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"""Frances Stevenson, born in 1888, recollected [in The years that Are Past, 1967] that she """"""""read greedily [pre-1914] ... Even before my teens my reading entered upon the romantic stage.  I read Quo Vadis ... Rider Haggard's She ... Robert Ellesmere ...""""""""'"""
"""Frances Stevenson, born in 1888, recollected [in The years that Are Past, 1967] that she """"""""read greedily [pre-1914] ... Even before my teens my reading entered upon the romantic stage.  I read Quo Vadis ... Rider Haggard's She ... Robert Ellesmere ...""""""""'"""
"""Frances Stevenson, born in 1888, recollected [in The years that Are Past, 1967] that she """"""""read greedily [pre-1914] ... Even before my teens my reading entered upon the romantic stage.  I read Quo Vadis ... Rider Haggard's She ... Robert Ellesmere ...""""""""'"""
"""[Mrs Ward] had found a task for Mrs Lyttelton's quick mind, to while away the  too-long hours of that summer [while her husband was fighting in the Boer war], in a translation into English of the """"""""Pensees"""""""" of Joubert; their consultations over the fine shades of his meaning, while the bees hummed in the lime tree on the lawn, became the light and relaxation of her days, while, later on, the Introduction she contributed to the book helped its appearance with the public'."""
"""I've read """""""" Petersburg Tales"""""""". Phew! That is something! [...] That work is genuine, undeniable, constructed and inhabited. It hath [sic] foundation and life.'"""
"""Henry James to Paul Bourget, 15 May 1900, thanking him for copy of his collection of tales, Drames de Famille: 'I have read the whole thing with the intensity [italics] que je mets toujours a vous lire [end italics]'. """
"""[letter from Mrs Ward to Bishop Creighton, after her father's death] My father's was a rare and [italics] hidden [end italics] nature. Among his papers that have now come to me I have come across the most touching and remarkable things - things that are a revelation even to his children'."""
"""The historical classics """"""""came as a revelation""""""""- Macaulay, J.R. Green, Gibbon, Motley's Dutch Republic, Prescott on Peru and Mexico and The French Revolution. Academic critics today might discern ideologies in all of the above, but that was not Lawson's reading of them. """"""""Of politics I knew nothing and cared less"""""""", he recalled, yet his purely literary readings had helped him form """"""""some very definite opinions on the right and wrong of things social...""""""""'"""
"""The historical classics """"""""came as a revelation""""""""- Macaulay, J.R. Green, Gibbon, Motley's Dutch Republic, Prescott on Peru and Mexico and The French Revolution. Academic critics today might discern ideologies in all of the above, but that was not Lawson's reading of them. """"""""Of politics I knew nothing and cared less"""""""", he recalled, yet his purely literary readings had helped him form """"""""some very definite opinions on the right and wrong of things social...""""""""'"""
"""The historical classics """"""""came as a revelation""""""""- Macaulay, J.R. Green, Gibbon, Motley's Dutch Republic, Prescott on Peru and Mexico and The French Revolution. Academic critics today might discern ideologies in all of the above, but that was not Lawson's reading of them. """"""""Of politics I knew nothing and cared less"""""""", he recalled, yet his purely literary readings had helped him form """"""""some very definite opinions on the right and wrong of things social...""""""""'"""
"""The historical classics """"""""came as a revelation""""""""- Macaulay, J.R. Green, Gibbon, Motley's Dutch Republic, Prescott on Peru and Mexico and The French Revolution. Academic critics today might discern ideologies in all of the above, but that was not Lawson's reading of them. """"""""Of politics I knew nothing and cared less"""""""", he recalled, yet his purely literary readings had helped him form """"""""some very definite opinions on the right and wrong of things social...""""""""'"""
"""The historical classics """"""""came as a revelation""""""""- Macaulay, J.R. Green, Gibbon, Motley's Dutch Republic, Prescott on Peru and Mexico and The French Revolution. Academic critics today might discern ideologies in all of the above, but that was not Lawson's reading of them. """"""""Of politics I knew nothing and cared less"""""""", he recalled, yet his purely literary readings had helped him form """"""""some very definite opinions on the right and wrong of things social...""""""""'"""
"""The historical classics """"""""came as a revelation""""""""- Macaulay, J.R. Green, Gibbon, Motley's Dutch Republic, Prescott on Peru and Mexico and The French Revolution. Academic critics today might discern ideologies in all of the above, but that was not Lawson's reading of them. """"""""Of politics I knew nothing and cared less"""""""", he recalled, yet his purely literary readings had helped him form """"""""some very definite opinions on the right and wrong of things social...""""""""'"""
"""The historical classics """"""""came as a revelation""""""""- Macaulay, J.R. Green, Gibbon, Motley's Dutch Republic, Prescott on Peru and Mexico and The French Revolution. Academic critics today might discern ideologies in all of the above, but that was not Lawson's reading of them. """"""""Of politics I knew nothing and cared less"""""""", he recalled, yet his purely literary readings had helped him form """"""""some very definite opinions on the right and wrong of things social...""""""""'"""
"""Reading Mrs Browning's published letters in 1900, Wilfrid Blunt was reminded of how much he admired her and her husband's poetry ...'"""
"""'""""""""My masters... in poetry, were Swinburne and Meredith among the living, Rossetti, Matthew Arnold and Robert Browning among the lately dead. To these I would add Edward Fitzgerald... In prose, the masters were Stendhal, Flaubert, Villiers del'Isle-Adam, Guy de Maupassant, Prosper Merimee and Walter Pater"""""""".'"""
"""'""""""""My masters... in poetry, were Swinburne and Meredith among the living, Rossetti, Matthew Arnold and Robert Browning among the lately dead. To these I would add Edward Fitzgerald... In prose, the masters were Stendhal, Flaubert, Villiers del'Isle-Adam, Guy de Maupassant, Prosper Merimee and Walter Pater"""""""".'"""
"""'""""""""My masters... in poetry, were Swinburne and Meredith among the living, Rossetti, Matthew Arnold and Robert Browning among the lately dead. To these I would add Edward Fitzgerald... In prose, the masters were Stendhal, Flaubert, Villiers del'Isle-Adam, Guy de Maupassant, Prosper Merimee and Walter Pater"""""""".'"""
"""'""""""""My masters... in poetry, were Swinburne and Meredith among the living, Rossetti, Matthew Arnold and Robert Browning among the lately dead. To these I would add Edward Fitzgerald... In prose, the masters were Stendhal, Flaubert, Villiers del'Isle-Adam, Guy de Maupassant, Prosper Merimee and Walter Pater"""""""".'"""
"""'""""""""My masters... in poetry, were Swinburne and Meredith among the living, Rossetti, Matthew Arnold and Robert Browning among the lately dead. To these I would add Edward Fitzgerald... In prose, the masters were Stendhal, Flaubert, Villiers del'Isle-Adam, Guy de Maupassant, Prosper Merimee and Walter Pater"""""""".'"""
"""'""""""""My masters... in poetry, were Swinburne and Meredith among the living, Rossetti, Matthew Arnold and Robert Browning among the lately dead. To these I would add Edward Fitzgerald... In prose, the masters were Stendhal, Flaubert, Villiers del'Isle-Adam, Guy de Maupassant, Prosper Merimee and Walter Pater"""""""".'"""
"""'""""""""My masters... in poetry, were Swinburne and Meredith among the living, Rossetti, Matthew Arnold and Robert Browning among the lately dead. To these I would add Edward Fitzgerald... In prose, the masters were Stendhal, Flaubert, Villiers del'Isle-Adam, Guy de Maupassant, Prosper Merimee and Walter Pater"""""""".'"""
"""'""""""""My masters... in poetry, were Swinburne and Meredith among the living, Rossetti, Matthew Arnold and Robert Browning among the lately dead. To these I would add Edward Fitzgerald... In prose, the masters were Stendhal, Flaubert, Villiers de l'Isle-Adam, Guy de Maupassant, Prosper Merimee and Walter Pater"""""""".'"""
"""'""""""""My masters... in poetry, were Swinburne and Meredith among the living, Rossetti, Matthew Arnold and Robert Browning among the lately dead. To these I would add Edward Fitzgerald... In prose, the masters were Stendhal, Flaubert, Villiers de l'Isle-Adam, Guy de Maupassant, Prosper Merimee and Walter Pater"""""""".'"""
"""'""""""""My masters... in poetry, were Swinburne and Meredith among the living, Rossetti, Matthew Arnold and Robert Browning among the lately dead. To these I would add Edward Fitzgerald... In prose, the masters were Stendhal, Flaubert, Villiers de l'Isle-Adam, Guy de Maupassant, Prosper Merimee and Walter Pater"""""""".'"""
"""'""""""""My masters... in poetry, were Swinburne and Meredith among the living, Rossetti, Matthew Arnold and Robert Browning among the lately dead. To these I would add Edward Fitzgerald... In prose, the masters were Stendhal, Flaubert, Villiers de l'Isle-Adam, Guy de Maupassant, Prosper Merimee and Walter Pater"""""""".'"""
"""Fine writing and realism were what John Masefield was after in prose. In poetry, it was the upsurge of feeling and rhythm first released by Swinburne. Masefield wrote in a letter to me after my first meeting with him, """"""""Swinburne meant much to my generation: he was literary, he adored the French masters, who were then our masters in all things: he was generous beyond most poets...:he was one of the real discoverers of Blake: he could write exquisite verse in an age of exquisite verse: he laid us all at his feet with half a dozen things which I cannot read without emotion now. He was one of the first romantic poets to be read by me: and Chastelard, to a boy, is all that the heart can desire and the lines on the death of Baudelaire all that genius and grief can utter"""""""".'"""
"""Fine writing and realism were what John Masefield was after in prose. In poetry, it was the upsurge of feeling and rhythm first released by Swinburne. Masefield wrote in a letter to me after my first meeting with him, """"""""Swinburne meant much to my generation: he was literary, he adored the French masters, who were then our masters in all things: he was generous beyond most poets...:he was one of the real discoverers of Blake: he could write exquisite verse in an age of exquisite verse: he laid us all at his feet with half a dozen things which I cannot read without emotion now. He was one of the first romantic poets to be read by me: and Chastelard, to a boy, is all that the heart can desire and the lines on the death of Baudelaire all that genius and grief can utter"""""""".'"""
"""[Lady Frances Balfour's] father and mother both read poetry aloud ...'"""
"""The review [in the """"""""Spectator""""""""] is good is it not.The """"""""Speaker"""""""" also reviewed me the same week--Whig and Tory. That is also a good review. Upon the whole the """"""""Press"""""""" is good. The provincial papers seem to catch on to """"""""Jim"""""""". They sent me cuttings from Ed'gh. The Bradford """"""""Observer"""""""" was most appreciative.'  """
"""But as to """"""""Buta"""""""" it is altogether and fundamentally good, good in matter--that's of course--but good wonderfully good in form and especially in expression.' """
"""Have you seen the last vol of Mrs Garnett's Turgeniev? There's a story there. """"""""Three Portraits"""""""" really fine. Also """"""""Enough"""""""" worth reading.'  """
"""... Helena Swanwick recalled one exception from among the succession of inadequate domestic servants who passed through her household in the 1890s: """"""""The best I had in those years was a young Welshwoman, who read the novels of Meredith ... and enjoyed them ...""""""""' """
"""Often I sat with her on Sunday afternoons before the fire blazing in an old-fashioned range which shone with black-leaded iron and gleaming steel. There was a home-made hearth-rug, but the rest of the floor was of stone flags, well washed and sprinkled with sand. She had had no schooling but had somehow learned to read in middle age. We would tackle the Chorley Guardian together, stumbling over the long words and improvising the pronunciation; Egypt was once read as """"""""egg-pit"""""""".' """
"""Barber John Paton remembered that the """"""""Boys' Friend"""""""" """"""""ran a serial which was an enormously exciting tale of Alba's oppression of the Netherlands, and gave as its source, 'Motley's Rise of the Dutch Republic'"""""""". He borrowed it from the public library and, with guidance from a helpful adult, also read J.R. Green, Macaulay, Prescott, Grote, and even Mommsen's multi-volume """"""""History of Rome"""""""" by age fourteen. """"""""There must have been, of course, enormous gaps in my understanding of what I poured into the rag bag that was my mind, particularly from the bigger works,"""""""" he conceded, """"""""but at least I sensed the important thing, the immense sweep and variety and the continuity of the historical process"""""""".'"""
"""Barber John Paton remembered that the """"""""Boys' Friend"""""""" """"""""ran a serial which was an enormously exciting tale of Alba's oppression of the Netherlands, and gave as its source, 'Motley's Rise of the Dutch Republic'"""""""". He borrowed it from the public library and, with guidance from a helpful adult, also read J.R. Green, Macaulay, Prescott, Grote, and even Mommsen's multi-volume """"""""History of Rome"""""""" by age fourteen. """"""""There must have been, of course, enormous gaps in my understanding of what I poured into the rag bag that was my mind, particularly from the bigger works,"""""""" he conceded, """"""""but at least I sensed the important thing, the immense sweep and variety and the continuity of the historical process"""""""".'"""
"""Barber John Paton remembered that the """"""""Boys' Friend"""""""" """"""""ran a serial which was an enormously exciting tale of Alba's oppression of the Netherlands, and gave as its source, Motley's 'Rise of the Dutch Republic'"""""""". He borrowed it from the public library and, with guidance from a helpful adult, also read J.R. Green, Macaulay, Prescott, Grote, and even Mommsen's multi-volume History of Rome by age fourteen. """"""""There must have been, of course, enormous gaps in my understanding of what I poured into the rag bag that was my mind, particularly from the bigger works,"""""""" he conceded, """"""""but at least I sensed the important thing, the immense sweep and variety and the continuity of the historical process"""""""".'"""
"""Barber John Paton remembered that the """"""""Boys' Friend"""""""" """"""""ran a serial which was an enormously exciting tale of Alba's oppression of the Netherlands, and gave as its source, Motley's 'Rise of the Dutch Republic'"""""""". He borrowed it from the public library and, with guidance from a helpful adult, also read J.R. Green, Macaulay, Prescott, Grote, and even Mommsen's multi-volume History of Rome by age fourteen. """"""""There must have been, of course, enormous gaps in my understanding of what I poured into the rag bag that was my mind, particularly from the bigger works,"""""""" he conceded, """"""""but at least I sensed the important thing, the immense sweep and variety and the continuity of the historical process"""""""".'"""
"""Barber John Paton remembered that the """"""""Boys' Friend"""""""" """"""""ran a serial which was an enormously exciting tale of Alba's oppression of the Netherlands, and gave as its source, Motley's 'Rise of the Dutch Republic'"""""""". He borrowed it from the public library and, with guidance from a helpful adult, also read J.R. Green, Macaulay, Prescott, Grote, and even Mommsen's multi-volume History of Rome by age fourteen. """"""""There must have been, of course, enormous gaps in my understanding of what I poured into the rag bag that was my mind, particularly from the bigger works,"""""""" he conceded, """"""""but at least I sensed the important thing, the immense sweep and variety and the continuity of the historical process"""""""".'"""
"""Barber John Paton remembered that the """"""""Boys' Friend"""""""" """"""""ran a serial which was an enormously exciting tale of Alba's oppression of the Netherlands, and gave as its source, Motley's 'Rise of the Dutch Republic'"""""""". He borrowed it from the public library and, with guidance from a helpful adult, also read J.R. Green, Macaulay, Prescott, Grote, and even Mommsen's multi-volume History of Rome by age fourteen. """"""""There must have been, of course, enormous gaps in my understanding of what I poured into the rag bag that was my mind, particularly from the bigger works,"""""""" he conceded, """"""""but at least I sensed the important thing, the immense sweep and variety and the continuity of the historical process"""""""".'"""
"""[Howard] Spring was the son of a Cardiff gardener who bought his children secondhand copies of """"""""Tom Jones"""""""" and """"""""Swiss Family Robinson"""""""", and read aloud from """"""""Pilgrim's Progress"""""""", """"""""Robinson Crusoe"""""""" and Charles Dickens'."""
"""[Howard] Spring was the son of a Cardiff gardener who bought his children secondhand copies of """"""""Tom Jones"""""""" and """"""""Swiss Family Robinson"""""""", and read aloud from """"""""Pilgrim's Progress"""""""", """"""""Robinson Crusoe"""""""" and Charles Dickens'."""
"""[Howard] Spring was the son of a Cardiff gardener who bought his children secondhand copies of """"""""Tom Jones"""""""" and """"""""Swiss Family Robinson"""""""", and read aloud from """"""""Pilgrim's Progress"""""""", """"""""Robinson Crusoe"""""""" and Charles Dickens'."""
"""[letter from M. Jusserand to Mrs Ward] 'I spent yesternight a most charming evening reading your essay [on the Brontes]. Shall I confess that I feel with Kingsley, having had a similar experience. I could never go beyond the terrible beginning of """"""""Shirley"""""""" - and yet I tried and did my best, and the book remains unread, and I the more sorry as my copy does not belong to me, but to Lady Jerseyu, who charged me to return it when I had finished reading. I really tried earnestly: I took the volume with me on several occasions; it has seen, I am sure, as many lands as wise Ulysses, having crossed the Mediterranean more than once and visited Assuan. But there it is, and I see from my writing-table its threatening green cloth and awful back, with plenty of repulsive persons within. And yet I [italics] can [end italics] read. I have read with delight and unflagging interest Vol. I in-folio of the Rolls of Parliament, without missing a line. """"""""Shirley"""""""", I cannot'."""
"""[letter from M. Jusserand to Mrs Ward] 'I spent yesternight a most charming evening reading your essay [on the Brontes]. Shall I confess that I feel with Kingsley, having had a similar experience. I could never go beyond the terrible beginning of """"""""Shirley"""""""" - and yet I tried and did my best, and the book remains unread, and I the more sorry as my copy does not belong to me, but to Lady Jerseyu, who charged me to return it when I had finished reading. I really tried earnestly: I took the volume with me on several occasions; it has seen, I am sure, as many lands as wise Ulysses, having crossed the Mediterranean more than once and visited Assuan. But there it is, and I see from my writing-table its threatening green cloth and awful back, with plenty of repulsive persons within. And yet I [italics] can [end italics] read. I have read with delight and unflagging interest Vol. I in-folio of the Rolls of Parliament, without missing a line. """"""""Shirley"""""""", I cannot'."""
"""She read Renan's Life of Jesus, which had proved so critical to George Eliot's subsitution of Duty for God. As a corollary text, Rose discovered the rousing, hopeful words of Mill, who argued for the sacredness  of her larger duty to herself'."""
"""She read Renan's Life of Jesus, which had proved so critical to George Eliot's subsitution of Duty for God. As a corollary text, Rose discovered the rousing, hopeful words of Mill, who argued for the sacredness  of her larger duty to herself'."""
"""[Kent] Carr cites a letter [Marie] Corelli received from a colors sergeant in the Boer War in May 1900: """"""""Now to tell you about your delightful books which were invaluable to the troops during the siege; one, 'The Sorrows of Satan,' was read and re-read by me, and then handed round.  As many as three would be wanting to read it, so where literature was scarce, you can imagine what a blessing it was to have a book like it.'"""""""""""
"""I wanted to write to you about Your book [...] you know how paralysed one is sometimes-- and then we had talked--I had tried to talk of the book so many times that it seemed to have become part of me, that part of belief amd thought so intimate that it cannot be put into speech as if it cannot live apart from one coherent self.'  [See also additional comments].    """
"""I've read """"""""Cruz Alta"""""""" four days ago. c'est tout simplement magnifique. I know most of the sketches, in fact nearly all, except """"""""Cruz Alta"""""""" itself.'"""
