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 Thomas Chandler Haliburton. burton will be long remembered. His ear liest work was a history of Nova Scotia, pub lished in two volumes in 1829 by Joseph Howe. His accuracy as an historian has been attacked, and his account of the deportation of the Acadians in 1755, in which he de nounced the act as harsh, has given rise to criticism from those who defend what even from their own point of view still remains a most cruel expedient. In 1835 ne began the "Clockmaker " papers in Joseph Howe's newspaper, the " Nova Scotian," and they at once attracted attention by their inimitable humor. Among his other principal works are "Bubbles from Canada," "The Letter Bag of the Great Western," " The Attache," "The Old Judge," " Wise Saws and Mod

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ern Instances," "Nature and Human Nature," "Rule and Mis-rule of the English in Ameri ca," and " The Season Ticket." The limits of the present article will not allow, nor does it fall within its scope, to make any ex tended comment on the above works. A few years ago a Haliburton Society was formed at Windsor, N.S., and that Society has published a very excellent "study" of Haliburton and his literary works from the pen of Mr. F. Blake Crofton, of Halifax, N.S. Judge Haliburton was twice married; first to Miss Neville, the daughter of an English military officer; and secondly to Mrs. Wil liams, widow of E. H. Williams, of Shrews bury.