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180 Mrs LILY ALICE LEFEVRE ("Fleurange"), b. at Stratford, Ontario, but reared at Brockville. Educated at Villa Maria Convent, Montreal. Author of _The Lion's Gate, and Other Verses_, 1895. (The two highest peaks of the mountains that overlook the harbor of Vancouver bear a strong resemblance in outline to the lions of Trafalgar Square.) Has resided at Vancouver, British Columbia, the past fifteen years.

182 Mrs R. E. MULLINS LEPROHON, b. in Montreal, 1832. Educated at the Convent of the Congregation of Notre Dame. She was a leading contributor to the _Literary Garland_, and contributed freely to other periodicals. She wrote many tales. After her death at Montreal, September 20, 1879, John Lovell & Son published _The Poetical Works of Mrs Leprohon (Miss R. E. Mullins)_, 1881.

184 WILLIAM DOUW LIGHTHALL, b. in Hamilton, Ontario, December 27, 1857. Educated at M'Gill University. He is the head of the law firm Lighthall & Harwood, Montreal; and was one of the founders of the Soc. of Can. Lit., and of the Château de Ramezay Museum. Author of _Thoughts, Moods, and Ideals_, a booklet of verse, 1887. In 1889 he edited _Songs of the Great Dominion_ (Windsor Series, London), and _Canadian Poems and Lays_ (Canterbury Poets Series, 1891). He has written several prose works, the latest being the novel, _The False Chevalier_, a Canadian Adventurer at the Court of Louis XVI. (1898). Resides in Montreal.

187 STUART LIVINGSTON, Q. C., b. in Canada of U. E. Loyalist stock. Was educated at Toronto University. He is the head of the law firm Livingston & Garrett, Hamilton, but is well known in literary and artistic circles as a writer and a painter. Besides _The History of Professor Paul_, a novel, and contributions to the Magazines, he has published _In Various Moods_, a book of poems, 1894. Resides in Hamilton, Ontario.

192 Rev. ARTHUR JOHN LOCKHART ("Pastor Felix"), b. at Lockhartville, Nova Scotia, May 5, 1850. For some years he was a printer, but entered the ministry in 1872. He is widely known as a writer in prose and verse in Canadian and American periodicals. _A Masque of Minstrels_, poems by himself and his brother, 1887; and _Beside the Narraguagus and Other Poems_, 1895. Contributed in prose to _Burnsiana_, 1893. Resides at Pemaquid, Maine, U.S.

196 Rev. BURTON WELLESLEY LOCKHART, D.D., brother of the preceding, b. at Lockhartville, Nova Scotia, January 24, 1855. Educated at Acadia University. Among his poems of special note, included in _A Masque of Minstrels_, are _The Retrospect_, _Sir Richard Grenville_, _In Solemn Vision_, _The Old Home_, _Wordsworth_, and _Talking by the Sea_. Resides at Manchester, New Hampshire, U.S.

198 JOHN E. LOGAN ("Barry Dane"). A writer of fugitive verse of much beauty. Resides in Montreal.

199 AGNES MAULE MACHAR ("Fidelis"), b. in Kingston, Ontario. Has for years contributed both in prose and verse to Canadian and American periodicals. She is best known as a novelist. Resides at Kingston, Ontario, but lives at "Fern Cliff," among the Thousand Islands, in the summer.

204 EVAN MACCOLL, b. at Kenmore, Scotland, September 21, 1808; d. at Toronto, July 1898. Came to Canada, 1850, filling a position in the Customs at Kingston, Ontario, till he retired on a pension, 1880. Author of _Clasach nam Beann: or, Poems and Songs in Gaelic_, 1838; _The Mountain Minstrel: or, Poems and Songs in English_, 1838; and _Poems and Songs, chiefly written in Canada_, 1883 (2nd ed. 1866). He was appointed a Fellow of the R. S. Can. on its organisation, 1880. _The Child of Promise_, given in the text, is a translation from the author's Gaelic poem, by Dr Buchannan.

