142 ^ THE ROYAL SOCIETY GF CANADA 



iChicago, London, Toronto, Vanderhoof, Gunn, Co., Ltd., Winnipeg, 1909. 

 Cloth. Cr. 8vo., pp. 222. 



2(1867), 30, 31 Vict., c. 3. (Imp.) 



30f which let one Woodrow Wilson take notice and be comforted. 



^Handbook of American Constitution Law, by Henry Campbell Black, RI.A., 

 3rd edit., St. Paul, 1910, p. 107. 



^Gouverneur Morris loquendo et arguendo. Journal, pp. 365-368. 



«So Pinckney of South Carolina. 



^Mr. Mason's opinion— but then he came from Virginia and knew his people. 



^Gerry not yet mandering. 



nVhen Beaconsfield made his secretary a Peer it was said that he followed the 

 precedent of Caligula, who made his horse, Incitatus, a Consul. It would seem that 

 Incitatus, "Flyer," though he was given a marble stable, an ivory stall, purple 

 trappings and a jewelled collar, failed of the Consulate— at all events Suetonius 

 says: "Consulatum quoque traditur destinasse" and Dio Cassius, "Consulemque 

 se eum creaturum pollicebatur; facturus si diutius vixisset"— it was well that "non 



diutius vixit." 



Canada has put an end to this title business (so far as her citizens are concerned) 

 by resolution of her House of Commons. 



When I was a lad my old Scotch tutor taught me that "lucus", a sacred wood 

 or thicket was the same as "lucus," light and that both came from "luceo" (I shine), 

 because the latter did, and the former did not shine. On the same lucus a non 

 lucendo principle are "Bellum," war, because it was -not bellum, agreeable: "Canis," 

 a dog, because it does not sing, a non canendo, etc., so also "W'oodrow" because he 

 wouldn't row but insisted on steering, and a stream I knew in my boyhood was 

 "Trout Creek" because there were no trout in it. 



"For what says the modern Mother Shipton— more up to date than the ancient 

 of Knaresborough? 



"When Onyx sports on White House lawn 



And flourishes her gaudy legs. 

 Then Canada, her freedom gone. 



Will drain of slavery's cup the dregs." 



