Pauline Johnson, with rare good sense, did not publish any of her verses till considerable time after she had completed her formal schooling and her personally conducted studies of versification, verbal music, and poetic imagery. But as soon as she began to offer her verses to editors, she seems to have found ready acceptances. The first periodical to welcome her verse was a small New York magazine, _Gems of Poetry_, published, presumably, in the early ’80’s of the last century. This, however, can not be regarded as a significant event. Really significant was the fact that _The Week_ (founded by Goldwin Smith) was the first Canadian magazine to publish her verse. This fact assured her the recognition and sponsorship of Goldwin Smith, himself an eminent man-of-letters and a poet, and also, possibly, of Charles G. D. Roberts, who was literary editor of _The Week_ in 1883-1884, and who was the first editor to stand sponsor for Archibald Lampman. The imprimatur of _The Week_, or the sponsorship of Goldwin Smith and Roberts, automatically elected Pauline Johnson to the company of the Systematic Group of Canadian poets born in 1860, 1861 and 1862, and introduced her to the English-speaking world as a new and authentically gifted singer, in whose music, though formally composed in the English manner of versification, would, in due time, be heard the hitherto unheard melancholy over-tones and wildwood notes of the aboriginal Canadian spirit. The next important date in Pauline Johnson’s history is the year 1892, when a happy social and literary _soirée_ launched the Indian poet on a public career which, seemingly, would not affect, save negatively, Pauline Johnson’s function and art as a lyrist. From that date and for sixteen years (1892-1908), Miss Johnson assiduously applied her gifts as a reciter and dramatic reader in Canada, the United States, and England, all the while publishing intermittently in the periodical press her best verse. In 1895, simultaneously at London, England, Boston, and Toronto, appeared her first volume of poems, _The White Wampum_. In 1903 her second volume of poems, _Canadian Born_, was issued at Toronto. In 1912, also at Toronto, there was published the definitive and inclusive edition of her collected poems, _Flint and Feather_. All three, upon their appearance, were highly praised in reviews by the critics of England, the United States, and Canada.