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where they made gifts to the Indians and smoked with them the pipe of peace. They took possession of the land, with formal ceremony in the name of the King of France, and their new friends danced the war dance about them. All this part of the ceremony was extremely effective. In fact so well was it done that I quite forgot for a time that it was a show, and even forgot to philosophize and psychologize, while I had some momentary impulse to approach Champlain and ask him the truth as to certain ambiguous passages in his narratives! When these ceremonies were finished, the noble explorers, with their retinue, and all of the red men, entered the waiting carriages, and headed a procession of the military and sailors to Riverside Park, where a statue and monument in honor of New Brunswick soldiers who fell in the South African war was unveiled. The entire representation of the arrival and landing of the expedition was extremely well planned and managed. As a spectacle it was at one and the same time striking, appropriate and pleasing, and the energetic members of the Royal Kennebecasis Yacht Club and of the Neptune Rowing Club, who had it in charge, may well be satisfied with its success.

At noon a dinner was given by Mayor White at the Union Club to many of the prominent visitors, and in the afternoon a tasteful tablet to the memory of Champlain and deMonts was unveiled in the new Public Library. The occasion was marked by two notable features, the reading by Dr. Dawson of his fine poem on Champlain, and the address by Rev. Dr. Raymond, in the course of which he gave the all-sufficient reasons why Champlain is honored before deMonts in the St. John celebration. As 1 looked around this admirable building, which should mean so much in the future of St. John, I felt grateful to its generous and far-sighted