desolation of the Canadian autumn woods, and the sensuous languor of the long midsummer noontides. There is no suggestion of the scientist and magnifying glass or camera in his accuracy to facts; it is the accuracy of a man who writes of that which has become a part of his life. He has by sheer force of his genius, like Millet, the artist, lifted the veil that obscured from most men the poetry inherent in the simplest and most monotonous landscape. All

Ontario, and he has made the country and life of the woods entirely his own. His work is distinctive in its marvellous grasp of facts, its sincerity, vigor, vivid realism, complete absence of artificiality, either of language or thought, and in its inspiring interpretation of the common sweet realities of every-day life. He has faithfully reproduced in the simplest and most impressive language the life he has lived. He has caught the spirit of the storm, the bleak

he utters is truth; but it is ideal truth, which sets one thinking. He does not preach, but underlying all his work is that spirituality which pervades the lowliest of lives. There is no straining after effect in the delivery of his message, but in the every-day, unpretentious language in which it is conveyed there is that quality of sympathetic humanity that appeals to the divinity in every man. Although, like all the poets, he reflects his environment, which must to some extent be incomprehensible to English readers, he by no means appeals to a local audience. His brilliant pictures satisfy the most artistic requirements of the Old World, while at the same time they reveal a new chamber in literature, hitherto unsuspected in this "polar region." Lampman teaches the lesson, the same in all lands, "That change and pain are shadows faint and fleet, And dreams are real, and life is only sweet."

He is still a very young man, and the promise of his first book, Among the Millet, is more than fulfilled in his frequent contributions to the magazines since its publication. Mr. Howells ranked him among the strongest singers of America. I venture to assert that there is no living poet in either hemisphere who can present such pictures of natural scenery and natural phenomena as Lampman. In England since Wordsworth there has been no poet

to equal him in painting the common life of the country.

Mr. William Wilfred Campbell is a more unequal writer than Mr. Lampman, but his name is almost as familiar to readers of American periodical literature. He passed his boyhood in the Great Lake region, and in those impressionable years he eagerly drank in the spirit of the lakes and laid up a store of observation which has colored his best poetry. The title of the "Poet of the Lakes," bestowed upon him by a New York critic, is well earned. He evidently feels the solitary grandeur and beauty of these vast inland waters, for the very atmosphere of the lakes is preserved in his verse. He is at his best in descriptions of autumn or winter scenery, and his power consists rather in suggestion than in minute portraiture. In reading his poems one feels a sense of loneliness press upon one's heart; one hears the mystic swell of the waves as they beat upon the shore with its lights and shadows; and one sees the landscape gradually blotted out in the descending darkness, as night settles on the bosom of the waters. Mr. Campbell has published two volumes, Snowflakes and Lake Lyrics.

Mr. William P. McKenzie's Voices and Undertones, recently published in New York, has much of the delicacy of feeling quoted in the two preceding writers, but his personality does not impress itself so strongly upon the reader. Mr. Duncan Campbell Scott is also a promising member of this new school, and his work appears frequently in the magazines. He has not yet indulged in the luxury of collecting his verses, but they are honestly worthy of preservation in a permanent shape. There is a striking vraisemblance in essentials running through the work of all these writers, but each has his own peculiarities of style.

In Mr. John Reade, Canada possesses a poet who is fully the equal of E. C. Stedman, Aldrich, Holland, or Bayard Taylor; but the best part of his life has been wasted in the ungrateful work of journalism. In 1870 he published The Prophecy of Merlin and Other Poems, and the book achieved a succes d'estime; but if it had been published in New York or London, as it should have been, it would have proved a source of emolument as well. All Mr. Reade's work is pervaded with a sweetness, which

but his colors are too lavishly employed. He has contributed to Scribner's, the Century, and other magazines. His books are Orion and Other Poems, published by Lippincott, and In Divers Tones (Lothrop & Co.). He also edited Poems of Wild Life, which appeared in London in 1888.

Sir William Dawson, who has obtained a world-wide reputation through the published results of his years of original scientific inquiry, is a Canadian, hailing, as many of the most eminent Canadians have done, from the province of Nova Scotia. He was educated in the college of his native town and at Edinburgh University, and early devoted himself to geological research. For a number of years he has been principal of McGill University, the wealthiest and most famous university in

the dominion, which, situated in Montreal, draws its students from all parts of the country. In the midst of the multifarious duties appertaining to his responsible position as head of this seat of learning, he has by dint of his indefatigable zeal managed to pursue his favorite studies and contribute to all the leading scientific

