[Footnote 45: Page 27.--"The Golden Dog: a Legend of Quebec." New York
and Montreal, 1877, 8vo. Also translated by Pamphile LeMay, the French
Canadian poet, Montreal, 1884. Mr. Kirby is also the author of several
poems of merit: "The U. E.: a Tale of Upper Canada. A Poem in XII.
Cantos." Niagara, 1859, 12mo. "Canadian Idylls," Toronto, 1878, etc.
He was born in England in 1817, but came to Canada at the early age of
fifteen. He was one of the original members of the Royal Society of
Canada.
Mr. Lespérance, F.R.S.C., was the author of the "Bastonnais" and
other historical romances of some ability, but not of that high
order of merit which gives a permanent reputation. The Hon. L. Seth
Huntington, long known in Canadian political life, was the author of
a semi-political novel, "Professor Conant" (Toronto, 1884), which had
its merits, but it fell practically still-born from the press. Many
other efforts have been made in the same branch of literature, but the
performance, as stated in the text, has not been equal to the ambition
that prompted the experiment.]