205 Mrs ELIZABETH ROBERTS MACDONALD, b. at Westcock, New Brunswick. Educated at the Collegiate School of Fredericton, and at the University of New Brunswick, and was for some time teacher in the School for the Blind, Halifax, Nova Scotia. Her poems have appeared chiefly in the Magazines. In 1891 she issued a booklet of poems for private circulation. Resides at Fredericton, New Brunswick.

206 JOHN MACFARLANE ("John Arbory"), b. at Abington, Scotland, May 1857. Author of _Heather and Harebell; Songs and Lyrics_, 1892. He contributed to _Burnsiana_. In 1895 he edited _The Harp of the Scottish Covenant_,--an anthology of poetry "intended to do for the Covenanters, what has long ago been done for the Cavaliers and the Jacobites." Resides in Montreal.

208 Mrs KATE SEYMOUR MACLEAN, b. at Fulton, Oswego County, New York. She is a well-known writer of verse for the Magazines. Author of _The Coming of the Princess, and Other Poems_, 1881. Resides at Kingston, Ontario.

211 Mrs ELIZABETH S. MACLEOD, b. in Edinburgh, Scotland. Is a frequent contributor to the Magazines. Author of _Carols of Canada_, 1893. Resides in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island.

212 A. D. MACNEILL, of Orangedale, Nova Scotia. Author of a booklet, _Woodlands and Other Rhymes_ (without date).

213 DONALD M'CAIG, b. in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, May 15, 1832. Educationist. Author of _Milestone Moods and Memories_, poems, 1893; and _A Reply to John Stuart Mill, on the Subjection of Women_, prose, 1871. Resides at Collingwood, Ontario.

215 JAMES M'CARROLL, b. in Lanesboro', Co. Longford, Ireland, August 3, 1814, d.--?. Came to Ontario, 1831. Journalist. Author of _Madeline, and Other Poems_, 1889.

217 WILLIAM M'DONNELL, b. at Cork, Ireland, September 1824. Author of _Manita_, and other booklets of poems. He is the undoubted author of the original of the many poems entitled _Beautiful Snow_. Resides at Lindsay, Ontario.

218 BERNARD M'EVOY, b. in Birmingham, England, February 7, 1842. Came to Canada in 1888, and was employed as a journalist on the Toronto _Mail and Empire_, till 1898. His great grandfather, Rev. John Augustus Nisbitt M'Evoy, was vicar of Kineton, Warwick, for forty years, preaching once a month in the church at Stratford-upon Avon, in which Shakespeare is buried. Author of _Away from Newspaperdom and Other Poems_, 1897. Resides in Toronto.

219 THOMAS D'ARCY M'GEE, M.P., b. at Carlingford, Ireland, April 13, 1825. Came to Canada, 1857. He was assassinated in Ottawa, Canada, April 7, 1868. Author of _Canadian Ballads and Occasional Verses_, 1858. A Canadian statesman of high repute.

224 WILLIAM P. M'KENZIE, b. at Almonte, Ontario, about 1855. Educated at Toronto University and Knox College. Was Professor for some time of English Literature in the University of Rochester, U.S. Author of _A Song of Trust_, 1887; _Voices and Undertones_, 1889; _Songs of the Human_, 1892; and _Heartsease Hymns and Other Verses_, 1895. Present residence, Boston, U.S.

227 ALEXANDER M'LACHLAN, b. in Johnstone, Renfrewshire, Scotland, August 12, 1818. Came to Canada, 1840. Died at Orangeville, Ontario, March 20, 1896. Author of _Lyrics_, 1858; _The Emigrant and Other Poems_, 1861; _Poems and Songs_, 1888. His complete poems, with Memoir, published April, 1900. A representative poet, and widely known.

231 JOHN M'PHERSON ("Harp of Acadia"), b. in Liverpool, Nova Scotia, February 4, 1817; d. at Brookfield, Nova Scotia, July 26, 1845, and is buried near Lake Tupper. He was a teacher. In 1862 his collected poems were published at Halifax under the title of _Poems, Descriptive and Moral_.

