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MISCELLANEOUS. 



PAUL KANE. 



We learn -with much pleasure that our talented Canadian Artist, Paul Kane, 

 has effected very satisfactory arrangements with the eminent London publishers, 

 Messrs. Longman & Co., for the issue of a work prepared from his notes, to be 

 entitled : " Eambles of an Artist among the Indian Tribes of British America, 

 during a four years' sojourn in the Hudson's Bay Territory, Oregon, and along the 

 shores of the Pacific." This interesting and truly Canadian work will be illustrated 

 by engravings executed in the highest style of art, from Mr. Kane's finished 

 sketches and oil paintings ; and at the present period, when so great an interest 

 has been excited in North "Western territories, the Red River Settlement, the Gold 

 regions of Frazer's River, and the colony of Yancouvers Island, — all of which are 

 included in the subjects of Mr. Kane's notes and sketches, — it is not easy to con- 

 ceive of a more timely publication, or one likely to do more credit to Canada. 



EGBERT BROWN. 



The greatest botanist of our time, Robert BRoWiS-, has paid the debt of nature, 

 and is gone from amongst us. He had reached the highest pinnacle of scientific 

 reputation, and affords one of the most remarkable instances of this result being 

 achieved not by multitude of writings or frequency of appearance before the 

 public, but by the extraordinary value of a few works, and the impression made 

 on all who had intercourse with him of his profound knowledge, wonderful 

 sagacity, accuracy, caution, and philosophic spirit, qualities which were united 

 with singular modesty and a most amiable disposition. He has left his mark on 

 the age, and his name will go down with honisr to posterity. He died on the 10th 

 of June, at the age of 85, having retained his faculties in an unusual degree 

 almost to his last hour. 



DR. CHARLES MACKAT. 



We referred, in a former number, to the cordial reception accorded to Dr. 

 Charles Mackay, during his recent tour through the United States, and quoted the 

 lively poem of " John and Jonathan," which he recited on the occasion of the fes- 

 tive entertainment with which he was greeted at Washington. The following 

 vigorous stanzas may be ac3epted as the response to that genial poem of our 

 modern Scottish Songster — the " Minstrel of the joyous Present." They were 

 addressed to him, at Boston, when on the eve of his final departure from the 

 American shores; and are from the pen of the American poet, Oliver Wendell 

 Holmes : — 



BRrrAIN AND AMERICA. 



Brave singer of the coming time, 



Sweet minstrel of the joyous present. 

 Crowned with the noblest wreath of rhyme, 



The holly-leaf of Ayrshire's peasant. 



