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year, we intend to begin inspecting 

 as early as the month of January, if 

 possible, so that the license-holders 

 may know the decisions of the De- 

 partment in the early spring and what 

 they will have to do. The advantage 

 of doing this work in winter is that 

 it enables our men to compare the 

 places where work is to be done with 

 those which are being cut and those 

 already cut over in the neighborhood. 

 The cost of this inventory, combined 

 with those of the supervision of the 

 cutting, is consequently lower than if 

 the work was done during the sum- 

 mer when travelling in our woods is 

 less easy than in winter. 



Supervision on Private Lands. 



As in the past we have devoted 

 much time to the inspection of lots 

 granted to settlers for the purpose 

 both of ascertaining the progress 

 made in clearing and of preventing 

 illegal cutting, which, as very fre- 

 quently happens, is done by unscrupu- 

 lous holders of location tickets. 



To succeed in having a sufificiently 

 effective control, it will be necessary 



to inspect the lots at least three times 

 a year, as is done in Abitibi. Such 

 vigilance has a wonderful efifect. 



THE OLDEST NOVEL. 



(London Sphere.) 

 The oldest work of fiction extant 

 is thought to be "The Tale of Two 

 Brothers," written 3,200 years ago by 

 the Theban scribe, Enana, librarian 

 of the palace of King Menepthah, the 

 supposed Pharoah of the Exodus. 

 The tale, it appears, was written for 

 the entertainment of the Crown 

 Prince, who subsequently reigned at 

 Set II. His name appears in two 

 places in the manuscript, probably the 

 only surviving autograph signature of 

 an Egyptian king. This piece of an- 

 tique fiction, written on nineteen 

 sheets of papyrus in a bold hieratic 

 hand, was purchased in Italy by Mme. 

 d'Orbiney, who sold it in 1857 to the 

 authorities of the British Museum, 

 where it is now known as the d'Or- 

 biney papyrus. 



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