Show Magazine American History r An interesting paper by John Dimi try entitled A Kings Gift is one of the prominent features of the beautiful October Magazine of American History It is the pleasant story of events in Louisiana about tho time of the gift of that province to Spain by Louis XV of France who it seems was heartily tired of his domain Tho Hon Charles K Tuckerman follows with fresh incrma tion on the subject of President Lincoln and Colonization together with an estimate es-timate of the losses sustained by the experiment ex-periment at Hayti shortly before Lin coIn death The Territorial Growth of the United States by William A Mowry editor of Education is an able and instructive essay which ought to restudied re-studied by every intelligent reader in the conntry it is accompanied by a superbJmap in colors An Earthquake in Kentucky by John James Audubon Audu-bon a graphic description of what the great naturalist experienced in 1825 will attract notable attention at this juncture junc-ture and an excellent portrait of Audubon Audu-bon is the frontispiece to the magazine Then comes A Relic of One of the Regicide Re-gicide Judges by the accomplished scholar Rev Charles W Baird D D followed by three civil war studies of exceptional ex-ceptional merit The Letter of Hon Luther R Marsh Rev Mr Halls Printer of the Frst Directory and the Sketch of Robert J L Peyton are all timely and important contributions contribu-tions Published at 30 Lafayette Place New York City |