We may summarize the qualities of her poetry of Western _chevalerie_, as in her _Old Spookses’ Pass_, under four distinctions. It is noted for dramatic (not melodramatic) force, rugged but characteristic humor, graphic character-drawing, and power of conveying to us the sense of the war of the elements which is felt by the wild creatures, such as cattle herds, who become the ‘playthings’ of those elements. The extraordinary fact is that, though all these qualities were, on her part, sheer imaginative invention, yet they are truer to the facts than if they had been written by an actual eye-witness. In short, Miss Crawford, as a poet of Western _chevalerie_, stands out as gifted with sheer and intense imaginative power and as an authentic imaginative creator. Nevertheless, her art is all authentic realism, totally free from crass and hectic melodrama. Moreover, Miss Crawford achieved, not solely because she had imagination and a true sense of realistic values, but also because she saw that _style_ in poetry was the only antiseptic for picaresque realism and hectic melodrama. She had genius, not merely a tale to tell. Certainly Lowell, Bret Harte, John Hay, and others of their school, writing in dialect, did no better work than did Miss Crawford in _Old Spookses’ Pass_; and most certainly Robert Service did nothing so elementally human and so spiritualizing with his material from rude or picaresque life in Canada. We shall not wait to detail the qualities of Miss Crawford’s art in other species of verse. We observe, however, that her long poem _Malcolm’s Katie_ is specially remarkable for fine imagery, colorful descriptive passages, and for a glowing impressionism which is taken directly from Canadian Nature. Moreover, it is notable for its lyrical interludes, which as lyrics, are as dainty and as delicately constructed, as full of fancy and imagination in small form, as any one of the kind in English literature. Miss Crawford’s lyrical interlude, beginning ‘O, Love builds on the azure sea,’ is beyond criticism, and is ‘the gem’ of several Canadian anthologies. We quote the whole lyric:— O, Love builds on the azure sea, And Love builds on the golden sand; And Love builds on the rose-winged cloud, And sometimes Love builds on the land! O, if Love build on sparkling sea, And if Love build on golden strand, And if Love build on rosy cloud, To Love these are the solid land! O, Love will build his lily walls, And Love his pearly roof will rear On cloud, or land, or mist, or sea— Love’s solid land is everywhere! As an outstanding example of Miss Crawford’s genius and art in lyrical impressionism, Canadian Literature contains nothing more colorful and musical than her ‘Lily-Song’ from _Malcolm’s Katie_:—