[Footnote 49: Page 28.--He is a most industrious worker in various
branches of literature in London. After a residence of a few years in
Australia, where he was connected with the Sydney press, he went to
England, where he wrote many sketches of Australian life which were
well received. Recently he has been studying the interesting phases
of French Canadian and Northwest life, and has produced, among other
stories, "The Chief Factor," the principal scenes of which are laid in
the great territories of the Dominion before they were opened up to the
farmer, the rancher and the railway.]