Book Frontier

Boomernomics the Future of Your Money in the Upcoming Generational Warfare / William Stering and Stephen Waite

Boomernomic thinking should also help you anticipate what sectors of the economy are likely to experience booms and busts. That information should give you the key to prospering in the good times and surviving the bad.
218 pp. 5x8 Sc 1998ISBN 0 345 42583 9

Good Library copy $55.00

Boomernomics the Future of Your Money in the Upcoming Generational Warfare / William Stering and Stephen Waite

Boomernomic thinking should also help you anticipate what sectors of the economy are likely to experience booms and busts. That information should give you the key to prospering in the good times and surviving the bad.
218 pp. 5x8 Sc 1998ISBN 0 345 42583 9

Good Library copy $55.00

I have just finished reading the History of the Book in Canada: Volume 1 – Beginnings to 1840 Edited by Patricia Lockhart Fleming, which is a fairly comprehensive book history of Canada from this period. However, when you have so many of the finest team of Canadian historians, librarians, and literary scholars from across the country working on somewhat 540 scholarly pages and you cannot forget Canada did build up a considerable reserve of literary capital over the two centuries ranking us with France and England and giving use a credible international literary validation. Yes, before 1840 Canada was white, Protestant, and a heterosexual ghetto and yes the Americans too had nostalgia for the unhurried horse and buggy age.

Then there was Voltaire who wrote a few arpents of snow a cold, uncomfortable, uninviting region, from which nothing but furs and fish were to be had.’ Why would Voltaire who himself a fugitive from justice during the French Revolution be such a anti-Canadian cultural cabal as to make believe that Canada was a boring place? Immensely boring. Did it have something to do with the French nationalism and secondly colonization under the world system? The same purpose General de Gaulle was stirring the nationalistic pot, which he flirted with Lower Canada sending Malraux as an emissary.

I just ordered Ms Flemings book just yesterday because the other one came from the Toronto Public Library (well worth the price) and am ecstatic that such a study has been done. However, has anyone (other myself run across some information lacking in regards to the profits and print processes of these books and annuals? There is G. Heriot’s The History of Canada (Vol. I, London 1804) this was possibly the first history of Canada published in the English language but on Page 616 are the words ‘End of The First Volume’. Volume II was never issued.

You could have listed all of the early travel books. How about Alexander’s Voyages, 1789-1793 (Paris edition, 1802); John Long’s Voyages and Travels, 1766-1768 (Paris edition of 1784; and others originallt issued in French such as Lahontan’s Nouveaux Voyages (edition of 1728) and Lescarbot” Histoire de la Nouvelle France in the handsome reprint by Tross of Paris, 1866. I know I can for several more pages go on, but I must content myself with mentioning Lafitau” Moeurs des Sauvages Ameriquains compare aux moeurs des premiers temps (Paris, 1724; 2 vols.) Many of these books had come from Parisian dealers, and had the original bill stuck inside them.

The book entitled Charles Fothergill, 1728-1840 was the King’s printer, Magistrate, and holder of several public offices, Fothergill was a newspaper publisher, an artist, and one of the first individuals to make studies of the Natural History of the province.

Did you know that William Lyon Mackenzie’ Toronto Almanacs and a book on the Canada Company by A. Picken were furnished from documents by John Galt’s own book The Canadas: etc. London 1836. John Galt wrote several other books entitled Lawrie Todd London 1830, The Bachelor’s Wife Edinburgh, 1824, and The Spaewife; A Tale of the Scottish Chronicles Edinburgh 1823.

There is this curios autobiography entitled The Banished Briton and Neptunian, Boston 1843.

Fred De Roos ‘s Personal Narrative Travels in the United States and Canada in 1826 London 1827 14 lithographs and 2 maps.

Patrick Campbell Travels in the Interior Parts of North America Edinburgh 1793.

