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One more brief extract we must find room for. The volume 

 is inscribed, in a graceful dedication, to George "William Allan, 

 Esq., of Moss Park, Toronto, '• as a token of gratitude for the 

 kind and generous interest he has always taken in the author's 

 labours," and after referring to a Commission with which he has been 

 honored by the Canadian Legislature, for the execution of a selection 

 of paintings from his Indian studies, he alludes to the extensive 

 series cf oil paintings executed by him for his liberal friend and 

 patron, Mr. Allan. These amount in all to upwards of a hundred^ 

 including many highly characteristic life-size portraits, pictures of 

 Indian games, dances, hunts, and combats, and of their lodges, cem- 

 eteries, canoes, &c., as well as of studies of the remarkable scenery 

 on the great rivers of the North- West. In addition to these, Mr. 

 Allan also possesses a valuable collection of Indian dresses, weapons, 

 implements, carvings, medicine rattles, pipes, &c., obtained by the 

 author during his travels. At one time Mr. Kane indulged the hope 

 that these, with his sketches and notes, would have been made the 

 basis of a national work, to be undertaken by the authority of the 

 Provincial Legislature ; and few works could be more welcome to 

 the students of ethnological science. Meanwhile it is gratifying to 

 know that the materials have been preserved by the liberality of a 

 native Canadian ; and we cordially sympathise in the remarks with 

 which the author concludes his preface : " I would gladly indulge the 

 hope that the present work will not prove the sole published fruits of 

 my travels among the Indian tribes of North America, but that it 

 will rather be a mere illustration of the novelty and interest which 

 attach to those rarely explored regions, and enable me to publish a 

 much more extensive series of illustrations of the characteristicSy 



habits, and scenery, of the country and its occupants.'''^ 



I>. W. 



The Bookseller, a Hand-looTc of British and Foredgn Literature^ 

 Nos. XIII. XIV. London :. 1859. 



This British periodical — a curious and acceptable prodiict of the 

 division of labor, begot by an age without its equal for rivalry and 

 competition, — reaches us with the imprint of James Campbell, an 

 enterprising wholesale Bookseller and Publisher, recently established 

 ou Canadian soil. It devotes itself specially to " The Trade," or 

 gentle craft of Booksellers, with a fair recognition also of all that is 



