Isabella Valancy Crawford Part 4 -Bibliography
BIBLIOGRAPHYOLD SPOOKSES PASS, MALCOLM S KATI
AND OTHER POEMS
By Isabella Valancy Crawford. Toronto : James
Bain & Son, 1884. Foolscap 8vo., blue-green
paper boards, with title as above repeated in full
on face, but with no lettering on back; pp. i-iv +
224, all edges trimmed; publishers advertise
ment on under cover; slip of errata at p. i.
According to Mr. Donald Bain, the "Son" of the
firm of James Bain & Son, 1,000 copies of this book
were printed for the author, but the book prac
tically fell dead from the press, not more, perhaps,
than fifty copies being actually sold. Miss
Crawford finally took back the undisposed of
copies, and in 1886 re-issued them in gray or blue
paper boards, with a substituted title-page (re
peated in full as before, on the face, but again with
no lettering on the back), following the typography
of the original title-page closely, but omitting the
quotation marks which there accompanied the
titles, "Old Spookses Pass" and "Malcolm s
Katie," and the publishers imprint (including the
date), but adding after the author s name:
Author of "A Little Bacchante ; or Some Black
Sheep," and also retaining the copyright notice
on the verso. In addition, the publishers adver
tisement on the under side of the cover of
the first issue was replaced by press notices
of the volume from various Canadian and English
newspapers and other publications, the latest of
them being dated April 3, 1886. The slip of
errata was also omitted, although the single error
mentioned therein remained uncorrected.
Some copies of this second issue have the
original title-page pasted down, in addition to
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carrying the substituted title-page, and therefore
may be considered a separate issue ; but whether
they were the first put out by Miss Crawford in
her capacity as vendor of her own book, or
whether they were the last she put out, is an
open question.
In 1898, a considerable store of unsold copies of
what may be called the "author s edition" (al
though how many is not definitely known at this
late date) was found and, after being rebound in
light blue cloth boards, with lettering and floral
design on the face in silver, and lettering on the
back, also in silver, put on the market by William
Briggs. There were thus, as will have been seen,
three, if not four, different issues of this little
volume, which, rare enough in any issue, is in its
first issue one of the rarest and most desirable of
Canadian books of verse. A small number (eight
or ten) of this issue, it maybe added, were bound
de luxe in full leather.
THE MAIL, TORONTO
"The Vesper Star," December 24, 1873;
"Esther," March 7, 1874; "The Wishing Star,"
March 25, 1874; "Caesar s Wife," April 27, 1874;
"A Battle," June 26, 1874; "Canada to England,"
July 28, 1874; "The Roman Rose-Seller," August
19, 1874; "The Wooing of Gheezis: an Indian
Idyll," September 18, 1874; "Moloch," November
6, 1874; "Flora," February 26, 1875; "An Inter
regnum," May 3, 1875.
The above poems were written and contributed while
Miss Crawford lived in Peterboro , Ontario.
THE FAVORITE
"The Inspiration of Song," "Love Amongst the
Roses."
No record of "The Favorite" can be found at either
the Reference or the Parliamentary Library, Toronto:
but I have definite information that those poems ap
peared in a publication of that name.
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BIBLIOGRAPHY
NATIONAL
"I ll Laugh to See the Year In," "La Blanchis-
seuse," "A Harvest Song," "Where, Love, Art
Hid?"
The "National" was a weekly journal which began
publication in Toronto in 1872, and discontinued in
a few years. Only two issues of this journal can be
found at the public libraries, and they do not con
tain any of Miss Crawford s poems. "Where, Love,
Art Hid ? " was written ia Toronto, July, 1876.
