One Eternal Day

Re-posted: Alan Jacobs has created a beautiful site, G O S P E L  O F  T H E  T R E E S . He explains: The Bible is a story about tre...

Re-posted :   ...I learned with little labour The way to love my fellow-man And hate my next-door neighbour. The World State , G.K...

From Farnsworth's Classical English Metaphor : Edmund Burke in 1791. Because half a dozen grasshoppers under a fern make the f...

I have received my copy of Farnsworth's Classical English Metaphor . I'm enjoying it. Farnsworth warns against reading it from begi...

One of the prized possessions on my mystery shelves is the Handbook for Poisoners (1951). The subtitle reads "A collection of great ...

Michael Dirda reviews Farnsworth's Classical English Metaphor in "What does this remind you of?" After reading his descripti...

Reviews of Disney's new Jungle Book set me thinking about Kipling again. I have several collections of his verse including A Choice of...

Continuing reading the Marsden book , a quotation in his final chapter sends me to my library to find C.S. Lewis's An Experiment in Cri...

A new acquaintance and his library. From Anecdotal Evidence : Samuel Johnson by Joshua Reynolds .... On this date, April 18, in 1775...

I am approaching the end of George Marsden's C.S. Lewis's Mere Christianity: A Biography . The final chapter considers "The L...

John Stott's Basic Christianity was, for me, an extremely helpful introduction to Christian doctrine alongside Lewis's Mere Christ...

From Dorothy L. Sayers' essay, "Are Women Human?" (1938): .... A man once asked me—it is true that it was at the end of ...

Behind the subscription wall at First Things Peter Hitchens writes about "A Church that Was," the Church of England as it once ...

Mark Tooley remembers the martyrs at Flossenbürg : April 9 was the anniversary of the executions of Pastor Dietrich Bonhoeffer and five f...

After yesterday's post about C.S. Lewis's A Grief Observed a friend sent me the "Foreword" to a more recent edition th...

A Grief Observed is the journal C.S. Lewis kept after the death of his wife, Joy Davidman. It was published pseudonymously in 1961. His fa...

Alan Jacobs reviews Roger Scruton's Fools, Frauds and Firebrands: Thinkers of the New Left , an update of a book originally published ...

"Harvard's eugenics era," in Harvard Magazine is about the promotion of the theory of eugenics by scientists associated wit...

My father's library included an omnibus volume of the works of Robert Louis Stevenson. I've posted before about Treasure Island , ...

Samuel Johnson in The Rambler , # 76 (8 Dec 1750): It may be observed, perhaps without exception, that none are so industrious to detect ...