Captain Stewart’s Letters

Stewart, Ralph W.

doi:10.1179/peq.1872.007

Palestine Exploration Quarterly

1872

DOI: 10.1179/peq.1872.007

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Captain Stewart’s Letters

Ralph W. Stewart¹

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“…Stowe, recommending their works for study.' He opposed the subtle anti-Catholicism of some of his authors by reviewing a history of Catholic institutions in Montreal, Histoire et statistiques des institutions catholiques de Montrial, 14 and by praising Garneau's History of Canada as 's work of rare ability.,Is He printed James MacPherson LeMoine's memoir of Garneau which includes a long quotation from the History on the importance of preserving the French-Canadian national spirit. "b While Stewart may not necessarily have endorsed this principle, he was demonstrating his willingness to consider other points of view.…”

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George Stewart, Jr., a Nineteenth-Century Canadian Man of Letters

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and literary impresario, was a well-known figure in the nineteenth-century Canadian literary world. A handsome, gregarious man, he gave up a prosperous business in Saint John, New Brunswick, to devote himself to letters and a lifetime of communing with literary men, promoting Canadian literature, and trying to make a living by the pen. His publication of Stewart's Literary Quarterly in Saint John from 1867 to 1872 won him national acclaim, and from that time to the close of the century, when he was a keynote speaker at the banquet inaugurating the Canadian Magazine,' he was renowned in Canada as a man of letters. The Royal Society of Canada paid tribute to Stewart on his death in 1906, noting his hundreds of friends and observing that 'Dr. Stewart was a born litt6rateur, and the enthusiasm that inspired his youthful pen lasted till he ceased to write.'2 Since then, Stewart's name has been all but forgotten, although Lorne Pierce remarked on Stewart's lusty essays in a retrospective on the Royal Society in 19323 and Wilfred Eggleston quoted his views on the impoverished state of Canadian literature in The Frontier and Canadian Letters, published in 1957.4 Recently Gwendolyn Davies has given a perceptive account of Stewart and the Quarterly in her dissertation, 'A Literary Study of Selected Periodicals from Maritime Canada.,s George Parker has discussed Stewart's contribution to Canadian letters in The Beginnings of the Book Trade in Canada,6 and four essays by Stewart have been included in new collections of Canadian prose, one by Carl Ballstadt, the other by Douglas Daymond and Leslie Monkman.7 Stewart deserves critical attention, not only because he made a significant contribution to the establishment of a Canadian literature, but because, as Carl Ballstadt has pointed out, his writing contains an 'insistent note of idealism.'s Stewart, half Scots and half French-Canadian, believed in a republic of letters-a fellowship among literary men and women that reaches across social barriers or national boundaries. His fulllength studies of the American Transcendentalists, published in 1877, o

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