The Dusty Bookcase

In my twenties, the 'twenties – by which I mean the 1920s – seemed the height of art, film, decadence, glamour, and romance. I'm not...

The Globe 100 was published ten days ago – November 22nd – so this annual look at the newspaper's best book picks of a century past may ...

An addendum to last week's post on "Woman-handled" by Arthur Stringer .   Much of yesterday was spent reading 'The Surviva...

'Woman-handled' Arthur Stringer The Saturday Evening Post , volume  197, issue 44 May 2, 1925 A critic writes: "In your New Yea...

The 1924 New Year's edition of Maclean's . What is suggested? A year of excitement? Terror? Is there not something disturbing in thi...

The season brings a flurry of activity, which explains why I haven't posted one review this month. Still, I did manage to tackle twenty-...

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...