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his "Notes on the Study of Language" and other Essays, and of which 

 he became President ; of the Peace and Arbitration Society, of which he 

 was a Vice-President; and of the Canadian Society of Authors in which 

 he held the same position. He also attained the presidency of the 

 Toronto University Club of Ottawa. His advice and counsel were 

 highly valued by his colleagues of The Royal Society and he did 

 constant labour in forwarding the purposes for which the Society was 

 founded. Of the very many instances in which he gave signal help, 

 the recasting of the Diploma of the Society and the choice of a new 

 motto might be mentioned. The motto adopted by the Society was 

 suggested by him and was essentially founded on a passage from 

 Claudian. In every capacity in which he served his fellow-men, he 

 was recognized as one whom it was a privilege to know not only for his 

 commanding abilities but for qualities that appealed to the heart. 

 His attachments were strong and he was conscientiously faithful in 

 his friendships. For years he bore much pain with exemplary patience, 

 rarely complaining, sometimes seeking relief in a favorite book or in 

 the use of his pen, sometimes in intercourse with congenial minds. 

 But notwithstanding his long illness, it was a shock as well as a cause 

 of very real sorrow to those who knew and esteemed him when word 

 reached them that, on the 28th of September, 1917, the summons of 

 death had come to him. 



WILLIAM WILFRED CAMPBELL 



William Wilfred Campbell was born at Berlin, Ontario, in 1861. 

 He died of pneumonia at his country residence near Ottawa on the 

 1st January, 1918. He was one of that small band of true poets who 

 rose soon after Confederation and first gave idealistic voice to the 

 Dominion. Dr. Campbell was always intensely in earnest, hated 

 whatever he thought was trifling with the poetic art and was noted 

 for his bardic fire and feeling. His best passages on poetic and 

 patriotic subjects were strong and satisfying. Like all real seers his 

 sense of beauty and of mystery sometimes carried him very near 

 perfection. He was at his best in his great poem "The Mother." 



Son of an Anglican clergyman, the Reverend Thomas S. Camp- 

 bell, related to the Argyle family, he was thoroughly Highland in his 

 devotion to the history of his clan; but he was proud also of descent 

 through his mother from the artist Wright, who like Hoppner was one 

 of the four leading successors of Sir Joshua Reynolds. Educated at 

 Toronto University , he took Anglican orders in 1885 and was Rector 

 of St. Stephen, N.B., but resigned in 1891 for certain intellectual 

 reasons. Soon afterwards he entered the Civil Service at Ottawa, 



