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Defending Kirk

American Spectator apparently ran an article critical of Russell Kirk's ghost stories (occasioned by the recently-issued Ancestral Shadows: An Anthology of Ghostly Tales [http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/080283938X/thedailyeudem-20]). We're a fan of Kirk's fiction, so were glad to see that

New Online Encyclopedia

James Randi has put his Encyclopedia of Claims, Frauds, and Hoaxes of the Occult and Supernatural online. Interesting stuff. Link [http://www.randi.org/encyclopedia/].

On Used Books

The New York Times printed an interesting piece about the economics of used books. Link [http://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/28/technology/28scene.html?ex=1280203200&en=33765024cbf62d4c&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss&NYT_REG_SUCKS] . According to the article, used books probably

CSL's Paganism

> C.S. Lewis's vision assumed “that pagan wisdom and mythology may furnish us with some very significant clues to things. Spenser, in his Christian epic on Charity, The Faerie Queen, takes us to such pagan haunts as the Cave of Morpheus and the Garden of Adonis. Milton

Library of Modern Thinkers

We've started ISI Books' Bertrand de Jouvenel. It promises to be another great offering. We've read the other four books in the series (Ludwig von Mises, Wilhelm Roepke, Eric Voegelin, and Robert Nisbet) and have immensely enjoyed all of them. In a world strained for

The Movie Has Its Work Cut Out for It

> The tales of Narnia open up to us a certain kind of world. It is a world which has been made--made by Someone, beautifully made. Its fabric is shot through with glory. There is no peak, no valley, no sea or forest, but bears the weight of this glory,

Joe Campbell

Unless you read some relatively-arcane journals or Canadian periodicals, you've probably never heard of Joe Campbell. Eric Scheske has long enjoyed Mr. Campbell's essays for Gilbert Magazine [http://www.gilbertmagazine.com/]. For those who don't subscribe, you're missing one of the more

More Dahl

The New Yorker has run a lengthy piece about Roald Dahl. Link [http://www.newyorker.com/critics/atlarge/articles/050711crat_atlarge]. Excerpt: > Dahl shared with George Orwell an acute sense of why small children often see adults as unsightly or intimidating. “Part of the reason for the ugliness of

A Splendid Collection

A review of The Everyman Book of Nonsense Verse [http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1400044251/thedailyeudem-20]. Link [http://www.inthesetimes.com/site/main/article/2246/]. Excerpts: > The lavish new Everyman Book Of Nonsense Verse is an exemplary anthology, covering the ground with thoroughness while also aggravating and

We, Too, Have Loved the Stacks

A pseudonymous writer makes an impassioned plea for the stacks and urges colleges not to throw away their books. Link [http://chronicle.com/temp/reprint.php?id=0gixexfr1qnuloqnx6pvokmo3ek5o8np]. Excerpt: > Where will the library ghosts go . . . when all the books have been made immaterial and antiseptic through digitization? > What