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monthly, and from the outset it appears to have been a success. This 

 volume contains 436 pages of reading matter and is liberally illustrated. 

 A great variety of topics by many writers are touched upon, the object, 

 apparently, being to make the work of such a character as to appeal to 

 the natives of the Island, of various classes and individual itv, whether 

 at home or abroad. 



At the end of this volume we find the following brief editorial 

 reference to the work of the magazine and its success during its first 

 year : — 



" With this issue is completed Volume I, of The Prince 

 Edward Island Magazine. To those whose articles have filled our 

 pages we tender here our sincere thanks. It will doubtless make them 

 glad to know that the success which has come to the magazine, is much 

 greater than was expected when the first number was published, and 

 this we attribute to the quality of the work of our kind contributors." 

 The first volume as before stated, contained 436 pages of well written 

 and well illustrated articles of good variety. The magazine has now 

 completed its fourth year with no apparent diminution of vigor or 

 interest, and this may probably be accepted as sufiicient evidence that 

 its progress has been satisfactory both, to the public and to the 

 publisher. 



Among the contributors to this magazine, Lawrence W. Watson is 

 entitled to a foremost place, his articles on "The origin of the 

 Mallicites," " Charlottetown in the Olden Times," "Autumn Flowers " 

 and " Among our Orchids " all appearing in the first volume, and all 

 being worthy of preservation. 



W. L. Cotton deals with John Hunter Duvar and his poems. Mr. 

 Duvar will be well remembered by the readers of Stewarfs Quarterly 

 and The Maritime Monthly as a verse writer of ability. 



Professor John Craven was a contributor of merit to Vols. 1 and 

 2, his principal articles being " Port Lajoie,"' " The Island of St. John 

 in 1721," and " The first settlement of Three Rivers," as well as some 

 verses. 



Eev. Maurice Swabey, a Church of England clergyman now 

 deceased, was an occasional writer, and in addition to some of his 

 poems, there appeared, " Fax Hunting in Prince Edward Island in 

 1840-45." Mr. Swabey was a man of marked ability, if somewhat 

 eccentric, and he resided for a time in Prince Edward Island, and after- 

 wards in Xew Brunswick. In 1878, he published in London, England, 

 a small volume of poems of about 70 pages in extent, entitled " Voices 

 from Abegweet, or The Home on the Wave." 



Abegweet, as we all know, wa.s the Indian name for Prince Edward 

 Island. After leaving New Brunswick, Mr. Swabey became Vicar of 



