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 Alitior Notices 393 an endeavor to fix the official responsibility for the cruel ruse by which a considerable detachment of the Iroquois were invited to meet the gov- ernor and intendant of New France at Fort Frontenac in order to con- clude a treaty of peace, in 1687, and were there made prisoners, and eventually sent to the galleys in France. Notwithstanding the fact that the survivors were sent back to Canada by royal authority, a few years later, the author arrives at the conclusion that the home government must be held primarily responsible for the outrage. The Builders of N'ova Scotia, by Sir John G. Bourinot, has been already noticed in these pages. A Monograph on Historic Sites in the Province of New Brunswick, by William F. Ganong, devotes most space to the relics of Indian occupa- tion, and of the Acadian period. Major Arthur G. Doughty has a careful paper, with maps and plans, on the Probable Site of the Battle of the Plains of Abraham. Archbishop O'Brien discusses Cabot's Landfall and Chart, with especial reference to the arguments advanced by Dr. S. E. Dawson in his paper which appeared in the Traiisaitions for 1S97. There is an article on the Assault of Quebec by Montgomery and Arnold, in 1775, by Sir James Le Moine, and, finally, a lengthy paper entitled The Line of Demarcation of Pope Alexander VI. in 1493 and that of the Treaty of Tordesillas in 1494, by Dr. Dawson, in which the subject is discussed from the point of view of medieval international law. The Archaeological Reports of Ontario are printed as appendixes to the annual reports of the Minister of Education. That for i8g8 (pp. 211) consists for the most part of a highly valuable report on the pagan Iro- quois of the Grand River Reserve, and especially on their religion and folklore, by Mr. David Boyle, curator of the Archaeological Museum. It has excellent illustrations. The report for 1899 (pp. 199) contains des- criptions and texts of their music, an account of the Wyandots, by Dr. Wm. E. Connelley, and notes concerning many Indian village sites in the province of Ontario. Eilucation in the United States. A Series of Monographs prepared for the United States Exhibit at the Paris Exposition, 1900. Edited by Nicholas Murray Butler, Professor of Philosophy and Education in Co- lumbia University. (Albany, J. B. Lyon Co., two vols., pp. 46S, 977.) These volumes are, it is true, mainly devoted to description of the exist- ing state of things. But each of the essays of which they are composed contains something of the history of its especial subject. The monographs are the following, written, it will be seen, by highly competent experts Educational Organization and Administration, by President A. S. Draper Kindergarten Education, by Susan E. Blow; Elementary Education, by Dr. W, T. Harris ; Secondary Education, by Professor E. E. Brown ; The American College, by Professor A. F. West ; The American Uni- versity, by Professor E. D. Perry ; Education of Women, by President M. Carey Thomas ; Training of Teachers, by the late Professor B. A. Hinsdale ; and other monographs more special.