The Dusty Bookcase

The Obstinate Virgin Sinclair Murray [Alan Sullivan] London: Sampson Low, Marston [1934] 314 pages In Essentially Canadian , his 19...

After much delay, Canada Reads 2020 has come and gone. Congrats to Samra Habib, whose memoir  We Have Always Been Here won the game...

“When a day that you happen to know is Wednesday starts off by sounding like Sunday, there is something seriously wrong somewhere.” Th...

What Fools Men Are! Sinclair Murray [Alan Sullivan] London: Sampson Low, Marston, [1933] 316 pages It's possible that What Fo...

On this one hundred and fifty-third anniversary of Confederation, patriotic verse by Marjorie Pickthall. This version is taken from  The...

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...