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THE LOG SHANTY liOOKSHKLF PAMPHLET FOR 1894. Containing a List of the Homely Books, rhiefly Iloiatian Sclu)ol Texts Notes an«l Translations, set out in that ye;(r on the Shelf of the Pioneers' Cal)in in the Indusvrial Kxhiltition Park at Toronto, tluring the Aiuiual Septeniher Display. I BY THE KEY. DR. SCADDING. TORONTO : IHK ), I'ltlNTKKS, (Ol.ltOHNK STKKKT. HORACE CANADIANIZING. EARLY PIONEER LIFE IN CANADA KKCALLEI) BY SAYINGS OF THE LATIN POET HORACE, BEING THE LOG SHANTY BOOK -SHELF PAMPHLET FOR 1894. Containing a List of the Homely Books, chiefly Horatian School Texts Notes and Translations, set out in that year on the Shelf of the Pi<.)neers' Cabin in the Industrial Exhibition Park at Toronto, during the Annual September Display. BY THE REV. DR. SCADDING. TORONTO: THE COPP, CLARK COMPANY (lIMITEI)), PRINTERS, COLBORNE STREET. 1894. S2. HORACE CANADIANIZING. It was my fortune to be made ac(juainted, in some slight degree at all events, with Horace and his writings at a time when I was as yet a youth- ful inmate of a primitive Canadian pioneer homestead, constructed of the timber which only a few years before had occupied its site in the form of lofty trees, and this primeval abode came to be associated in my mind curiously with numerous impressions derived from Horace, and to this day the language of the poet, when he narrates the well-known incidents of his childhood, instantly receives color and interpretation from one's boyish recollections. Even his slight touches in regard to scenery and natural phenomena, near by, or afar off, were realized in one's own mind in a. similar manner. The very limited clearing around the old home referred to was still hennned in by tall phies. Below was the broad valley of the Don, through which that river made its way, from north to south in long reaches and bold bends. Here were gigantic elms, basswood (the linden), button wood (the plane), and butternut trees, and in swampy places, hemlock-spruce and cedar trees, rugged and grey with age. In winter the solidly frozen stream was utilized in preference to the surrounding roads for the purpose of transporting boles of trees, cordwood, hay and other heavy loads, southwards towards the Bay. In the spring, during the so-called freshets, the Don became a swirling tide, reaching across the whole vale, bearing on its bosom uprooted trees, wrecks of fences, sheds, and so on, and sometimes the carcasses of shee]) and other farm stock. The lofty and steep hillsides along the stream, especially towards its forks, a little to the north, clothed in deep snow, presented very picturesque winter scenery ; wild animals were occasionally to be seen or lieard, the yelping of the wolf being no strange sound, and the snow on the flats was to be TUB LOO-SHANTY BOOK-SllEf-F KoK 189-i. hure and thero suen stfvined with the 1)1(ki(1 of slieep worrit'cl l»y tliose ferociousfiniuifils. Now and then a geniiinofnll-grown bear stalked across the path, or some stragglers of a herd of wild deer on a sudden hounded away througl the thicket. In exiiosed situations lofty pines were not un- frecpiently struck with liglitning and Ixire conspicuous scars of injuries thus received. Tlie spacious cavities found high up in the stem of a gigantic pine l)ecanie the abode of wild bees, and when the tree was felled l»y the woodman's axe, extraordinary accunnuations of comb, new and old, con- structed by them were to be discovered. At certain season.s the salmon was to be captured in the Don, and a solitary canoe was now and then to be descried proceeding on its way, bearing a genuine red man of the forest in (piest of this tish ; after nightfall a torcli of burning pine kn(»ts making him all the more noticeable. Good fish of other kinds besides salmon were numerous — black bass, rock bass, suntish, perch, pike. Sju'ing water rivulets entering the main stream at several points were frequented by si)eckled trout. The wild grape vine grew in (piantities along tjie Don, also the V'ild currant, the wild gooseberry, the wild cherry, the wild apple, the wild plum ; hints all of them of the future capabilities of the regicm. In favorable situations were t<» be seen throughoiit the summer, snakes of various hues and sizes, and tortoises, including the snapping turtle, the latter to be found often with its eggs in the adjacent higher sand-banks. In the sands al.so the marmot or woodchuck burrowed ; and in places higlier up a family i>f foxes would tind titting shelter. The beaver survived in these parts only in certjiin traces of hia dams and lodges, to be discerned here and there. Game