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Behind one might distinguish j>ale islands and wood- land, vague and dreamy in the soft light. Frogs croaked half-asleep from time to time. About ten o'clock we steamed out into the drowsy tide, pursuing our upward course, but were compelled to lie by the bank half Vol. III.— 9. the night, waiting for a mist to be dissi- pated. Next morning was cloudy. Through simi- lar scenes to those of yesterday we sail, yet our course is more winding: mountains ap- proach, but recede after reaching a certain distance, so that nowhere are they near enough to be imposing. We touch at a sta- tion or two, tying up to some tree close to the bank; houses apjiear here and there. Debris of the forest strews the sides of the current, now so strong as to hurry trees and great logs down impetuously; pieces fall from the banks, and it would seem as though the channel changed its direction, yet no extra care is taken, and the steamer pursues an even tenor. The mountains come nearer with tops even, sawlike, so far as jealous clouds will permit one to judge. The river has made a great bend, and on what is now the eastern shore the heights are seamed and scarred, but not deeply wooded, except at their base. The track of a cataract is seen but no waterfalls ; ice fragments only re- main. We graze by woody islands ; one may almost seize the branches of curtseying trees • wild roses abound everywhere. In going through the Cascades the scene is wild and grand like that on the Columbia^ though lacking in the strange and rocky shapes of that river. Gangs of men at work on the Canadian Pacific Railroad are descried from time to time, their camp of tents not far off. Ascending heights arise thick with crops of spear like pines, gleaming as steel. On a long, large, level stretch of land at the foot of crags gray with rock and shafts of trees stand a few scattered houses — an Indian community apparently, for only brown visages look out from the doorways; a little boy, followed by a yelping puppy; chases us along the bank ; people in c' lized attire, well-to- do, cultivating their little territory here live an easy life ; cows, pigs, horses, dogs abound. A few huts seem deserted. (Janoes not un- like those of southern seas are drawn up on the bank. But we gradually draw away from the rude tillage of these children of the soil, and nature, pure and unadulterated, begins 130 Notes on the Fi'aier Jlker. [Feb. again : a wavy growth of alders, niai)les, beech, oak, and ])0]ilar fringes the shore; behind, huge walls of solid rock now loom up; here and there at the intersection of the mountains there is often space sufficient for wild, scrubby trees to cling tenaciously, and streaks of snow appear or a long thread of torrent gleams on the sight, never so lovely as the Columbian waterfalls, because never so well set. Mountain masses shut us in on every side : on the east twin peaks, snow- spotted, have uplifted themselves ; they do not seem far away, not much beyond the heights of the river by which they are framed, so that one sees them through a short vista. On the left, tall trees covered with light green foliage contrast against dark. Here in some respects, the Frazer sur- passes the Columbia — in this for instance: there are more windings, so that one is hem- med in suddenly by towering walls as though there were nothing of the world beyond. Since leaving Port Hope — a village placed on a broad table, flanked by mountains — the river again continues amid great eminences, dec]) in woods, with masses of snow atop. Where we are now, the west bank rises green and soft, with towering plumes of some beau- tiful trees slowly ascending tier upon tier; here and there, sharp towers of pine shoot above the mass, then a height easily soaring, to be carried farther aloft in a lofty peak ; so it is for miles and miles. The continuous- ness of this range is wonderful, far greater than that of the Columbia, for here we have been steaming amid this gigantic brother- hood of mountains for hours, yet do not seem to be passing beyond ; the scenery is finer than during the morning ; the elevation is also greater. We pass a pretty little island with its rocky spine stretching up the current, forming a wedge to cut the stream. At the lower end the waters reunite but to contend; here there is the most uproarious tumult; a novice is appalled, but two trials enable the steamer to stem the tide in safe- ty. There are now no extensive views off upon the land, though the sun is out strong and splendid. On the right hand we are un- der a steep cliff, whose pines, were they to fall, would cross our steamer, but we shift aside quickly. Houses, occupied by Indians, appear oftentimes, each with its little patch of garden. All the natives are short and stout in stature, their faces lugubrious, yet they seem hap])y and fun-loving : the deck- hands are Indians, and perform their work with great readiness and energy ; they make their labor a pastime. Indians and China- men are in about equal proportion, evidently on good terms. Squaws scpiatted on their haunches gaze expressionlessly upon white folk ; they seem a witless, inoffensive race. A superb day in mid hme witnessed our return voyage: the sky was of purest blue, foliage most vivid green, air and river calm. The