Chapter I: Shall Not Pass This Way Again

I shall not pass this way again--
Although it bordered be with flowers,
Although I rest in fragrant bowers,
And hear the singing
Of song-birds winging
To highest heaven their gladsome flight;
Though moons are full and stars are bright,
And winds and waves are softly sighing,
While leafy trees make low replying;
Though voices clear in joyous strain
Repeat a jubilant refrain;
Though rising suns their radiance throw
On summer's green and winter's snow,
In such rare splendor that my heart
Would ache from scenes like these to part;
Though beauties heighten,
And life-lights brighten,
And joys proceed from every pain,--
I shall not pass this way again.

Then let me pluck the flowers that blow,
And let me listen as I go
To music rare
That fills the air;
And let hereafter
Songs and laughter
Fill every pause along the way;
And to my spirit let me say:
"O soul, be happy; soon 'tis trod,
The path made thus for thee by God.
Be happy, thou, and bless His name
By whom such marvellous beauty came."
And let no chance by me be lost
To kindness show at any cost.
I shall not pass this way again.
Then let me now relieve some pain,
Remove some barrier from the road,
Or brighten some one's heavy load;
A helping hand to this one lend,
Then turn some other to befriend.

O God, forgive
That now I live
As if I might, sometime, return
To bless the weary ones that yearn
For help and comfort every day,--
For there be such along the way.
O God, forgive that I have seen
The beauty only, have not been
Awake to sorrow such as this;
That I have drunk the cup of bliss
Remembering not that those there be
Who drink the dregs of misery.

I love the beauty of the scene,
Would roam again o'er fields so green;
But since I may not, let me spend
My strength for others to the end,--
For those who tread on rock and stone,
And bear their burdens all alone,
Who loiter not in leafy bowers,
Nor hear the birds nor pluck the flowers.
A larger kindness give to me,
A deeper love and sympathy;
Then, O, one day
May someone say--
Remembering a lessened pain--
"Would she could pass this way again!"

PAMELIA VINING YULE

THE BEAUTIFUL ARTIST

There's a beautiful Artist abroad in the world,
And her pencil is dipped in heaven,--
The gorgeous hues of Italian skies,
The radiant sunset's richest dyes,
The light of Aurora's laughing eyes,
Are each to her pictures given.

As I walked abroad yestere'en, what time
The sunset was fairest to see,
I saw her wonderful brush had been
Over a maple tree--half of it green--
And the fairest coloring that ever was seen
She had left on that maple tree.

There was red of every possible hue,
There was yellow of every dye,
From the faintest straw-tint to orange bright,
Fluttering, waving, flashing in light,
With the delicate green leaves still in sight,
Peeping out at the sunset sky.

She had touched the beech, and the scraggy thing
In a bright new suit was dressed;
Very queer, indeed, it looked to me,
The sober old beech tree thus to see,
So different from what he used to be,
Rigged out in a holiday vest.

Red, and russet, and green, and grey--
He had little indeed of gold--
For the beech was never known to be gay,
Being noted a very grave tree alway,
Never flaunting out in a fanciful way
Like other trees, we are told.

But the beautiful artist had touched him off
With an extra tint or so;
And he held his own very well with the rest,
On which, I am sure, she had done her best,
Dressing each in the fairest kind of a vest,
Till the forest was all aglow.

There were the willow that grew by the brook,
And the old oak on the hill,
The graceful elm tree down in the swale,
The birch, the ash, and the bass-wood pale,
The orchard trees clustering over the vale,
And weeds that fringed the rill.

One she had gilt with a flood of gold,
And one she had tipped with flame;
One, she had dashed with every hue
That the laughing sunset ever knew,
And one--she had colored it through and through
Russet, all sober and tame.

Now this beautiful artist will only stay
A very few days, and then
She will finish her gorgeous pictures all,
And hurry away ere the gusty squall
Ruins her work, and the sere leaves fall
Darkly in copse and glen.

WARBLE THY LAYS TO ME

Come down from the heights, my bird,
And warble thy lays to me!
I shall pine and droop in my grassy nook
For the passionate song that my spirit shook,
And the low, sad voice of the grieving brook
Will murmur all night of thee.

I shall sit alone--alone,
While the noontide hours steal by;
And mournful the woodland's music will be,--
Mournful the blue, calm heavens to me,--
Mournful the glory on earth and sea,--
And mournful the sunset sky.

O voice of exulting song!--
O bright, unwavering eye!--
O free wing soaring in fetterless flight
Up to the Fountain of quenchless Light!
O, Earth that darkenest in sudden night,
I shudder, and faint, and die!

NOTES OF AUTHORS

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2 Mrs MARGARET H. ALDEN, born at Caledonia, Ontario, 1863--now
resident in Saginaw, Michigan. Sister of Edward William Thomson
(p. 403). Has published booklets of verse.

2 Rev. JOSEPH ANTISELL ALLEN, b. at Arbor Hill, Ireland, February
27, 1814. Came to Canada, 1842. Published (anonymously), 1854,
_Day Dreams by a Butterfly_ (a booklet from which the extract in
the text is taken); _The Lambda-nu-Tercentenary Poem on
Shakespeare_, 1864; _The True and Romantic Love Story of Colonel
and Mrs Hutchinson_, a drama in verse, 1884; and several prose
works. Resides at "Alwington," Kingston, Ontario.

3 GRANT ALLEN, son of the preceding, b. at Alwington House, Kingston,
Ontario, February 24, 1848. Educated at Merton College, Oxford. A
distinguished naturalist, and author of many scientific works and
novels. Published, in 1894, _The Lower Slopes_, a volume of poems.
Died October 25, 1899, at Hazelmere, Surrey, England.

5 WILLIAM TALBOT ALLISON, b. at Unionville, Ontario, December 20,
1874. Educated at Victoria University. He has published occasional
verse in the Magazines. Resides in Toronto.

9 Mrs SOPHIE M. ALMON-HENSLEY, b. at Bridgetown, Nova Scotia, May,
1866,--a direct descendant of Cotton Mather. Educated largely in
England and Paris. Published, in 1895, a volume of verse entitled
_A Woman's Love Letters_. Now resident in New York, where she
devotes much time to philanthropic work, but spends her summers at
Brighton, Nova Scotia.

11 Rev. DUNCAN ANDERSON, b. in Rayne, Scotland, 1828. Educated at
King's College and University, Aberdeen. For many years chaplain
to the Imperial troops stationed at Lévis, Quebec. An expert
ornithologist. Author of _Lays of Canada_, 1890, and of a prose
work, _Scottish Folklore, or Reminiscences of Aberdeenshire_,
1895. Resides at "Monymusk," Chaudière Basin, Quebec.

22 ISIDORE G. ASCHER, b. in Glasgow, Scotland, 1835. Educated in
Montreal, and called to the bar, 1862. Author of _Voices from the
Hearth, and Other Poems_, 1863. Removed to England, 1864, where he
has published several novels. One of his comediettas was produced
at the Crystal Palace.

20 ALICE M. ARDAGH ("Esperance"), b. in Monmouthshire, Wales, July
15, 1866. Writer of occasional verse. Resides at Barrie, Ontario.

23 SAMUEL MATHEWSON BAYLIS, b. in Montreal, September 3, 1854.
Published, in association with W. H. Whyte, _Our City and Our
Sports_, 1894; and, in 1897, a volume of prose and verse entitled
_Camp and Lamp_. Resides in Montreal.

26 JOHN WILSON BENGOUGH, b. in Toronto, April 5, 1851. Printer,
caricaturist, lecturer, and poet. Author of several works, among
them _Motley: Verses Grave and Gay_, 1895. Resides in Toronto.

28 CRAVEN LANGSTROTH BETTS, b. in St John, New Brunswick, April 23,
1853. Educated at St John Grammar School, and Fredericton Normal
School. Most of his life has been given to business pursuits, but
he has done a variety of literary work. Besides contributions
to _Harper's Weekly_, the New York _Independent_, the _Youth's
Companion_, _Puck_, and _Judge_, he edited for a year a New York
magazine. Author of _Songs from Berenger_ (in the original
metres), 1888; _The Perfume Holder, a Persian Love Poem_, 1891.
For some years he held the office of secretary to the American
Authors' Guild. Resides in New York.

31 BLANCHE BISHOP, b. at Greenwich, Nova Scotia, and educated at
Acadia Seminary, and Acadia University. After study and travel in
Europe, she taught five years in Moulton College, Toronto. Writer
of occasional verse. Resides at Harding Hall, London, Ontario.