THE EVENING TELEGRAM, TORONTO
"Erin to her Grandson: Ned Hanlan," June
25, 1879; "War," August 4, 1879; "To the Princess
Louise," September 3, 1879; "A Song of the Sea,"
September 3, 1879; "Joy s City," September 12,
1879; "Lines: on the Picture of Semiramis Re
ceiving News of a Revolt hi Babylon," October 6,
1879; "How Deacon Fry Bought a Duchess,"
October 22, 1879; "Wealth," November 26, 1879;
"Beside the Burgomeister s Well," December 12,
1879; "The King is Dead! Long Live the King,"
December 31, 1879; "Farmer Downs Changes his
Opinion on Nature," January 16, 1880; "Beside the
Sea," February 4, 1880; "A Creed," February 21,
1880; "Love me, Love my Dog," March 25, 1880;
"The West Wind," May 14, 1880; "Sylvius to
Chloris," May 27, 1880; "June," June 3, 1880;
"True and False," June 19, 1880; "The Deacon
and his Daughter," July 7, 1880; "The Camp of
Souls," August 9, 1880; "Said the Daisy," August
19, 1880; "The City Tree," September 4, 1880;
"Old Spence," September 29, 1880; "The Billet-
Doux," October 15, 1880; "The Pilgrims," Novem
ber 27, 1880; "The Sailor and his Bride," Decem
ber 9, 1880; "1880," January 19,1881; "AHungry
Day," February 15, 1881; "Erin s Warning,"
March 7, 1881; "March," March 19, 1881; "The
Rowan Tree," April 27, 1881; "A Fragment,"
June 4, 1881; "Curtius," July 16, 1881; "A
Wooing," August 20, 1881; "The White Bull,"
October 3, 1881; "The Deacon s Fate," October
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13, 1881; "Youth," January 7, 1882; "Life,"
February u, 1882; "Two Songs," March 13, 1882;
"O Eyes that See Not," May n, 1882; "Some of
Farmer Stebbins Opinions," June 2, 1882;
"Verses, entitled "Late Loved, Well Loved,"
in "Old Spookses Pass, etc.," July 21, 1882;
"Good-Bye s the Word Good-Bye," Septembers,
1882; "At the Opera" A Fragment," October 27,
1882; "Thanksgiving Day," November 8, 1882;
"Mavourneen," December 2, 1882; "He Arose
and Went Into Another Land," February 9, 1883;
"The Earth Waxeth Old," April 16, 1883; "The
Blue Forget-Me-Not," . . . Song Second
and Song First. (In "Collected Poems," the
Second Song is entitled "A Perfect Strain"),
June i, 1883; "A Lover s Quarrel," June 18, 1883;
"Love, Stay for Me," July 30, 1883; "September
in Toronto," September 15, 1883; "The Butter
fly." (In "Collected Poems" entitled "The
Mother s Soul"), November 14, 1883; "The Dark
Stag," November 28, 1883; "My Irish Love,"
December 5, 1883 ; "The Legend of the Mistletoe,"
December 22, 1883; "Roses in Madrid," January
19, 1884; "The Canoe," Written December 8,
1883, (In "Collected Poems" entitled "Said the
Canoe") February 26, 1884; "Toronto, June,
1884," June 25, 1884; "Song of Michaelmas,"
September 24, 1884; "His Clay," October 22, 1884;
"The Lily Bed," written January 4, 1884, October
30, 1884; "The King s Kiss," November 1 1, 1884;
"The Christmas Baby," December 22, 1884; "An
Apology for the Spring Poet," March 18, 1885;
"To Gladstone" ; "Imitation is the Sincerest Form
of Flattery," May 4, 1885; "The Red Cross Corps,"
April 20, 1885; "The Dauntless Daughter of the
Dane," May 22, 1885; "The Rose of a Nation s
Thanks," (Reprinted by request in The Evening
Telegram, February 5, 1887,) June n, 1885;
"Songs for the Soldiers," July 17, 1885; "The
Gallant Lads in Green," July 22, 1885; "Peace,"
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BIBLIOGRAPHY
August 8, 1885; "Yule," December 23, 1885;
"The Rolling Pin," (In "Collected Poems" en
titled "Fairy Toil"), May 29, 1886.
THE TORONTO GLOBE
"Phyllis," October 10, 1885; "All Men are Born
Free and Equal," November 18, 1885; "Co Boss,"
November 30, 1885; "Hats Hout" an error.
(Correct title, "Hast Thou," given the next day,
when poem was reprinted), January i, 1886;
"The Sabot Maker," April 14, 1886; "The Harp of
Spring," May i, 1886; "The Pessimist," May 29,
1886; "Extradited" (a short story), September
4, 1886.
