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New Brunswick and Nova Scotia since 1784, were the principal of these. Caribou and the Canadian grouse or spruce partridge had their historians also.

The Guardian was well occupied with variety. The monthly instalments of papers, however, were very short, some of them taking up less than two pages of space. The nine numbers, bound, made a volume of 218 pages, and the cost to subscribers for the set was two shillings and sixpence. The letter-press was set in rather small type, and only now and then were the pages leaded.

Another attempt to establish a magazine in St. John, took place in 1867, when Stewart's Quarterly entered the field. It lived five years, and was succeeded by the Maritime Monthly, whose editors were the Rev. James Bennett, D. D., and Mr. H. L. Spencer, to which periodical the old contributors to the Quarterly transferred their pens. .

The loss of the St. John steamer Royal Tar, in the year 1836, was in many ways one of the most remarkable marine disasters in the annals of the Maritime Provinces. For many years it held a leading place in the stories of strange events handed down from father to son, and even at this day the older people can recall the intense interest with which, in their younger days, they listened to the recital of incidents of the notable casualty. A few years ago the writer published a partial account of the disaster in one of the St. John newspapers,^[1] and since then he has gathered further facts which now enable him to present the story in a form worthy of preservation by the students of local history.