The Dusty Bookcase

An annex of sorts to yesterday's post – some of the few surviving images of The Miracle Man . Above we have a lobby card featuring con ...

News today that another issue of Canadian Notes and Queries is born. I leave it to publisher Dan Wells to make the pitch : CNQ 81 is in, an...

I'm pleased to report that A Gentleman of Pleasure has hit bookstore shelves. The realization of a decades-old dream.

Two poems about ladies' vanity published by John J. MacDonald as a 28-year-old (or so), teetotalling bachelor. He married a couple of ...

The New York Times, 28 March 1875 John J. MacDonald's hate for Charles Chiniquy spreads. Here the target is John Dougall, whose paper...

Much of this past weekend was spent working on a limited edition chapbook of verse by John J. MacDonald – a modest fundraiser for the St Mar...

The Poems of Thomas D'Arcy McGee Montreal: D & J Sadlier, 1870 A response from 'Thomasine' (Miss Olivia Knight), ...