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29th Jun 2016 Posted in: Edwardian and Georgian Canadian Poets 0

SOME ADVENTURES of MR. SURELOCK KEYS HITHERTO UNRECORDED SOLD IN AID OF THE ORGAN FUND OF ST. MARY’S CHURCH, KERRISDALE PRICE FIFTY CENTS THE KERRISDALE KRONIKLE OFFICE 1913 [unnumbered page] [blank page] I. THE ADVENTURE OF THE STEVESTON CAR One evening early in the month of November, 1908, we were sitting in our cosy rooms […]

29th Jun 2016 Posted in: Post-Confederation 0

POEMS. By John Brooke Dedicated To My country Canada Toronto Hunter, Rose and Company. 1882. [unnumbered page] Entered according to the Act of the Parliament of Canada, in the year one thousand eight hundred and eighty-two, by JOHN BROOKE, in the Office of the Minister of Agriculture. [unnumbered page] PREFACE. In the composition of the […]

29th Jun 2016 Posted in: Edwardian and Georgian Canadian Poets 0

The Death of Dollard And Other Poems By John Boyd Montreal 1914 [unnumbered page] To John Reade As a slight appreciation of his invariable kindness, this booklet is respectfully dedicated to Dr. John Reade, poet and scholar, to whose generous encouragement the author owes any success that he may have achieved in the literary field. […]

28th Jun 2016 Posted in: Edwardian and Georgian Canadian Poets 0

UNCLE JIM’S CANADIAN NURSERY RHYMES [unnumbered page] [blank page]  UNCLE JIM’S CANADIAN NURSERY RHYMES For Family and Kindergarten Use [handwritten: By David Boyle –] Illustrated by C. W. Jefferys THE MUSSON BOOK CO. LIMITED London, England Toronto, CANADA [unnumbered page] [blank page] A WORD TO THE OLD FOLK NURSERY RHYMES are not necessarily either of sense […]

29th Dec 2014 Posted in: Edwardian and Georgian Canadian Poets 0

[2 blank pages] My Pocket Beryl [unnumbered page] [blank page] My Pocket Beryl BY Mary Josephine Benson For, piece by piece and part by part, It is the crystal-gazer’s art To find Arcana’s chambered heart. Within my beryl the signs rehearse Faint murmurings from the Universe In runes that animate my verse. McCLELLAND & STEWART, […]

30th Jul 2014 Posted in: The Confederation Poets 0

A GOOD BOOK IS THE PRECIOUS LIFE-BLOOD OF A MASTER SPIRIT Milton [unnumbered page] [blank page] GENERAL EDITOR SIR A. T. QUILLER COUCH [unnumbered page] [illustration: C. G. D. ROBERTS] NEW YORK E. P. DUTTON AND COMPANY [unnumbered page] MORE ANIMAL STORIES BY CHAS. G. D. ROBERTS M. DENT & SONS . LTD . LONDON […]

25th Jun 2014 Posted in: Edwardian and Georgian Canadian Poets 0

The Ryerson Canadian History Readers Lorne Pierce, Editor    “Pupils who depend upon the authorized text alone for their information learn little or nothing about Champlain’s life except the days he spent in Canada. They know nothing about his fighting days with Henry of Navarre; that he travelled widely in Spanish America; that he wrote […]

27th May 2014 Posted in: The Confederation Poets 0

[2 blank pages] LYRICS AND SONNETS [unnumbered page] [2 blank pages] [illustration] Sincerely, Ethelwyn Wetherald. [unnumbered page]  LYRICS and SONNETS By ETHELWYN WETHERALD  Complete edition arranged in seven groups and with an Introduction by JOHN W. GARVIN Toronto THOMAS NELSON & SONS LIMITED 1931 [unnumbered page] INTRODUCTION    Ethelwyn Wetherald is of English-Irish descent. Her […]

5th May 2014 Posted in: Edwardian and Georgian Canadian Poets 0

[3 blank pages] FIR-FLOWER TABLETS POEMS FROM THE CHINESE [unnumbered page] Books by AMY LOWELL PUBLISHED BY HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY Poetry LEGENDS PICTURES OF THE FLOATING WORLD CAN GRANDE’S CASTLE MEN, WOMEN AND GHOSTS SWORD BLADES AND POPPU SEED A DOME OF MANY-COLOURED GLASS (IN COLLABERATION WITH FLORENCE AYSCOUGH) FIR-FLOWER TABLETS: POEMS TRANSLATED FROM THE […]

8th Feb 2014 Posted in: Others, The Confederation Poets 0

[blank page] AN ODD MAN’S STORY. BY ISIDORE G. ASCHER, AUTHOR OF ‘An Old Maid’s Confession,’ ‘A Miser’s Story,’ ‘Voices from the Hearth,’ etc. “I will a round, unvarnish’d tale deliver Of my whole course of love.’ SHAKESPEARE. LONDON: ELLIOT STOCK, 62, PATERNOSTER ROW. MONTREAL: WM.  FOSTER BROWN AND CO. 1889. [unnumbered page] [blank page] […]