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A paper entitled " The Literature of English-speaking' 

 Canada" was then read by C. Pelham Mulvany, M.A., M.D., 

 T.C.D. Among the writers reviewed were Prof. Watson, Mr. 

 Le Sueur, Mr. Grant Allen, Prof. Dawson, Mr. R. W. Phipps, 

 Dr. Canniff, Principal Grant, Mr. Charles Dent, Mr. J. E. 

 Collins, Mr. George Stewart, Mr. C. G. D. Roberts, " Seranus," 

 " EspeVance," and Mr. P. Thompson. In discussing the 

 paper Mr. Geo. Murray noticed the omission of the names of 

 Dr. Rolph, Mr. Charles Lindsay, and especially the late Mr. 

 W. J. Rattray. 



THIRD ORDINARY MEETING. 



The Third Ordinary Meeting of Session 1883-84 was held 

 on Saturday, November 17th, the President in the chair. 



The minutes of last meeting were read and confirmed. 



Mr. Henry P. Gisborne was elected a member. 



The following exchange was announced as received since 

 last meeting : 



Proceedings of the Pujyal Geographical Society, N. S., Vol. V., No. 11, for 

 November, 1883. 



Mr. W. A. Douglas, B. A., then read a paper on " Land AND 



LABOUR," in which a distinction was drawn between property 



in land and property in other things. We had adopted the 



system of land tenure that prevailed in Western Europe, and 



by this system the greater part of society were practically 



deprived of any right to the surface of the earth. Of two 



settlers in the North- West, for example, one secures a section 



which becomes a farm, the other a section which becomes the 



site of a town ; after twenty years the farm sells for $30 or 



$50 an acre, the town site for $10,000 or $100,000 an acre. 



It is more than likely that the owner of the town-lot had 



done less toil for his reward than the farmer. There was a 



great distinction between trade in land and trade in other 



commodities. A man or a number of men take a piece of 



worthless rock, they subject it to smelting, rolling, etc., and 



