The Dusty Bookcase

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...

Original Detective Stories Volume 1, Number 1 April 1948 Can a magazine written entirely by one person be considered a book? Of course not, ...

Arcadian Adventures With the Idle Rich Stephen Leacock Toronto: Bell & Cockburn, 1914 310 pages On my most recent visit to Montreal I ...