Mrs. Moody.

In giving a glance at various Canadian authors perhaps it would be well to commence with that early writer Mrs. Moody. She was a sister of the celebrated Agnes Strickland, author of "The Queens of England."


        When this country it was woody,
        Its great champion Mrs. Moody,
        Showed she had both pluck and push
        In her work roughing in the bush.

        For there alone she did dwell
        At time McKenzie did rebel,
        Outbreak her husband strove to quell,
        Her own grand struggles she doth tell.

        Round bush life she threw a glory,
        Pioneer renowned in story,
        But her tale it is more cheering
        When she wrote about the clearing.

        Her other sister Mrs. Traill[C]
        Though eighty-seven she doth not fail,
        She now is writing of wild flowers
        Grown in Canada's woody bowers.