Editor's introduction --
Prologue: the writer and his audience --
An orange from Portugal --
"Help Thou mine unbelief --
But Shaw was a playwright --
Everyone knows the rules --
If you drop a stone --
Where is my potted palm? --
Orgy at Oriel --
Christmas without Dickens --
The shadow of Captain Bligh --
Fury on ice --
The lost love of Tommy Waterfield --
Remembrance of men past --
Sunset and evening star --
By their foods --
October and smoke --
Confessions of a wood-chopping man --
A disquisition on Elmer --
New York, New York --
Have you had many Wimbledons? --
Scotchman's return --
My last colonel --
French is a must for Canadians --
It's the U.S. or Us --
Victory --
The rivers that made a nations --
On living in a cold country --
The Scottish touch: Cape Breton --
An English-speaking Quebecker looks at Quebec --
The changed functions of fiction and non-fiction --
Reflections on two decades --
Scotland's gate: Canada's lesson --
The writer Engage --
Two solitudes: thirty-three years later --
List of sources.
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