NOVELIST ROBERTSON DAVIES' ESSAYS PROVIDE POTENT DOSES OF WISDOM.(Lifestyle)(Review) Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA) | July 31, 1997 | COPYRIGHT 1997 Seattle Post-Intelligencer. All rights reserved. Reproduced with the permission of the Dialog Corporation by Gale Group. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information) Copyright

Wisdom is always in short supply. Usually it comes in medicine bottle form, promising to be good for us; but when it is as diverting as Robertson Davies' ``The Merry Heart,'' it serves as a magic elixir.

Davies (1913-1995) pursued three careers: actor with the Old Vic Company in England, and later theatrical adviser to director Tyrone Guthrie; publisher of the Peterborough, Ontario, Examiner; and university professor and the first Master of Massey College at the University of Toronto. But his fame was largely achieved as a novelist and playwright, albeit the plays ...

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