About Patrick Slater Patrick Slater was the pseudonym of John Mitchell (1880-1951), a Toronto lawyer. Books by Patrick Slater The Voyageur Classic Canadian Fiction 7-Book Bundle All Else Is Folly / Pauline Johnson / The Town Below / Self Condemned / Storm Below / The Yellow Briar / Maria Chapdelaine by (author) Peregrine Acland, Pauline Johnson, Roger Lemelin, Hugh Garner, Patrick Slater, Louis Hemon & Wyndham Lewis foreword by Ford Madox Ford introduction by Brian Busby, Michael Gnarowski, Paul Stuewe & Allan Pero translated by W.H. Blake The Yellow Briar A Story of the Irish on the Canadian Countryside by (author) Patrick Slater introduction by Michael Gnarowski