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 436 Reviezvs of Books in Canada were presented by the family of one of the commissioners, Colonel Dundas, to the Smithsonian Institution, and these volumes are now in the Library of Congress at Washington. A transcript of them, without the commissioners' pungent notes and references, is in the Public Record Office, London. The book is provided with a general index, but the reader feels the want of a table of contents, for there is serious difficulty in finding one's way. The Third Report (1906, pp. 600) gives a verbatim copy of the minutes of the Land Board of the District of Hesse, or Western On- tario, and of some of the Land Board of Nassau or Niagara, the rest not having been yet recovered. When the United Empire Loyalists passed over to Canada at the close of the War of Independence, Ontario was still unsurveyed, and in order to settle the Loyalists surveyors were appointed to lay out lands and boards to grant certificates of location. This was the first settlement of Ontario except in the case of a few families who had made homes for themselves on the Detroit River and held allodially under the treaty of 1763. Therefore the proceedings of the early Land Boards down to 1792 are of great value and are an im- portant addition to the printed archives of the Province. These minutes are accompanied by lists of early settlers, correspondence between the surveyors and the Land Boards and the Governor General's Council; original maps and plans prepared by the first surveyors, of great inter- est; and the official regulations under which the crown lands were granted. The volume is elaborately indexed, and while its make-up shows all the typographical and mechanical drawbacks incident on blue- book style and form, yet it will prove a useful work of reference to the student of Canadian history. TEXT-BOOKS General History for Colleges and High Seliools. By Philip 'an Ness Myers. Revised Edition. (Boston: Ginii and Company. 1906. Pp. XV, 779.) This is the first revised edition of a book which has been used in high-schools and colleges for many years. The work has been in part rewritten, and although much new matter has been added, its bulk remains about the same as before. The account of recent events, which now appears for the first time, is accurate and well-proportioned. Many new maps have been added, and the old maps have been worked over and improved. The selected lists of books given at the end of each chapter add very much to the usefulness of this work as an elementary text-book; in some cases, however, so many references have been given in the bibliographical notes as to bewilder somewhat the high-school teacher or student.