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writings of this contributor. So well was the identity of the poet 

 concealed that even the editor of the magazine in which the poems 

 from time to time appeared, was deceive>d, anid supposed that it was 

 to one of the fair sex that he was indebted for the really creditable 

 verses which from time to time adorned the pages of his magazine. 



The 'editorial opens thus : — 



" Som^e three months ago the literary world of Canada became 

 aware of the fact that a poet of no ordinary powers was among them. 

 Yet so modest has been this lady (for who else but a woman was it 

 who joined together such strings of linked sweetness long drawn out, 

 as Milton hath it) that, though her graceful compositions have attracted 

 the attention of admiring thousands, she still holds from the public 

 eye her name, and only suffers her mysterious signature, which reads 

 the same backwards and forwards, to accompany the fruits of her 

 mu.se/' 



"In the columns of The Daily Telegraph and Journal this new light 

 sought fame, and in that widely circulated journal she obtained it." 



It occasioneid great surprise when it became known that the \vTiter 

 Enyella Alleyne was Mr. H. L. Spencer, afterwards editor of The Mari- 

 time Monthly. Mr. Spencer is still actively engaged in the newspaper 

 work in St. John. 



From the verses of Enyella Alleyne, one example is submitted for 

 your criticism: 



Upon the beach I walked at eve alone, 



And listened to the moaning of the sea, 

 And watched the sails that in the moonlight shone 



At the horizon: Unto me 

 There came a voice, as from below the waves, — 



" The less'ning sail will soon be seen no more, 



" And as I sweep thy footprints from the shore, 

 " Time mosses o'er a world of unknown graves. 



" And it is well. If mem could not forget, 



" With phantoms all the world would peopled be 



"The ghosts of buried joys their hearts would fret 

 " A flood of tears like blood, would drown the sea. 



" Rail not at time — the healer of thy woes — 



•' As of those thou hast forgotten, shall be 'thy last repose." 



As the majority of readers now find it impossible to identify most 

 of the writers, who, under assumed names contributed to the earlier 

 Acadian Magazines, so in another generation the nsames of many of 

 those who contributed in no small degree to the literary success of 

 Stewart's Quarterly might be equally difficult to obtain. For this 



