Nowhere is it more true that a book can be like ‘a vacation in the pocket,’ than with PLEASANTLY DEAD by Judith Alguire. (Signature Editions, Doug Whiteway Ed., 185 pp. 2009).
 ‘The Pleasant’ is the name of an Inn in Ontario Cottage Country, the sort of place that would be packed to the rafters, if it [...]

 
by Rose DeShaw
Oxford Universityeducated Dr. John Henry Ursell died on July 30 in the early morning, according to a hurried phone call we got that night. He was probably about 75 and was a professor emeritus of mathematics at Queen’s University. He was a member of the Irish, British and American mathematical societies, along with [...]