THE COLLECTED POEMS OF ISABELLA
VALANCY CRAWFORD
Edited by J. W. Garvin, B.A., with introduction
by Ethelwyn Wetherald. Toronto: William
Briggs, 1905. Crown 8vo. cloth (also half calf),
pp. 309, with portrait and facsimile poem.
THE GLOBE,
Toronto, January 6, 1886, has this advertise
ment: "A new novel, written for The Globe,
entitled The Little Bacchante; or Some Black
Sheep, by Isabella Valancy Crawford, author of
Old Spookses Pass, Winona, Hate,
Wrecked, etc., etc., will shortly be commenced
in these columns, and will be continued from day
to day until completed." The leading features
of the novel are then strongly praised. The
Varsity of January 23, 1886, refers to this novel
in these words: "The novel of Isabella Valancy
Crawford, in the Globe, is vastly superior to the
ordinary run of newspaper fiction." This novel
appeared in The Evening Globe and not in the
morning edition.
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BIBLIOGRAPHY
BOOK REFERENCES
THE CANADIAN BIRTHDAY BOOK
With Poetical Selections for every day in the
year from Canadian writers, English and French.
[Compiled by] Seranus [Mrs. J. W. F. Harrison].
Toronto: C. Blackett Robinson, 1887.
Contains sixteen poems, or extracts from poems,
of Miss Crawford, being the first Canadian
anthology to contain work of hers. The compiler in
index reference speaks of Miss Crawford s verse
as being "almost the finest yet produced in
Canada, being instinct with a breadth and vigour
and melody unsurpassed (sic) by few living
writers."
SONGS OF THE GREAT DOMINION
Voices from the Forests and Waters, the
Settlements and Cities of Canada. Selected and
edited by William Douw Lighthall, M.A., Mont
real. London: Walter Scott, 1889. Pp. xxvi-
vii and 450, with selections interspersed through
the volume.
CANADIAN POEMS AND LAYS
Selections of Native Verse, reflecting the Sea
sons, Legends, and Life of the Dominion. Ar
ranged and edited by William Douw Lighthall,
M.A., Montreal. London : Walter Scott (Limited),
(1891). (Re-issue, condensed and in smaller
format, of Songs of the Great Dominion), pp. xxii-
iii, with selections interspersed throughout the
volume.
CANADA: AN ENCYCLOPEDIA OF THE COUNTRY
Edited by J. Castell Hopkins, 6 vols. Toronto:
The Linscott Publishing Co. (1891). Vol. V,
p. 170, "Canadian Women Writers," by Thomas
O Hagan.
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BIBLIOGRAPHY
YOUNGER AMERICAN POETS (1830-1890;
Edited by Douglas Sladen, with an Appendix
of Younger Canadian Poets. Edited by Good-
ridge Bliss Roberts. The Cassell Publishing
Company, New York, 1891, "The Canoe," quoted
PP- 543-5> constituting the first appearance of
Miss Crawford s verse in an American Anthology.
A VICTORIAN ANTHOLOGY (1837-1895)-
Edited by Edmund Clarence Stedman. Bos
ton and New York: Houghton, Mifflin & Com
pany, 1895. "Isabella Valancy Crawford," pp.
646-8 (including selections).
CANADIAN ESSAYS
By Thomas O Hagan, M.A., Ph.D. Toronto:
William Briggs, 1901. Pp. 57-8, "Canadian
Women Writers."
CANADIAN SINGERS AND THEIR SONGS
An Album of Portraits and Autograph Poems.
Toronto: William Briggs, MDCCCCII. "Isabella
Valancy Crawford," pp. 12-13 (facsimile of "Faith,
Hope and Charity," with portrait).
HANDBOOK OF CANADIAN LITERATURE
(ENGLISH)
By Archibald MacMurchy. M.A. Toronto:
William Briggs, 1906. "Isabella Valancy
Crawford," pp. 144-7.
A LITTLE BOOK OF CANADIAN ESSAYS
By Laurence J. Burpee. Toronto : The Musson
Book Co., Ltd. (1909). "Isabella Valancy Craw
ford," pp. 1-16.
