work j it disappeared from the book stores in less than one 

 year. 



In 1862, he helped on a literary confrere in a small literary 

 venture by contributing an interesting article, under the 

 caption " The Legendary Lore of the St. Lawrence ". 



The next year, with the view of promoting the study of 

 Canadian annals, he began his valuable series which ran over 

 three years, under the well-remembered name of Maple 

 Leaves : the first series was devoted to general subjects, 

 legends and quaint old customs ; the second, to rescuing 

 reliable records of Canadian battle-fields and siege narratives j 

 the third depicted chiefly the old manors and scenery round 

 Quebec. That year, he found time during his leisure moments 

 to write, for V Opinion Publique, a short French essay on 

 Sir Walter Scott, as poet, novelist, historian ; a lengthy 

 review of the arctic explorations of Franklin, McClure, Kane,. 

 McClintock ; he also published a treatise on the river and 

 deep-sea fisheries of Canada, which elicited warm encomiums 

 from the French press. 



In 1865, General McLellan, having alluded disparagingly 

 in a speech he made, to the memory of Montcalm, for his 

 supposed approval of the Fort George massacre in 1757, Mr. 

 LeMoine took up the cudgels for his favourite hero and con- 

 futed by Bancroft's, the Abbe Piquet's narrative and by 

 others, the statement made by the luckless warrior of Bull 

 Run renown: this booklet, intitled La Me'moire de Montcalm 

 Venge'e, met with hearty recognition in Canada and in France. 



Various effusions of a historical character, fell from the 

 writer's prolific and versatile pen, in 1870, in Stewart's Quar- 

 terly Magazine, New Monthly Magazine, BelforoVs Review, 

 Forest and Stream and La Revue Canadienne. In 1873, a 

 selection of his best Canadian sketches, were published, 

 under the old familiar name of Maple Leaves, new series." 

 The same year also ushered in his valuable French work 

 Y Album du Touriste. 



Quebec Past and Present, edited in 1876, is probably as a 

 book of reference, the most useful historical volume ever put 

 forth by the author. It embodies the whole history of the 

 ancient capital from its foundation up to 1876 ; the edition is 

 exhausted long since. Possibly, no literary composition of 

 Mr. LeMoine, by the reminiscences it recalled to him, was 

 more pleasant to indite than the publication, in 1878, under 

 the title of Chronicles of the St. Lawrence, of his multifarious 

 excursions to the kingdom of herring and cod, on the Gaspe 

 coast. 



The bulky volume of 550 pages, styled Picturesque Quebec 

 from the mass of quaint information disseminated through its 

 pages about the old city's streets, squares, eminent inhabi- 

 tants and fortifications, completed the history of the romantic 

 city ; the literary research involved in this work was too heavy 



