most luxuriant pasture land on which browse cattle in very
excellent condition.

The manners of the people of this district, who, "far from the madding
crowd's ignoble strife," live in Utopian simplicity, are most gentle and
courteous, and would put to shame those of the dwellers of many a more
civilized spot.

It is very curious to trace the Scottish names of these people, handed
down as they have been from generation to generation, though their
pronunciation is much altered, and in most instances given a French turn,
as, for example, Gourdon for Gordon, Noel for Nowell, and many others.
However, in a few cases the names are such as even the most ingenious
French tongue finds impossible to alter, and they remain in their
original form, for example, Burns, Fraser and McAllister. It is strange
to hear these names spoken by people who know no language but the French,
and I was much struck by the incongruity.

M. O.
Montreal, June, 1890.

CONTENTS.

Introduction

I--"Wae's me for Prince Chairlie"

II--"Oh! Canada! mon pays, terre adoree,
Sol si cher a mes amours."

III--"Il y a longtemps que je t'aime,
Jamais je ne t'oublierai."

IV--"Red o'er the forest peers the setting sun,
The line of yellow light dies fast away."

V--"A parish priest was of the pilgrim train;
An awful, reverend and religious man.
His eyes diffused a venerable grace,
And charity itself was in his face.
Rich was his soul, though his attire was poor
(As God hath clothed his own ambassador),
For such, on earth, his bless'd Redeemer bore."

VI--"The love of money is the root of all evil."

VII--"Oh! world! thy slippery turns! Friends now fast sworn in love
inseparable shall within this hour break out to bitterest enmity."

VIII--TEN YEARS AFTER.
"Oh! wouldst thou set thy rank before thyself?
Wouldst thou be honored for thyself or that?
Rank that excels the wearer doth degrade,
Riches impoverish that divide respect."

IX--"Alas! Our memories may retrace
Each circumstance of time and place;
Season and scene come back again,
And outward things unchanged remain:
The rest we cannot reinstate:
Ourselves we cannot re-create,
Nor get our souls to the same key
Of the remember'd harmony."

X--"O! primavera gioventu dell' anno!
O! gioventu primavera della vitae!!!"

XI--"Because thou hast believed the wheels of life
Stand never idle, b