EDWARD WILLIAM THOMSON (1849-1924) was an editorial writer for the Toronto Globe for ten years, and then moved to Boston as revising editor and short story writer for the Youth's Companion. He returned to Canada in 1901 and became the Canadian correspondent for the Boston Evening Transcript. Transcending narrow party loyalists, he took controversial stands on such issues as free trade and Canadian nationalism and his political attitudes became even more readical over the years. He published a number of literary works including Between Earth and Sky (1897) and The Many Mansioned House and Other Poems (1909).