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 424 Reviews of Books emanated from the Peninsula. For a long while there were excellent political reasons why this feeling should have been fostered, but it has persisted in the popular mind long since there ceased to be any proper justification for it. This fact made Mr. Lowery's task particularly difficult, and the success with which he accomplished it adds much to the keen regret that it must remain only half done. G. P. W. The Voyages and Explorations of Samuel dc Champlain (1604- 1616) Narrated by Himself. Translated by Annie Xettleton Bourne. Together with the Voyage of 1603, reprinted from Purchas His Pil- grimes. Edited with Introduction and Notes by Edward Gaylord Bourne, Professor of History in Yale University. Two volumes. (New York, A. S. Barnes and Co., 1906, pp. xl, 254; ix, 229.) Champlain wrote five works: (i) the Brief Discours relating to his voyages of 1599-1601 to the West Indies and New Spain; (2) the Sattz'ages, or voyage of 1603 to New France, printed in 1604, of which Purchas printed an English version; (3) the Voyages of 1613, including the Quatriesme Voyage which, though it has a separate title, is bound up with the Voyages; (4) the Voyages et Descoitvertures of 1619, re- issued in 1620 and in 1627; and finally (5) Les Voyages de la Nouvelle France Occidentale, published in 1632, This last, which furnishes the main contents of Professor Bourne's latest contribution to the " Trail Makers '' series, begins with a brief and not very accurate account of French colonial endeavors before Champlain's time, describes succinctly his voyage of 1603, presents in a somewhat abridged and differing form the material of his books of 1613 and 1619, continues the narrative to 1 63 1, with a record mostly occupied with local French happenings at Quebec, and adds a treatise on navigation. Of this final work of the great explorer and colonizer. Professor Bourne prints the first half, extending to 1616, when Champlain's career as an explorer came virtually to an end. The editor rejects as lacking foundation the no- tion that the work published in 1632 was subjected to a revision un- friendly to the Recollects and over-friendly to the Jesuits. After the portion of this work reproduced by him he reprints Purchas's version of the Sauvages, though by date it might as properly precede. The translation is readable, the introduction excellent, and the notes, though not numerous, frequently offer original and valuable suggestions, Champlain's map of New France of 1632 and some of his plates are reproduced, but with indifferent success. The Records of the Virginia Company of London; The Court Book, from the Manuscript in the Library of Congress. Edited, with an Introduction and Bibliography, by Susan Myra Kingsbury. A.M., Ph.D., Instructor in Simmons College. Preface by Herbert Levi Osgood, A.M., Ph.D., Professor in Columbia University. Two volumes. (Wash-