Abstract

Books in Brief

The article presents an overview of several books. "A Guide to the Principal Sources for Early American History (1600-1800) in the City of New York," by Evarts B. Greene and Richard B. Morris is the most important contribution to the bibliography of American historical material in the city of New York since the late Herbert L. Osgood prepared for the Public Archives Commission of the American Historical Association, in 1900, his guide to the records in the city departments. The drama which M. Chauvieé unfolds in "The Sword of the Soul," is social and political--a detached document of revolutionary Ireland. "Stranger in Paradise" by J. Anker Larsen, is the story of Hans Larsen, a Danish peasant boy whose dreamy, religious nature so impressed itself on his comrades and elders that when he died, still in his youth, he had planted the seeds whose growth was to transform his village into a little paradise.