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Third Party Movements 67

in the case of each party studied to sketch the field from the national
point of view first, and we have as a result a very fine brief history
of all the third parties since the Civil War in the United States, with
the exception of the Prohibition and Socialist parties. The book is,
therefore, of considerable value aside from its bearing on Iowa parties.
In working out lines of demarkation, Mr. Haynes has excluded
those third parties which seem to have no distinctly western or Ameri-
can background and his book is, therefore, divided into five parts, each
one dealing with a distinct movement, viz., the Liberal-Republican, the
Farmers, the Greenback, the Populist and the Progressive. No one fa-
miliar with these movements will need reminding what an important
part Iowa has played in these new parties and the names of Larrabee,
Weaver, Dolliver and Cummins at once suggest themselves. The
notes and references are extensive and make an excellent bibliography.
To say that the work is done under the direction of Editor Shambaugh
is synonymous with saying it is exceedingly well done in every respect.

Edward McMahon.

French Policy and the American Alliance of 1778. By
Edward S. Corwin, Ph.D., Professor of Politics, Princeton University.
(Princeton, Princeton University Press, 1916. Pp. 430.)

A careful, scholarly and detailed study of the relations existing
between France and the American Colonies during the Revolutionary
War in which the author defends the thesis that "France's interven-
tion in the American Revolution was motived primarily by her desire
to recover her lost pre-eminence on the Continent of Europe," and
that it was not merely an "Episode in the British-French struggle for
colonial domination in the Western Hemisphere."

Jose de Galvez, Visitor-General of New Spain, 1765-1771.
By Herbert Ingram Priestley. (Berkeley, University of California
Press, 1916. Pp. 448. In paper cover, $2.75; cloth, $3.00.)

Mr. Priestley is Assistant Curator of the Bancroft Library in
the University of California. His book is Volume V of the Univer-
sity of California's Publications in History, a series that is winning
just praise for its scholarship and its excellent technique.

The author in his preface declares that Jose de Galvez though
relatively little known was certainly "the most competent Minister
of the Indies during the Bourbon regime. It was largely due to his
constructive statesmanship in that capacity that the material pros-
perity of the American possessions, and hence of the mother country,

68 Booh Reviews

made possible the great strides in national development for which
other men have received full measure of attention and praise."

That is the thesis of the work which has been done in a sympa-
thetic spirit and with evident skill. The book has an index and eight
illustrations, including helpful maps. The dedicatory page carries the
simple words, "To My Wife."

Manuscripts from the Burton Historical Collection. Ed-
ited by M. A. Burton. (Detroit, C. M. Burton, October, 1916. Pp. 32.)

This is the first of a proposed series of four numbers of historical
pamphlets. The purpose of the series is to print certain of the rarer
documents contained in the Burton Historical Collection now a part
of the Detroit Public Library. Short but illuminating specimens fill
this number. The dates range from 1754 to 1795.

Prolegomena to History, the Relation of History to Lit-
erature, Philosophy, and Science. By Frederick J. Teggart.
(Berkeley, University of California Press, 1916. Pp. 155 to 292,
being Number 8 of Volume IV., University of California Publications
in History. In paper covers, $1.50.)

Mr. Teggart is Associate Professor of History and Curator of
the Bancroft Library in the University of California.

His book is the result of patient years of study and reflection.
The abundant footnotes reveal the breadth of his searching. In addi-
tion to the inclusiveness of the title, the brief table of contents will
give an adequate idea of the work — "Introduction, The Method of
Science, Historical Investigation and Historiography, History and
Philosophy, History and Evolution, Bibliographical Appendix."

Ten Thousand Miles with a Dog Sled, a Narrative of Winter
Travel in Interior Alaska. By Hudson Stuck. (New York,
Charles Scribner's Sons, 1916. Pp. 420. $1.75.)

This is a second edition of the interesting book by the vigorous
Archdeacon of the Yukon. He says he has made but little change
beyond a few footnotes, a second preface and the correction of one
printer's error. The new edition is beautifully printed and illustrated.

Gray Memorial Celebration. By William D. Lyman and Oth-
ers. (Walla Walla, Washington, Whitman College, 1916. Pp. 24.)

The Whitman College Quarterly, Volume XIX., Number 8, No-
vember, 1916, bears the title: "William H. Gray and Mary A. Dix