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252 mind those who lived here three hundred winters ago.

Lescarbot's Chronicles describe the formation of a literary society by members of the pitiful colony "in order that the spirits might be sustained by sundry pleasantries." At intervals, a series of papers were issued under the title Maitre Guillaume, which Lescarbot called "a bulletin of mirth." There is no question that this hand-script composed by witty, brave and cultured Bretons was the avant-coureur of all the journals of our continent.

At St. Stephen one may take a trolley car into the United States. Calais is at the other end of the bridge which crosses the international boundary formed by the St. Croix River.

Campobello Island, 16 miles from St. Andrews, is separated by a narrow passage from Moose Island, on which is situated the Maine town of Eastport. From St. John, St. Andrews, St. Stephen and Eastport, Campobello is accessible by steamer. Though within the bounds of Canada this sea-blown isle with contorted shores belongs in its entirety to an American Stock Company who have erected a large hotel and annex, laid out a golf course and improved the paths and roads which dart among the woods and ride the cliffs in endless number. One might spend a year of holidays exploring this little realm composed of