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edited by Mrs. William Lawson. Mention is made of it in the article 

 on ^ Canadian Magazines before alluded to, and Mr. Arthur H. IT. Col- 

 quhoun remarks therein that " the articles on copy-right, on the new 

 system of telegraphs, and on various subjects of timely interest indicated 

 good editorship, and a stafE of competent writers." But in December, 

 1853, after two years of dauntless effort, the periodical gave up with a 

 cry of " no subscribers." 



After 1853, all attempts at the publication of a literary magazine in 

 l^ova Scotia appear to have been abandoned, and for the literary ven- 

 tures of this class for the next half century we must look to New Bruns- 

 wick and Prince Edward Island. 



In McFarlane's Bibliography of New Brunswid-, page 58, a most 

 valuable publication, by the way, is noted, " The Parish School Advo- 

 cate," edited by Alexander Munro. The first number was issued Jan. 

 1st, 1858. Its platform was as follows: — 



1st. Free schools, supported by direct assessment to a limited 

 extent. 



2nd. The Bible, the test mark of moral obligation, without which 

 education is useless. 



In 1895, The Chignedo Post, published at Sackville, N.B., and 

 edited by W. C. Milncr, celebrated its twenty-fifth birthday, by the issue 

 of a thirty page number, which contained a very full biographical SKetch 

 of Mr. Munro accompanied by his portrait. 



In The New Brunsiuick Magazine, volume 1, No. 2, pp. 78-80-81, 

 will be found an article from the pen of Dr. George Stewart of Quebec, 

 and entitled An Early New Brunswick Magazine. This article gives 

 an excellent idea of The Guardian, the magazine just mentioned, and a 

 few notes from the article named may perfhaps be admissible. 



Dr. Stewart informs' us that the new venture was on a more ambi- 

 tiojas scale than The Amaranth, the editors and publishers being 

 Messrs. Edward Manning and E. Aitkin. It was issued monthly at St. 

 John, and lasted for nine months only, being withdrawn in September, 

 1860. 



The Guardian was devoted to education and general literature. It 

 was printed by the firm of Barnes & Co., of St. John, who Ivke the. 

 historic firm of H. Chubb & Co., of St. John, and Cunnabel, of Halifax, 

 have aided in the conception of many literary ventures. 



Anything relating to New Brunswick but politics, was the maxim 

 of its editors. It was to be largely provincial in its tone and character, 

 and a lengthy programme was prepared. Papers relating to Nova Scotia 



' A Century of Canadian Mag-amines, by Arthur H. U. Colquhoun, Can- 

 adian Magazine, 1901, Vol. 17, V- 141. 



