The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-11-08
THE NEW PUBLICATIONS SOME OF THE LATEST BOOKS
 OF THE SEASON

Samuel de Champlain, 16O4-I616"--
 "When l Was Girl in Italy," by Ma
 rietta Ambrosi-' Polly of the Pines,"
 by Adele E. Thompson-Other Books
 --Magazines.
 A, s. Barnes and Company, New York, have added to their excellent se- ries of Trail Makers a very interest ing publication in two volumes (two dollars), entitled "The Voyages and EXplora tions of Samuel de Champlain, 16041616." The work is translated by Annie Nettleton Bourne, wife of Pro- lessor Edward Gaylord Bourne, profes- sor of Yale University. It has also
 The Voyage of 1603," by Champlain, reprinted from Purchas His Pill grimes, This valuable new publication is edited and has an Illuminating intro auction by Professor Bourne.
 Champlain was pre- -eminently one of , the trail makers. He was not only the first explorer to make a detailed exam ination of the coast of New England and Nova Scotia and publish his obser- Yations, but he was practically the founder of New France, one of the ablest of the earlier civilizers of Amer ica, and a colonizer of high rank. Champlain's narratives have not been extant in popular farm and at popular prices sufficiently accessible to the general reader, and this edition essays to make them so. Champlain's earliest account of the Indians in the St. Law renee region was published in Paris in 1894 under the title of "Des Sauvages, ou Voyage de Sammuel Champlain de Brouage faict en la France Nouvelle, FPan mil six cens trois" translated in English and published in "Purchas His Pilgrimes," London, 1895. In 1859 the Hakluyt society brought out a trans lation of Champlains Brief Discours des choses plus remarkables que Sam mueal Champlain, etc. under the title of Narrative of Voyage to the West Indies and Mexico, 1599-1602. The orig inal remained unpublished until 1870, when the AIbbe Ilaverdiere published his Oeuvres de Champlain"
 It was not until 1878, some two hun dred and seventy years after his ex- ploration of the New England coast, that an adequate narrative was pub lished. In that year the Prince socie- ty of Boston, under the editorial care of Rev. Edmund k. Slafter, published an account of Champlains explorations in New England, New York and Cana da down to the year 1911, when his ex- ploring activity gave way to his work as one of the builders of Quebec. This translation was made by the late Charles Pomeroy Otis, then professor of modern languages in the Massachu- setts Institute of Technology, and 1t probably never will be surpassed It was published in a limited edition, however, and for this reason the au- thorities of the Prince society natural ly objected to its publication in popular form The present translation, there fore, is made from the edition of 1632 which was called the final" edition of Champlains works.
 Champlain was great explorer for he laid bare, and weighed and meas ured, what others had but touched He made Europe's knowledge of New France certain. Upon the record which he wrote, that knowledge rest ed. The names he bestowed remained. The beautiful lake which he discoN- cred, and upon whose shores he put the Mohawks to flight, is still his monu- ment. The towns he planted in Cana da survive. He built himself into the foundations of the country. His char acter, as well as his physique, was per- fectly adapted to it. He was clear headed, resourceful, sensible, bold, ob- servant he was also healthy, strong and wiry of body. He travelled first to Spain, and then to the Spanish West Indies, where he remained two years. Then a great man of the time, Aymar de Chastes, who was somewhat ad- yanced in years, conceived the pious idea of planting a colony in the new world, of establishing himself and his dependents there, and of there ending his days He obtained, in 1903, a char ter from King Henry ", for the pur- pose. He invited Champlain, then about thirty-six years old, ito accompa- ny him. The king made Champain the historographer of the expedition, and in March of the year named, seventeen years before our Pilgrim fathers set out on a similar expedition Champlain, under the navigating chief of the expe- dition Pont Grave, sailed for the coast of Maine and Massachusetts, and brought up at last in that very har- blr of Plymouth where the Pilgrim and the Puritan commonwealth was des- tined to be founded.
 Conceivtng the American nation as a sort of Chosen People, it is easy to see the hand of Providence in the circum- stances which prevented the French (Who regarded all this coast as a part of New France) from taking the steps at settlement which probably would have made New England" forever French instead of English. One cause was the restless passion of Champlain and the others for mere discovery, which impelled them to go on and on, and drift about allured by fair harbors and vast waters opening inland, until they reached the mouth of the St Law renee, Another was the death of Ay- mar de Chastes, and the abandonment of his scheme of colonization. Cham plain continued to be a colonizer, and came and came again to New France; but the psychological moment had passed, First of all a sailor, he became fascinated with the broad panorama of the St. Lawrence, and in the region round about it his great work was des- tined to be done. He did not perceive that he was there just off the path II. l, inln ,,.nr anrtirnd La lnn trna6nr1 hN ttn