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I pass to the field of literature. If literature includes, as Sir John 

 Bourinot quotes Matthew Arnold as maintaining, every written 

 expression of the human spirit, not excepting treatises on ballistics 

 or b-stearodipal-miten, then the time would fail me to tell, as Sir John 

 endeavoured to tell, of the myriad productions of our brethren in 

 Sections 3, 4, 5. In literature more normally so-called undoubtedly 

 the greatest progress has been in the study of history. The enterprise 

 and daring of various publishers has united with the widening activities 

 of our historians to produce a series of works in which the point of 

 view, if not always free from provincialism, is at least wider than 

 that of Dent or Kingsford, and the writers of an elder day. I class 

 Kings ford among these, for though several volumes of his monumental 

 work were yet to appear when Sir John Bourinot wrote, its outlines 

 were already drawn, and its style and proportions determined. "The 

 Makers of Canada," "Canada, and its Provinces," "The Chronicles 

 of Canada" are series which do credit, after all allowances are made, 

 alike to authors and to publishers. The publications of the Cham- 

 plain Society put at our disposal a wealth of historical material, and 

 in form and matter do honour alike to the artistic skill of the printer 

 and the sound learning of the historian. 



Since 1896 the University of Toronto has published its "Review 

 of Historical Publications Relating to Canada," and in the present 

 year of grace this has expanded into a quarterly, so that we now have 

 a "Canadian Historical Review." 



The West too is beginning to come to its own in the field of his- 

 torical studies. Even in Sir John Bourinot's time we had the narra- 

 tives of such early fur-traders as Alexander Mackenzie, the Henrys, 

 father and son, and David Harmon, but much the best history of the 

 West had been written by an American, the late H. H. Bancroft. 

 Now we have a school of western historians growing up, of whom 

 Lawrence Burpee, Dr. Bryce and His Honour Judge Howay are 

 honoured Fellows of this Society. 



This great development in the past twenty-five years of painting 

 and of history is directly connected with our increase in material 

 wealth. Painting, more than any other art, demands a wealthy 

 patron, and from the growth of public and private wealth have sprung 

 the artistic schools of which I have spoken. 



History is in the main an academic subject, and with the growth 

 of wealth, there has come a growth of universities; six provinces now 

 have Provincial Universities, and private or corporate beneficence lïas 

 given Quebec two great institutions in Laval and McGill. As our 

 universities have grown, so too has the study of history in them, till 

 we now have not only Professors of History but historical departments; 



