The Norland Wind
North wind
Poem celebrates the North Wind as the Spirit of Life and Liberty
Poem by William Sharp
<a href="http://ornament.library.ryerson.ca/files/show/4">Headpiece</a> by John Duncan
<a href="http://ornament.library.ryerson.ca/files/show/5">Initial</a> by John Duncan
<a href="https://archive.org/details/evergreennorther01gedduoft/page/108/mode/2up"><em>The Evergreen</em> Volume 1, p 109 [flipbook]</a>
<a href="https://1890s.ca/egv1_sharp_norland/">"The Norland Wind" at <em>Yellow Nineties 2.0</em></a>
Pattrick Geddes & Colleagues
Spring 1895
Image engraving by Hare Sc
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<a href="https://1890s.ca/evergreen-volumes/"><em>Evergreen Digital Edition</em></a>, edited by Lorraine Janzen Kooistra, 2016-2018. <em>Yellow Nineties 2.0</em>, Toronto Metropolitan University Centre for Digital Humanities, 2019.
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Proem
Spring, Scottish Renaissance
An essay taking Spring as its theme, celebrating variation and unity: the most harmonious lives in tune with seasonal rhythms of earth—times of effort and rest: “That is the ultimate system in which we live…”; “So, at this time, the voice of Spring echoes through us all…”
Essay by J. Arthur Thomson and W. Macdonald
<a href="http://ornament.library.ryerson.ca/files/show/7">Initial</a> by Helen Hay
<a href="https://archive.org/details/evergreennorther01gedduoft/page/8/mode/2up"><em>The Evergreen</em> Volume 1, p 9-15 [flipbook]</a>
<a href="https://1890s.ca/egv1_macdonald_thomson_proem/">"Proem" at <em>Yellow Nineties 2.0</em></a>
Patrick Geddes & Colleagues
Spring 1895
Public Domain
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<a href="https://1890s.ca/evergreen-volumes/"><em>Evergreen Digital Edition</em></a>, edited by Lorraine Janzen Kooistra, 2016-2018. <em>Yellow Nineties 2.0</em>, Toronto Metropolitan University Centre for Digital Humanities, 2019.
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A Procession of Causes
Spring, new life
The poem celebrates spring, renewal, love: “For the old god Pan hath taken a wife/ And the whole world shares their mirth..."
Poem by W. Macdonald
<a href="http://ornament.library.ryerson.ca/files/show/11">Tailpiece</a> by W. Smith
<a href="http://ornament.library.ryerson.ca/files/show/9">Initial</a> by John Duncan
<a href="https://archive.org/details/evergreennorther01gedduoft/page/18/mode/2up"><em>The Evergreen</em> Volume 1, p19-20 [flipbook]</a>
<a href="https://1890s.ca/egv1_macdonald_procession/">"A Procession of Causes" at <em>Yellow Nineties 2.0</em></a>
Patrick Geddes & Colleagues
Spring 1895
Public Domain
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<a href="https://1890s.ca/evergreen-volumes/"><em>Evergreen Digital Edition</em></a>, edited by Lorraine Janzen Kooistra, 2016-2018. <em>Yellow Nineties 2.0</em>, Toronto Metropolitan University Centre for Digital Humanities, 2019.
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Germinal, Floreal, Prairial
These were names given to the Spring months at a famous time some hundred years ago, when men in the April folly of their hearts dreamed that they could make all things new.” References myth, fairy tale, legend symbolic of spring, including Pan; “in the words of the biologists, [spring] is the time of variation”—no child like another
Epigraph (unattributed, but taken from Robert Louis Stevenson's "The House Beautiful")
Essay by J. Arthur Thomson
<a href="http://ornament.library.ryerson.ca/files/show/16">Headpiece</a>,<a href="http://ornament.library.ryerson.ca/files/show/18"> tailpiece</a> and<a href="http://ornament.library.ryerson.ca/files/show/17"> initial</a> by W. Smith
<a href="https://archive.org/details/evergreennorther01gedduoft/page/20/mode/2up"><em>The Evergreen</em> Volume 1, p21-25 [flipbook]</a>
<a href="https://1890s.ca/egv1_thomson_germinal/">"Germinal, Floreal, Prairial" at <em>Yellow Nineties 2.0</em></a>
Patrick Geddes & Colleagues
Spring 1895
Image engraving by Hare Sc
Public Domain
Toronto Metropolitan University Library Archives and Special Collections
<a href="https://1890s.ca/evergreen-volumes/"><em>Evergreen Digital Edition</em></a>, edited by Lorraine Janzen Kooistra, 2016-2018. <em>Yellow Nineties 2.0</em>, Toronto Metropolitan University Centre for Digital Humanities, 2019.
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Life and its Science
Organic biology
Biology is first and foremost the study of life, not death; “let us return to…the simple and the natural, the normal and the organic”; “experimental evolution”/”regeneration” is the “Alchemy of Life”—expands to make a social/political point by analogy; “Mystery of Masonry” = “supreme Art”
Essay by Patrick Geddes
<a href="http://ornament.library.ryerson.ca/files/show/20">Initial</a> by Unknown
<a href="https://archive.org/details/evergreennorther01gedduoft/page/28/mode/2up"><em>The Evergreen</em> Volume 1, p29-37 [flipbook]</a>
<a href="https://1890s.ca/egv1_geddes_life/">"Life and its Science" at <em>Yellow Nineties 2.0</em></a>
Patrick Geddes & Co
Spring 1895
Public Domain
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<a href="https://1890s.ca/evergreen-volumes/"><em>Evergreen Digital Edition</em></a>, edited by Lorraine Janzen Kooistra, 2016-2018. <em>Yellow Nineties 2.0</em>, Toronto Metropolitan University Centre for Digital Humanities, 2019.
