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by such authoritative English journals as the AthencEum 

 and Satirist. Richardson's third book, "The Canadian 

 Brothers," is a vigorously written romance of the war of [812, 

 in which, as has been stated, he himself took a part, i 

 This was followed by " Matilda Montgomerie," "Wau-na-gee; 

 or the Massacre of Chicago", " The Monk Knight of St.' John," 

 "Wesibrook," "Tecumseh," and one or two others, founded 

 chiefly upon incidents in Canadian history. 



In 1838 the Literary' Garland^ a monthly magazine 

 '•'devoted to the advancement of general literature", was started 

 at Montreal, and for some years edited by John Gibson. 

 The magazine ran for fourteen years, an unprecedented th:ng 

 in Canada, and was by all odds the most important venture 

 of the kind in the country, up to that time. 2 Its contents 

 were mainly fiction, from Canadian pens, among the chief 

 contributors being Mrs, Moodie and Mrs. Traill, two of the 

 famous Strickland sisters, Mrs. Leprohon, Hugh E. Montgo- 

 merie, Reverend Joseph Abbott, Mr-. Maclachlan, Fennings 

 Taylor, Dr. William Dunlop ("Tiger" Dunlop, as he was 

 called) of the Canada Company, Mrs. Cushing, Mrs. Cheney 

 and Miss. Foster, the last three sisters. 



Mrs. Susanna Moodie was born at Bungay, in the County 

 of Sussex, FCngland, in 1803. Four of her sisters, Elizabeth, 

 Agnes, Jane and Catharine, contributed to the literature of 

 the period, the first two being authors of the standard works 

 "The Queens of England," "Queens of Scotland,"etc. Susanna 

 Strickland began to write when she was fifteen years of age, 

 contributing short poems and tales to English annuals and 

 magazines. In 1821 she married Mr. J. W. Dunbar Moodie, 

 and they came to Canada the following year, settling on a 

 farm near Port Hope, afterwards removing to a place near 

 Peterborough, in what was then practically the wilderness. 

 In her best-known book, "Roughing it in the Bush," Mrs. 

 Moodie has given a graphic picture of the hardships they had 



1. Published at Montreal in 1840. 



2. First Series, December 1838 to December 1842. New Series, 1843 

 to 1852. Published by Lovell & Gibson. 



