With the work of Anna Brownell Jameson we meet with the first ‘color-writing’ in and about Canada. Her _Winter Studies and Summer Rambles in Canada_, published in London in 1838, has not yet been excelled by a native Canadian ‘color writer.’ At the time, Canada was a wilderness for the most part, with a few settlements, but Mrs. Jameson, with the eye of an artist, saw everywhere in Nature in Canada and in Canadian life and character much to delight the eye and the sensibilities and much to satisfy the pictorial and dramatic imagination. Her _Winter Studies and Summer Rambles_, in three volumes, are a library of winsome Nature sketches and critical appreciations of human personality—a work of art, and a permanent contribution to the Incidental Pioneer Literature of Canada. The aesthetic sense and the artistic conscience were uppermost in Paul Kane’s _Wanderings of An Artist Among The Indian Tribes of North America_. Kane was a celebrated Canadian painter; and, having the gift of style, he wrote, with the eye of the pictorial artist, about his ‘wanderings’ among the western tribes. It is an informing volume and makes genuinely interesting and satisfying reading. George M. Grant was a man of splendid force of character and strength of will tempered with a singular gift of humor and pathos. He travelled across Canada in the last five years of the first decade following Confederation, he met all peoples, dwelt in camps, visited trading posts, and stopped at the hotels of the larger centres. On his journey he was impressed by the _life_, _energy_, and the _striving_ of the Canadian people for a self-reliant and worthy history and destiny. And so Grant’s volume of travel, _Ocean to Ocean_, is noted for its acute observation, for its colorful and vitalizing descriptions of Nature in Canada, and for its seriousness, at all times relieved by an unusual quality of humor and of pathos. In ‘color-writing’ too, the volume is, at times, incomparable. J. W. Tyrrell’s _Across the Sub-Arctics of Canada_ and his _The St. Lawrence Basin and Its Border-Lands_, Lawrence J. Burpee’s _The Search for The Western Sea_, Vilhjalmur Stefannson’s _The Friendly Arctic_ and his _Hunters of the Great North_, Arthur Heming’s _Drama of the Forests_, are all noted for their literary style and for the dramatic pictures they make of Nature scenes and of human characters.