The Dusty Bookcase

THE DYING YEAR                The old year dies! Of this be sure,                      The old leaves rot beneath the snow.                 ...

Late last night, as Christmas festivities drew to a close, I pulled Victor Lauriston's  The Twenty-first Burr  (Toronto: McClelland &...

CHRISTMAS       Who will sing the Christ?                   Will he who rang his Christmas chimes                   Of faith and hope in Gos...

This year will be forever remembered as the one in which Sexpo '69  was added to my collection. An elusive book, published in 1969 by Br...

Destination: Universe A.E. van Vogt New York: Signet, 1958 160 pages I began this book wondering if I hadn't been too hard on A.E. van V...

Maclean's , 1 November 1920

Published one hundred years ago today, the 1922 Globe round-up of the year's noteworthy books doesn't display much by way of enthus...