Our Intellectual Strength and Weakness: A Short Historical and Critical Review of Literature, Art and Education in CanadaBourinot, John George
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Our Intellectual Strength and Weakness: A Short Historical and Critical Review of Literature, Art and Education in Canada
Bourinot, John George
Canada -- Intellectual life; Canadian literature -- History and criticism; French-Canadian literature -- History and criticism
Alexander McLachlan was a poet contemporary with Sangster, and imbued
with much poetic fervour and Canadian sentiment, but he was born
and educated in Scotland, and came to Canada when a young man. His
"Emigrant and Other Poems" (Toronto, 1861) merited the praise it
received, though this, like his other poetic efforts, are now rarely
cited, and no new edition of his works has appeared of recent years.]
CHARLES HEAVYSEGE'S WORKS.
[Footnote 29: Page 18.--"Saul: a Drama in Three Parts." Montreal, 1857,
8vo. 2nd ed., 1859.
"Count Filippo; or, The Unequal Marriage: a Drama in Five Acts."
Montreal, 1860.
"Jephthah's Daughter." London and Montreal, 1865, 12mo.
"The Advocate: a Novel." Montreal, 1865, 8vo. This was a decided
failure.]
TODD'S WORKS.
[Footnote 30: Page 18.--The first edition of Todd's "Parliamentary
Government in England" appeared at London in 1867-68, two volumes,
8vo., and the second after his death in 1887. An abridged edition,
by Spencer Walpole, an English writer, was printed in 1893, two
volumes, 12mo. For bibliographical notes of this and other Canadian
constitutional works see the Appendix to Bourinot's "Parliamentary
Government in Canada: an Historical and Constitutional Study," 'Am.
Hist. Ass. Papers,' Washington, 1892.]
CHRISTIE'S HISTORY.
[Footnote 31: Page 18.--Mr. Christie's "History of Lower Canada"
embraced the period from the commencement of its political history as
a British dependency until it was reunited with Upper Canada in 1840
by act of the imperial parliament. It appeared in Quebec and Montreal
from 1849 to 1855, when the sixth volume, a collection of valuable
documents, completed the work. Previously the author had published
several memoirs and reviews of political events and administrations,
which were all finally embraced in the history. For bibliographical
notes see 'Am. Hist. Ass. Papers,' 1891, p. 393; "Bibliotheca
Canadensis," art. "Christie." It is noteworthy that Mr. Christie was,
like Judge Haliburton, born and educated in Windsor, Nova Scotia, where
old King's College still pursues its calm academic studies amid its
sheltering and ancestral elms. In 1890 this venerable and interesting
institution celebrated the centenary of its foundation. See Hind's
"University of King's College, Windsor, N.S., 1790-1890," New York,
"The Church Review Co.," 1890. But Robert Christie could not in those
times be educated in King's, as he was not a member of the Church of
England like the Judge.]
GARNEAU.
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