The Dusty Bookcase

Philistia Grant Allen London: Chatto & Windus, 1901 317 pages Roughly one-third of the way though  Philistia , Herbert Le Breton prepare...

This  annus horribilis  draws to a close – thank God – meaning the time has come to recap the last twelve months of reading old books. I tac...

The most recent number of Canadian Notes & Queries  – The Crime Issue – arrived last week in our Upper Canada rural mailbox. I was honou...

In years to come – presuming they come – I expect I'll look upon this beat-up copy of Arthur Beverley Baxter's  The Blower of Bubble...

I purchased Robertson Davies'  What's Bred in the Bone  upon publication, the exchange taking place in 1985 at the old Coles b...

The Obstinate Virgin Sinclair Murray [Alan Sullivan] London: Sampson Low, Marston [1934] 314 pages In Essentially Canadian , his 19...

It's been a disorienting and disruptive year. The home we'd expected to build on the banks of the Rideau became entangled in red...