Arts

North-West Literature

Regina Leader
April 11, 1895. p.8

There is now ready for the press another North-West book published not in London but in the Capital of the Territories. This is the second literary effort which has its birth and cradle in the North-West -- and as we have had an opportunity of examining its contents we can say it is literally racy of the soil. “Prairie Pot Pourri,” by Mary Markwell, is a delightful hodge podge which we venture to say will be read with interest and amusement , the daring authoress essaying a half-a-dozen different kinds of composition and succeeding in the main. Her forte is humour -- dramatic humour -- and every piece in the volume sparkles and gleams with arch allusion and exuberant fun. We hope the North-West from one end to the other will welcome the native production which has in many places the beauty and delicacy of our prairie flora and in others the breadth and power of our horizon-wide landscape and the breeze which sweeps across our extended plains.