233 CHARLES MAIR, b. at Lanark, Ontario, September 21, 1840. Educated at Queen's University, Kingston. Author of _Dreamland and Other Poems_, 1868; _Tecumseh, a Drama_, 1886. A Fellow of the R. S. Can. Resides at Winnipeg, Manitoba.

238 GEORGE MARTIN, b. at Kilrae, Ireland, 1822. Came to Canada, 1832, and has lived in Montreal since 1835. Was educated at the Black River Literary Institute, Watertown, New York; and subsequently studied Medicine. Author of _Marguerite: or the Isle of Demons, and Other Poems_, 1887. It is said he contemplates the publication of another volume of poems at an early day. Resides in Montreal.

241 HELEN M. MERRILL, b. in Napanee, Ontario. Educated at the Ladies' College, Ottawa. An Entomologist. She has published no volume of verse. In 1892 she published a small holiday volume, entitled _Picturesque Prince Edward County_. The poem in the text, _The Blue Flower_, is a personification of the unattainable. Resides at Picton, Ontario.

244 Mrs SUSANNA (STRICKLAND) MOODIE, b. in Suffolk, England, December 6, 1803; came to Canada, 1832; d. in Toronto, April 8, 1885. Author of _Roughing it in the Bush_ and _Life in the Clearings_, 1853, prose, with poetry interspersed,--both written in Canada. _Enthusiasm, and Other Poems_, 1830. Published considerable fugitive verse.

247 MARY MORGAN ("Gowan Lea"), a native of Scotland, but came in childhood to Montreal. Author of _Woodnotes in the Gloaming_, 1887; _Sonnets from Switzerland_, 1896. Travels extensively in Europe,--"a citizen of the world."

249 Mrs IRENE ELDER MORTON, b. at Hantsport, Nova Scotia, February 17, 1849. Educated at Acadia Seminary. She has written much verse, and some prose, but has not published any volume. Resides at "The Bluffs," Clementsport, Nova Scotia.

255 Rev. CHARLES PELHAM MULVANEY, b. in Dublin, Ireland, May 20, 1835; d. in Toronto, May 31, 1885. A classical scholar of distinction. Published in 1880, conjointly with A. H. Chandler, _Lyrics, Songs and Sonnets_.

256 GEORGE MURRAY, b. in London, England. Educated at King's College, London, and at Oxford University. Before taking his degree in 1860 he published _The Oxford Ars Poetica; or, How to Write a Newdigate_. Came to Canada 1859, and was connected with the Montreal High School until his retirement on a pension in 1892. He was one of the editors of the literary remains of Hon. D'Arcy M'Gee. Author of _Verses and Versions_, 1891. Resides in Montreal.

260 H. M. NICKERSON, b. in Nova Scotia. Author of _Carols of the Coast_, 1892. Mr Nickerson is known as the "Fisherman Poet." Resides at Clark's Harbor, Nova Scotia.

261 CORNELIUS O'BRIEN, His Grace the Archbishop of Halifax, b. near New Glasgow, Prince Edward Island, May 4, 1843. Besides many works in prose he published in 1890, _Aminta, a Modern Life Drama_. Was President of the Royal Soc. of Can., 1896-7. Resides at Halifax, Nova Scotia.

261 THOMAS O'HAGAN, Ph.D., b. near Toronto, Ontario, 1855. Educated at St Michael's College and at Ottawa University, taking subsequent studies at Syracuse and Cornell Universities. Author of _A Gate of Flowers_, 1887; _In Dreamland and Other Poems_, 1893; _Songs of the Settlement_, 1899. Resides in Toronto.

264 HORATIO GILBERT PARKER, b. at Camden East, Addington, Ontario, 1859. Educated at Trinity University, Toronto. A novelist of wide repute, and author of _A Lover's Diary_, poems (2nd ed. 1894). Has lived in Australia, but now resides in London, England, making frequent visits to Canada.

