whales around us, the soaring eagles overhead, and man himself—­the culmination of them all—­and especially migrating man, whose incoming myriads are linking us already with the most pregnant phases of the future.  Where else are there so many intimate appeals both to the child and the philosopher?  Where else, in all this world, are there any parts of the Creation more fit to exalt our visions and make us “Look, through Nature, up to Nature’s God”?

But, Sir, I must stop here; and not without renewed apologies for having detained you so long over a question on which, as I have already warned you, I do not profess to be a scientific expert.  I fear I have been no architect, not even a builder.  But perhaps I have done a hodman’s work, by bringing a little mortar, with which some of the nobler materials may presently be put together.

Bibliography

This short list is a mere indication of what can be found in any good library.

General information is given in Labrador; its Discovery, Exploration and Development—­By W.G.  Gosling:  Toronto, Musson. The Atlantic Labrador is dealt with by competent experts in Labrador:  the Country and the People—­By W.T.  Grenfell and Others:  New York, The Macmillan Company, 1910. This has several valuable chapters on the fauna.  The Peninsula generally, the interior especially, and the fauna incidentally, are dealt with in the reports of A.P.  Low and D.I.V.  Eaton to the Geological Survey of Canada, 1893-4-5. An excellent general paper on the country is The Labrador Peninsula, By Robert Bell, in The Scottish Geographical Magazine for July, 1895.  The N. of the S.W. part is more particularly described in his Recent Explorations to the South of Hudson Bay in The Geographical Journal for July, 1897.  The Quebec Labrador is the subject of a recent Provincial report, La Cote Nord du Saint Laurent et le Labrador Canadien—­Par Eugene Rouillard:  Quebec, 1908—­Ministere de la Colonisation, des Mines et des Pecheries. An excellent account of animal life on the W. half of the Quebec Labrador is to be found in Life and Sport on the North Shore—­By Napoleon A. Comeau:  Quebec, 1909. The zoology of the Mammals, though not particularly in their Labrador habitat, is to be found in Life-Histories of Northern Mammals—­By Ernest Thompson-Seton:  London, Constable, 2 Vols., 1910. The birds, similarly, in the Catalogue of Canadian Birds—­By John Macoun and James M. Macoun:  Ottawa, Government Printing Bureau, 1909. Some books about adjacent areas may be profitably consulted, like Newfoundland and its Untrodden Ways—­By John Guille Millais, and American official publications, like the Birds of New York—­By Elon Howard Eaton:  Albany, University of the State of New York, 1910. No. 34 of the New York Zoological Society Bulletin—­for June, 1909—­is a “Wild-life Preservation