33 EDWARD BLACKADDER, b. at Wolfville, Nova Scotia, 1871. Educated
at Acadia University. Author of _Poems, Sonnets, and Lyrics_,
1895. Since 1894 has been engaged as a public lecturer on
Temperance, under the direction of the Sons of Temperance of Nova
Scotia. Resides in Wolfville, Nova Scotia.

33 Mrs JEAN BLEWETT, b. at Scotia, Lake Erie, Ontario, November 4,
1862 (Janet M'Kishney). Educated at St Thomas Collegiate
Institute. She has written much prose for the public press. Author
of _Songs of the Heart_, 1897. Resides in Toronto.

36 JOHN BREAKENRIDGE, b. at Niagara, Ontario, February 13, 1820;
d. July 18, 1854, at Belleville, Ontario. Educated at Upper Canada
College. Barrister at Law. Author of _The Crusades, and Other
Poems_, 1846.

38 JOHN HENRY BROWN, b. in Ottawa, Ontario, April 29, 1859. A member
of the Civil Service. Author of _Poems, Lyrical and Dramatic_,
1892. Resides in Ottawa.

40 EDWARD BURROUGH BROWNLOW ("Sarepta"), b. in London, England,
November 27, 1857; d. in Montreal, September 8, 1895. In 1896 The
Pen and Pencil Club of Montreal published _Orpheus and Other
Poems_, a collection of his verse.

41 GEORGE FREDERICK CAMERON, b. in New Glasgow, Nova Scotia,
September 24, 1854. He was editor of the Kingston, Ontario, _News_
at the time of his death, September 1885. _Lyrics on Freedom,
Love, and Death_, edited by his brother Charles J. Cameron,
appeared in 1887.

45 BLISS CARMAN, b. at Fredericton, New Brunswick, April 15, 1861.
Educated at the Collegiate School there and at the University
of New Brunswick, and with subsequent study at Edinburgh and
Harvard Universities. In 1890 was literary editor of the New York
_Independent_, and was also connected with the _Cosmopolitan_ and
_Atlantic Monthly_ Magazines. In 1894 he established the _Chap
Book_. Author of _Low Tide on Grand Pré, A Book of Lyrics_, 1893;
_Songs from Vagabondia_ (in conjunction with R. S. Hovey, Boston),
1894; _A Sea-Mark_, 1895; _Behind the Arras: a Book of the
Unseen_, 1895; _More Songs from Vagabondia_, 1896; and _By the
Aurelian Wall, and Other Elegies_, 1898. Moves back and forth
freely between the Maritime Provinces and the United States. His
present address is _Independent Office, 114 Nassau Street, New
York_.

59 AMOS HENRY CHANDLER, M.D., son of the late Governor Chandler, b.
at Dorchester, New Brunswick, August 8, 1837. Author of _Lyrics,
Songs, and Sonnets_ (conjointly with the late Rev. C. P.
Mulvaney), 1880. Resides at Dorchester, New Brunswick.

60 EDWARD J. CHAPMAN, Ph.D., F.C.S., b. in England. Professor of
Mineralogy in University College, Toronto, for many years. He
recently resigned his professorship. Author of _A Song of
Charity_, 1857.

63 Mrs ANNIE ROTHWELL CHRISTIE, b. in London, England, 1837. Came
to Canada when four years of age, living with her family on
Amherst Island, near Kingston, Ontario. Some of her best poems
are to be found in the _Magazine of Poetry_. The examples given in
the text were written at the time of the Half-Breed Rebellion. She
has published no volume of poems, but is the author of four novels
of much interest. Resides at The Rectory, North Gower, Ontario.

67 GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE, b. at Gravesend, England, August 27, 1873.
Educated at Woodstock College, and M'Master University. Has
published occasional verse in the Magazines. He is Assistant
Editor of the _Baptist Union_ of Chicago, where he at present
resides.

70 HUGH COCHRANE, for some time City Editor of the Montreal
_Witness_. Author of booklets _Rhyme and Roundelay_, and _Ideal
and Other Poems_. For the past two years he has been employed on
the _Literary World_, London, England,--which is his present
address.

70 HEREWARD K. COCKIN, b. at Frizing Hall, near Manningham,
Yorkshire, England. Author of _Gentleman Dick o' the Greys, and
Other Poems_, 1889. Present occupation is divided between
journalism and prospect mining in the Michipicoten district, on
the north-east shore of Lake Superior. Resides in Guelph, Ontario.

72 Mrs SARA JEANETTE DUNCAN COTES, b. at Brantford, Ontario, 1862,
and educated at the Collegiate School there. Has published very
occasional verse, but since 1890 has issued many popular books,
travels and novels. Resides in Calcutta, India, since her marriage
in 1891.

73 ISABELLA VALANCY CRAWFORD, b. near Dublin, Ireland, December 25,
1851. Came to Canada when five years of age, living with her
father, Stephen Crawford, M.D., in Peterboro, Ontario. Removed to
Toronto, where she died February 12, 1887. Author of _Old
Spookses' Pass, Malcolm's Katie, and Other Poems_, 1884, and much
occasional verse.

78 FRANCIS BLAKE CROFTON, b. at Crossboyne, Ireland, 1842, and
educated at Trinity College, Dublin. He is librarian of the
Parliamentary Library, Halifax, Nova Scotia. Writer of occasional
verse, and author of several works, among them _Haliburton, the
Man and the Writer_, and _The Imperialism of Haliburton_. Resides
in Halifax.

81 JOHN ALLISTER CURRIE, b. at Nottawa, Ontario, February 25, 1862.
Was for thirteen years engaged as a journalist on the Toronto
_Mail and Empire_ and the Toronto _News_. Is now engaged in the
brokers' business. Author of _A Quartette of Lovers_, 1892.
Resides in Toronto.

81 Mrs MARGARET GILL CURRIE, b. at Lower St Mary's, New Brunswick,
June 14, 1843. Author of _John Saint John and Anna Gray_, 1897, a
colonial romance in verse. Resides in Fredericton, New Brunswick.

83 Mrs SARAH ANNE CURZON, b. near Birmingham, England, 1833. Came
to Toronto in 1862; d. at Toronto, October 6, 1898. Was a frequent
contributor in prose and verse to the Canadian press. Author of
_Laura Secord, the Heroine of 1812_, a drama, 1887. The issue of
this volume led to the formation of several historical societies.
Since 1887, Mrs Curzon's literary work was chiefly on historical
subjects.

87 NICHOLAS FLOOD DAVIN, Q.C., M.P., b. at Kilfinane, Ireland,
January 13, 1843. Connected himself with the press in Toronto,
1872, and established the Regina _Leader_ in 1883,--the first
newspaper issued in Assiniboia. Published in 1889, _Eos: an Epic
of the Dawn_; and subsequently several works in prose. Resides at
Regina, N.W.T.

89 A. B. DE MILLE, son of the following, b. in Halifax, Nova Scotia,
March 7, 1873. Recently appointed professor of English Literature
in King's College, Windsor. Has published occasional verse in the
Magazines. Resides at Windsor, Nova Scotia.

92 JAMES DE MILLE, b. in St John, New Brunswick, August 23, 1836; d.
in Halifax, Nova Scotia, January 28, 1880. Writer of occasional
verse. The extract in the text is taken from a posthumous
publication issued by Allan & Co., of Halifax, Nova Scotia,--a
poem entitled _Behind the Veil_. Mr De Mille was professor in
Acadia College, and subsequently in Dalhousie College. He is the
author of numerous works in prose, among them _Helena's Household:
a tale of the First Century_; _The Dodge Club_; and _Elements of
Rhetoric_. (See note under Richard Huntington.)

96 EDWARD HARTLEY DEWART, D.D., b. in the Co. Cavan, Ireland, 1828.
Came to the County of Peterboro, Ontario, with his family in 1834.
For twenty-five years he was Editor of the _Christian Guardian_,
Toronto. Author of _Selections from Canadian Poets_, 1864; _Songs
of Life_, 1869; _Essays for the Times_ (including later poems),
1898. Resides in Toronto.

98 FREDERICK AUGUSTUS DIXON, b. in England, May 7, 1843, and came to
Canada in the early seventies. He was tutor at Rideau Hall during
Earl Dufferin's Governor-Generalship. He is now Chief Clerk of
correspondence, Department of Railways and Canals. Is the author
of several dramas, among them _The Mayor of St Brieux_, and _A
Masque of Welcome_, the latter in honour of the arrival in Canada
of the Marquis of Lorne and the Princess Louise. A contributor of
occasional verse to the Magazines. Resides in Ottawa.

101 WILLIAM HENRY DRUMMOND, M.D., b. at Currawn House, Co. Leitrim,
Ireland, April 13, 1854. Author of _The Habitant, and Other
French-Canadian Poems_, 1898. Resides in Montreal.

