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convinced upon the merits of the question. I have said the best I could for my view in my article in July, and presumably Mr. Hannay has said the best he could for his in his reply in August. I am content to let the case go thus before the candid reader, asking him simply to study the two papers point for point together. Where, as in this case, the evidence is not logically conclusive, one can but examine all that is available, judge it dispassionately, and hold his conclusion as a probability. I have never claimed that my view is proven, but simply that it has a greater degree of probability than any other yet advanced, and that in the present state of the question it is historically unfair to make assertions as to the site of the fort unqualified by a doubt. There may yet be discovered in the archives of Europe evidence which will indisputably settle the site of Fort LaTour, and for this we can all agree to hope and assiduously to search.

Mr. Howe's review, in the July issue of The Magazine, relating to the "American Colonial Tracts," published by George P. Humphrey, of Rochester, New York, is amusing, because it shows that he, like many others, has innocently been led to believe that the various pieces "have been reprinted from original copies"; that they "were almost inaccessible"; and that this "publication has been begun at a most singularly opportune time." Some very eminent American librarians, who have a thorough knowledge of the bibliography of the original editions, have been duped for once, and we judge that Mr. Howe is to be entirely excused for having been singularly misled.

Mr. Humphrey, in every number of the series, has