serve a highly useful purpose in its day.  So long as it fitted into the needs of the colony, so long as the intendancy remained to guard the people against seigneurial avarice, the system had a great deal to be said in its behalf.  It helped to make New France stronger in arms than she could have become under any other plan of land tenure; and with states as with men self-preservation is the first law of nature.

BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE

In two larger books entitled ’The Selgniorial System in Canada’ (New York, Longmans, Green, and Co., 1907) and ‘Documents relating to the Seigniorial Tenure in Canada’ (Toronto, The Champlain Society, 1908), the writer has discussed Canadian feudalism in its technical phases.  The former volume contains a full bibliography of manuscript and printed materials.

The reader who desires to know more about this interesting side of early Canadian history may also be referred to Professor George M. Wrong’s ’Canadian Manor and its Seigneurs’ (Toronto, 1908); Philippe-Aubert De Gaspe’s ‘Les anciens Canadiens’ (Quebec, 1863); Professor C. W. Colby’s ‘Canadian Types of the Old Regime’ (New York, 1908), especially chapter iv; W. P. Greenough’s ’Canadian Folk Life and Folk Lore’ (New York, 1897); the Abbe H. R. Casgrain’s ‘Paroisse Canadienne au XVIIe Siecle’ (Quebec, 1880); Benjamin Sulte’s articles on ’La Tenure Seigneuriale’ in the ‘Revue Canadienne’, July-August, 1882; and Leon Gerin’s paper on ‘L’habitant de Saint-Justin’ in the ’Proceedings and Transactions of the Royal Society of Canada’, 1898, pp. 139-216.  There is a short, but very interesting chapter on ‘Canadian Feudalism’ in Francis Parkman’s ‘Old Regime in Canada’ (Boston, 1893), and various phases of life in New France are admirably pictured in every one of the same author’s other volumes.

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