104 JOHN HUNTER DUVAR, b. August 29, 1830; d. January, 1899. Of
Scoto-English birth and education. He lived the greater part of
his life in Canada, serving as Lt.-Col. of the 3rd Brigade Halifax
Garrison Artillery, and later in command of Prince County, Prince
Edward Island Battalion of active militia. For ten years he was
Dominion Inspector of Fisheries for the Province of Prince Edward
Island. Author of _The Enamorado_, a drama, 1878; _Roberval_, a
drama, 1888; _The Emigration of the Fairies_ and _The Triumph of
Constancy_, a romaunt. He has written other works, also: _The
Judgment of Osiris_, _The Enchanted Mooress_, and _Annals of the
Court of Oberon_. His characteristic is very marked,--the romantic
with a bias towards the mystic. Respecting the poem in the text,
beginning "In the Rheingan standeth Aix," it may be remarked that
it is a matter of history that the crowned corpse of Charlemagne
sat in the crypt of the Cathedral of Aix-la-Chapelle, until 1166,
when the tomb was opened and the chair taken away by the Emperor,
Frederick Barbarossa. Mr Duvar resided at "Hernewood," Fortune
Cove, Prince Edward Island.

109 Rev. ARTHUR WENTWORTH HAMILTON EATON, b. at Kentville, Nova
Scotia. A graduate of Harvard University. Author of _Acadian
Legends and Lyrics_, 1889; and of several prose works, among them
_The Church of England in Nova Scotia, and the Tory Clergy of the
Revolution_; and _Tales of a Garrison Town_ (collaborated with C.
L. Betts). He has in preparation a _History of the People of Nova
Scotia_. Resides in New York.

116 Sir JAMES DAVID EDGAR, Speaker of the House of Commons of Canada,
b. at Hatley, Quebec, August 10, 1841. Author of _This Canada of
Ours, and Other Poems_, 1893; and of _Canada and its Capital_,
prose, 1898. Died July 31, 1899, at Toronto.

117 CONSTANCE FAIRBANKS, b. at Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, May 10, 1866.
She edited, in conjunction with Mr H. Piers, the volume of the
poems of the late Mrs Lawson. Writer of occasional verse in the
Magazines. Resides at Halifax, Nova Scotia.

118 JOSEPH KEARNEY FORAN, b. at Aylmer, Quebec, 1857. Educated at the
University of Ottawa. A journalist. Author of _Poems and Canadian
Lyrics_, 1895, also of a prose work, _The Spirit of the Age; Faith
and Infidelity_. Resides in Montreal.

120 WILLIAM HENRY FULLER, b. at Ramsgate, England. Came to Canada in
the early seventies. Author of a local burlesque, _H.M.S.
Parliament_, and other plays; _Ye Ballad of Lyttel John A_; and
several essays and _brochures_. Resides at Ottawa.

121 Rev. ALEXANDER RAE GARVIE, b. at Vilcoy Estate, Demerara, British
Guiana, January 6, 1839; d. at Montreal, March 5, 1874; buried at
Chatham, New Brunswick. He was of Scotch parentage. His
ministerial service was rendered chiefly, if not wholly, in the
Maritime Provinces. A singularly interesting man. _Thistledown_, a
posthumous volume of Poems and Essays, 1875.

123 PIERCE STEVENS HAMILTON, b. in, or near, Truro, Nova Scotia,
1826; d. in Halifax, February 1893. A journalist and versatile
political writer. Author of _The Feast of St Anne and Other
Poems_, 1890.

126 Mrs S. FRANCES HARRISON ("Seranus"), b. in Toronto upwards of
thirty years ago, and educated in Toronto and Montreal. She is a
musical critic, and has written widely for the Magazines, in prose
and verse. Author of _The Canadian_ _Birth-Day Book_, 1887; _Pine,
Rose and Fleur-de-Lis_, 1891. Resides in Rosedale, Toronto.

129 THEODORE ARNOLD HAULTAIN, b. at Kannanur, Madras Presidency,
November 3, 1857. A graduate of Toronto University. Author of
_Versiculi_, 1893; and of several prose publications. A
contributor to many well-known Magazines. Resides in Toronto.

131 CHARLES HEAVYSEGE, b. in Huddersfield, England, 1816; d. at
his residence in Bleury St., Montreal, July 14, 1879. He was a
cabinetmaker by trade,--and a journalist. Author of _Saul_, a
tragedy, 1857; _Jephthah's Daughter_, 1865; _Count Filippo; or
the Unequal Marriage_, 1860. _Saul_ was first published by Mr
John Lovell, Montreal; a second edition was issued in Boston. Mr
Heavysege was a powerful dramatic writer. The _North British
Review_ for August, 1858, characterizes _Saul_ as "one of the most
remarkable English poems ever written out of Great Britain." There
is an unfinished work in the hands of his widow, who resides at
Winnipeg, Manitoba.

133 JOHN FREDERIC HERBIN, b. in Windsor, Nova Scotia, February 8,
1860. His mother was an Acadien (Robichau), and his father French.
Educated at Acadia University. Author of _Marshlands_, a volume of
Poems. Also of _Grand Pré_, a brief history of the Acadien
occupation of Minas. Resides in Wolfville, Nova Scotia.

138 ANNIE CAMPBELL HUESTIS, b. in Halifax, Nova Scotia, 1876. Writer
of occasional verse. Resides in Halifax.

145 Rev. JAMES COBOURG HODGINS, b. in Hamilton, Ontario, 1866. In
the past seven years he has resided in the United States; and is
at present pastor of the church in Philadelphia formerly in charge
of Rev. Samuel Longfellow. Author of _Fugitives_, a booklet, 1891;
and _A Sheaf of Sonnets_, printed for private circulation, 1896.

147 Hon. JOSEPH HOWE, b. at North West Arm, Halifax, Nova Scotia,
1804; of loyalist parentage; d. in Halifax, June 1, 1873. A most
distinguished son of Nova Scotia, and one of the ablest of
Canadian Statesmen. He was Governor of his native Province at the
time of his death. _Poems and Essays_, a posthumous publication,
1874.

141 WILLIAM EDWARD HUNT ("Keppell Strange"), b. at Brighton, England,
of ancient Sussex ancestry. Educated at South Kensington, and at
the Berbeck Institute. Is a member of the editorial staff of the
Montreal _Witness_, Author of _Poems and Pastels_, 1896. Resides
in Montreal.

142 RICHARD HUNTINGTON, b. at Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, February 13,
1819; d. at Yarmouth, May 13, 1883. He was for thirty years editor
and publisher of the Yarmouth _Tribune_. Mr Huntington was a
nephew of the late Hon. Herbert Huntington, and a grandson of
Miner Huntington, one of the loyalist settlers of Yarmouth
(mentioned in Sabine's History of the Loyalists); and a distant
relative of the late Hon. L. S. Huntington, of Quebec. A writer of
occasional verse. In Lighthall's _Songs of the Great Dominion_, a
poem entitled _The Indian Names of Acadia_ is erroneously
attributed to De Mille (the late professor James De Mille). It was
written by Richard Huntington.

149 CHARLES EDWIN JAKEWAY, M.D., b. at Holland Landing, Ontario,
1847. Graduated M.D. at Toronto, 1871. Author of _The Lion and the
Lilies; a Tale of the Conquest, and Other Poems_, 1897. Resides at
Stayner, Ontario.

155 E. PAULINE JOHNSON,--Tekahiońwake--, b. at "Chief's Wood," Six
Nations Reserve, County of Brant, Ontario. She is the daughter of
the late George Henry M. Johnson, head chief of the Mohawk
Indians, by his wife, Emily S. Howells, of Bristol, England.
Educated by private tuition, and at the Brantford Model School.
She is a frequent contributor to the periodical press. In 1894 she
visited England, and while there published _The White Wampum_, a
book of poems. She has publicly recited her poems throughout
Canada and the United States. Resides at Winnipeg, Manitoba.

160 ROBERT KIRKLAND KERNIGHAN ("The Khan"), b. at Rushdale Farm, near
Hamilton, Ontario, April 25, 1857. A journalist, and widely known
as the author of many clever songs, and of patriotic and humorous
verse. He published _The Tattleton Papers_, prose, 1894; and _The
Khan's Canticles_, 1896. Resides at Rushdale Farm, Rockton,
Ontario.

