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 480 Notes and Neivs The future historian of Canada will have small opportunity to go astray with such a publication as The Canadian Annual Rez'iew of Public Affairs at his command. The volume before us, by J. Castell Hopkins (Toronto, Annual Review Publishing Company), the fifth to be issued, relates to the year 1905, is a book of over six hundred pages, and, by no means least, is well indexed. Its scope can best be shown by mentioning the heads of the various sections: Dominion political affairs; General elections in Ontario; Provincial elections in Alberta and Saskatchewan; Public affairs in the provinces; Dominion and provincial finances ; Relations with the Empire ; Relations with the United States; Transportation interests; Militia affairs; Literature and jour- nalism; Religious and sociological incidents; Production, trade, and ma- terial progress ; Finance, insurance, and industrial conditions ; Miscel- laneous incidents; and Obituary. An appendix, printed separately in a pamphlet of thirty-seven pages, is a Chronology of Canadian History, covering the period from the Confederation in 1867 to the close of 1900. We should note a French volume on the French phase of Canadian history, by E. Salone, La Colonisation de la Nouvelle France, Etude sur Ics Origines de la Nation canadiennc francaise (Paris, E. Guilmoto, pp. 467). Acadiensis for October commences an account, by Jonas Howe, of " Major Ferguson's Riflemen — The American Volunteers ", together with the roster of that Loyalist corps, and brings to a conclusion the article by Reginald V. Harris on the " Union of the Maritime Provinces ". The present Earl of Durham has presented to the Archives Branch of the Dominion of Canada the collection of documents that formed the basis of the report of hi's father, Lord Durham's report in 1838 on the Canadian rebellion of 1837. The papers relate to the difficulties between the races in the lower provinces and to the defects in the colonial system of government. They consist of municipal records, pamphlets, posters, petitions, correspondence, etc. A feature of the approaching tercentenary of the foundation of Quebec is to be a museum illustrating the various events in the history of Canada from the earliest times to the present. Li it will be collected all obtainable relics of Champlain, Montcalm, and other figures prom- inent in Canadian affairs. A national subscription will be opened for the purpose, whilst grants will be made by the English, Canadian, and the French governments. Abbe Dugas, formerly of St. Boniface College, Mnnipeg. has just published the second volume of his History of the Xorth-Jl'est, covering the period from 1822 to the extinction of the Hudson's Bay Company's sovereignty in 1869. Constitucion tie 185J y las Leyes de Reforma en Mexico, by Ricardo Garcia Granados (Mexico, Typografia Economica, pp. 135), is described as a historico-socioloijical studv.