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HISTORY OF NOVA SCOTIA. 
North-West, stretching out her long arm acros$ 
the wide continent, and dangling her rich bribe® 
before covetous eyes, began to entice away the sonf 
and daughters of Acadia, ever eager for some better 
thing, But this lure, too, will have its day and 
ceaso to be. Nova Scotia is coming to her own 
She too has treasures, less patent and conspicuouß 
it may be, but no less real and enduring. The 
Awakening time is dawning, 
Building on Old Foundations.— As regards the 
doings of the present generation in Nova Scotia iD 
its relations with the outside world, the historian 
will have less to tell, than of an awakening and 
a Closer attention to its own internal affair® 
Again, of this inner awakening, he will note les 
of new fields of working and new lines of industry): 
Shan of new ways of working the old fields, and 0! 
a widening and a deepening of old activities, makinf 
them more strenuous and effective. 
Education.— The development of @ country” 
Sconomic resources is largely dependent on th® 
Forcefulness of its mental and moral stamina. 'The 
public school system of Nova Scotia, as established 
over half a century ago, comprises all the element® 
needed to secure to its people a many-sided intelli- 
gence, Its unfolding may have been slow, but it® 
progress has been unbroken, and present condition® 
point ‚to still better things for the future, Th® 
common schools of eight grades comprise an eigb* 
years’ course free to all; and the high school$, 
8qually free, have a three or four years’ course, 9 
may be demanded, carrying their students forward 
b0 & state of pregar; tion for entrance on a universit) 
pareer. Thep “rc “-Nepcs :“ the province are fully