This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1883. Excerpt: ... SIH JOHN AT HOME--LADY MACDONALD. rpHE career of a man who figures in high public station is A like unto the passage of a boat down a stream whose course lies through the rough way and the smooth: now he loiters along through the rolling prairie, again he plunges through wild mountain-chasms, where sometimes the frail toy that carries him is swallowed up; or we see him in the boiling surge, his eye bright-calm, his nerves tense and sure, as with steady arm he steers triumphantly through the danger: yet again, looking, we behold his boat enter some low, misty land through which they say only those men wander who do dark-mysterious things; but the little barque can tarry not, for it is bounden to the motion of the flood, which is borne on the never-ceasing wheels of time, till at last the passage is made, and, as the sun goes down, the voyager reaches the arms of the haven, the wide-spreading, tranquil sea. We have followed Sir John The following are some of the measures of legislation accomplished by the Right Hon. gentleman since entering public life: --The secularization of the clergy reserves; the improvement of the criminal laws; the promotion of public instruction; the consolidation of the statutes; the extension of the municipal system; the reorganization of the militia; settlement of the seat of Government question; the establishment of direct steam mail communication with Europe; the establishment of additional penitentiaries, criminal lunatic asylums and reformatory prisons, and providing for the inspection thereof: the providing for the internal economy of the House of Commons; the reorganization of the Civil Service on a permament basis; the construction of the Intercolonial Railway; the enlargement of the canals; the enactment of a stringent el...