Excerpt from Tecumseh: A Drama and Canadian Poems

HE first edition of Tecumseh, published in Toronto in 1886, had a quick sale, but, not being stereotyped, ran out of print, and a te - issue is now called for. The author has often been asked to republish his youthful venture, entitled Dreamland, and other Poems, only a limited number of copies of which saw the light. Whilst the edition was passing through the binder's hands in Ottawa, and the author himself in the then wilderness of Prince Rupert's Land, the greater part of it was burnt in the Desbarats fire in 1869. In the following pages (part II.) the major portion of that unfortunate volume is ih cluded, with such revision as seemed desirable.

For the shortcomings of his work, of which the author is but too conscious, his only excuse is that he has done his best. Our romantic Canadian story is a mine of character and incident for the poet and novelist, framed, too, in a matchless environment and the Canadian author who seeks inspiration there is helping to create for a young people that decisive test of its intellectual faculties, an original and distinctive literature - a literature liberal in its range, but, in its highest forms, springing in a large meas ure from the soil, and tasting of the wood. Any work of this kind, therefore, is on the right path, and, though of slender pretensions otherwise, may possess the merits of suggestiveness and sincerity. For his own part, the writer may say, with regard to the book now in hand, that its colouring, at any rate, is due to a lifetime's observation of those primitive inter-racial and formative influences which.

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