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1922 SHORT NOTICES 303 was not driven from office in 1762 (p. 63), and the whig party was very far from being ' completely excluded from office ' after 1762 (p. 66). R. B. S. Mr. L. S. Mayo has written a careful and interesting account of John Wentworth (Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1921). As governor of New Hampshire (1767-75) and as lieutenant-governor of Nova Scotia (1792-1808) Wentworth did useful work in improving the communications, the education, and the military defences of these colonies. As surveyor-general of the Crown woods he succeeded in performing his duties without unduly exciting the opposition of the colonists. His failings, the most conspicuous of which was unblushing nepotism, belonged to his age ; his merits, unswerving courage, loyalty, and devotion to duty, were peculiarly his own. Mr. Mayo has therefore been well advised in under- taking this volume. Moreover, the part relating to Peter Livius is of special interest to students of Canadian history and the text is illustrated by excellent reproductions of portraits by Copley and Wilson. It may be added that one sentence requires some alteration, wherein it seems to be implied that Franklin was a member of the British Parliament ; that Oxford does not give doctorates of Common Law ; and that those who are familiar with Sir William Anson's volume will hardly agree that Grafton ' is remembered, if at all, because of his amours and his horses V H. E. E. The lectures delivered by Professor G. M. Wrong of Toronto University, under the G. S. Bennett foundation ' for the better understanding of national problems ', at Wesleyan University, have been published under the title The United States and Canada (Cincinnati : Abingdon Press, 1921). As was inevitable in the circumstances the amount of historical and political exposition the lectures contain is of a somewhat elementary character ; but they seem admirably adapted to bring home an under- standing of the Canadian point of view to an American audience. H. E. E. For the purposes of his forthcoming life of Bishop Strachan, Mr. A. H. Young, of Trinity College, Toronto, found it necessary to learn as much as possible about Strachan's ' spiritual father ', Dr. John Stuart. In this connexion he has edited, for the Kingston Historical Society, The Parish Register of Kingston, Upper Canada, 1785-1811 (Kingston, Ontario : The British Whig, 1921). This register covered the whole period of Dr. Stuart's rectorship, and, though defective in places, is an invaluable storehouse of information regarding the early settlers in Upper Canada. (It must be remembered that Dr. Stuart, as a missionary and as bishop's official, worked far beyond the limits of Kingston itself.) Mr. Wood has contributed to the volume a careful and interesting introduction, and full biographical notices, when possible, of those mentioned in the entries. The same investigations had already called forth an undated pamphlet from the same press, The Rev. John Stuart, D.D., of Kingston, U.C., an exhaustive genealogical study of the distinguished family founded by Dr. J. Stuart. H. E. E.