"""I have just been looking, with surprise & pleasure, at this week?s 'Woman'.  It is really very good.'  """
"""Henry James to W. Morton Fullerton, 9 August 1901: 'You speak of your """"""""Cornhill"""""""" article as one always speaks and feels about one's potboilers; but that doesn't prevent me from having felt as I read it as if I were seated with you before that little [italics] cafe-glacier [end italics] that has the summer shade [...] and you were telling me, happily passive, things out of your abundance, and I could put my hand on your shoulder and wish the occasion would last.' """
"""Henry James to William Dean Howells, 29 June 1900: '[...] I've been, of late, reading you again as continuously as possible [...] the result of """"""""Ragged Lady"""""""", the """"""""Silver Journey"""""""", the """"""""Pursuit of the Piano"""""""" and two or three other things (none wrested from your inexorable hand, but paid for from scant earnings) has been, ever so many times over, an impulse of reaction, of an intensely cordial sort'."""
"""Henry James to William Dean Howells, 29 June 1900: '[...] I've been, of late, reading you again as continuously as possible [...] the result of """"""""Ragged Lady"""""""", the """"""""Silver Journey"""""""", the """"""""Pursuit of the Piano"""""""" and two or three other things (none wrested from your inexorable hand, but paid for from scant earnings) has been, ever so many times over, an impulse of reaction, of an intensely cordial sort'."""
"""Henry James to William Dean Howells, 29 June 1900: '[...] I've been, of late, reading you again as continuously as possible [...] the result of """"""""Ragged Lady"""""""", the """"""""Silver Journey"""""""", the """"""""Pursuit of the Piano"""""""" and two or three other things (none wrested from your inexorable hand, but paid for from scant earnings) has been, ever so many times over, an impulse of reaction, of an intensely cordial sort'."""
"""""""""""Ruskin's death has set me reading some of his books and among others 'Praeterita' in wh. I read of your first acquaintance with him."""""""""""
"""Henry James to Mrs William James, 22 May 1900: 'Thank you [...] for telling me of Santayana's book (P. and R.) which has come and which I find of an irresistible distraction.'"""
"""Henry James to Ford Madox Hueffer, 23 May 1900, thanking him for copy of his newly published volume of verse: 'I think your doubt about the verses misplaced and unjustified -- all those I have yet read seeming to me to hold their own very firmly indeed.  Those I have read -- and re-read -- are the little rustic lays -- several of which I think admirable'."""
"""Frances Stevenson, born in 1888, recollected [in The years that Are Past, 1967] that she """"""""read greedily [pre-1914] ... I formed an early acquaintance with Dickens, weeping copiously over Little Dorrit and Little Nell, and I knew by heart many of the passages in the Ingoldsby Legends, a volume that had been given me ... when I was ten years old! ... I lost myself in a magical world while reading the poems of Scott.  I think I read them all one summer holiday, in a special spot in our garden ...""""""""' """
"""Frances Stevenson, born in 1888, recollected [in The years that Are Past, 1967] that she """"""""read greedily [pre-1914] ... I formed an early acquaintance with Dickens, weeping copiously over Little Dorrit and Little Nell, and I knew by heart many of the passages in the Ingoldsby Legends, a volume that had been given me ... when I was ten years old! ... I lost myself in a magical world while reading the poems of Scott.  I think I read them all one summer holiday, in a special spot in our garden ...""""""""' """
"""Frances Stevenson, born in 1888, recollected [in The years that Are Past, 1967] that she """"""""read greedily [pre-1914] ... I formed an early acquaintance with Dickens, weeping copiously over Little Dorrit and Little Nell, and I knew by heart many of the passages in the Ingoldsby Legends, a volume that had been given me ... when I was ten years old! ... I lost myself in a magical world while reading the poems of Scott.  I think I read them all one summer holiday, in a special spot in our garden ...""""""""'"""
"""Then, when I was twelve we had a really good poetry book which contained extracts from """"""""The Excursion"""""""", part of """"""""Childe Harold's Pilgrimage"""""""", """"""""The Eve of Saint Agnes"""""""", """"""""Adonais"""""""", """"""""The Pied Piper of Hamelin"""""""", and Mathew Arnold's """"""""Tristram and Iseult"""""""". We were given """"""""Childe Harold's Pilgrimage"""""""" and """"""""The Pied Piper"""""""" to learn by heart in consecutive years. I never liked """"""""The Pied Piper"""""""", which, being written consciously as a child's poem, made me feel conscious, and most of """"""""Childe Harold's Pilgrimage"""""""" seemed unreal to me... The poems in the book which I liked best were """"""""The Eve of Saint Agnes"""""""" and """"""""Tristram and Iseult""""""""...'"""
"""Then, when I was twelve we had a really good poetry book which contained extracts from """"""""The Excursion"""""""", part of """"""""Childe Harold's Pilgrimage"""""""", """"""""The Eve of Saint Agnes"""""""", """"""""Adonais"""""""", """"""""The Pied Piper of Hamelin"""""""", and Mathew Arnold's """"""""Tristram and Iseult"""""""". We were given """"""""Childe Harold's Pilgrimage"""""""" and """"""""The Pied Piper"""""""" to learn by heart in consecutive years. I never liked """"""""The Pied Piper"""""""", which, being written consciously as a child's poem, made me feel conscious, and most of """"""""Childe Harold's Pilgrimage"""""""" seemed unreal to me... The poems in the book which I liked best were """"""""The Eve of Saint Agnes"""""""" and """"""""Tristram and Iseult""""""""...'"""
"""Then, when I was twelve we had a really good poetry book which contained extracts from """"""""The Excursion"""""""", part of """"""""Childe Harold's Pilgrimage"""""""", """"""""The Eve of Saint Agnes"""""""", """"""""Adonais"""""""", """"""""The Pied Piper of Hamelin"""""""", and Mathew Arnold's """"""""Tristram and Iseult"""""""". We were given """"""""Childe Harold's Pilgrimage"""""""" and """"""""The Pied Piper"""""""" to learn by heart in consecutive years. I never liked """"""""The Pied Piper"""""""", which, being written consciously as a child's poem, made me feel conscious, and most of """"""""Childe Harold's Pilgrimage"""""""" seemed unreal to me... The poems in the book which I liked best were """"""""The Eve of Saint Agnes"""""""" and """"""""Tristram and Iseult""""""""...'"""
"""Then, when I was twelve we had a really good poetry book which contained extracts from """"""""The Excursion"""""""", part of """"""""Childe Harold's Pilgrimage"""""""", """"""""The Eve of Saint Agnes"""""""", """"""""Adonais"""""""", """"""""The Pied Piper of Hamelin"""""""", and Mathew Arnold's """"""""Tristram and Iseult"""""""". We were given """"""""Childe Harold's Pilgrimage"""""""" and """"""""The Pied Piper"""""""" to learn by heart in consecutive years. I never liked """"""""The Pied Piper"""""""", which, being written consciously as a child's poem, made me feel conscious, and most of """"""""Childe Harold's Pilgrimage"""""""" seemed unreal to me... The poems in the book which I liked best were """"""""The Eve of Saint Agnes"""""""" and """"""""Tristram and Iseult""""""""...'"""
"""Then, when I was twelve we had a really good poetry book which contained extracts from """"""""The Excursion"""""""", part of """"""""Childe Harold's Pilgrimage"""""""", """"""""The Eve of Saint Agnes"""""""", """"""""Adonais"""""""", """"""""The Pied Piper of Hamelin"""""""", and Mathew Arnold's """"""""Tristram and Iseult"""""""". We were given """"""""Childe Harold's Pilgrimage"""""""" and """"""""The Pied Piper"""""""" to learn by heart in consecutive years. I never liked """"""""The Pied Piper"""""""", which, being written consciously as a child's poem, made me feel conscious, and most of """"""""Childe Harold's Pilgrimage"""""""" seemed unreal to me... The poems in the book which I liked best were """"""""The Eve of Saint Agnes"""""""" and """"""""Tristram and Iseult""""""""...'"""
"""Then, when I was twelve we had a really good poetry book which contained extracts from """"""""The Excursion"""""""", part of """"""""Childe Harold's Pilgrimage"""""""", """"""""The Eve of Saint Agnes"""""""", """"""""Adonais"""""""", """"""""The Pied Piper of Hamelin"""""""", and Mathew Arnold's """"""""Tristram and Iseult"""""""". We were given """"""""Childe Harold's Pilgrimage"""""""" and """"""""The Pied Piper"""""""" to learn by heart in consecutive years. I never liked """"""""The Pied Piper"""""""", which, being written consciously as a child's poem, made me feel conscious, and most of """"""""Childe Harold's Pilgrimage"""""""" seemed unreal to me... The poems in the book which I liked best were """"""""The Eve of Saint Agnes"""""""" and """"""""Tristram and Iseult""""""""...'"""
"""Lately I have been reading Wordsworth with joy, for almost the first time.  """"""""Michael"""""""" quite overcame me by its perfect simplicity & power.  I have read it about ten times lately.'   """
"""Henry James to William Dean Howells, 10 August 1901: 'Ever since receiving and reading your elegant volume of short tales [""""""""A Pair of Patient Lovers""""""""]-- the arrival of which from you was affecting and delightful to me -- I've meant to write to you [...] I read your book with joy [...] The thing that most took me was that entitled """"""""A Difficult Case""""""""'.  """
"""This enclosed article is the third of yours that I have read.  The first (about modelling) was about the most impersonal thing I ever came across.  The second (spiders) was much better.  And this third surprises me by its force & vitality.' """
"""Henry James to Graham Balfour, 15 November 1901: 'Into my rural backwater books float a bit slowly and circuitously, so that it is only this evening that I have, after delayed acquisition, finished with emotion, your two admirable volumes [a biography of R. L. Stevenson].'"""
"""I note lately the evidence of an extraordinary activity on your part.  Perhaps you have observed how difficult it is to pick up a decent magazine without You in it.  I took in the """"""""Fortnightly"""""""" and the """"""""Strand"""""""" in order to run even with you.  And now damned if you haven?t let me in for """"""""Pearson?s""""""""!  And I hear rumour of a """"""""Dream of Armageddon"""""""" in something else. You make your readers work.'  """
"""I note lately the evidence of an extraordinary activity on your part.  Perhaps you have observed how difficult it is to pick up a decent magazine without You in it.  I took in the """"""""Fortnightly"""""""" and the """"""""Strand"""""""" in order to run even with you.  And now damned if you haven?t let me in for """"""""Pearson?s""""""""!  And I hear rumour of a """"""""Dream of Armageddon"""""""" in something else. You make your readers work.'  """
"""I think the article on Sir John Gorst is able & shows a sufficient grasp of the subject; the tone of it also seems to me to be right .  . . . As it stands, I think little of the chances of """"""""Coventry"""""""" . . . People don?t want to know about their own country.  If Coventry was in Italy, it would be different.  As the article is not finished it would not be proper for me to criticise it finally. . .'"""
"""I think the article on Sir John Gorst is able & shows a sufficient grasp of the subject; the tone of it also seems to me to be right .  . . . As it stands, I think little of the chances of """"""""Coventry"""""""" . . . People don?t want to know about their own country.  If Coventry was in Italy, it would be different.  As the article is not finished it would not be proper for me to criticise it finally. . ."""
"""[Davies said] """"""""Before I was twelve I had developed an appreciation of good prose, and the Bible created in me a zest for literature"""""""", propelling him directly to Lamb, Hazlitt's Essays and Ruskin's The Crown of Wild Olives. Later... he joined the library committee of the Miners' Institute in Maesteg, made friends with the librarian, and advised him on acquisitions. Thus he could read all the books he wanted: Marx, Smith, Ricardo, Mill, Marshall, economic and trade union history, Fabian Essays, Thomas Hardy, Meredith, Kipling and Dickens'"""
"""I was sent out first thing in the morning for a number of racing newspapers, over which my father pored while having his breakfast. Then he carefully wrote down the names of the horses he had selected on a scrap of paper, in which he wrapped up the money, and gave me instructions to """"""""take it down"""""""" after I came out of school.'"""
"""There was a lending library in town, but with no education or guidance in English literature, [Edwin Muir] wasted valuable reading time. Then there was opposition from his father, who made him return a study of """"""""the Atheist"""""""" David Hume. And when his brother gave him 3d to spend, he was almost insulted to learn that the money had gone to purchase Penny Poets editions of """"""""As You Like It"""""""", """"""""The Earthly Paradise"""""""" and Matthew Arnold. At home there was nothing to read except [various items mentioned in a previous entry and], """"""""Gulliver's Travels"""""""", an R.M. Ballantyne tale about Hudson's Bay...a large volume documenting a theological dispute between a Protestant clergyman and a Catholic priest, a novel that was probably """"""""Sense and Sensibility"""""""" (""""""""I could make nothing of it, but this did not keep me from reading it"""""""")... """"""""I read a complete series of sentimental love tales very popular at the time, called Sunday Stories"""""""", as well as a raft of temperance novels. Consequently, when he stumbled across Christopher Marlowe or George Crabbe in that literary junkyard, """"""""it was like an addition to a secret treasure; for no one knew of my passion, and there was none to whom I could speak of it"""""""".'"""
"""There was a lending library in town, but with no education or guidance in English literature, [Edwin Muir] wasted valuable reading time. Then there was opposition from his father, who made him return a study of """"""""the Atheist"""""""" David Hume. And when his brother gave him 3d to spend, he was almost insulted to learn that the money had gone to purchase Penny Poets editions of """"""""As You Like It"""""""", """"""""The Earthly Paradise"""""""" and Matthew Arnold. At home there was nothing to read except [various items mentioned in a previous entry and], """"""""Gulliver's Travels"""""""", an R.M. Ballantyne tale about Hudson's Bay...a large volume documenting a theological dispute between a Protestant clergyman and a Catholic priest, a novel that was probably """"""""Sense and Sensibility"""""""" (""""""""I could make nothing of it, but this did not keep me from reading it"""""""")... """"""""I read a complete series of sentimental love tales very popular at the time, called Sunday Stories"""""""", as well as a raft of temperance novels. Consequently, when he stumbled across Christopher Marlowe or George Crabbe in that literary junkyard, """"""""it was like an addition to a secret treasure; for no one knew of my passion, and there was none to whom I could speak of it"""""""".'"""
"""There was a lending library in town, but with no education or guidance in English literature, [Edwin Muir] wasted valuable reading time. Then there was opposition from his father, who made him return a study of """"""""the Atheist"""""""" David Hume. And when his brother gave him 3d to spend, he was almost insulted to learn that the money had gone to purchase Penny Poets editions of """"""""As You Like It"""""""", """"""""The Earthly Paradise"""""""" and Matthew Arnold. At home there was nothing to read except [various items mentioned in a previous entry and], """"""""Gulliver's Travels"""""""", an R.M. Ballantyne tale about Hudson's Bay...a large volume documenting a theological dispute between a Protestant clergyman and a Catholic priest, a novel that was probably """"""""Sense and Sensibility"""""""" (""""""""I could make nothing of it, but this did not keep me from reading it"""""""")... """"""""I read a complete series of sentimental love tales very popular at the time, called Sunday Stories"""""""", as well as a raft of temperance novels. Consequently, when he stumbled across Christopher Marlowe or George Crabbe in that literary junkyard, """"""""it was like an addition to a secret treasure; for no one knew of my passion, and there was none to whom I could speak of it"""""""".'"""
"""In 1901 ... [Newman Flower] left his bed at four in the morning to travel from Croydon to watch the funeral procession of Queen Victoria.  He joined the crowd, and, to pass hours of waiting, stood reading """"""""Bleak House"""""""".  A stir eventually made him look up from his book; alas, the royal section of the cortege had gone.' """
""""""""""". . . you have helped to forward the sublime principles involved in the admirable chapter on the  Parrot-woman in 'The Quintessence of Ibsenism'"""""""". """
""". . . I am charmed with a serial of mine now running with great ?clat & Reginald Cleaver?s illustrations, in a sheet entitled the """"""""Golden Penny"""""""". To read the instalments each week does me good, they are so exactly what they should be (& good English thrown in gratis).'"""
"""If you have not read  """"""""The Believing Bishop"""""""" by Havergall Bates (whoever he may be) [George Allen] let me recommend it to you as a fine disturbing book'.  """
"""I have read [The First Men on the Moon] in Strand, & hasten to insult & annoy you by stating that the last two instalments are among the very best things you have done.  I have read Anticipations in Fortnightly, & hasten to say that I have been absolutely overwhelmed by the breadth & the sheer intellectual vigour of them, not to mention the imaginative power.  These articles really have made me a little afraid of you.'   """
"""MS notes including various dates of reading from Feb 16, 1899 - March 25 1901. Final volume summarised as: """"""""A fine, compact story; disfigured by a delight in the loathsome such as I have never known in any other great and grave writer. It amounts to monomania."""""""""""
"""With Cockerell to Parkstone to see Alfred Russel Wallace, the Grand Old Man of Science ... He complimented me on my pamphlet, """"""""The Shame of the XIXth Century"""""""" and expressed strong views on the pauperization of India. There was a number of the paper """"""""Light"""""""" lying on his table, and I asked him if he still adhered to his belief in spiritualism, and he said very postively that he had not receded from it in the smallest degree.'"""
"""With Cockerell to Parkstone to see Alfred Russel Wallace, the Grand Old Man of Science ... He complimented me on my pamphlet, """"""""The Shame of the XIXth Century"""""""" and expressed strong views on the pauperization of India. There was a number of the paper """"""""Light"""""""" lying on his table, and I asked him if he still adhered to his belief in spiritualism, and he said very postively that he had not receded from it in the smallest degree.'"""
"""I perceive you couldn?t keep your new house out of the """"""""Fortnightly""""""""!  This third article is the best yet.  I have never seen so good an illustration of the scientific use of imagination.'"""
"""I am not ashamed to confess that during those weeks of imprisonment I too wept both by day and by night; not loudly or clamorously, but silently and with an intensity of misery that wasted my strength and filled my brain with hideous thoughts. The first library book issued to me was """"""""David Copperfield""""""""; and with the incipient ego-centrism of the budding criminal I imagined I could detect similarities between Dickens's early experiences and my own. For many nights I cried myself to sleep with """"""""David Copperfield"""""""" hugged close, as if in him I had found a fellow sufferer.'"""
"""It was in ... 1901 ... that Ernest Raymond as a teenager first took a Dickens from the shelf: """"""""By the grace and favour of God, it was Pickwick Papers ... At some stage in the reading I knew with a happy breathless certainty that this was what I wanted to do with my life: to write books like this.""""""""'"""
