elsewhere, were always glad to number Mrs. Leprohon's productions
among their most attractive features. She had always a ready pen,
the result of a full heart and far-reaching sympathies, and,
therefore, was frequently asked to write on subjects of current
interest. Among her "occasional" poems; several of which are in
this volume, may be mentioned the touching stanzas on the
"Monument to the Irish Emigrants," those on the "Old Towers" at
the "Priest's Farm," those on the renewal of her vows by the Lady
Abbess of the Congregation of Notre Dame, the poem on the
"Recollect Church," and the address "To the Soldiers of Pius The
Ninth." One of her most important efforts of this kind was her
translation of the Cantata composed by M. Sempé on the occasion of
the visit of the Prince of Wales to Canada in 1860.

We have attempted such a classification of the poems as we thought
would best show the range of Mrs. Leprohon's powers. Under every
one of the headings which we have adopted the reader will find
something to profit and delight. The lover of nature will find
himself carried in fancy to the fairest or grandest of Canadian
scenes; he who loves to indulge in reveries of the past can with
her stand with Jacques Cartier on Mount Royal three centuries ago
and survey the mighty expanse of forest, destined one day to be
the home of a thriving people; those whose pleasure it is to read
of heroic deeds will hear her sing of ennobling courage and
fortitude that blenched not at death. But by many, we think, Mrs.
Leprohon will be most cherished as she tells in sweet and simple
rhyme of the tenderness of a mother's love, of a wife's devotion,
a husband's loyal trust, of the pious offices of the domestic
altar, of the parting by the death-bed that is not without hope,
of the loved and lost that yet are "not lost but only gone