It does not appear, however, that popular interest in these publications materially affected the secular literature of the period; they were largely used in Jesuit histories of New France, but by others were practically ignored. General literary interest in the _Relations_ was only created about a half century ago, when Dr. E. B. O'Callaghan, editor of the _Documentary History of New York_, called attention to their great value as storehouses of contemporary information. Dr. John G. Shea, author of _History of the Catholic Missions among the Indian Tribes of the United States_, and Father Felix Martin, S. J., of Montreal, soon came forward, with fresh studies of the _Relations_. Collectors at once commenced searching for Cramoisys, which were found to be exceedingly scarce,--most of the originals having been literally worn out in the hands of their devout seventeenth-century readers; finally, the greatest collector of them all, James Lenox, of New York, outstripped his competitors and laid the foundation, in the Lenox Library, of what is to-day probably the only complete collection in America. In 1858, the Canadian government reprinted the Cramoisys, with a few additions, in three stout octavo volumes, carefully edited by Abbés Làverdière, Plante, and Ferland. These, too, are now rare, copies seldom being offered for sale. The Quebec reprint was followed by two admirable series brought out by Shea and O'Callaghan respectively. Shea's _Cramoisy Series_ (1857-1866), numbers twenty-five little volumes, the edition of each of which was limited to a hundred copies, now difficult to obtain; it contains for the most part entirely new matter, chiefly _Relations_ prepared for publication by the superiors, after 1672, and miscellaneously printed; among the volumes, however, are a few reprints of particularly rare issues of the original Cramoisy press. The O'Callaghan series, seven in number (the edition limited to twenty-five copies), contains different material from Shea's, but of the same character. A further addition to the mass of material was made by Father Martin, in _Relations Inédites de la Nouvelle-France_, 1672-79 (2 vols., Paris, 1861); and by Father Carayon in _Première Mission des Jésuites au Canada_ (Paris, 1864). In 1871, there was published at Quebec, under the editorship of Abbés Laverdière and Casgrain, _Le Journal des Jésuites_, from the original manuscript in the archives of the Seminary of Quebec (now Laval University). The memoranda contained in this volume,--a rarity, for the greater part of the edition was accidentally destroyed by fire,--were not intended for publication, being of the character of private records, covering the operations of the Jesuits in New France between 1645 and 1668. The _Journal_ is, however, an indispensable complement of the _Relations_. It was reprinted by a Montreal publisher (J. M. Valois) in 1892, but even this later edition is already exhausted. Many interesting epistles