The Dusty Bookcase

In my twenties, the 'twenties – by which I mean the 1920s – seemed the height of art, film, decadence, glamour, and romance. I'm not...

Black Feather Benge Atlee New York: Scribners, 1939 345 page s The weapons Britain is supplying to its Arab allies are somehow endi...

For Remembrance Day, my latest piece for The Walrus . Related post: Alec Falcon, c'est moi Remembering Peregrine Acland A...

For this year, at least. Not only will budget not allow, I'm running out of room. I shouldn't complain. These past eleven ...

"The World's Honour Roll" by F.A. Acland, from the December 1914 number of The Canadian Magazine . At the time, son Peregr...

Peregrine Acland, 1914 THE REVEILLE OF ROMANCE (Written in early October, 1914, in mid-ocean, on board H.M. Troopship “Megantic,”...

I had a half hour's rest after luncheon before going into the city to attend Mrs. Acland's funeral. Went in with Hendy by statio...

Tomorrow marks the day that Peregrine Acland's All Else is Folly officially returns to print. That more than eight decades have pa...

Peregrine Palmer Acland 15 May 1891 - 11 May 1963 RIP The Globe & Mail , 13 May 1963 Related posts: Alec Falcon...

Three photographs taken yesterday in Toronto's Mount Pleasant Cemetery at the gravesite of Peregrine Acland, author of All El...

Peregrine Palmer Acland (1891-1963) Author of All Else is Folly Related posts: Alec Falcon, c'est moi Rememberi...

My recent conversation with the charming Julie Wilson. Pulp novels, literary hoaxes, the Edwardian John Glassco, and the neglected and f...

Published in 1935 by les Éditions du Quotidien, a first edition by one of the most important Canadian writers of the twentieth century. I...