was plentiful, partridges, ([uail, woodcock, pigeons, and wild ducks. Wild flowers too numerous to specify abounded every- where in their proper habitats, swift lunuming birds from the far south, duly demanding toll of them every year. The position of our clearing was on the east side of the river, forming a pori/ion of lot No. 15, first concession broken front, a lot of 200 acres "more or less," of which, as our archives would show, my father was at once the first patentee from the crown, and the first reclaimer from a state of nature. There being but one bridge over the river it was my lot for a series of years to perform a daily tramp from this locality by a very cir- cuitous route to and from the neigliboring town, then known as York. The object of this tramp was to attend, satchel on arm, the old district grammar school there situated, under the superintendence, first of Dr. Strachan, then of Mr. Armour, and finally of Dr. Phillips, in whose time the school became absorbed in the new institution of Upper Canada .College. HOHACI-: CANADIAN IZI\(i. 5 Ex]it'rioiiL'c'.s 1111(1 sunoiiiulings sucli fis tliose wliieli luivu liufii iiulicari.'(U served to give h color in the Ixiyish iniagiiiiitioii to the words of Ilomce,- when s])e!iking of hi.s own early days, or when alluding to scenery and natural phenomena ; and it is a (jueation whether the Canadiaii schoolhoy had not in these respects some advantage over the schoolhoy of Eton or Harrow, who gathered his ideas from an environment presenting to the eye nothing in the rough. How vividly realized for example were such bits of wrml pahiting as the following: — "You see how stands Soracte with its depth of snow, and the groaniiig woods can no longer sii])port their load, and the rivers are fast set with nipping frost." Or "Diana's delight in streams and the foliage of the groves, whatever the leafage l»e that stands forth, either on cool .Algidus, or on the dark forests of Erymanth, or (m Cragus green." Again. " Hebrus and Thrace all white with snow, and Rhodope traversed by l)arbarian foot." .And when he spoke of the perils encountered in the navigation of the Mediterranean waters, of '* the wintry blast that crushed against the barrier of jiumice stone the might of the Etruscan sea," " the breaking billows nscientious and wise parent. A more detailed picture of the hardy rural life to which Horace in his l»oyhood was accustomed is the followini,' ; it is included in the description which he yives of the hardy training retjuisite for the production <»f a brave militia, such as our own Canada hns on more than one occasion siiown itself cajialile of sendin;^ to the front. **Such soldiers," he saj's, "were the manly oti's[irinj^ of rustic warriors, trained to turn up the clods with Sabine hoes and to cai'iy in logs lievn according,' to the will of an austere mother, when tiie sun was chinyin-j; the shadows of the hills, and taking oft" the yoke from the weary oxen, as he brought with parting car the welcome hour." Again we have another picture of the rough rural life to which Horace in his boyhood was familiar in the mountainous region round 1.;^ native Venusia, all seeming familiar enough to the pioneer backwoodsman, where once more he brings upon the scene the "Sabine matron and sunburnt wife of industrious Apulian swain, as she jjiles u)) on the sacred hearth logs of seasoned wood to greet the return of the tired master, or as she jtens up within the close- woven hurdles the joyous ftock. or prepares the unbought evening meal." One more familiar sketch may be added — a graphic vernal scene. " Keen winter is melting away beneath the welcome change to spring and the ■western breeze, and the herd n(t more delights in its stall or the plough- man in his tire, and with lu)ar frosts the meadows are no hmger white, and disused sailing ci'aft are once again hauled down from the shore to the water." Furthermore, the maxims and views of life set foi'th in the details of Horace's young days agree well with ideas widelv entertained among our forefathers during the primitive period of our hisi,...y ; for examjde where he sjiys, '* the more that each man denies himself, the more he shall receive from Heaven ; 1 .seek the camps of those who covet nothing, and as a desert- er rejoice to quit the side of the wealthy ; a more illustrious possessor of a contemptible fortune than if I could be said to treasure up in my granaries .all that the toiling Apulian cultivates, poor amidst abundance of wealth," and again where he (juotes the words of his own father, "Whenever my father would exhort me to live a thrifty and prudent life, contented