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Showing posts with label Connor. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Connor. Show all posts
29 October 2022

Reverend King's Slow and Simple Swan Song

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Satan as Lightning Basil King New York: Harper, 1929 280 pages Basil King is the only Canadian to have topped the year-end list of bestselli...
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13 May 2022

$2 Connors

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I will pay no more than two dollars on a book by Ralph Connor. This policy has stood me well. To date, my Connor collection consists of eigh...
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02 May 2022

Ralph Connor's Canada Dry

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Corporal Cameron of the North West Mounted Police:    A Tale of the MacLeod Trail Ralph Connor [Charles W. Gordon] Toronto: Westminster, 191...
01 December 2021

The 1921 Globe 100 206: Don't Mention the War

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The Globe , 3 December 1921 The 1921 edition of 'Recent Books and the Outlook,' the  Globe's  annual list of best books, begins ...
21 December 2019

The Globe 100 One Hundred Years Ago: Poets are Struck Dumb and Capitalism Proves Embarrassing

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The Globe , 6 December 1919 Last month, the Globe & Mail published  'The Globe 100' , its annual list of the year's...
01 July 2018

Laura Salverson's 'For Canada' for Canada Day

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A poem – and prayer – by Laura Salverson, from Wayside Gleams , her only collection of verse, published in 1925 by McClelland & Stew...
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11 December 2017

The Year's Best Books in Review – A.D. 2017; Featuring Three Books Deserving Resurrection

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I finished reading my last book of the year yesterday afternoon; there is no way the I'll reach the end of the next before January. ...
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08 December 2017

The Season's Best Books in Review – A.D. 1917: The String of Canadian Patriotism is Fingered

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The "Globe 100" of its time, I've long been interested in the Globe & Mail's  "Season's Best Books in Rev...