The Dusty Bookcase

  A brief follow-up to last week's post on One Day's Courtship and The Heralds of Fame . Prince Classics is new to me, but has quick...

  At ten, The Beachcombers  consumed a steady portion of my week – one half-hour each Sunday evening – and yet Arthur Mayse's name m...

That would be 1968, the very same year in which Canadian Notes & Queries made its debut. It was my honour to become the first co...

The Vancouver Sun , 21 February 1966 Poetic Burglars Hit Again The poetic burglars have struck again.    For the second time in a...

Philip Alexius de Laszlo. Elinor Glyn (1912)                                        Would you like to sin                           ...

Young minds are so very impressionable, aren't they? How fortunate then that we have dedicated souls like Father B.W. Harrigan and ...

Looking back, I see this as a year of reading riches bookended by two great disappointments. In January it was Douglas Durkin's Mr. ...

"A remarkable first novel about madness – its feelings, treatment and powers." —  Books of the Month   "Filth and...

The Vancouver Sun , 11 February 1953