Note: Images of the original pages are available through Internet Archive. See https://archive.org/details/ourintellectuals00jgborich Royal Society of Canada Series. No. 1. OUR INTELLECTUAL STRENGTH AND WEAKNESS. * * * * * * WORKS BY THE SAME AUTHOR. 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 America Act of 1867 and amending acts, Governor-General's commission and instructions, forms of proceeding in the Senate and House of Commons, etc.; 2nd ed., revised and enlarged, 8vo., pp. 970, cloth and calf. Montreal: Dawson Bros., 1892. $8. A Manual of the Constitutional History of Canada, from the earliest period to the year 1888, including the B. N. A. Act of 1867, and a digest of judicial decisions on questions of legislative jurisdiction. 12mo. pp. 238. Montreal: Dawson Bros. Cloth, $1.25. Canadian Studies in Comparative Politics: I. Canada and English Institutions; II. Canada and the United States; III. Canada and Switzerland. Large 4to. pp. 100. Montreal: Dawson Bros. Cloth, $1. Local Government in Canada. 8vo. pp. 72. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Studies. Paper, 50c. Federal Government in Canada. 8vo. pp. 172. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Studies, 1889. Paper, 50c. Parliamentary Government in Canada: an historical and constitutional study. Annals of American Historical Association. 8vo. pp. 98. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1893. Paper, $1. Descriptive and Historical Account of the Island of Cape Breton, and of its Memorials of the French Regime, with bibliographical, historical and critical notes, and old maps; plans and illustrations of Louisbourg. Large 4to. pp. 180. Montreal: Foster Brown & Co., 1892. Fancy cloth, $3. * * * * * * Royal Society of Canada Series. OUR INTELLECTUAL STRENGTH AND WEAKNESS A Short Historical and Critical Review of Literature, Art and Education in Canada, by J. G. BOURINOT, C.M.G., LL.D., D.C.L., D.L. (LAVAL). Author of "Cape Breton and Its Memorials of the French Regime," and of Several Works on Federal and Parliamentary Government in the Dominion of Canada. Montreal: Foster Brown & Co. London: Bernard Quaritch. 1893 Entered according to Act of Parliament of Canada by J. G. BOURINOT, in the Office of the Minister of Agriculture, in the year 1893. Gazette Printing Company, Montreal. To my Friends SIR J. W. DAWSON, (C.M.G., F.R.S.C., LL.D.) AND MONSIGNOR HAMEL, (M.A., F.R.S.C.), WHO REPRESENT THE CULTURE AND LEARNING OF THE ENGLISH AND FRENCH ELEMENTS OF THE CANADIAN PEOPLE, I dedicate THIS SHORT REVIEW OF THE INTELLECTUAL DEVELOPMENT OF THE NEW DOMINION.