A Short History of the Canadian People. By George Bryce,
M.A. (Sampson Low and Co.)—Mr. Bryce has given a history of Canada from the very earliest period. After a preliminary chapter on " The Dominion of Canada," in which he describes the processes by which it has come to its present status, he goes on to write of "Prehistoric and Early America," "The Ancient Inhabitants," "The Old Colonies Along the Atlantic," "The French Rtigime," "Canada During and After the War of Independence," are successively treated of. So he goes through the history of Canada, bringing it down to the present time. The twelfth and, more especially, the thirteenth chapters will be found of peculiar interest, for they show us Canada as it ie. The author thinks well of the present and the future of the country. Its weakest point seems to be literature. There is, indeed, nothing that can be called Canadian literature. The first thing to foster it is to pass a really working Copyright Act. At present, literary production is choked by the cheap reprints of English books.
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