E-text prepared by Robert Cicconetti, Martin Pettit,
and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team
(/)
from page images generously made available by
Early Canadiana Online (http://www.canadiana.org/eco/index.html)
| Note: | Images of the original pages are available through Early Canadiana Online. See http://www.canadiana.org/ECO/ItemRecord/00387?id=5453f8c59767d369 |
TWO KNAPSACKS:
A Novel of Canadian Summer Life.
By J CAWDOR BELL.
TORONTO
THE WILLIAMSON BOOK CO., Ltd.
[Pg 2]Entered, according to the Act of the Parliament of Canada, inthe year eighteen hundred and ninety-two, by the Williamson BookCompany, Limited, in the office of the Minister of Agriculture.
CONTENTS
PUBLISHERS' NOTE.
The Publishers have extreme pleasure in placing this novel, by a new andpromising native author, before the reading public of Canada. They willbe greatly disappointed if it does not at once take its place among thebest products of Canadian writers. While the work has peculiar interestfor Torontonians and dwellers in the districts so graphically described,its admirable character drawings of many "sorts and conditions" of ourpeople—its extremely clever dialect, representing Irish, Scotch,English, Canadian, French, Southern and Negro speech, and the workingout of its story, which is done in such a way as would credit anexperienced romancer—should insure the book a welcome in ve