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ROUGHING IT IN THE BUSH.”
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“ Faithlul are the wounds of a friend, but the kisses of an enemy are deceitful.^
In bringing out the first Canadian edition of “Roughing it in the Bush,”
the Publishers need say but little. The work has had an immense sale, both
in England and the United States; yet, until now, our own country, of all
others the most interested, has been denied the honour of its publication.
In her characteristically graphic introduction to this edition the venerable
authoress paints a glowing picture of “Canada, past and present.” Imagine
another Rip Van Winkle waking up from a forty years’ nap—after reading
“Roughing it in the Bush”—carried mid-air from the storm-lashed Atlantic
to the golden shores of the Pacific, say in a baloon, reading the Census of
1871, and beholding our young giant ’empire, like Sampson of old, rending
the swaddling bands, the wyths and cords of adolescence • extending with
one hand the olive-branch and with the other the cornucopia to a united
people, the freest, happiest, best governed, and most virtuous community,
owning the largest domain on this continent; a people who act out in fact,
what elsewhere has been treated as a fiction by its authors, that all men “ are
free and equal;” would not the ideal Dutchman of Irving, exclaim, “ verily.
Truth is stranger than Fiction.”
In presenting for the first time Mrs. Moodie’s greatest work in its own
native dress, the Publishers hope they know better than, at this late day, to
attempt to praise the productions of a Strickland or a Moodik, their record
in Literature, Civilization, Peace and War, is known and read of all; but
the fact that a great, good man, bearing one of the above names has passed
to his reward, may justify in this connection the assertion that a better type
of the high-minded, kind and generous hearted, thorough-bred Christian
fentleman never trod Canadian soil, than the late lamented Colonel J. W.
)unbar Moodie.
This Canadian edition of “ Roughing it in the Bush,” is complete in one
thick volume, over 500 pages. Printed on fine English paper, and embel¬
lished with appropriate illustrations.
Bound in the best English doth, price 11.75. Leather; $2.25.
Sold by subscription only.
MACLEAR & CO.,
Publishers, Toronto.