162 WILLIAM KIRBY, b. at Kingston-upon-Hull, England, October 13,
1817. Came to Canada with his parents, 1832. A journalist,
novelist, and poet. Was Collector of Customs at Niagara (where he
settled in 1839) from July 1, 1871, till his retirement from the
public service, 1895. Author of _The U. E._, 1859, an epic poem,
very valuable as a series of pictures of loyalist personages and
times; _Canadian Idyls_ (2nd ed.), 1894. He has published four
volumes in prose, the chief of which is _The Golden Dog, a Legend
of Quebec_, 1877, and 1896. A new American edition of this work
was published in 1898. Mr Kirby resides at Niagara, Ontario.

166 Rev. MATTHEW RICHEY KNIGHT, b. at Halifax, Nova Scotia, April
21, 1854. Educated at Mount Allison University. He has written
considerable, in prose and verse. Author of _Poems of Ten Years_,
1887. Present residence, Boistown, New Brunswick.

168 ARCHIBALD LAMPMAN, b. at Morpeth, Ontario, November 17, 1861; d.
at Ottawa, February 10, 1899. Educated at Trinity University,
Toronto. He was a member of the Canadian Civil Service, in the
Post Office Department. Elected F.R.S. Can., 1895. Author of
_Among the Millet, and Other Poems_, 1888; _Lyrics of Earth_,
1895. Resided in Ottawa. His complete poems, edited with a Memoir,
were published under the supervision of Duncan Campbell Scott,
March, 1900.

177 Mrs MARY JANE KATZMANN LAWSON, b. at "Maroon Hall," Preston,
about five miles from Dartmouth, Nova Scotia. Her mother--a Nova
Scotian--was a granddaughter of Dr Joshua Prescott, of
Massachusetts. She was largely self-educated. For two years she
edited the _Provincial Magazine_. In 1887 she obtained the
Aikin's Historical Prize of King's College for her _History of the
Townships of Dartmouth, Preston, and Lawrencetown_,--since
published. She died at Halifax, March 23, 1890. In 1893,
_Frankincense and Myrrh_ (selections from the poems of the late
Mrs Lawson) appeared under the joint editorship of Mr Harry Piers
and Miss Constance Fairbanks.

180 Mrs SOPHIA V. GILBERT LEE, author of _Wayside Echoes_, a volume
of verse, 1894. Resides at Penetanguishene, Ontario.

180 Mrs LILY ALICE LEFEVRE ("Fleurange"), b. at Stratford, Ontario,
but reared at Brockville. Educated at Villa Maria Convent,
Montreal. Author of _The Lion's Gate, and Other Verses_, 1895.
(The two highest peaks of the mountains that overlook the harbor
of Vancouver bear a strong resemblance in outline to the lions of
Trafalgar Square.) Has resided at Vancouver, British Columbia, the
past fifteen years.

182 Mrs R. E. MULLINS LEPROHON, b. in Montreal, 1832. Educated at
the Convent of the Congregation of Notre Dame. She was a leading
contributor to the _Literary Garland_, and contributed freely to
other periodicals. She wrote many tales. After her death at
Montreal, September 20, 1879, John Lovell & Son published _The
Poetical Works of Mrs Leprohon (Miss R. E. Mullins)_, 1881.

184 WILLIAM DOUW LIGHTHALL, b. in Hamilton, Ontario, December 27,
1857. Educated at M'Gill University. He is the head of the law
firm Lighthall & Harwood, Montreal; and was one of the founders of
the Soc. of Can. Lit., and of the Château de Ramezay Museum.
Author of _Thoughts, Moods, and Ideals_, a booklet of verse, 1887.
In 1889 he edited _Songs of the Great Dominion_ (Windsor Series,
London), and _Canadian Poems and Lays_ (Canterbury Poets Series,
1891). He has written several prose works, the latest being the
novel, _The False Chevalier_, a Canadian Adventurer at the Court
of Louis XVI. (1898). Resides in Montreal.

187 STUART LIVINGSTON, Q. C., b. in Canada of U. E. Loyalist stock.
Was educated at Toronto University. He is the head of the law firm
Livingston & Garrett, Hamilton, but is well known in literary and
artistic circles as a writer and a painter. Besides _The History
of Professor Paul_, a novel, and contributions to the Magazines,
he has published _In Various Moods_, a book of poems, 1894.
Resides in Hamilton, Ontario.

192 Rev. ARTHUR JOHN LOCKHART ("Pastor Felix"), b. at Lockhartville,
Nova Scotia, May 5, 1850. For some years he was a printer, but
entered the ministry in 1872. He is widely known as a writer in
prose and verse in Canadian and American periodicals. _A Masque of
Minstrels_, poems by himself and his brother, 1887; and _Beside
the Narraguagus and Other Poems_, 1895. Contributed in prose to
_Burnsiana_, 1893. Resides at Pemaquid, Maine, U.S.

196 Rev. BURTON WELLESLEY LOCKHART, D.D., brother of the preceding,
b. at Lockhartville, Nova Scotia, January 24, 1855. Educated at
Acadia University. Among his poems of special note, included in _A
Masque of Minstrels_, are _The Retrospect_, _Sir Richard
Grenville_, _In Solemn Vision_, _The Old Home_, _Wordsworth_, and
_Talking by the Sea_. Resides at Manchester, New Hampshire, U.S.

198 JOHN E. LOGAN ("Barry Dane"). A writer of fugitive verse of much
beauty. Resides in Montreal.

199 AGNES MAULE MACHAR ("Fidelis"), b. in Kingston, Ontario. Has for
years contributed both in prose and verse to Canadian and American
periodicals. She is best known as a novelist. Resides at Kingston,
Ontario, but lives at "Fern Cliff," among the Thousand Islands, in
the summer.

204 EVAN MACCOLL, b. at Kenmore, Scotland, September 21, 1808; d. at
Toronto, July 1898. Came to Canada, 1850, filling a position in
the Customs at Kingston, Ontario, till he retired on a pension,
1880. Author of _Clasach nam Beann: or, Poems and Songs in
Gaelic_, 1838; _The Mountain Minstrel: or, Poems and Songs in
English_, 1838; and _Poems and Songs, chiefly written in Canada_,
1883 (2nd ed. 1866). He was appointed a Fellow of the R. S. Can.
on its organisation, 1880. _The Child of Promise_, given in the
text, is a translation from the author's Gaelic poem, by Dr
Buchannan.

205 Mrs ELIZABETH ROBERTS MACDONALD, b. at Westcock, New Brunswick.
Educated at the Collegiate School of Fredericton, and at the
University of New Brunswick, and was for some time teacher in the
School for the Blind, Halifax, Nova Scotia. Her poems have
appeared chiefly in the Magazines. In 1891 she issued a booklet of
poems for private circulation. Resides at Fredericton, New
Brunswick.

206 JOHN MACFARLANE ("John Arbory"), b. at Abington, Scotland, May
1857. Author of _Heather and Harebell; Songs and Lyrics_, 1892.
He contributed to _Burnsiana_. In 1895 he edited _The Harp of the
Scottish Covenant_,--an anthology of poetry "intended to do for
the Covenanters, what has long ago been done for the Cavaliers and
the Jacobites." Resides in Montreal.

208 Mrs KATE SEYMOUR MACLEAN, b. at Fulton, Oswego County, New York.
She is a well-known writer of verse for the Magazines. Author of
_The Coming of the Princess, and Other Poems_, 1881. Resides at
Kingston, Ontario.

211 Mrs ELIZABETH S. MACLEOD, b. in Edinburgh, Scotland. Is a
frequent contributor to the Magazines. Author of _Carols of
Canada_, 1893. Resides in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island.

212 A. D. MACNEILL, of Orangedale, Nova Scotia. Author of a booklet,
_Woodlands and Other Rhymes_ (without date).

213 DONALD M'CAIG, b. in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, May 15, 1832.
Educationist. Author of _Milestone Moods and Memories_, poems,
1893; and _A Reply to John Stuart Mill, on the Subjection of
Women_, prose, 1871. Resides at Collingwood, Ontario.

215 JAMES M'CARROLL, b. in Lanesboro', Co. Longford, Ireland,
August 3, 1814, d.--?. Came to Ontario, 1831. Journalist. Author
of _Madeline, and Other Poems_, 1889.

217 WILLIAM M'DONNELL, b. at Cork, Ireland, September 1824. Author of
_Manita_, and other booklets of poems. He is the undoubted author
of the original of the many poems entitled _Beautiful Snow_.
Resides at Lindsay, Ontario.

218 BERNARD M'EVOY, b. in Birmingham, England, February 7, 1842. Came
to Canada in 1888, and was employed as a journalist on the Toronto
_Mail and Empire_, till 1898. His great grandfather, Rev. John
Augustus Nisbitt M'Evoy, was vicar of Kineton, Warwick, for forty
years, preaching once a month in the church at Stratford-upon
Avon, in which Shakespeare is buried. Author of _Away from
Newspaperdom and Other Poems_, 1897. Resides in Toronto.

