CONTENTS. ARTICLES. A Forgotten Hero. Jacques Cartier. By Annie Walker A Ghost Story. By Agnes E Wetherald, Fenwick . PAGE. 88 499 . 62 625 340 Agricultural Experimental Stations. By James Cheesman, Montreal Bric à-brac Carlyle, Thomas. By 'Fidelis,' Kingston. and Comte. By W. D. Le Sueur, B.A., Ottawa Criminal of Creation, The. By Lewis Ray Desdemona. By D. Fowler, Emerall. Diogenes on Bric-a-brac. By Sara Duncan, Brantford Dream of Social Revolution, A 105, 218, 330, 553 & 661 54 73 316 639 182 643 636 629 190 490 203 255 400 270 37 Education and National Sentiment. By Mrs. K. S. Maclean, Kingston Future of Canada, The. By Nicholas Flood Davin George Eliot. In Memoriam. By the Editor as a Novelist. By J. M. Buchan, M. A., Hamilton George Fox and Quakerism. By W. R. G. Mellen. Great Speeches. By Nicholas Flood Davin. German Socialists and the Reichstag. By James W. Bell. Idylls of the King, The: their Growth and Meaning. By R. W. Boodle, B.A. 379 Intellectual Development of the Canadian Peopie, The. By Jno. Geo. 2, 108, 219 Intellectual Tendencies and Training. By D. Tucker, M.D., Pickering. 161 Lobster Spearing at Halifax. By F. Blake Crofton, B.A., Truro, N.S. Literary Notes, 103, 217, 329, 442, 552, & 660 Machiavelli and Machiavellism. By Mrs. C. R. Corson, Ithaca, N.Y Mademoiselle de Carabas. By Blanche L. Macdonell, Montreal. Mr. Malloch a Retrospect. By R. W. Boodle, B. A., Montreal My Life. By 'Esperance,' Yorkville Modern Canoeing. By Robert Tyson, Toronto Modern Theology and Modern Thought. By 'Fidelis,' Kingston Ontario Fifty Years ago and now. By Canniff Haight, Toronto. Parliament of Ontario, The. By S. J. Watson, Toronto iv Praise. By F. W. R., London Physiology in Thought, Conduct and Belief. By Daniel Clarke, M.D., Prospects of the Liberal Party, The. By a Liberal 95, 211, 318, 438, 542 & 652 A Presage. By Fidelis,' Kingston Cupid's Missive. 399 Forgiveness, a Sonnet. By John Reade, Montreal George Eliot, a Sonnet. By Gowan Lea, Montreal In Memoriam: Thomas Moss. By Fidelis,' Kingston. George Eliot. By Gowan Lea, Montreal. Off Pelorus. By Chas. G. D. Roberts, B. A., Chatham, N.B. Old Year and the New, The. By Mrs. A. MacGillis, Barrie. From the German. By Alice Horton Petrarch. By John Reade, Montreal Poet's Hour, The. By Gowan Lea, Montreal Praise of Spring. From the German of Uhland Sir Eustace de Ribeaumont. By F. R., Barrie Slumber Song. From the German. G. L. M. . The Weary Watcher. By D. J. MacMurchy, Toronto The Two Ships. By Hilary Bygrave, Toronto To Nature. By Gowan Lea, Montreal 555 124 33 46 498 160 68 72 269 52 14 But, ere thou art quite gone, let us review The past, and see what blessings thou hast given, To live a life pure, earnest, brave and true. A year of plenteous harvest; lo! our land Within the year no fell disease has come To strike a terror to the people's heart, A year of peace, the olive branch has waved Oh! dying year, I would that thou couldst take With thee on thy dread journey, never to return, The wrong and misery that makes our earth to mourn The fetters that we would but cannot break. How long shall chains of 'faithless coldness' bind? Alas alas! that still New Years should dawn That we but grope to find the Truth, and hit But yet, we hope 'twill not be always so, That the dark corners of the earth shall be Enlightened, and the Truth which maketh free ' Be known, and felt, and loved by all below. We know, indeed, the time will surely come When wrong and violence in the earth shall cease, peace And love make all the world one home. New Year! we greet thee both with smiles and tears, For thinking of the hearts that have grown sad Hearts that were wont to bound as thou approached, Oh! sweet New Year, thou canst not dry their tears, But thou canst bring them hopes of brighter days, New Year! thy face is strange though young and fair; We do not know thee yet, but as a friend Would greet thee, trusting thee to send A goodly store of blessings to our share. But not to us alone, to all, be given God's grace and benediction; on our Queen Thy love and favour rest with rays serene, Dear to her people's hearts and blest of Heaven. THE INTELLECTUAL DEVELOPMENT OF THE CANADIAN PEOPLE. AN HISTORICAL REVIEW. BY J. G. BOURINOT, B.A. The Clerk of the House of Commons, Canada. CHAPTER II. EDUCATION. THE great educational advantages that the people of Canada now enjoy, and more especially in the premier Province of Ontario-as the splendid exhibit recently made at Paris and Philadelphia has proved to the world-are the results of the legislation of a very few years. A review of the first two periods of the politi. cal history affords abundant evidence that there existed in Canada as in Europe much indifference in all matters affecting the general education. of the country. Whatever was accomplished during these early times was owing, in a great measure, to the meritorious efforts of ecclesiastical bodies or private individuals. long as France governed Canada, education was entirely in the hands of the Roman Catholic Church. The Jesuits, Franciscans, and other religious male and female Orders, at an early date, commenced the establishment of those colleges and seminaries, which have always had so important a share in the education of Lower Canada. The first school in that province was opened in 1616 at Three Rivers by Brother Pacifique Duplessis, a Franciscan. The Jesuits founded a College at Quebec in 1831, or three years before the establishment of Har As vard; and the Ursulines opened their convent in the same city four years later. Sister Bourgeoys, of Troyes, founded at Montreal in 1659, the Congregation de Notre Dame for the education of girls of humble rank, the commencement of an institution which has now its buildings in many parts of Canada. In the latter part of the seventeenth century Mgr. Francois Xavier de Laval-Montmorency, a member of one of the proudest families in Europe, carried out the project of providing education for Canadian priests drawn from the people of the country. Consequently, in addition to the Great Seminary at Quebec, there was the Lesser Seminary where boys were taught in the hope that they would one day take orders. In this project the Indians were included, and several attended when the school was opened during 1668 in the humble dwelling owned by Mme. Couillard, though it was not long before they showed their impatience of scholastic bondage. It is also interesting to learn that, in the inception of education, the French endeavoured in more than one of their institutions to combine industrial pursuits with the ordinary branches of an elementary education. For instance, attached to the Seminary was a sort of farm-school, established in the parish of St. Joachim, below Quebec, the object of which was to train the humbler class of pupils in agricultural as |