14 JULY 1917, Page 16

St. Jean de Crarecoeur. By Julia Post Mitchell. (IT. Milford.

63. 6d. not.)—Like M. do Jusserand and other French writers, American students are devoting much attention to the early rela- t ions between Franco and America. Crevecceur, the subject of Miss Mitchell's well-written biography, was naturalised in New York in 1765, and, under the pseudonym of " J. Hector St. John," published in 1782 Letters front un American Farmer, which pleased European readers. Afterwards he became French Consul at New York and started a regular packet service to France. Crevecceur wee in touch with the agricultural reformers of Normandy, with reborn Arthur Young has made us familiar, and tried to persuade them to grow potatoes, which the French called the radar de disette, or " root of famine."