219 THOMAS D'ARCY M'GEE, M.P., b. at Carlingford, Ireland, April 13,
1825. Came to Canada, 1857. He was assassinated in Ottawa, Canada,
April 7, 1868. Author of _Canadian Ballads and Occasional Verses_,
1858. A Canadian statesman of high repute.

224 WILLIAM P. M'KENZIE, b. at Almonte, Ontario, about 1855. Educated
at Toronto University and Knox College. Was Professor for some
time of English Literature in the University of Rochester, U.S.
Author of _A Song of Trust_, 1887; _Voices and Undertones_, 1889;
_Songs of the Human_, 1892; and _Heartsease Hymns and Other
Verses_, 1895. Present residence, Boston, U.S.

227 ALEXANDER M'LACHLAN, b. in Johnstone, Renfrewshire, Scotland,
August 12, 1818. Came to Canada, 1840. Died at Orangeville,
Ontario, March 20, 1896. Author of _Lyrics_, 1858; _The Emigrant
and Other Poems_, 1861; _Poems and Songs_, 1888. His complete
poems, with Memoir, published April, 1900. A representative poet,
and widely known.

231 JOHN M'PHERSON ("Harp of Acadia"), b. in Liverpool, Nova Scotia,
February 4, 1817; d. at Brookfield, Nova Scotia, July 26, 1845,
and is buried near Lake Tupper. He was a teacher. In 1862 his
collected poems were published at Halifax under the title of
_Poems, Descriptive and Moral_.

233 CHARLES MAIR, b. at Lanark, Ontario, September 21, 1840. Educated
at Queen's University, Kingston. Author of _Dreamland and Other
Poems_, 1868; _Tecumseh, a Drama_, 1886. A Fellow of the R. S.
Can. Resides at Winnipeg, Manitoba.

238 GEORGE MARTIN, b. at Kilrae, Ireland, 1822. Came to Canada, 1832,
and has lived in Montreal since 1835. Was educated at the Black
River Literary Institute, Watertown, New York; and subsequently
studied Medicine. Author of _Marguerite: or the Isle of Demons,
and Other Poems_, 1887. It is said he contemplates the publication
of another volume of poems at an early day. Resides in Montreal.

241 HELEN M. MERRILL, b. in Napanee, Ontario. Educated at the Ladies'
College, Ottawa. An Entomologist. She has published no volume of
verse. In 1892 she published a small holiday volume, entitled
_Picturesque Prince Edward County_. The poem in the text, _The
Blue Flower_, is a personification of the unattainable. Resides at
Picton, Ontario.

244 Mrs SUSANNA (STRICKLAND) MOODIE, b. in Suffolk, England, December
6, 1803; came to Canada, 1832; d. in Toronto, April 8, 1885.
Author of _Roughing it in the Bush_ and _Life in the Clearings_,
1853, prose, with poetry interspersed,--both written in Canada.
_Enthusiasm, and Other Poems_, 1830. Published considerable
fugitive verse.

247 MARY MORGAN ("Gowan Lea"), a native of Scotland, but came in
childhood to Montreal. Author of _Woodnotes in the Gloaming_,
1887; _Sonnets from Switzerland_, 1896. Travels extensively in
Europe,--"a citizen of the world."

249 Mrs IRENE ELDER MORTON, b. at Hantsport, Nova Scotia, February
17, 1849. Educated at Acadia Seminary. She has written much verse,
and some prose, but has not published any volume. Resides at "The
Bluffs," Clementsport, Nova Scotia.

255 Rev. CHARLES PELHAM MULVANEY, b. in Dublin, Ireland, May 20,
1835; d. in Toronto, May 31, 1885. A classical scholar of
distinction. Published in 1880, conjointly with A. H. Chandler,
_Lyrics, Songs and Sonnets_.

256 GEORGE MURRAY, b. in London, England. Educated at King's College,
London, and at Oxford University. Before taking his degree in 1860
he published _The Oxford Ars Poetica; or, How to Write a
Newdigate_. Came to Canada 1859, and was connected with the
Montreal High School until his retirement on a pension in 1892. He
was one of the editors of the literary remains of Hon. D'Arcy
M'Gee. Author of _Verses and Versions_, 1891. Resides in Montreal.

260 H. M. NICKERSON, b. in Nova Scotia. Author of _Carols of the
Coast_, 1892. Mr Nickerson is known as the "Fisherman Poet."
Resides at Clark's Harbor, Nova Scotia.

261 CORNELIUS O'BRIEN, His Grace the Archbishop of Halifax, b. near
New Glasgow, Prince Edward Island, May 4, 1843. Besides many works
in prose he published in 1890, _Aminta, a Modern Life Drama_. Was
President of the Royal Soc. of Can., 1896-7. Resides at Halifax,
Nova Scotia.

261 THOMAS O'HAGAN, Ph.D., b. near Toronto, Ontario, 1855. Educated
at St Michael's College and at Ottawa University, taking
subsequent studies at Syracuse and Cornell Universities. Author of
_A Gate of Flowers_, 1887; _In Dreamland and Other Poems_, 1893;
_Songs of the Settlement_, 1899. Resides in Toronto.

264 HORATIO GILBERT PARKER, b. at Camden East, Addington, Ontario,
1859. Educated at Trinity University, Toronto. A novelist of wide
repute, and author of _A Lover's Diary_, poems (2nd ed. 1894). Has
lived in Australia, but now resides in London, England, making
frequent visits to Canada.

265 AMY PARKINSON was born in Liverpool, England, and came to
Toronto, Ontario, with her parents when a child. Her formal
education ceased when she was twelve years of age, her health
failing her. For eight or nine years past, she has not risen from
her bed. Her poems are dictated to her father, and it is
noteworthy that her mind is specially vigorous in composition as
she is passing into or recovering from the severe attacks which
seize her, any one of which might prove fatal. Author of booklets
of verse, _Love Through All_, and _In His Keeping_. Resides in
Toronto.

268 FRANK L. POLLOCK, b. February 1876. Has resided for the most
part in St Mary's, Ontario, and in Toronto. His literary
productions have appeared chiefly in the _Youth's Companion_, _The
Criterion_, _Ainslee's Magazine_ and _Town Topics_. His present
residence is in New York City.

270 ANDREW RAMSAY, b. in 1849, near the village of West Flamboro,
Ontario. "After two years of torture under the mad manipulation
of a savage schoolmaster," he "escaped to the wilderness for what
scanty education" he obtained. Author of _The Canadian Lyre_,
1859; _Win-on-ah; The Forest Light, and Other Poems_, 1869; _One
Quiet Day_, prose and poetry, 1873; _Muriel, The Foundling, and
Other Poems_, 1886. Is a house decorator, and has won distinction
in landscape work in that art. Resides at Westover, Ontario.

273 THEODORE HARDING RAND, D.C.L., b. at Cornwallis, Nova Scotia,
February 8, 1835. Educated at Horton Academy and Acadia
University. Has devoted his life to Education. Organised the
systems of Free Public Schools of both Nova Scotia and New
Brunswick. Ex-Principal of Woodstock College, and Ex-Chancellor of
M'Master University,--by whom the founding of the University was
promoted, and organised as such. Author of _At Minas Basin, and
Other Poems_, 1897 (second edition, enlarged, 1898). Resides in
Toronto.

282 WALTER A. RATCLIFFE, b. in London, England, August 23, 1865. Came
to Canada with his parents at the age of seven years. He is almost
totally blind and deaf. Published _Morning Songs in the Night_,
1897. Resides at Port Hope, Ontario.

283 JOHN READE, b. at Ballyshannon, Ireland, November 13, 1837.
Educated at Queen's College, Belfast. Came to Canada, 1856. Author
of _The Prophecy of Merlin, and Other Poems_, 1870. In association
with Professor Penhallow of M'Gill University, he inaugurated the
Montreal branch of the Am. Folk-lore Soc. He has been president of
the Eng. Lit. and Hist. section of the Royal Soc. Can. Elected a
Fellow of the Royal Soc. of Lit. of Great Britain, 1896. Since
1870 he has been literary and general assistant editor of the
Montreal _Gazette_. Resides in Montreal.

290 ROBERT REID ("Rob Wanlock"), b. at Wanlockhead, Scotland, June 8,
1850. Came to Canada 1877, and has since then filled a responsible
position in the mercantile establishment of Henry Morgan & Co.,
Montreal. Author of _Moorland Rhymes_, 1874; and _Poems, Songs and
Sonnets_, 1894. Resides in Montreal.