Life Along The Opeongo Line
The Story Of A Canadian Colonization Road
Joan Finnigan

Life Along the Opeongo Line is a carefully researched and richly entertaining social history of the unique Canadian heritage settlement road running from Farrell’s Land below Renfrew on the Ottawa River to Bark Lake near Barry’s Bay in the Algonquin Park region of Ontario. During the nineteenth century, the Canadian government set forth a policy to settle the hinterland of the province, surveying roads through the wilderness, recruiting immigrants with promise of resource-rich land for farming. Perhaps the most rugged of the colonization roads was the Opeongo Line. While the early settlers may not have found great wealth in farming on the rocky Canadian shield, they faced the challenges of pioneer life with wit and wisdom, leaving behind a legacy of wonderful stories, told in the distinctive Ottawa Valley style that has become world-famous.

Featured in Life Along the Openongo Line are the original diaries of surveyor Hamlet Burritt; Crown Land Agent T.P. French’s “Tract for Intending Settlers,” written to entice immigrants; and scores of tales told by descendants of the first settlers, Irish, Scots, Germans, Poles, and Canadians. Celebrated storytellers Dr. Jeremiah Bigshby, Charles Thomas, Tom Murray, Johnny Kielly, Father Tom Hunt, and Jenny Yuill tell tales of Opeongo legends Alexander MacDonnell, The last Laird, Archibald McNab, J.R. Booth, Taddy Hagerty, and others, who once lived large-than-life in such thriving villages and towns as Castelford, Second Chute (Renfrew), Dacre, Esmonde, Clontarf, Brudenell, Balaclava, Rockinham, Mount St. Patrick, Newfoudout, Wilno, and Barrys Bay.

The book is fully illustrated with archival and contemporary photographs capturing the beauty of the rugged Opeongo landscape and sturdy log houses and barns erected by the early settlers.

ISBN 1 894131 630
Quality softcover $40.00 canadian funds
288 pages 9.25” x 9.25”
Includes 36 pages of colour photos
Add $6.00 shipping and handling
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Adventures of a Paper Sleuth by Hugh P. MacMillan

ISBN 1 894131 622
Quality hardcover with B&W photos
344 pages 6 x 9 $35.00 canadian funds
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For more than 25 years, Hugh has roamed the highways, attics and basements of Ontario 0seeking out the often forgotten, usually unappreciated treasures of our documentary heritage.
Combining the skills of a great detective with patience and tenacity, he rescued many fragile records of our experience. His passion for history has been infectious, enlisting the help of many in the cause, and triumphing over bureaucracy and indifference.
His achievements have been real and numerous. His exploits, though, are the stuff of legend.?

Dr. Ian E. Wilson
Librarian and Archivist of Canada

All of Hugh?s friends and innumerable acquaintances will welcome the appearance of this book, which will undoubtedly make him many new friends as readers yet unknown are invited to share some of his remarkable experiences, his triumphs and his disappointments, but above all his infectious enthusiasm and appetite for life.
Hugh is one of a kind and has made a massive contribution to his country and its heritage. That contribution is by no means transitory or ephemeral; it will be valued and appreciated as long as people continue to investigate the history of this great nation. This is his story.?
Ted Cowan, Professor of Scottish Studies, University of Glasgow, Scotland

Hugh Pearson MacMillan was born in 1924 in Fitzroy Harbour, near Arnprior in the Ottawa Valley. His ancestors came to Canada from Scotland in 1793. By age 39, Hugh had been a soldier, a farmer, a sailor, an insurance agent, a journalist, and a public relations manager for a circus company and for a hypnotist. In the late 1950s, Hugh began to pursue his long-time interest in local and family history, involving himself in the founding of the Glengarry Historical Society, the Dunvegan Pioneer Museum, and the Nor?Wester and Loyalist Museum at Williamstown.

In 1964, Hugh persuaded the Ontario Archives to hire him as a roving archivist. Over the next 25 years, he secured the deposit of an invaluable mass of documentation. All Canadians are in his debt for his initiative in 1967 to retrace voyageur canoe routes and to re-enact fur trade history. In 1984, MacMillan was honoured with a Doctorate of Letters by Laurentian University, Sudbury, Ontario.

