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Royal Society of Canada Series.

No. 1.

OUR INTELLECTUAL STRENGTH AND WEAKNESS.


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WORKS BY THE SAME AUTHOR.

Parliamentary Practice and Procedure, with a review of the origin,
growth, and operation of parliamentary institutions in Canada. And
an Appendix containing the British North America Act of 1867 and
amending acts, Governor-General's commission and instructions, forms of
proceeding in the Senate and House of Commons, etc.; 2nd ed., revised
and enlarged, 8vo., pp. 970, cloth and calf. Montreal: Dawson Bros.,
1892. $8.

A Manual of the Constitutional History of Canada, from the earliest
period to the year 1888, including the B. N. A. Act of 1867, and a
digest of judicial decisions on questions of legislative jurisdiction.
12mo. pp. 238. Montreal: Dawson Bros. Cloth, $1.25.

Canadian Studies in Comparative Politics: I. Canada and English
Institutions; II. Canada and the United States; III. Canada and
Switzerland. Large 4to. pp. 100. Montreal: Dawson Bros. Cloth, $1.

Local Government in Canada. 8vo. pp. 72. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins
University Studies. Paper, 50c.

Federal Government in Canada. 8vo. pp. 172. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins
University Studies, 1889. Paper, 50c.

Parliamentary Government in Canada: an historical and constitutional
study. Annals of American Historical Association. 8vo. pp. 98.
Washington: Government Printing Office, 1893. Paper, $1.

Descriptive and Historical Account of the Island of Cape Breton,
and of its Memorials of the French Regime, with bibliographical,
historical and critical notes, and old maps; plans and illustrations
of Louisbourg. Large 4to. pp. 180. Montreal: Foster Brown & Co., 1892.
Fancy cloth, $3.

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Royal Society of Canada Series.

OUR INTELLECTUAL STRENGTH AND WEAKNESS

A Short Historical and Critical Review of Literature,
Art and Education in Canada,

by

J. G. BOURINOT, C.M.G., LL.D., D.C.L., D.L. (LAVAL).

Author of "Cape Breton and Its Memorials of the French Regime," and of
Several Works on Federal and Parliamentary Government
in the Dominion of Canada.






Montreal:
Foster Brown & Co.

London:
Bernard Quaritch.

1893

Entered according to Act of Parliament of Canada by J. G. BOURINOT, in
the Office of the Minister of Agriculture, in the year 1893.

Gazette Printing Company, Montreal.




                             To my Friends
              SIR J. W. DAWSON, (C.M.G., F.R.S.C., LL.D.)
                                  AND
                  MONSIGNOR HAMEL, (M.A., F.R.S.C.),
   WHO REPRESENT THE CULTURE AND LEARNING