REVIEWS CANADIAN POETRY. 21 



fully commemorating historical features. Here, for example, is a good 

 subject not discreditably dealt with : — 



The inconstant moon has passed behind a cloud, 

 Cape Diamond shows its sombre-colored bust, 

 As if the mournful night had thrown a shi-oud 

 Over this pillar to a hero's dust. 

 Well may she weep ; hers is no trivial trust ; 

 His cenotaph may crumble on the plain, 

 Here stands a pile that dares the rebel's lust 

 For spoliation: one that will remain— 

 A granite seal — brave Wolfe ! set upon Victory's fane. 



Quebec S how regally it crowns the height, 

 Like a tanned giant on a solid throne 1 

 Unmindful of the sanguinary fight, 

 The roar of cannon mingling with the moaa 

 Of mutilated soldiers years agoue, 

 That gave the place a glory and a name 

 Among the nations. France was heard to groan ; 

 England rejoiced, but cheeked the proud acclaim — 

 A brave young chief had fallen to viadicate her fame. 



Wolfe and Montcalm ! two nobler names ne'er graced. 

 The page of history, or the hostile plain ; 

 No braver souls the storm of battle faced. 

 Regardless of the danger or the pain. 

 They pass'd unto their rest without a stain 

 Upon their nature or their generous hearts. 

 One graceful column to the noble twain, 

 Speaks of a nation's gratitude and starts 

 The tear that valor claims, and feeling's self imparts. 



The poem is manifestly designed as a companion, if not a guide- 

 book, for the voyage to the Saguenay ; and though it has in it none 

 of those magical passages which stir the heart like the sound of a 

 trumpet, it will nevertheless make an agreeable return to the tourist 

 for the small space it claims in his baggage. 



Of the poems issued from the Hamilton Franklin Press, the princi- 

 pal one, entitled " Oscar" is a picture of the Crimean "War, written 

 by a young Canadian, who witnessed and bore a part in the scenes he 

 describes. The plan of his poem, however, embraces a sketch of 

 Canadian scenery, as noted hj the imaginary hero, on his way to the 

 seat of war, and so furnishes another view of the same picturesque 

 and historic landscape which has been already drawn by the poetic pen- 



