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beg to enter our decided protest against the " back-boneless lubricity " 

 of our contemporary's logic." 



In the same issue of The Maritime Monthly appears the follow- 

 ing extract from The American Canadian Gazette, published at Boston, 

 Mass. 



" We see that a St. John paper, in the course of some censures on 

 The JMaritime Monthly for February, makes much ado over its lack 

 of articles on Canadian subjects, and thinks the publication of the sixth 

 paper of the series on the " Valley of tTie Platte " while but one or two 

 of the other contributions have a local significance, displays great want 

 of judgment. Such a criticism is either reprehensibly captious, or 

 arises from a notable ignorance of periodical literature. ISTo leading 

 magazine or review in this country or in Europe is supposed to inva- 

 riably devote any considerable portion of its space to discussion of local 

 or national subjects, and some of them have contained almost inter- 

 minable series on subjects altogether foreign. — American Canadian 

 Gazette. 



The editor of The Maritime Monthly thereupon takes occasion 

 to remark that "The Piatt Valley Papers will be continued next month."' 

 Evil days appear to have by this time fallen upon this magazine, for 

 the number last alluded to contains the notice that : — 



"iT]hus far it has been published at a pecuniary loss to its pro- 

 prietors. Shall it be sustained ? It is for our people to answer. Our 

 subscription list must be doubled — our advertising patronage must be 

 doubled — else the magazine must die. The proprietors have furnished 

 a magazine which is an honor to the country. Will the country allow 

 it to perish for want of support." 



The country appears to have been deai to this appeal, for soon 

 after its publication Tlie Maritime Monthly ceased to exist. 



The University Monthly, published by the students of the University 

 of New Brunswick, Fredericton, N.B., was first issued in 1883," the first 

 number published bearing date March of that year. It is still con- 

 tinued, and is now in its twenty-third year. Prof. W. F. Ganong, who 

 has previously been mentioned, has a complete fyle upon his library 

 shelves. 



On September 1st, 1883, the first number of The Wollestoolc Gazette 

 appeared, published in connection with the St. John Grammar School 

 Debating Society, with the following editorial staff from among the 

 members of the Society, namely: — Theophilus Gushing, John A. Gal- 

 livan, David Russell Jack, Alexander W. Macrae and William C. Knowl- 

 ton. The publication was about quarto size, sixteen pages in extent, 

 including three pages of advertisements, and the issue was limited to 



