modern British history, by far the greatest hero in the
many books about the fight for Canada, and the single
hero of four biographies. It was more than a century
after his triumphant death before the first of these
appeared: _The Life of Major-General James Wolfe_ by
Robert Wright. A second Life of Wolfe appeared a generation
later, this time in the form of a small volume by A. G.
Bradley in the 'English Men of Action' series. The third
and fourth biographies were both published in 1909, the
year which marked the third jubilee of the Battle of the
Plains. One of them, Edward Salmon's _General Wolfe_,
devotes more than the usual perfunctory attention to the
important influence of sea-power; but it is a sketch
rather than a complete biography, and it is by no means
free from error. The other is _The Life and Letters of
James Wolfe_ by Beckles Willson.

The histories written with the best knowledge of Wolfe's
career in Canada are: the contemporary _Journal of the
Campaigns In North America_ by Captain John Knox, Parkman's
_Montcalm and Wolfe_, and _The Siege of Quebec and the
Battle of the Plains of Abraham_ by A. G. Doughty and G.
W. Parmelee. Knox's two very scarce quarto volumes have
been edited by A. G. Doughty for the Champlain Society
for republication in 1914. Parkman's work is always
excellent. But he wrote before seeing some of the evidence
so admirably revealed in Dr Doughty's six volumes, and,
like the rest, he failed to understand the real value of
the fleet.