INDEX. 



Pages. 



Author's Works — English and French 1 



Biographical Sketch by Wm. Kirby, F. E. S. C 7 



Part I. 



Quebec and its Environs ,. 13 



The Country-seats around Quebec 21 



Phips before Quebec, 1690. A Red-Letter Day 25 



An Episode of the War of the Conquest 39 



The War of 1759 51 



Montcalm on Horse Flesh 55 



Montcalm and Levis 59 



Social Life in Canada of Old 65 



Style of Travel of French High Officials 1750-59 72 



Quebec Society as it was « 82 



The Death of Wolfe 85 



A Chapter on Canadian Nobility 90 



St. Louis street and its Storied past 105 



Early Canadian History — The Duchesnay and Stobo Let- 

 ters— 1159 126 



Baron Maseres, Attorney-General at Quebec, 1766-9 133 



Our Historians « 147 



Materials for Canadian History 150 



A Canadian Antiquary — Abbe Bois 154 



Canadian Historical Novels 156 



F. X. Garneau — as a poet. 165 



A pleasing incident in the career of a Canadian Novelist . 169 



General Richard Montgomery and his detractors 172 



P. A. DeGaspe's " Canadians of Old " and " Memoirs "... 175 



Chateau St-Louis — Reminiscences 193 



Queen Victoria's Jubilee, 1 837-87— Looking back .„ 198 



