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Mr. John McMillan, of the firm of J. & A. McMillan, booksellers 

 and publishers, by whom the magazine was printed. The firm oi Mc- 

 Millan was far in advance of the times, for many years carrying on an 

 establishment that had no equal in the Acadian provinces, and possibly 

 no superior throughout Canada. 



Mr. Ezekiel McLeod, now a judge of the Supreme Court of New 

 Brunswick. 



Eev. James Bennett, afterwards Doctor of Divinity, a minister of 

 the Presbyterian Church, a man of good literary attainments, but some- 

 what slovenly in his style and methods of work. 



Mr. J. Newton Wilson, a merchant of St. John, and an occasional 

 contributor to the pages of the magazine. 



Mr. T. M. Kobinson, for many years connected with the Western 

 Cnion 'Telegraph Company at St. John. 



Two valuable papers which appeared were " The First Courts 

 and Early Judges of ^ew Brunswick," a paper read before the 

 New Brunswick Historical Society, on November 25th, 1874, on the 

 occasion of the inauguration of the Society, by the late Joseph Wilson 

 La^nTence: and "Our Blind," by I. Allen Jack, A.B-, now D.C.L., a 

 paper of eleven pages, the writer of which acknowledges valuable as- 

 sistance from C. F. Fraser and M. H. Eichey of the Blind Asylum, 

 Halifax, and from Dr. Wiggins, Principal of the Institution for the 

 blind at Brantford, Ontario. 



Dr. Jack also contributed some verses and an article of 26 pages 

 entitled ">The Church, the State and the School." 



Rev. Moses Harvey of Newfoundland, Hunter Duvar, Mary Barry, 

 William Murdock, George J.Forbes, Olga Stewart of Halifax, and the 

 late Edward Jack, C;E., were contributors. 



C. M. and C. D. M. of Halifax, possibly one and the same writer, 

 but whose identity cannot at present be stated, contributed translations 

 from the German in verse. 



Vol. Ill, No. 4, of The Maritime Monthly contained a three page 

 review of the literary work and lectures of Mr. John Boyd, after- 

 wards Senator and Governor elect of New Brunswick. These lectures 

 were delivered in New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, and some parts of the 

 United States, in no case for a pecuniary consideration, so it is stated, 

 but for the benefit of literary and educational institutions, libraries, 

 churches, public and private charities, etc. In this review are enumerated 

 with miich minuteness of detail the services of Mr. Boyd in this particu- 

 lar, and an approximate financial value is set upon each item, the grand 

 total amounting to $26,300. It is also stated that " we do not include 

 in the above, several readings given by Mr. Boyd at sea, one of which 



