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the governor, it seemed only right that the people should benefit thereby. The salary of the chief justice was £1200 plus £100 as a member of the Council and £200 as judge of the vice-admiralty court, making a total of £1500. It seems as if this amount supplemented by a low schedule of fees, ought to have been sufficient. income for even a chief justice living in Quebec in the last quarter of the eighteenth century. But Mr. Livius But Mr. Livius thought otherwise. A letter from

the governor tells the story.

"I have had the pleasure to perceive that there are some who require no law but their own integrity to keep them within the limits of justice and moderation; unfortunately it is far otherwise with many, and in this province there is now no rule of regulation of fees of office, but each man for himself is guided by his own desire for gain,-which of late has broke out with greater keenness than heretofore.

"Many of the gentlemen of the Council saw the necessity of an Ordinance, which, at the same time that it authorized what was reasonable, awarded proper punishments to deter those whose avarice might induce them to disregard or elude it. This business, so reasonable and necessary, was continually intercepted by motions and speeches quite new in this province, and more suited to a popular assembly of the Massachusetts than to the King's Council for Canada.

"Mr. Livius, Chief Justice, took the lead, greedy of power, and more greedy of gain, imperious and impetuous in his temper, but learned in ways of eloquence of the New England provinces, valuing himself in his knowledge how to manage governors, well-schooled, it seems, in business of this sort."

Livius's opposition to the governor was not confined to this one instance. Carleton was a military man and he

ruled Canada accordingly. In the early years of the Revolution the province of Quebec was permeated with insurgency, which, after the surrender of Burgoyne, became once more a real danger to the British government. In order to make his administration as efficient as he could, the governor-general had appointed an executive committee of the Council, which virtually took the place of the larger board. With the help of this committee-a sort of privy council Carleton carried the province safely through a critical period. But Livius was not included in its membership. In April, 1778, the chief justice attacked the legality of the executive committee, and demanded immediate remedy, Carleton's patience was exhausted. On May 8, 1778, he dismissed Livius from the head of the judiciary, and hence from the Council. Inevitably another Livius controversy appeared in Downing Street. Carle-. ton, in disgust, declined to defend his course before the Privy Council. Livius presented his side of the case, was sustained, and the office of chief justice was restored to him with extended powers.

But Peter Livius did not return to Canada. On one pretext or another he remained in England, enjoying the salary of his office while its duties were performed by others. This agreeable arrangement, due largely to the indulgence of Lord George Germain, continued until 1786, a period of eight years. Then not only was Livius superseded, but General Carleton, who had been out of civil office since 1778, returned to Canada as governor of Quebec and with the title of Lord Dorchester. Nine years later the Gentleman's Magazine, under date of July 23, 1795, recorded among other recent deaths-"On his way to Brighthelmstone, Peter Livius, Esq., late Chief Justice of Canada."

The Heart of Monadnock

BY ELIZABETH WESTON TIMLOW
Boston, B. J. Brimmer Company

only justifiable way to re

John Burroughs, an equal interest in

Tview this book is to take a cue every living thing. Of the two

from the jeweller's art and string pearls-quotations-but, paradoxically, it can't be done in the space which even the most generous editor would allot to a review. Besides, one can't "review" a prose poem like, "The Heart of Monadnock."

In the spring of 1918 a certain "dollar a year" man in Washington, dropped out, and was no more seen for months. Being on the inside, he knew how little really had been done. He knew that after a year at war the United States had but three hundred thousand troops of all branches in France; he knew that Germany was about to launch that great thrust towards Amiens. He pleaded and preached in vain, and then, instead of going mad, he slipped away to the

Adirondacks. The mountains saved him from dying, like "Bobs," of a broken heart. That man's overwrought condition is still with us today. Thousands of generous souls and knightly minds are daily agonizing over conditions which they cannot alter, cannot alleviate, and which only time can better.

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eagles which have made their home for years on Dublin Ridge, driving their young each year to nest in some less-favored spot, she happily voices the thought of their "swimming in the sapphire ocean of space."

