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which reflects in greater or less degree almost every aspect
of the national life of the time. There are two volumes
for each year, and vol. LX. begins with the issue for
March 6, I841. The files of the National Intelligencer
(Washington, i800-i870), The Enquirer (Richmond, I804 -i906), the Evening Post (New York, 1746, i794-i795,
i801-1906), the New York Tribune (1841-I906), the Courier-Journal (Louisville, I83 —I906), are also very useful.
Highly important for the study of industrial, educational,
and social conditions, especially in the South, are De Bow's
Commercial Review (34 vols., I846-i864; 8 vols., i866 -I870) and the Southern Literary Messenger (36 vols., I834 -I864; revived and three numbers issued in i89o).
BIOGRAPHIES
Some of the most serviceable of these are George Ticknor
Curtis, Life of Daniel Webster (2 vols., I870); George Ticknor Curtis, Life of James Buchanan (2 vols., i883); Ivory
Chamberlain, Biography of Millard Fillmore (I856); and
the following volumes of the American Statesman series':
Carl Schurz, Henry Clay (2 vols., I892); Henry Cabot
Lodge, Daniel Webster (i883); Hermann von Holst, John
C. Calhoun (i882); Andrew Cunningham McLaughlin,
Lewis Cass (I891); Theodore Roosevelt, Thomas Hart
Benton (i887); Edward M. Shepard, Martin Van Buren
(i888); John Torrey Morse, John Quincy Adams (i882);
Albert Bushnell Hart, Salmon Portland Chase (I899).
THE WESTWARD MOVEMENT OF POPULATION
Most important here are The Seventh Census of the
United States (supt., J. D. B. De Bow); and Bureau of the
U. S. Census (director, S. N. D. North), Bulletin No. 8
(1904), entitled Negroes in the United States; Turner, New
West (American Nation, XV.), chaps. v-viii. Especially
useful also are the following works by H. H. Bancroft,
History of the North Mexican States and Texas (2 vols.,