The Romance of Canada. Edited by Herbert Strang. (H. Frowde
and Hodder and Stoughton. 6s.)—This is a book which a reviewer praises sufficiently when he describes it. It contains a selection, made by an expert, of striking passages from Canadian history. First come "The Great Explorers," famous and unknown to fame, the Cabots, John Davis, and Champlain among the first, and Pierre Radisson, a Breton, who was taken prisoner by the Indians about 1656, among the latter. Then we have the heroes of the fighting which won Canada from Franco and saved it from the United States. Then follow scenes from the story of Arctic exploration, and after these travels and adventures of hunters, gold-seekers, and others in the Far West. The choice is admirable; everything is suited to the readers for whom it is intended, and there are some spirited pictures. The stuff is good, and it is supplied in ample measure.
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