Excerpt from The University Magazine, Vol. 9: 1910 There was a time when Canadian writers were much concerned about literature, which is the last thing a writer should think about. But the movement for the creation of a Canadian literature as apart from the literature of the world never came to much. It ended as an internal rum bling. More recently, Canadian writers have taken to the practice of looking upon life at large, reflecting upon it, and recording in their own dialect, for all who choose to read, the result of their observation. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.