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The Bubbles of Canada. By the author of " The Clockmaker." 



1. [1st éd.] London: Richard Bentley, 1839, 8vo. pp. (8), 332. 



2. 2ud ed. London: Richard Bentley, 1839, 8vo. pp. viii, 342. 



3. An. ed. Philadelphia : Lea & Blanchard, 1839, 12mo. pp. 262. 



4. " " Paris, Bandry's European Library, 1839, Svo. 



Vol. 234 of the Library consists of the First and Second Series 

 of "The Clockmaker" (pp. (4), vi, 2SG), and "The Bubbles of 

 Canada" (pp. 287-421). 



The dedication is to James Halibuiton, and is signed " S. S." 

 In it the aathor says: ''Wherever I could obtain authentic works and 

 official papers, I have used them as freely as I could." 



The second historical work. A series of letters on Canada and the 

 Imperial Colonial policy, suggested by Lord Durham's Eeport. The last 

 letter ends with the following prophetic warning, " The fate of Canada 

 rill determine that of all the colonies. The retreat of the soldiers will 

 invite the incursions of the barbarians, and the withdrawal of the legions, 

 like those of Eome, from the distant parts of the Empire, will show that 

 England, conscious of her present weakuess and past glories, is contract- 

 ing her limits and concentrating her energies to meet, as becomes her 

 character, the destiny that awaits all human greatness." 



This volume brings out the author's Tory proclivities. " It was de- 

 signed to show that the Canadians in tlieir struggles for responsible gov- 

 ernment had but little of which to com.plain. It was demagogues who 

 made all the trouble, and that their grievances were imaginary, founded 

 more upon the discontentment of their nature, especially their French 

 nature, than any tangible presentment of well founded political griev- 

 ances. That every time the British Government yielded to their im- 

 portunities, the more they felt encouraged to renew their demands." — 

 G. E. Eenety in Life and Times of Hon. Joseph Howe. 



The Clockmaker; or, the Sayings and Doings of Samuel Slick, of Slick- 



ville. 



FiEST Series. 



1. [l8t ed.] Halifax: Joseph Howe, 1836. 12mo. pp. 221. (No plates). 



The date of the first edition is invariably stated to be " 1837." 

 The edition of 1836 exists, but it appears to be unknown to 

 bibliographers. 



Halifax: Joseph Howe, 1837, 12mo. pp. vi, 221, (No plates). 

 London: Richard Bentley. 1837, 12mo. pp. xii, 307, (No plates). 

 Philadelphia : Lea d Blanchard, 1837, 12mo. pp. 304. 



First American edition. Printed in November, and reprinted 

 in December. 

 Philadelphia : Lea d, Blanchard, 1836, 12mo. pp. 176. 



