Book excerpt: Thomas Guthrie Marquis (1864-1936) was a Canadian author, born at Chatham, New Brunswick, and educated at Queens University, Kingston, where he graduated in 1889. He became a teacher, but he retired in 1901 to devote himself to literature. He was editorial writer of the Ottawa Free Press (1905) and office editor of Canada and Its Provinces (1914-15), a publication in 22 volumes on the history of Canada. His works include: Stories of New France (with A. M. Machar) (1890), Heroes of Canada (with A. M. Machar) (1893), Stories From Canadian History (with A. M. Machar) (1893), Marguerite de Roberval: A Romance of the Days of Jacques Cartier (1899), Canadas Sons on Kopje and Veldt (1900), Life of Lord Roberts (1901), Presidents of the United States (1903), Brock: The Hero of Upper Canada (1912), English-Canadian Literature (1913), The War Chief of the Ottawas (1915), The Jesuit Missions: Chronicle of the Cross in the Wilderness (1916), The Cathedral (1924), The Kings Wish (1924) and The Cathedral and Other Poems (1936).