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since permanently resided, now enjoying a responsible editorial position 

 on The Herald, which he has held for twenty-one years. 



In a personal letter from Mr. Archibald Irwin, the editor of The 

 Prince Edward Island Magazine, that gentleman states that only one 

 copy of The Progress Magazine was printed, and that it was altogether 

 made up of clippings from British and American magazines and news- 

 papers on miscellaneous subjects. It appears to have commenced and 

 ended with number one. The page was about 5^ x 8 inches in size, 

 set two columns to the page. Typographically it was neat but not at 

 all superior in style. 



In 1867, Dr. G-eorge Stewart, then a young and enterprising drug- 

 gist, with a place of business on King street in the city of St. John, 

 commenced the publication of Stewart's Quarterly, a periodical which 

 was conducted ,with much ability, and in the editing of which he had 

 the assistance of ^Titers of more than ordinary talent. This magazine 

 was more general in its interests, and therefore appealed to a wider range 

 of supporters than did any of its predecessors. 



Like most of the boys of that period, and of the twenty years 

 following, Dr. Stewart appears to have had the stamp collecting mania 

 in an acute form. 



■ In ''Literary Eeminiscences" published by Dr. Stewart in the 

 Canadian Magazine, that writer informs us that " he began to write 

 for the press very early in life, and in 1865, in St. John, N.B., estab- 

 lished Tlie Stamp Collectors' Monthly Gazette,'^ which was withdrawn in 

 1867," when Stewart's Quarterly was founded in the same city. 



Concerning the Quarterly, Dr. Stewart informs us that " it lived 

 five years, and though, as a financial venture it was not very profitable, 

 it earned quite a reputation in Canadian letters. Its contributors 

 were drawn from Newfoundland to British Columbia. The Eev. Moses 

 Harvey of St. John's, as well as Judge Prowse, were frequent writers 

 in its pages. Dr. Harvey's valuable papers on Newfoundland did 

 much to make that a^ncient colony known all over the world, for the 

 newspapers, attracted by the author's attractive style, made copious 

 extracts from his articles." 



A complete set of Stewart's Quarterly is now difficult, in fact 

 almost impossible to obtain. 



Taking up at random the fourth volume, the only one in tlie 

 writer's own collection which is complete, it appears full of interest, 

 and treats of a variety of enticing topics. 



One of the principal poetical contributors was Enyella Alleyne, 

 three examples of whose skill as a verse writer appear in this volume. 

 The leading editorial article in the first number, is devoted to the 



' Canadian Mag., Vol. XVII, No. 2, June, 1901, page 163. 



