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 CallaJian : American Relations in the Far East 827 The chapter on "Illinois in the Eighteenth Century " is made up of a sketch of old Fort Chartres under French rule, in which an excellent description of the present appearance of the fort is given, and extracts from the minute book of Col. John Todd, who became governor of the Virginia county of Illinois in 1778. It shows the introduction of Amer- ican government. "Illinois in the Revolution" covers not only the expedition of George Rogers Clark but the lesser-known forays of Tom Brady, Paulette Meillet, James Willing, and Le Balme against the Eng- lish and the retaliatory excursions of Indians and British under de Ver- ville and under de Longlade. The "Spanish March across Illinois" describes an expedition sent from Spanish St. Louis in 1781 against the British trading post at St. Joseph, where Niles, Michigan, now stands. Rejecting the usually ac- cepted thought that it was simply a marauding expedition of Spanish, French and Indians against a common foe, Mr. Mason argues very force- fully that it was deliberately planned to substantiate the claim of Spain to the land lying between the mountains and the Mississippi, to be fully set forth at the end of the Revolutionary War. Among the author's strong- est arguments is a warning letter from John Jay to Congress, enclosing an account of the expedition which had appeared in the Madrid Gazette. Mr. Mason was Connecticut born, a graduate of Yale, a man of wealth, and a busy lawyer, who yet found time and energy to build up a flourish- ing historical society, housed in an absolutely fireproof building, and to give to the public these sketches which not only make a clear and con- vincing presentation of known matter but also add not a little to the usable information concerning early Illinois. Edwin Erle Sparks. American Relations in the Pacific and the Far East, lyS^.-igoo. By James Morton Callahan, Ph.D. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press. 1 90 1. Pp. 177.) This book is the outgrowth of a course of lectures delivered before graduate students in Johns Hopkins University in 1899-1900, on the origin and evolution of American enterprise and policy in the Pacific and Far East. It contains ten chapters with a subject index and an ap- pendix. The text covers about 150 pages, with nearly 300 footnotes ; a very small space for so large a subject. By avoiding unnecessary repetition more space could have been obtained for interesting details. Dr. Callahan deserves our special thanks for giving abstracts of several unpublished documents, including Lieutenant Ingraham's Journal of the Voyage of the Hope, from Boston to the northwest coast of America (p. 18), which deserves to be published in full. Unfortunately, however, he accepts too readily the statements of whatever voyager he is using at the time of writing, without taking pains to verify the statements from easily accessible sources. The account which he gives (on p. 17) of the