STEWART, George, Canadian journalist, born in New York city, 26 November, 1848. At an early age he removed with his parents to Canada, settled in St. John, New Brunswick, and was educated in the grammar-school there. He began the publication of the " Stamp-Collector's Monthly Gazette" in 1865, but relinquished it in 1867 and founded " Stewart's Literary Quarterly Magazine," which he published and edited for five years. He was for a short time city editor of the St. John " Daily News," for two years literary editor of " The Weekly Watchman," and for one year of "Rose-Belford's Canadian Monthly," which he left in 1879 to become editor-in-chief of the Quebec "Morning Chronicle." In the same year Mr. Stewart was elected a member of the European Societe interna-tionale de litterature, and in 1882 he was named one of the original members of the Royal society of Canada by the Marquis of Lorne. Since 1885 he has been annually elected president of the Literary and historical society of Quebec, and in 1885 he became a fellow of the Royal geographical society of England. In 1886 the degree of D. C. L. was conferred on him by King's university, Nova Scotia, and by the University of bishop's college in 1888, and he was given that of doctor of letters in 1888 by Laval university, Quebec, for his services to literature in Canada. Mr. Stewart has contributed Canadian articles to the "Encyclopaedia Britannica," and to English, American, and Canadian periodicals, and is well known as a lecturer on literary and historical subjects. He has published "The Story of the Great Fire in St. John, New Brunswick" (Toronto, 1877);" Evenings in the Library" (1878); and "Canada under the Administration of the Earl of Dufferin" (1878); and is at present writing a "History of the Lower Canadian Rebellion of 1837."