[Cover Illustration] Highways _of_ Canadian Literature _A Synoptic Introduction to the Literary_ _History of Canada (English)_ _from 1760 to 1924_ _By_ J. D. Logan M.A. (Dalhousie), Ph.D. (Harvard), Hon. Litt. D. (Acadia). Lecturer on Canadian Literature, Acadia University, Nova Scotia _and_ Donald G. French Honorary President Canadian Literature Club of Toronto. Author of _The Appeal of Poetry_; Editor _Standard Canadian Reciter_, Etc. M c C L E L L A N D & S T E W A R T P U B L I S H E R S - - T O R O N T O Copyright, Canada, 1924 by McClelland and Stewart, Limited, Toronto Printed in Canada TO COLONEL WILLIAM ERNEST THOMPSON, LL.B. District Officer Commanding Military District No. 6 During the World War, A Governor of Dalhousie College, for The Gift of His Loyal and Inexhaustible Friendship. _There’s nothing worth the wear of winning,_ _Save laughter and the love of friends._ —_Hilaire Belloc._ Preface _Highways of Canadian Literature_ provides teachers and students in educational institutions and readers in general with a complete history of the Canadian literature extant in the English language. In very recent years Canadian universities and colleges have added to their curricula systematic study of the verse and prose of the chief writers born in or resident in the Dominion. Also, teachers in Canadian academies and high schools, as occasion affords opportunity, inform their pupils about the lives and work of Canadian authors. Further: as expressive of the new and increasing interest in Canadian Literature, Literary Clubs, Reading Clubs, and Reading Circles have been formed, and constantly are being formed, to promote ‘community’ study of the writings of Canadian men and women of letters.