with what he had saved for me, he would say, ' Do you not see how hard it is for nOKACK CANADIAN IZINO. « theHoiK.f All)iii8 t.) live ami the neeiiy Barru«,'(ilome hard work • e;irn your siuice, the iiei:{ht of the enjoyment is .. . in the sjivour l>ut in yourstlf. ' Do not these words, and more such could V»e added, recall the old pioneer (lays of our country, and while listening to the rural philosopher, Ofelhis, can we not fancy that we hear s^.me sul>stantial United Empire Loyalist discoursing to a family of stalwart s«.a8 and nlmst daughters, assendiled round a well suppliee»id;^ "hnt of a settler in the forest, sayings of Horace scattere \ nere and there ^ ve i j*eculiar force foi' clic inhal)itants of this western world. Like the T.r<>pl.^-ts of old, Horace occasionally gave utterance to expressions which in then comi)rehensiveneiSs surpassed even his own concejttion. To this day we have n<. uiore fitting words to describe the fearless audacity of a O. Iambus or ;■ Cabot than (hose of the poet when he sjiys, " Surely heart of ojik and trijile brass lay around the breast of him who first to the savj^e .sea entrusted a frail bark, nor was afraid of the imperious Africus contending wi-h the northern storms, nor the tearful Hyades, or the fury of Notus. What form of death could they fear who l)eheld with unflinching gaze the monsters of the deej) '" and in the narrative of the heroic Teucer and hLs companions, thrust forth from their native Salamis, to seek new lands, there to found another Salamis. as distinguished as the first, is there not forestalled the history of not a few cities and tinvns on this continent, bearing familiar names borrowed from those of the older continent, in some in.stances at this day ecjualling and even surpassing them in repute f "Wheresoever," exclaimed the indomitable fugitive, "Fortune kinder than a sire shall guide us, thither will we go my partners and comrades ; let nothing be despaired of while Teucer is guide and Teucer conductor, for unfailing Ajx-llo ha>^ promised that on a new soil shall be a second Salamis ^rhose name shall confu.se it with the first." 8 THE LOG-SHANTY BOOK-SHELF FOR 1894. Have we not here by anticipation a colony of emigrants swarining forth from the over-peopled hive of Eurojje with some dauntless leader under- taking to conduct them to broad lands and roomy homes, an ampler ether breathing everywhere of freedom, beyimd the sea ; and have we not here foreshadowed the existence, and die reason for the existence, of many an important place in this western hemisphere ; a Boston, a Baltimore, a New York, a Richmond, a New Orleans, a New London, a New Westminster, and other places oi lesser note, bearing names manifestly duplicates of others in the old world i Once more the modern very expre-ssive term "ocean greyhound," applied to our swiftest means of transit over the Atlantic, was virtually forestalled by Horace when he spoke of ships bounding across oceans* which seemed intended to sever natidus, lather than to knit them to- gether. " In vain " (so he imagined) "did the wise God part land from sea by the estranging ocean if nevertheless barks bound across " (literally leap across with a sort of greyhound motion) " waters that should not have been touched." That the passages just quoted, translated and somewhat compressed, from the Latin poet Horace, should have the effect of exciting in the mind memories of early days in Canada may be due simply to individual experience or fancy, but strange to say it can be shown that cool-headed persons in high position, quite independent of such sentimental considera- tions, have deliberately selected passages from Horace, wherewith perma- nently to make a record of events connected with Canada. On the seal assigned by the Home Government to the Province of Lower Canada in 1792 is to be seen the following sentence or motto ; " Ab ipso ducit opes Aniiminulue ferro." These words are from a well-known ode of Horace's entitled, "The Praises of Drusus," stepson of Augustus Caesar. Lord Lytton translates the stanza containing the passage as follows : " Even as the ilex lopped by axes nide, Where rich with dusky boughs soars Algidus, Through loss, through wounds, receives Nevv gain, new life— yea, from the very steel." The inuendo in the lines selected as the motto on the Lower Canadian seal seems to be that Britain had quite recovered from the loss of her thirteen provinces, and was now with renewed energy, like some old holm- HORACE CANADIANIZING. 