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ACADIENSIS

Since that exodus of New England Loyalists to Nova Scotia and New Brunswick, the ties binding the two sections have become stronger and stronger.

No book of genealogy of any New England family can be made complete without a search of the records of St. John and many other places in the Maritime Provinces. The descendants of the Pilgrims and Puritans cannot forget that they belong to one family, whether their present abiding places be east or west of the St. Croix River. May those family ties be ever held sacred, and, as the years go by, may many ties of blood and friendship make firm and lasting the friendly intercourse between New England and Acadia.

Hollis Russell Bailey.

Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Note.—Much of the material for the foregoing article has been taken from "Historical Sketches of Andover," by Miss Sarah Loring Bailey.

The Maniac.

Cold as the nether deeps of polar sea,And storm-swept as the peak that scrapes the sky,His soul glares outward with a wordless cry;His hands, through gratings, grasp immensity!Matted and worn and pale—with whelming gleeHe screams to phantoms sweeping wildly by;Phantoms, wolf-eyed—intent to kill or die,Or crush the Universe to anarchy!
A piping thrush begins his simple lay,And, straightway, gibing apes with clasped handsDance to his music on far, golden sandsWhere shines the summer sun through endless day!A chime—from green fields, fragrant, undefiled,Lo! through his grating, smiles a little child!Charles Campbell.


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