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434 THE CANADIAN HISTORICAL REVIEW imperialofficials in that part of the empirewhichwasof greatest interestto Great Britain before the Seven Years' War. The British continental colonies of Great Britain cameinto conflictwith Spain on the southand with France on the north, but in theWest IndiesBritish merchantsand offidalsclashed heatedlywith both. Mr. Pares has examinedBritish and French recordsforeign and colonial, recordsof vice-admiralty,and numeroussecondary sources, but he has not had access to Spanisharchives,and he has not attempted to give either a comprehensiveor a chronological narrative; nor hasheendeavoured to discuss in detail military or navaltactics. On the otherhand,he has"tried to explainwhat the colonistsexpected from those wars, what part they took in fighting them, what demandsthey madeupon the armedforcesand diplomacyof their mother countries", andhehasdiscussed in some detailtheunderlying principles ofSpanish, French,and British economic policyin the West Indiesand Frenchand British navalstrategy. Mr. Parestakesgreatpainsalsoto showthe relationship between party politics and conflictinginterestsof traders and trading companiesupon Britishpolicyin theWest Indiesandleavesthe impression that with the exception of Pitt noneof the statesmen of the periodhadenlarged or definiteviewsasto the end orimportance ofcolonial expansion. D.C. HAR¾1•¾ Rapportde l'archiviste de la provincede Quebec pour 1935-1936. Par P.-G. RoY. Qu6bec:R6dempti Paradis. 1936. Pp. viii, 455. Inventsiredesinsinuations deletpr&$t• deQuebec. Par P.-G. RoY. (Archivesde la Province de Qu6bec.) 2 vols. Beauceville: L' "Eclaireur". 1936. Pp. 298; 308. IN the presentArchivesreport M. Roy presentsthe publicwith a completeand carefullyeditedcopyof oneof the mostimportantdocuments of the Frenchr6gime in Canada, i.e., Talon's "Censusof 1666", the first officialcensusin New France. This is the first completeand reliablepublicationof this document,and, although its genealogical significance is givenas the reasonfor its inclusion in the report, all thoseconcerned with the socialhistory of early Canada will be grateful to M. Roy for thiscontributionto their material. The calendarof the correspondence of Mgr Panet, archbishopof Quebec,of great value for the study of the religiousdevelopmentof the province,is here broughtto a closewith the calendarof the years1831-3,the last year beingthat of the archbishop's death. In many waysfar moresignificantthan the two other sections of this report is the third sectionin which M. Roy beginsthe publicationof the lettersof the Abb6 de l'Isle-Dieu. The abb6wasgrand-vicarof the bishopof Quebecin Paris duringthe longand difficultperiodfrom 1734to 1777. In this troublesome time of the collapse of New France,and of transitionto Britishrule, the questionof the positionof the churchwas perhapsthe issueof gravestconsequence to French Canada. Consequently, the publicationof the amplecorrespondence of oneof the leadingfiguresin the solutionof that problem,givinginformationhitherto unknown to the historicalpublic, is a matter of paramounthistoricalimportance. The presentallotment includesthe letters from May 1, 1742, to June 1, 1753. The reportispublished in its usualexcellentformat. The calendarof theregisters of thepr&$t• courtofQu6bec, published separately by the Quebec Archives,will beof particularinterestto genealogists, beinglargely a recordof marriages,deeds,officialcommissions, etc. The material is arranged alphabeticallyby names,and the presenttwo volumesinclude the namesfrom Rxwxws o• Booxs 435 "Abe" to "Quirion". The pr&•t• court was foundedin May, 1666, abolishedin December, 1674, and re-establishedin May, 1677, existing from then until the conquest. The registershere calendaredare preservedat the Palsis de Justice inQuebec intheArchives judiciaires. R.M. SAUNDlgR$ NorthwestPassage. By K•.NN•.T• ROB•.RTS. Toronto: Doubleday, Doran and Company. 1937. Pp. [vii, 709. ($2.75) Northwest Passage: Appendix. Containing theCourtmartial of Major Robert Rogers, theCourtmartial of Lt. SamuelStephens and OtherNew Material. With notes by K•.NN•.T• ROB•.RTS. Garden CiW, N.Y.: Doubleday, Doran and Company. 1937. Pp. [vii, 199. Tins vivid historicalnovel by a writer whosepopularity as a portrayer of the Americanpasthasbeensteadilyincreasing in recentyearsisbuilt aroundtherugged figureof Robert Rogers,the commanderof Rogers'Rangers,the famouscolonial corpswhoseexploitsin the SevenYears' War are still freshlyremembered in the countryabout Lake Georgeand Lake Champlain. The first half tells the story of that epic of frontier heroismand barbarism,Rogers'sexpeditionagainstthe St. Francis Indians in the autumn of 1759; the secondhalf deals with Rogers's dream of explorationand expansion to the westward,and its frustration. The narratoris a youngcolonialpainter whoseambitionis to depict the Indians of his nativecountry;andmanyof the scenes arelaid in London,whitherRogers went to seeksupportfor his great schemes. Mr. Robertsisan investigatoraswellasa novelist;hisnarrativeisevidence of this, without the imposinglist of acknowledgements with which the book is prefaced, andit is thisin part, doubtless, that makesthe storysobrightlyalive. This is not to say, however,that he...

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