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Correspondence of William Shirley. Edited by Charles Henry Lincoln. 2

vols. (Macmillan and Co. 21s. net.) — William Shirley was Governor of Massachusetts and Military Commander in America. The present collection of his letters, which is edited under the auspices of "the National Society of the Colonial Dames of America," extends from the time of his landing in America in 1731 till after his brief return to England in 1760.