The Dusty Bookcase

Saturday Evening Post , 11 May 1946 My third post on Arthur Mayse in under two weeks. Why not? Shining a light on neglected writers...

On this  Fête de la Saint-Jean-Baptiste , thirty-eight forgotten lines of nineteenth-century verse by S. Frances Harrison. Am I wrong in...

  At ten, The Beachcombers  consumed a steady portion of my week – one half-hour each Sunday evening – and yet Arthur Mayse's name m...

A favourite purchase of last year,  and a cherished volume for all time, my copy of Anne Hebert's 1942 debut, Les songes en équilibr...

Perilous Passage Arthur Mayse New York: Pocket, 1950 233 pages A semi-conscious man looks about a boat's cabin as a woman press...

Ballads of a Bohemian Robert W. Service New York: Barse & Hopkins, 1921 220 pages It would be interesting to see sales figures ...

Coles, Midtown, Saskatoon, 1970 Still looking for the Coles Notes to  Sugar-Puss on Dorchester Street . Related post: 'THE NEO...