ENGLISH-CANADIAN LITERATURE
By T. G. Marquis. Toronto: Glasgow, Brook
& Co., 1913. (Advance issue for private cir
culation of Chap. 74 from vol. XII: The Domin-
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BIBLIOGRAPHY
ion: Missions, Arts and Letters of Canada and
its Provinces. A History of the Canadian People
and Their Institutions. By One Hundred As
sociates. Adam Shortt and Arthur G. Doughty,
general editors. 22 Vols. Toronto: Glasgow,
Brook & Co., 1914.) Pp. 585-6.
CANADIAN POETS
Chosen and Edited by John W. Garvin, B.A.,
Toronto: McClelland, Goodchild & Stewart (1916).
"Isabella Valancy Crawford," pp. 33-46 (including
12 pages of selections), with portrait.
CANADA THE SPELLBINDER
By Lilian Whiting. London and Toronto:
J. M. Dent & Sons, Limited, 1917. Pp. 274-5,
"Canadian Poets and Poetry."
CANADIAN SINGERS AND THEIR SONGS
A Collection of Portraits and Autograph Poems.
Compiled by Edward S. Caswell. Toronto:
McClelland & Stewart (1919). "Isabella Valancy
Crawford," pp. 30-1 (facsimile of poem, "Faith,
Hope and Charity," with portrait (different from
that in edition of 1902).
AMERICAN WRITERS OF THE PRESENT DAY
Second Edition, revised and enlarged. By
T. E. Rankin, Professor of Rhetoric in the Uni
versity of Michigan. Ann Arbor: George Wahr,
1920. Pp. 137 and 150.
CANADA AND ITS PROVINCES
A History of the Canadian People and Their
Institutions, by One Hundred Associates. The
general editors are Adam Shortt and Arthur
Doughty. Printed by C. and A. Constable at
Edinburgh University Press for the Publishers
Association of Canada, Limited. Toronto, Glas
gow, Brook and Co., 1914. Vol. 12, by T. G.
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BIBLIOGRAPHY
Marquis, entitled MISSION, ART, AND LET
TERS, No. 2, pages 585-587. Photograph in
cluded.
NEWSPAPERS AND MAGAZINES
THE TORONTO GLOBE, JUNE 4, 1884
Review of "Old Spookses Pass."
THE TORONTO EVENING TELEGRAM, JUNE n,
1884
Review of "Old Spookses Pass."
THE WEEK (Toronto), SEPT. n, 1884
Review of "Old Spookses Pass."
THE SPECTATOR (London), OCT. 18, 1884
Review of "Old Spookses Pass."
THE LEISURE HOUR (London), MARCH, 1885
Review of "Old Spookses Pass," by Rev. Harry
Jones.
THE GRAPHIC (London), APRIL 4, 1885
Review of "Old Spookses Pass."
SATURDAY REVIEW (London), MAY 23, 1885
Review of "Old Spookses Pass."
THE LITERARY WORLD (London), MARCH 19, 1886.
Review of "Old Spookses Pass."
THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS, APRIL 3
1886
Review of "Old Spookses Pass."
THE WEEK (Toronto), FEB. 24, 1887
"Isabella Valancy Crawford," by "Seranus"
(Mrs. J. W. F. Harrison).
THE CANADIAN MAGAZINE, OCTOBER, 1895
"Isabella Valancy Crawford," By E. J. Hath
away.
THE TORONTO GLOBE, DEC. 16, 1905
Editorial: "Two Canadian Poets" (William
Wilfred Campbell and Isabella Valancy Crawford.)
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THE GLOBE MAGAZINE
Toronto, April 15 and 22, 1905, contains a sketch
of the life of Miss Crawford, by Maud Wheeler
Wilson.
Toronto, December 30, 1905, contains a lengthy
review of "The Collected Poems of Isabella
Valancy Crawford."
THE SENTINEL-REVIEW
Woodstock, December 18, 1905, has a lengthy
editorial, entitled, "Isabella Valancy Crawford."
METHODIST MAGAZINE AND REVIEW
December, 1905, reviews at length "The Col
lected Poems of Isabella Valancy Crawford."
