The Dusty Bookcase

A bit quiet here owing to a late summer/early autumn visit to St Andrews, New Brunswick. I brought along a couple of books, but read l...

The Silver Poppy Arthur Stringer New York: Appleton, 1903 291 pages Educated Englishman John Hartley has seen much sadness in his y...

Four weeks from today, Montreal's Writers' Chapel will be celebrating the life and work of Constance Beresford-Howe. The event w...

I got off to a bad start with Margaret Millar. Of the twenty-six books published during her lifetime, the first I read was  Fire Will ...

A poem for the month from The Golden Treasury of Canadian Verse , edited by A.M. Stephens, published in 1928 by J.M. Dent & Sons. Th...