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periodicals on both sides of the Atlantic. In 1855 he published Acadian Geology, a complete account of the geology of the maritime provinces up to that date. In 1859 his Archaia; or, Studies of Creation in Genesis, appeared, a work which showed his complete knowledge of natural history and mastery of Hebrew and Biblical literature. In 1863 was issued his Air Breath ers of the Coal Period, an account of the fossil reptiles of the coal of Nova Scotia; and in 1864 he made one of the most important of his discoveries - that of Eozoon Canadense. Scientists previous

to this regarded the rocks of the Laurentian age as destitute of animal remains, and called them azoic. Sir William substituted the term eozoic. The second edition of Acadian Geology appeared in 1868, and has since remained the standard work on the geology of that locality; it also treats of many of the difficult problems of

general geology. A handbook of Canadian zoology from his pen appeared in 1870, and in 1873 he published Notes on the Post-pliocene of Canada, in which he showed that he had by his own labors raised the number of known species from thirty to over two hundred. In this work, also, he steadfastly opposed the general land glaciation theory. A number of papers contributed to the Leisure Hour in 1871 and 1872 were published in book form in 1873, under the title of The Story of the Earth and Man. This work presents in a series of word pictures a popular view of the whole of the geological ages, and discusses in a simple, intelligible manner the theories as to the origin of mountains, the introduction and succession of life, the glacial period, and other controverted topics. In the winter of 1874-75 Professor Dawson delivered a course of lectures in New York, which were afterwards largely circulated in America and England, under the title of Science and the Bible. His other important works are, The Origin

of the World, Fossil Men, The Dawn of Life, Facts and Fancies in Science, and Modern Science in Bible Lands. Sir William has obtained honorary degrees from numerous English universities, and was first president of the Royal Society of Canada, which he organized at the request of the Marquis of Lorne, who occupied the position of Governor-General of Canada in 1882. Although his work must necessarily be caviare to the multitude of readers, still he has the gift of robbing even the most abstruse questions of the dust and dry rot which are generally associated with them in the public mind.

A name of which Canadians are justly proud is that of Grant Allen. Mr. Allen is one of those Canadians for whom the call to literature outweighed all the counsels of prudence. He felt that literature was his true vocation, and he determined to enter the lists, and gain his livelihood with his pen. He has had no reason to regret that determination, as his literary career has been a most successful one. In carry

ing out his project, however, he has naturally become severed from Canada and its national life and people, and his writings contain no suggestion or coloring of his early environment. He appeals to a larger audience, and his literary methods are distinctively those of the British school; but his fellow-countrymen follow his career with the deepest interest. He was born in the old Government House at Kingston, Ontario, then and now the residence of his father, a Church of England minister. fourteen years of age he left Canada and entered a French college in connection with the Sorbonne, and subsequently studied at Merton College, Oxford, and graduated with honors. He then received an appointment to a professorial chair in a West-Indian university, and was shortly afterwards made principal. This lucrative post he abandoned to return to England

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and devote himself entirely to literature. He soon obtained recognition and a large clientele among the editorial fraternity of the great metropolis. He is a rapid worker, and under pressure can produce a lengthy scientific article full of facts, quotations, and statistics, without once stopping to refer to authorities, in an almost unprecedented short time. Some of his brightest and most successful novels have been written in the intervals allowed by other more urgent work. He has contributed innumerable articles on every subject under the sun to both American and English magazines. His versatility and the vast range of science and philosophy which is laid under contribution in his work, considered as a whole, is amazing. He has, as it were, established two reputations. There is Grant Allen, the eminent disciple of Darwin and brilliant expositor of scientific theories; and there is Grant Allen, the clever and popular novelist. Besides a multitude of contributions to current literature, he has written, Physiological Esthetics (1877), The Color Sense (1879), The Evolutionist at Large (1881), Anglo-Saxon Britain (1881), Vignettes from Nature (1881), Colors of Flowers (1882), Colin Clout's Calendar (1883), Flowers and their Pedigrees

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(1884), and a most appreciative life of Charles Darwin, which appeared in the English Worthies series. His best known works of fiction are Babylon, For Maimie's Sake, The Devil's Die, and The Tents of Shem. Perhaps the two most popular of his scientific works, Vignettes from Nature and The Evolutionist at Large, will outlive anything else that has yet come from his pen; but as he is still comparatively a young man with many years of work before him, it is scarcely possible to form any accurate estimate of the extent or quality of his legacy to posterity.

Mr. James Macdonald Oxley is one of the most industrious of all Canadian writers. There is scarcely a periodical of any importance on this continent to which he has not contributed, notwithstanding the fact that his position as an official in the Civil Service at Ottawa allows him but scant leisure for the cultivation of literature. Among the leading magazines in whose pages his name frequently occurs are the North American Review, Our Day, Macmillan's, Lippincott's, Popular Science Monthly, Cosmopolitan, Forum, Scribner's, Wide Awake, Magazine of American History, Outing, American Law Review, and Harper's Young People and Bazaar. This

will enable the reader, to whom the

characteristics and requirements of these magazines are well known, to form some idea of his versatility and acquirements. It is a unique record for a Canadian litterateur, and is significant of better times for Canadians of ability, as Mr. Oxley attributes his success to his having confined himself almost exclusively to Canadian subjects. He has also written a book, Bert Lloyd's Boyhood, published about six months ago in Philadelphia, which has proved so successful that the publishers have requested him to repeat the experiment. A serial from his pen has been one of the recent leading attractions of Our Youth, and he contributed a recent serial to Santa Claus of Philadelphia. He is always up to his eyes and ears in the preparation of miscellaneous articles. It is probable that ere long Mr. Oxley will betake himself to the country where he is most appreciated, and devote his talents to literature altogether.

I include the name of Mr. J. M. Le Moine among those of Anglo-Canadian writers, because the genial historian and antiquarian of Quebec is, as his middle name of Macpherson indicates, of ScotchFrench descent, and because all his most enduring works have been written in English. Mr. Le Moine writes in French and