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spectable. Professorships are mostly encumbered with work. 
Positions for pure research are very few. Of prizes, honorary and 
financial, we have scarcely any. The positions in the gift of our 
societies are nearly all to be obtained by political methods only, 
to which the true student is of necessity a stranger. 
If there be no opportunities or rewards for the scientific special- 
ist in this country, we will have to look abroad for the stimulus 
to thought, and for a sentiment to offset universal sordidness, 
10: 
RECENT LITERATURE. 
THE CRUISE OF THE “ Arıce May.”’—When a yachtsman is a 
good story-teller and artist, and he sails through waters rich in 
historic and scenic features, and moreover when his publishers 
give him carte blanche to reproduce his sketches in a style unsur- 
passed, with the accessories of luxurious paper and presswork to 
correspond, the results can be safely predicted. The Gulf of St. 
Lawrence is a royal region for the explorer and tourist. Ever 
since its discovery by Jacques Cartier, and probably before his 
time, Basques, Bretons, Englishmen and Spaniards have fished in 
its waters, and hunted walrus on its islands; while antiquarians, 
geologists and naturalists have in later times explored every recess. 
The bold shores of Nova Scotia, the naked coast of Newfound- 
land recalling the bare coast of Spain; the low red shores o 
Prince Edwards island, the lonely isolated cliffs of Bird rocks 
and the sullen, frowning crags of the Labrador coast— what 
variety, what adventure, what rich gleanings in all fields of health- 
ful sport and science await the summer cruiser in this grand gulf! 
And now comes the artist who crowns the whole witha series 
of pictures of life and nature on the shore and wave. With what 
1 The Cruise of the Alice May in the Guif of St. Lawrence and adjacent waters. 
With numerous illustrations. Reprinted from 7he Century magazine. By S. G. W. 
BENJAMIN. New Yoik, D. Appleton & Co., 1885. Sm. 4to, pp. 
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