The Dusty Bookcase

Verse for the day by Agnes Maule Machar from  Lays of the 'True North' and Other Canadian Poems (Toronto: Copp, Clark, 1899). No le...

For this Easter Sunday, 'In Memoriam—H.W.L., A Noble Teacher' by  Agnes Maule Machar, "first of Dominion poetesses." I...

Doors of the Night Frank L. Packard Toronto: Copp Clark, 1922 297 pages The hero of this novel is a young man named Billy Kane. Rai...

Jimmie Dale and the Phantom Clue Frank L. Packard Toronto: Copp, Clark, 1922 This third Gray Seal book begins where the second,  T...

The Further Adventures of Jimmie Dale Frank L. Packard New York: Doubleday, Doran, 1931 "The Gray Seal is dead." So ...

The Adventures of Jimmie Dale Frank L. Packard Toronto: Copp Clark, 1917 This is my fourth Packard. Put in context, that's like ...

The new issue of Canadian Notes & Queries arrived Friday, just in time for the first day of summer, bringing another Dusty Bookc...

Dominion Day, Vancouver, 1890 From  Lays of the 'True North' and Other Canadian Poems Agnes Maule Machar London: Elliot Sto...

My review of Frank L. Packard's The Wire Devils , newly reissued by the University of Minnesota Press , is now up on the Montrea...

The Four Stragglers Frank L. Packard Toronto: Copp Clark, 1923 It's hard to know just what to expect when picking up a Packard...

Tarboe: The Story of a Life Gilbert Parker Toronto: Copp Clarke, 1927 Imagine how old fashioned a fellow Sir Gilbert must have seem...