"""Frances Stevenson, born in 1888, recollected [in The years that Are Past, 1967] that she """"""""read greedily [pre-1914] ... I formed an early acquaintance with Dickens, weeping copiously over Little Dorrit and Little Nell, and I knew by heart many of the passages in the Ingoldsby Legends, a volume that had been given me ... when I was ten years old! ... I lost myself in a magical world while reading the poems of Scott.  I think I read them all one summer holiday, in a special spot in our garden ...""""""""' """
"""I wasted a great deal of time in wrong reading from eleven to fourteen, always hoping for the enjoyment which rarely came, but going on with surprising persistence. A sense of overpowering gloom is connected in my mind with Hugo's """"""""Notre Dame de Paris"""""""", which I read in English, and an impression of a livid brightness with """"""""The Scarlet Letter""""""""; but that is all. Of Carlyle's """"""""French Revolution"""""""" all that remains is a sentence like a radiant hillside caught through a rift in a black cloud: the passage where he describes the high-shouldered ladies dancing with the gentlemen of the French Court on a bright summer evening, while outside the yellow cornfields stretched from end to end of France'"""
"""I wasted a great deal of time in wrong reading from eleven to fourteen, always hoping for the enjoyment which rarely came, but going on with surprising persistence. A sense of overpowering gloom is connected in my mind with Hugo's """"""""Notre Dame de Paris"""""""", which I read in English, and an impression of a livid brightness with """"""""The Scarlet Letter""""""""; but that is all. Of Carlyle's """"""""French Revolution"""""""" all that remains is a sentence like a radiant hillside caught through a rift in a black cloud: the passage where he describes the high-shouldered ladies dancing with the gentlemen of the French Court on a bright summer evening, while outside the yellow cornfields stretched from end to end of France'"""
"""I wasted a great deal of time in wrong reading from eleven to fourteen, always hoping for the enjoyment which rarely came, but going on with surprising persistence. A sense of overpowering gloom is connected in my mind with Hugo's """"""""Notre Dame de Paris"""""""", which I read in English, and an impression of a livid brightness with """"""""The Scarlet Letter""""""""; but that is all. Of Carlyle's """"""""French Revolution"""""""" all that remains is a sentence like a radiant hillside caught through a rift in a black cloud: the passage where he describes the high-shouldered ladies dancing with the gentlemen of the French Court on a bright summer evening, while outside the yellow cornfields stretched from end to end of France'"""
"""Curiously enough the story I remember best is a grotesque and rather silly one which appeared in an annual almanac issues by """"""""The Orkney Herald"""""""". It was an account of the origin of the Orkney and Shetland Islands...'"""
"""but I was reading """"""""Les Miserables"""""""", and consoled myself with the thought that I was too capable of loving noble things.'"""
"""I am altogether under the charm of that book [""""""""The Vanished Arcadia""""""""] in accord with its spirit and full of admiration for its expression.'"""
"""... he devotes a whole serious and excellent essay to an exploration of the fame of Silas Hocking, who wrote novels calculated to please """"""""the taste of the Methodist million, who was unheard of in Knightsbridge but wildly popular in the dissenting provinces"""""""". Apart from any other interest, this essay throws light on Bennett's own reading background; he discusses the debate between Puritanism and the arts, describes the deep suspicion with which all fiction was regarded in Hocking circles and says: """"""""How often have I heard the impatient words: 'This is too exciting for me; if I went on I shouldn't be able to leave it'."""""""" It must have been up in Burslem, where reading had recently been regarded as a wicked sin, that he heard such remarks.'"""
"""I have been reading Marlow, and I was so much more impressed by him than I thought I should be, that I read Cymbeline just to see if there mightn't be more in the great William than I supposed. And I was quite upset!  Really and truly I am now let in to [the] company of worshippers-though I still feel a little oppressed by his-greatness I suppose.  I shall want a lecture when I see you; to clear up some points about the Plays.  I mean about the characters.  Why aren't they more human?  Imogen and Posthumous and Cymbeline-I find them beyond me-Is this my feminine weakness in the upper region?'"""
"""Tomorrow I go on to Ben Jonson, but I shan't like him as much as Marlow.  I read Dr Faustus, and Edward II...'"""
"""My real object in writing is to make a confession-which is to take back a whole cartload of goatisms which I used at Fritham and elsewhere in speaking of a certain great English writer-the greatest: I have been reading Marlow, and I was so much more impressed by him than I thought I should be, that I read Cymbeline just to see if there mightnt be more in the great William than I supposed.'"""
"""Henry James to Sarah Orne Jewett, 5 October 1901: 'Let me not [...] delay to thank you for your charming and generous present of """"""""The Tory Lover"""""""" [her historical novel].  He has been but three or four days in the house, yet I have given him an earnest, a pensive, a liberal -- yes, a benevolent attention [goes on to offer detailed criticisms]'.  """
"""I've read """"""""The Silence"""""""" once but shall keep it till tomorrow. Certain remarks I keep for a note which I will send you together with the  MS. Here I will only say that I feel strongly my good fortune in being able to sympathise more and more with your work, with its spirit, feeling and fundamental conception.' """
"""As to """"""""Charlotte"""""""" the genuineness of its conception the honesty of its feeling make that work as welcome as a breath of fresh air to a breast oppressed by all the fumes and cheap perfumes of fiction that is [sic ]thrown on the altar of publicity in the hopes of propitiating the god of big sales. It is refreshing indeed.'"""
"""[Walter] Besant told [William Robertson] Nicoll that no sooner had he read """"""""The Light that Failed"""""""" (1891) on a long train journey than he started it again and read it through a second time.'  """
"""""""""""Ruskin's death has set me reading some of his books and among others 'Praeterita' in wh. I read of your first acquaintance with him."""""""""""
"""Henry James to Rudyard Kipling, 30 October 1901: 'I can't lay down """"""""Kim"""""""" without wanting much to write to you [...] I overflow, I beg you to believe, with """"""""Kim"""""""", and I rejoice in such a saturation, such a splendid dose of you.[goes on to praise novel further]'"""
"""Just now I am reading nightly in bed Boswell?s """"""""Life of Johnson"""""""".  I suppose you know it by heart.  Without doubt it is the most agreeable & diverting thing in non-imaginative literature in English.'  """
"""Thanks for the """"""""Rossetti"""""""". My opinion of it you know but I am reading it carefully. It is good.'"""
"""Remenber me faithfully to your wife whose translation of """"""""Karenina"""""""" is splendid. Of the thing itself I think but little, so that her merit shines with the greater lustre.' """
"""Henry James, in letter to Edith Wharton of 17 August 1902, writes to her of 'lately having read """"""""The Valley of Decision"""""""", read it with such high appreciation and received so deep an impression from it that I can scarce tell you why, all these weeks, I have waited for any other pretext to write.'"""
"""[Letter from Mrs Ward to the Society of Authors when that body recommended Herbert Spencer not George Meredith for the Nobel Prize] If Mr Meredith had written nothing but the love scenes in """"""""Richard Feverel""""""""; """"""""The Egoist""""""""; and certain passages of description in """"""""Vittoria"""""""" and """"""""Beauchamp's Career"""""""", he would still stand at the head of English """"""""dichtung"""""""" [the quality Mrs Ward thought the prize should reward] There is no critic now who can be ranged with him in position, and no poet. As a man of letters he is easily first; to compare Mr Spencer's power of clear statement with the play of imaginative genius in Meredith would be absurd - in the literary field'."""
"""[Letter from Mrs Ward to the Society of Authors when that body recommended Herbert Spencer not George Meredith for the Nobel Prize] If Mr Meredith had written nothing but the love scenes in """"""""Richard Feverel""""""""; """"""""The Egoist""""""""; and certain passages of description in """"""""Vittoria"""""""" and """"""""Beauchamp's Career"""""""", he would still stand at the head of English """"""""dichtung"""""""" [the quality Mrs Ward thought the prize should reward] There is no critic now who can be ranged with him in position, and no poet. As a man of letters he is easily first; to compare Mr Spencer's power of clear statement with the play of imaginative genius in Meredith would be absurd - in the literary field'."""
"""[Letter from Mrs Ward to the Society of Authors when that body recommended Herbert Spencer not George Meredith for the Nobel Prize] If Mr Meredith had written nothing but the love scenes in """"""""Richard Feverel""""""""; """"""""The Egoist""""""""; and certain passages of description in """"""""Vittoria"""""""" and """"""""Beauchamp's Career"""""""", he would still stand at the head of English """"""""dichtung"""""""" [the quality Mrs Ward thought the prize should reward] There is no critic now who can be ranged with him in position, and no poet. As a man of letters he is easily first; to compare Mr Spencer's power of clear statement with the play of imaginative genius in Meredith would be absurd - in the literary field'."""
"""[Letter from Mrs Ward to the Society of Authors when that body recommended Herbert Spencer not George Meredith for the Nobel Prize] If Mr Meredith had written nothing but the love scenes in """"""""Richard Feverel""""""""; """"""""The Egoist""""""""; and certain passages of description in """"""""Vittoria"""""""" and """"""""Beauchamp's Career"""""""", he would still stand at the head of English """"""""dichtung"""""""" [the quality Mrs Ward thought the prize should reward] There is no critic now who can be ranged with him in position, and no poet. As a man of letters he is easily first; to compare Mr Spencer's power of clear statement with the play of imaginative genius in Meredith would be absurd - in the literary field'."""
"""""""""""I have read your book with keen interest. I always read you with the pleasure of a literary critic recognising (and envying) mastery in the art of putting things."""""""""""
""" ... E. Terry, at Newnham College, Cambridge in 1902, recalls being coached in Middle High German Lyrics by a Dr. Breul: they came to """"""""a love-song that I thought particularly charming ... but Dr. Breul turned the page ... and said, 'Er ist nicht erbaulich' (not edifying)' ...""""""""'"""
""" ... E. Terry, at Newnham College, Cambridge in 1902, recalls being coached in Middle High German Lyrics by a Dr. Breul: they came to """"""""a love-song that I thought particualrly charming ... but Dr. Breul turned the page ... and said, 'Er ist nicht erbaulich' (not edifying)"""""""" ...""""""""'"""
"""I learnt with interest all about David and read Browning's """"""""Saul"""""""" with """"""""an intelligent scripture mistess"""""""".'"""
"""I learnt with interest all about David and read Browning's """"""""Saul"""""""" with """"""""an intelligent scripture mistess"""""""".'"""
"""Your paper in the """"""""Academy"""""""" mutilated as it is by the mystic mind illustrates my meaning.'"""
"""The lecture is splendid. It is striking in its expression [...]and in its eloquence too [...].I call it scientific eloquence--that is eloquence appealing not to the passions like the eloquence of the orator but to the reason..[...] All the criticism I've seen (now after reading the lecture) strike me as extremely unfair --[...] ' """
"""Friday 15 August 1924: 'When I was 20 I liked 18th Century prose; I liked Hakluyt, Merimee. I read masses of Carlyle, Scott's life & letters, Gibbon, all sorts of two volume biographies, & Shelley.'"""
"""Friday 15 August 1924: 'When I was 20 I liked 18th Century prose; I liked Hakluyt, Merimee. I read masses of Carlyle, Scott's life & letters, Gibbon, all sorts of two volume biographies, & Shelley.'"""
"""Friday 15 August 1924: 'When I was 20 I liked 18th Century prose; I liked Hakluyt, Merimee. I read masses of Carlyle, Scott's life & letters, Gibbon, all sorts of two volume biographies, & Shelley.'"""
"""Friday 15 August 1924: 'When I was 20 I liked 18th Century prose; I liked Hakluyt, Merimee. I read masses of Carlyle, Scott's life & letters, Gibbon, all sorts of two volume biographies, & Shelley.'"""
"""Friday 15 August 1924: 'When I was 20 I liked 18th Century prose; I liked Hakluyt, Merimee. I read masses of Carlyle, Scott's life & letters, Gibbon, all sorts of two volume biographies, & Shelley.'"""
"""Friday 15 August 1924: 'When I was 20 I liked 18th Century prose; I liked Hakluyt, Merimee. I read masses of Carlyle, Scott's life & letters, Gibbon, all sorts of two volume biographies, & Shelley.'"""
"""Friday 15 August 1924: 'When I was 20 I liked 18th Century prose; I liked Hakluyt, Merimee. I read masses of Carlyle, Scott's life & letters, Gibbon, all sorts of two volume biographies, & Shelley.'"""
"""Friday 15 August 1924: 'When I was 20 I liked 18th Century prose; I liked Hakluyt, Merimee. I read masses of Carlyle, Scott's life & letters, Gibbon, all sorts of two volume biographies, & Shelley.'"""
"""Friday 15 August 1924: 'When I was 20 I liked 18th Century prose; I liked Hakluyt, Merimee. I read masses of Carlyle, Scott's life & letters, Gibbon, all sorts of two volume biographies, & Shelley.'"""
""". . . I do not at the moment see how I can be of advantage to a Schoolmaster's Year Book.  I think fancy articles are a mistake in a Year Book.  You want nothing but serious informative or practically speculative stuff, all of it strictly topical & expert.  In the Literary Year Book the Editor has made a grave error by introducing miscellaneous articles which are not informative & have nothing to do with the year. ' """
"""I've lazed-- though I must say I did look through all the stories. It was the first look and I have done no actual underlining.'"""
"""Do not fail to get the Literary Supplement to the New York Times for Oct 4th & see W.L. Alden?s extraordinary appreciation of """"""""Anna"""""""".  He says it is the best novel of the sort since """"""""Esther Waters"""""""". (It is.). . . I have sent my cutting to Chatto'."""
"""'I am glad to be able to praise your article in this month?s Cornhill with less reserve than you praise my novel.'   """
"""Lunched with Ralph [Milbanke]. He has decided at last to publish the great Byron secret, and has drawn up the case against Byron and Mrs. Leigh in the form of a book called """"""""Astarte."""""""" This is very ably done, but to my mind is marred by an introduction violently attacking Murray, the publisher, with whom he has quarrelled over Murray's recent edition of Byron's Works. I shall endeavour to get him to modify this; indeed, I think the whole thing might without much injustice to Lady Byron's memory be let to sleep. It is an ugly story, however told.''"""
"""It's wonderful how well sustained is the excellence of """"""""Charlotte"""""""".I've just read the last instalment [...]'"""
"""Henry James to Owen Wister, 7 August 1902: 'I have been reading """"""""The Virginian"""""""" and I am moved to write to you.  You didn't send him to me -- you never send me anything; as to which, heaven knows, you're not obliged [...] I mention the matter only from the sense of my having felt, as I read, how the sentiment of the thing would have deepened for me if I [italics] had [end italics] had it from your hands.' """
"""Henry James to W. Morton Fullerton, 7 November 1902: 'Your two little periodicals have just come in [...] I immediately read the Zola in it [sic] [...] because I promised the ingenuous """"""""Atlantic"""""""" to write a paper on him.'"""
"""Henry James to Urbain Mengin, 1 January 1903: 'Your great handsome wide-margined large-printed, yellow-covered """"""""Italie des Romantiques"""""""" came to me safely more months ago than I have the courage to confess to in round numbers [...] I have in any case attentively and appreciatively read it; finding in it much entertaining matter very succinctly and agreeably presented'. """
"""On the terrace in the evening he would read Plato aloud, especially the """"""""Phaedo"""""""", the final pages of which never failed to move him to tears. To the end of her life Elinor never ceased to be surprised by the number of eminent men who chose to express their friendship and pleasure in her company by reading Plato and Aristotle aloud to her.'"""
"""He [Edward Garnett] gave me his father's book for you. He handed it to me because I wanted to look at some new stories in the vol:[...] I send it on now. E.G[arnett]. thinks that the intelligence and irony  of the book may appeal to H.G.[Wells] I think so too.' """
"""Referring to Elsie Hueffer's translation of Maupassant:  'I've """"""""suggested"""""""" on the proof numbered 2 everything that occurred to me as improvement. Your work and your corrections are all right. The preface is extremely good.' Hence follow twelve lines of minor comment about the translation, including delicately skirting around Mrs.Hueffer's naive misuse of the French verb 'baiser' instead of 'embrasser'. """
"""...he had read so much of de Maupassant, and had admired him for so many years, that  probably his manner and his conceptions had sunk  into his subconscious.  As he said to himself, on re-reading """"""""Bel-Ami"""""""" after ten years in 1903 - """"""""People might easily say that in """"""""A Man from the North"""""""" I had plagiarized from it...""""""""' """
"""The """"""""Mercure de France"""""""" notice is agreeable - and as he [Henry-Durand Davray] reproduces what I have been lately talking at him as to French fiction I am flattered.'  """
"""?I have received your book and in spite of your permission to abstain, have read it from first to last? My ignorance of the subject was pretty exhaustive but I knew just enough to have some kind of pegs to which new knowledge might adhere.?"""
"""Many MS dates of reading incl. """"""""Began reading the Odyssey in summer of 1902, continued it during summer of 1903."""""""" """
"""When I landed at Newhaven a few days ago, the first printed thing that caught my eye was a newspaper placard: """"""""Vice in the Potteries: Shocking Details.""""""""  It was a London newspaper.  Soon afterwards I learnt about the """"""""crusade"""""""" of the Honourable and Reverend Leonard Tyrwhitt.'  """
""". . . the cab driver reads a coloured comic paper . . .'"""
"""The"""""""" River of Cathay"""""""" is good; it is right; perfectly right; right in tone and in expression. It pleased me much.' """
"""[her governess Helen Roothman] 'introduced Edith to the works of Verlaine, Rimbaud and Mallarme. Though Edith had had a taste for Baudelaire through Swinburne's translations of the author of """"""""Les Fleurs du mal"""""""", she found her governess' favorites even more to her liking'."""
"""[Helen Roothman] 'brought Edith new poetry too - the French symbolists, Verlaine, Rimbaud, Baudelaire - to enlarge her own rapt readings of Swinburne, William Morris, Shakespeare, Keats, Shelley, Yeats'."""
"""[Helen Roothman] 'brought Edith new poetry too - the French symbolists, Verlaine, Rimbaud, Baudelaire - to enlarge her own rapt readings of Swinburne, William Morris, Shakespeare, Keats, Shelley, Yeats'."""
"""[Helen Roothman] 'brought Edith new poetry too - the French symbolists, Verlaine, Rimbaud, Baudelaire - to enlarge her own rapt readings of Swinburne, William Morris, Shakespeare, Keats, Shelley, Yeats'."""
"""[Helen Roothman] 'brought Edith new poetry too - the French symbolists, Verlaine, Rimbaud, Baudelaire - to enlarge her own rapt readings of Swinburne, William Morris, Shakespeare, Keats, Shelley, Yeats'."""
"""[Helen Roothman] 'brought Edith new poetry too - the French symbolists, Verlaine, Rimbaud, Baudelaire - to enlarge her own rapt readings of Swinburne, William Morris, Shakespeare, Keats, Shelley, Yeats'."""
"""Baccae [sic] is far and away the best play of Euripides I have read.'"""
"""""""""""Many thanks for 'Mankind in the Making'.  Like 'Anticipations' it is very wonderful, and very uneven."""""""""""
"""Henry James to Viscount Garnet Wolseley, 7 December 1903: 'I feel I must absolutely not have passed these several last evenings in your so interesting and vivid society without thanking you almost as much as if you had personally given me the delightful hours or held me there with your voice.  I have read your two volumes [The Story of a Soldier's Life] from covers to covers and parted from you with a positive pang.' """
"""Henry James to Howard Sturgis, 8 November 1903: 'I send you back the blooming proofs [of Sturgis's novel """"""""Belchamber""""""""] with many thanks and with no marks or comments at all [goes on to offer criticisms].'"""
"""Henry James to Howard Sturgis, 8 November 1903: 'I send you back the blooming proofs [of Sturgis's novel """"""""Belchamber""""""""] with many thanks and with no marks or comments at all [goes on to offer criticisms] [...] I send you back also """"""""Temple Bar"""""""", in which I have found your paper a moving and charming thing'."""
