The Dusty Bookcase

Carnac's Folly [ Carnac ] Gilbert Parker Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1922 352 pages Carnac Grier is the second son of Quebec lumbe...

Thinking of my father today, the hundredth anniversary of his birth. He died far too young, and I have so very few memories. I did inherit s...

A follow-up to last week's post on A Japanese Nightingale .   On 19 November 1903, A Japanese Nightingale , dramatist William Young'...

A Japanese Nightingale Onoto Watanna [Winnifred Eaton] New York: Harper, 1901 226 pages Onoto Watanna was her own creation. She was not a Ja...