292 CHARLES GEORGE DOUGLAS ROBERTS, b. at Douglas, near Fredericton,
New Brunswick, January 10, 1860. Educated at the University of New
Brunswick. He became editor of the Toronto _Week_, 1883, and later
Professor of English Literature and Economics in King's College,
Windsor, Nova Scotia. Since 1895 be has devoted himself
exclusively to literary work. Author of _Orion and Other Poems_,
1880; _In Divers Tones_, 1887; _Poems of Wild Life: an Anthology_,
1888; _Ave: An Ode for the Shelley Centenary_, 1892; _Songs of the
Common Day, and Ave_, 1893; _The Book of the Native_, poems, 1896;
and _New York Nocturnes and Other Poems_, 1898. He has also
published several novels and other works. He was one of the
literary arbiters at the World's Fair, Chicago. Resides in
Fredericton, New Brunswick (and in New York). _Note._--The two
following are younger brothers of Mr Roberts, and Mrs Elizabeth
Roberts MacDonald is a sister, while Mr Bliss Carman and Mr Barry
Straton are cousins of the foregoing. They are children of three
sisters.

309 THEODORE ROBERTS, b. at Fredericton, New Brunswick, July 7,
1877. Educated at the Collegiate School of that city. His verse
has appeared in the Magazines. He was war correspondent for the
New York _Independent_ in the Spanish-American War. Resides at
Fredericton, New Brunswick.

313 WILLIAM CARMAN ROBERTS, b. at Fredericton, New Brunswick,
December 6, 1874. Educated at the Collegiate School, and the
University of that city. He has published verse in the Magazines
and literary periodicals. Has done journalistic work in New York.
Resides at Fredericton, New Brunswick.

315 GEORGE JOHN ROMANES, b. at Kingston, Ontario, May 20, 1848; d. at
Oxford, England, May 23, 1894. Educated at Caius College, Oxford.
A distinguished naturalist, and brilliant scientific and
philosophical writer. During his somewhat prolonged illness he
preserved to the last his mental vigour and keenness of interest
in scientific pursuits. Not long before his death he said: "I have
now come to see that faith (the Christian faith) is intellectually
justifiable." The sonnet of the text has a pathos all its own.
Longmans, Green & Company published a volume of selections of his
poetry, 1896.

316 CARROLL RYAN, b. in Toronto, Ontario, February 3, 1839. Educated
at St Michael's College. He served as a volunteer in the British
German Legion and Turkish Contingent, during the Crimean war, and
in H.M.'s 100th Royal Can. Regt., 1859. After his return to Canada
he commanded a battery of volunteer artillery at Ottawa, and was
extra A.D.C. to Gen. Sir E. S. Smyth. Mr Ryan is a veteran of the
Canadian press. Author of _Oscar and Other Poems_, 1857; _Songs of
a Wanderer_, 1867; and _Picture Poems_, 1884. Resides in Montreal.

318 CHARLES SANGSTER, b. at Kingston, Ontario, 1822; d. at Ottawa,
Ontario, 1893. Author of _The St Lawrence, and the Saguenay, and
Other Poems_, 1856, and of _Hesperus and Other Poems and Lyrics_,
1860. A representative Canadian poet, widely known.

322 DUNCAN CAMPBELL SCOTT, b. at Ottawa, Ontario, August 2, 1862.
Educated at Stanstead Wesleyan College. Is Accountant of the
Department of Indian Affairs. He is a contributor to Magazines in
prose and verse. Author of _The Magic House and Other Poems_,
1893, and of _Labor and the Angel_, 1898. Resides at Ottawa.

330 Rev. FREDERICK GEORGE SCOTT, b. in Montreal, April 7, 1861.
Educated at Bishop's College, Lennoxville, Quebec, and at King's
College, London, England. Author of _The Soul's Quest, and Other
Poems_, 1888; _Elton Hazlewood_, a dramatic life-story, 2nd ed.,
1893; _My Lattice and Other Poems_, 1894; _The Unnamed Lake and
Other Poems_, 1897; and _Poems Old and New_, 1899. Resides in
Quebec city.

336 CHARLES DAWSON SHANLY, b. in Dublin, Ireland, March 9, 1811. Came
to Canada, 1836, and settled near London, Ontario. He edited
_Punch in Canada_. A writer of occasional verse. He became noted
as an Art Critic in New York. Died at Arlington, Florida (whither
he had gone in search of health), April 15, 1875, and is buried
near London, Ontario. Best known as engineer of the Hoosac Tunnel.

338 FRANCIS SHERMAN, b. at Fredericton, New Brunswick, 1871. Educated
at the Collegiate School and the University there. Author of
_Matins_, 1896; _In Memorabilia Mortis_, a booklet of Sonnets,
1896; and _A Prelude_, privately printed, 1897. Resides in
Fredericton.

341 GOLDWIN SMITH, LL.D., D.C.L., author, and a distinguished
Professor of History, b. at Reading, England, August 23, 1823. His
published works are numerous and widely known,--among them, _Bay
Leaves: Translations from the Latin Poets_, 1894. A very
occasional writer of verse. Resides at "The Grange," Toronto.

342 LYMAN C. SMITH, b. at Glanford, near Hamilton, Ontario, September
8, 1850. Educated at Victoria University. He has been for the past
eighteen years the principal of the High School, Oshawa, Ontario.
Author of _Mabel Gray and Other Poems_, 1896.

344 Rev. WILLIAM WYE SMITH, b. in Jedburgh, Scotland, March 18, 1827.
Came to Canada, 1837. A man of considerable journalistic
experience. Author of _Poems_, 1888; _The New Testament in Broad
Scotch_, 1896. Resides at St Catharines, Ontario.

345 ALBERT ERNEST STAFFORD SMYTHE, b. at Gracehill, Ireland, December
27, 1861. Educated at Belfast Inst., and holds certificates from
the Science and Art Department, South Kensington. Author of
_Poems, Grave and Gay_, 1891. He is editor of the _Lamp_, a paper
devoted to theosophy. Resides in Toronto.

346 HIRAM LADD SPENCER, b. at Castleton, Vermont, April 28, 1829, and
educated there. Among his classmates were Henry Cabot Lodge, W. C.
Wilkinson, W. C. Langdon, and Redfield Proctor. He became a
resident of St John, New Brunswick, 1863. A journalist. Author of
_Poems_, 1848; _A Song of the Years: a Memory of Acadia_, 1889,
(widely known,--published by J. & A. M'Millan, St John, N. B.).
Resides in St John.

348 EZRA HURLBURT STAFFORD, M.D., b. 1865. Is an associate editor of
Canadian _Journal of Medicine and Surgery_. An occasional
contributor to periodicals. Author of _Saints' Day Ballads, and
Sundry Other Measures_, a booklet, 1895. Resides in Toronto.

351 ALEXANDER CHARLES STEWART, b.--? Author of _Poems and Songs_,
1890; _The Pensioner_, 1890,--a booklet. Resides in Toronto.

351 PHILLIPS STEWART, b. 1864; d. in Toronto, Ontario, February 2,
1892. Author of _Poems_, 1887. A dominant sadness inspired the
muse of this gifted youth. His early death was a loss to
Canadian literature.

353 BARRY STRATON, b. at Fredericton, New Brunswick, December 27,
1854. Educated at the Collegiate School of that city. Studied law,
but the confinement proving detrimental to his health, he resorted
to farming. Author of _Lays of Love, and Miscellaneous Poems_,
1884; _The Building of the Bridge: an Idyl of the St John_, 1887;
and _The Hunter's Hand Book_. Resides at Maugerville, New
Brunswick.

356 ARTHUR J. STRINGER, a journalist of the Montreal _Herald_, till
very recently. Author of _Watchers of Twilight_, 1894; _Pauline
and Other Poems_, 1895; and _Epigrams_, 1896. Present residence,
New York.

359 ALAN SULLIVAN, b. in Montreal, November 29, 1867. Educated at
Loretto School, Musselburgh, near Edinburgh. A civil engineer.
Author of a booklet of verse. Resides at Rat Portage, Ontario.

361 BERTRAM TENNYSON, Q.C., b.--? Author of _The Land of Napioa and
Other Essays in Prose and Verse_, 1896. Resides at Moosomin, N. W.
T., Canada.

363 EDWARD WILLIAM THOMSON, b. in the township of Toronto, Ontario,
February 12, 1849. Educated at Trinity College Grammar School,
Weston. He served with the army of the Potomac during the closing
scenes of the Am. Civil War. Served in the field with the Queen's
Own Rifles, Toronto. In 1889-90 was chief editorial writer on the
Toronto _Globe_. He removed to Boston to accept a lucrative post
on the _Youth's Companion_. Writer of occasional verse, and author
of several volumes of short stories. Resides in Boston, Mass.

