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The Landmarks of Canada, A Quebec Chronology and The Quebec Battlefields were first published as appeals at the time of the Champlain Tercentenary in 1908. Wolfe and Gray's Elegy was written for the "Boston Transcript" in 1909, the year of the third jubilee of the Battle of the Plains. The Second American Invasion is taken from an introduction to a collection of original documents on the siege of Quebec in 1775 which was published by 'The Literary and Historical Society of Quebec' in 1905, at the time that the Dominion commemorated Carleton's defence by the erection of the bronze tablets for which the author composed the inscriptions. The Fortress City and The First Five-Nation War now appear for the first time; though free use is made of a work to which the author contributed and of which only seventy-four copies were printed—Dr. Doughty's Fortress of Quebec. Tercentennial Quebec is a lecture delivered before Bishop's College, Lennoxville, in 1909. It formed the basis of the author's contribution to "The King's Book of Quebec." An Ursuline Epic and French-Canadian Folksong are monographs published in very limited editions by the Royal Society of Canada and now out of print. The Habitant is reprinted from "The Guardian" for the 25th of June, 1902, and A French-Canadian Poet from "The University Magazine" for April, 1910.

The author hereby gratefully acknowledges the kindness of all those by whose permission he is now able to reprint the various contributions mentioned above.