Anecdotal Evidence

“This day proving wet, we should have passed our time very uncomfortably, had we not found in the house two chests of books, which we eagerl...

Readers often ask interesting questions. One wrote on Tuesday to say he enjoyed the “great variety” of writers and books I write about at An...

On August 23, 1939, Hitler and Stalin agreed to the secret non-aggression Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact. The Germans invaded Poland from the west ...

The stuff starts as white powder at the bottom of a one-gallon plastic jug. Add lukewarm water to the line, shake vigorously. Add a thoughtf...

Fifty-one years ago I was working as a clerk in Kay’s Books in downtown Cleveland, perhaps the best job I ever had though my six-day-a-week ...

Because of something I wrote, an old friend tells me he is reading at last, in his seventies, The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Robert Burto...

Dr. Johnson in The Adventurer on August 28, 1753 : “. . . I shall, therefore, venture to inculcate to my ingenious contemporaries, the ne...