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As editor and later publisher of theĀ Peterborough Examiner, Robertson Davies published witty, curmudgeonly, mischievous, and fiercely individualistic columns under the name of his alter ego, Samuel Marchbanks. In 1985, Davies edited and selected from his alter egoās observations to bring together previous titles in the Marchbanks bibliography:Ā The DiaryĀ (1947),Ā The Table TalkĀ (1949), andĀ Samuel Marchbanksā AlmanackĀ (1967).
Marchbanks opines on politics, on his furnace, on theatre, on the taxman, on trains, on Christmas, on book-banners, on manners, indeed on everything under the sun. Not only this, but Daviesās copious and quite delectable Notes are ācalculated to remove all Difficulties caused by the passage of Time and to offer the Wisdom, not to speak of Whimsicality, of this astonishing man to the Modern Public, in the most convenient form.ā
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āThis writing of four decades ago is consistently incisive, insulting, funny, relevant and altogether interesting.āāThe New York Times
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āNow this crank of the first order is on full display for the first time in America . . . To explain to his younger American readers such arcana as ātelegramsā and ācoal-burning furnaces,ā Davies has added graceful and comic notes that rival the entertaining opinions of Marchbanks himself.āāSouth Florida Sun-Sentinel
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