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memory of Augustin Doucet are preserved by a pathetic letter which he wrote from Prince Edward Island in 1750 to a friend in Quebec, after he had been forced by La Loutre to abandon his home on the south side of the Musquash River. Doucet says: "I was settled in Acadia. I have four little children. I was living contented on my land. But this did not last long, for we have been obliged to leave all our goods and fly from under the dominion of the English. The King obliges himself to transport and maintain us until news is received from France. If Acadia does not return to the French, I hope to take my little family with me to Canada. I assure you that we are in a poor situation, for we live like Indians in the woods."

Editor of New Brunswick Magazine,
St. John, N. B.

Dear Sir:—On page 296 of the November issue of The New Brunswick Magazine there is a paragraph advertising a brochure called "Courrier des Livres" by Mr. Raoul Renault, in which it is erroneously called the official organ of the Literary and Historical Society of Quebec. I beg to state officially that the Courrier des Livres has no connection whatever with the Society and is not its official organ; in fact the Literary and Historical Society of Quebec has no such adjunct, and Mr. Renault has long ago been informed of that fact. You will kindly insert this contradiction in the next issue of your magazine. I remain yours, etc.,

In the sketch of the Fire of Thirty-Seven, in this number, two errors were discovered too late for correction in those pages. Messrs. McMillan have been burned out six times, and not eight as stated. T. McAvity & Co., in 1837, were not where George Robertson now is but next door to it to the southward.