Doom - gloom survey has the wrong read on reading
By Ian Brown www.Globeandmail.com

If you Americans are finding some real boring best-sellers authors like Tom Clancy (Red Rabbit), Michael Crichton (Prey) and Stephen King (From a Buick 8) ,which were all underperformers so why don't you try the recommendations of Canada's Top Bookseller A-List by www.buriedantiques.com.

1 Morley Callaghan Stories (1959) by Morley Callaghan $1.25 paperback.

2 The Empire of The St. Lawerence, (1956) , by Donald Creighton, $8.95 cloth, $5.50 paperback

3 Anatomy of Criticism: Four Essays (1957) , by Northrop Frye, $3.25 paperback

4 Lament For a Nation (1965) , By George P. Grant, $4.50 cloth, $1.50 paperback

5 The Fur Trade in Canada: An introduction To Canadian Economic History (1930) , by Harold Adams Innis, $12.50 cloth, $2.75 paper

6 The Stone Angel (1964) by Margaret Laurence, $7.50 cloth, $2.50 paper

7 Sunshine Sketches Of A Little Town (1912) , by Stephen Leacock, $7.50 cloth, $1.50 paper

8 The Gutenberg Galaxy: The Making of Typographical Man (1962) , by Marshall McLuhan, $10.00 cloth, $1.50 paper

9 Collected Poems (2nd Edition, 1958) , by E.J. Pratt, $9.95 cloth

10 St. Urbain's Horseman: A Novel (1971) , by Mordecai Richler, $7.95 cloth

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Entertainment

Canadians who have won a academy award in Canadian Films

1 Mary Pickford

Best actress, Coquette, 1928-29, Special Acedmy Award in 1975: " In recognition of her contributions to the film industry and the development of film as an artistic medium."

2 Norma Shearer

Best Actress, The Divorcee, 1929-30

3 Marie Dressler

Best Actress, Min and Bill, 1930-31

4 Christopher Chapman

Best Documentary, 1967, A Place to Stand

5 F. R. Crawley

Best Documentary, 1975, The Man who Skied Down Everest

6 Louis B. Mayer

Special Acedemy Award in 1950 "for distinguished service to the motion picture industry."

There was a Special Academy Award to the National Film Board in 1941 "for distinctive achievement" with Churchill's Island and a special Acedemy Award to Warner Brothers for "producing The Jazz Singer, the pioneer talking picture which had revolutionized the industry."
By Gerald Pratley, Director, Ontario Film Institute

Have you found an Early Children's Book at a garage sale; I would keep it in the vault. They must be keep complete, clean and in their original bindings out of the hands of juvenile owners. If I were to take a H. G. Wells Time Machine out for a spin, I would travel back in time and pick up some fine copies of stories and picture books that have never been in the hands of those juvenile owners. This observation applies to all literature, the older the book the less likely is it to survived intact so be careful with them. It is surprising how many have, in fact, withstood the ravages of time on the shelves of the book collectors, libraries, the antiquarian dealers book rooms, devouring pests, wars, divorce, and the invisible man.

20th Century American British and Canadian Authors

19th Century British, American and Canadian Authors
Buried Antiques is a book database for verification of first printings of literary first editions by American, British, and Canadian Authors from the 18th century to the present. These authors are largely known for their work in children's literature.

Viking New World Map genuine:study This map is a fake because 15th-century cartgraphic and toponymic practices were imprecise, it was not certain that the lands indicated on pre-Columbian maps were America. There is no doubt that it was the Basques who were first in America. The tombstones at Placentia in Newfoundland and the drying ovens on IIe aux Basques, on the Mingan Islands in the St. Lawrence, and in Labrador are evidence that the Basques were the first to discover the New World long before Columbus. What about that ship they found in Red Bay off the tip of Newfoundland. Acording to the records, oak was the Basque shipbuilders' choice of wood and oak is not a native species on the Labrador coast. The wreck had all the characteristics of a 15th-century ship. What about doing some radiocarbon dating on this ship?

