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of DeMille’s books were published by the Harpers of New-York, though Lee and Shepard of Boston, and D. Appleton and CompanyofNew-Yorkhaveissued others.

Alittie over one year ago a manual of Rhetoric appeared from the professor’s pen, and it has since been made a text-book for advanced schools and colleges. His novels, it may be added, were sensational in their tone, but their thought and language were always pure. Some of the stories have been dramatized into plays which have kept the stage for several years.

Professor James DeMille, * son of the late Nathan S. DeMille, was born at St John, New-Brunswick, in 1833. He wa educated at Brown University, Providence Rhode Island. The greater part of hi

early life was spent in his native cit

* The name was originally De Mill.

by the M where his family has for many years reee and M sided. He was brought up tothe book

ton and M and stationary business, and about a Lothers. M quarter of a century ago he started trade LofRhe D °° his own account with Mr. Fillmore— rs pen, “the firm name being DeMille & Fillmore. tadlé tir They did a thriving business, but the sua senior member of the partnership, through 1 ia thél il-health was soon obliged to relinquish

an occupation which kept him within Le doors so much. He sold out his interest e. ee in the concern, and turned his attention to

study and literature. It is said that in

his young days he wrote a story—full of bn of th promise— entitled ‘“ The Triad or Arnold

orn at St He wa

ovidenct,

the Traitor.” This he sent under an assumed name — a lieutenant soniebody — o Bonner’s New-York Ledger. Whether art Of hDeMille ever did this or no, is not now ative cit}

ertainly he never publicly acknow-

nown. The storÿ was published, and |

ledged its authorship. In his younger days he wrote a good many clever bits of poetry, chiefly in a satirical vein, and these were much admired by his friends, and the reading public generally. One of his best satires is written in the Irish dia.

lect, and a popular St. John journalist, who was afterwards Speaker of the Canadian House of Commons, figures in îit somewhat conspicuously. À few verses may be quoted here. The reader will notice that in some respects it very nearly

equals Thackeray’s famous Account of the

Ball.

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