[182] Mrs R. E. Mullins Leprohon, b. in Montreal, 1832. Educated at the Convent of the Congregation of Notre Dame. She was a leading contributor to the Literary Garland, and contributed freely to other periodicals. She wrote many tales. After her death at Montreal, September 20, 1879, John Lovell & Son published The Poetical Works of Mrs Leprohon (Miss R. E. Mullins), 1881.
[184] William Douw Lighthall, b. in Hamilton, Ontario, December 27, 1857. Educated at M'Gill University. He is the head of the law firm Lighthall & Harwood, Montreal; and was one of the founders of the Soc. of Can. Lit., and of the Château de Ramezay Museum. Author of Thoughts, Moods, and Ideals, a booklet of verse, 1887. In 1889 he edited Songs of the Great Dominion(Windsor Series, London), and Canadian Poems and Lays(Canterbury Poets Series, 1891). He has written several prose works, the latest being the novel, The False Chevalier, a Canadian Adventurer at the Court of Louis XVI. (1898). Resides in Montreal.
[187] Stuart Livingston, Q. C., b. in Canada of U. E. Loyalist stock. Was educated at Toronto University. He is the head of the law firm Livingston & Garrett, Hamilton, but is well known in literary and artistic circles as a writer and a painter. Besides The History of Professor Paul, a novel, and contributions to the Magazines, he has published In Various Moods, a book of poems, 1894. Resides in Hamilton, Ontario.
[192] Rev. Arthur John Lockhart ("Pastor Felix"), b. at Lockhartville, Nova Scotia, May 5, 1850. For some years he was a printer, but entered the ministry in 1872. He is widely known as a writer in prose and verse in Canadian and American periodicals. A Masque of Minstrels, poems by himself and his brother, 1887; and Beside the Narraguagus and Other Poems, 1895. Contributed in prose to Burnsiana, 1893. Resides at Pemaquid, Maine, U.S.
[196] Rev. Burton Wellesley Lockhart, D.D., brother of the preceding, b. at Lockhartville, Nova Scotia, January 24, 1855. Educated at Acadia University. Among his poems of special note, included in A Masque of Minstrels, are The Retrospect, Sir Richard Grenville, In Solemn Vision, The Old Home, Wordsworth, and Talking by the Sea. Resides at Manchester, New Hampshire, U.S.
[198] John E. Logan ("Barry Dane"). A writer of fugitive verse of much beauty. Resides in Montreal.
[199] Agnes Maule Machar ("Fidelis"), b. in Kingston, Ontario. Has for years contributed both in prose and verse to Canadian and American periodicals. She is best known as a novelist. Resides at Kingston, Ontario, but lives at "Fern Cliff," among the Thousand Islands, in the summer.
[204] Evan MacColl, b. at Kenmore, Scotland, September 21, 1808; d. at Toronto, July 1898. Came to Canada, 1850, filling a position in the Customs at Kingston, Ontario, till he retired on a pension, 1880. Author of Clasach nam Beann: or, Poems and Songs in Gaelic, 1838; The Mountain Minstrel: or, Poems and Songs in English, 1838; and Poems and Songs, chiefly written in Canada, 1883 (2nd ed. 1866). He was appointed a Fellow of the R. S. Can. on its organisation, 1880. The Child of Promise, given in the text, is a translation from the author's Gaelic poem, by Dr Buchannan.
[205] Mrs Elizabeth Roberts MacDonald, b. at Westcock, New Brunswick. Educated at the Collegiate School of Fredericton, and at the University of New Brunswick, and was for some time teacher in the School for the Blind, Halifax, Nova Scotia. Her poems have appeared chiefly in the Magazines. In 1891 she issued a booklet of poems for private circulation. Resides at Fredericton, New Brunswick.