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Book Notes
lished by the Bureau of Business Research at the University of
Texas.
The Industrial Potential of Texas, an 81/gx11-inch lithographed
booklet, is a posthumous publication of some unfinished studies
by Elmer H. Johnson as extended by the staff of the Bureau of
Business Research at The University of Texas. The future of
Texas industry and especially of the associated chemical industries
looms large on today's horizon; this publication, in very general
terms, surveys potential possibilities, concentrating especially on
these associated chemical industries. The work includes a brief
chapter entitled "Historical Perspective."
SEYMOUR V. CONNOR
In American Beginnings: Highlights and Sidelights of the Birth
of the New World (Public Affairs Press, Washington, D. C., 1952),
Dr. Jarvis M. Morse purports to take his readers on "a personally
conducted tour of noteworthy writings on British-America pub-
lished before 1775." Sight-seeing, or more aptly, "historian-seeing,"
on the trip is interesting, and the author's brief commentaries on
the contents of colonial source materials do not lose the flavor
of the originals. Morse ranges, for example, from the first appear-
ance of the word squunckes in writings about America to an
appraisal of America's prospects by William, and possibly Ed-
mund, Burke several years before the Revolution. The author's
choice of historiographical highlights from the discoverers to the
Revolution is an optional one. Yet the reader "shakes hands" with
a sufficient number of contemporary-colonial historians, from
Newfoundland to the West Indies to seventeenth and eighteenth
century British writers about the New World, to know where to
look for additional data.
Writers in the colonial field should find American Beginnings
an ample cross-section of colonial historical works. It should be
useful also for those who would lend to their lectures some
measure of the human interest in colonial history which Morse
has succeeded in recounting in this study.
HOWARD LACKMAN
The University of Texas261
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Texas State Historical Association. The Southwestern Historical Quarterly, Volume 57, July 1953 - April, 1954, periodical, 1954; Austin, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth101152/m1/311/: accessed April 27, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Texas State Historical Association.