In 1996 David Whitehead of Yarck, near Alexandra, Victoria, was commissioned to clear a property at Chum Creek, north of Healesville, in preparation for its sale. It was the deceased estate of James Wright, who had migrated from England many years earlier. Under the house Mr. Whitehead found a pile of books, covered with dust … Continue reading 'A LITERARYWINDFALL FROM CHUM CREEK'
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“Many a man lives a burden to the earth; but a good book is the precious life-blood of a masterspirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life.”– John Milton, Areopagitica (1644). In the June 1991 issue of Biblionews I recounted my discovery, as a boy in the 1950s, of two seventeenth-century … Continue reading More About Two Seventeenth Century Catholic Books