The Dusty Bookcase

All Else is Folly Peregrine Acland Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1929 Peregrine Acland is not the sort of name one forgets. I...

The Globe & Mail , 26 April 1947 Referencing the above yesterday , I thought it best to hunt the thing down - if only to make c...

The great Gabrielle Roy was born one hundred years ago today. Recognition is, I suppose, not in keeping with the stated theme of this...

In terms of the unemployed, of which we have over a million-and-a-half, don't feel particularly bad for many of these people. They don&#...

It's no insult to describe Thomas D'Arcy McGee as a better politician than poet; he was, after all, one of our great statesmen....

The Black Candle Emily F. Murphy Toronto: Thomas Allen, 1922 Returning to Dope Menace , I find that much of the most sensational...

The lure of the lurid. I was hooked when, as a teenager, I came across Lush Lady and The Lady is a Lush next to each other in a used booksto...