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years, by Matthew Eichey Kniglit, price 40 cents, are for sale at the 

 office ef Canada, and by Knight & Co., Halifax, Nova Scotia." 



For the benefit of persons who may not be aware of the 

 geographical location of Benton, N.B., it might be added that it is a 

 post village in Carleton County, 19 miles from Woodstock, contains 

 one store, one hotel, a tannery and two saw-mills. No printing office is 

 mentioned in the Gazetteer, so that Canada was probably printed else- 

 where, Benton being merely the editorial and distributing centre. 

 Canada does not appear to have been continued for more than two 

 years at the most. 



In the advertising columns of Canada, appears a notice of The 

 Echo, a monthly of current notes and events, social gossip, etc. Price 

 twenty-five cents a year, invariably in advance. It is doubtful if The- 

 Eclio could be properly classed as a magazine. 



Nova Scotia Illustrated, a monthly journal published at 41 Sack- 

 ville St., Halifax, Nova Scotia, by J. H. Bradford, contained twenty- 

 pages. The fi_rst number of volume 1 was dated April, 1895. 



In the same month appeared The Occasional Magazine, pub- 

 lished monthly at five eents a copy, 50 cents a year. Professor E. C, 

 Archibald, of the University of Mount Allison College, Sackville;^ 

 writes that he has Nos. 1, 2, 3, and that it was published by Smith & 

 Williams, Halifax, N.S., the size of page being 7^ x 5 inches. 



The publication of The New BrunsivicJc Magazine was commenced 

 with the July issue of 1898, by William Kilby Eeynolds, and it con- 

 tinued through three -volumes of six numbers each, being issued 

 monthly. 



During this short period both the magazine and its editor passed 

 through many vicissitudes. Most of these are of too recent occurrence 

 to admit of their discussion in a paper such as the present. 



During the first year of its publication the magazine was a valu- 

 able one, but at the end of that period, its editor feeling that he could 

 not obtain sufficient revenue from the venture to pay the cost of pub- 

 lication and his own maintenance, accepted a position with the 

 Intercolonial Eailway of Canada, which required him to make Moncton 

 his headquarters. Finding that it was impossible to satisfactorily con- 

 duct the magazine from that point, and give proper attention to his 

 official duties, Mr. Eeynolds, in the August issue of 1899, in a special 

 announcement informs the public that The New Brunswick Magazine 

 will in future be under the direction of Mr. John A. Bowes, from 

 • whose printing office it was issued from the beginning. Nos. 4 and 5 

 of the third volume were printed, bound, placed in wrappers and ad- 

 dressed to the various subscribers but no copies were distributed outside 



Sec. II., 1903. 13. 



