a patriotic inspiration that is not so often found in the author of 'Fleurs Boréales.' Despite his inequalities and imperfections, Crémazie must live among us as the father of our national poetry." The patriotic poem which has touched most deeply the hearts of his countrymen is "Le Drapeau de Carillon," in which he recalls the military achievements of the days of Lévis and Montcalm-- "Les jours de Carillon, Où, sur le drapeau blanc attachant la victoire, Nos pères se couvraient d'un immortel renom Et traçaient de leur glaive une héroïque histoire. "O radieux débris d'une grande épopée! Héroïque bannière au naufrage échappée! Tu restes sur nos bords comme un témoin vivant Des glorieux exploits d'une race guerrière; Et, sur les jours passés, répandant ta lumière, Tu viens rendre à son nom un hommage éclatant. "Ah! bientôt puissions-nous, ô drapeau de nos pères! Voir tous les Canadiens, unis comme des frères, Comme au jour du combat se serrer près de toi! Puisse des souvenirs la tradition sainte, En régnant dans leur cœur, garder de toute atteinte, Et leur langue et leur foi." When we hear aspirations whispered nowadays that there may be only one language in Canada, it is well to consider the influence of such nervous poetic French on the national feelings of the large population in the province of Quebec. The French language is likely to be deeply seated for some generations yet while there are French Canadian poets.] CHAUVEAU AS A POET. [Footnote 26: Page 17.--Hon. Mr. Chauveau's poems appeared at different times in the 'Canadien' of Quebec, 'Le Répertoire National,' 'Les Soirées Canadiennes,' 'La Revue Canadienne,' and in other papers and publications from 1838 until the year of his death, 1890. One of his latest poems, "Le Sacré Cœur," was printed in the second volume of the 'Trans. Roy. Soc. Can.,' Sec. I. A valuable paper by the same _littérateur_, "Etude sur les commencements de la poésie française au Canada," appeared in the first volume of the 'Trans.,' Sec. I, p. 65. In "Songs of the Dominion" (London, 1889, App., pp. 455-448) the editor gives an illustration of his spirited style by citing "Donnacona" at length.] HOWE'S POEMS. [Footnote 27: Page 17.--These were collected by his son after his death, and printed in a little volume with the title "Poems and Essays." Montreal, 1874, 12mo.] THE POETS SANGSTER AND McLACHLAN. [Footnote 28: Page 17.--Charles Sangster was a native of Kingston, and consequently a native Canadian like the others mentioned in the text. His principal poems appeared in the following books: "The St. Lawrence and the Saguenay, and Other Poems." Kingston and New York, 1856, 8vo. "Hesperus and Other Poems and Lyrics." Montreal, 1860, 8vo. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Bayard Taylor and Jean Inglelow wrote of his verse in terms of eulogy. See "Bibliotheca Canadensis," p. 337.