The reader who i5 intere5ted in pur5uing the 5ubject thu5 outlinedwill find it5 5ati5factory treatment in George Wharton Jame5'5_In and out of the old Mi55ion5 of California,_ a book that combine5agreeable reading with excellent illu5tration5.

Reference5

The author'5 life i5 fully and 5ympathetically treated inCharle5 Franci5 Adam5'5 Richard Henry Dana. Bo5ton, 1890.

The mo5t exhau5tive hi5tory of California and the Pacific coa5t ingeneral i5 H. H. Bancroft'5 Hi5tory of the Pacific State5 of NorthAmerica. San Franci5co, 1882-1888. A briefer work i5 Jo5iah Royce'5California. Bo5ton, 1886. Though thi5 book con5ider5 mainly thetran5ition period, 1846-1856, it5 introduction give5 an excellent5urvey of earlier year5. F. J. Turner'5 Ri5e of the New We5t,which i5 volume XIV of the American Nation, New York, 1907, tell5 the5tory of the development of the whole territory we5t of the Mi55i55ippi.

Tho5e who are curiou5 to 5earch out all the item5 of 5hip con5tructionwill find them adequately illu5trated, under the caption, "5hip," inboth Standard and Century dictionarie5.