9 oak that had been rather severely thinned out, putting forth fresh colonial branches in the very hemisphere where her dismemberment had been eflFected. Again for the public seal of the Upper Province (Upper Canada) Horace is resorted to for an inscription or motto. " Iinperi porrecta inajestas Custwic rerum Caesare." *' The gi'eatness of the empire advanced through the supreme guardian- ship of a Caesar." (Note that here Imperi is a contraction for Imperii and that some words are omitted.) The poet therein sets forth that it was due to the supreme watchfulness of Augustus that peace and pros perity had been restored to the empire. The whole passage reads as follows, in the familiar version of Francis : " Restrained by arts of unoient fame. Wild license walks at large no more ; Tliose arts by which the Latin name. The Roman strength, th' impeiial power, With awful majesty unbounded spread To rising Ph(iil)us, from his western bed." On the Lower Canada seal was a sturdy tree stretching out a strong branch on one side, in allusion probably to the holm-oak of the inscription ; in the background ia a mass of rock with shi[)ping lielow ; perhaps Quebec was intended. On the Upper Canada seal was the Indian calumet of peace, crijssed by an anchor with its cable, which encloses in its coil an Indian tomahawk flanked by two cornucopias of fruit and flowers. Above is the royal crown and on one side a portion of the Union Jfujk is seen. In both seals the reverse shows the Royal Arms of England.* Until quite recently the seals atbicheil t) deeds and patents were circular masses of beeswax several inches in diameter, and one-fourth of an inch in thickness. Royal letters patent giving a title to lands or other rights, were open letters from the Crown, attested by seals of this des- cription. The word "letters" is simply an ancient expression derived from the Latin, denoting the epistle or document conveying these rights, a remark useful to be remembered for tin' better understanding of the familiar phrase, " Know all men l)y these presents," where we have again *The inscription or motto on rhe public seal of the Province of (Quebec prior to ittJ division into Upper and Lower Canada was from Statius, Silvae v. i-'iO. "Externae i^audont airnosci-re metae." The device on the seal shows Kin;; Geovjfe the Second pointinjr with his scejitre towards a map of the St. Ijawreiice region. The wcfd iseem to imply that the territory delineated cordially accepted its new master. 10 THE LOG SHANTVr BOOK-SHELF FOR 1894. an instance of tlie use of a plural word in a singular sense, "these pre- sents " simi)ly meaning tliis epistle or official document. On both sides of these old-fashioned seals there were emblematical devices, a thin white paper was spread over the wax and the device was produced thereupon by strong pressure in a mould. These ponderous beeswax seals became, of course, in most instances speedily detached from the documents from which they dangled. In modern times seals are impressed on the documents themselves by a simple process which need not be described and are thus prevented from beino; lost. The mention of the use of literal beeswax in seals may recall with some. Jack Cade's words to his mob of followers on Blackheath, in the second })art of Shakespeare's Henry VI., " Some say 'tis the bee stings ; I say 'tis the bees wax, for I did but seal once to a thing and I was never mine own man since." In the words selected f^r use on the public seal of Upper Canada, under the name of Augustus, the reigning king of England is complimented for liJiving as it were augmented the greatness of the Empire by the creation of new provinces. It was from adulation in this strain, based in part on the language of Horace, that down to (juite a late date George the Second and George the First were to be seen life size, in the Senate House at Cambridge, raised on jjcdesbils only a little above the tloor, in the full but somewhat scanty dress of a Roman imperator or general.* Once more. — When in the year 1867, a medal was to be devised to commemorate the consolidation of all Canada into one dominion — Horace is a third time made to supply a legend or motto — " Juventjis et iiatrius vigor." "A youth and vigor like that of their forefathers." On the reverse t)f the medal, Britannia is seen seated with a group oi tall and comely daughters round her, and the suggestion seems to be that they are all strongly marked by traits characteristic of the sires from whom they have sprung. On this occasion the ode entitled " The Praises of Drusus'' is a second time utilized. The allusion in the first instance is of course to Drusus, who is compared to a young eagle soaring forth fi-om its parents' nest in search of bold adventures, or to borrow the words of Theodore Martin, " Whom native vigor and the rush Of youth have spurred to quit the nest." v» •^ On the jflobe encircled by the arm of the second George here coinntenioratcd, is to be seen in conspicuous letters the word Canada, in allusion to the conquest of Canada at the (■lose of the reign of that king. HORACE CANADIANIZING. 