The Dusty Bookcase

The one hundred and twelfth issue of Canadian Notes & Queries arrived in our rural mailbox yesterday afternoon. A beautiful thing, wrap...

The Dusty Bookcase turns ten today. How is that possible? What was meant to be a six-year journey through the obscure and forgotten titl...

The Passionate Invaders John Clare New York: Doubleday, 1965 Had it not been for the nineteenth-century English poet John Clare, I doubt tha...

Looking into The Chartered Libertine I was surprised – shocked – to find that The Canadian Encyclopedia has no entry on Jack Kent Coo...

The Chartered Libertine Ralph Allen Toronto: Macmillan, 1954 As a young man I placed Ralph Allen with Thomas B. Costain and Thomas...