Our Intellectual Strength and Weakness A Short Historical and Critical Review of Literature, Art and Education in Canada

Parliamentary Practice and Procedure, with a review of the origin, growth, and operation of parliamentary institutions in Canada. And an Appendix containing the British North Am...

In the daring ventures of Marquette, Jolliet, La Salle and Tonty, in the stern purpose of Frontenac, in the far-reaching plans of La Galissonière, in the military genius of Mont...

But this period which brought so many bright intellects into the activities of political life was distinguished also, not merely for the material advance in industry, but notabl...

Such poems are worth a good many political speeches even in parliament so far as their effect upon the hearts and sympathies is concerned. We all remember a famous man once said...

So well known are these 'Transactions' now in every country that, when it happens some library or institution has not received it from the beginning or has been forgotten in the...

Of course there are many obstacles in the way of successful literary pursuits in Canada. Our population is still small, and separated into two distinct nationalities, who for th...

Not only does the exhibition of paintings in the world's fair make one very hopeful of the future artistic development of this continent, but the beauty of the architectural des...

[Footnote 13_b_: Page 8.--He was professor of Economy in the University of Aobo, in Swedish Finland, and a member of the Swedish Royal Academy of Sciences. His Travels in North...

[Footnote 38: Page 20.--Six volumes of Dr. Kingsford's "History of Canada" have appeared since 1887. Volume i. embraces the period from 1608 to 1682; vol. ii., 1679-1725; vol. i...

[Footnote 42: Page 25.--The Canadian reader can profitably and easily compare his own poets with those of Australia by reading Slade's "Australian Poets, 1788-1883, being a sele...

[Footnote 59: Page 40.--"A Study, with Critical and Explanatory Notes, of Lord Tennyson's Poem, The Princess." By S. E. Dawson. Montreal, 1882, 12mo. 2nd ed. 1884. The preface c...

French Canada: early writers of her history, Champlain, Boucher, Le Clercq, Charlevoix, etc., 6, 7, 61-64; culture and science during French regime, 8; historians and poets from...