Envoy
Prose by P. G. [Patrick Geddes] and W. M. [William Macdonald]
<a href="http://ornament.library.ryerson.ca/files/show/338">Headpiece</a> by John Duncan
<a href="http://archive.org/details/evergreennorther04gedduoft#page/154/mode/2up"><em>The Evergreen</em> Volume 4, pp. 155-157</a>
<a href="https://1890s.ca/egv4_geddes_envoy-3/">"Envoy" at <em>Yellow Nineties 2.0</em></a>
Patrick Geddes & Colleagues
Winter 1896-1897
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The Megalithic Builders
remains of ancient building in Scotland in relation to the present
“…so far as the main theme of this essay is concerned, let any one who cares for it see what he can make out for himself not only of the history of Scotland, but of the life and thought of its People, from the speaking stones of Stirling, which he that runs may read.”
Prose by Patrick Geddes
<a href="http://ornament.library.ryerson.ca/files/show/334">Headpiece</a> by John Duncan
<a href="http://ornament.library.ryerson.ca/files/show/336">Tailpiece</a> by Annie Mackie
<a href="https://archive.org/details/evergreennorther04gedduoft/page/142/mode/2up"><em>The Evergreen</em> Volume 4, pp. 142-151</a>
<a href="https://1890s.ca/egv4_geddes_megalithic/">"The Megalithic Builders" at <em>Yellow Nineties 2.0</em></a>
Patrick Geddes & Colleagues
Winter 1896-1897
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The Best of All
4 quatrains: good things in life = wine, women, friendship; but only thing to count on is friend
Poem by W. Macdonald
<a href="http://ornament.library.ryerson.ca/files/show/332">Headpiece</a> by John Duncan
<a href="http://archive.org/details/evergreennorther04gedduoft#page/140/mode/2up"><em>The Evergreen</em> Volume 4, p141</a>
<a href="https://1890s.ca/egv4_macdonald_best/">"The Best of All" at <em>Yellow Nineties 2.0</em></a>
Patrick Geddes & Colleagues
Winter 1896-1897
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The Black Month
Breton folktale about Eve of All Souls (Hallowe'en) and November as month of the dead
Author's Note: In parts of Brittany it is the belief that on the Eve of All Souls, the Dead are permitted to return to the world; but that, being shapeless and voiceless, they enter into the bodies of the beggars who are called by the people the ' Children of God,' and in their form go from house to house, leaving on each a blessing. In the canticle of St. Herve it is said that as a child he went out with such as these to 'Sing the song of the souls': and one or more versions of these songs yet linger. As All Souls is the day of the Dead, so November is the Black Month, the Month of the Dead: more especially upon the coasts where the fall of the year brings home the fishermen who have been away at Iceland or the Bank, and of whom, all the long Summer, there has been no news. Day after day through the early Autumn, the' goelettes' come in with every tide; but as the time passes, the waiting for those that delay grows more anxious and the home-coming less sure. And as every season there are many who do not come home, it is indeed true that' November makes more widows than all the rest of the year.