Given the geographical conditions and the primitive Viking boats, it is more logical to conclude that the Basques had the technology of the time to do whaling in Labrador. They Basques were neither explorers nor colonizers. They were hunters who wanted to keep their routes secret and were thus reticent about writing down anything that might make the it easier for their competitors.

I know Christopher Columbus would not have won the support of Ferdinand and Isabella of Spain to set sail from Palos to America, on 3 August 1492, with three ships, the Santa Maria, the Nina and the Pinta if there were no cod and whales to be found in the New World.

Cod had at one time been adundant along the coasts of Spain, but moved westward toward the end of the Middle Ages, and according to the chronicles, herring deserted the Baltic in 1473. It is also understandable that whales being hunted for three centuries along the shores of the bay moved away from the dangerous area. Whales are known to have a highly developed instinct.

This would be a pausible explanation for why the Basques abandoned their home costal whaling and were venturing in the waters of the New World.

From Aquinas to Atwood

Exhibition Dates: 29 September-19 December 2003

Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, University of Toronto

The current exhibition at the Fisher Library celebrates gifts in Italian
studies to the University of Toronto Library from 1890 to the present
day. Most of the books in the exhibition were printed between the
fifteenth and the eighteenth centuries, and are shown with some modern
books, manuscripts, prints, and broadsides. The themes covered, case by
case, include books printed before 1501, church and politics in Venice,
the wars against the Turks, science and technology, poetry, music and
librettos, and courtesy books. The great range of the material, and the
exceptional rarity of many of the editions, give testimony to the broad
interests and acute collecting skills of the donors.

The exhibition and accompanying catalogue were prepared by Robin Healey,
of the Collection Development Department, Robarts Research Library. The
catalogue was designed by Veronica Fisher, and printed by Derek Fisher
at Fisher Litho Arts, with digital photography provided by Jim Ingram
and Bogda Mickiewicz of the Collection Digitization Department of the
University of Toronto Library

More information about the exhibition, and its catalogue can be found at
the
Library's web site:

http://www.library.utoronto.ca/fisher/current.htm

The House of Commons passed Bill C-36 yesterday. In addition to amalgamating the National Library and the National Archives of Canada, the bill also amended the Copyright Act. The so-called "Lucy Maud Montgomery" amendment to extend copyright protection was further revised, and the copyright term for authors who died before December 30, 1948 has been extended to 2007, after which the material will be in the public domain.

To read a complete article about the subject, visit www.globeandmail.com

19th Century Authors
Abbott, Jacob
Alcott, Louisa May
Alger, Horatio
Anderson, Hans Christian
Andrews, Jane
Avery, Harold
Baldwin, Edward
Ballantyne, Robert Michael
And many more

Early Canadiana Literature Online, Rare Books for Canadiana Book Collectors.

Antique book dealer expands web sales (Canada.com)

Books Online (straightgoods.ca)
Buying books from big on-line retailers can be confusing.

Sir John Paul Getty II & his book collection ( Independent Digital Uk Ltd)

NEW PROGRAM IN BOOK AND MEDIA STUDIES
In September 2003, the new Program in Book and Media Studies will begin at St. Michael's College in the University of Toronto. The program's perspective is an interdisciplinary and historical one, which investigates the role of printing, books and reading in cultures past
and present. It covers topics such as manuscript and book production, internet publishing, book illustration, advertising, censorship, and
reader reception. Like its graduate counterpart, the Collaborative Program in Book History and Print Culture, the new undergraduate program
draws on a number of departments and centres, among them the departments of Anthropology, English, Fine Arts, French, German, History, Italian, and Political Science, and the Centres for Mediaeval Studies, Women's Studies, Western Technology, and Criminology.

This undergraduate minor program in the evolution of print culture is supported by the extensive human and physical resources already in
existence at the University of Toronto, which is home to a number of libraries and centres whose collections are unparalleled : the Thomas
Fisher Rare Book Library, the Robertson Davies Library (Massey College), the Centre for 19th Century French Studies, the Pontifical Institute for Mediaeval Studies, the Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies, the Department of Fine Arts exhibition catalogues collection, and many others.

