Pp x, 431.

This fascinating volume by the Commissioner of Education and President of the University of the State of New York presents no new material, nor is any such claim made for it.

Most of the chapters, some of which have already been published in Scribners Magazine, were written and delivered as lectures in Paris and other French cities for the purpose of bringing to the minds of the people of that country the part which their forefathers played in the discovery and develop- ment of the Great Valley.

"But it was my hope that what was spoken in Paris might some day be read in America," says the author, "and particularly in that valley which the French evoked from the unknown, that those who now live there might know before what a valorous background they are passing, though I can tell them less of it than they will learn from the Homeric Parkman, if they will but read his immortal story.

Dr.