"""I lunched with him [""""""""a high dignitary of the Anglican Church""""""""] at Shepheard's; and , leaving him for half and hour, during which I rushed home  and read all up in Baedeker, I drove him to old Cairo, showing him the Nilometer, the place where Moses mewled in the bullrushes (there are none there now) and the oldest Coptic Church, Mari Girgis, where the Holy family are supposed to have rested on their way through Egypt.'"""
"""As classes were large and teachers few, individual tuition was scant. The three R's were the basic subjects, and scripture study took up a big slice of the time. And through this study I gained the first inklings of sex knowledge. Fascinating as the Old Testament was in the graphic description of battles, murders, and floods, the sex lore of Leviticus was our chief attraction, for it inspired earnest inquiry into the full meaning of adultery, fornication, and childbirth, the information being communicated to each other by gestures and whisperings that cleared up some of the mysteries that puzzled our inquisitive minds.'"""
"""13/3/1904 - """"""""He was able to read on the last morning of his life, asking me to bring him an article on Shakespeare and a new poem by Thomas Hardy."""""""""""
"""13/3/1904 - """"""""He was able to read on the last morning of his life, asking me to bring him an article on Shakespeare and a new poem by Thomas Hardy."""""""""""
"""On Friday afternoon I went to Mudie's.  What a fascinating place it is!! I had some peeps into most lovely books, & the bindings were exquisite'."""
"""I am just finishing the Life of B[urne-]. J[ones]. which begins to bore me slightly-not the Life, which is excellent, but the man.'"""
"""And that reminds me that your last Strand story was really admirable.  A little faint towards the end I thought, but fundamentally damn good. '"""
""". . . Jules Claretie's """"""""L'Histoire de la R?volution de 1870-1871.""""""""  He says that he """"""""looked at the pictures"""""""" in Claretie (though there is little doubt that he read it too). . .'"""
"""I am disposed to agree with your own estimate of """"""""Scepticism of the Instrument"""""""".  I don?t, however, think that your third indictment of the instrument is quite new.'  """
"""After a stormy passage I find myself once more at Alexandria and Sheyk Obeyd. During the voyage I read Frederick [sic] Harrison's novel which he has just published, a strange mixture of historic fact of the most interesting kind, and melodrama of the most conventional. The romantic episodes will not, I think, redound to Harrison's philosophic fame, for it is naively unreal, but these take up but a few pages, and might as well have been omitted altogether, while the historic background is vigorous and well told, only, as in every historical novel, the parts that are true ought to be printed in sober type, the parts untrue in red.'"""
"""I am reading, 'Your Life in 15 Century' Mrs J. R. Green.'"""
"""I am reading, ... """"""""Life"""""""" of William Morris.'"""
"""I am reading, ... Layard's Nineveh.'"""
"""I am reading, ... """"""""History of Music.""""""""'"""
"""I am reading, ... """"""""Not Wisely but too Well"""""""" by Miss Rhoda Broughton.'"""
"""I am reading, ... 2 bound volumes of the Windsor Magazine which I hire for 2d a week, a ridiculously cheap price.'"""
"""...- I spend 5 days of precious time toiling through Henry James' subtleties for Mrs Lyttleton, and write a very hardworking review for her...'"""
"""[Robinson Crusoe] was Thomas Jordan's favorite book, read through in one sitting at age eleven. The promise of """"""""faraway places fired my imagination"""""""" and ultimately inspired him, the son of an iliterate miner, to leave the pits of his Durham mining village and join the Army'."""
"""There was one German scholar with whom she had at any rate a lengthy correspondence - Dr Adolf Julicher, of Marburg, whose monumental work on the New Testament she presented one day in a moment of enthusiasm, to her younger daughter [the author] (aged seventeen), suggesting that she should translate it into English. The daughter dutifully obeyed, devoting the best part of three years to the task - only to find, when the work was all but finished, that the German professor had in the meantime brought out a new edition of his book, running to some 100 pages of additional matter. Dismay reigned at Stocks, but there was no help for it: the additional 100 pages had to be tackled. In the end Mrs Ward herself seized on the proofs and went all through them, pen in hand; little indeed was left of the daughter's unlucky sentences by the time the process was complete.'"""
"""There was one German scholar with whom she had at any rate a lengthy correspondence - Dr Adolf Julicher, of Marburg, whose monumental work on the New Testament she presented one day in a moment of enthusiasm, to her younger daughter [the author] (aged seventeen), suggesting that she should translate it into English. The daughter dutifully obeyed, devoting the best part of three years to the task - only to find, when the work was all but finished, that the German professor had in the meantime brought out a new edition of his book, running to some 100 pages of additional matter. Dismay reigned at Stocks, but there was no help for it: the additional 100 pages had to be tackled. In the end Mrs Ward herself seized on the proofs and went all through them, pen in hand; little indeed was left of the daughter's unlucky sentences by the time the process was complete.'"""
"""There was one German scholar with whom she had at any rate a lengthy correspondence - Dr Adolf Julicher, of Marburg, whose monumental work on the New Testament she presented one day in a moment of enthusiasm, to her younger daughter [the author] (aged seventeen), suggesting that she should translate it into English. The daughter dutifully obeyed, devoting the best part of three years to the task - only to find, when the work was all but finished, that the German professor had in the meantime brought out a new edition of his book, running to some 100 pages of additional matter. Dismay reigned at Stocks, but there was no help for it: the additional 100 pages had to be tackled. In the end Mrs Ward herself seized on the proofs and went all through them, pen in hand; little indeed was left of the daughter's unlucky sentences by the time the process was complete.'"""
"""Just before leaving Paris I read the first instalment of """"""""F. of G."""""""" in Pearson?s & thought it  extremely good, barring a few minime verbal infelicities.  It cost me 2 francs to buy the number, but I couldn?t resist it.'  """
"""I do not think """"""""Romance"""""""" is good.  In fact it isn?t & I don?t care who knows it.  Ever read Dostoevsky?s Crime and Punishment?  English translation damnable; but it is a novel.  I?m just reading it again.  """
"""I do not think """"""""Romance"""""""" is good.  In fact it isn?t & I don?t care who knows it.  Ever read Dostoevsky?s """"""""Crime and Punishment""""""""?  English translation damnable; but it is a novel.  I?m just reading it again.'  """
"""I had read about this country [China] with its forty centuries of history - more or less static, but which, at the present time, is passing through the most momentous transformation in history'"""
"""Many thanks for the book. [A Modern Utopia.] If it was a novel I could say something useful about it, but as it isn?t, I don?t know that I can.  The latter half of it is much more convincing & suggestive than the first half, & is also better done, but all of it is better than """"""""Mankind in the Making"""""""".'"""
"""Henry James to H. G. Wells, 19 November 1905, in praise of two works recently sent by Wells: 'I found your first munificence here on returning [from tour of USA] [...] toward the end of July [...] I recognized [...] that the Utopia [""""""""A Modern Utopia"""""""" was a book I should desire to read only in the right conditions of [italics] coming [end italics] to it [...]  I """"""""came to it"""""""" only a short time since [...] and achieved a complete saturation; after which [...] I found Kipps [...] awaiting me -- and from his so different but still so utterly coercive embrace I have just emerged.'"""
"""Henry James to H. G. Wells, 19 November 1905, in praise of two works recently sent by Wells: 'I found your first munificence here on returning [from tour of USA] [...] toward the end of July [...] I recognized [...] that the Utopia [""""""""A Modern Utopia"""""""" was a book I should desire to read only in the right conditions of [italics] coming [end italics] to it [...]  I """"""""came to it"""""""" only a short time since [...] and achieved a complete saturation; after which [...] I found Kipps [...] awaiting me -- and from his so different but still so utterly coercive embrace I have just emerged.'"""
"""‘I read every word that A. G. Stephens wrote. I sought out the works of writers he mentioned.’"""
"""Not having frequented a club before I was at first enchanted by the number and variety of the newspapers and magazines, but soon found them spiritually a diet of hors d'oeuvres and so restricted myself to the """"""""The Times"""""""" and the """"""""Vie Parisienne"""""""".'"""
"""Not having frequented a club before I was at first enchanted by the number and variety of the newspapers and magazines, but soon found them spiritually a diet of hors d'oeuvres and so restricted myself to the """"""""The Times"""""""" and the """"""""Vie Parisienne"""""""".'"""
"""This moment I receive """"""""Progress"""""""", or rather the moment (last night) occurred favorably to let me read before I sat down to write. Nothing in my writing life[...] has give mre a greater pleasure, a deeper satisfaction of innocent vanity [...] than the dedication of the book so full of admirable things, from the wonderful preface to the slightest of the sketches between the covers.' Hence follow nine more lines of unqualified praise."""
"""Your article on [Icelandic] Sagas first rate  and extracts quoted are good. I quite see how one could get dramas out of that.' """
"""Don't worry about me; at last I am a serious soldier.  I have a pile of books on ordnance, and gunnery, and ammunition, and explosives etc., etc., littering my table, to say nothing of Napier's """"""""Peninsular War"""""""", and a """"""""Life of Napolean""""""""![sic]  So when my major made a surprise descent yesterday afternoon from Curepipe, he found me immersed in an essay on Rifling, and was rather pleased!'"""
"""I have re-read your book on Trafalgar and can only repeat that your argumentation is absolutely convincing.'"""
"""Don't worry about me; at last I am a serious soldier.  I have a pile of books on ordnance, and gunnery, and ammunition, and explosives etc., etc., littering my table, to say nothing of Napier's """"""""Peninsular War"""""""", and a """"""""Life of Napolean""""""""! [sic]  So when my major made a surprise descent yesterday afternoon from Curepipe, he found me immersed in an essay on Rifling, and was rather pleased!'"""
"""I have been reading the """"""""Life of Dr. Johnson"""""""", and in a letter of his to a friend on the death of his mother I found the following passage, which reminded me of a resolve made some time ago, but forgotten.'"""
"""In future I hope that instead of saying as the fat boy in """"""""Pickwick"""""""" does """"""""I wants to make yer flesh creep,"""""""" when I have a """"""""liver"""""""" my letters will be particularly cheerful!'"""
"""I've just read Nelson. It is very good. Some criticism can be made mainly on the point that  you presuppose too much knowledge of facts in your readers. Still we shall try to place it where it may be judged sympathetically.'"""
"""Relishing the part of iconoclast, ... [Sir Walter Raleigh] wrote [to Miss C. A. Kerr] in 1905 [15 April], after lying abed reading Trollope, """"""""I'm afraid it's no use anyone telling me that Thackeray is a better novelist than Trollope.""""""""'"""
"""""""""""The words I didn't understand I just skipped over, yet managed to get a good idea of what the story was about"""""""", wrote James Murray, the son of a Scottish shoemaker. """"""""By the time I was ten or eleven years old I did not need to skip any words in any books because by then I had a good grounding in roots and derivations"""""""". Crusoe so aroused his appetite for literature that, when his school teacher asked the class to list all the books they had read, Murray rattled off titles by Ballantyne, Kingston and Dickens until """"""""I realised the eyes of everyone in the room were on me...""""""""'"""
"""""""""""The words I didn't understand I just skipped over, yet managed to get a good idea of what the story was about"""""""", wrote James Murray, the son of a Scottish shoemaker. """"""""By the time I was ten or eleven years old I did not need to skip any words in any books because by then I had a good grounding in roots and derivations"""""""". Crusoe so aroused his appetite for literature that, when his schoolteacher asked the class to list all the books they had read, Murray rattled off titles by Ballantyne, Kingston and Dickens until """"""""I realised the eyes of everyone in the room were on me...""""""""'"""
"""""""""""The words I didn't understand I just skipped over, yet managed to get a good idea of what the story was about"""""""", wrote James Murray, the son of a Scottish shoemaker. """"""""By the time I was ten or eleven years old I did not need to skip any words in any books because by then I had a good grounding in roots and derivations"""""""". Crusoe so aroused his appetite for literature that, when his schoolteacher asked the class to list all the books they had read, Murray rattled off titles by Ballantyne, Kingston and Dickens until """"""""I realised the eyes of everyone in the room were on me...""""""""'"""
"""""""""""The words I didn't understand I just skipped over, yet managed to get a good idea of what the story was about"""""""", wrote James Murray, the son of a Scottish shoemaker. """"""""By the time I was ten or eleven years old I did not need to skip any words in any books because by then I had a good grounding in roots and derivations"""""""". Crusoe so aroused his appetite for literature that, when his schoolteacher asked the class to list all the books they had read, Murray rattled off titles by Ballantyne, Kingston and Dickens until """"""""I realised the eyes of everyone in the room were on me...""""""""'"""
"""When it was discovered that she liked Swinburne's poetry, Sir George demanded that she forego such sensual verse. If she had to read poetry, he pontificated, she should read Tennyson for beauty, Austin Dobson for charm, and Kipling for strength'."""
"""Browning was a little beyond her. Convinced that he was a great poet, she still found him a bore at times. Elizabeth Barrett Browning was a major disappointment: she thought """"""""Sonnets from the Portuguese"""""""" were beautiful in emotion but simply not good sonnets'."""
"""Browning was a little beyond her. Convinced that he was a great poet, she still found him a bore at times. Elizabeth Barrett Browning was a major disappointment: she thought """"""""Sonnets from the Portuguese"""""""" were beautiful in emotion but simply not good sonnets'."""
"""Henry James to Edith Wharton, 8 February 1905: '[...] your good letter has found me on the very point of writing to you [...] For I have read the February morsel of """"""""The House of Mirth"""""""", with such a sense of its compact fulness, vivid picture and """"""""sustained interest"""""""" as to make me really wish to celebrate the emotion.' """
"""Henry James to Edith Wharton, 8 November 1905, in praise of the conclusion to """"""""The House of Mirth"""""""": 'Half an hour ago, or less, I laid down the November """"""""Scribner"""""""" [...] Let me tell you at once that I very much admire that fiction'."""
"""However, to make up, the Times has sent me two trashy books, about Thackeray and Dickens and I may write 1500 words or so - Bruce Richmond is generous...'"""
"""However, to make up, the Times has sent me two trashy books, about Thackeray and Dickens and I may write 1500 words or so - Bruce Richmond is generous...'"""
"""The only real seizable fault that I can find in Kipps is the engagement to Helen, which entirely failed to convince me.   . . . After agreeing with myself that I read the thing  all through with eagerness & joy, and after telling myself that I must not expect in your """"""""human interest"""""""" novels those aspects of life which you either can?t see or disdain to see,  I find myself asking what this book """"""""proves"""""""" & not getting any answer.'  """
""". . . By the way your Westminster Gazette article was magnificent, & filled me with holy joy.'"""
"""Henry James to Paul Bourget 21 December 1905, thanking him for copy of """"""""Les Deux Soeurs"""""""": 'This volume I read with immediate attention and with the highest appreciation'."""
"""Henry James to William James, 23 November 1905: 'I can read [italics]you[end italics] with rapture -- having three weeks ago spent three or four days with Manton Marble at Brighton and found in his hands ever so many of your recent papers and discourses, which having margins of mornings in my room, through both breakfasting and lunching there [...] I found time to read several of'."""
"""Without personal influence on my life he [Harry de la Rose Farnall] he nevertheless put into my hands the small poorly printed volume that led me into communion, how remote and unworthy soever [sic], with Dante.' """
"""The Primitive Methodists may have been the most anti-intellectual of the Wesleyans, yet miners' MP John Johnson """"""""found their teaching the strongest possible incentive to trying to improve myself, not only morally, but mentally, and towards the latter end I took to serious and systematic study."""""""" He read deeply in history and philosophy, as well as such this-worldly tracts as The Wealth of Nations, John Stuart Mill's Principles of Political Economy, and Alfred Marshall's Principles of Economics'."""
"""Henry James, in 1 November 1906 letter to Joseph Conrad, writes of having just read and admired """"""""The Mirror of the Sea""""""""."""
"""Jinne Moore was awfully good at elocution.  Was she better than I? I could make the girls cry when I read Dickens in the sewing class, and she couldn't.'"""
"""I have read through the 12 lessons of the Literary Correspondence College, & made a few corrections & suggestions, & I return them by parcel post.  They are devilish good.  But it is impossible to deny that they [italics] are [end italics] my book.  There is not, I think, a single sentence in all the lessons that is not my ipsissima verba.  And beyond the chapters on journalism, verse etc, there is nothing in my book which is not in these lessons.  In a word, the twelve lessons are simply my book split up and typewritten.'"""
"""[Ford's] """"""""The Heart of the Country"""""""" is out today and a very charming piece of writing it is.' """
"""Henry James to the Earl of Lovelace, 14 January 1906: 'I left home at Christmas for a few weeks' stay, which became a fortnight's absence, and, on my return a week ago, found the very handsome, remarkable and interesting volume [""""""""Astarte"""""""", Lovelace's account of his grandmother's marriage to Byron] which you had been so good as to send me.  I wished to take real possession of it before having the pleasure of thanking you, and have now done so by a very attentive, and in fact fascinated perusal.'"""
"""The Comet appeared to my naked (and surprised) eye yesterday morning. By a great effort of will I stuck to my own task till lunchtime. I began my observations in the afternoon and continued at it far into the night. I've completed them this morning. It is indeed a phenomenon!' Hence follow 18 lines of preliminary commentary on the text."""
"""What price Bart Kennedy on America in the Daily Mail?' """
"""I got the play [""""""""The Breaking Point""""""""] at 9 this morning. I've shut myself up with it at once and I won't come out of the room. I will see no one, will let  no word or thing come between it and me  till I've written to you.'   Hence follow five pages of commentary and praise. """
"""There is what I consider a pretty good 5 Towns story [‘From One Generation to Another’] in the October London Magazine.  But they have given it a rotten air by splitting it up into two short paragraphs, & by the vilest illustrations.  I hate to be published in that desolating publication.  It humiliates me.  Still, new flats have to be paid for.'  """
"""Henry James writes to Paul Bourget (in French) in a letter of 19 December 1906, of having enjoyed his """"""""Etudes et Portraits"""""""", in an inscribed copy sent to him a few weeks beforehand by Bourget."""
"""Do you know I have read none of the books that you mentioned.  Is not that shocking - but - Sylvia - you know that little """"""""Harold Brown"""""""" shop in Wimpole Shop [for street] - I picked up a small collection of poems entitled """"""""The Silver Net"""""""" by Louis Vintras - and I liked some of them immensely.  The atmosphere is so intense' [intense underlined]"""
"""I've read Jack's article in the """"""""Speaker"""""""". Hum! Hum! He had better be careful.'"""
"""And you never will persuade the people who don?t matter that the close of the 'Comet' is not profoundly immoral.'"""
"""At present I am reading Goethe‚Äôs conversations with Eckerman. they are nearly as good as Sam Johnson, though in an entirely different vein.  You ought to read 'Wilhelm Meister' — again if you have already read it.'"""
""". . . now I see the announcement of your articles in the Tribune . . . '"""
"""The blessed vol: [""""""""The Fifth Queen""""""""] arrived about 4 days ago - or is it a week? I've read it twice - thats all.[...] Here I'll add one more phrase bearing upon the most """"""""sensible"""""""" general effect.[...] The pictorial impression of the whole is positively overwhelming.' """
"""Shakespeare provided a political script for J.R. Clynes, the son of an Irish farm labourer, who rose from the textile mills of Oldham to become deputy leader of the House of Commons. In his youth he drew inspiration from the """"""""strange truth"""""""" he found in Twelfth Night: """"""""Be not afraid of greatness"""""""". (""""""""What a creed! How it would upset the world if men lived up to it, I thought"""""""") Urged on by a Cooperative Society librarian, he worked through the plays and discovered they were about people who """"""""had died for their beliefs. Wat Tyler and Jack Cade seemed heroes"""""""". Reading Julius Caesar, """"""""the realisation came suddenly to me that it was a mighty political drama"""""""" about class struggle, """"""""not just an entertainment""""""""... Elected to Parliament in 1906, he read A Midsummer Night's Dream while awaiting the returns'."""