Information on this new program is available on the website of the Centre for 19th Century French Studies at
(http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/french/sable/bookprogram/introduction.htm)
or from Ms. Jean Talman, Programs Assistant (jean.talman@utoronto.ca) or
Professor Dorothy Speirs, Program Coordinator (dorothy.speirs@utoronto.ca

What 's new in books?

Sixpence House: Lost in A Town of Books by Paul Collins
Bloombury, 246 pages, $37.95

A Pound of Paper: Confessions of a Book Addict by John Baxter
Doubleday, 417 pages, $37.95

Some older books of this kind you may enjoy are The Side Door: Twenty-Six Years in My Book Room by Dora Hood (Toronto, 1958)

The Adventures of a Rare Book Dealer by David Magee (Toronto, 1973)

Yankee Bookseller, Being the Reminiscences of Charles E. Goodspeed (Boston, 1937)

Dear Colleagues -

I want to bravely test out a half-baked idea:

I am interested in the rise of the term "bookman" in the late nineteenth century. Before the late nineteenth century it seems to have been used most often as a generic term for scholar or student (at least according to the citations in the OED). By the late nineteenth century, however, it seems to have been used in conjunction with the burgeoning book collecting and book trade industry...suddenly "bookmen" were more associated with the material book than with the literary book.

Is this true? Can anyone give me an insights to the origins of the term,
the rise and fall of the term, relevant citations, etc?

Grateful, as always, to the helpful bookmen and bookwomen out there,

Victor Morin was one of Canada's best-known bookmen, he admitted that the lure of speculation wooed him into collecting. In 'Our Printed Treasures', which appeared in the June 1911 issue of the Canadian Magazine. Dr Lorne Pierce as a bookman devoted his life to promoting Canadian literature in many ways. He wrote a number number of books and pamplets and began to collect Canadiana when he was still in University. Dr Piece gave his collection to the Queen's University and established the Edith and Lorne Pierce Collection of Canadiana. Some bookmen were in it for the profit motive while others were motivated by the love of books and a desire to preserve the best of your country's literature.

Your right a bookman was a studious or learned man; a scholar; hence one who is more familiar with books than with men and things.

You two are bookmen; can you tell by your wit. What was a month old at Cain's birth that's not five weeks old yet.
Shakespeare

There be some clergymen who are mere bookmen.
George Eliot, Millon the Floss.

In Flanders Fields Canada's most important poem was written by John McCrae

Peanuts: A Comic Book History

Collectibles Buyers Beware Joe Krolik, owner of Winnipeg-based Comics America Ltd., remembers the days of the late eighties and early nineties when speculators were snapping up first issues of comic books by the bundle

The Sunday-School Union Books

The Origin of Species by Charles Darwin Rocks that are more than 530m years old are empty of fossils. After that date, they suddenly burst into life. The shells and thousands of species of animals, many of them weirder and more wonderful than today. Knowing that the planet would someday cool and most of the land of the giants would become extinct, someone provided us with the fossil fuels of today.. Do you really think that it would taken only 530m years for us to begin as fish, metamorphosed into amphibians, then reptiles and ultimately becoming mammalian. Our geneticists at the California Institute of Technology are still working on it.

The late Stephen Jay Gould was totally devoted to this equilibria stuff and a Classical Darwinism loyalist and I understand about the Hox C-6 Gene crap, but it doesn't explain why these fast mutations and permutations occurred and why there was an explosion of species during the Cambrian period. So your going to tell me that our genes went out of control. Life may not be a natural occurrence and simple life forms may not be found on Mars.Why can't someone creat life on earth in our present day laboratory? It may take over a millennium to create a single cell life form and possibly a Nematodes with one cluster of four genes in our futurist laboratory. I will stick to my theory that someone on a higher evolutionary scale created the many species of life on earth and that it might of taken us forever to evolve without their assistance. I could write a book on this stuff but then whose going to publish it.

A Matrix of Meaning: Portraits of the Hebrew Letters, In Pictures and Words

Illustrations of the Book of Job

The Commercial Mr. Blake: William Blake ( 1757-1827) as Book Illustrator and Copy Engraver.

