_The Trail of ’98_, by Robert W. Service (1910), is a story of the Yukon, with the spectacular elements of gold-rush days fully emphasised. The qualities of Service’s poetry are accentuated in his fiction. In the same year H. A. Cody began his career as a novelist with another Yukon tale, _The Frontiersman_. It is a story of love, adventure, and missionary experience. _Rod of the Lone Patrol_ followed in 1912, adding a new fictional element which has been much exploited—the doings of the North West Mounted Police. Cody produced a long series of adventure novels with a variety of settings. Other writers of the Realistic Romance speedily developed different aspects of Western life or staged their romances in different regions of the Great West or the Far North. We have room only for brief mention of some of the best known writers in this class. Robert Stead’s novels are chiefly of the prairie farm and ranch—_The Bail Jumper_ (1914), _The Homesteader_, _The Cowpuncher_, _Dennison Grant_, _Neighbors_. He is effective in reproducing the atmosphere of the prairie, the details of farm and ranch life, and characteristic bits of scenery; his stories are stronger in incident and action than they are in characterization. Robert Watson began fairly well with _My Brave and Gallant Gentleman_ (1918), a romance of England and British Columbia, that had touches of Borrow and Stevenson, but his later efforts have tended to cast themselves into more stereotyped forms. Robert A. Hood produced two adventure-romances of British Columbia, _The Chivalry of Keith Leicester_ and _The Quest of Alistair_. Douglas Durkin exploited Manitoba in _The Lobstick Trail_. ‘Luke Allan’ (Lacey Amy) wrote several stories of cowboy life of which _Blue Pete: Half Breed_ was significant because of the originality and individuality of its leading character. John Murray Gibbon’s earlier fiction—in _Drums Afar_ and _Hearts and Faces_—was English in its setting and concerned with psychological problems and studies of Oxford life. In transferring to an American literary habitat, he entered the ranks of the Realistic Romancers. His novel, _The Conquering Hero_, was a lively, melodramatic story of the Rocky Mountains and British Columbia ranches; while in _Pagan Love_ (1923), he combined a startling mystery with an element of satire on the modern philosophy of business success. Theodore Goodridge Roberts, younger brother of Charles G. D. Roberts, is essentially a story teller and much of his fiction shows the influence of Weyman and the historical romanticists of the latter years of the nineteenth century. His _Brothers in Peril_ (1905), _A Captain of Raleigh’s_ (1911), and _The Harbor Master_ (1914) are stories of romantic adventure of very early days in Newfoundland, while _Jess of the River_, _Rayton_ and _Forest Fugitives_ have a setting in rural New Brunswick. 4. _Historical Fiction._