TORICAL RESEARCH. No. 5. (Royal United Service Institution. Os. net.)
The chief article in this number is a contemporary account
of the siege of Boulogne in 1544, which Colonel J. II. Leslie has edited from a manuscript in the British Museum. " The writer was in all probability a member of the expedition." It is a plain, soldierly narrative of the siege, which Henry VIII. conducted in person. A very interesting reproduction of a contemporary painting of the siege is appended, from an eighteenth century engraving of an original which was destroyed in the great fire at Cowdray in 1793. It shows all the details of camp life with fascinating minuteness. We may also note Viscount Dillon's curious extracts from reports furnished by the Venetian Ambassadors to their Government in the sixteenth century on the characteristics of the English troops. " They have a very high reputation in arms . . . but I have it on the best information that when the war is raging most furiously, they will seek for good eating, and all their other comforts, without thinking of what harm might befal them." And again : " They insisted on being paid monthly, and did not choose to suffer any hardship; but when they had their comforts, they would do battle daily, with a courage, vigour and valour that defied exaggeration. THE CANADIAN RECIPROCITY TREATY OF 1854. By
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