18th and 19th Century Caricatures and Portrait Prints

William Hogarth and 18th century print culture

Land of the Gaints and behemoths by Globe and Mail's Jack Kapica
Contacting Abebooks is like a friend in need is a friend indeed.

Unfortunately, I wasn't able to get the statistics on average sales per day from them. Remembering the good old days when everyone was selling one per thousand books each and everyday. Well now its more like 1 per thousand books sold each week or some have only sold two books in the last six weeks. Abe will tell you there are many, many factors that are involved with book sales, such as:

Are your books extremely rare books, or are they very common paperbacks?

Are your books competitively priced?

Do you describe your books thoroughly?

Are ISBN numbers included with your book inventory? (not mandatory, but it helps)

Sales are also dependant on how many reseller programs a bookseller belongs to. You can have optional programs with Amazon.com, Barnes & Noble, Half.com, and BibliOz, to name a few.

I'm off to see the Wizard of Oz.

Top 50 Books By Women

eBay poses challeges for antique & book dealers

Study Guide to Margaret Atwood: The Handmaid's Tale (1986)

A study conducted by the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education at the University of Toronto found fewer than 20 per cent of the men read novels

From mint to poor

Turning over an old leaf

Where did all the Librarians go? If I build my web site, will they buy my antiquarian books?

The Unglamorous Life of a Bookseller

Early Images of Canada: Illustrations from Rare Books
This website hosts 550 searchable images (mostly engravings) from the National Library of Canada's Rare Book Collection. All of the images are taken from books, often exploration or missionary narratives, published before the year 1800. These particular images have been selected because they depict geography that is now part of Canada or events that are significant in Canadian history.

Significant literary collections include rare editions and signed works by Rupert Brooke, Joseph Conrad, Robert Frost, Wilfred Wilson Gibson, T. E. Lawrence, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Carl Sandburg, Siegfred Sassoon, and Glenway Wescott. Also of note is the Sherwood Anderson Collection, donated by Dr. John H. Sullivan ('57), and collections of literary criticism of both James Joyce and Gerard Manley Hopkins.
Marquette University Library

One of English literature's most valuable works - a First Folio of William Shakespeare's plays - has been sold by Oxford University's Oriel College for an estimated £3.5 million to pay for building repairs and textbooks.College sells First Folio of the Bard to pay bills
By Catherine Milner, Arts Correspondent(Filed: 02/03/2003)

In his lifetime no one did more than Ernest Thompson Seton to promote the idea that nature is a very good thing

Jesse James: Last Rebel of the Civil War

Libraries are oases within the urban landscape, where people from all walks of life can go to read and learn," Stratton observes. "Libraries belong to everyone in the community; we strive to create pleasant and comfortable but dynamic spaces that contribute to the quality of life in the city."

Outside of the Library of Congress, Zeidberg said, the Huntington Library is "probably the most heavily used library of rare materials in the country.'

In the 305 days the library was open for research last year, some 1,700 scholars made 22,000 visits to the library, using more than 360,000 items from its rare collections, mostly manuscripts.

The rabbit who conquered the world
A century later Peter Rabbit remains a classic of children's literature

Felix Darley's web site.Self-taught, Felix Octavius Carr Darley created an immense volume of work over a long career Beginning as a staff artist with a Philadelphia publisher and then moving to Delaware in 1859, he illustrated on a wide variety of subjects.

While in Delaware, Darley illustrated such famous literary works as Charles Dickens' ``A Tale of Two Cities;'' Nathaniel Hawthorne's ``The Scarlet Letter;'' Clement Clark Moore's a ``A Visit From Saint Nicholas;'' Washington Irving's ``The Legend of Sleepy Hallow,'' ``Rip Van Winkle,'' and the five-volume ``Life of George Washington;'' and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's ``Evangeline

Nitzberg, 48, is a book conservator, skilled in the art of repairing the torn pages, broken bindings, and frayed leather covers of old books. Very old books.