11 —a hint probably being intended of Great Britain's policy at the nioment, in relation to her colonies as they became populous and strong. To the left of the group are seen the words Canada Instauratfi, that is, "Canada reconstituted as a Dominion." (Note that Juventas above is another form of Juventus). It remains to notice two other ciuotations from Horace that have become familiar to many Canadians. Every recipient of a prize-book at Upper Canada College will remember the lines subjoined to the engraved certificate inside the cover : " Doctrina sed vim promovet insitain, Rectiqiie cultus peetora roborant : Utcuinque defeeere mores, Dedecorant bene nata oiilpae." These lines are again taken from the ode just mentioned, entitled " The Praises of Drusus." They liave been thus translated into English : " still teachintr P'lts the powers upon A forward movement ; discipline Is that the bosom strenffthens on ; Forminir the habit. Has it been Xeiflected, there miscarria(jre spoils, Or vice a fair endowment soila." The selection of these appropriate lines is due to the Rev. Dr. Joseph Hemington Harris, first principal of Upper Canada College. The English translation just given has been taken (p. 203) from "Odes, Epodes, and The Secular Song, Newly Translated into Verse, by Charles Stei)hens Mathews, A.M., formerly of Pembroke College, Cambridge, Tyrwhitt's Schohr for 1824, London : Longman, Green & Co., Paternoster R(»w 18H7." The Charles ht«i.::3ns Mathews here named was one of the (»riginal teacliing staff of Upper Canada College, who discharged the duties of First Classical Master in that institution from 1829 to 1843. (While here, the intermediate name Stephens seems to have been disused. (Anotlior translation of these lines is the following :— " But inborn virtue still reiiuires Culture to shape what nature's self inspires ; Leave it unformed, unaided, guilt and shame Shall stain tli-; noblest heart, the most illustrious name." This is Sir Stephen de Vere's version. The (jther passage from Horace above referred to reads : — 12 THE LOG-SHANTY BOOK-SHKLF FOR 1894. " Valet itna aiininiia Mutare, et iniiiffnein atteniiat Deua. Obsciira proiiiens. Hinc apicem rapax Fortuna cum stridore acuto Siistulit, hie poHuisse, gaudet." In English thus, to borrow again tlie able rendering of Mr. Mathews, " There is a power that weakens misjlir, Reverses states of hitjh and low, Extracts the hidden thin^fs to ligrht, With hissing bolt discrowns one l)rnw To crown another. Called as lists, Or God or fortune, it exists." Or, iis Lord Lytton has turned the same lines, " A God reigns Potent, the high with low to interchu.ij^e. Bid bright orbs wane, and those obscure come forth ; Shrill sounding, fortune swoops — Here snatches, there exultant drops, a crown." These lines were prefixed by the Rev. Dr. Thomas Phillips to a kind of poetical Valedictory publicly recited by one of his pupils on the memorable occasion of the last distribution of prizes at the District Grammar School over which he presided, and which was about to vanish out of existence, being wholly merged in the new institution of Upper Canada College, wherein he was made the first Vice Principal under the Rev. Dr. Harris. The approaching transfer of honour and dignity from the old institution to the new seems to be alluded to, and consolation is tacitly drawn from a consideration of, the general mutability of human affairs. A modern association among the former alumni of the College has employed the words " Coelum non Animum" to indicate their cordial acceptance of the new building and site, which have recently taken the place of those previously regarded by them with so much reverence. These words are also a scrap of Horace ; as a sentence incomplete. The whole (|Uotation would read as follows : — "Coelum non animum mutant qui trans mare currunt." " 'Tis the sky and not the mind they change who speed across the main." (Line 27, Epistle 11, Book I., of Horace's Epistles.) It may not be irrelevant to narrate when and how these words of Horace's first met the eye of Canadians, sit least it must have been so with many of them. Years ago an admirable weekly pa[)er was published in New York, entitled TJie AUnon ; its matter was selected with a view to satisfy readers still retain- ing old country tastes and ideas. Dr. Bartlott was its editor, assisted for a HOKACE CANADIANIZINO. 