His friend D. D. Calvin has recalled how, after addressing a vast Baptist rally in Toronto, Glover collapsed into a chair exclaiming 'I say, it's good to be back among sinful people. Can I have some food?'
"A peculiar anthologic maze, an amusing literary chaos, a farrago of quotations, a mere olla podrida of quaintness, a pot pourri of pleasant delites, a florilegium of elegant extracts, a tangled fardel of old-world flowers of thought, a faggot of odd fancies, quips, facetiae, loosely tied" (Holbrook Jackson, Anatomy of Bibliomania) by a "laudator temporis acti," a "praiser of time past" (Horace, Ars Poetica 173).
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It's Good to Be Back
S.C. Roberts, "Memoir," in T.R. Glover, Springs of Hellas and Other Essays (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1945), pp. vii-xv (at xiii):