A genuine literary achievement in biographical writing is M. O. Hammond’s _Confederation and Its Leaders_ (1917). It is based on thorough research, and, as a series of intimate political biographies in the form of narrative sketches, is packed with human interest, and is marked by a straightforward, commonsense style. It has a high seriousness, and in this respect contrasts with the lighter, more piquant but less persuasive style of Augustus Bridle’s _Sons of Canada_—a work which is essentially a series of familiar portraits, done as _jeux d’esprit_. _III. Travels, Exploration, Sport._ Canada has a considerable quantity of the literature of travels, explorations and sport but the literary interest of the most of it is far from obvious. A really remarkable book in this genre is the elder Alexander Henry’s _Travels and Adventures in Canada and The Indian Territories_, published in New York in 1809. Henry was a man of acute observation, and also possessed a graphic pen for character limning. His _Travels and Adventures_ engages both the intellect and the imagination, the scientist and the literary artist. For it contains the most interesting observations on the flora and fauna of the countries he visited, and really graphic and colorful pictures of the peoples and the characters he met and observed. Henry had also a gift like that of Thucydides—the gift and skill of dramatically reporting a speech as, for instance, the speech of the Ojibwa Chief Minavavana. The book really forms an entrancing and instructive volume of Travel and Adventure. The same may be said of Sir Alexander Mackenzie’s _Voyages From Montreal Through the Continent of North America, 1789-1793_. This work was published at London in 1801. Mackenzie came from a people—the Gaels of the Island of Lewis—who have a racial gift of colorful imagination and of felicity of language in nature description. Mackenzie, moreover, was, like Henry, a keen observer. His _Voyages_, therefore, as might be expected, are marked by colorful style and the imaginative presentation of the scenes he visited and of the inspiring or sublime phenomena he observed. John Howison’s _Sketches of Upper Canada_ conforms only to the ideal of fact. It is, as the title suggests, merely a series of ‘sketches,’ written in a vigorous style with only a touch here and there of finer literary style.