page_title: James De Mille
section_title: Works
hierarchical_section_title: James De Mille / Works
caption_attribution_description: English: Former residence of James De Mille
context_page_description: James De Mille was a professor at Dalhousie University, Nova Scotia, and an early Canadian novelist who published numerous works of popular fiction from the late 1860s through the 1870s.
context_section_description: His most popular work with contemporaries, and the work for which he is most known presently, is A Strange Manuscript Found in a Copper Cylinder, which was serialized posthumously in the magazine Harper's Weekly, and published in book form by Harper and Brothers of New York City, during 1888.
  Other works included the 1867 historical novel Helena's Household: A Tale of Rome in the First Century (the 1890 edition was subtitled : An Ideal of Roman Life in the Time of Paul and Nero), and the following:
  A Book for Boys: Containing Stories of Boys Who Won Their Way to Honor or Wealth by Obedience, Industry, and Piety (1860?)
  The Martyr of the Catacombs: A Tale of Ancient Rome (1865)
  A Week at Forestdale, Being a Summer Idyl (1868)
  A Castle in Spain (1869)
  Cord and Creese (1869)
  The Lady of the Ice (1870)
  The Cryptogram (1871)
  The American Baron (1872)
  A Comedy of Terrors (1872)
  The Dodge Club; or Italy in 1859 (1873)
  An Open Question (1873)
  The Seven Hills (1873)
  The Treasure of the Seas (1873)
  The Lily and the Cross: A Novel/Tale of Acadia (1874)
  The Living Link (1874)
  Among the Brigands (1875)
  The Babes in the Wood, a Tragic Comedy: A Story of the Italian Revolution of 1848 (1875)
  John Wheeler's Two Uncles, or Launching Into Life: A Story for Boys (1877)
  The Winged Lion; or Stories of Venice (1877)
  Old Garth: A Story of Sicily (1883)
  Behind the Veil: A Poem (1893)
  Nest of Pyrates: Pirate Verse from the Seven Seas (????)
  Sweet Maiden of Passamaquoddy (????)
  The B.O.W.C. Club series:
  The Brethren of the White Cross: A Book for Boys (aka The "B.O.W.C.") (1869)
  The Boys of Grand Pre School (1870)
  Lost in the Fog (1870)
  Fire in the Woods (1871)
  Picked Up Adrift (1872)
  Nonfiction:
  The Early English Church (1877)
  The Elements of Rhetoric (1878)
  Many of DeMille's books were originally published in serial form in such periodicals as Harper's Weekly.
caption: James De Mille's residence at 72 South Park Street, Halifax.
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