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Un des symboles suivants apparaftra sur la dernidre image de cheque microfiche, seion le cas: le symbols —► signifie "A SUIVRE ", le symbols V signifie "FIN". Maps, plates, charts, etc., may be filmed at different reduction ratios. Those too large to be entirely included in one exposure are filmed beginning in the upper left hand corner, left to right and top to bottom, as many frames as required. The following diagrams illustrate the method: Les cartes, planches, tableaux, etc., peuvent dtre fiim^s d des taux de reduction diff^rents. Lorsque le document est ttop grand pour dtre reproduit en un seul clich6, 11 est film6 d partir de I'angie sup^rieur gauche, de gauche A droite, et de haut en bas, en prenant le nombre d'images ndcessaire. Les dia^^rammes suivants iliustrent la m6thode. 1 2 3 1 2 3 4 5 6 THE KNIGHT OF SPENCER GRANGE. NEW YEAR'S DAY, 1898. A PLEASANT ANNIVERSARY BY WILLIAM KIRBY, P. R. S. C, Hts laurel crown provokes no frown. No politician's wiles have won Distinction for her learned son. No path unclean has soiled bis gown. Gkorob Martiit, Anthor of " Marguerite " and other poems. January 'the let.— Evidently this date is inscribed in red letters on the scroll of Spencer Grange ; it suggests to me a bright day for a dear friend. Literature is not always a harsh mistress ; she sometimes throws over her votaries double handfuls of favours in sign of approbation— roses for love, pansies for thoughts, laurel wreaths to crown her honored sons. The Nestor of Canadian writers from his historical bower on the banks of the St. Lawrence has taught us the fruitful lesson of our national history — its romantic incidents and memories of great and noble men and women. " He has spoken also, like the wise king of old, of beast and of fowl and of creeping things and of fishes— of trees also, from the cedar of Lebanon, unto the Hysop that springeth out of the wall." He has spoken of all these, and he has spoken well — and in both the tongues that belong to Canada ; our people praise and honor him accordingly. Himself a happy blend of the Canadian Seigneur, the English Gentleman, the Scotch Highlander and the U. E. Loyalist : the personality of Sir James M. LeMoine touchcH Canada on every side. In him blood tells, character enobles and education hn« drawn the best essences of the races comminglingly in him. A well ordered and industrious life, devoted to the en- lightenment of his fellow men, has long endeared him to Canada and especially, where he is best known, to the old Province of Quebec. His writings have been an overflowing fountain of infor- mation that has started new ideas in the writings of others. Francis Parkman has said of him, that his works denote great versatility, and he acknowledges information contribu- ted by LeMoine to his " Pioneera " and "Old Regime." Wil- liam Kirby and Gilbert Parker have warmly acknowledged their indebtedness to the writings of LeMoine for the histo- rical foundation of some of their works. K^9 Mr. H. G. Morgan, in his " Canadian Men and Women of the Times," tells us: " In 1893, he rendered a timely service, by. protesting against the surrender to vandalism, of the walls of 'Quebec ; in the same year he urged the creation, at Quebec, of a National Historical Museum. At an earlier period, he advocated the erection of a monument to Samuel de Champlain, founder and first governor of Quebec Faith Fenton terms him " A patient investigator, an apt writer, a careful historian, and always a dear lover of his country and race." Ever ready to impart information, he has been for years the cicerone 06%^ of the highest officials and titled stran- gers visiting the Ancient Capital— bent on investigating the arcana, or learning the history of the auaint city. , Quebec is justly proud of him, ana as he, year by year advances in his literary career, has honored him by public and private tokens of esteem. His house at Spencer Grange, has been for years the resort of visitors from many lands— of men eminent in literature, art and science — and who have partaken of the unostentatious hospitality offered by him, by his worthy partner, Lady LeMoine, and their two daughters. Sir James LeMoine, for several years a practicing barrister at the Quebec Bar, at all times a busy office man from his youth, had not at his disposal the leisure, and he certainly does not seem to have felt the inclination to devote himself entirely to the investigation of Canadian History, nor to the more elaborate classification of our avi-fauna ; nay, he says as much, in some part of his diary. That he has succeeded in his self-imposed function, even beyond his expectations, ample proof now exists. " Few, says Pastor Felix, a United States writer of note, few in our little library of books of a Canadian origin, are prized more than the series writen by James McPherson LeMoine, President of the Royal Society of Canada It is hard to say if our author is more Frenchman or