The Spectacled Avenger

Occasionally, upon reading a work of literature, one comes across a phrase, a sentence, or a thought that is particularly well-expressed, a...

  Updating my previous post, I can now say that I have finished reading Robertson Davies’ Deptford Trilogy a couple of weeks ago. I hadn’...

I don’t know whether any of you is familiar with Notes and Queries ? It is a publication, founded in 1849, that publishes small facts of a p...