best part of the scenery lies between Port Hope and Yale : the i)orUon from the for- mer nlace downward is wild at times, always pleasing, but somewhat monotonous. Early in the morning the boat takes on board a herd of cattle: to see the poor frightened things driven on deck is one of the charac- teristic sights of this new region. Indians careering about on their ponies dash in among the wild-eyed, terror-stricken oxen, and quickly force them through the narrow corrals. From the place whence we started yester- day morning to ascend the river to New ♦Westminster, the course passed over by night, the scenes are very interesting : this is apparently an excellent country for agri- culture, to become at no distant period a great farming region. Lands of vast extent, heavily timbered or with low, dense growth, lie along the river ; mountains, fallen away, their tops speckled with snow, present an irregular outline of crest and peak; to the south-west broad outlooks over levels of for- est land fascinate the eye : Mount Baker is in sight. Still further down the Frazer widens into a lake. The steamer is at least one half mile from the northern shore, while the south- ern lies as far away as the vision can pierce. Sails and steamboats flit over the ample ex- panse ; we are evidently approaching the mouth. Huge salmon canneries appear from time to time on land that looks lower than the water ; a forest, reaching to the distant ♦ « 1884.] Thomas I.odqc and his Friends, 181 mountains, only succeeds in lifting its tree- with quiet woods, gentle slopes of green, tops to our level, rocks crested with grass sliding into the still The strait is smooth as glass. Before en- water, i)leasant glades where trecr. not too termg Victoria we glide into a little bay for thickly placed make charming nooks, little the purpose of landing the cattle. The spot beaches tucked away, all make a delightful is one of the loveliest imaginable, fringed picture of repose and beauty. I/tfirv Colbcrh. THOMAS LODGE AND HI.S I'RIENDS. Some of the minor I*Mizabethan writers certainly attract more attention now than they did a score of years ago, but they will amply repay even closer and more affection- ate study. It has of late become very easy to talk of " the England of Shakespere," and the influences that surrounded his first liter- ary ventures; but it is, and ever will be, ex- tremely hard to secure a definite conception of what that England really was. One can- not do it by reading a ft. / epoch histories, primers of literature, and articles in reviews. Sad to say, one of the widespread fallacies of the age is that you can better find out what sort of books a man wrote by reading about those books than by going to the books , themselves. It has come at last to this, thj»t' many persons calling themselves educ^ed spend the better part of their lives in prferely • reading about persons and period^ worth study — indeed, only by study ipsuie profit- able; taking, for instance, som^lcritic's opin- ion of Sidney, some historian's view of the Norman Conquest, as fitjftl and complete. The reading of Sidney'sironnets, not modern- ized but exactly as hc/wrote them ; the study of the noble " Saxon Chronicle" — manliest and most truth f)n record any people except the ancient H^rews ever had — would do more toward^evivifying the past than the committing/to memory all the books about Sidney o^about the Saxons that have been written /mce the days of Cadmus. Th^^se notes upon Thomas Lodge, his surpundings and his friends, must be taken a«^' wayside gleanings from the England of Hooker, Bacon, Spencer, Marlowe, and Shakespere. Perhaps it will be found that writers we have thought we could easily af- ford to ignore explain in some degree the sources of inspirations greater thao their own. We must try to recreate^the Eliza- bethan world, using to this ep/1' the patient research of literary antiquc-yfans, the critical essays of Cerman and T;>i'glish scholars, and the faithful reprints ir^^fie costly publications of Ballad, Old Ei>^lish Text, New Shakes- pere, and similar'societies that aim to repro- duce, with ici-upulous attention to details, the stree^^^ongs, chap-books, controversial pam,)h^'ts, pastoral stories, sermons, miracle plays 'and whatever illustrates the land, the a^, a. id the people. Among the almost forgotttT worthies of the last (juarter of the sixteenth century, we shall find many that possess abounding merits, keen wit, spark- ling style, glowing earnestness of thought. No student can afford to neglect such works as Gascoigne's "Stele Glasse," Sidney's "Apologie for Poetrie," Raleigh's "Fight in the Revenge," Watson's " Passionate Centu- rie," Stubbes':, "Anatomie of Abuses," Lyly's "Euphues," and Lodge's "Rosalynde." Those who have studied "Ward's English Poets," will remember that it contains five of the lyrics of Thomas Lodge; and that Mr. E. W. Gosse prefaces them with a brief sketch of the author, telling us, for instance, that Lodge "is certainly the best of the Eu- phuists, and no one rivaled him in the crea- tion of a dreamy scene, 'out of space, out of time,' where the loves and jousts of an ideal chivalry could be pleasantly tempered by the tending of sheep." "But," Mr. Gosse con- tinues, "it is by his lyrical poetry that he preserves a living place in literature. His