It Is A Fine Thing That We In Britain Have
sought no scape- goats and have affirmed that our war-innocence is proved by the fact that we were unprepared for war. The injustice which at one moment we did to King Leopold......
Marginal Comment
By HAROLD NICOLSON UMANE writers, from .Chaucer to Proust, have been fascinated by the mutability of human fortunes, as by the ges wrought, decade by decade, in the fabric and......
This Impression Was Later Removed By A Fine Old Spaniard
whom I met in Constantinople. He was called de Pratt and was in some way connected with the Montijo family. He told me that when, after 1879, the Empress was allowed by the......
My Second Discovery On Re-reading This Great Novel Was He
period in which it was cast. I realised with something of shock that the book was not merely about the Quartier Latin t about Paris under Napoleon III. Sebastopol and Balaklava......
The First Time I Read Trilby I Was At A
private school, and second time I was at the University. My first reading ncentrated upon the theme of mesmerism and I derived little om the bc.—k except the entrancing story of......
It Gives One A Tug At The Heart To Re-read
Trilby and to live for a few hours in the Paris before the Commune and before the first Sedan. The wounds which she then suffered were bitter wounds and left their scars. This......
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