Includes "Barometer rising", "Jalna", and twenty-four shorter pieces
Contents:
Barometer rising/Hugh MacLennan. Rigmarole/Morley Callaghan. Mrs. Golightly and the first convention/Ethel Wilson. A Prairie vagabond/Sir Gilbert Parker. The Workerin Sandalwood/Marjorie Pickthall. The Czech dog/W.G. Hardy. Read/Lord Beaverbrook. Jalna/Mazo de la Roche. Dieppe/Lionel Shapiro. The Princess and the wild ones/W. O. Mitchell. Ressurection/Thomas H. Raddall. The Street that got mislaid/Patrick Waddington. We hire a witch/Kenneth McNeill Wells. The Awakening/Bruce Huchison. The Movies come to Gull Point/Will R. Bird. The Schoon on the Little Water Hen/Gabrielle Roy. White Musky/Scott Young. Vinegettes of French Canada/Thomas B. Costain. The First Settle. The Man who was always first. The King's girls. The Maiden at Castle Dangerous. The Two great brothers. The Death of the great bishop. The Little ghost/Gwen Ringwood. The Speculations of Jefferson Thrope/Stephen Leacock. Some are so lucky/Hugh Garner. Beating the smuggling game/Thomas Chandler Haliburton. This stubborn breed/Joseph Lister Rutledge. The White mustang/Edward A. McCourt. Four men and a box/Leslie Gordon Barnard. The Wake/Patrick Slater