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delphia, i867; A Full and a Correct Account of the Mili-
tary Occurrences of the Late War between Great Britain
and the United States, by James Williams, two volumes,
London, I 8 I 8.
   I have also been placed under obligations to Mr.
William Beer, librarian of the Howard Library of New
Orleans, which has become a depository of rare works
touching the history of the South Mississippi Valley, and
especially relating to the War of i812 and the battle of
New Orleans. A list of all the works in this library which
Mr. Beer placed at my disposal would be too long for
insertion here, but the following may be mentioned:
Claiborne's Notes on the War in the South, Goodwin's
Biography of Andrew Jackson, Reid and Easten's Life
of General Jackson, Nolte's Fifty Years in Both Hemi-
spheres, Report of Committee on Jackson's Warrant for
Closing the Halls of the Legislature of Louisiana, The
Madison Papers, Ingersoll's Historic Sketch of the Second
War between Great Britain and the United States,
Cooke's Seven Campaigns in the Peninsula, Hill's Recol-
lections of an Artillery Officer, Coke's History of the Rifle
Brigade, Diary of Private Timewell, and Cooke's Narra-
tive of Events. No one would do justice to himself or
his subject if he should write a history of the battle of
New Orleans without availing himself of the treasures
of the Howard Library.                  Z. F. SMITH.