Scotchman, and the Saxon and Gallic tongues are equally native to him. We especially prize the series entittled " Maple Leaves." These last mentioned books particularly, exhibit the agree- able qualities of their author's style, and have infused in them the delightful leaven of his personality. James LeMoine knows and loves Quebec and has done much to make " his own romantic town " attractive in the eyes of others. It is his home and it is remarkable from any point of view, as the pilgrim from abroad is eager to confess. Its historic and legendary lore has found in him a most intimate and sympathetic interpreter, and though careful and exact as to his dates and details, they are intermingled with picturesque, imaginative, and occasionally, sentimental touches He is a living chronicle of the most romantic and historic city in Canada, we might write it, of America." His bibliography, as published in the Memoirs of the Royal Society of Canada, goes to show that time and again he con- siderably enlarged the sphere of his original studies, not infrequently by venturing in "pastures new"— ethnologv, arctic travel, lake and deep sea fisheries, folk-lore legends, archeology, biography, scenery, flowers, dogs, sport with rod and gun, &c. StUl the loadstones of early years ever attracted him to Eopular Canadian history and Canadian ornithology. Pro- ably the fertile field he loved the most to explore was the varied one embraced in the " Maple Leaves " which made his name a household word in every Canadian home, yea— in homes far beyond his native Canada. No where, Sir James appeared to more advantage, than when as President of the Literary and Historical Society of Quebec, it fell to him to open the annual winter course of lectures, with some congenial historical subject : a glowing discourse on the doings of Jacques-Cartier, or of Samuel de Champlain, on the green banks of the St-Charles at Quebec, or a life — like portraiture of the thrilling incidents of the great siege of 1759, or the memorable blockade of the City by Montgomery and Arnold in 1775 — summoning from the misty p«8t, the noble figure of victorious James Wolfe, or that of his chivalrous rival, the Marquis of Montcalm, or that of Sir Guy Carleton, the saviour of Quebec. The first literary prtject in which the historian took a pro- minent part, as one of the eight founders, was the creation of the Iriatitut Canadien, as early as 1847. In 1867, we find him, on the elevation of Sir N. F. Belleau to the post of Lieut.-Governor of the Province of Quebec, discharging zealously his duties as Acting President of the Committee entrusted with the erection ot a monument to the national historian, Frs. X. Garneau. In 1897, we find him acting Vice-President of the Champlain Monument Committee. A red-letter day indeed, in Sir James' literary career, must have been that, when surrounded by the ilite of Ottawa, he stood forth as President of the Royal Society, in the presence of Their Excellencies, the Earl and Countess of Aberdeen, whose guest he was at Rideau Hall, and delivered, at the annual May meeting of the Society, in 1895, his Presidential Address, reviewing in a striking and most luminous manner the comprehensive subject of Canadian Archives. No less appropriate was his reply at the banquet, next day, at Government House, to the toast proposed in his honor by the Governor General, in most sympathetic terms. January the Ist 1898, ought indeed to be a pleasant anni- versary to the author of " Maple Leaves " ; early that morning, '""^-.iSlSagmsSmMlX^i^^'-i*!* MiiiiiitaM-^ a yenr ngo, a telegrnph niopsenger was knocking at the por- tals ol Spencer Grange, the bearer of a telegram from ih» -harl of Aberdeen, the Governor General, announcing that HerMajesiy the Queen, had been pleased to confer the honor of Knighthood, for hterary service rendered Canada, on James McPhei son LeMome, Past-President of the Royal Society of Canada." '' This mark of Royal favor to a Canadian litterateur, for distinguished service to his native land, must have been a pJeasant recognition, and surprise. The guerdon in Sir James ■•-eMoines case, was not won without patient toil. When the news of Sir James' Knighthood reached Quebec, on Mv, Year's Day, ]897, it was greeted with unanimous approya by the people and press of the Piovince. Her Majesty 8 gracious act was received as a timely honor, bestow- ed on a loyal and distinguished man, in every way worth v of her royal favour. -i j j A stream of congratulatory letters, telegrams, even to poetical tributes, reached Spencer Grange. Shortly after, an exquisite banquet was tendered the new Knight of Speiicer Grange, by Quebecers, at the Garrison Club. It was followed by a recherchS dinner at Spencer Wood, where His Honor, Lieut. Governor Sir J. A. Chapleau, a good judge and warm admirer of literary merit, convened the leading scientists and /i^fra/t of the Ancient Capital, to meet and banquet the genial historian of Quebec. New Year's Day, 1898.