Excerpt from Our Canadian Literature: Representative Prose and Verse Immortal art is not Often immediately popular. Even the Sacred Literatures of the world were not fully accepted and appreciated by those to whom they were written until long after they were revealed. Nevertheless. The truth expressed in distinctive form seldom perishes from the memory Of mankind. Every advance in art, every forward step in litera ture, no matter what its field may be, no matter what its source or location, is a gain to the whole race. If literature from beyond the boundaries of this Dominion be more popular than our own, let us not complain overmuch. If we are wise we shall have faith in ourselves. Time shall make every inadequate good un couth and give permanence to every universal note. 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.