f6 TRANSACTIONS. 19OI-2 



The Illustrated London News of July 15th, 1842, con- 

 tained a sympathetic review of Judge Haliburton's work, 

 from which the following is taken : 



"The primary cause of its success, we conceive, may be found in its sound, sagaci- 

 ous, unexaggerated views of human nature— not of human nature as it is modified by 

 artificial institutions and subjected tf> the despotic caprices of fashion, but as it exists 

 in a free and comparatively unsophisticated state, full of faith in its own impulses, and 

 quick to sympathise with kindred humanity; adventurous, self-relying, untrammelled 

 by social etiquette ; giving full vent to the emotions that rise within its breast ; regard- 

 less of the distinctions of caste, but ready to find friends and brethren among all of 

 whom it may come in contact.' 



" Sam Slick " has found his way into every corner of the 

 earth. A traveller records his surprise and pleasure at meet- 

 ing with a well-thumbed copy in a log hut in the woods of 

 the Mississippi Valley. Another traveller found one in the 

 most northern town in the world, Hammerfest, Norway, 

 where it was the constant companion of the British Consul. 

 Forty years ago it is recorded that an able but very eccentric 

 Danish Governor at St. Thomas, in the West Indies, was 

 noted far and wide for his excessive admiration for " Sam 

 Slick" and his sayings. Whenever a very knotty point 

 arose before him and his Council, which consisted of three 

 persons, he used to say, " We must adjourn till to-morrow. I 

 should like to look into this point. I must see what Sam 

 Slick has to say about it." 



As Nova Scotia had her pre-eminent man-of-letters, so 

 New Brunswick might also boast of her's, though on a lower 



4. "The Old Judge ; or, Lifein a Oolo ly," By the author of "Sam 

 Slick the Clockmaker" 2 vols. H nry Colburn, London, 1849, 8vo. 

 Appf^ared origina'ly in Frazer's Magazine, Feb. 1847. Other eiitions : 

 New York, 1849; London, 18t50 ; New York. 1862; New Yo k. 1880 

 Translated into German m 1849-50 and published in 8 vols. Fren< h 

 translation, " Le Vieux Juge," Bibliotheque Uniiier.^elle de Geneve, 

 Tom. X , 1849. 



5 Sam Slick's Wise Saws and Modern Instance-; or. What he 

 Said, Did, oi Invented," 2vols Hmst & Blackett, London. 1853, 8vo. 

 Othe'r editions : Philadelphia. 1853 ; London, 1859. 



6. "Nature and Humat. Nature. By the author of Sam Sli k the 

 Clockmaker, 2 vols. Hurst & Blackett, London, 1855, 8vo. New York, 

 1855 ; London. 1859. 



A book wrongly ascribed to Haliburton in the "English Ca a o- 

 gue." Morgan's "Bibliotheca Canadensis," etc., is "Kentucky. A T de " 

 London, 1834. It is simply an English edition, with a different title, < f 

 James Hall's "The Harpe's Head, a Legend of Kentucky." 1833 



