2 MARCH 1872, Page 22

The First English Conquest of Canada. By Henry Kirke. (Bemrose.)

—The second conquest of Canada, with .its central figure of Wolfe, most of us know something about ; the heroes of the first, among whom Kirke may be taken as standing first, have passed into oblivion. Our- author is acting, we may conjecture, the part of vates sacer to an- ancestor of his own, and we may congratulate him on having produced a book of considerable interest. Accounts of the earliest settlements in Nova Scotia and Newfoundland are added, histories In which the "Life and Death of Sir Humphry Gilbert" stands pre-eminent.