. William I. Fletcher of the Watkinson Library, Hartford, Ct., the assistant editor; "whose rare executive ability, experience and perseverance faithfully given to the difficult task, and the performance of whose duties drew from the editor-in-chief a graceful recognition and acknowledgment of his zeal and efficiency in prosecuting the work. were There was the work on fourteen hundred and sixty-eight volumes of reviews in the previous editions of the Index that could go into the new edition unchanged. In addition it was necessary to index four thousand seven hundred and thirty-seven volumes of one hundred and sixty-nine different reviews and magazines. This work was assigned to fifty-one different librarians, all but eight of which were residents of this country, and of this number (forty-four) twenty-one are in New England. The largest number of volumes indexed by one person is eleven hundred and two, which task has been performed by Mr. Poole. Mr. William I. Fletcher has five hundred and sixteen volumes set off against his name. Among the other leading aids, with the number of volumes indexed, are: Mr. Mellen Chamberlain, of the Boston Public Library, four hundred and six; Mr. Justin Winsor, two hundred and eight; Mr. Frederick Saunders, of the Astor Library, one hundred and ninety-nine. The list of co-laborateurs comprises the names of four ladies. It is worthy of honorable mention, that when the general manager of the Adams Express Company became acquainted with the cooperative character of the work, he claimed the privilege of a contributor," and gave orders that all parcels relating to the same should be transmitted by his company free of expense. In his preface Mr. Poole says: ** That fifty libraries, different in organization and objects,-national, state, stock, subscription, college and free public institutions,-scattered over this broad country from San Francisco to Boston, and across the ocean in England and Scotland, should have joined hands and worked in harmony for a common object, each receiving the full benefit of the work of all the others, is an incident in bibliography and literature which has no parallel.... All the work has been done voluntarily and without pay. No money subscription has been asked of any one, for no money was needed. Persons who look only to pecuniary reward should never engage in this kind of work." The result of these gratuitous and self-sacrificing labors is a noble volume of 1442 large quarto, double-column pages, containing more than one hundred and fifty thousand references. As a "tool book," a great labor-saving guide to printed knowledge, this new edition of "Poole's Index" will long remain the librarian's vade mecum, the student's guide through the labyrinthine treasures of the great reviews and magazines-treasure houses of facts and information. It unlocks in a moment the vast array of literature relating to the politics, art, social science, religion, political economy, statistics and literature of the world, as it finds its latest and freshest interpretation in the pages of the current periodicals-a source which all students must acknowledge and make use of, who would thoroughly investigate any question in all these realms of knowledge. To every librarian, to every student wherever the English language is used, the work will long remain a helpful monument of useful, noble, disinterested labor. In every mechanical detail the work is an honor to American book-making, and speaks creditably for all engaged in the many details required to place it before the public in so worthy a form. Mr. William Frederick Poole, to whom belongs the honor of originating the scheme of which this volume is the perfected outgrowth, was born in Salem, Mass., Dec. 24, 1821, and was graduated at Yale College in 1849. He was librarian of the Boston Mercantile Library, 1852-6; of the Boston Athenæum, 1856-68, of the Cincinnati Public Library, 1869-73, and since 1874 has been librarian of the Chicago Public Library. Aside from his work in the preparation of the three editions of the Index, he has contributed many articles to the North American Review, and has also published-The Battle of the Dictionaries, 8vo., 1856; Websterian Orthography, 1857; The Orthographical Hobgoblin, 1859; an edition of Johnson's Wonder-Working Providence, 1867; The Mather Papers, 1868; Cotton Mather and Salem Witchcraft, 1869; an edition of Gov. Hutchinson's Witchcraft Delusion; Catalogue of the Cincinnati Public Library, 1871; a pamphlet on the Construction of Library Buildings (noticed in the REGISTER for January, 1883); an account of the Witchcraft in Boston, for the Memorial History of Boston, 1881. The degree of LL.D. was conferred upon him in 1882 by the Northwestern University, at Evanston, Ill. By Samuel L. Boardman, Esq., of Augusta, Me. Members of Parliament, Scotland, including the Minor Barons, the Commissioners for the Shires, and the Commissioners for the Burghs, 1367-1882, on the basis of the Parliamentary Return, 1880, with Genealogical and Biographical notices; by JOSEPH FOSTER, Author of the British Peerage, &c. Second Edition, revised and corrected. Privately printed by Hazell, Watson & Viney, London and Aylesbury. 1882. Royal 8vo. pp. 360. Joseph Foster's name on a title-page indicates honest research and fearless statement of results; he is a hero in his line; a champion of the courage of his convictions; no gatherer of family traditions, but of historic truth. His ruthless application of the besom of destruction to fabulous fancies, either as to origin of family names, to assumption of titles or of "patched-up pedigrees," has made him the dread of those accustomed to garnish their books with what is pleasant instead of what is true, and at the same time has given satisfaction to hundreds of genealogical and heraldic students who had been disgusted with the trash too often found in books written by men holding such official positions as gave their writings some show of authority. It is as dangerous for an Englishman to touch Scotch history as for an ordinary mortal to stir up a hornet's nest. This fact Mr. Foster has discovered with a certainty. In his "Peerage "he placed apart under the title of "Chaos" some Scotch genealogies which lack the connected fulness of those approved by the College of Arms in London, and were not satisfactory to Mr. Foster's mind; for this he has been censured in an undignified manner, more to be expected from pettifoggers than government officials. Quotations are torn away from their surrounding sense to convey a different meaning, and words misplaced by the interested reviewers for the sole purpose of appearing to annihilate something which they say he said. The book before us is alphabetically arranged, and is what it pretends to be, a working-tool for the historian, genealogical student and journalist. We have had occasion to test the use of its earlier pages as they had been issued in the "Collectanea Genealogica," for the purpose of answering questions relating to the families of Hay and Douglas, and feel a sense of gratitude to the author for the perfection of arrangement and the valuable notes with which the book is strewn. The limited number of surnames and the well-known fondness of the Scot for ancestral christian names has always made the personal identity of individuals perplexing, because of the constant repetition of nomenclature. In this parliamentary record we find eight persons bearing the name of Archibald Douglas, twelve William; of the Stuarts, twelve Archibald, twelve James, thirteen John, eight Robert, eleven |