265 AMY PARKINSON was born in Liverpool, England, and came to Toronto, Ontario, with her parents when a child. Her formal education ceased when she was twelve years of age, her health failing her. For eight or nine years past, she has not risen from her bed. Her poems are dictated to her father, and it is noteworthy that her mind is specially vigorous in composition as she is passing into or recovering from the severe attacks which seize her, any one of which might prove fatal. Author of booklets of verse, _Love Through All_, and _In His Keeping_. Resides in Toronto.

268 FRANK L. POLLOCK, b. February 1876. Has resided for the most part in St Mary's, Ontario, and in Toronto. His literary productions have appeared chiefly in the _Youth's Companion_, _The Criterion_, _Ainslee's Magazine_ and _Town Topics_. His present residence is in New York City.

270 ANDREW RAMSAY, b. in 1849, near the village of West Flamboro, Ontario. "After two years of torture under the mad manipulation of a savage schoolmaster," he "escaped to the wilderness for what scanty education" he obtained. Author of _The Canadian Lyre_, 1859; _Win-on-ah; The Forest Light, and Other Poems_, 1869; _One Quiet Day_, prose and poetry, 1873; _Muriel, The Foundling, and Other Poems_, 1886. Is a house decorator, and has won distinction in landscape work in that art. Resides at Westover, Ontario.

273 THEODORE HARDING RAND, D.C.L., b. at Cornwallis, Nova Scotia, February 8, 1835. Educated at Horton Academy and Acadia University. Has devoted his life to Education. Organised the systems of Free Public Schools of both Nova Scotia and New Brunswick. Ex-Principal of Woodstock College, and Ex-Chancellor of M'Master University,--by whom the founding of the University was promoted, and organised as such. Author of _At Minas Basin, and Other Poems_, 1897 (second edition, enlarged, 1898). Resides in Toronto.

282 WALTER A. RATCLIFFE, b. in London, England, August 23, 1865. Came to Canada with his parents at the age of seven years. He is almost totally blind and deaf. Published _Morning Songs in the Night_, 1897. Resides at Port Hope, Ontario.

283 JOHN READE, b. at Ballyshannon, Ireland, November 13, 1837. Educated at Queen's College, Belfast. Came to Canada, 1856. Author of _The Prophecy of Merlin, and Other Poems_, 1870. In association with Professor Penhallow of M'Gill University, he inaugurated the Montreal branch of the Am. Folk-lore Soc. He has been president of the Eng. Lit. and Hist. section of the Royal Soc. Can. Elected a Fellow of the Royal Soc. of Lit. of Great Britain, 1896. Since 1870 he has been literary and general assistant editor of the Montreal _Gazette_. Resides in Montreal.

290 ROBERT REID ("Rob Wanlock"), b. at Wanlockhead, Scotland, June 8, 1850. Came to Canada 1877, and has since then filled a responsible position in the mercantile establishment of Henry Morgan & Co., Montreal. Author of _Moorland Rhymes_, 1874; and _Poems, Songs and Sonnets_, 1894. Resides in Montreal.

292 CHARLES GEORGE DOUGLAS ROBERTS, b. at Douglas, near Fredericton, New Brunswick, January 10, 1860. Educated at the University of New Brunswick. He became editor of the Toronto _Week_, 1883, and later Professor of English Literature and Economics in King's College, Windsor, Nova Scotia. Since 1895 be has devoted himself exclusively to literary work. Author of _Orion and Other Poems_, 1880; _In Divers Tones_, 1887; _Poems of Wild Life: an Anthology_, 1888; _Ave: An Ode for the Shelley Centenary_, 1892; _Songs of the Common Day, and Ave_, 1893; _The Book of the Native_, poems, 1896; and _New York Nocturnes and Other Poems_, 1898. He has also published several novels and other works. He was one of the literary arbiters at the World's Fair, Chicago. Resides in Fredericton, New Brunswick (and in New York). _Note._--The two following are younger brothers of Mr Roberts, and Mrs Elizabeth Roberts MacDonald is a sister, while Mr Bliss Carman and Mr Barry Straton are cousins of the foregoing. They are children of three sisters.

