with history. The failures and successes of the past, the rise of civilization, 

 its perils, and a hundred other important matters may be studied by the pro- 

 vision made in the Reference Library for historical examination. Biography 

 is but a department of this great subject, by consulting which we may gain 

 inspiration, and by the acquaintance with great men may perhaps make our 

 lives sublime. 



THE CANADIAN DEPARTMENT. 



One word more for Canada. Canada is becoming a nation. It? 

 writers are becoming better and better known. Even in the mother country 

 is this so. Everything literary, or in the several departments mentioned, 

 which is Canadian, should be an especial care to an intelligent and broad- 

 minded librarian. The historian, the essay writer, the debater, the reporter, 

 the teacher, the political or pulpit orator, should have the opportunity and 

 ready access for consultation to a fully supplied and up-to-date Canadian 

 department in the Carnegie Library on William Street. 



If this should be the outcome of the efforts of the Historical and 

 Scienttfc Society for the last twenty-five years, then we may feel satisfied. 



