by Anne White Near the end of C. S. Lewis’s novel That Hideous Strength , the speeches being given at a college banquet turn into word sal...

  by Anne White Recently I have been reading some Thomas Carlyle, and, as I knew there were Carlyle references in Charlotte Mason's Se...

by Anne White D. E. Stevenson’s Five Windows is a coming-of-age novel set in a Scottish village. The early chapters tell about a nine-year-...

"Nobody Knows the Trouble I've Seen" is an African-American spiritual song that dates back to the    early nineteenth century....

This month’s folk song, “Leave Her, Johnny” (or “Leave Her, Johnny, Leave Her”) was suggested by Advisory member    Leslie Laurio, who alway...

“When You And I Were Young, Maggie” (sometimes called simply “Maggie”) sounds like it might be an old Irish or Scottish ballad, but it was a...

This is one of the most well-known Welsh folk songs, which has been translated into several languages. Wikipedia notes that “The song is hig...