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overcome only by extraordinary effort and perseverance. Despite of the demands of a most exacting profession upon his time and attention, Mr. Hannay has published much else that is of permanent historic value, including "The Township of Maugerville" and the "Life and Times of Sir Leonard Tilley." The latter derives its interest very largely from the picture the author draws of the early times in which the subject of the sketch lived, and is considered so valuable on that account that the provincial government has caused it to be placed in the school libraries. Among the newspaper contributions of Mr. Hannay which are to appear later in book form are a "History of the Loyalists" and "The War of 1812." Mr. Hannay has been president of the N. B. Historical Society, is historican of the Loyalist Society, a corresponding member of the Quebec Literary and Historical Society and of the N. S. Historical Society. He is recognized as one of the leading journalists of Canada and has for some years been editor of the St. John Telegraph.

Mr. Montague Chamberlain is another New Brunswicker who has done much to make his native province known to the literary and scientific world, though his vocation causes him to be a resident of the United States. Mr. Chamberlain is a native of Sc. John, where he was educated and began life for himself in a mercantile establishment. At a later period he was connected with William Elder's Morning Journal, one of the leading newspapers of the period, which was finally merged into the Daily Telegraph. Leaving New Brunswick in 1888, he became assistant secretary of Harvard University in the following year and recorder of Harvard College in 1890. Two years later he was appointed secretary of the Lawrence Scientific School, Harvard University, which position he holds at the present time. Mr. Chamberlain early showed a taste