Section II., 1909. 43 ] Trans. R S. C. 



Ill, — Halihurton. 



(" Sam Slick.") 



a sketch and bibliography. 



By A. H. O'Brien, M.A. 



Presented by A. G. Doughty, C.M.G., Lit.D., May, 1908. 



Table of Matter. 



1. Portrait of Judge Haliburton. 



2. Life of T. C. Haliburton. 



3. Residence of Judge Haliburton. 



4. Haliburton the Author. 



5. Chronological order of works. 



6. Notes on the Bibliography. 



7. Bibliography. 



8. Titles of pirated editions. 



9. Miscellaneous items. 



10. Works erroneously ascribed to Haliburton. 



11. Reviews and criticisms of particular works. 



18. Biographies and portraits, and notices of works generally. 



Life of T. C. Haliburton. 



In this age of biographies, not only of men justly celebrated but 

 also of the mediocre and obscure, one recalls the lines of Cowper in 



" The Task " : — " Some describe the man of whom his own coevals 



took but little note, and paint his person, character and views as they 

 had known him from his mother's womb." If such men are entitled 

 to be handed down with glamour and distinction to posterity, a fortiori 

 tlien is a man of whom his own coeval? spoke in no slighting terms — 

 whether as an orator, a legislator, a writer, a judge, or a citizen. 



Thomas Chandler Haliburton was born at Windsor, Nova Scotia, 

 December 17th, 1796. Descendants of an old Border family, his 

 immediate ancestors settled in that province after the removal of the 

 Acadians. The Hon. W. H. 0. Haliburton, Chief Justice of the Court of 

 Common Pleas of Nova Scotia, married a daughter of Major Alexander 



