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and Prince Edward Island were not debarred from its pages however. 

 Its contributors were not paid. 



Mr. William E. M. Burtis who had been a valued contributor of 

 fiction to The Amaranth, provided most of the fiction published, his 

 story entitled "Grace Thornton, A Tale of Acadia/' continuing through 

 eleven chapters. 



An amusing printer's error occurred in connection with a series of 

 papers written by Mr. E. Penniston Starr, a leading coal merchant of 

 St. John, and a man of good literary taste. The last page of Mr. Starr's 

 first article, contained his initials, which were not observed, however, by 

 the compositor. What the compositor did observe, were the letters 

 P. T. 0. (please turn over), at the foot of the page preceding the last. 

 P. T. 0. was forthwith adopted by Mr. Starr as his pseudonym, much 

 to the amusement of those who were aware of the joke. 



Dr. Stewart further tells us that such subjects as "Poetry in 

 America," "British Poetry," "State of the World at the Christian 

 Advent," etc., appeared, and that they were pretty heavy, but that there 

 was a good list upon provincial subjects, such as " The Botany of the 

 Lower Provinces," " Education in New Brunswick," " The Geography 

 of New Brunswick," " Geography of Nova Scotia," " History of 

 Acadia," and "The History of the Loyalists." The caribou and the 

 Canadian grouse or Spruce partridge were also written upon. 



The nine numbers when bound, made a volume of 218 pages, the 

 cost to subscribers for the set being two shillings and sixpence. 



Prof. W. E. Ganong, of Smith College, Northampton, Mass., is 

 the owner of a complete set of The Guardian. 



The Progress Magazine was the first published in Prince Edward 

 Island, and it was started in the Progress office by Thomas Kirwin, in 

 1868, so we are informed by Mr. Cecil T. Bagnall in a short article in 

 the Christmas number, 1903, of The Prince Edward Island Magazine. 

 Eegarding its publisher Mr. Kirwin, we are informed that he was a 

 splendid specimen of Prince Edward Island manhood, and that he was 

 born at Tryon, on the 17th April, 1832. Losing both parents before he 

 was eight years old, he was taken to Charlottetown by an older married 

 sister, and sent to a private school, afterwards entering the Old Central 

 Academy, changed to Prince of Wales College, then under the master- 

 ship of John Arbuckle. He learned his trade as a printer in the 

 establishment of John J. Pippy in Charlottetown, afterwards removing 

 to Boston, Mass. 



In 1862 Mr. Kirwin fought in the war of the Eebellion, was 

 wounded and later sent home. 1866 he went to Summerside and started 

 The Progress newspaper, and continued to publish it for three years, 

 at the end of which time he again returned to Boston, where he his 



