where there was any great difference from those of the United Kingdom.

The task has demonstrated the many and various interests contained in this vast subject, and has far exceeded the original limit. It is, however, hoped that the wider public to which the articles now appeal will be as sympathetic as the original audiences.

WM. SHEOWRING,

Hon. Sec. Institute Committee.

SOUTH PLACE INSTITUTE,

FINSBURY, LONDON, E.C.

CONTENTS

I. BRITISH NORTH AMERICA

INTRODUCTION: CANADA

By J. G. COLMER, C. M. G. (Secretary to High Commissioner

for Canada; Secretary, Colonisation Board).

THE DOMINION OF CANADA: GENERAL VIEW

By the Rt. Hon. LORD STRATHCONA AND MOUNT ROYAL,

G.C.M.G. (High Commissioner for Canada)..

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3

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ONTARIO

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BY PETER BYRNE (Agent for Ontario).

THE PROVINCE OF QUEBEC.

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By HARRISON WATSON (Curator for the Dominion of

Canada at the Imperial Institute).

NEW BRUNSWICK PAST AND PRESENT

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By C. A. Durr MILLER (Agent-General, New Brunswick).

By W. S. SEBright Green, F.R.C.I., F.R.S.L. (late of

British Columbia).

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148

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153

MOVEMENT

176

By A. C. FORSTER BOULTON, F.R.G.S. (Member of the

English and Canadian Bar).

THE CANADIAN ABORIGINES.

By W. WILLIAMS and S. G. B. CORYN.

A SHORT REVIEW OF CANADIAN LITERATURE

By Sir J. G. BOURINOT, K. C.M.G., LL.D., D.C.L., LIT. D.

(Honorary Secretary of the Royal Society of Canada:

Honorary Fellow of the Royal Colonial Institute, &c. ;

Author of the "Story of Canada" (Nations Series),

Parliamentary Procedure and Government in

Canada," and other works on the History and Con-

stitution of the Dominion).

NEWFOUNDLAND

By T. B. BROWNING, M.A. (of the Canadian Bar).

BERMUDA

By Colonel E. C. S. MOORE, R.E.

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192

II. WEST INDIES, CENTRAL AMERICA, AND

SOUTH AMERICA

THE WEST INDIES: INTRODUCTION

By Sir AUGUSTUS ADDERLEY, K.C.M.G., J.P. (late Member

of Legislative Council, Bahamas; Special Commis-

sioner for the Bahamas and Jamaica International

Fisheries Exhibition, 1883; Royal Commissioner

Colonial and Indian Exhibition; and Executive

Commissioner for West Indies and British Hon-
duras Section, &c.).

THE WEST INDIES: GENERAL

By Mrs. ERNEST HART (Author of “Picturesque Burmu";

The West Indies as they are and as they might be";

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Daily Graphic," &c.).

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282

323

329

BAHAMAS

JAMAICA

By Sir WM. ROBINSON, G.C.M.G. (late Governor of the

Bahama Islands, also of Windward Islands, Trini-

dad, Hong Kong, &c.).

By FRANK CUNDALL, F.S.A. (Secretary, Institute of

Jamaica).

BARBADOS AND WINDWARD AND LEEWARD ISLANDS

By J. L. OHLSON.

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"“History

By EMIL REICH, Doctor Juris (Author of “History of

Civilisation, ""Græco-Roman Institutions,'

of Hungarian Literature,” “Atlas of Modern History,”

dc.).