wars of Oukraina and the oppression of a portion of the people in serfdom. 

 Taras was himself born as a serf and some rich friends succeeded in purchas- 

 ing his liberty. 



He fell into disgrace with the Emperor owing to some temerity in the 

 use of his pen and had to serve eight years as a common soldier on the sandy 

 banks of the lake of Aral in Central Asia. This shattered his health and 

 although permitted to return to his country, he died after three years in 1 86 1 . 



The following verses are Shevtchenko's legacy to his people which we 

 have endeavored to render in English rhyme, as near as possible to the original : 



Learn from other men, my brethren, 



Love to think, love reading; 

 Hear from strangers' lips the teaching 



Yours by far exceeding! 

 Hold fast to your fathers' wisdom 



And learn from another, 

 For God's doom awaits the traitor, 



Who forgets his mother. 

 Strangers will forsake him likewise, 



No good will befall him, 

 Both his kindred and the stranger 



An outcast will call him. 



OUR GALICIANS. 



The Galicians residing in Canada have proved that they can thrive as 

 an agricultural people. They are fond of locating on bushy and slightly hilly 

 homesteads and also near watercourses, reminding them of their old country. 

 They understand living on very scanty provisions in the first years of their set- 

 tlement and, after some years of toil, they have succeeded in obtaining here a 

 measure of welfare which the Canadian soil and people are extending to them. 



1 hey find here ample scope for gratifying their love of liberty, and some 

 of them have so far been identified with their new conditions, that they are 

 proud and happy to be called Canadians. 



In this respect they are faithful to the standpoint of the old Slav, who 

 tried to identify himself with all people whose language he could understand 