"""During her visit [to America] in 1905-6 May Sinclair was reduced to tears when she saw one article, based on a conversation over tea, which she felt included too intimate personal details ...'"""
"""On Wednesdays the bells of St. Michael's Church on the neighbouring hill pealed for a service or, as some said, """"""""choir practice"""""""". They filled me with dread, a reminder of Sunday yet to come. In <i>Eric or Little by Little</i> which I had begun to read, the bell was always tolling. <i>Or the World of School</i> it said, and in that school it seemed that the boys died off like flies.'"""
"""""""""""Rupert Brook [ironically] advised Geoffrey and Maynard Keynes against attempting The Sorrows of Satan, [Marie] Corelli's principal best-seller: 'It is the richest work of humour in the English (?) language: but the effects it produces upon the unwary reader ...!  I am now a positive wreck.'"""""""""""
"""The book [""""""""The Man of Property""""""""] is in parts marvellously done and in its whole a piece of art-undubitably [sic] a piece of art. I've read it 3 times. My respect for you increased with every reading.' """
"""Your Chicago article was very good.' """
""". . . every evening after dinner he read """"""""Whom God Hath Joined"""""""" . . . to Agnes and me. [Eleanor Green] I remember objecting to the daughter in the book, giving her father away . . . and having a heated argument with the author in consequence.'"""
"""Henry James to H. G. Wells, 8 November 1906: 'I came back last night from five days in London to find your so generously-given """"""""America,"""""""" and I have done nothing today but thrill and squirm with it and vibrate to it almost feverishly and weep over it almost profusely'. """
"""And on the subject of Wells, his book on the United States is quite smart. He has understood a heap of fundamentally unintelligible things. That's the purpose of an imagination like his, aided by an intelligence as sharp as acid.'  """
"""Henry James writes to Paul Bourget (in French) in a letter of 19 December 1906, of having read his article on Ferdinand Brunetiere in """"""""Temps""""""""a few days beforehand."""
"""Henry James to Clare Benedict, 13 September 1907: 'Returning to this place [Lamb House, Rye] early in July after a long absence abroad [...] I found the March """"""""Atlantic"""""""" in a great heap of waiting postal matter on my table [...] I addressed myself to your delicate discreet little story [goes on to praise it]'."""
"""The night before we left [Montpellier]was one of the worst I have ever spent. Joseph Conrad was still handicapped by having his right hand in bandages, the gout had twisted his wrist and left it very weak and painful [...].  I was glad when my husband left me to finish the packing and retired to another room to read. But I was busy all night.' """
"""Leon Edel notes, regarding Henry James's letter to James B. Pinker of 14 October 1907: 'The eminent actor Johnston Forbes-Robertson read H[enry]J[ames]'s  story """"""""Covering End"""""""" in """"""""The Two Magics"""""""" (1898) and proposed that the novelist turn it into a play for him.'"""
"""Henry James to William James, 17 October 1907: 'Why the devil I didn't write to you after reading your """"""""Pragmatism"""""""" [...] I can't now explain save by the very fact of the spell itself (of interest and enthralment) that the book cast upon me'."""
"""Henry James to William James, 17 October 1907: 'Why the devil I didn't write to you after reading your """"""""Pragmatism"""""""" [...] I can't now explain save by the very fact of the spell itself (of interest and enthralment) that the book cast upon me [...] I have been absorbing a number more of your followings-up of the matter in the American (Journal of Psychology[?]) which your devouring devotee Manton Marble of Brighton [...] plied'."""
"""He [Joseph Conrad] would read to me for long periods and make birds and other things out of sheets of paper which he folded with great dexterity. [...] His choice of books always met with my approval; I believe he must have read them all during his youth and enjoyed re-reading them almost  as much as I enjoyed listening. Among them were Charles Kingsley's """"""""Greek Heroes"""""""", Fennimore [sic] Cooper's """"""""The Last of the Mohicans"""""""", """"""""[The] Deerslayer"""""""", """"""""The Pathfinder"""""""" and Captain Marryat's """"""""Peter Simple"""""""", """"""""[Mr] Midshipman Easy"""""""",etc.[...] Some of these volumes [...] are still on my bookshelves here with his signature inside the cover.'    """
"""He [Joseph Conrad] would read to me for long periods and make birds and other things out of sheets of paper which he folded with great dexterity. [...] His choice of books always met with my approval; I believe he must have read them all during his youth and enjoyed re-reading them almost  as much as I enjoyed listening. Among them were Charles Kingsley's """"""""Greek Heroes"""""""", Fennimore [sic] Cooper's """"""""The Last of the Mohicans"""""""", """"""""[The] Deerslayer"""""""", """"""""The Pathfinder"""""""" and Captain Marryat's """"""""Peter Simple"""""""", """"""""[Mr] Midshipman Easy"""""""",etc.[...] Some of these volumes [...] are still on my bookshelves here with his signature inside the cover.'    """
"""He [Joseph Conrad] would read to me for long periods and make birds and other things out of sheets of paper which he folded with great dexterity. [...] His choice of books always met with my approval; I believe he must have read them all during his youth and enjoyed re-reading them almost  as much as I enjoyed listening. Among them were Charles Kingsley's """"""""Greek Heroes"""""""", Fennimore [sic] Cooper's """"""""The Last of the Mohicans"""""""", """"""""[The] Deerslayer"""""""", """"""""The Pathfinder"""""""" and Captain Marryat's """"""""Peter Simple"""""""", """"""""[Mr] Midshipman Easy"""""""",etc.[...] Some of these volumes [...] are still on my bookshelves here with his signature inside the cover.'    """
"""He [Joseph Conrad] would read to me for long periods and make birds and other things out of sheets of paper which he folded with great dexterity. [...] His choice of books always met with my approval; I believe he must have read them all during his youth and enjoyed re-reading them almost  as much as I enjoyed listening. Among them were Charles Kingsley's """"""""Greek Heroes"""""""", Fennimore [sic] Cooper's """"""""The Last of the Mohicans"""""""", """"""""[The] Deerslayer"""""""", """"""""The Pathfinder"""""""" and Captain Marryat's """"""""Peter Simple"""""""", """"""""[Mr] Midshipman Easy"""""""",etc.[...] Some of these volumes [...] are still on my bookshelves here with his signature inside the cover.'    """
"""‘In October 1899, my brother Dick was born, and Mum left the hospital, and soon it was school for Jack. For the next seven years, he passed through the various classes, doing consistently good work. He was very fond of reading, and his taste ranged from “Deadwood Dicks” to the classics. The townspeople were his friends, and, when he was sent on messages, he would delight them by telling them of the books he had read, and the jokes he had heard. “Oh, Jack! One woman said laughingly, ‘you can’t expect me to believe that!” He assured her quite seriously, but with a twinkle in his eyes, that it was quite true. He read a love scene which he thought was very funny to one of the teachers one day. She laughed, but as he went away, she said, “ I wonder what made him read that to me.” He didn’t know that she had become engaged a short time previously. Thus originated his skill as a raconteur, and his “Have you heard this one?” which earned for him the nick-name of “Chut”.’"""
"""He was a diligent reader of, to name a few, Shakespeare, Bernard Shaw, Kipling, Byron, Oscar Wilde, Smollett, and such poets as Keats, Swinburne, Shelley, and Poe. He obtained his books from the University Library by 'swiping' them surreptitiously and had them 'sneaked' back into the Library by a classmate."""""""""""
"""The house in which I was born was ... a two-centuries-old Georgian mansion, a barrack of a place that seemed even larger in my juvenile perspective than it actually was ... Here—when I grew older and had learned to read—I could get away in a corner and read all day until a properly organized search party routed me out. <i>Castle Squander</i>, <i>Handy Andy</i>, <i>The Absentee</i>, and many another old Irish tale of the """"""""big house"""""""" found a not inappropriate setting for me in those echoing rooms with their cracked plaster ceilings and tattered wallpapers.'"""
"""The house in which I was born was ... a two-centuries-old Georgian mansion, a barrack of a place that seemed even larger in my juvenile perspective than it actually was ... Here—when I grew older and had learned to read—I could get away in a corner and read all day until a properly organized search party routed me out. <i>Castle Squander</i>, <i>Handy Andy</i>, <i>The Absentee</i>, and many another old Irish tale of the """"""""big house"""""""" found a not inappropriate setting for me in those echoing rooms with their cracked plaster ceilings and tattered wallpapers.'"""
"""The house in which I was born was ... a two-centuries-old Georgian mansion, a barrack of a place that seemed even larger in my juvenile perspective than it actually was ... Here—when I grew older and had learned to read—I could get away in a corner and read all day until a properly organized search party routed me out. <i>Castle Squander</i>, <i>Handy Andy</i>, <i>The Absentee</i>, and many another old Irish tale of the """"""""big house"""""""" found a not inappropriate setting for me in those echoing rooms with their cracked plaster ceilings and tattered wallpapers.'"""
"""It was from [my father, a policeman] that I acquired the habit, which I have never been able to shake off, of reading in bed; and one of my most vivid recollections is of my father lying up in bed, upholstered in pillows, the eternal pipe in his mouth, absorbed in a book, and I, a young boy, lying gravely beside him, pretending to be deep in—of all the literary meats for a child's stomach!—<i>Hudibras</i>.'"""
""" ... as I had started adolescence in a blaze of idealism, the conflicting ugliness of factory life often drove my spirits into the depths. I rushed to poetry for escape and lived a double existence by seeking the slopes of Parnassus in thought while my hands mechanically soldered lead fittings or malletted sheet metal into shape at the grimy benches of the workshop.'"""
"""Each night I hurried into my best second-hand suit of clothes, hurried down my tea and then hurried off to evening class to learn English grammar and literature. And what a revelation it was ... The study of style and the composition of poetry were especially fascinating, and I used to go to bed with Addison or Macaulay flashing in my mind and with my emotions stirred by the <i>Ode to the Nightingale</i>.'"""
"""Each night I hurried into my best second-hand suit of clothes, hurried down my tea and then hurried off to evening class to learn English grammar and literature. And what a revelation it was ... The study of style and the composition of poetry were especially fascinating, and I used to go to bed with Addison or Macaulay flashing in my mind and with my emotions stirred by the <i>Ode to the Nightingale</i>.'"""
"""Each night I hurried into my best second-hand suit of clothes, hurried down my tea and then hurried off to evening class to learn English grammar and literature. And what a revelation it was ... The study of style and the composition of poetry were especially fascinating, and I used to go to bed with Addison or Macaulay flashing in my mind and with my emotions stirred by the <i>Ode to the Nightingale</i>.'"""
"""Many thanks for your letter & the 2 numbers.  I think the paper is very interesting.'   """
"""Henry James to Edith Wharton, 24 November 1907: 'I have read """"""""The Fruit [of the Tree"""""""", in copy sent by Wharton][...] with acute appreciation -- the liveliest admiration and sympathy.'"""
"""Jessie's cooking book is written and quite ready and corrected with several Remarks, 130 recipes and Prefaces by yours truly-all wanting to be retyped nice and clean.[...] My preface is a mock serious thing[...] but the little book is not bad. Its about 15,000 words or a little less.'"""
"""Henry James to Elizabeth Jordan, 3 May 1907: 'you sent me Mrs. Phelps Ward's contribution to the """"""""Whole Family"""""""" -- which I began to read the other day, but which immediately affeted me as subjected to so pitiless an ordeal in the searching artistic light and amid the intellectual and literary associations of Paris that I [...] laid it away to await resuscitation of it in a medium in which I shall be able to surround my perusal of it with more precautions.'"""
"""One day, however, I made a discovery. I could read myself! I was four years old now... and while sprawling on the floor with a comic open at the pictures of Weary Willie and Tired Tim, or Dreamy Daniel, or Casey Court, or the Mulberry Flatites, I found that the captions under suddenly began to read themselves out to me.'"""
"""A more recent influence was Huysmans' """"""""Les Soeurs Vatards"""""""", a novel about artisan life in a lace-maker's atelier in Paris, which he read with great admiration in March 1907, and which he admired for its uncompromising realism . . .'"""
"""The N.A. is not advocating immediately practical ideas.  It is preparing opinion for ideas which will in future be practical.  I think it is a devilish good paper.  Read the review of Rees book on India in this week?s. '   """
"""[...] the gratuitous atrocity of, say, """"""""Ivan Illyitch""""""""[sic] or the monstous stupidity of such a thing as """"""""The Kreutzer Sonata"""""""" for instance; where an obvious degenerate not worth looking at twice, totally unfitted not only for married life but for any sort of life is presented as a sympathetic victim of some sort of sacred truth that is supposed to live within him.'"""
"""Does the A[natole] F[rance] next book consist of the proofs you've let me see? And what on earth is one to write about it?' """
"""They have arrived--the 6 of them; I have felt them all in turn and all at one time as it were, and to celebrate the event I have given myself a holiday for the morning,not to read any of them --I could not settle to that, but to commune with them all, and gloat over the promise of the prefaces. But of these last I have read one already, the preface to """"""""The American"""""""",the first of your long novels I ever read--in '91.[...] I could not resist the temptation of reading the beautiful and touching last ten pages of the story. There is in them a perfection of tone which calmed me; and I sat for a long time with the closed volume in my hand going over the preface in my mind and thinking--that's how it began,that's how it was done!'"""
"""I made the mistake of reading your Shakespeare play before your Shakespeare criticism.  So I had to read the play again.  I cannot expertly criticize the critical book because I don?t know enough. . . .  What of Coleridge I have ever had the patience to read is not to be compared to it.' """
"""I made the mistake of reading your Shakespeare play before your Shakespeare criticism.  So I had to read the play again.  I cannot expertly criticize the critical book because I don?t know enough. . . .  What of Coleridge I have ever had the patience to read is not to be compared to it.' """
"""I got your book & letter this morning, & another letter on Friday.  To my regret I have already swallowed the book, & as we go to Switzerland tomorrow . . . I write at once.  I think the book in the main wonderful, & I read it greedily.'  """
"""Has it ever occurred to you what a fine story, really, """"""""The Procurator of Judaea"""""""" might have been if Anatole France had possessed in any degree the gift of construction?'  """
"""I violently disagree with you as to El?mir Bourges.  I defy you to put your hand on your heart & say you have read the 'Nef' all through.'"""
"""He [Frank Harris] has written a book drawing the character of Shakespeare from the plays. Part of it has been privately printed, & it seems to me the most remarkable exegetical work of the kind ever done.'   """
"""The new edition of the """"""""Island Ph[arisee]"""""""" arrived during the crisis of horrors [severe gout and the debilitating effects of the then new colchicine treatment] and I tackled the preface with as much mind as I had then. It is thoroughly good I think.'"""
"""I am keeping the """"""""Jeanne d'Arc"""""""" until you return to town, unless you want me to send it out west to you. Upon the whole I think it is disappointing. One asks oneself why on earth A[natole]F[rance] wanted to touch that subject at all, and if he had to touch why in that way precisely.'  """
"""And of all the men who write today it is only Hueffer who writes for love[...]. I took up the """"""""H[eart]of [the]C[ountry]"""""""" which was lying there and opening it at hazard I showed sentences here and there asking whether they could have been written from any other conceivable motive.'"""
"""I am reading """"""""1st & Last"""""""" which arrived a few days ago.  As it isn?t a novel I can?t pontificate on it.  However, when I have digested it I shall give you my ideas.  There is not doubt whatever that it is a great deal too short, a very great deal.'  """
"""While I am on the subject of eating - for I am convinced E.F.Benson wrote the book on an empty, healthy tummy, do please read """"""""Sheaves"""""""" - It is delightful and also, it is, in parts, Simpson Hayward incarnate.'"""
"""The house was behind the post office and below the town library, and in a few years not even the joys of guddling, girning and angling matched the boy's pleasure in Emerson, Hawthorne, Ambrose Pierce, Sidney Lanier and Mark Twain. Day after day... he carried a large washing basket up the stairs to fill it with books, choosing from upwards of twelve thousand volumes, then downstairs to sit for hours in corners absorbed in mental worlds beyond the narrow limits of Langholm.'"""
"""The house was behind the post office and below the town library, and in a few years not even the joys of guddling, girning and angling matched the boy's pleasure in Emerson, Hawthorne, Ambrose Bierce, Sidney Lanier and Mark Twain. Day after day... he carried a large washing basket up the stairs to fill it with books, choosing from upwards of twelve thousand volumes, then downstairs to sit for hours in corners absorbed in mental worlds beyond the narrow limits of Langholm.'"""
"""The house was behind the post office and below the town library, and in a few years not even the joys of guddling, girning and angling matched the boy's pleasure in Emerson, Hawthorne, Ambrose Bierce, Sidney Lanier and Mark Twain. Day after day... he carried a large washing basket up the stairs to fill it with books, choosing from upwards of twelve thousand volumes, then downstairs to sit for hours in corners absorbed in mental worlds beyond the narrow limits of Langholm.'"""
"""The house was behind the post office and below the town library, and in a few years not even the joys of guddling, girning and angling matched the boy's pleasure in Emerson, Hawthorne, Ambrose Bierce, Sidney Lanier and Mark Twain. Day after day... he carried a large washing basket up the stairs to fill it with books, choosing from upwards of twelve thousand volumes, then downstairs to sit for hours in corners absorbed in mental worlds beyond the narrow limits of Langholm.'"""
"""The District Inspector suggested John Fryer sit for the scholarship [State scholarship examination of academic subjects prescribed for the fifth class in primary school] with coaching from his sister. She writes: """"""""It was not easy, as he much preferred play or reading fiction to serious study. We persisted, however, and he managed to gain a District Scholarship, six of which were awarded to the secondary school nearest the candidate’s home.""""""""'"""
"""Thanks ever so much for the book. One would want a long and warm talk about it.To set down the several trains of thought suggested by your pages would take many pieces of papers like this. I must resist the temptation.' """
"""The India book is most interesting. Nevinson is a dear. What is happening now there only shows that nations as well as men may find themselves in a bitterly false position.'"""
"""I wish I hadn?t read the first part of 'Tono-Bungay' so often.  I shall have to read it yet again in order to get the hang of the last part.' """
"""Write your fiction in the tone of this very excellent article if you like. Place it in S. Italy if that will help.'"""
"""[letter from Mrs Ward] I have been reading Bancroft this morning, and shall read G.O.T. tonight. We [italics] were [end italics] fools! - but really, I rather agree with H.G. Wells that they make too much fuss about it! [separation from Britain]'"""
"""Elinor herself spent much time reading the publications, especially Richard Ingalese's """"""""The History and Power of Mind""""""""; it seemed to fit in, in so many ways, with her own instinctive beliefs and disbeliefs, and provided an authoritative explanation for many of the points which troubled her.'"""
"""There was also a pretty good library on board [HMS Spartiate], and I suppose the chaplain, who had charge of it, had noticed that I chose books not usually read by stokers and had commented on it. During our trips from place to place I used to sit or lie on the fo'c'sle when not on watch reading biography, criticism, history and philosophy, or indeed any book of more than ephemeral interest.'"""
