Perhaps those who would not care for the berry, the root, and the grain, as delineated and classified technically in books of science, might remember their uses and properties when thus brought practically before their notice as the aliments of the famishing fellow-creature, with whom their instinctive feelings must perforce sympathies.

When parents who have left home comforts and all the ties of gentle kindred for the dear sakes of their rising families, in order to place them in a more independent position, it is well if those young minds are prepared with some knowledge of what they are to find in the adopted country; the animals, the flowers, the fruits, and even the minuter blessings which a bountiful Creator has poured forth over that wide land.
The previous work of my sister, Mrs.Traill, "The Backwoods of Canada, by the Wife of an Emigrant Officer," published some years since by Mr.
C.Knight, in his Library of Useful Knowledge, has passed through many editions, and enjoyed, (anonymous though it was,) too wide a popularity as a standard work for me to need to dwell on it, further than to say that the present is written in the same _naive_, charming style, with the same modesty and uncomplaining spirit, although much has the sweet and gentle--author endured, as every English lady must expect to do who ventures to encounter the lot of a colonist.

She has now devoted her further years of experience as a settler to the information of the younger class of colonists, to open their minds and interest them in the productions of that rising country, which will one day prove the mightiest adjunct of the island empire; our nearest, our soundest colony, unstained with the corruption of convict population; where families of gentle blood need fear no real disgrace in their alliance; where no one need beg, and where any one may dig without being ashamed.
LIST OF ENGRAVINGS.
LOUIS CONFESSING HIS DECEPTION OF CATHARINE FIRST BREAKFAST, THE CATHARINE FOUND BY THE OLD DOG WOLF FINDING THE WOUNDED DOE HECTOR BRINGING THE INDIAN GIRL KILLING WILD FOWL INDIAN WOMAN AT THE DOOR OF THE HUT CATHARINE CARRIED OFF INDIANA BEFORE THE BALD EAGLE INDIANA AT THE STAKE ATTACK ON THE DEER RETURN HOME THE CANADIAN CRUSOES..