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mediocre poetry. Mr. Henry J. Morg-an, in his " Bibliotheca 

 Canadensis," says of her work in fiction — " She aimed prin- 

 cipally to depict the state of society which existed in Canada 

 prior to and immediately after the Conquest." Her first im- 

 portant novel was " Ida Beresford," which appeared in the 

 Literary Garla^id in 1848. The following year " Florence 

 Fitz Hardinge " appeared ; and after these came in rapid 

 succession, "Eva Huntingdon," "Clarence Fitz Clarence," 

 " Eveleen O'Donnell," " Armand Durand," i "The Manor 

 House of De Villerai," and "Antoinette de Mirecourt." 2 

 The last three, as well as the first, were afterwards translated 

 into French. "Ida Beresford" was warmly praised by Mrs. 

 Moodie in the Viclo'ia Magazine^ Belleville, of which she 

 was then editor. 



Turning now to the Lower Provinces, we come to a n ane 

 which ranks head and shoulders above every other name in 

 Canadian literature — Thomas Chandler Haliburton, " Sam 

 Slick." Halibuton was born at Windsor, Nova Scotia, 

 on the 17th December, 1796. He was educated at King's 

 College, Windsor, graduating with honours ; was called to the 

 bar; and afterwards represented the county of Annapolis in 

 the Provincial Assembly. In 1828, when only thirty-two 

 years of age, he was appointed Chief Justice of the Court of 

 Common Pleas of Nova Scotia, and in 1841 was transferred 

 to the Supreme Court of that Province. In 1856 he removed 

 to England and entered the English Parliament, where for 

 several years he staunchly upheld Colonial rights in an 

 assembly that, when not actively hostile, was indifferent on the 

 subject. He died at his Pmglish home, Gordon House, on the 

 banks of the Thames, in 1865. 



It is impossibe to attempt to do even partial justice, with- 

 in the limits of a general paper, to the work of one whom 

 Artemus Ward pronounced to be the " father of the American 



1. " Artnand Durand ; nr a Promise Fulfilled," Montreal, 1868, 8 vo. 

 Translated by J. A. Genand, 1869. 



2. " Antt)inette de Mirncourt ; or, Secret Marrying and Secret 

 Sorrowing; A Canadian Tale " .Montreal, 1864, pp. 369 12 mo. 