"""He was certainly a keen student of literature, as can be seen from some 1907-8 exercise books which show him working on the """"""""Faerie Queene"""""""", at least ten Shakespeare plays and many other texts that were to be of use to him later'."""
"""He was certainly a keen student of literature, as can be seen from some 1907-8 exercise books which show him working on the """"""""Faerie Queene"""""""", at least ten Shakespeare plays and many other texts that were to be of use to him later'."""
""" I have had the new edition of Sta. Teresa sent down for a leisurely re-reading. It seems no end of years since I read first this wonderful book--the revelation for the profane of a unique saint and a unique writer.'"""
"""I have just read Mr. Nevile Foster?s first article on The Universal Machine, which is chiefly a criticism of some of my articles.'     """
"""Thomas Hardy to Violet Hunt, [?Mar 1908]: """"""""'Why should you have wasted a nice copy of your new book upon me -- a recluse who does not read a novel a twelvemonth nowadays.  I am reading yours, however ...'"""""""""""
"""Thanks for the book. You know what I think of it in so far as I have been able to express it. I did not do it very well. There is a singular fascination about this last volume of the trilogy. I've been dropping into it ever since it came and I am as far as ever from discovering a particularly precise  formula of my admiration.'"""
"""Send me Lane's exact address and I will forward him the MS of """"""""[The Holy] Mountain"""""""". I've just finished re-reading the whole. My impression--which you know of--is generally strengthened. The book stands looking into very well, very well indeed.'"""
"""I simply had to tell you having been impressed by seeing for the first time in my life a work of imagination acting upon an average sensibility with the personal, mysterious and irresistable power of oratory[...]. I will keep the MS until tomorrow.'  """
"""I have been reading - French & English writing and lately have seen a great many Balls - and loved them - and dinners and receptions.'"""
"""Both Jessie and I are very much struck with """"""""[A] Fisher of Men"""""""".'"""
"""Orage has sent me your communication as to Frank Harris.  Naturally I was the reviewer.  Harris was much moved by the review, & came down to see me.  He is certainly one of the most extraordinary men I ever met.'  """
"""I have corrected all the proofs of The Old Wives Tale &mdash; 578pp. I am sure Tertia is wrong about those two chapters.  I deliberately lowered the tension in the last part of the book, in obedience to a theory which objects to violent climaxes as a close; and now I have done it, I don’t know that I am quite satisfied.  I know the public will consider the fourth part rather tame and flat, if not dull.  And I am not sure whether I don’t slightly share this view.  This is annoying.... I read Un Vie again (than which I meant to try and go one better) and was most decidedly disappointed in it. Lacking in skill.'"""
""" '. . . for a month past I have been travelling in the South and have read no paper, almost, except the """"""""D?peche de Toulouse"""""""".'      """
"""When he reread """"""""Une Vie"""""""", in March 1908, he could find faults, but they were irrelevant to the work that had been done to him.'"""
"""[...] and there was only time [in Damascus] to acquire a little [non-Egyptian] Arabic by wandering about rather than by book-work and to contract a sharp attack of fever, from which I was cured by Anatole France's """"""""Ile des Pingouins"""""""".'  """
"""So I will only tell you that the 1st instalment of the novel [""""""""The Holy Mountain""""""""] is brilliantly effective.'"""
"""I am extremely gratified by the arrival of your book of Supermen. [...] your pages can give nothing but pleasure to a man who loves """"""""la littérature critique"""""""" (not literary criticism). According to my habit when a fascinating book comes in my way (a sort of angel's visit) I've read it at once, wilfully and of malice prepense, neglecting my daily task to entertain the rare visitor.'  Hence follow eight lines of praise."""
"""Thanks for the play [""""""""The Feud""""""""] which reached me today and as you may imagine was read at once.' Hence follow a page of praise, including a comparison with the middle period plays of Ibsen, and some rather subjective criticism.  """
"""All the same I've read your two short stories. Very good both. Very good indeed. But I am not going to think out a string of complimentary phrases for you. You are a big boy and know what """"""""very good"""""""" means.'"""
"""Rupert Brooke to Jacques Raverat, April 1909: """"""""'I have done no 'work' for ages:  and my tripos is in a few weeks ... Ths holidays I fled from my family for long ... in a hut by a waterfall on Dartmoor, a strange fat Johnian and I 'worked' for three weeks.  He read -- oh! Aristotle, I think!  And I read the Minority Report of the Poor Law Commission; and books on Metre (I'm a poet, you know!); and Shakespere!  It was a great time.'"""""""" """
"""Rupert Brooke to Jacques Raverat, April 1909: """"""""'I have done no 'work' for ages:  and my tripos is in a few weeks ... Ths holidays I fled from my family for long ... in a hut by a waterfall on Dartmoor, a strange fat Johnian and I 'worked' for three weeks.  He read -- oh! Aristotle, I think!  And I read the Minority Report of the Poor Law Commission; and books on Metre (I'm a poet, you know!); and Shakespere!  It was a great time.'"""""""" """
"""Rupert Brooke to Jacques Raverat, April 1909: """"""""'I have done no 'work' for ages:  and my tripos is in a few weeks ... Ths holidays I fled from my family for long ... in a hut by a waterfall on Dartmoor, a strange fat Johnian and I 'worked' for three weeks.  He read -- oh! Aristotle, I think!  And I read the Minority Report of the Poor Law Commission; and books on Metre (I'm a poet, you know!); and Shakespere!  It was a great time.'"""""""" """
"""Every available evening I spent in the reference room [at Birmingham Central Library], searching for books which put me in company with the literary giants of the past. The <i>Iliad</i> and <i>Odyssey</i>, the advice of Epictetus, the principles of Longinus and the logic of the <i>Dialogues</i> of Plato I studied with particular relish for their wisdom seemed to be capable of modern application.'"""
"""Every available evening I spent in the reference room [at Birmingham Central Library], searching for books which put me in company with the literary giants of the past. The <i>Iliad</i> and <i>Odyssey</i>, the advice of Epictetus, the principles of Longinus and the logic of the <i>Dialogues</i> of Plato I studied with particular relish for their wisdom seemed to be capable of modern application.'"""
"""Every available evening I spent in the reference room [at Birmingham Central Library], searching for books which put me in company with the literary giants of the past. The <i>Iliad</i> and <i>Odyssey</i>, the advice of Epictetus, the principles of Longinus and the logic of the <i>Dialogues</i> of Plato I studied with particular relish for their wisdom seemed to be capable of modern application.'"""
"""Every available evening I spent in the reference room [at Birmingham Central Library], searching for books which put me in company with the literary giants of the past. The <i>Iliad</i> and <i>Odyssey</i>, the advice of Epictetus, the principles of Longinus and the logic of the <i>Dialogues</i> of Plato I studied with particular relish for their wisdom seemed to be capable of modern application.'"""
"""Every available evening I spent in the reference room [at Birmingham Central Library], searching for books which put me in company with the literary giants of the past. The <i>Iliad</i> and <i>Odyssey</i>, the advice of Epictetus, the principles of Longinus and the logic of the <i>Dialogues</i> of Plato I studied with particular relish for their wisdom seemed to be capable of modern application.'"""
"""With Shelley I shared the sadness of human frailty. Except for some of his shorter poems, Browning was too involved for me, while I restricted my reading of Shakespeare to his <i>Sonnets</i>. But the most ravishing of all was Keats. While others gave stimulus to mind and emotion, Keats was like champagne to the senses and kept the joyous bubbles winking at the brim.'"""
"""With Shelley I shared the sadness of human frailty. Except for some of his shorter poems, Browning was too involved for me, while I restricted my reading of Shakespeare to his <i>Sonnets</i>. But the most ravishing of all was Keats. While others gave stimulus to mind and emotion, Keats was like champagne to the senses and kept the joyous bubbles winking at the brim.'"""
"""With Shelley I shared the sadness of human frailty. Except for some of his shorter poems, Browning was too involved for me, while I restricted my reading of Shakespeare to his <i>Sonnets</i>. But the most ravishing of all was Keats. While others gave stimulus to mind and emotion, Keats was like champagne to the senses and kept the joyous bubbles winking at the brim.'"""
"""I was ... thankful for the monthly and quarterly magazines that lay on the tables of the library, for their instructive articles were equal to anything I could have heard in the lecture-room. From the theological entanglements of <i>Hibbert's Journal</i>, I passed to the more worldly regions of the <i>English Review</i>, on to the literary vastness of the <i>Edinburgh</i>, through the critical orbs of the <i>Criterion</i>, and completed the circle with many others that improved my knowledge of the -isms and -ologies that were constantly under the eye of speculation.'"""
"""I was ... thankful for the monthly and quarterly magazines that lay on the tables of the library, for their instructive articles were equal to anything I could have heard in the lecture-room. From the theological entanglements of <i>Hibbert's Journal</i>, I passed to the more worldly regions of the <i>English Review</i>, on to the literary vastness of the <i>Edinburgh</i>, through the critical orbs of the <i>Criterion</i>, and completed the circle with many others that improved my knowledge of the -isms and -ologies that were constantly under the eye of speculation.'"""
"""I was ... thankful for the monthly and quarterly magazines that lay on the tables of the library, for their instructive articles were equal to anything I could have heard in the lecture-room. From the theological entanglements of <i>Hibbert's Journal</i>, I passed to the more worldly regions of the <i>English Review</i>, on to the literary vastness of the <i>Edinburgh</i>, through the critical orbs of the <i>Criterion</i>, and completed the circle with many others that improved my knowledge of the -isms and -ologies that were constantly under the eye of speculation.'"""
"""I was ... thankful for the monthly and quarterly magazines that lay on the tables of the library, for their instructive articles were equal to anything I could have heard in the lecture-room. From the theological entanglements of <i>Hibbert's Journal</i>, I passed to the more worldly regions of the <i>English Review</i>, on to the literary vastness of the <i>Edinburgh</i>, through the critical orbs of the <i>Criterion</i>, and completed the circle with many others that improved my knowledge of the -isms and -ologies that were constantly under the eye of speculation.'"""
"""By the time I was seventeen, my passion for reading had become so intense that a few hours [study in the public library] in the evenings seemed totally insufficient ... I started to spend odd shillings in second-hand bookshops and to keep my pockets stuffed with a volume or two for the purpose of reading when I should have been working. Chief among these first purchases were the volumes of the Everyman's Library ... A handy size for the pocket, they introduced me to Emerson's essays, Marcus Aurelius, Coleridge's <i>Biographica Literaria</i>, Carlyle, and to other writers.'"""
"""By the time I was seventeen, my passion for reading had become so intense that a few hours [study in the public library] in the evenings seemed totally insufficient ... I started to spend odd shillings in second-hand bookshops and to keep my pockets stuffed with a volume or two for the purpose of reading when I should have been working. Chief among these first purchases were the volumes of the Everyman's Library ... A handy size for the pocket, they introduced me to Emerson's essays, Marcus Aurelius, Coleridge's <i>Biographica Literaria</i>, Carlyle, and to other writers.'"""
"""By the time I was seventeen, my passion for reading had become so intense that a few hours [study in the public library] in the evenings seemed totally insufficient ... I started to spend odd shillings in second-hand bookshops and to keep my pockets stuffed with a volume or two for the purpose of reading when I should have been working. Chief among these first purchases were the volumes of the Everyman's Library ... A handy size for the pocket, they introduced me to Emerson's essays, Marcus Aurelius, Coleridge's <i>Biographica Literaria</i>, Carlyle, and to other writers.'"""
"""By the time I was seventeen, my passion for reading had become so intense that a few hours [study in the public library] in the evenings seemed totally insufficient ... I started to spend odd shillings in second-hand bookshops and to keep my pockets stuffed with a volume or two for the purpose of reading when I should have been working. Chief among these first purchases were the volumes of the Everyman's Library ... A handy size for the pocket, they introduced me to Emerson's essays, Marcus Aurelius, Coleridge's <i>Biographica Literaria</i>, Carlyle, and to other writers.'"""
"""At one end of the shop stood the foreman's little glass office, from which he could observe all that was going on through the windows in front of him. To obstruct his view was my only chance of reading, so I formed a screen by putting boxes of [gas] fittings ... on the vital part of the bench, fixed a small mirror in line with the door of his office, and then stealthily drew from my pocket Everyman's <i>Sartor Resartus</i>, which I stood against the barricade and alternated spasms of sumptuous reading with arid efforts at soldering or riveting, which I accomplished with about half the attention I gave to the print.'"""
"""Sometimes it was more convenient to take a book into the lavatory and to sit there an inordinate length of time. On other occasions I disappeared into a small stock-room where fittings were contained in wooden recesses right up to the ceiling. Here, on the pretext of getting something high up, I did my reading standing on a ladder with the open book inside the recess and a box of """"""""excuse"""""""" beside me, in case the foreman came in to see whether I had been taken ill. In consequence, my movements began to take on a disturbing air of mystery.'"""
"""Sometimes it was more convenient to take a book into the lavatory and to sit there an inordinate length of time. On other occasions I disappeared into a small stock-room where fittings were contained in wooden recesses right up to the ceiling. Here, on the pretext of getting something high up, I did my reading standing on a ladder with the open book inside the recess and a box of """"""""excuse"""""""" beside me, in case the foreman came in to see whether I had been taken ill. In consequence, my movements began to take on a disturbing air of mystery.'"""
"""Despite my opposition ... I looked about for literature that would extend my knowledge of the subject [of Socialism]. One of the first and best discoveries I was a penny booklet on Christian Socialism, which the Rev. Paul B. Bull of Mirfield had written for the million. It led me straight into the light.'"""
"""... the Alliance of Honour existed to support my trend of thought and from my early teens to claim me as an ardent worker and propagandist for the cause of personal purity. I digested all the literature that came from the London headquarters and became a branch secretary with my own headquarters in the bedroom.'"""
"""The book that influenced me most in this direction was Sylvanus Stall's, <i>What a Young Man Ought to Know</i>, which I accepted as the guiding testament of youth in all matters of sex knowledge.'"""
"""The writer [Ford Madox Ford] never saw Conrad read any book of memoirs except those of Maxime Ducamp and the Correspondence of Flaubert; those we read daily together over a space of years. But somewhere in the past Conrad had read every imaginable and unimaginable volume of politician's memoirs, Mme de Campan, the Duc d'Audiffret Pasquier, Benjamin Constant, Karoline Bauer, Sir Horace Rumbold, Napoleon the Great, Napoleon III, Benjamin Franklin, Assheton Smith, Pitt, Chatham, Palmerston, Parnell,The late Queen Victoria, Dilke, Morley [...] There was no memoir of all these that he had missed or forgotten&mdash;down to """"""""Il Principe"""""""" or the letters of Thomas Cromwell. He could sugddenly produce an incident from the life of Lord Shaftesbury and work it into """"""""Nostromo"""""""" [...].'"""
"""The writer [Ford Madox Ford] never saw Conrad read any book of memoirs except those of Maxime Ducamp and the Correspondence of Flaubert; those we read daily together over a space of years. But somewhere in the past Conrad had read every imaginable and unimaginable volume of politician's memoirs, Mme de Campan, the Duc d'Audiffret Pasquier, Benjamin Constant, Karoline Bauer, Sir Horace Rumbold, Napoleon the Great, Napoleon III, Benjamin Franklin, Assheton Smith, Pitt, Chatham, Palmerston, Parnell,The late Queen Victoria, Dilke, Morley [...] There was no memoir of all these that he had missed or forgotten&mdash;down to """"""""Il Principe"""""""" or the letters of Thomas Cromwell. He could sugddenly produce an incident from the life of Lord Shaftesbury and work it into """"""""Nostromo"""""""" [...].'"""
"""The writer [Ford Madox Ford] never saw Conrad read any book of memoirs except those of Maxime Ducamp and the Correspondence of Flaubert; those we read daily together over a space of years. But somewhere in the past Conrad had read every imaginable and unimaginable volume of politician's memoirs, Mme de Campan, the Duc d'Audiffret Pasquier, Benjamin Constant, Karoline Bauer, Sir Horace Rumbold, Napoleon the Great, Napoleon III, Benjamin Franklin, Assheton Smith, Pitt, Chatham, Palmerston, Parnell,The late Queen Victoria, Dilke, Morley [...] There was no memoir of all these that he had missed or forgotten&mdash;down to """"""""Il Principe"""""""" or the letters of Thomas Cromwell. He could sugddenly produce an incident from the life of Lord Shaftesbury and work it into """"""""Nostromo"""""""" [...].'"""
"""Your paper on the drama has pleased me so much in the form and has appealed strongly to my convictions which it clarifies and expresses.I read it the evening you left [...].'"""
"""You know Marris--the man of the East who wrote the letter I read to you? Well he is going back to his Malay princess wife and his kid, right away. I have asked him to come on Monday here for the day.'"""
"""His [Norman Douglas's] intention is to offer his MS ["""""""" Siren Land""""""""] to Mr Methuen. It is jolly good--a distinguished and interesting pice of work.' """
"""The receipt of your song gave me very great pleasure.  I cannot criticize it.  In fact it took me all my time to read it, as I cannot easily decipher musical MS.'    """
"""I am [...] reading and dipping into and re-dipping into your blue volume [""""""""The Holy Mountain""""""""]. Fact is I've just banged it down this minute--and I shan't look at it now for some weeks.'"""
"""""""""""Why do you want to break men's spirits for?"""""""" Shaw asked Henry James after reading his one-act play """"""""The Saloon"""""""" in 1909.'"""
"""I wrote yesterday to P[erceval] G[ibbon] about his """"""""Afrikander Memories"""""""". I didn't quite tell him how good they are for fear he should think I was gushing. But really, in that short production, look at the poetic vision, the existence of simple language, the breadth and force of the effects.' Hence follow 15 lines of praise."""
"""I like immensely your verse in the last E[nglish R[eview]. The second piece for choice but as a matter of fact I like best the one I am reading at the time.' """
"""I have also been making a study of """"""""The Country House"""""""".  You are one of the most cruel writers that ever wrote English. This statement I will die for.  I don't know what made me read the book again . . . I need not inform you that I tinglingly admire your stuff and it enormously """"""""intrigues"""""""" me.  But I do seriously object to your attitude towards your leading characters.'    """
"""Its really good of you to have sent """"""""Faith"""""""". Your magic never grows less; each of your prefaces is a gem and my enthusiasm is roused always to the highest pitch by your amazing prose. I have already read (the book arrived but two hours ago) """"""""The Idealist"""""""" and """"""""The Saint"""""""". Admirable in concepton and feeling are these two sketches.[...] This afternoon I shall sit down with the book and forget my miseries in the delight of your art so strong and human.'"""
"""At another time he insisted that the gardener should remove all the plants from the tall stage in the glass house, that adjoined the drawing room. Then he had been wont to appear at the door clad only in a yellow and blue striped bath-robe, a wet parti-coloured bath towel wound around his head, and his feet encased in a big pair of Moorish slippers. In this garb he would mount to the top of the stage, right under the glass roof, and armed with a book ad a supply of cigarettes, take a sun-bath.' """
"""‘Papers were what we needed most, and we got very few indeed of these. I wrote home once that I was fortunate in having a paper to read that had been wrapped round greasy bacon. This was a positive fact. We were up the gulley at the advance dressing station, and a machine gun was playing right down the position. Four men were killed and six wounded right in front of us, so that it was not prudent to leave until night fell. It was then that reading matter became so necessary. The paper was the “Sydney Morning Herald” and contained an advertisement stating that there was a vacancy for two boarders at Katoomba; I was an applicant for the vacancy. “The Bulletin” was a Godsend when it arrived, as was “Punch”. Norman Morris occasionally got files of the “Newcastle Morning Herald”, which he would hand on to us, as there were a lot of men from the Newcastle district in the Ambulance.’"""
