Our Garrisons in the West; or, Sketches in British North
America. By Francis Duncan, M.A., F.G.S., F.R.G.S., Lieutenant, R.A. (Chapman and
Hall.)—The title of this work is misleading. One chapter on the defences of Canada is all the information about the defensibility of our
North AmerlmaTossessions which Mr. Duncan gives us, and this •P
more disappointing' arse that chapter is wor111_,J1•11rest of the book. He is no alarmiscrifatrtontftffairESEITiough the frontier of Canada is in4lefensiblo, the country is for the same reason unconquerable. The capture of Quebec or Montreal does not imply the conquest of Canada. In a wide sparsely populated country an invading army can do nothing but make a raid, and wo could inflict more injury in that way on the coast of the United States than Canada would suffer. The rest of the book is readable, but disfigured by the worst possible taste. The jocularity, including the first chapter, "On the Sea," is of course- inevitable in these days, but we might have been spared tho fine writing.
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