365 JOHN STUART THOMSON, b. in Montreal, 1870, where he was educated
at the old "Senior School," and in special work at M'Gill
University. He also enjoyed special advantages of private
classical study in New York City. He is a frequent contributor to
the Magazines. Author of _Estabelle and Other Poems_, 1897.
Resides in New York City.

369 FRANCIS L. DOMINICK WATERS, b. in Fermoy, Ireland, April 4, 1857.
Educated at St Colman's College. Compelled by ill health to
abandon his medical studies, he came to Canada, 1879. He has
devoted himself chiefly to literature. Author of _The Water Lily:
an Oriental Fairy Tale_, 1888. Resides at Cornwall, Ontario.

370 ARTHUR WEIR, b. in Montreal, June 17, 1864. Educated at M'Gill
University. He has had considerable journalistic experience.
Author of _Fleur de Lys_, poems, 1877; _The Romance of Sir
Richard, Sonnets, and Other Poems_, 1890; _The Snowflake, and
Other Poems_, 1896. He was selected to read the inaugural poem at
the unveiling of the national monument to Sir John A. Macdonald,
at Ottawa, 1895; and he also wrote the inaugural poem for the
unveiling of the monument to Maisonneuve, dedicated on the same
day. Resides in Montreal.

376 AGNES ETHELWYN WETHERALD ("Bel Thistlewaite"), b. in Rockwood,
Ontario, of English Quaker parentage, and educated at Friends'
Schools in New York and Ontario. She has done much journalistic
work. Author of _The Algonquin Maiden_, a romance of the early
days of Upper Canada, written in collaboration with G. Mercer
Adam; and _The House of Trees_, a volume of verse, 1896. Resides
at Fenwick, Ontario.

379 Rev. WILLIAM HENRY WITHROW, D.D., author and journalist, b.
in Toronto, August 6, 1839. Educated at Victoria and Toronto
Universities. Elected a Fellow of the Eng. Lit. Sec. of the Royal
Soc. of Can., 1884. He is editor of the _Methodist Magazine and
Review_, and author of numerous volumes, the best known of which
is _The Catacombs of Rome, and their Testimony Relative to
Primitive Christianity_. Writer of occasional verse. Resides in
Toronto.

380 Rev R. WALTER WRIGHT, b. near Toronto, Ontario, December 29,
1852. Educated at Streetsville High School, and was graduated in
Theology in connection with Chautauqua University. Author of _The
Dream of Columbus_, a poem, 1894. Present residence, Arthur,
Ontario.

382 Mrs EVA ROSE YORK, b. in Western Ontario, December 22, 1858.
Educated at Woodstock College, and at the New England Conservatory
of Music. Writer of occasional verse. Resides in Toronto.

384 Mrs PAMELIA VINING YULE, wife of the late professor J. C. Yule,
of Woodstock College, Ontario. Author of _Poems of the Heart and
Home_, 1881, and of several prose works. She was born in
Clarendon, State of New York, and her early life was spent in
Ellicottville in that State. Died at Ingersoll, Ontario, 1896.

