MONTREAL WITNESS

We have received a pamphlet with the title: Les Institutions de l’Histoire du Canada. This is only à small portion of a large work of Canadian annals,

wich is to be pubiished hereañfter, as soon as the ne--

cessary means are produced. The specimen now on hand indicates, in the author a vast amount of erudition and historical “esearch, which promises to render the whole worck very complete as a collection of all the facts and opinions relating to the history of our Province. Atthe same time, the desire of being complete may casily spoil the success of this publication, rendering it diffuse and tedious by introducing matter fureing to the subject of the work. Thus a third, at least,ofthe pamphlet before us, is devoted, to a discussion on the unity of the human race, which, valuable as itis by itself, is in reality but little connected with the Xistory of Canada, going back, as it does, to antediluvian times.