DROLLERIES & IMPERTI­NENCES. VOL. 1, A COLLEC­TION OF NOSTALGIAS Leonard Howe Robson (B.C.), Bear Grass Press, 1989. 255pp, paper, $15.95 ISBN 0-9693802-2-4. CIP Adult Reviewed by Elinor Kelly. Volume 18 Number 2 1990 March Here we have a collection of short stories, the first of six such volumes by Leonard Howe. The stories are told with much exuberance in many styles and settings, beginning with a spooky Irish tale written in a very, very thick brogue and ending with an Act I, Scene I of a Shakespearean play. In between are all sorts of stories based on the author's army experiences and wide travels, some serious, some ribald, and there are cartoons and apho­risms in the "Confucius say" manner. Howe calls his book a collection of nostalgias and has obviously had great fun in producing them. My English teacher would also have had great fun with the blue (red?) pencil. This kind of writing is not for those, for example, who shudder at the use of the word nostalgia in the plural. Other examples could be listed. This is not a book for first purchase, for secondary school libraries or for "critical" readers, but only for those out there who like short, amusing pieces for pick-up reading. Elinor Kelly, Port Hope, Ont.