The Champlain Society of Toronto, as we mentioned
some years ago, has undertaken a complete edition, in French and English, of The Works of Samuel de Champlain. It is edited by Dr. H. P. Biggar, with the assistance of six Canadian scholars, and gives a carefully collated text_ from the original editions with the English translation below. The old title- pages, some of the illustrations and Champlain's maps are carefully reproduced. The third volume, treating of the great French explorer's voyages of 1615 and 1618, has now appeared. The account of the Indians in the St. Lawrence valley is of great interest : it is clear that the French sailors and missionaries handled these primitiVe folk with uncommon tact from the very outset and thus laid firm the foundations of New France. The book does the greatest credit to Canadian scholarship and to the English printers.
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