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Minor Notices 845 and to trace it from that origin down to its establishment in the New World; to indicate the lineage which sprang from the ancestral emi- grant, and to push one lineage down to the middle of the nineteenth century." His book is therefore chiefly genealogical in character, and is of special interest only to readers belonging to or connected with the De Forest family. The completeness of the information here given ap- pears to be largely enhanced by researches instituted by the author not only among the rare books but among the manuscripts of European libraries, some of them seldom consulted by students. To the general reader the chief value of the book is connected with the three or four chapters bearing upon the first colonization of New Amsterdam, the present New York. It was shown by Dr. Charles W. Baird, in his History of the Huguenot Emigration to America, that the ' ' Walloons and Frenchmen" (Huguenots) from Leyden who sailed from Holland to the mouth of the Hudson in 1623 (1624) were in all probability the same, with few exceptions, as the company for whom Jesse de Forest and his associates, a little over a year before, had sought permission of the King of England, through the English ambassador to the Nether- lands, to settle somewhere in Virginia, that monarch's domains in the New World. Their petition is still extant, and Baird printed it, to- gether with a photographic copy of the round-robin, signed by the petitioners with their own hands, which is still preserved in the British Public Record Office. Unfortunately no similar list of the company that actually went to New Netherland under the auspices of the Dutch States General is known to be in existence. The author of the present volume himself (page 65) is reluctantly compelled to confess: " De Forest's report of his enrollment of colonists has been sought for in vain by the Hague officials. ' ' He has been equally unsuccessful in solving the question where his ancestor died ; for it is clear that whereas Jesse de Forest seems to have been the prime mover both in the application to the English and in that to the Dutch, he never reached New Amster- dam himself, though members of his family and his son-in-law, De la Montagne, did. The author thinks it probable that he died in South America. Lieutenant-Colonel Cruikshank of Fort Erie continues his Docu- mentary History of the Campaign on the Niagara Frontier in 1812 by a new part (pp. 344, published by the Lundy's Lane Historical Society) marked Part IV. on the cover. Part II. on the title-page, and covering the months of October, November and December. The collection of docu- ments is elaborate, and seems complete. They are derived from the Canadian archives and those of the State of New York, but also in large part from books and newspapers in wide variety. Mr. Leonard Magruder Passano, of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, a Marylander, has written for school use a small History of