The Northern Pacific Railroad Is now completed, and regular trains are running across Minnesota (255 miles), including purchased lines, the Northern Pacific Company has now under its management 575 miles of finished track, contracts are let for 635 miles more, making a total of 1210 miles to be finished before the close of 1872. THE 7-30 GOLD BONDS which have now taken their place among Solid and Favourite Securities, have the following leading features— FIRST: The Principal and Interest are Payable in Gold, FREE FROM UNITED STATES TAX. SECOND: The Bonds are a First and only Mortgage on the Road, AND ALSO ON A LAND GRANT WHICH WILL AVERAGE 23,000 ACRES TO EACH MILE OF TRACK. THIRD : The Proceeds of all Sales of Land ARE REQUIRED TO BE DEVOTED BY THE TRUSTEES TO THE PURCHASE AND CANCELLATION OF THESE BONDS. The undersigned recommend these securities as an investment, combining a PROFITABLE RETURN WITH ABSOLUTE SAFETY, PRICE PAR AND ACCRUED INTEREST IN UNITED STATES CURRENCY. Pamphlets and full information will be furnished on application to BLAIKIE & ALEXANDER, Bankers and Brokers, Toronto. JAY COOKE & CO., PHILADELPHIA, NEW YORK AND WASHINGTON, Financial Agents, N. P. R. R. Company. CORNER OF ST. PAUL AND ST. FRANCOIS XAVIER STS., MONTREAL. SUBSCRIBED CAPITAL, $10,000,000, WITH Unlimited Liability of Shareholders. BUSINESS OF 1870: Fire Premiums, less Re-insurances, Being the largest amount ever received by the Company in a single year. New Life Policies issued for Total Annual Life Premiums, after deducting Re-as surances, $2,559,180 3,002,740 1,103,920 After payment of the usual Dividend and providing for all losses, claims and expenses, the sum of $905,905 was put by to increase the Funds in hand, which now amount PAGE INTERNATIONAL COPYRIGHT, by Alfred H. Dymond, Esq., Toronto 289 "SIC EST VITA," a Poem, by Miss Charlotte Grant, London .... 299 DINAH BLAKE'S REVENGE, by Mrs. J. V. Noel, Loudon, Ont., (Chapters VI., VII., VIII, IX)..... 302 "MY MESSENGER BIRDS," a Poem, by F. A. Dixon, Esq., Toronto 317 THE LATE SESSION OF THE PARLIAMENT OF ONTARIO, by a Bystander............... 318 "IT IS PEACE," a Poem, by a Bachelor of Arts .. ....... 325 OLD COLONIAL CURRENCIES, by S. F. Dawson, Esq., Montreal........ "NEVERMORE," a Poem, by Alfred James, Esq., Montreal....... MARGUERITE KNELLER, Artist and Woman, by Miss Murray, Wolfe Island, (Chap ters XI., XII., XIII., XIV)................... "ONLY," a Poem; by Mrs. M. E. Muchall, Peterborough 326 333 334 343 THE ROMANCE OF THE WILDERNESS MISSIONS, by M. J. Griffin, Esq., Halifax, 353 "GENIUS," a l'oem, by Mrs. Moodie, Belleville, Ont THE LEGAL INTERPRETATION OF THE TREATY OF WASHINGTON, by James Beaty, Jr., Esq., Barrister-at-Law.......... TRANSLATIONS AND SELECTIONS:— The Canon's Daughter, from the French of Edmond About...... BOOK REVIEWS. LITERARY NOTES........ 354 362 379 384 TO CORRESPONDENTS. 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France accords equal rights to foreigners and her own subjects in copyrights extending to twenty years after the author's death. Germany, Austria, and Denmark, concede the privilege for a period of thirty years after the author's death. Sweden gives a copyright for twenty-eight years, but it lapses to the State if the publication of the work is discontinued. Russia and Spain grant copyright extending, respectively, to twenty-five and fifty years after the author's death. In the United States, citizens of the Union may obtain copyright for twenty-eight years, with the right of extending it to a family surviving the holder for fourteen years more. The extension of such protection to the subjects of foreign states has also been effected by treaties between Great Britain, France, Germany, and other European countries. It is between The laws of most, if not all, civilized na- the two great English speaking communities |