Never have I read a finer or grander description of a thunder-storm than that contained in the seven pages beginning on page 72; none of the morbid horror and stage bogeyisms of a Poe, unhappy when not in a perpetual state of goose-flesh. Rather the healthy thrill and urge that come over so many of us at the breaking out of heaven's warfare. Read her storm tale to the accompaniment of the storm-music in "William Tell," and your eye will flash, your nerves tingle, and the old berserker that yet dwells in us all will long for a part in the combat, to be borne off at last to Valhalla by the watchful Valkyrie.

The inside covers of the small volume have plans drawn to scale, of every path, pinnacle, and viewpoint on and about Monadnock and his five giant sons-those great shoulder-buttresses that are the steps of "The Wise Old Giant's" throne. These paths and views are dwelt upon and amplified in the text, and that makes the book a guide to better acquaintance.

People who are mucking about in the mire of 'realistic' novels will be glad to know about "The Heart of Monadnock :" it is one book they won't have to buy to keep up with Greenwich Village.

ERWIN F. KEENE.

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JUDGES FOR THE BROOKES MORE

POETRY CONTEST

HE interest shown by our
readers and our contributors

in the Brookes More Poetry

contest which ended with the De-
cember, 1922, issue has been very
gratifying. It is not going to be an
easy matter for the judges to pick out
the winning poem. We are fortunate,
however, in having secured as judges
three persons who know poetry both
from a practical and from a critical
standpoint: all three write poetry;
two of them are teachers of litera-
ture, and the third is an editor on a
magazine whose reputation for ex-
cellent verse as well as prose is un-
equalled. These three judges are:

Miss Florence Converse, one of the
editors of the Atlantic Monthly,
Mr. Carl Holliday, professor of
English at the University of
Toledo,

Mr. Frank Prentice Rand, professor of English at Amherst College. Miss Converse is known as the author of several books, mainly on devotional and social subjects. Her last volume is a book of miracle plays, "Garments of Praise." Mr. Holliday numbers among his books a volume on "Woman's Life in Colonial Days" which, though published a number of years ago, still has a steady popularity. Mr. Rand's friends who enjoyed his volume of poems entitled "Garlingtown" will be glad to know that a new book of verse, "Weathervanes," is announced for early publication by the Cornhill Publishing Company.

These judges are now at work and we hope next month to be able announce the winner and print again the winning poem.

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OUR CONTRIBUTORS
In This Issue

The political ambitions and struggles of other days were not so far different from those which fill our newspapers today. Peter Livius the Trouble Maker has his modern incarnations. Therefore, his story, written by LAWRENCE SHAW MAYO, who is well known to New Hampshire readers as the author the author of the biographies of Jeffrey Amherst and John Wentworth, is of interest to those whose study is human nature as well as to historians. Mr. Mayo tells us that he came upon the material about Peter Livius

while he was working on the Wentworth biography.

When GEORGE B. LEIGHTON presented to the Legislature in 1919 the report of the commission appointed in 1917 to study

New Hampshire's undeveloped water powers, much interest was created throughout the state. This interest, however, was not as productive of action as it should have been. In the article which Mr. Leighton has written for the GRANITE MONTHLY this month, he sets forth again the plea that New Hampshire shall realize the potential power of her streams and conserve it and use it to run her mills.

HENRY B. STEVENS is Executive Secretary of the Co-operative Extension Work at New Hampshire College. To use his own figure, he is one of the superintendents in the Education Plant and the article which he has written is a personally conducted tour through the factory.

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GENERAL FRANK STREETER Enlightened and successful leadership in many lines of public and private endeavor characterized the life of General Frank Sherwin Streeter, who died at his home in Concord, December 11, 1922. Admitted to the New Hampshire bar in 1877, after a period of study with the late Chief Justice Alonzo P. Carpenter, he soon gained, and retained to the end, a leading place among the best known trial lawyers in the East. To enumerate even the more important cases with which he was connected as leading counsel would require much space, His last work as a lawyer was

the investigation, for the Attorney General of the United States, of the affairs of the Atlantic Shipbuilding Corporation at Portsmouth; and, as a sequel, with characteristic public spirit, he gave valuable service, gratuitously, to the state of New Hampshire in relation to the industrial situation at our seaport city.