Prose by M. Clothilde Balfour
<a href="http://ornament.library.ryerson.ca/files/show/330">Headpiece</a> by John Duncan
<a href="http://archive.org/details/evergreennorther04gedduoft#page/132/mode/2up"><em>The Evergreen</em> Volume 4, pp. 132-137</a>
<a href="https://1890s.ca/egv4_balfour_month/">"The Black Month" at <em>Yellow Nineties 2.0</em></a>
Patrick Geddes & Colleagues
Winter 1896-1897
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The Story of Castaille Dubh
history of a ruin, the Black Castle, in the highlands
tale of The Black Castle, Athole hills, in Scotland, during civil war. Earl of Athole loses possession, earldom bestowed upon an alien from the south, Sir Walter Stewart, who abuses the people; “With the New Year came one Uninvited Guest.”—sickness—and the clansmen attack the castle mercilessly
Prose by Margaret Thomson
<a href="http://ornament.library.ryerson.ca/files/show/326">Headpiece</a> by John Duncan
<a href="http://ornament.library.ryerson.ca/files/show/328">Tailpiece</a> by Nellie Baxter
<a href="http://archive.org/details/evergreennorther04gedduoft#page/128/mode/2up"><em>The Evergreen</em> Volume 4, pp. 128-132</a>
<a href="https://1890s.ca/egv4_thomson_castailledubh/">"The Story of Castaille Dubh" at <em>Yellow Nineties 2.0</em></a>
Patrick Geddes & Colleagues
Winter 1896-1897
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The Chiefs' Blood in Me
3 stanzas, ababab
Poem by Sarah Robertson Matheson
<a href="http://ornament.library.ryerson.ca/files/show/324">Headpiece</a> by John Duncan
<a href="http://archive.org/details/evergreennorther04gedduoft#page/126/mode/2up"><em>The Evergreen</em> Volume 4, p127</a>
<a href="https://1890s.ca/egv4_matheson_chief/">"The Chiefs' Blood in Me" at <em>Yellow Nineties 2.0</em></a>
Patrick Geddes & Colleagues
Winter 1896-1897
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The Snow-Sleep of Angus Ogue
Celtic legend
Angus Ogue is older than all the gods; he is their soul; he is eternal Spring/Youth/Hope
Prose by Fiona Macleod
<a href="http://ornament.library.ryerson.ca/files/show/322">Headpiece</a> by John Duncan
<a href="http://archive.org/details/evergreennorther04gedduoft#page/118/mode/2up"><em>The Evergreen</em> Volume 4, pp. 118-123</a>
<a href="https://1890s.ca/egv4_macleod_snow/">"The Snow-Sleep of Angus Ogue" at <em>Yellow Nineties 2.0</em></a>
Patrick Geddes & Colleagues
Winter 1896-1897
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Grierson of Lag
traditional ballad
Ballad of Sir Robert, the Laird of Lag, who captures a hill lad to make him tell where Tam Glen is; he refuses; Robert kills him, to horror of his men; mother comes and cleans body
Poem by W. Cuthbertson
<a href="http://ornament.library.ryerson.ca/files/show/320">Headpiece</a> by Nellie Baxter
<a href="http://archive.org/details/evergreennorther04gedduoft#page/114/mode/2up"><em>The Evergreen</em> Volume 4, pp. 115-117</a>
<a href="https://1890s.ca/egv4_cuthbertson_grierson/">"Grierson of Lag" at <em>Yellow Nineties 2.0</em></a>
Patrick Geddes & Colleagues
Winter 1896-1897
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A Devolution of Terror
An account of the ancient superstitions in the Alpilles in Provence, and their ongoing presence in traditional story and ritual
“King René of Anjou, the laughter-loving Count of Provence, seeking to divert the melancholy of his beloved wife, Jeanne de Laval, turned the old-time-Keltic terror into gay new fetes: the games of the tarasque. These games are still played. The tarasque—a monster of wood and canvas….now goes through the sunny streets of Tarascon….”
Prose by Catharine A. Janvier
<a href="http://ornament.library.ryerson.ca/files/show/316">Headpiece</a> by Nellie Baxter
<a href="http://archive.org/details/evergreennorther04gedduoft#page/106/mode/2up"><em>The Evergreen</em> Volume 4, pp. 106-111</a>
<a href="https://1890s.ca/egv4_janvier_terror/">"A Devolution of Terror" at <em>Yellow Nineties 2.0</em></a>
Patrick Geddes & Colleagues
Winter 1896-1897
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Dermot's Spring
Irish legend
Dermot destroys Murchard O’Byrne, King of Tir-Cullen of Ireland, 25 Nov 1133, and 17 other rivals
Prose by Standish O'Grady
<a href="http://ornament.library.ryerson.ca/files/show/314">Headpiece</a> by Annie Mackie
<a href="http://archive.org/details/evergreennorther04gedduoft#page/100/mode/2up"><em>The Evergreen</em> Volume 4, pp. 101-105</a>
<a href="https://1890s.ca/egv4_ogrady_dermots/">"Dermot's Spring" at <em>Yellow Nineties 2.0</em></a>
Patrick Geddes & Colleagues
Winter 1896-1897
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