The Dusty Bookcase

The Modern Library is very dear to my heart. I discovered the imprint as an illiterate Kindergartner looking through his late father's b...

You Never Know Your Luck: Being the Story of a    Matrimonial Deserter Gilbert Parker Toronto: Bell & Cockburn, 1914 328 pages The dust ...

A few days into the year and already a new issue of Canadian Notes & Queries . This one – number 114! – features writing by: Noelle All...

The Lily and the Cross: A Tale of Acadia Prof. James De Mille Boston: Lee & Shepard, 1875 264 pages Like De Mille's A Strange Manusc...

The 1924 New Year's edition of Maclean's . What is suggested? A year of excitement? Terror? Is there not something disturbing in thi...

The season brings a flurry of activity, which explains why I haven't posted one review this month. Still, I did manage to tackle twenty-...

Verse for the day from Bliss Carman's handsome  Later Poems (Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1921).  Merry Christmas! Joyeux noël!  ...