ten louis, but it was never said that M. de Montalvan felt
dissatisfied with the result of his third wager.

FOOTNOTES:

[102] The Lieutenant-General Duc de Richelieu enjoyed the fame and
received the reward of this important discovery, due really to an
unknown adventurer. Even the claim of De Lally was set aside in favor of
the illustrious impostor.

THE JESUITS IN NORTH AMERICA IN THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY.[103]

Mr. Francis Parkman has been fortunate in finding unappropriated,
untried even, a dramatic subject of well-defined and completed
historical interest, for the treatment of which his taste and talents
give him an extraordinary adaptation. He has rightfully asserted his
claims to be regarded as occupying the whole of a field whose scope and
contents he has so ably mastered, and portions of which he has wrought
to such good purpose. He has for many years had in view a series of
historical narratives,--each complete and independent in itself, though
having an organic relation to the others,--which should present the
whole story of early French and English enterprise and rivalry in North
America. Under the title of "Pioneers of France in the New World,"
published two years ago, and noticed at the time in these pages, we had
a volume which initiated the full development of the results of his
labors as far as they dealt with the earliest events and actors
connected with French enterprise on this continent. In his "History of
the Conspiracy of Pontiac," published sixteen years ago, Mr. Parkman had
already given us the last act in a drama of intense interest.

"The Jesuits in North America" is the title of a new volume, and of a
well-rounded and nobly-wrought theme. The English reader had nothing
within his reach before from which he could learn what is offered to him
here. Rich as the subject actually is in documentary and printed
materials of prime authenticity, and in the infinite minuteness of
detail in their contents, these materials were widely scattered and not
readily accessible. Mr. Parkman has either copied or procured the
copying of many thousand pages of manuscripts illustrating his theme. He
has gathered all the pamphlets, volumes, and maps which have any
relation to it. He has put himself in communication with officials,
custodians, and antiquarian students, who could help him in his
researches, and, by visits of exploration and inquiry to the localities
which form the scene of his narratives,