Now little read or critically studied, Charles Lever was for thirty years one of the most popular novelists in England. His career is a paradigm of Victorian novel publishing, demonstrating the varied problems of magazine serialization, monthly...

In my remarks to the 2006 Annual General Meeting in June, I described the past year as a tough year but a good year for the Canadian Library Association. It was a tough year because CLA took on new projects and initiatives despite inadequate...

Two events, the new United Nations resolution on the Iran-Iraq war and the American reflagging operation, are combining unexpectedly to produce a glimmer of respite in the Persian Gulf. The resolution had been widely seen as a lever to press Iran, which, in...

In the following essay, Melville asserts that while Charles Lever has been charged with sacrificing his characters in his attempts to amuse his readers, and while many Irish critics in particular fault Charles Lever for perpetuating cultural stereotypes in his novels, Lever's writing is characterized by his "easy humour and natural tenderness." Melville concludes that Lever's "rollicking, madcap stories" have earned "an honoured place in English literature.&...