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In this first comprehensive guide to Wisconsin's Territorial and State archives, David J. Delgado describes 87 record groups in the possession of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin. Further divided into subgroups and then guide entries, the records range in date from 1836 to the 1960's, amount to approximately 20,000 cubic feet, include both processed and unprocessed units, and are housed in the historical building, the eight Area Research Centers, and other locations.Each record group, which generally corresponds to an active or defunct unit of government, is introduced by a short agency or departmental history, sketching origin, function, and major organizational realignments reflected in the records. The entries are given a unique identification in the guide by unbroken numbering from 1 in record group 1 through 1,249 in record group 87. The index references are by entry number, with correlation to the repository's reference tools achieved by the inclusion of catalog numbers.The entries, tailored as overviews rather than as detailed analyses, provide dates, record types, pertinent cross references to other entries, status (unorganized, restricted, etc.), major emphasis, and quantity, which is expressed variously in boxes, volumes, packages, folders, and cubic feet. Although there is little additional descriptive material, the subject matter is usually implicit in the skeleton revealed by introductions to the record groups, definitions of functions, and listings of record types.The ambitious guide, which demonstrates again the quality and scope of the institution producing it, will be followed by more intensive descriptions of all major record groups. In the meantime, the path has been mapped for those who would explore a rich source of State, regional, and national history.

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A SYM POSIUM.As THE subject is worded, it suggests the qutstions: Shall the presence of myth and fiction in the sacred volume be admitted or denied ? On what ground can it be either admitted or denied? And, if admitted, how dc)es it affect Christian doctrine?The denial of the presence of an-form of literature in the Scriptures can appear either as a conclusion reached after a careful survey of their content, or as the result of a judgment based on the character of the Bible as a body of divinely inspired writings. If it be the latter only, then there can be ,vlainly no doubt that such a denial is unscientific, and should be summarily set aside by the earnest and honest seeker after truth. What is and what is not consistent with the divine origin and authority of Scripture must be determined, not by an apriori logical method, but by an induction of facts. The question whether the existence of myth and fiction is consistent with inspiration and canonicity must be answered after the question of their presence or absence has been settled, and not before. To form an idea of what kind of literature one should expect in the Hible, and then proceed to reduce all the kinds found to these, is to re-enact the fabled Procrustes; only with greater cruelty, because in this case it is not the mere bodies of men that are tortured, but the contents of a divinely given volume which has been the means of spiritual life to millions. If myth and legend are not proper forms through which God can reveal his mind, then why should parables and allegories be believed to be such ? And where is the line to be drawn between those literary forms which the Spirit can employ and those which he cannot? And on what authority shall such a line be drawn ? The absolute irnpossibilitr of answering these ver) legitimate and inevitable questions should prove a final and effective mode of dealing with the denial of their presence upon mere a przori grounds .But it may be asked, in using the inductive method, what 342

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