"""‘Papers were what we needed most, and we got very few indeed of these. I wrote home once that I was fortunate in having a paper to read that had been wrapped round greasy bacon. This was a positive fact. We were up the gulley at the advance dressing station, and a machine gun was playing right down the position. Four men were killed and six wounded right in front of us, so that it was not prudent to leave until night fell. It was then that reading matter became so necessary. The paper was the “Sydney Morning Herald” and contained an advertisement stating that there was a vacancy for two boarders at Katoomba; I was an applicant for the vacancy. “The Bulletin” was a Godsend when it arrived, as was “Punch”. Norman Morris occasionally got files of the “Newcastle Morning Herald”, which he would hand on to us, as there were a lot of men from the Newcastle district in the Ambulance.’"""
"""‘Papers were what we needed most, and we got very few indeed of these. I wrote home once that I was fortunate in having a paper to read that had been wrapped round greasy bacon. This was a positive fact. We were up the gulley at the advance dressing station, and a machine gun was playing right down the position. Four men were killed and six wounded right in front of us, so that it was not prudent to leave until night fell. It was then that reading matter became so necessary. The paper was the “Sydney Morning Herald” and contained an advertisement stating that there was a vacancy for two boarders at Katoomba; I was an applicant for the vacancy. “The Bulletin” was a Godsend when it arrived, as was “Punch”. Norman Morris occasionally got files of the “Newcastle Morning Herald”, which he would hand on to us, as there were a lot of men from the Newcastle district in the Ambulance.’"""
"""‘Papers were what we needed most, and we got very few indeed of these. I wrote home once that I was fortunate in having a paper to read that had been wrapped round greasy bacon. This was a positive fact. We were up the gulley at the advance dressing station, and a machine gun was playing right down the position. Four men were killed and six wounded right in front of us, so that it was not prudent to leave until night fell. It was then that reading matter became so necessary. The paper was the “Sydney Morning Herald” and contained an advertisement stating that there was a vacancy for two boarders at Katoomba; I was an applicant for the vacancy. “The Bulletin” was a Godsend when it arrived, as was “Punch”. Norman Morris occasionally got files of the “Newcastle Morning Herald”, which he would hand on to us, as there were a lot of men from the Newcastle district in the Ambulance.’"""
"""I send back """"""""The Windlestraw"""""""" by return of post. In this sort of apologue  you are simply incomparable.' Hence follows a page of praise. """
"""I don?t see how poetry can be """"""""orchestral"""""""".  I have only read a few things of Ren? Ghil?s.  I am all for Verhaeren.'    """
"""I don?t see how poetry can be """"""""orchestral"""""""".  I have only read a few things of Ren? Ghil?s.  I am all for Verhaeren.'    """
"""I sent about a fortnight ago, three of your papers to Austin Harrison [...] the present  editor of the E[nglish] R[eview]. [...] The """"""""[The]Headland of Minerva"""""""" and the """"""""Caves of [the]S[iren Land]"""""""" I just cut in half. The """"""""Upland[s] of Sorrento"""""""" I sent whole. I did this to give your prose a better chance  for they are everlastingly cramped for room in that Review. Of course I didn't touch the text.'"""
"""I must thank you for the """"""""B[lack]wood"""""""" where your """"""""Puffin"""""""" was really interesting.'"""
"""Henry James to Hugh Walpole, 13 May 1910: 'I """"""""read,"""""""" in a manner, """"""""Maradick"""""""" -- [...] Your book has a great sense and love of life -- but seems to me very nearly as irreflectively juvenile as the Trojans [ie """"""""The Trojan Horse"""""""" (1909), Walpole's previous (and first) novel] [...] Also the whole thing is a monument to the abuse of voluminous dialogue [...] And yet it's all so loveable'. """
"""[Letter from Mrs Ward to her daughter Janet Trevelyan] It is good to be alive on spring days like this! I have been reading William James on this very point - the worth of being alive - and before that the Emmaus story and the appearance to the Maries'."""
"""[Letter from Mrs Ward to her daughter Janet Trevelyan] It is good to be alive on spring days like this! I have been reading William James on this very point - the worth of being alive - and before that the Emmaus story and the appearance to the Maries'."""
"""""""""""When ... [Mrs Humphrey Ward] read aloud from Canadian Born (1910) to the assembled guests at Lord Stanley's part at Alderley Park, the verdict was that 'it was terribly boring' [as Venetia Stanley wrote to Violet Asquith, 12 October 1910]."""""""" """
"""East End socialist Walter Southgate remembered that Dick Turpin and Buffalo Bill stories """"""""were condemned by our teachers (all from middle class backgrounds) who would confiscate them"""""""", but he appreciated the generic similarities to """"""""Robinson Crusoe"""""""", the Waverley novels and """"""""The Last of the Mohicans""""""""'."""
"""East End socialist Walter Southgate remembered that Dick Turpin and Buffalo Bill stories """"""""were condemned by our teachers (all from middle class backgrounds) who would confiscate them"""""""", but he appreciated the generic similarities to """"""""Robinson Crusoe"""""""", the Waverley novels and """"""""The Last of the Mohicans""""""""'."""
"""East End socialist Walter Southgate remembered that Dick Turpin and Buffalo Bill stories """"""""were condemned by our teachers (all from middle class backgrounds) who would confiscate them"""""""", but he appreciated the generic similarities to """"""""Robinson Crusoe"""""""", the Waverley novels and """"""""The Last of the Mohicans""""""""'."""
"""East End socialist Walter Southgate remembered that Dick Turpin and Buffalo Bill stories """"""""were condemned by our teachers (all from middle class backgrounds) who would confiscate them"""""""", but he appreciated the generic similarities to """"""""Robinson Crusoe"""""""", the Waverley novels and """"""""The Last of the Mohicans""""""""'."""
"""‘About this time I read and appreciated Jane Austen’s novels – those exquisite miniatures, which no doubt her contemporaries identified with as much interest. Her circle was as narrow as mine – indeed, narrower. She was the daughter of a clergyman in the country. She represented well-to-do grown-up people, and them alone. The humour of servants, the sallies of children, the machinations of villains, the tricks of rascals, are not on her canvas; but she differentiated among equals with a firm hand, and with a constant ripple of amusement. The life I led had more breadth and wider interests. The life of Miss Austen’s heroines, though delightful to read about, would have been deadly dull to endure. So great a charm have Jane Austen’s books had for me that I have made a practice of reading them through regularly once a year.’"""
"""I had read some of your Philipino [sic] stories--and was looking for more of your work.I spotted  it first in the old MacClure Mag.;certainly without any help from anyone.'"""
"""And when you produced your really adorable notice of  """"""""What the Public Wants"""""""", I more than ever wanted to fall on your neck.' """
"""There is nothing whatever of serious or permanent value in anything that Rostand ever wrote.'  """
"""I must say the various editions of the M.G. are a deep mystery.  Yesterday in the """"""""London"""""""" edition, not a word (except the picture) about """"""""Elektra""""""""! And today not a word about """"""""Justice"""""""".  Perhaps it was the Timbuctoo edition that they sent me.  But it is rather trying to the faithful.' """
"""It was ever so good of you to have sent me the Hogarth little book. I knew practically nothing of the man and I was glad to learn.' Hence follow 13 lines of praise."""
"""All these sketches have the quality without which neither beauty, nor I am afraid, truth, are effective, that is they are intetesting in themselves. I've spent all yesterday with your pages [...].' Hence follow almost two pages of constructive criticism."""
"""Bennett needed a guide when he travelled abroad - and his Florentine Journal is touchingly full of his delightful efforts to see and understand all, through his Baedeker...'"""
"""I have read the story. It's marvellous in a way but we must talk it over.'"""
"""I wouldn't throw a doubt on his [Edward Garnett's] judgement but I understand he has been lately crying up [through his review in """"""""The Nation"""""""" ] two books of which one (a sea book) is the most suburban thing   (I mean spiritually) I've  ever read. The other is a South American novel both portly and strangely disorderly--if I may express it so. But I had better say nothing more since I have written once a sea book  and also a portly S.American novel.'"""
""" ... when Arnold Bennett was reading Mrs [Edith] Wharton's """"""""The House of Mirth"""""""" (1905), he concluded: """"""""It can just be read. Probably a somewhat superior Mrs Humphry Ward"""""""".'"""
"""Arthur Benson ... when rereading the Shorter Poems [of Robert Bridges] in 1910, thought them thin, mere tricks of language ...'"""
"""In 1910, when Alfred Noyes's """"""""Collected Poems"""""""" came out [...] [Charlotte Mew] read his """"""""The Old Sceptic"""""""" and reflected that as far as sentiment went, she might have written the poem herself.'"""
"""Thursday 22 March 1940: 'I read Tolstoy at Breakfast -- Goldenweiser, that I translated with Kot in 1923 & have almost forgotten. Always the same reality -- like touching an exposed electric wire. Even so imperfectly conveyed -- his rugged short cut mind -- to me the most, not sympathetic, but inspiring, rousing, genius in the raw [...] I remember that was my feeling about W. & Peace, read in bed at Twickenham. Old [Sir George] Savage [doctor] picked it up. """"""""Splendid stuff!"""""""" & Jean [Thomas, owner of nursing home] tried to admire what was a revelation to me. Its directness, its reality. Yet he's against photographic realism.'"""
"""He did a good deal of research, reading up the """"""""Victoria History of the Potteries"""""""" and various other documentary sources'."""
"""Now I have looked [at the verses] I have to thank you for the kind thought of sending me the little volume and for the pleasure it has given me.' Hence follow eight lines of praise."""
"""In the same No. [of Harper's Magazine] Nevinson has a story-- and Lord it is bad. The whole No. is so inept that I feel sick to see myself there.'"""
"""The other day I took up """"""""Yvette"""""""". How well she [Ada Galsworthy] has done it all!' """
"""There is only one trouble about the proofs.  That is: the title is wrong.  (This not your fault, but some copyist?s.)  It ought to be Helen with the High Hand.  I really want this """"""""with"""""""".  I cannot imagine how the mistake arose.  I shall put headings to the chapters, as I think these make a book more readable.'"""
"""I am sorry to say Sir E. [Eldon Gorst, British Agent and Consul General] has been rather bad this last week: a touch of the sun it is thought. I play the piano to him of an afternoon and read a little &mdash; Browning or Gibbon.'"""
"""I am sorry to say Sir E. [Eldon Gorst, British Agent and Consul General] has been rather bad this last week: a touch of the sun it is thought. I play the piano to him of an afternoon and read a little &mdash; Browning or Gibbon.'"""
"""In the vol entitled """"""""Lear of the Steppes"""""""" only the first story is really worth reading. The other two [""""""""Acia"""""""" and """"""""Faust""""""""] Turg[enev] wrote in French  I believe first and they are not good specimens of his art.'"""
"""Another, much less predictable [than that of Shelley] influence on Owen's thinking at Dunsden and much later began in October 1911 when he happened to buy a book of new poems by """"""""A modern aspirant (Unknown to me)... I am idly-busy trying to discover the talent of our own days, and the requirements of the public"""""""". This book was undoubtedly """"""""Before Dawn: Poems and Impressions"""""""" by Harold Monro. Owen read it carefully and could still quote from it two months later'."""
"""Hence I give myself the pleasure of writing to you in order to acknowledge your """"""""Easy Chair"""""""" article in this month?s Harper?s.'"""
"""I anticipate that you will permit me to say a very few words about the article in your last issue criticizing the editorial conduct of the """"""""English Review""""""""'.  """
"""Henry James to Hugh Walpole, 13 October 1911: 'I have just been reading the """"""""Standard"""""""" [containing Walpole's review of James's """"""""The Outcry""""""""] at breakfast, and I am touched, I am [italics]melted[end italics], by the charming gallantry and magnanimity of it'."""
"""Henry James to Hugh Walpole, 15 April 1911: 'I congratulate you ever so gladly on Mr. Perrin -- I think the book represents a very marked advance upon its predecessors [...] To appreciate is to appropriate, and it is only by criticism that I can make a thing in which I find myself interested at all [italics]my own[end italics]. [...] I really and very charmedly made your book very [italics]much[end italics] my own.' """
"""E[dward]M[organ]F[orster] was reading, as well, Lyall's Asiatic Studies: Religious and Social (1882) and G. F. I. Graham, The Life and Works of Syed Ahmed Khan (1909).'"""
"""E[dward]M[organ]F[orster] was reading, as well, Lyall's Asiatic Studies: Religious and Social (1882) and G. F. I. Graham, The Life and Works of Syed Ahmed Khan (1909).'"""
"""John Partridge on popularity of Charles Garvice's fiction: '[at Easter 1911] I looked round a large kiosk at a popular seaside place and observed that Mr Charles Garvice's love stories fairly dominated its shelves ... I have since read in the """"""""Daily Chronicle"""""""" that Mr Garvice's novels have already found more than six million readers.'"""
"""In 1911 E. M. Forster read """"""""with mingled joy and disgust"""""""" """"""""A School History of England"""""""", which Kipling and C. R. L. Fletcher had just published ...'"""
"""H. J. Jackson notes recollection of friend of Rupert Brooke, of Brooke in a canoe c.1910-11: """"""""'he would keep the paddle going with his left hand, and with the other make pencil notes on Webster, steadying the text against his knee,'"""""""""""
"""I ... took an active part in the work of the [Old Meeting Church] and became a Sunday School teacher. Happily, the class of small boys I was called on to manage could be weaned from the general disorder of the school by descriptive stories from the Old Testament, the thrilling tales of Kingsley's heroes, and the recital of narrative poetry.'"""
"""I ... took an active part in the work of the [Old Meeting Church] and became a Sunday School teacher. Happily, the class of small boys I was called on to manage could be weaned from the general disorder of the school by descriptive stories from the Old Testament, the thrilling tales of Kingsley's heroes, and the recital of narrative poetry.'"""
"""""""""""François"""""""" is quite good. Very genuine touches all along and quite telling bits here and there.'"""
"""I am particularly glad to have, from you, your new book, with its inscription.  I thank you very much.  For years I have known a number of your friends, and of course I have been reading your books for a long time; so that I feel that somehow we ought to have been acquainted before this.  What pleases me particularly in a book like """"""""The New Pretexts"""""""" (I had already read a great deal of it in reviews etc.) is the proof it offers that an artist is interesting himself in the daily guerrilla of literature.'  """
"""What I set out to say was that all these delays, vexing as they were, gave me the time to read """"""""The Downfall of the Gods"""""""" three times from end to end. As to pages and psasages read and re-read and meditated over I can 't give you that tale of them even approximately'"""
"""I have already [read] The Song of Songs , and commented on it, a long time ago.  As to the translation let me tell you at once what I think.  It is a bad translation . . . '"""
"""The New M is a magnificent work.'"""
"""No end of thanks for the little vol: so charming inside and outside--in its slender body containing a gently melodious soul. I see quite a new aspect of you in these few delightful pages.' """
"""I have the read the two July articles just before that period [of depression or at least writer's block] began. Evidently my dearest boy it is your synthesis, of course sketched in merely.' Hence follow three more lines of approval."""
"""Henry James to Professor Josiah Royce, 30 June 1911: 'I snatch too hurried a moment to express to you my great appreciation of your so generous and luminous treatment of my dear Brother's work and influence in your Phi Beta address yesterday -- read by me in last night's """"""""Transcript"""""""".' """
"""I have read your prodigious & all-embracing """"""""Love?s Pilgrimage"""""""".  I should very strongly resent its being censored in England. It deals candidly, here and there, with sundry aspects of life which are not usually dealt with in English fiction, but which are dealt with quite as a matter of course in the fiction of all other countries except the United States.'  """
"""[letter from Frederic Harrison to Mrs Ward] I am one of those to whom your book [""""""""The Case of Richard Meynell""""""""] specially appeals, as I know so much of the literature, the persons, the questions it dealt with. It has given me the most lively interest both as romance - as fine as anything since """"""""Adam Bede"""""""" - and also as controversy - as important as anything since """"""""Essays and Reviews"""""""". Meynell seems to me a far higher type than Elsmere, both as a man and as a book, and I am sure will have a greater permanent value'."""
"""[letter from Frederic Harrison to Mrs Ward] I am one of those to whom your book [""""""""The Case of Richard Meynell""""""""] specially appeals, as I know so much of the literature, the persons, the questions it dealt with. It has given me the most lively interest both as romance - as fine as anything since """"""""Adam Bede"""""""" - and also as controversy - as important as anything since """"""""Essays and Reviews"""""""". Meynell seems to me a far higher type than Elsmere, both as a man and as a book, and I am sure will have a greater permanent value'."""
"""[Having asked Lord Rosebery for a Preface to her """"""""England's Effort""""""""] Knowing that he was never strong, she fully expected a refusal, but found instead that he had already done what she asked, being deeply moved by the proofs that she had sent him'."""
"""In the newspapers, which my sister sent out to me, I had read about the growing movement for women's suffrage.'"""
"""Thanks for the little book [""""""""Light and Twilight""""""""] so full of good things. You know I have a prediliction for your prose with its quiet,flowing felicity of phrase and what I call """"""""penetrative"""""""" power of expression.' Hence follow 11 lines of praise. """
"""It is strange that in poetry, when I was eleven, I had what I can only call my first revelation from which I emerged dazed, unable to fit the two worlds together. It has happened again now with the Rilke book'."""
"""The book [""""""""Siren Land""""""""]'s certain to be well noticed -- maybe attacked too; but that's no harm.  I've been delighted. There are mighty fine things there.' """
"""Henry James to Mrs W. K. Clifford, 18 May 1912: 'I am reading the Green Book in bits -- as it were -- the only way in which I [italics]can[end italics] read (or at least disread) the contemporary novel'."""
"""Henry James to Mrs W. K. Clifford, 18 May 1912: 'I find G. W. [Mrs Clifford's recent novel] very brisk and alive, but I [italics]have[end italics] to take it in pieces, and so have only reached the middle.'"""
"""A copy of the latest annual report of the Royal Literary Fund was recently forwarded to me from headquarters, and I have been studying its accounts.'   """
"""[...] the volume [""""""""Charity""""""""] which on my first visit to London in many months I carried off home. From the first word of the wonderful preface to the last short sketch of the Pampa as it was, it has been one huge delight. Of course some of these stries--gems--I've read (The incomparable """"""""Aurora"""""""" is a long time ago first) but the cumulative effect is magnificent in its pictorial force and emotional power.'"""
"""By the way, Wells?s new novel 'Marriage', of which I have just read the proofs, contains more intimate conveyances of the atmosphere of married life than anybody has ever achieved before.'"""
