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31 December 2015

'Farewell, Old Year' by James Alway Ross, MPP

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Canada First and Other Poems James A. Ross Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1920 Related posts: On the Year's Last E...
26 December 2015

Ten of the Best: Spanking Good Book Buys of 2015

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Early morning on Boxing Day and I'm lying comfortably in bed. My late mother is to thank. She taught that there is something unseeml...
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25 December 2015

Timely Verse from Christmas a Century Past

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The Globe , 25 December 1915 A CHRISTMAS STAR                     Christmas chimes across the snow,                          Can ...
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20 December 2015

Romance and the Psychopath's Daughter

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No Pattern for Life Frances Shelley Wees The Star Weekly, 11 December 1955 Not so much novel as novella, No Pattern for Life came a...
13 December 2015

Kenneth Millar at 100; Ross Macdonald at 59

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Kenneth Millar/Ross Macdonald: A Checklist Compiled by Matthew J. Brucolli Introduction by Kenneth Millar Detroit: Gale, 1971 Ken...
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09 December 2015

The Year's Best Books in Review — A.D. 2015; Featuring Three Books Deserving Resurrection

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Yes, the year's best books in review… the best reviewed here, anyway. These past twelve months haven't been the most active at t...
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07 December 2015

The Season's Best Books in Review — A.D. 1915; Featuring the Best Canadian Book Ever Published

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The influence of the war upon the literary taste of the public is strikingly illustrated by the increasing demand for more serious ...