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Fire and frost : stories, dialogues, satires, essays, poems, etc
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Book cover; dark brown cloth cover with title and author in small, gold letters. Spine wrapped in dark red cloth.

Fire and frost : stories, dialogues, satires, essays, poems, etc

Date1898
FormatBook
Notes
Contents:  Stories: -- A face on King Street -- A guest of God -- A tragic smile -- The last patient -- Fall of the curate -- The terrible tale -- The yellow mask -- The triumph of realism -- One chum -- A rebel -- Sweet Marie -- An extraordinary episode.  Satires: -- Thou shalt not smile -- The splendid soul -- The intruder.  Poems: -- The city celestial -- The eternal fires -- Spirit sonnet -- Accursed sleep -- Ode to a book -- Love and pride -- Utophia.  Dialogues: -- The Devil and Mrs. Grundy -- Apollo and Tomkins -- King Billy and St. Pat -- Jonah and the whale -- Peace and war.  Essays: -- The great days -- A poet politician -- A master of intrigue -- Genius and patriotism -- A midnight minstrel -- Impressions of Rossetti -- Politics as a fine art -- An exile from Erin -- Impressions of a poet.  Humourous selections, prose-poems, etc: -- A tale of the twelfth -- The haunted trolley -- A memory -- The master marksman -- Scene from Azrael -- Two historic costumes -- Something.

The author seems to have written many of these pieces in Toronto. 
DimensionsCover size: 19 cm x 13 cm (7 1/2 in. x 5 1/8 in.)
Language
Usage Rights Public Domain (Learn More)
Object Number37131054418801D
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