13; tunc l)y Dr. ,J. Ch-.ivluni Fisher, well-known in Quebec, ami writer cf the very griiceful Latin inscription to be seen on the joint monument in honour of Wolfe and Mnnt'^alm in that city. At the head of the paper appeared its title, Tlw Albion, enclosed to the right and left between two bran.hlots of oak leaves and acorns, with the Rose, Tiustle, and Shamrock intermingled below, (the Maple Leaf was not at the time so generally recognized as now as an emblem of Canada). Beneath this api)ropriate device appeared in clear capitals the Latni words " Coelum non animum mutant (pii trans mare currunt,- without any indication of their source. The Albion had a con- siderable circulation in Canada, and fr..m its motto on the tirst page matiy <.f its readers were made acquainted for the first time, perhaps un- consciously, with Horace's very truthful remarks. Finally, it may l)e noted that the words, ''Dulce et decorum est pro i)atria mori,"— "To die for fatherland is sweet and seemly,"— possibly seen on one <.r otlier of the memorial groups erected in Canada in h(,nour of those who have fallen in the defence of their country, are also the words of H> .race. They are to be found m the second ode of the Third Book, line 13. Thus it will be seen that into the warp and woof of Canadian atiairs, from the day of the first occupation of the country by the British to the time of its consolidation as a Dominion from the Atlantic to the Pacific not a few threads from Horace have been interwoven. In a memorable passage in one of his odes, Horace predicts the futur© circulation of his own poetical works throughout all parts of the world as then known, tacitly perhaps attributing the fact to the patronage of his generous friend Maecenas. '• Bom of parents ol)sciire though I be, O Maecenas, I who still from thy mouth hear the title, " Beloved," I shall not pass away through the portals of death ; Me the Colchians shall know, me the Daciun dissembling His dismay at the sight of his vittor the Roman ; Me Scythia's far son ;— learned students in lue Shall be Spain's rugged child, and the drinker of Rhone." (Liittun's tmnslatiun, ode 2i\ book .?.) Here again, interpreted by events, Horace's words are even more comprehensive than they seem to be. He names the child of Spain and the drinker of the Rhone, because Spain and that portion o: Gaul throu-h ,vhich the Rhone flows, were held at the time to be the extreme limits of the west, but he was destined to be known and studied farther west than this ; in the far Occident the drinker of the Canadian St. Lawrence far U4 THE LOG-SHANTY BOOKSHELF FOR 1894. across the western main was also to be in due time made cognisant of his writings, as we have seen, and farther westward still the drinker of the Saskatchewan, the Fr.aser, and the Columbia, to say nothing of American rivers north and south, in respect of which the anticipations of Horace have been fully realized.* In view of the curious literary facts glanced at in the Y»resent paper, it is a thing somewhat to be desired that there should be executed a Canadian medallion, bearing a head of Horace from the antique, enclosed between two s])rays of maple, as these appear on the silver coinage of the country witli a small beaver above, where the royal crown is seen. A head of Horace, inscribed Horativs, from an anticiue medal probably as authentic as any, is given at page 4 of Milman's Horace. The present brochure has for its heading, "Horace Canadianizing," that is to say, Horace discoursing in terms especially intelligible to old-fashioned, primitive Canadians. To proceed further than this is (|uite beyond our present scojse ; however, it shoidd be said that the other writings of Horace harmonize with the passages just cited. He inculcates simplicity of life, contentment with little, iind avoidance of false glitter; he praises temperance and moderation, but is no advocate of a.sceticism. He is proud of his country and he would have its citizens independent in spirit, and brave, at peace among themselves and true to their legitimate guides and rulers. When he indulges in good-humored raillery and other pleasantries his words are, of course, not everywhere to be interpreted to the letter. He may be taken to be for the moment conforming to the ways of the Greek lyric poets whose metres and versification he had introduced and naturalized at Rome. In these he nevertheless contrives here and Ihere to embody descriptions and sentiments worthy of the greatest epic or dramatic poet. On certain occasions in his views of a Divine Providence