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 310 SHORT NOTICES April surveyed, and which have remained the most popular approaches to that dangerous sea. After a sojourn at Timor, Bligh crossed the Indian Ocean by way of Madagascar, and rounded the Cape. Touching at St. Helena he reached St. Vincent in January 1793. Most of the plants were duly delivered, although the bread-fruit never gained the appreciation of the West Indians. Bligh reached England in August. The editor's presenta- tion and interpretation of the log-books are admirable. The value of Bligh's pioneer work in directions which were to be further explored by Flinders and others is clearly brought out. Bligh's subsequent unfortunate record in New South Wales should not be permitted to obscure his eminent services as a seaman and discoverer. A. B. A. The memoirs of Alexandre Moreau de Jonnes (originally published in 1858 and again in 1893 under the title Aventures de Guerres) have now been abridged and translated as Adventures in Wars of the Republic and Con- sulate (London : Murray, 1920). The writer describes as a participant the English occupation of Toulon in 1793, the battle of the first of Jun in 1794, the defeat of the expedition to Quiberon Bay in 1795, the mutiny at the Nore, the French invasion of Ireland in 1798, and various episodes in the West Indies, 1801-5. Accounts of these events by a fervent sup- porter of the French Revolution cannot fail to be interesting, but it is very doubtful whether much reliance can be placed on the veracity of Moreau, who is certainly guilty of serious errors and gross exaggerations. A few specimens must suffice. He states that the French rear-admiral St. Julien sailed through the midst of the English fleet at Toulon when St. Julien really escaped by land, and speaks of 16,000 English soldiers when there were only a few thousands. He assigns thirty-six men-of-war to Howe in 1794, when he had only twenty-six, and gives Cornwallis 25,000 soldiers in Ireland in 1798, instead of less than half that number. Confidence in his relation of the mutiny and of his conversations with Parker is shaken because he wrongly calls the mutineer Samuel (instead of Richard), and because he completely misrepresents the circumstances of Parker's re- burial, although he was sheltered by that seaman's wife. G. D. The first volume of the Proces-verbaux de la Commission Temporaire des Arts (Paris : Imprimerie Nationale), edited by M. Louis Tuetey, was published in 1912. 1 The second volume, which bears the date 1917, has only lately reached this Review. It contains the minutes of the sittings of the year December 1794 to December 1795, and in it the work of this body of commissioners is completed. At the last meeting the minister of the interior thanks his colleagues for the efforts they have made ' a rassembler les debris echappes au vandalisme '. To judge from their reports nothing of interest can have escaped their observation, but it is not always clear — in spite of the useful editorial notes — what, if any, action was taken upon the recommendations of the commisssioners. That the most competent and distinguished experts were employed, that they worked very hard, and in all parts of France, is evident. Half of this new volume of 658 pages is devoted to an admirable and very full index, 1 Ante, xxviii. 819.