before." To illustrate these varied characteristics by quotation
would demand far more, than our allotted space. We can, therefore,
only refer the reader to the book itself, confident that in its
pages he will find all that we have indicated and much more.

Just a word as to Mrs. Leprohon's prose writings. Though in this
sketch we have dwelt upon her work as a poet, it is as a writer of
fiction that she has won her most marked popular successes, that
she has reached the hearts of the two great communities of which
this province is composed. For no less than four of her most
elaborate tales have been translated into French; these are, _Ida
Beresford_, the _Manor House of Villerati, Antoinette de
Mirecourt,_ and _Armand Durand_. Besides these, she has written
_Florence FitzHarding, Eva Huntingdon, Clarence FitzClarence_ and
_Eveleen O'Donnell_. In the _Manor House of Villerai_ she has
described with a skilful pen the manners and customs of the
forefathers of the French Canadian people, such as they were at
the period of the great contest which changed the destinies of
Canada. In _Armand Durand_ we have a courageous struggle with
adverse fortune, which is at last crowned with success. The sad
consequences of secret marriage, unblessed by parental consent,
are unfolded in _Antoinette de Mirecourt,_ one of the finest of
Mrs. Leprohon's novels, and of which the French translation has
lately been honored by a new edition. Of her merits as a novelist
one of the ablest of French Canadian critics writes thus: "Gifted
with a deep knowledge of the human heart, she finds in domestic
life the subject of attractive pictures, full of delicacy and good
taste, which she dramatizes with remarkable power. Her charm lies,
not in any complication of intrigue or in problems hard to solve,
but in a skilful working out of details, in incidents which fix