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The following lines were received from Mr. William Murray of Hamilton:

"In writing you do not pretend

With Tennysonian themes to blend,

It is an independent style

Begotten on Canadian soil."

From one of Toronto's well known citizens, S. H. Janes, Esq., formerly of Oxford:

I wish to express to you my great pleasure in looking over your musings on the Banks of Canadian Thames. It seemed to transport my memory across the chasm of twenty-five years and to call up the scenes, associations and joys of boyhood's happy hour. Literary work of this kind must add greatly to your pleasure and happiness as it certainly does to that of your friends.

The Editor of the Toronto Globe, after reviewing a number of other books pronounced our little volume to be the gem of the table.

Col. Denison, Toronto's police magistrate, "found many most interesting pieces on Canadian subjects in the volume."

Joaquin Miller, the American poet, hailed me as "my dear poet of the Canadian pasture fields," and he said I did wisely in singing of useful themes.

N. C. Thompson of Rockford, Ill., wrote us a large number of verses. We select the following:

"Your poem on the Bard of Ayr,

I like the best, I think it rare,

An equal love of Burns I share,

And read him oft,

O could I write like him 'twould bear

My soul aloft."

Dr. Scadding, the Antiquarian, thought my poem on Father Rannie, the cheese pioneer, "had the ring of a fine old ballad about it."

From a poem by the Rev. John Dunbar, of Toronto, we give this extract:

As other duties made demand

I only got your poems scanned,

Marking the treatment of your pieces

While wonder and surprise increases,

Assured your book its way will win,

So neat without, so nice within,

Reserving as a promised pleasure

The thorough reading at my leisure,

Permit me now to each unknown

To thank you for the kindness shown.

The Hon. Oliver Mowat was pleased with the patriotic spirit displayed in the poems.

From George McIntyre of Conestoga:

Surprised, delighted, beyond measure,

I gazed upon the pretty treasure,

And as it gives me such great pleasure,

My thanks I send

To him who in his hours of leisure

Those verses penned.

A. G. Murray, a prominent clansman of Chicago, sent us the following:—I received your volume and I think a great deal of it. It is one of our family treasures and the reading of it brings before us the genial form of friend McIntyre, who pictures things so vividly, reminding us of days gone by.

From Rev. Robert Cameron of Denver, Colorado:

My whilom friend dear McIntyre,

Your book of rhymes has come,

Take thanks from all around our fire,

For all have said well done;

How many long and toilsome years

Have passed since first we met,

I was a lad twixt hopes and fears,

And you'r a poet yet.