Chumley & Pepys On Books

The Lyric Pieces of Edvard Grieg appeal to me greatly, and his No. 5, Drommensyn (Phantom) from his Book 7, Opus 62 expresses an ethereal qu...

Robert Louis Stevenson (b. November 13, 1850-d. December 3, 1894) Had Robert Louis Stevenson been born in 1950 rather than 1850, I can't...

fter the show, Signor Mortiz, followed by Septimus and the monkey, found the dressing room of his impostor. There was a bowl of fruit, a bot...

When Robert Louis Stevenson lived in Bournemouth during the years 1884-1887 he would often stay with Sidney Colvin when visiting or passing ...

This past week we had the great pleasure of listening to an audio interview of Alexander McCall Smith--one of my wife's favourite noveli...

Colvinian Preamble In an essay found in his collection: Memories and Notes of Persons and Places 1852-1912 (London: Edward Arnold, 1921), S...

In discussing the two publishers Greening & Co . and Ernest Benn in recent posts, memories of Arthur Machen were aroused. Arthur Machen ...

uring the mid-nineteenth century, the talented magician and ventriloquist, Signor Mortiz, travelled the North American continent charming au...

Like James and John Harper of Harper & Brothers , Henry Oscar Houghton , born in Sutton, Vermont in 1823, had his beginnings in the prin...

Chumley's, the historic bar and eatery in New York City, suffered a collapse in 2007 and is in the process--long process--of being rede...

I have used my wife's photographs of one of the exquisite swans taken on the Avon River in Stratford, Ontario and created a variation of...

June 27th was the 160th anniversary of Lafcadio Hearn's birth, and I have been thinking about his life and work over the last days. He w...