Many Canadians have written poetry and verse in which are true descriptions of nature and the spirit of nature in Canada. Some Canadian poets' names you will have learned already: Roberts, {246} Carman, Lampman, Campbell, Scott, Isabella Valancy Crawford, Marjorie Pickthall, W. H. Drummond, whose habitant poems abound in humour and the delineation of character, two poets who served in the War, John McCrae and Bernard Trotter, Wilson MacDonald, and E. J. Pratt, a native of Newfoundland, the oldest dominion in the Empire. Other names you will find mentioned in several good anthologies. Haliburton was a humorist. The most widely read Canadian humorist of the present day is Mr. Stephen Leacock. Joseph Howe was a writer, an orator and statesman. The Golden Dog, by William Kirby, is a famous Canadian novel. Other novel writers are Miss Lily Dougall, Mrs. Cotes, Miss Mazo de la Roche, Sir Gilbert Parker, "Ralph Connor", Norman Duncan, Miss L. M. Montgomery. A number of writers of Canadian fiction are doing work to-day which may become eminent. There are writers in French Canada, both of prose and poetry. Canadian historians, English and French, have accomplished good work. The two series, _Makers of Canada_ and _Chronicles of Canada_, contain histories which are well worth reading. Here is a list of readings from Canadian literature, chapters from a few novels, poems from books of poetry, short stories, two fairy tales, two speeches by Canadian statesmen, a short history. These may guide you to books which you may enjoy. In addition, we should read William Kirby's novel, _The Golden Dog_. It is interesting to remember that Miss Pauline Johnson, whose {247} poetical gift was undoubted, was a Canadian Mohawk Indian. "How Rabbit Deceived Fox" and "Sparrow's Search for the Rain", from _Canadian Fairy Tales_, by Cyrus Macmillan. _Beautiful Joe_, by Marshall Saunders. "In the Big Haycart" and "Calling the Cows", from _Chez Nous_, by Adjutor Rivard, translated by W. H. Blake. "The Freedom of the Black-Faced Ram" from _The Watchers of the Trails_, by C. G. D. Roberts. "Privilege of the Limits" from _Old Man Savarin Stories_, by E. W. Thomson. "The Scarlet Hunter", from _Pierre and His People_; and _When Valmond Came to Pontiac_, by Sir Gilbert Parker. Chapter One, from _The Imperialist_, by Mrs. Cotes. "Aunt Thankful and Her Room", from _Wise Saws and Modern Instances_, Vol. II, Chap. 4, by Thomas Chandler Haliburton. "The Marine Excursion of the Knights of Pythias", from _Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town_, by Stephen Leacock. "O Love Builds on the Azure Sea", from _Malcolm's Katie_, by Isabella Valancy Crawford. "Where the Cattle Come to Drink" and "The Potato Harvest", from _Songs of the Common Day_, by C. G. D. Roberts. "The Frogs" and "Why Do You Call the Poet Lonely?" from _The Poems of Archibald Lampman_. "How One Winter Came in the Lake Region" and "How Spring Came", from _Lake Lyrics_, by W. W. Campbell.