CANADA WEEKLY, MARCH 30, 1918
"Canadian Poets: The Tragic Story of Isabella
Valancy Crawford," by Katharine Hale (Mrs.
John W. Garvin).
THE WEEK,
Toronto, September u, 1884, page 633, has a
short review of "Old Spookses Pass and Other
Poems."
Toronto, February 24, 1887, has an appreciative
article on Miss Crawford by "Seranus."
THE VARSITY
University of Toronto, January 23, 1886, page 116,
has an editorial reference.
THE TORONTO GLOBE
Toronto, February 14, 1887, an obituary ap
preciation.
THE EVENING TELEGRAM
Toronto, February 14, 1887, an obituary ap
preciation.
Toronto, November 8, 1884, contains the
review of the Spectator, London, England, of
"Old Spookses Pass, etc."
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INDEX
Algoma, 7.
Anthology, 17.
Appreciation, An, 93.
Athenaeum, The, n.
Battle, A, 48.
Between the Wind and Rain, From, 55, 103.
Bibliography, in.
Biographical, i.
Branch, Anna Hempstead, 104.
Browning, Mrs. 107.
Brynhild, 105.
Burleigh Falls, 4.
Butterfly, The, 43, 104.
Bynner, Witter, 107.
Caesar s Wife, 101.
Camp of Souls, The, 33, 104.
Campbell, W. W., 10.
Canada to England, 56.
Carman, Bliss, 9.
City Tree, The, 30.
Collected Edition of her Poems, 95.
Crawford, Dr. John Irwin, 13.
Crawford, Stephen Dennis, 1,2.
Crawford, Stephen Walter, 95.
Cry of the Children, The, 107.
Curtius, 60, 101.
Dante, 3, 99, 103.
Dark Stag, The, 36.
Dufferin, Lord, n.
Duncan, Sara Jeanette, 10.
Fairy Toil, 96.
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INDEX
Garvin, John W., 95.
Gisli, The Chieftain, 76, 105.
Globe, The, g.
Good-Bye s the Word, 24, 103.
Harrison, Mrs. J. W. F., 10, n.
Harvest Song, A, 26.
Heffernan, Mrs. A. J., n, 15.
Helot, The, 101.
His Clay, 41, 96, 102.
Horace, 3.
Housman, 106.
Illustrated London News, The, u.
Interregnum, An, 51.
Kawartha Lakes, 3, 4.
Keats, 103.
King s Garments, The, 102.
Lakefield, 3, 4.
Lampman, Archibald, 9.
Lanier, Sidney, 97.
La Tricoteuse, 108.
Laughter, 39, 104.
Legend of the Mistletoe, The, 98.
Little Lake Cemetery, 15.
Malcolm s Katie, From, 6, 68, 104.
March, 100.
Monk in the Kitchen, The, 104.
Mother s Soul, The, 104.
Morin, 109.
Morris, William, 97.
Moodie, Susanna, 3.
Naomi, Emma, 7.
Old Spookses Pass, 6, 10, 14, 95.
Otonabee River, 5, 15.
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INDEX
Paisley, 2, 3, 6.
Paris, 109.
Peace, 96.
Peterborough, 5, 14, 15.
Pickthall, Marjorie, 101.
Roberts, Charles, G. D., 9.
Rose, The, 20, 96.
Rose of a Nation s Thanks, From The, 15, 46, 96.
Scott, Sydney, i.
Said the Canoe, From, 66.
Said the Daisy, 21.
Said the West Wind, 53.
Saugeen River, 2.
Shakespeare, 103.
Shelley, 103.
Smith, Goldwin, 9.
Spectator, The, n.
Stony Lake, 4.
Stuart, Mrs. Charles J., 8.
Telegram, The Toronto Evening, 9, 96.
Tennyson, 99.
Toronto, 58.
Traill, Catherine Parr, 3.
Urquhart, Mrs. Donald, 13, 14.
Varsity, An Editorial in, 7.
Vesper Star, The, 50.
Vashti the Queen, 101.
Wallis, Katherine, 14.
Walt Whitman s democrat, 97.
Week, The, 9, n.
Wetherald, Ethelwyn, 95.
Who Sees a Vision, From, 19, 104.
Wilson, Maude Millet, 5.
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