309 THEODORE ROBERTS, b. at Fredericton, New Brunswick, July 7, 1877. Educated at the Collegiate School of that city. His verse has appeared in the Magazines. He was war correspondent for the New York _Independent_ in the Spanish-American War. Resides at Fredericton, New Brunswick.

313 WILLIAM CARMAN ROBERTS, b. at Fredericton, New Brunswick, December 6, 1874. Educated at the Collegiate School, and the University of that city. He has published verse in the Magazines and literary periodicals. Has done journalistic work in New York. Resides at Fredericton, New Brunswick.

315 GEORGE JOHN ROMANES, b. at Kingston, Ontario, May 20, 1848; d. at Oxford, England, May 23, 1894. Educated at Caius College, Oxford. A distinguished naturalist, and brilliant scientific and philosophical writer. During his somewhat prolonged illness he preserved to the last his mental vigour and keenness of interest in scientific pursuits. Not long before his death he said: "I have now come to see that faith (the Christian faith) is intellectually justifiable." The sonnet of the text has a pathos all its own. Longmans, Green & Company published a volume of selections of his poetry, 1896.

316 CARROLL RYAN, b. in Toronto, Ontario, February 3, 1839. Educated at St Michael's College. He served as a volunteer in the British German Legion and Turkish Contingent, during the Crimean war, and in H.M.'s 100th Royal Can. Regt., 1859. After his return to Canada he commanded a battery of volunteer artillery at Ottawa, and was extra A.D.C. to Gen. Sir E. S. Smyth. Mr Ryan is a veteran of the Canadian press. Author of _Oscar and Other Poems_, 1857; _Songs of a Wanderer_, 1867; and _Picture Poems_, 1884. Resides in Montreal.

318 CHARLES SANGSTER, b. at Kingston, Ontario, 1822; d. at Ottawa, Ontario, 1893. Author of _The St Lawrence, and the Saguenay, and Other Poems_, 1856, and of _Hesperus and Other Poems and Lyrics_, 1860. A representative Canadian poet, widely known.

322 DUNCAN CAMPBELL SCOTT, b. at Ottawa, Ontario, August 2, 1862. Educated at Stanstead Wesleyan College. Is Accountant of the Department of Indian Affairs. He is a contributor to Magazines in prose and verse. Author of _The Magic House and Other Poems_, 1893, and of _Labor and the Angel_, 1898. Resides at Ottawa.

330 Rev. FREDERICK GEORGE SCOTT, b. in Montreal, April 7, 1861. Educated at Bishop's College, Lennoxville, Quebec, and at King's College, London, England. Author of _The Soul's Quest, and Other Poems_, 1888; _Elton Hazlewood_, a dramatic life-story, 2nd ed., 1893; _My Lattice and Other Poems_, 1894; _The Unnamed Lake and Other Poems_, 1897; and _Poems Old and New_, 1899. Resides in Quebec city.

336 CHARLES DAWSON SHANLY, b. in Dublin, Ireland, March 9, 1811. Came to Canada, 1836, and settled near London, Ontario. He edited _Punch in Canada_. A writer of occasional verse. He became noted as an Art Critic in New York. Died at Arlington, Florida (whither he had gone in search of health), April 15, 1875, and is buried near London, Ontario. Best known as engineer of the Hoosac Tunnel.

338 FRANCIS SHERMAN, b. at Fredericton, New Brunswick, 1871. Educated at the Collegiate School and the University there. Author of _Matins_, 1896; _In Memorabilia Mortis_, a booklet of Sonnets, 1896; and _A Prelude_, privately printed, 1897. Resides in Fredericton.

341 GOLDWIN SMITH, LL.D., D.C.L., author, and a distinguished Professor of History, b. at Reading, England, August 23, 1823. His published works are numerous and widely known,--among them, _Bay Leaves: Translations from the Latin Poets_, 1894. A very occasional writer of verse. Resides at "The Grange," Toronto.

