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Among the popular poets are Isabella Va- 

 lancey Crawford, George Frederick Cameron, 

 William Wilfred Campbell, Bliss Carman, 

 Archibald Lampman, Duncan Campbell Scott, 

 Robert W. Service, Emily Pauline Johnson, 

 Jean Blewett and Helen M. Johnson. One of 

 Bliss Carman's best poems is Low Tide on 

 Grand Pre, which begins with these lines: 



The sun goes down, and over all 

 These barren reaches by the tide 

 Such uneluslve glories fall, 

 I almost dream they yet will bide 

 Until the coming of the tide. 



The poems of Robert W. Service have re- 

 ceived both praise and censure. His debt to 

 Rudyard Kipling is evident, but he deserves 

 great credit for harmonizing the form and the 

 content of his poems. The form he chooses 

 has a rhythm and freedom which are charac- 

 teristic of life in the Yukon as he describes it. 

 The Law oj the Yukon is one of his best-known 

 poems: 



This is the law of the Yukon, and ever she 



makes It plain : 

 "Send not your foolish and feeble ; send me 



your strong and yorfr sane : 

 Strong for the red rage of battle ; sane, for I 



harry them sore ; 

 Send me men girt for the combat, men who are 



grit to the core; 

 Swift as the panther in triumph, fierce as the 



bear in defeat, 

 Sired of bulldog parent, steeled in the furnace 



heat." 



Authors who have won distinction in other 

 fields are also occasional writers of verse; 

 among them may be mentioned Sir Gilbert 

 Parker, Charles G. D. Roberts, William D. 

 Lighthall and William Kirby. Unique among 

 all Canadian verse are the poems of William 

 Henry Druramond, who wrote in a quaint 

 French-English dialect, which is well illustrated 

 in Leetle Bateese, the story of a "regular imp" 



of a five-year-old, who chased the hens and 



scared the cows, and then was 



Too sleepy for say in' de prayer to-night? 



Never min', I s'pose it'll be all right. 



Say dem to-morrow ah ! dere he go ! 

 Fas' asleep in a minute or so 

 An" he'll stay lak dat till de rooster crow, 

 Leetle Bateese ! 



Den wake up right away tout de suite 



Lookin' for somet'ing more to eat, 



Makin' me t'ink of dem long leg crane 

 Soon as dey swaller, dey start again ; 

 I wonder your stomach don't get no pain, 

 Leetle Bateese ! 



But in spite of all the mischief he causes 

 and the worry he gives his poor grandfather, 

 the old man says: 



But leetle Bateese ! please don't forget 

 We're rader you're stay in' de small boy yet ; 

 So chase de chicken an' mak' dem scare, 

 An' do w'at you lak wit' your ole gran'pere, 

 For w'en you're beeg feller he won't be 

 dere 



Leetle Bateese ! 



UHiitini; to Literature In English. The 

 reader who wishes a complete view of all lit- 

 erature in English should consult the follow- 

 ing subjects, and the further references printed 

 at the end of each : 

 American Literature Drama 

 Biography English Literature 



Essay Novel 



History Poetry 



Literature Prose W.F.Z. 



CANADIAN RIVER, a river that rises in the 

 northeastern part of New Mexico and flows 

 easterly through the "Panhandle" of Texas 

 and Oklahoma, forming the most important 

 tributary of the Arkansas. Its length is 900 

 miles. Its course closely follows a part of the 

 former boundary between Oklahoma and In- 

 dian Territory. The quantity of water it car- 

 ries varies greatly at different seasons; some- 

 times it is almost dry; at other times it cannot 

 be forded at all, and is not dependable for 

 navigation. 



'ANAL. As water highways for the 

 transportation of people and their possessions, 

 and as channels excavated for purposes of 

 drainage and irrigation, canals have always 



played an important part in the progress of 

 mankind. The first artificial watercourses were 

 probably irrigation ditches, but the many ob- 

 structions to travel in navigable rivers and 



