. The magazine of American history with notes and queries. ; the seventh, the Industries of Canada. In his introduclion the author pays a hand-some and well-deserved tribute to the noble col-lections of the Boston Athenaeum, the BostonPublic Library and the Astor Library in New-York, without which, as he justly says, such awork as his could not possibly have been exe-cuted. Each book opens with a general view on thesubject treated, and takes up in detail the his-tory of the development of each iudustry in thiscountry from its beginnings, and follows it to itslatest triumphs; and each is tlioro
. The magazine of American history with notes and queries. ; the seventh, the Industries of Canada. In his introduclion the author pays a hand-some and well-deserved tribute to the noble col-lections of the Boston Athenaeum, the BostonPublic Library and the Astor Library in New-York, without which, as he justly says, such awork as his could not possibly have been exe-cuted. Each book opens with a general view on thesubject treated, and takes up in detail the his-tory of the development of each iudustry in thiscountry from its beginnings, and follows it to itslatest triumphs; and each is tliorough. Thestatistical tables are well selected ; the illustra-tions adapted to the text. In our August number (III., 526) attention wascalled to the admirable paper, by the same au-thor, on the Financial Administration of RobertMorris, a chapter from a forthcoming Finan-cial History of the United States, the appear-ance of which is awaited with interest by allwho concern themselves in the vital questionof American finance, now a prominent topic yj^m
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