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Old English Spring
Spring
Adapted from Harleian ms 2253, circa 1200. Lyric apostrophizing the Northwind
Poem by Hugo Laubach
<a href="http://ornament.library.ryerson.ca/files/show/23">Headpiece</a> by W. Smith
<a href="http://ornament.library.ryerson.ca/files/show/24">Tailpiece</a> by Unknown
<a href="https://archive.org/details/evergreennorther01gedduoft/page/40/mode/2up"><em>The Evergreen</em> Volume 1, p41-43 [flipbook]</a>
<a href="https://1890s.ca/egv1_laubach_spring/">"Old English Spring" at <em>Yellow Nineties 2.0</em></a>
Patrick Geddes & Colleagues
Spring 1895
Image engraving by Hare Sc
Public Domain
Toronto Metropolitan University Library Archives and Special Collections
<a href="https://1890s.ca/evergreen-volumes/"><em>Evergreen Digital Edition</em></a>, edited by Lorraine Janzen Kooistra, 2016-2018. <em>Yellow Nineties 2.0</em>, Toronto Metropolitan University Centre for Digital Humanities, 2019.
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Lengthening Days
Couple observing spring
story of couple who go to live in a log cabin in the woods to observe spring; he’s an artist, like Nature: “First of its ornaments were the tiny creeping birds….”; quotes a Gaelic song about swans singing (trans in fn); Mark’s best picture is the fp he drew in black and white for the book that he printed: a self portrait by the hearth, wife sleeping on his chest; in fall, he returns to London, and prints book, which people read with pleasure
Prose and<a href="http://ornament.library.ryerson.ca/files/show/26"> Initial</a> by W.G. Burn-Murdoch
<a href="https://archive.org/details/evergreennorther01gedduoft/page/44/mode/2up"><em>The Evergreen</em> Volume 1, p 44-46 [flipbook]</a>
<a href="https://1890s.ca/egv1_burn_murdoch_lengthening/">"Lengthening Days" at <em>Yellow Nineties 2.0</em></a>
Patrick Geddes & Colleagues
Spring 1895
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<a href="https://1890s.ca/evergreen-volumes/"><em>Evergreen Digital Edition</em></a>, edited by Lorraine Janzen Kooistra, 2016-2018. <em>Yellow Nineties 2.0</em>, Toronto Metropolitan University Centre for Digital Humanities, 2019.
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Day and Night
Day and night
Two verses of three lines each
Poem by Fiona Macleod (aka William Sharp)
<a href="http://ornament.library.ryerson.ca/files/show/28">Headpiece</a> and<a href="http://ornament.library.ryerson.ca/files/show/29"> tailpiece</a> by J. Cadenhead
<a href="https://archive.org/details/evergreennorther01gedduoft/page/46/mode/2up"><em>The Evergreen</em> Volume 1, p47 [flipbook]</a>
<a href="https://1890s.ca/egv1_macleod_day/">"Day and Night" at <em>Yellow Nineties 2.0</em></a>
Patrick Geddes & Colleagues
Spring 1895
Image engraving by Hare Sc
Public Domain
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<a href="https://1890s.ca/evergreen-volumes/"><em>Evergreen Digital Edition</em></a>, edited by Lorraine Janzen Kooistra, 2016-2018. <em>Yellow Nineties 2.0</em>, Toronto Metropolitan University Centre for Digital Humanities, 2019.
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From Four Easter Letters
Historical letters about spring, translated from different languages and times
1. from Athens, circa 357 BC ; 2 from Norway, circa 145 BC, written by a woman; 3. from Jerusalem, 8th year of governance of Pontius Pilate; 4. Edinburgh, Easter 1887--all about the coming of spring
Text by Unknown
<a href="http://ornament.library.ryerson.ca/files/show/31">Initial</a> by Helen Hay
<a href="http://ornament.library.ryerson.ca/files/show/33">Tailpiece</a> by Unknown
<a href="https://archive.org/details/evergreennorther01gedduoft/page/56/mode/2up"><em>The Evergreen</em> Volume 1, p56-59 [flipbook]</a>
<a href="https://1890s.ca/egv1_letters/">"From Four Easter Letters" at <em>Yellow Nineties 2.0</em></a>
Patrick Geddes & Colleagues
Spring 1895
Public Domain
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<a href="https://1890s.ca/evergreen-volumes/"><em>Evergreen Digital Edition</em></a>, edited by Lorraine Janzen Kooistra, 2016-2018. <em>Yellow Nineties 2.0</em>, Toronto Metropolitan University Centre for Digital Humanities, 2019.
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The Crows: A Child Poem
Crows in spring
Crows are figured as harbingers of spring
Poem by Gabriel Setoun
<a href="http://ornament.library.ryerson.ca/files/show/35">Tailpiece</a> by Unknown
<a href="https://archive.org/details/evergreennorther01gedduoft/page/60/mode/2up"><em>The Evergreen</em> Volume 1, p60-61 [flipbook]</a>
<a href="https://1890s.ca/egv1_setoun_crows/">"The Crows: A Child Poem" at <em>Yellow Nineties 2.0</em></a>
Patrick Geddes & Colleagues
Spring 1895
Public Domain
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<a href="https://1890s.ca/evergreen-volumes/"><em>Evergreen Digital Edition</em></a>, edited by Lorraine Janzen Kooistra, 2016-2018. <em>Yellow Nineties 2.0</em>, Toronto Metropolitan University Centre for Digital Humanities, 2019.
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