Details

Title

The Voice of Canada

Subtitle

A Selection of Prose and Verse

Author

Stephen, A. M. (Alexander Maitland)
Montgomery, L. M. (Lucy Maud)
E. Wallcousins

Physical Description

xiii, 144 p. :ill.; 19 cm.

Place of Publication

London

Publisher

J.M. Dent & Sons

Edition

1927 Reprinted (with corr.)

Date of Publication

1926 Show more1926-01-01T00:00:00.000Z
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Collection

L.M. Montgomery Institute. Ryrie-Campbell Collection.

Donor

Donated by Donna Jane Campbell.

Note

A.M. Maitland was a Canadian poet and editor who collected this volume of "national literature" primarily for use in middle grades in schools. Maitland's introduction notes that he included some selections because of their "historic or other interest" and others because they are "peculiarly Canadian." The collection includes pieces from Bliss Carman, Marjorie Pickthall, Isabel Ecclestone MacKay (whose collection 'Fires of Driftwood' is also part of the L.M. Montgomery Bookshelf), Charles G.D. Roberts, William Henry Drummond, and many others. Montgomery herself read many of these authors elsewhere, mentioning them in her journals and other works. Interestingly, Maitland chose to include a portion of Montgomery's Emily of New Moon, rather than Anne of Green Gables in this collection. Perhaps he chose Emily since it was published just four years prior to the publication of this work, or perhaps he found Emily more suited to his middle grade audience. Maitland included selected passages from Emily of New Moon's first chapter, wherein Emily goes for a walk and experiences her first "flash." The passages about Emily's "flash" are not at all unlike Montgomery's discussions of the same phenomena in her journals and in her autobiography, The Alpine Path. Maitland may have also chosen these passages as they reinforce his hope "that, in presenting the work in this book, teachers may enter into the mood and mental enthusiasm of the authors and leave with the children the impression of beauty, greatness, and power" (vii). Montgomery inscribed this copy in 1927.

Genre

survey of literature

Call Number(s)

002 MACD COLL VC