INDEX OF FIRST LINES

PAGE

A blood-red ring hung round the moon 198

Adieu to these!--Niagara, thy roar 351

A forethought of the fated reign of peace 78

After her bath yet early in the day 270

Ah, list the music of the whistling wings 17

Ah, what if the mind 2

A lark sprang up to greet the dawn 181

A little while before the fall was done 341

All day the sun drops gold, the grassy mead 244

All hail to the day when the Britons came over 147

Among the fine old kings that reign 215

An ashen grey touched faint my night-dark room 279

And no one saw, while it was dark 349

And this is Louisburg, whose moss-grown ruin 144

A perfect artist hath been here; the scene 40

A rocky channel from the harbor led 111

Around the world the fame is blown 230

Art thou not sweet, Oh world 210

As hills seem Alps, when veiled in misty shroud 288

A shell lies silent on a lonely shore 261

A star leant down and laid a silver hand 77

A stream of tender gladness 157

As the light beyond draws nearer 200

As the twilight's grey was swallowed 118

As time past onwards, day by day 217

At husking time the tassel fades 156

At the close of the day, when the year was a-dying 98

At the forging of the Sword 76

At the postern gate of Day 208

Awake, my country, the hour is great with change 296

Ay, lay them to rest on the prairie 64

A young-eyed seer, amid the leafy ways 192

Because, dear Christ, your tender, wounded arm 158

Behind Jacques Cartier's hills the sun sinks low 11

Behold the foe of Grub Street's lettered fools 30

Behold, the maize fields set their pennons free 368

Beshrew the coined gold!--and so, take heed 141

Birds that were grey in the green are black in the yellow 128

Bite deep and wide, O Axe, the tree 73

Blue-black like the breast of the gusty sea 243

Borne on the wavelets of thy fluent notes 238

Butterfly, Flutter by 68

By cliffs grown grey, as men grow grey 346

Canada, Canada, land of the maple 289

City about whose brow the north wind blows 329

"Close up in front, and steady, lads!" brave Stewart cries,
"They're here" 70

"Cold," cried the wind on the hill 310

Columbus came to thee and called thee new 356

Come and let me make thee glad 338

Come down from the heights, my bird 386

Come, happy morn, serene and fair 32

Come hither, Sleep, from Chio's isle 225

Come, walk with the world and go down to the destitute homes
of the poor 354

Cradled within the arms of night 22

Dark tresses made rich with all treasures 255

Dead! dead! And now before 26

Deserted nest, that on the leafless tree 148

Did you see the snowy castle 379

Down from the blue the sun has driven 227

Down the long lanes of Arcadie 312

Do you remember, dear, a night in June 197

Draw nigh with reverence, Canada 211

Dreary, dreary, Fundy's mists are sweeping 59

Enough! the lie is ended. God only owns the land 27

Eyes of blue and hair of gold 2

Eyes that we look into--so 309

Facing the ocean, guardian of our land 117

Fair bird, whose silvery pinions sweep 212

Faith spread her wings to seek the realms of day 202

Fancy many forms assumes 121

For three whole days across the sky 170

From out the cold house of the north 8

God spake three times and saved Van Elsen's soul 335

God speaks, life beats within the brain 69

Gone, brother, lover, son! 63

Good Christmas bells, I pray you 91

Greatest twain among the nations 318

Hack and Hew were the sons of God 49

Had I two loaves of bread--ay--ay! 276

Hail, first of the Spring 277

Hail to the pride of the forest--hail! 244

Helot drink--nor spare the wine 74

Here at the change of ways, the steel steed halts 117

Here is the old church. Now I see it all 285

Her gold hair fallen about her face 313

He sits at last among his peers 249

He wandered down, an Orpheus wilder-souled 358

He who but yesterday would roam 300

He who would start and rise 304

Hilloo, hilloo, hilloo, hilloo 370

How beautiful she was, the little maiden 240

How bold the Imagination and how strong 281

How fair thou art the poets long have known 138

How thick about the window of my life 377

Hushed is the voice of scorn 380

I am, and therefore these 278

I ask not for Thy love, O Lord; the days 315

I awoke from the dreams of the night 96

I came upon a drawer to-day 20

I come, ye lovely wildwood groves 232

"If Peepy had lived," the mother sighed 161

If, pilgrim, chance thy steps should lead 219

If you would see Venice as she is 359

I had a garden when I was a boy 110

I have been wandering where the daisies grow 9

I hear the bells at eventide 326

I hear the wondrous lyre 353

I know not what my heart has lost 261

I know that death is God's interpreter 346

I know thee not, O spirit fair 184

I'll sing you a song of the sea 120

I loiter here within the ancient town 33

I loved my Art, I loved it when the tide 264

In a city of churches and chapels 202

In a veil of white vapor, hushed stars moving through 31

In meadows deep with hay, I see 367

In my heart are many chambers through which I wander free 286

In shadowy calm the boat 351

In sooth he was a mighty king 189

In the glimmering light of the Old Regime 25

In the heart of a man 301

In the Rheingan standeth Aix 106

In the silence of the morning, through the softly rising mist 381

I read on de paper mos' ev'ry day, all about Jubilee 101

I rested on the breezy height 323

I sat within the temple of the heart 320

I see a schooner in the bay 327

I shall not pass this way again 382

Is there a God, then, above us? 43

I stood and saw the angel of the dawn 206

I swing to the sunset land 159

I swing to the land of morn 159

I talked about you, Dear, the other night 292

It comes! This strange bird from a distant clime 236

It comforts me through all my days 251

I thought as I watched in the dawning dim 265

I thought of death beside the lonely sea 329

It is enough that in this burdened time 264

It is growing dark 283

It was one of those grand cathedrals 177

I watch the printer's clever hand 218

I watch the ships by town and lea 114

I will not tell thee why the land 271

Joy came in youth as a humming-bird 10

Last night, and there came a guest 99

Let other tongues in older lands 116

Let us bury him here 339

Life gives us better than it takes away 250

Life has two sovereign moments 167

Lightly He blows, and at His breath they fall 304

Like gallant courtiers, the forest trees 379

Like Israel's seer I come from out the earth 280

Like marble, nude, against the purple sky 137

Like mists that round a mountain grey 192

Little Miss Blue Eyes opens the door 374

Long, long ago, it seems, this summer morn 172

Love built a crimson house 48

Lover of man, if not of God, the Sea 238

Love sayeth: Sing of me! 197

Love's sun, like that of day, may set, and set 321

May, blighted by keen frosts, passed on to June 364

Merry mad-cap on the tree 229

Methought the stream of Time had backward rolled 343

Mildly through the mists of night 348

Mother of Swords! while the river runs 268

My purest longings spring 114

My sandalled feet are firm and fleet 160

Mysterious life! we speak as if we knew 248

Naked and shaggy, they herded at eve by the sound of the seas 332

Nilus! Nilus! and before them rolled 107

No flame of war was he, no flower of grace 166

Not in eyed, expectant gloom 303

Not to be conquered by these headlong days 168

Now along the solemn heights 307

Now hath the summer reached her golden close 174

Now the Fraser gleamed 87

Now wherefore trembles still the string 83

O, bella fior del mondo! to-morrow 316

O blessed angel of the All-bounteous King 85

O brothers! thro' how many lands 196

O covering grasses! O unchanging trees 340

O do you hear the merry waters falling 193

O elder sister, though thou didst of yore 342

O'er the white waste of drifted sands unstable 260

Of all the tiny race of Skye 341

Oft I have met her 236

O gifted son of our dear land and time 288

Oh, Gentle-breath goes singing, goes singing through the grass 138

Oh the shambling sea is a sexton old 46

Oh, what could wake life that first sweet flame 286

O, Love builds on the azure sea 73

O Love, can the tree lure the summer bird 356

O master-builder, blustering as you go 377

On a stone by the wayside, half-naked and cold 213

Once more the robin flutes in glee 145

Once ye were happy, once by many a shore 169

One by one they pass away 243

"Only a penny, Sir!" 280

Only in dreams she appears to me 129

On the crimson cloth 3

Open, my heart, the ruddy valves 131

Ope your doors and take me in 376

O Richard, my King, lion-hearted, behold 36

O rivers rolling to the sea 297

O ship incoming from the sea 325

O sweet unto my heart is the song my mother sings 262

O tender love of long ago 330

O, the East is but the West, with the sun a little hotter 344

O Thou who hast beneath Thy hand 309

O Twenty, running through the wood 140

Our mother is the good green earth 372

Out of the dreams that heap 305

Over the field the bright air clings and tingles 326

O very, very far from our dull earth 72

Pale Melancholy, faithfully thou lov'st 352

Pallid saffron glows the broken stubble 322

Proud, languid lily of the sacred Nile 109

Quebec, the grey old city on the hill 36

Remote, upon the sunset shrine 194

Ripple, ripple, ripple 180

Rome, Florence, Venice,--noble, fair and quaint 186

"Saddle and mount and away"---- 23

Sang one of England in his island home 357

Sans peur et sans reproche!--our lion-heart 199

See how the Morn awakes. Along the sky 132

She died--as die the roses 204

She is so winsome and so wise 35

Shaper of breathing lives, and Lord of all above 350

Shepherd Jesus, in Thy arms 69

Shy bird of the silver arrows of song 1

Simon bent to his hissing saw 133

Since I rose out of child-oblivion 265

Sing a song of springtime 205

Sing me a song of the great Dominion 290

Sleep, sleep imperious heart! Sleep, fair and undefiled! 295

Slowly rose the dœdal Earth 321

Some glad thing comes to me 252

Son of Britannia's isle 361

"Son of Light," I murmured lowly 92

So sat I yesterday, with weary eyes 163

So tremulous the flame of thinking burns 224

Speed on, speed on, good Master 336

Sprung from a sword-sheath fit for Mars 126

Standing on tiptoe ever since my youth 43

Still, in the light of morning grey 142

Still, though the sun is setting 241

"Summer is dead!"--it was the wind that spake 142

Sweet child of an April shower 231

Swifter the flight! Far, far and high 67

Swift troopers twain ride side by side 373

Take not from me my lute 104

Take the mouldering dust 247

Talk not to me of Tempe's flowery vale 205

The air is still, the night is dark 247

The blooming flowers, the galaxies of space 277

The bloom of the roses, the youth of the fair 382

The brine is in our blood from days of yore 142

The broad round-shouldered giant Earth 81

The chime of bells across the waking sky 313

The dark has passed and the chill Autumn morn 8

The darkness brings no quiet here, the light 168

The days begin to wane and evening lifts 6

The dew is gleaming in the grass 169

The dusky warriors stood in groups 182

The dykes, half-bare, are lying in the bath 137

The earth is the cup of the sun 170

The furrows of life Time is plowing 353

The heart of Merrie England sang in thee 30

Their very gods, it seems, we have forgot 357

The immortal spirit hath no bars 335

The mountains gather round thee as of yore 285

Then sighed the wandering Angel sore 369

The ocean bursts in very wrath 69

The purple shadows, dreamingly 60

There are no colors in God's heaven bent bow 81

There came a day of showers 299

There is a beauty at the goal of life 177

There's a beautiful Artist abroad in the world 384

There's a little gray friar in yonder green bush 216

The red-til'd towers of the old Chateau 127

There is no God! if one should stand at noon 11

There is rain upon the window 328

There is the school-house; there the lake, the lawn 285

The restless clock is ticking out 375

The rivers that sweep to the sea 254

There lies a lone isle in the tropic seas 331

There's a whisper of life in the grey dead trees 360

There was a time on this fair continent 233

The rowan tree grows by the tower foot 208

These are the days that try us; these the hours 128

The sky had a grey, grey face 139

The song unsung more sweet shall ring 70

The sonnet is a diamond flashing round 41

The sweet Star of the Bethlehem night 186

The sun goes down, and over all 45

The sun has gone down in liquid gold 97

The tide flows in and out, and leaves 113

The twilight land toyed with the night 149

The wild birds strangely call 207

They have a saying in the East 167

They hide within the hollows, and they creep into the dell 365

They journey sadly, slowly on 33

This is the white winter day of his burial 51

This Canada of ours 116

This is the purple sea of ancient song 146

This river of azure with many a weed in 272

Those far-off fields, how fair they seem 118

Thou askest not to know the creed 248

Thou sweet-souled comrade of a time gone by 188

Through a Gethsemane of city streets 218

'Tis dawn, but not such morning-tide 123

'Tis the laughter of pines that swing and sway 112

'Tis the sound of a silver-toned bell 224

'Tis solemn darkness, the sublime of shade 132

'Tis summer still, yet now and then a leaf 322

True comrade, we have tested life together 314

'Twas midnight. Darkness, like the glow of some funereal pall 256

'Twas on a day, and in high radiant heaven 133

Under the ward of the Polar Star 269

Up by the idling reef-set bell 52

Upon the heights of Sillery one day 163

Vast, unrevealed, in silence and the night 301

Wanted, a stalwart man 282

War-worn, sun-scorched, stained with the dust of toil 66

We fear not the thunder, we fear not the rain 234

West wind blow from your prairie nest 155

What reck we of the creeds of men?-- 43

What shall withstand her? Who shall gainsay her? 38

What went ye to the wilderness to see? 162

When early shades of evening close 40

Whence comes the charm that broods along the shore 290

When God sends out His company to travel through the stars 306

When high above the busy street 363

When ploughmen ridge the steamy brown 364

When the Sleepy Man comes with dust on his eyes 302

When tree and bush are comfortless 31

Where are the men of my heart's desire 311

Where does my sweetheart Baby go 226

Where the soft shadows fall 254

Where the world is grey and lone 89

Where, where will be the birds that sing 347

Whom would you choose? for, lo, the chief is dead 28

Wide are the plains to the north and the westward 187

Winged wonder of motion 273

Within, a panic-stricken throng 180

With folded wings of dusky light 216

With fragrance flown, as of a long-plucked bud 345

With slender arms outstretching in the sun 378

You ask for fame and power 41

TURNBULL AND SPEARS, PRINTERS, EDINBURGH.