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directeur de la revue de Saint-Louis, de sa bienveillante ap- 
.préciation. Nous aurions assurément la partie belle, si, à 
titre d’amicale revanche, nous voulions appuyer, de notre 
côté, sur les mérites de M. Preuss et de sa publication. Nous 
nous en abstenons, toutefois, de crainte que l’on ne nous 
soupçonne de vouloir faire revivre cette “ société d’admira- 
tion mutuelle ” dont il fut beaucoup parlé, à certaine époque, 
dans la presse canadienne. 
Apropos of a claim made in favor of the Bulletin des 
Recherches Historiques, our esteemed friend, Canon V. A 
Huard, points out, in a letter to Le Droit, of Ottawa, that 
the oldest extant Canadian periodical publication in the 
French language is the Annales de la Bonne Sainte Anne, 
which is in its forty-seventh year. The second place is held 
by Canon Huard’s own monthly magazine, Le Naturaliste 
Canädien, which was established forty-six years ago and 
has been edited by the genial Canon for a little over a quar- 
ter of a century. This makes Father Huard the doyen of 
French-Canadian editors. 
Who :s the senior, in point of service, among the Catho- 
lic editors of the United States? Father Phelan is gone, so 
is Hugo Klapproth, and so is John J. O’Shea. We presume 
 Humphrey J. Desmond of the Catholic Citizen is near the 
top of the column now. The editor of the Fortmightly Re- 
view has been constantiy engaged in Catholic journalism 
since June, 1800, though his earliest experiences in the pro- 
fession date.back six or seven years farther. He has so long 
been called “ the Benjamin of the Catholic Press ” and “ the 
cub editor ” that he can hardly realize that he has gradually 
advanced to a place among the greyheads of the profession. 
Yet it must be a fact, for we well remember Canon Huard's 
assumption of the directorship of the Naturalist Canadien, 
which, by the way, enjoys the unique distinction of being 
the only review devoted to the natural sciences in the French 
