THE PRESBYTERIAN QUARTERLY AND PRINCETON REVIEW. EDITORS: LYMAN H. ATWATER: HENRY B. SMITH. NEW SERIES.-VOLUME III. 1874. NEW YORK: Published by J. M. SHERWOOD, 88 JOHN STREET. PRINCETON MCGINNESS & RUNYAN. PHILADELPHIA: PRESBYTERIAN BOARD OF PUBLICATION, 1334 Chestnut Street Press of ROGERS & SHERWOOD, 94 & 96 Nassau Street, New York. CONTENTS OF THE OCTOBER NUMBER. PAGK THE PRESBYTERIAN QUARTERLY AND PRINCETON REVIEW. NEW SERIES, No. 9.-JANUARY, 1874. ART. I.-OUR INDIAN AFFAIRS.* By Rev. JOHN C. LOWRIE, D. D., New York City. We give this paper a title taken from the official phrase in use at Washington. Each house of Congress has its Committee of Indian Affairs, and one of the Bureaus is so called in the Department of the Interior. The publications referred to below will serve to bring several Indian matters of moment to our consideration; a brief notice of these Reports may be of interest to our readers. The first two of them have probably seldom fallen under their notice. The Report of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, and its accompanying papers, furnish a great amount and variety of information concerning Indian matters. Its index, a new and valuable feature in these Reports, contains the names of one hundred and twenty-nine tribes of Indians, some of them so divided into separate bands as to make fiftyeight more; in all, nearly two hundred tribes or independent bands are treated of in this volume. This is done on no uniform plan, with details often not well arranged, and far from being complete, yet sometimes full and clear. The Report of the Commissioner himself, Gen. F. A. Walker, must be excepted from this remark; it is one of the ablest of these Indian Commissioner Reports, occupying the first hundred pages of the Annual Report of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs to the Secretary of the Interior, for the year 1872. Washington. 8 vo., pp. 471. Fourth Annual Report of the Board of Indian Commissioners to the President of the United States, 1872. Washington. 8 vo., pp. 202. Thirty-sixth Annual Report of the Board of Foreign Missions of the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America. Presented to the General Assembly, May 1873, |