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— Belated literature and art — Canadian writers — Historians, 

 poets, and novelists — Religious zeal — Commercial expansion 

 Insular sentiment — Cosmopolitan practice — Transatlantic 

 steam service — Returning through tlie St. Lawrence — The 

 closed and opened book — Changed times and manners — 

 Reading the riddle — Canadian Boat Song — Symbols in the 

 western sky— The last glimpse of the Golden West . . 280 



Appendix 289 



Index 



299 