The Vancouver Library has a great site on Book Collecting

Rare Books reveal real estate history

Book-theft suspect posed as transient

Dealer tore pages from ancient texts

Montana collector puts Lewis and Clark expedition journals on ebay.

Does this mean that Florida is going to be without a library? Obscene. Bush: Drop state library's funds.

At least someone is doing something good for the community. Library volunteer established children's rare book collection.

Britain leads illicit trade in rare books
Ancient manuscripts and historic books worth millions of pounds are being trafficked through Britain as criminals look for alternatives to high-risk ventures such as armed robbery and drugs

George Orwell materials at Brown University Library

Children's Literature Chiefly from the Nineteenth Century

Too Late to throw the book at thief.
Musson is the heir and grandson of Charles Joseph Musson, who founded the Musson Book Company in 1892. From his grandfather, Charles inherited a library of rare Canadiana, and many valuable first editions, including a large selection of the works of Charles Dickens.(from The Star) Waddington's Auctioneers

Dumpster Diving
Darby, 21, is a dumpster diver. He searches for rare treasure where most people just leave their trash.

Farley Mowat
For many years Farley Mowat has written about animals, the natural environment and the Far North. His stories mix humour, personal experience and compassion. He is one of the most widely read Canadian authors in the world

Breaking into Books
Vanquishing the book appears to be as difficult as getting Dick Clark to retire. Technology has yet to best the printed page - and that resilience may account for the steady flow of entrepreneurs getting into publishing.

The Making of Alice in Wonderland and Alice in Oxford

Langston Hughes: The Black Bard at 100

Songwriter Poet Leonard Cohen Awarded Canada's Top Honor
Most of Cohen's poems are word pictures highlighted by fantasy and striking images; his attitude to society is that of the forlorn rather than the angry spirit. His first collection, Let us compare mythologies 1956 initiated the McGill Poetry Series. My copy is selling for $7,500. Reuters

Mississauga Chief's Last Stand?
Kane's 1851 portrait of a Mississauga chief, named Maungwudaus, sold for $2.4 million at Calgary's Levis auction house on Dec.1, just nine months after Ken Thomson forked over $5.1 million for the artist's Scene In The Northwest — Portrait.
www.paulkane.ca and collecting canadiana

Selling your stuff in an online auction
So, you want to auction off your garage-sale leftovers online but you don't know how? Selling online is a good idea. One person's garbage is another's collectible resin figurine. It's pretty simple, too. All you need is Internet access, a digital camera or scanner and stuff to sell. Ebay

Top 10 Public Libraries
In these library collections, family history speaks volumes. Check out their roots riches in our roundup of the top 10 public libraries for genealogists

The Winston-Salem Journal
Service Sells
Used-bookseller likes contact with people, but internet is big help
The market is dominated by the big chains, making it tough going for the small independent booksellers, who number only about 2,000 to 2,500 across the country, according to the American Booksellers Association. Amazon.com has offered out-of-print services to its customers for more than five years and is happy to work with the small and independent booksellers.

The Globe and Mail's Sandra Martin wrote an article on the Canadian Bestsellers Lists are Bunk. Canadian Booksellers never had a standardized computer tracking system called Bookscan that collects and reports on the point-of-sale data until now. The Canadian Booksellers Association has a new article on the New Book Industry Supply Chain Organization addressing this issue.

Froogle Beta is a new service from Google that makes it easy to find information about products for sale online.

The Oxford Brookes University is opening one of the world's biggest brewing library, containing more than 3,600 book and journals about beer. Oxfordshire News

The History of Spiderman

Discovery of huge book collection puts local bookstore owner in heaven

The Jews of Siberia

Searching for fine Art online will never replace Art reference books.
Art Cyclopedia
Artlex art dictionary
Artchive. browse the vitual galleries and special exhibits
World Wide Art Resources. Find information on thousands of artists, an art history database
Art in context. Reference library includes images, art dealers and current exhibitions
Yahoo directory has thousands of art listings
the-artist.org. The A to Z bible on the 20th-century artist