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Rh and point of view are those of an historian rather than of an economist. The facts garnered with painstaking industry from a wide range of sources have been grouped into a well-planned, coherent exposition. The technique of the book is admirable; the classified bibliography is the most complete yet published on the subject; a good index increases the value of the book for reference purposes. But the writer of eco- nomic history must do more than this. Only by the constant appli- cation of the principles of economic science can he give an adequate, well-reasoned explanation of a past industrial system, the causes of its origin and of its peculiar characteristics, and the reasons for its even- tual decay and disappearance.

Percy Wells Bidwell.

Early Narratives of the Nortlncest, i6j4-i6pQ. Edited by Louise Phelps Kellogg, Ph.D., of the Research Department of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin. [Original Narratives of Early American History.] (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. 1917. Pp. xiv, 382. $3.00.)

If the early history of Wisconsin and neighboring regions is not adequately accessible to future generations, it will be through no fault of a group of zealous and competent students who, perhaps inspired by the examples of Draper the collector, and Thwaites, collector and edi- tor, continue the work in true historical spirit and scientific method. If Wisconsin is fortunate in her students, she is also abundantly rich in material for study.

In this volume are printed in English translation from original texts, thirteen narratives of journeys or episodes, in the region of the Upper Great Lakes and the Upper Mississippi. Vimont's brief account of Jean Nicolet, who, fourteen years after the Landing of the Pilgrims, had made his way into the region between Green Bay and the Missis- sippi, is followed by Lalemant's report of the journey of Raymbault and Jogues to Sault Ste. Marie, in 1641, and this in turn by Radisson's none too lucid account of his third voyage — but first to the region under study — referred, with some doubt, to the years 1 658-1 660. The text is drawn from the Prince Society edition of Radisson's Journals, and a facsimile page is given of Radisson's singularly modern-looking manu- script, in the Bodleian Library. Three chapters of La Potherie's His- toire dc I'Amerique Septentrionalc, relating 'the adventures of Nicolas Perrot in the Northwest; Father Allouez's journey to Lake Superior, 1665-1667, and his later journey into Wisconsin, 1669-1670, are fol- lowed by the whole of Galinee's Jonrnal, 1669-1670. Then we have one of three known accounts of the pageant at Sault Ste. Marie in 1671 —a spectacular ceremony by which France sought to assert supremacy over the not greatly impressed aborigines. Other papers are: the Mis- sissippi voyage of Marquette and Jolliet in 1673, and Marquette's last voyage of 1674-1675; Tonty's Memoir on La Salle's discoveries — the