Other good work for the national government was done by General Streeter as a member for several years of the International Joint Boundary Commission.

Never an office-seeker, Mr. Streeter was a staunch Republican in politics, a diligent worker for the success of his

party and influential in its councils. Among the honors which it bestowed upon him were those of president of the Republican state convention and delegate to the Republican national convention, 1896; and member of the Republican

national committee, 1907-8. He was a member of the Legislature of 1885; served as judge advocate general on the staff of Governor Charles A. Busiel; and was president of the constitutional convention of 1902.

During the World War General Streeter, as president of the New Hampshire Defense League and member of the executive committee of the official New Hampshire Committee on Public Safety, gave without stint of his time, money, ability and energy to the service of his country.

Other indications of Mr. Streeter's public spirit and of its appreciation by his fellows are found in his presidency of the New Hampshire Historical Society, of the State Bar Association, and, for 20 years, of the Wonolancet Club, Concord's leading social organization.

But, after all, General Streeter's name and fame will endure longest-and this will meet his own desire-in connection with education. Of Dartmouth College, from which he graduated in 1874, and which bestowed upon him the degree of Doctor of Laws in 1913, he was for 30 years a trustee. During this period, which witnessed the renaissance and wonderful growth of the college, he was the "right hand man" of President William J. Tucker and President Ernest M. Hopkins to an extent which Doctor Hopkins gratefully acknowledged in his address of eulogy at General Streeter's funeral.

As chairman of the sub-committee on Americanization of the Committee of Public Safety, Mr. Streeter gained an insight into the workings of the public school system, which aroused his interest in its opportunities and needs. A little later, as president of the new State Board of Education under Governor John H. Bartlett, he realized those opportunities and filled those needs to an extent which placed New Hampshire in the front rank of forward-looking and forward-moving states on educational lines.

Frank S. Streeter was born in East Charleston, Vermont, August 5, 1853,

the son of Daniel and Julia (Wheeler) Streeter. He married Nov. 14, 1877, Lilian, daughter of Chief Justice Alonzo P. and Julia R. (Goodall) Carpenter. She survives him, with their children, Julia (Mrs. Henry Gardner) and Thomas W., and his sister, Miss May Streeter.

EMMA G. BURGUM

On January 9, 1923, Emma G. Burgum, stricken with pneumonia, died in Concord at the age of 97. Mrs. Burgum who was the oldest resident in Concord was the adopted daughter of Countess Rumford. Born in Loudon, April 20, 1826, she came to Concord as a young girl, and lived there until her death. She was an active worker in the North Congregational Church and was the oldest member of The Women's Benevolent Charitable Society of the church.

Mrs. Burgum is survived by two daughters, Mrs. Sarah R. Noyes, Mrs. E. H. Lane, and three sons, John F., Charles H., and Edward Burgum.

ELISHA RHODES BROWN

On December 25, 1922 Elisha Rhodes Brown, President of the Stratford National and Savings Bank, died in Dover after an illness of several months, at the age of 75. Mr. Brown was a member of a notable Rhode Island family of that name which furnished governors of the state and founded Brown University. Mr. Brown entered the Stratford National Bank as a clerk more than 50 years ago and was successively promoted to cashier, vice-president and president. At the time of his death he was the president of the Concord and Portsmouth Railroad and director of the Maine Central. He had also served as director of the Boston and Maine and Concord and Montreal.

A member of the First Parish Congregational Church, he long held the office of senior deacon. He was an Odd Fellow, 32nd degree Mason, and was affiliated with the Moses Paul lodge.

He is survived by three sons, Harold W., Raymond S., and Philip C. Brown, all of Dover.

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