Excerpt from French-Canadian Literature M Ems mm m, mm m N F F F Mummmmwmh mm mm M mm M a. Mmmm mmmm 9mm xmmmwm mummmnuflmwm m may? M mar mm mm wmuwwmmm M mamau Mm mmmmm m m mm ummm mrhdmazwl gm E m Mm h mwmflm flaw firm u mmmhmmm: w.m mm: mmmmw mmmmmwm mean mumwmmw m.aa mmmm Wa mwfi mm W mwmm mmmw mmm mm m mm awmmwmw u. Mum? M a mum Mm mamumm mamwmm mm mm? Mm Mm W m. Mmmmmw M £2 m mm m, mm mummom MW mwmwmmm mmwmm wwmrmmm mmmwdwmmw Mi Am. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Excerpt from The Récit and Chronique of French Canada We thank Mr. Ward for having had the generous thought of making known to the English speaking public of Canada and the United States our French Canadian literature. We know that a too high barrier separates the intellectual life of the two races which dominate Canada. Doubtless the two literatures English and French ought to develop ao cording to the genius peculiar to each one of the races the thought and life of which they express, but it would be desirable that cultivated minds in both peoples of this country should know better the numerous works written both in English and in French which are published each year and which represent the higher and deeper of the two principal elements of our papulation. At the time when by so many efforts it is being sought for to bring these two elements together, to make known to each other and to make penetrate each other these two mentalities, the work of Mr. Ward will contribute in great measure to assure the success of these praiseworthy attempts. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Excerpt from French-Canadian Verse Written These French-Canadian poems were selected from a number that the author has written from time to time and are those that are more easily read and understood by the average English-speaking person. There is really no such uniformity of dialect among the "habitants" that could be followed with any degree of certainty. Every French-Canadian has his or her own peculiar method of expression in the use of the English language. Some have difficulty in the use of the pronoun, some again speak the English fluently and almost faultlessly, and it is only on rare occasions that a slight misuse of a word or expression exposes their origin to the close observer; but the remaining and more numerous class go battling along through the verbs, pronouns, and adjectives at will - unaffectedly but ruthlessly. These verses are, therefore, not offered as a criterion of the French-Canadian dialect, but merely the English used by some of the types that the writer has observed and known. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Excerpt from Under Canadian Skies: A French-Canadian Historical Romance In Under Canadian Skies, the author, by describing histories] incidents and events, and presenting the French Canadian in the true light, has endeavored to correct the erroneous impression created by insidious propaganda. As for more than a hundred years the French of Canada have fought the foe, numberless in that space of time must have been the deeds worth chronicling; and now some of the soul-stirring scenes are presented in the form of a novel. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Excerpt from Jean Baptiste: A Story of French Canada Miorthefloqofmandthesatntionofsouls. Upirofiomf Ancyouvflingcog'veyouroelfeothiosomething, Yes. Portbgoodofmons' Alum. Atlonot. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Excerpt from French-Canadian Verse Downdereeverifyougeevheragoodchanoetogo From Isle au Peche above, to Paiute Peelee below. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Excerpt from The Habitant, and Other French-Canadian Poems Et cela sans que jamais, dans cc portrait d'un nouveau genre, le plus subtil des critiques puisse surprendre nulle part le coup de crayon de la caricature! About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Excerpt from The French-Canadian in Prose and Verse: One of a Series of Twelve Special Lectures Forming a Part of the Course in Literature This lecture discusses: French-Canadian dialect; courier du bois; humor; readings from Drummond, Amsbary, Mott; Illinois habitant settlement; construction of French-Canadian sentences; early conditions in Canada; Louis Riel; list of books recommended to be consulted and read. Comparatively recent is the date which marks the presentation of the French-Canadian in literature. The quaint characteristics of the courier du bois, voyageur and habitant, have furnished us many fascinating stories. His ingenuous manner, naive grace of speech, simplicity of temperament, form a character new and interesting. Placed in an atmosphere comparatively unfamiliar to the average American, there is a distinctive interest surrounding the stories of French-Canadian life as portrayed in the novels of Ralph Connor, Roland Robinson, Mrs. Catherwood and Sir Gilbert Parker; in the colorful artistic vignettes of Lawrence Mott, the poems of Dr. William Henry Drummond and in those incomparable sketches of out-door life, written by Dr. Henry Van Dyke. The speech of the French-Canadian contains an odd mixture of genders and tenses; strange idioms, vehement outbursts of French-English. Our neighbor of the North has a cheery, sanguine temperament that is easily excited, and he is very fond of fun. What he does not express in a splutter of vowels and consonants, he attempts to convey by shrugging of shoulders, and swinging of arms like irresponsible windmills - a system of calisthenics, by the way, which mounts to the dignity of eloquence. The dialect has a peculiar subtle attractiveness, the speech runs unconsciously into a delicate rhythm, expressive, naive, and is coupled with an ingenuousness that is irresistible in charm. He has little wit, but in humor he is rich, broad, and free from guile, in pathos, deep and tender. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."
Excerpt from The French Canadian in Quebec and New England His home is chiefly in the province of Quebec, of which Voltaire contemptuously said in 1763, after its cession to England Only a few thousand acres of snow Superabundant snow, indeed, in winter but in summer a land that compares favorably with the northern regions of New England. The region south of the St. Lawrence, about fifty by one hundred and fifty miles, between Montreal and the boundary of the United States, is very fertile, as also some sections north of the river. Below Quebec the soil is poorer. Her great pine forests have been a source of wealth. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
