The Logs of the Conquest of Canada. Edited, with Introduction,
by Lieut.-Colonel William Wood. (The Champlain Society, Toronto.)—Every one knows something about the conquest of Canada in 1759-60; but it is probable that this something goes very little beyond Wolfe. Wolfe, we are all aware, got to his scene of action by the help of ships ; but few are really acquainted with the share that the naval power of Britain had in the conflict with France and in the I:raceme which crowned it. Colonel Wood does his best to supply the want. His introduction, which occupies, and rightly occupies, more than half the volume, is a lucid account of the campaign, doing ample justice, we must not forget to say, to the genius of Pitt. Here, again, we all know that he chose Wolfe for the great work; but how much the whole conduct of the campaign owed to him is not so generally appreciated. In the "Logs" themselves it is impossible, at least for a landsman, to find much; but we fully recognise the duty of printing them. Nor is it a small thing that they have afforded an occasion for the publishing of Colonel Wood's quite admirable essay.
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