Old Man Savarin Stories (Illustrated Edition)

📗 Tales of Canada and Canadians. A collection of stories, some of which had previously appeared in various magazines, first published together in book form in in 1895 and reprinted from an illustrated edition of 1917. Thomson (1849-1924) was a Canadian journalist and writer. He was sent ot America to work as a young man where he enlisted in the Union Army in 1864 aged 15, seeing action in the Civil War as a trooper. He later took up civil engineering before entering on a career in journalism, writing for The Toronto Globe and The Youth's Companion.