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form and wrote many articles for newspapers 

 and magazines, as well as two books, The 

 New North and The Outer Trail. She died in 

 Victoria. 



CAMERON, GEORGE FREDERICK (1854-1885), 

 a Canadian lyric poet and journalist whose 

 promising career was cut short by an untimely 

 death. He was born at New Glasgow, Nova 

 Scotia, and was educated at Queen's University, 

 Kingston. After spending several years in the 

 United States he returned to Canada to be- 

 come editor of the Kingston News. Meanwhile 

 he had written a number of poems, strongly 

 marked by an idealistic strain, and won praise 

 for his lyrics from such exacting critics as 

 Matthew Arnold and Swinburne. Cameron's 

 poems were collected after his death in a 

 volume entitled Lyrics on Freedom, Love and 

 Death, and selections may be found in Sted- 

 man's Victorian Anthology and in the Oxford 

 Book of Canadian Verse. Among his best 

 poems are What Matters It; Ah Me! the 

 Mighty Love ; True Greatness, and The Future. 



CAMILLE, kameel' , the title and the name 

 of the heroine in the English version of a 

 celebrated play by Alexander Dumas the 

 Younger. The play created a sensation when 

 produced in Paris in 1852, and has since en- 

 joyed great popularity in English-speaking 

 countries because of the opportunity it gives 

 for display of highest emotional power. Sarah 



Bornhardt, Olga Nethersole and Helena Mod- 

 jeska have all been notable Camilles. Verdi's 

 popular opera La Traviata, in which Sembrich 

 and Tetrazzini have starred, is based on the 

 story of Camille. In 1917 Galli-Curci scored a 

 triumph in this part. 



CAMORRA, kamar'a, a Neapolitan secret 

 society of criminals which for about a century 

 has been active in extorting petty sums from 

 the common people and larger amounts from 

 the more wealthy, by threats of violence. For 

 a time during the Bourbon rule (before 1860) 

 the members of the society, called Camor- 

 ristas, worked openly, agreeing to commit 

 crimes of any sort for a money payment. 

 Under the present government of Italy they 

 formed a political machine, in complete control 

 of the city of Naples. In 1899 the Crown de- 

 prived the municipal government of authority 

 pending an investigation, after which a citizens' 

 league drove the Camorristas from power. It 

 is believed that a final blow at the Camorra 

 was struck in 1912 when six of its members 

 were tried for murder and twenty-five others 

 were accused of being members of a criminal 

 society. It was a notable case; thirty-two 

 lawyers appeared for the defense and over 600 

 witnesses were examined. The result was a 

 verdict of guilty against a number of Camor- 

 ristas, who received sentences of imprisonment 

 ranging from four to thirty years. 



AMP. The words camp and camping 

 suggest many things woods, prairies, moun- 

 tains, lakes, rivers, fishing, hunting, rest for 

 tired nerves, out-of-door life. Camping in- 

 cludes everything from spending the night in 

 a tent in your own back-yard to passing several 

 weeks in some secluded spot, miles from the 

 nearest town. The camper may travel on foot, 

 on horseback, in a wagon, or in these modern 

 days, in an automobile. He may use a canoe, 

 a sailboat, a motor launch or a steam-yacht. 

 No matter where or how one goes, the thought 

 of camping should act like magic, should make 

 one restless for the freedom of out-of-doors, 



and for the strength and vigor which only an 

 outdoor life can give. 



There is only one way to get the real flavor 

 of outdoor life; it is to get into the wilds, 

 away from the cities. This does not mean that 

 the boy or girl who has been brought up in a 

 large community cannot learn a great deal 

 about camping without going many miles from 

 home. Much can be learned from books and 

 by practice; many experiments in making 

 shelters and beds, building fires and cooking 

 can be tried before the camping trip begins. 

 In fact, it is wrong for the inexperienced per- 

 son to start with the idea that only experience 



