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HABRATIVES OF THE JJHSUIT FATHEBS. 
 
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 Last year the French reading part of the Canadian peoplo were edified and delighted bj 
 the publication of the original Narratives of the Jesuit Fathers, who were the pioneers of 
 religion and its attendant civilization in Canada. This work, important as it is to the 
 French Canadian/, is not leas so to the English-sneaking part of the population of North 
 America. All it.liabitaiits of this great continent, especially all Canadians, will assign it «D 
 honored place on the shelves which bear the stirring narratives of the first English andDutob 
 adventurers. 
 
 It is fit, therefore, to make it? reverend authors speak with an English tongue. 
 
 The early history of Canada is at this moment attracting much attention. The Frenak 
 Government has made large and precious contributions of historical matter to our Pro- 
 vincial Library, both manuscript and printed, relating chiefly to Canada, its settlement and 
 wars ; the Government of the United States has been ever zealous in collecting doousnents 
 relating to the acts and sufferings of their hardy and adventurous founders ; and the enoou-^ 
 rnErmrnt rf tbff nn ii in r'-nrn"*"- " "=-' "^ •-*"r-~ which our own Government could afford, 
 has always been promptly and effectually granted. 
 
 The publication of authentic aud interesting historical records has been favored and 
 promoted by all enlightened governments and literary bodies ; because they supply either th« 
 best evidence of the truth of history, or the lest materials for its composition. It has even 
 been asserted, that the chronicles and private memoirs of cotemporaries are of higher value 
 tiian the polished periods of Hume and Mf zeray. 
 
 The Narratives now sought to be presented to the public are of great value to all cla8Be». 
 To the religionist, whether Protestant or Roman Catholic, they afford precious evidenoe of 
 the zeal of those servants of pis Holy Religion/who devoted themaelvca to ita propagi tion 
 fcmong the heathen, and went forward through many a fiery triainJ^HSSi^nli^ 
 Ao-otosm^or" martyrdom. The ethnologist will find in them faithful desoriptions of a rap^ 
 now much detiSiivrated and rapidly appruunliiuc; to oatination, vritten amongst them ^a tlwy 
 lived and moved, hunted and fought, married and died, received baptism or ferociously mur- 
 dered the men who sought to bestow it on them. Ordinary readers, from the intelligent 
 eoholar to the untaught peasant, will peruse with interest an account of men who trod the 
 soil on which they now move, — who were the lords of the forest and tho river, now amiliug 
 with the rich harvest or glittering with the vessels of commerce, — and will leam with some 
 emotion t£at^ live and sleep in security on the self-same spot which has been oftes 
 drenched with the blood shed in warfare or t^jTmassacre. 
 
 The publication of so voluminous a work will depend entirely upon the support teoeiveii 
 &om the public. The first volume has been translated by one of the beet translators in the 
 FnmBce ; and it will be put to press as soon as a sufficient number of subsoribera itf 
 obtaine^Tto defray the cost of translation and publishing. 
 
 The work will make 3 Volumes, Royal 8vo., of about 760 pages eadi, in Long Pximei 
 Type. 
 
 Prioe in paper covers per volume, $2'75, or for the set, 18*25. 
 « half calf per volume, ISW, « * $10-60. 
 
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 Canada DAwctort Office, 
 Montreal, Sept. 1859. 
 
 JOHN LOVBLL, 
 
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