The existing biographical sketches of Haliburton are not only meagre, but also full of errors, some of which are actuary grotesque. Of late years lectures upon the judge’s works have not been uncommon in Canada, and some of his yarns have been republished in the newspapers, a réchauffé of one winning a prize in Halifax in 1885. It was named The Haliburton in his honor, and its first publication was an essay on his works and characteristics, by the present writer, from which some quotations are made in this article. S., the birthplace of Judge Haliburton, and the seat of his Alma Mater, King’s College, with which the society is affiliated. In 1884, a society having for its object the development of Canadian literature was founded at the university town of Windsor, N.
Yet, of late, he has not been without honor even in his own country. The avidity with which readers of The Clockmaker adopted the central figure in bat satirical work as a type of the Yankee people, and their enjoyment of his keen sayings, caused them to overlook the prime intention of his creator and so thoroughly has Judge Haliburton been identified, in the minds of the reading public, with this typical character that his more serious work as a publicist has been disregarded by all but a few. THE author of Sam Slick has suffered some loss in fair appreciation by the very success of his best known book.
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