What’s Bred in the Bone (1985) by Robertson Davies, No 2 in The Cornish Trilogy. Penguin Books, 2011 (1991). ‘That alchemy is a pretty kind of game Somewhat like tricks o’ the cards to cheat a man With charming.’ — ‘The Alchemist’ (1610) by Ben Johnson. This, the absorbing central title in Robertson Davies’s Cornish … Continue reading The Alchemical Master