and a future state, a profound innate religiousness is evinced which is very striking. It is a thing unitjue to note what a favorite Horace has been with thoughtful men in every generation, from his own time to the present. In Dante — Orazio satiro — Horace the satirist — is placed only a little way within the first cii'cle or limb of the inferno. To his spirit in company with the spirits of ' .John Osborne Serprent prefixes to his Horatioii Echoes, or Translations of the Odes of Horace (Riverside Press, lioston and New York, 1803) a i)rief poetical nieiiioir of Horace ; the followiiin is its conclusion ; — " Upon strong wing, through upper air — Two world*! beneath, the old and new— The Roman Swan is wafted where The Roman Eaifle never flew." HORACE CANADIANIZING. 15 several groat poets of antiquity, is assigned a modmviveudi, hirly endur- able, although attended by few joys. In the so-called satires of Horace there is no acrimony or malignity, and to these, together with the two books of poetical epistles which precede them, historians have in a great degree been indebted for their pictures of Roman society at the period of Horace's decease, B.C. 8. Althougli Lucilius, whose satires are now lost, certainly preceded him in point of time at Rome, it was Horace who to all intents and purposes founded in general literature a school of poetic writers on social, or rather as the phrase now is, society topics, of which school Pope in English, and Bdileau in French are familiar examples. Finally, in the poetical fragment commonly spoken of as "The Art of Poetry," Horace has furnished all literary men, writers of prose as wull as writers of verse, with a stock of hints and rules of the greatest practical use to them in their treatment of the innumerable prol)lems daily coming before them for solution. CATALOGUE. The claim of the following books to a place on the " Log Shanty Book-shelf " rests upon the fact that the collection dates back for its commencement to the Pioneer era in our country's history, and that it originated in an effort of a young inquiring spirit to provide for itself a supply of aliment and raw material, so to speak, on which to operate, at a period when literary appliances were very scarce. Additions were made from time to time as opportunities more or less favorable presented themselves for so doing. It will be remembered that a similar account was given of the rise and progress of each of the other collections which have now for eight successive years figured annually as the " Log Shanty Book-shelf" at the Toronto Industrial Exhibition. THE WORKS OF HORACE (In Latin). Editor, Schrevelius. I.eyden & Rotterdam. A. D. 1670. Octavo. Engraved title page. The Delphin Eklition. Etlitor, Louis Desprez. Paris: Frederic Leonard, Printer in chie to the Dauphin, A. D. 1691. With engraved emblematic title page. Two vols, (Quarto, With notes. Cambridge, 1701. ICmo. Editor, Wm. Baxter. London, 1725. Svo. Fine portrait of Baxter. Editor, W. Baxter, with notes of Gesner & Zeunius. Edinburgh : University Press, 1806. (Quarto. A derelict prize volume of St. John's College, Cambridge, picked up on a second-hand book stall, Toronto. The binding has been very handsome. On the sides and back are stamped the Johnian Rose & Portcullis. Within is the book-plate of Sir Edmund Antrobus who graduated at St. John's in 1S14. His autograph on a fly leaf is dated 1812. Editor, W. Baxter. Edinburgh, 1806. Octavo. An autograph of Lord Byron and book plate of Richard Allen. Motto appended to arms " Fortiter in Arduis." Editor, J Hunter, Professor St. Andrew's University. Cupar of Fife. 1813, Octavo. Two vols. Upper Canada College prize, 1830. An American reprint of the Delphin edition. Editor Desprez. Philarlelphia ? M. Carey, 1821. Octavo. English School Delphin Edition. With Dani'^r's notes, etc. London : The Rivingtons. Scatcherd & Letterman and IS other old Firms. 1821. Octavo. Editor, W. Baxter. London : Whittaker and others. 1822. Octavo. Pickering's Miniature Edition. London, 1824. Editor, Peter Dubiquet. Paris: Charles Qosselin Lebel, printer. 1825. Two vols. Hon. Adam Crook's copy. CATALOGUE. 17 Editor, F. W. Doerintr. Glas^row. isja Octavo. Portrait of Horace. (The Satires and Epistles). Editor, Tl.e Kev. I>r. .MiCaul. Dul.lin, 1833. Dr. Mc-Caul was afterwards the well-known President of the University, Toronto. Editor, Wni. Wel.er. Frankfort on the Maine, 1833. Pp. 191-260 of Weber's Con.ns Poetaruni Latinoruni, which is a repraliiction of Sidnev Walker's Corpus (School Edition). Editor, B. A. Gould. Boston, isa.-i. Editor, .James Tate. " Horatius Restitutus." London : Baldwin an