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Showing posts with label Roberts (Charles G.D.). Show all posts
Showing posts with label Roberts (Charles G.D.). Show all posts
11 December 2023

Eight Gifts to Last

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In past years I've noted gifts and donations to the Dusty Bookcase at the end of the annual list of Ten Best Book Buys. An exception is ...
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16 January 2023

James de Mille's Antarctic Death Cult

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A Strange Manuscript Found in a Copper Cylinder [James de Mille] New York: Harper & Bros, 1888 306 pages Forty years ago this month, I s...
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02 November 2022

Blue Plaque Special: Maritime Edition

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The latter half of October was spent on a long road trip through Quebec, New Brunswick and Nova Scotia. Anyès and I travelled over four thou...
11 July 2022

Gothique Canadien

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Cameron of Lochiel [ Les Anciens Canadiens ] Phillipe[-Joseph] Aubert de Gaspé [trans Charles G.D.      Roberts] Boston: L.C.Page, 1905 287...
14 August 2020

They Fell in Love With the Actress

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The Darling Illusion Margerie Scott London: Peter Davies, 1954 246 pages Olivia Thompson's dead body lies in a slowly growing p...
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05 December 2016

The Season's Best Books in Review — A.D. 1916

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The Globe , 2 December 1916 The 2016 Globe 100 was published last week. As with any other, one could quibble with this year's lis...
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25 December 2015

Timely Verse from Christmas a Century Past

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The Globe , 25 December 1915 A CHRISTMAS STAR                     Christmas chimes across the snow,                          Can ...
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