1900-2 TRANSACTIONS. 2/ 



copies in the United States and Canada, and has been 

 translated into German, Swedish and Japanese; "Deficient 

 Saints," ^ a novel of New England life and character ; " Her 

 Sailor,"^ a modern love story, enlarged from an earlier book 

 "Her Spanish Sailor"; and several other shorter stories, 

 appealiiig rather to juvenile than adult readers. 



Miss Lily Dougall, of Montreal, is the author of a num- 

 ber of novels, all of them of good quality. Her first book, 

 "Beggars All," was published in i89i,and was highly praised 

 by the London Academy and other authoritative journals. 

 This was followed by "What Necessity Knows" (^893)1 

 " The Mermaid," (1895) " Zeit Geist," (1895) a rather remark- 

 able departure in fiction, which created something of a sensat- 

 ion when it first appeared,^ "A Question of Faith," (1895), 

 "The Madonna of a Day," (1896) ^ "A Dozen Ways of Love." 

 (1897) and "A Mormon Prophet". * The last puts into the 

 form of a novel the early history of the Mormons and of the 

 remarkable man who founded that sect. Several of the other 

 books have their scenes laid in Canada. 



Mr, Grant Allen, who died in England about a year ago, 

 was, as of course everyone knows, a Canadian by birth. He 

 spent the greater part of his life, however, in England, and 

 his books are in no sense Canadian, either in tone or theme. 

 So far as his novels are concerned, perhaps we need not be 

 over anxious to claim them in any event. He . was much 

 more brilliant, edifying, and successful, and one might also 

 say, much more entertaining, as a scientific writer than as a 

 novelist. 



Mrs. Everard Cotes (formerly Miss Sara "Je^rinette. Dup.- 

 can) was born in Brantf ord,, Ontario, andlJ,,spe,J:\|1^,^;5§Jrst/%^J^^^^ 

 years or so of her life in her native country., Jier hQfff€~1's 

 toi^iW-m- Simla,-' Tndiaj ■'Vhere'^j^^r^,r5.hu9^oJ|«^fii:^td!^ac^^^ 

 physician.;-; She has devot'ed'"h-ef¥elf td'th^^iijting ofoifiction 



1. Page & Co., Boston, 



2. Page & Co., Hostfm, 1900. 



3. Appeared originally in Temple Bar. 

 4 Toronto, 1899. 



