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Showing posts with label Stead. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Stead. Show all posts
04 April 2024

A Man of Peculiar Notions

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Dennison Grant: A Novel of To-Day Robert Stead Toronto: Musson, 1920 388 pages Robert Stead's fourth novel,  Dennison Grant  follows  Th...
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18 December 2023

The Globe's Best Books of 1923: 'Canadian Authors Can Be Read With Pleasure, Profit and Pride'

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The Globe , 10 December 1923 Three men feature on the first page of the 1923 'Recent Books and the Outlook,' the 'Globe 100'...
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27 February 2023

Go West, Young Woman

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The Prairie Wife Arthur Stringer London: Hodder & Stoughton, [n.d] 251 pages In the summer of 1985, I bought a copy of The Oxford Compan...
21 December 2020

Best Books of 1920: Beware the Bolshevik Poets

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The Globe , 4 December 1920 The 1920  Globe  round-up of the year's best books was published on the first Saturday of that December. Twe...
11 November 2020

Remembrance Day

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Verse from the 1923 edition of Robert Stead's  The Empire Builders . HE SLEEPS IN FLANDERS                         He sleeps in F...
25 June 2015

Robert Stead's Century-Old Poem of the Great War

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A poem of the twelfth month of the Great War from the revised 1923 edition of Robert Stead's The Empire Builders . Rel...
16 December 2013

A Last-Minute Slogan, "Give Books"

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Coaching courtesy of an old Eaton's ad published in the 23 December 1933 Globe & Mail . The venerable department store recomme...