Libraries in Canada; development of art; absence of art galleries in
the cities, and of large private collections of paintings;
meritorious work of O'Brien, Reed, Peel, Pinhey, Forster and
others; establishment of the Canadian Academy by the Princess
Louise and the Marquess of Lorne; necessity for greater
encouragement of native artists; success of Canadian artists at
the World's Fair; architecture in Canada imitative and not
creative; the White City at Chicago an illustration of the
triumph of intellectual and artistic effort over the spirit of
mere materialism; its effect probably the development of a
higher culture and creative artistic genius on the continent.