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In the appendix is given a bibliography of works bearing upon the subject. The plates are well printed on extra heavy paper, and are engraved by the Heliotype Printing Co., of Boston.
"The Acadian Exile and Sea Shell Essays," by Jeremiah S. Clark, of Bay View, P. E. I. The booklet contains sixty pages of well written verse, and is to be had of Archibald Irwin, publisher, Charlottetown, P. E. I., price 25 cents. Mr. Clark has already been introduced to the readers of Acadiensis, his poem "Glooscap" having appeared in our last issue. He is a young man of much promise, and it is to be hoped that the present work may soon be followed by others equally valuable. Numerous illustrations are scattered through the work. Preceding the main portion of the work, the writer, in an aside, reveals somewhat his hopes and aspirations, as well as his admiration for the poet Longfellow, and concludes as follows:
"A thousand times has the sun set behind the distant hills at the bend of the valley, while the writer inhaled the evening air fresh from the meadows of Cornwallis and Grand Pré; and, often alone, he has hurried over the upland towards the Gaspereau's mouth, or watched the ebb of the receding tide from a suspicious mound in some forgotten hollow, until he knows the country, hill and dale; and here he would simply remark what he has often felt, as his eyes measured the far receding distances: that if the great American poet had ever visited the scene of the exile, certainly he would not have been surprised with the height or nearness of the neighboring mountains, on whose lofty pinnacles 'sea-fogs pitched their tents but ne'er for a moment descended into the happy valley.' Dear spirit of Longfellow if such familiarity of address be not considered sacrilege
To pluck the primrose gay,
Starts, thy curious voice to hear,
And imitates thy lay."
"A Monograph of the Evolution of the Boundaries of the Province of New Brunswick," by William F. Ganong, M. A., Ph. D., being No. 5 of Contributions to the History of New Brunswick. 450 pp., from the Transactions of the Royal Society of Canada, Second Series, 1901–1902, Volume VII, Section 11.
The object of the work is to attempt to explain the precise factors which have determined for each New Brunswick boundary line its genesis, its persistence, its position, its direction and its length. The work is copiously illustrated with reproductions of maps any of which might be of value to the student in casting additional light upon the various questions which have arisen regarding New Brunswick boundaries. Concerning this interesting subject, Prof. Ganong remarks that