£32	BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE
James G. Wilson's Memorial History of the City of
New York, 4 vols. (1892), and Historic New York, %
vols. (edited by M. W. Goodwin, A. C. Royce, and
Ruth Putnam, 1912). Theodore Roosevelt has writ-
ten a single volume on New York for the Historic
Towns series (1910). In his New Amsterdam and its
People (1902), J. H. Innes has brought together valu-
able studies of the social and topographical fea-
tures of the town under Dutcji and early English rule.
I. N. P. Stokes's Iconography of Manhattan Island
(1915) is calculated to delight the soul of the anti-
quarian.
One who wishes to turn to the lighter side of provincial
life will find it set forth in attractive volumes such as
Colonial Days in Old New York by A. M. Earle (1915),
Tke Story of New Netherland by W. E. Griffis (1909),
In Old New York by T. A. Janvier (1894), and the Goede
Vrouw of Mana-ha-ta by M. K. Van Rensselaer (1898).
Most rewarding perhaps of all sources are those deal-
ing with the biographies of the prominent figures in the
history of the State, since in them we find the life of the
times illustrated and personalized. E. M. Bacon in his
Henry Hudson (1907) gives us a picture of the great
mariner and the difficulties against which he strove.
The Van Rensselaer-Bowier Manuscripts, edited by A. J.
F. Van Laer (1908) show us through his personal letters
the Patroon of the upper Hudson and make us familiar
with life on his estates. J. K. Paulding in Affairs and
Men of New Amsterdam in the Time of Governor Peter
Stuyvesant (1843) makes the town-dwellers equally real
to us, while W. L. Stone's Life and Times of Sir William
Johnson, % vols. (1865), shows us the pioneer struggles
in the Mohawk Valley. In the English State Trials