“Though the little American play-actress is the central figure of this high-spirited and wholesome entertainment, its abiding charm resides in the portraiture of the ‘people of the placid, old, half-rustic world, that lives forever with realities, and seldom sees the passions counterfeited.’”
| + | Spec. 98: 908. Je. 8, ’07. 700w. |
Munro, William Bennett. Seigniorial system in Canada: a study in French colonial policy. *$2. Longmans.
7–11561.
“Beginning with an introductory chapter on the European background of French colonization. Dr. Munro traces the history of the seigniorial grants from 1598 to 1760. After this, with the elaborate critical apparatus and bibliography of the ‘scientific historian,’ he describes the relations of the seignior to his superiors and his dependents, and the fiscal and religious systems of New France. He concludes with chapters on British Canada which strengthen our growing conviction that the American revolutionists were uninformed when they made the famous Quebec act a chief grievance against Great Britain.”—Ind.
“Within the limits he imposes on himself he has done his task extremely well. He is always accurate. The bibliographical apparatus is excellent and altogether the book attains to a very high standard both of historical insight and of scholarship.”
| + + | Am. Hist. R. 13: 171. O. ’07. 1040w. |
“For the student of colonial history this book offers a valuable sidelight; for the Canadian student its direct value must be great. It will be long before the work has to be done again.”
| + + | Ind. 63: 944. O. 17, ’07. 240w. |