342 LYMAN C. SMITH, b. at Glanford, near Hamilton, Ontario, September 8, 1850. Educated at Victoria University. He has been for the past eighteen years the principal of the High School, Oshawa, Ontario. Author of _Mabel Gray and Other Poems_, 1896.

344 Rev. WILLIAM WYE SMITH, b. in Jedburgh, Scotland, March 18, 1827. Came to Canada, 1837. A man of considerable journalistic experience. Author of _Poems_, 1888; _The New Testament in Broad Scotch_, 1896. Resides at St Catharines, Ontario.

345 ALBERT ERNEST STAFFORD SMYTHE, b. at Gracehill, Ireland, December 27, 1861. Educated at Belfast Inst., and holds certificates from the Science and Art Department, South Kensington. Author of _Poems, Grave and Gay_, 1891. He is editor of the _Lamp_, a paper devoted to theosophy. Resides in Toronto.

346 HIRAM LADD SPENCER, b. at Castleton, Vermont, April 28, 1829, and educated there. Among his classmates were Henry Cabot Lodge, W. C. Wilkinson, W. C. Langdon, and Redfield Proctor. He became a resident of St John, New Brunswick, 1863. A journalist. Author of _Poems_, 1848; _A Song of the Years: a Memory of Acadia_, 1889, (widely known,--published by J. & A. M'Millan, St John, N. B.). Resides in St John.

348 EZRA HURLBURT STAFFORD, M.D., b. 1865. Is an associate editor of Canadian _Journal of Medicine and Surgery_. An occasional contributor to periodicals. Author of _Saints' Day Ballads, and Sundry Other Measures_, a booklet, 1895. Resides in Toronto.

351 ALEXANDER CHARLES STEWART, b.--? Author of _Poems and Songs_, 1890; _The Pensioner_, 1890,--a booklet. Resides in Toronto.

351 PHILLIPS STEWART, b. 1864; d. in Toronto, Ontario, February 2, 1892. Author of _Poems_, 1887. A dominant sadness inspired the muse of this gifted youth. His early death was a loss to Canadian literature.

353 BARRY STRATON, b. at Fredericton, New Brunswick, December 27, 1854. Educated at the Collegiate School of that city. Studied law, but the confinement proving detrimental to his health, he resorted to farming. Author of _Lays of Love, and Miscellaneous Poems_, 1884; _The Building of the Bridge: an Idyl of the St John_, 1887; and _The Hunter's Hand Book_. Resides at Maugerville, New Brunswick.

356 ARTHUR J. STRINGER, a journalist of the Montreal _Herald_, till very recently. Author of _Watchers of Twilight_, 1894; _Pauline and Other Poems_, 1895; and _Epigrams_, 1896. Present residence, New York.

359 ALAN SULLIVAN, b. in Montreal, November 29, 1867. Educated at Loretto School, Musselburgh, near Edinburgh. A civil engineer. Author of a booklet of verse. Resides at Rat Portage, Ontario.

361 BERTRAM TENNYSON, Q.C., b.--? Author of _The Land of Napioa and Other Essays in Prose and Verse_, 1896. Resides at Moosomin, N. W. T., Canada.

363 EDWARD WILLIAM THOMSON, b. in the township of Toronto, Ontario, February 12, 1849. Educated at Trinity College Grammar School, Weston. He served with the army of the Potomac during the closing scenes of the Am. Civil War. Served in the field with the Queen's Own Rifles, Toronto. In 1889-90 was chief editorial writer on the Toronto _Globe_. He removed to Boston to accept a lucrative post on the _Youth's Companion_. Writer of occasional verse, and author of several volumes of short stories. Resides in Boston, Mass.

365 JOHN STUART THOMSON, b. in Montreal, 1870, where he was educated at the old "Senior School," and in special work at M'Gill University. He also enjoyed special advantages of private classical study in New York City. He is a frequent contributor to the Magazines. Author of _Estabelle and Other Poems_, 1897. Resides in New York City.