"""I think you should like 'La Nouvelle Revue Francaise' (31 Rue Jacob, Paris.  1 fr 50c. monthly).  The critical articles at the end are always quite first class, & much of the creative stuff is admirable.'  """
"""It may astonish you to learn that even thirty years ago?and more?""""""""Harper?s"""""""" used to penetrate monthly into the savage wilderness of the Five Towns, and that the first literary essays I ever read were those of W.D. Howells and Russell Lowell.'  """
"""It may astonish you to learn that even thirty years ago?and more?""""""""Harper?s"""""""" used to penetrate monthly into the savage wilderness of the Five Towns, and that the first literary essays I ever read were those of W.D. Howells and Russell Lowell.'  """
"""I return the proofs.  As before, all suggestions are tentative.  . . .I should judge it to be rather better thatn Marriage?certainly more homogeneous?& about as good as the New M . . . '"""
"""I am delighted and honoured by your gift of an inscribed copy [presumably of """"""""Voices of Tomorrow"""""""" but see additional comment]. It is with great pleasure that I discover in myself an intellectual (or perhaps instinctive) sympathy for what you say in your book with such force, clearness and conviction. In the article on myself what I see first is the generosity of your appreciation.'"""
"""Browning's Sordello was introduced by some prefatory notes by H.M. Wallis read by E.E. Unwin. H.M. Wallis then read a paper describing the historical setting of the poem. Selections were read by Miss Marriage and C.I. Evans'."""
"""Henry James to H. G. Wells, 18 October 1912, whilst suffering from shingles: 'you may not have forgotten that you kindly sent me """"""""Marriage"""""""" [...] which I've been able to give myself to at my less ravaged and afflicted hours.  I have read you, as I always read you [...] with a complete abdication of all those """"""""principles of criticism"""""""" [...] which I roam, which I totter, through the pages of others attended in some dim degree by the fond yet feeble theory of, but which I shake off, as I advance under your spell, with the most cynical inconsistency.'"""
"""I have been reading the singular article on myself, signed ?C.S.?, in your first issue.'  """
"""The subject of """"""""La Maison Tellier"""""""" is the licensed brothel and its inmates'. """
"""Henry James to Edmund Gosse, 9 November 1912: 'I received longer ago than I quite lke to give chapter and verse for your so-vividly interesting volume of literary """"""""Portraits"""""""" [...] I read your book, with lively """"""""reactions,"""""""" within the first week of its arrival [goes on to praise it in detail]'. """
"""Henry James, in letter to Edmund Gosse, 9 November 1912, mentions 'having recently read [...] [Andrew Lang's] (in two or three respects so able) Joan of Arc, or Maid of France, and turned over his just-published (I think posthumous) compendium of """"""""English Literature""""""""'."""
"""Henry James, in letter to Edmund Gosse, 9 November 1912, mentions 'having recently read [...] [Andrew Lang's] (in two or three respects so able) Joan of Arc, or Maid of France, and turned over his just-published (I think posthumous) compendium of """"""""English Literature"""""""" [...] The extraordinary inexpensiveness and childishness and impertinence of this latter gave to my sense the measure of a whole side of Lang [goes on to attack Lang's """"""""Scotch provincialism""""""""]'."""
"""Not knowing that I had reached the end of my travels for that day, I seated myself on the one chair and proceeded to read the """"""""Church Times"""""""" which I had brought as reading matter. At about midnight my cell door was flung open and I was told to pass """"""""out"""""""".' """
"""I return the proofs by registered bookpost.  I have read them with care.  I have of course confined my observations to misprints, punctuation, points of phraseology, & sentences of which I absolutely failed to grasp the meaning.'   """
"""I read 'Higuerota' again not long since,  I always think of that book as 'Higuerota', the said mountain being the principal personage in the story,  When I first read it I thought it the finest novel of this generation (bar none), and I am still thinking so.'  """
""". . . when I recall the quiet domestic scenes behind the shop in 'The Secret Agent' here is rather the sort of thing I reckon to handle myself?but I respectfully retire from the comparison.  What I chiefly like in your books of 'Reminiscences' is the increasing sardonic quality of them?the rich veins of dark and glittering satire and sarcasm.    There was a lot of it, too, in the latter half of 'Under Western Eyes'.  I must tell you that I think the close of ?The Secret Sharer? about as fine as anything you?ve ever done. Overwhelmingly strong and beautiful.'  """
""". . . when I recall the quiet domestic scenes behind the shop in 'The Secret Agent' here is rather the sort of thing I reckon to handle myself?but I respectfully retire from the comparison.  What I chiefly like in your books of 'Reminiscences' is the increasing sardonic quality of them?the rich veins of dark and glittering satire and sarcasm.    There was a lot of it, too, in the latter half of 'Under Western Eyes'.  I must tell you that I think the close of ?The Secret Sharer? about as fine as anything you?ve ever done. Overwhelmingly strong and beautiful.'  """
""". . . when I recall the quiet domestic scenes behind the shop in 'The Secret Agent' here is rather the sort of thing I reckon to handle myself?but I respectfully retire from the comparison.  What I chiefly like in your books of 'Reminiscences' is the increasing sardonic quality of them?the rich veins of dark and glittering satire and sarcasm.    There was a lot of it, too, in the latter half of 'Under Western Eyes'.  I must tell you that I think the close of ?The Secret Sharer? about as fine as anything you?ve ever done. Overwhelmingly strong and beautiful.'  """
"""The play was finished after a long summer of hard work on 24 August: they sat in an arbour to read it with an audience of Marguerite Sheldon and Knoblock's agent Miss Kauser but as they both read badly they didn't give it a fair hearing.'"""
"""When it rained, Bennett stayed in the cabin and read Dostoevsky.'"""
"""I won't say anything of """"""""The Pigeon""""""""-- except that it reads admirably and that I have been fascinated by the theme and the handling of the personages.' """
"""Had I realised when I read it that its author was even then portentously engaged in rallying the anti-suffrage forces, it might have influenced me less, but I remained ignorant until some years later of Mrs. Ward's political machinations, and her book converted me from an unquestioning if somewhat indifferent church-goer into an anxiously interrogative agnostic.'"""
"""To Olive Schreiner's """"""""Woman and Labour"""""""" - that """"""""Bible of the Woman's Movement"""""""" which sounded to the world of 1911 as insistent and inspiring as a trumpet-call summoning the faithful to a vital crusade - was due my final acceptance of feminism.'"""
"""You have given me a very invidious task.[...].  Well I have read all your copy. And the result of all my extreme fastidiousness is enclosed in the envelope. But my dear who am I to pick and choose in the stuff of a a man who can write, always has something to say and never fails on one side or the other to secure my sympathy.'"""
""" ... [F. H. Bradley] appeared as the retired professor, Cheiron, in [Elinor] Glyn's Halcyone (1912), having assiduously read the manuscript, corrected her spelling, and supplied Greek quotations.'"""
"""Alida [Klementaski], like Mrs [Catherine] Dawson Scott, had read """"""""The Farmer's Bride"""""""" in 1912, and had not forgotten it.' """
"""Alida [Klementaski], like Mrs [Catherine] Dawson Scott, had read """"""""The Farmer's Bride"""""""" in 1912, and had not forgotten it.' """
"""Her encouragement even prevailed upon us to read the newspapers, which were then quite unusual adjuncts to teaching in girls' private schools.'"""
"""During Preparation one wild autumn evening in St Monica's gymnasium, when the wind shook the unsubstantial walls and a tiny crescent of moon, glimpsed through a skylight in the roof, scudded in and out of the flying clouds, I first read Shelley's """"""""Adonais"""""""", which taught me in the most startling and impressive fashion of my childhood's experience to perceive beauty embodied in literature, and made me finally determine to become the writer that I had dreamed of being ever since I was seven years old.'"""
"""As I began to mend, the Governor, to keep me from brooding too much, gave orders that I was to have all the reading matter I wanted within the limits of the prison library, and my book changed just as often as I liked and at any hour of the day. To a man eager to improve his acquaintance with standard literature such a privilege was immeasurably great, and for the next six weeks or so I browsed among the Victorian novelists - Austin [sic?], the Brontes, Dickens, Thackeray, George Eliot, Meredith, Lytton, Kingsley, Reade, Hughes, Trollope and others.'"""
"""As I began to mend, the Governor, to keep me from brooding too much, gave orders that I was to have all the reading matter I wanted within the limits of the prison library, and my book changed just as often as I liked and at any hour of the day. To a man eager to improve his acquaintance with standard literature such a privilege was immeasurably great, and for the next six weeks or so I browsed among the Victorian novelists - Austin [sic?], the Brontes, Dickens, Thackeray, George Eliot, Meredith, Lytton, Kingsley, Reade, Hughes, Trollope and others.'"""
"""As I began to mend, the Governor, to keep me from brooding too much, gave orders that I was to have all the reading matter I wanted within the limits of the prison library, and my book changed just as often as I liked and at any hour of the day. To a man eager to improve his acquaintance with standard literature such a privilege was immeasurably great, and for the next six weeks or so I browsed among the Victorian novelists - Austin [sic?], the Brontes, Dickens, Thackeray, George Eliot, Meredith, Lytton, Kingsley, Reade, Hughes, Trollope and others.'"""
"""As I began to mend, the Governor, to keep me from brooding too much, gave orders that I was to have all the reading matter I wanted within the limits of the prison library, and my book changed just as often as I liked and at any hour of the day. To a man eager to improve his acquaintance with standard literature such a privilege was immeasurably great, and for the next six weeks or so I browsed among the Victorian novelists - Austin [sic?], the Brontes, Dickens, Thackeray, George Eliot, Meredith, Lytton, Kingsley, Reade, Hughes, Trollope and others.'"""
"""As I began to mend, the Governor, to keep me from brooding too much, gave orders that I was to have all the reading matter I wanted within the limits of the prison library, and my book changed just as often as I liked and at any hour of the day. To a man eager to improve his acquaintance with standard literature such a privilege was immeasurably great, and for the next six weeks or so I browsed among the Victorian novelists - Austin [sic?], the Brontes, Dickens, Thackeray, George Eliot, Meredith, Lytton, Kingsley, Reade, Hughes, Trollope and others.'"""
"""As I began to mend, the Governor, to keep me from brooding too much, gave orders that I was to have all the reading matter I wanted within the limits of the prison library, and my book changed just as often as I liked and at any hour of the day. To a man eager to improve his acquaintance with standard literature such a privilege was immeasurably great, and for the next six weeks or so I browsed among the Victorian novelists - Austin [sic?], the Brontes, Dickens, Thackeray, George Eliot, Meredith, Lytton, Kingsley, Reade, Hughes, Trollope and others.'"""
"""As I began to mend, the Governor, to keep me from brooding too much, gave orders that I was to have all the reading matter I wanted within the limits of the prison library, and my book changed just as often as I liked and at any hour of the day. To a man eager to improve his acquaintance with standard literature such a privilege was immeasurably great, and for the next six weeks or so I browsed among the Victorian novelists - Austin [sic?], the Brontes, Dickens, Thackeray, George Eliot, Meredith, Lytton, Kingsley, Reade, Hughes, Trollope and others.'"""
"""As I began to mend, the Governor, to keep me from brooding too much, gave orders that I was to have all the reading matter I wanted within the limits of the prison library, and my book changed just as often as I liked and at any hour of the day. To a man eager to improve his acquaintance with standard literature such a privilege was immeasurably great, and for the next six weeks or so I browsed among the Victorian novelists - Austin [sic?], the Brontes, Dickens, Thackeray, George Eliot, Meredith, Lytton, Kingsley, Reade, Hughes, Trollope and others.'"""
"""As I began to mend, the Governor, to keep me from brooding too much, gave orders that I was to have all the reading matter I wanted within the limits of the prison library, and my book changed just as often as I liked and at any hour of the day. To a man eager to improve his acquaintance with standard literature such a privilege was immeasurably great, and for the next six weeks or so I browsed among the Victorian novelists - Austin [sic?], the Brontes, Dickens, Thackeray, George Eliot, Meredith, Lytton, Kingsley, Reade, Hughes, Trollope and others.'"""
"""As I began to mend, the Governor, to keep me from brooding too much, gave orders that I was to have all the reading matter I wanted within the limits of the prison library, and my book changed just as often as I liked and at any hour of the day. To a man eager to improve his acquaintance with standard literature such a privilege was immeasurably great, and for the next six weeks or so I browsed among the Victorian novelists - Austin [sic?], the Brontes, Dickens, Thackeray, George Eliot, Meredith, Lytton, Kingsley, Reade, Hughes, Trollope and others.'"""
"""As I began to mend, the Governor, to keep me from brooding too much, gave orders that I was to have all the reading matter I wanted within the limits of the prison library, and my book changed just as often as I liked and at any hour of the day. To a man eager to improve his acquaintance with standard literature such a privilege was immeasurably great, and for the next six weeks or so I browsed among the Victorian novelists - Austin [sic?], the Brontes, Dickens, Thackeray, George Eliot, Meredith, Lytton, Kingsley, Reade, Hughes, Trollope and others.'"""
"""As I began to mend, the Governor, to keep me from brooding too much, gave orders that I was to have all the reading matter I wanted within the limits of the prison library, and my book changed just as often as I liked and at any hour of the day. To a man eager to improve his acquaintance with standard literature such a privilege was immeasurably great, and for the next six weeks or so I browsed among the Victorian novelists - Austin [sic?], the Brontes, Dickens, Thackeray, George Eliot, Meredith, Lytton, Kingsley, Reade, Hughes, Trollope and others.'"""
"""As I began to mend, the Governor, to keep me from brooding too much, gave orders that I was to have all the reading matter I wanted within the limits of the prison library, and my book changed just as often as I liked and at any hour of the day. To a man eager to improve his acquaintance with standard literature such a privilege was immeasurably great, and for the next six weeks or so I browsed among the Victorian novelists - Austin [sic?], the Brontes, Dickens, Thackeray, George Eliot, Meredith, Lytton, Kingsley, Reade, Hughes, Trollope and others.'"""
"""after I had a bath or a wash we would fall to and spend the rest of the evening round the fire, I reading and Kate sewing or knitting. I joined the public library and so got plenty of good literature.'"""
"""I read hard in divinity, history and general literature, and threw myself into the religious life of the prison to assuage my pain. The chaplain was a decent fellow, as chaplains go, and as an educated man always receives some consideration as to literature I was able to get hold of some pretty good stuff... I renewed my acquaintance with the lives of the Fathers, read several biographies of Christ and St Paul and also studies on the Apostles.' """
"""I read hard in divinity, history and general literature, and threw myself into the religious life of the prison to assuage my pain. The chaplain was a decent fellow, as chaplains go, and as an educated man always receives some consideration as to literature I was able to get hold of some pretty good stuff... I renewed my acquaintance with the lives of the Fathers, read several biographies of Christ and St Paul and also studies on the Apostles.' """
"""I read hard in divinity, history and general literature, and threw myself into the religious life of the prison to assuage my pain. The chaplain was a decent fellow, as chaplains go, and as an educated man always receives some consideration as to literature I was able to get hold of some pretty good stuff... I renewed my acquaintance with the lives of the Fathers, read several biographies of Christ and St Paul and also studies on the Apostles.' """
"""I read hard in divinity, history and general literature, and threw myself into the religious life of the prison to assuage my pain. The chaplain was a decent fellow, as chaplains go, and as an educated man always receives some consideration as to literature I was able to get hold of some pretty good stuff... I renewed my acquaintance with the lives of the Fathers, read several biographies of Christ and St Paul and also studies on the Apostles.' """
"""I read hard in divinity, history and general literature, and threw myself into the religious life of the prison to assuage my pain. The chaplain was a decent fellow, as chaplains go, and as an educated man always receives some consideration as to literature I was able to get hold of some pretty good stuff... I renewed my acquaintance with the lives of the Fathers, read several biographies of Christ and St Paul and also studies on the Apostles.' """
"""Reading W.M. Rossetti's biography [of Keats] in 1912, he was overcome by its account of Keats's death: """"""""Rossetti guided my groping hand right into the wound, and I touched, for one moment, the incandescent Heart of Keats"""""""".'"""
"""He became especially interested in Shelley [and felt he could hear his 'music' in the Dunsden area] The """"""""music"""""""" which he heard must have been that of """"""""The Revolt of Islam"""""""", for he discovered in January 1912 from a biography of Shelley that """"""""The Revolt"""""""" had been composed in a boat """"""""under the beech groves"""""""" not far away. This poem was to remain in his mind for the rest of his life, providing him with the theme and title of 'Strange Meeting' in 1918'."""
"""He became especially interested in Shelley [and felt he could hear his 'music' in the Dunsden area] The """"""""music"""""""" which he heard must have been that of """"""""The Revolt of Islam"""""""", for he discovered in January 1912 from a biography of Shelley that """"""""The Revolt"""""""" had been composed in a boat """"""""under the beech groves"""""""" not far away. This poem was to remain in his mind for the rest of his life, providing him with the theme and title of 'Strange Meeting' in 1918'."""
"""Henry James to Edith Wharton, 4 December 1912, whilst suffering from shingles: 'Your beautiful Book [""""""""The Reef: A Novel""""""""] has been my portion these several days [...] it has been a real lift to read you and taste you and ponder you: the experience has literally worked [...] in a medicating sense that neither my local nor my London Doctor [...] shall have come within miles and miles of'."""
"""Moreover I have been reading Meredith's letters - undoubtedly one of the masterpieces of English literature -especially the 1st vol.'  """
"""In a BBC talk of 1947 about the book that had most influenced her early years, she chose to talk about Rider Haggard's """"""""She""""""""; she came upon it at the age of twelve, """"""""when I was finding the world too small"""""""". The descriptions of Kor, the great derelict city, caught her imagination. She """"""""saw"""""""" Kor before she ever saw London: """"""""Inevitably, the Thames Embankment was a disappointment"""""""".'"""
"""In reply to Mr. Archer?s letter, the authors? procedure, as regards the year 1860, was this.  They practically read through the whole of Punch for that year, and chose a number of conversational phrases from its dialogues.  They were much struck by the prevalence in 1850 of phrases which they had imagined to be quite modern.'   """
"""And now more thanks for the book ["""""""" Le Nègre aux Etats-Unis""""""""]. You have a most attractive French style--and very French it is too and yet with something individual-- and even racial--glowing through it and adding to the fascination of the perfectly simple diction.'  """
"""W.S. Rowntree read a paper on Dante & Florence [,] H.R. Smith explained the Vita Nuova from which Mrs W.H. Smith & Mrs Edminson read selections'."""
"""Returned Belloc's book on June 4<sup>th</sup> not got another yet.'"""
"""Henry James to Edmund Gosse, whilst suffering from illness, 10 October 1912: 'I receive with pleasure the small Swinburne [biographical essay by Gosse, originally intended for the DNB] [...] the perusal of which lubricated yesterday two or three rough hours.'"""
"""In January he had read Wells's 'The New Machieavelli' . . .[sic]'"""
"""[Tristan] Bernard is very engaging. I do not know why but he is.[...] It is very good of you to have sent me that volume with the others. [Elémir] Bourges--ah, that's another matter.There are magnificent pages there. But all together more than anything else, it's surprising. You say to yourself: so that is """"""""Le Crépuscule des Dieux""""""""! And you continue  to be struck by the poverty of the subject.[...]. You told me to start with  that book. After fnishing it I opened the other [""""""""Les oiseaux s'en volent et les fleurs tombent""""""""]. It moved me by its splendour, the colours, the movement.' Hence follow 16 lines of reserved comment."""
"""[Tristan] Bernard is very engaging. I do not know why but he is.[...] It is very good of you to have sent me that volume with the others. [Elémir] Bourges--ah, that's another matter.There are magnificent pages there. But all together more than anything else, it's surprising. You say to yourself: so that is """"""""Le Crépuscule des Dieux""""""""! And you continue  to be struck by the poverty of the subject.[...]. You told me to start with  that book. After fnishing it I opened the other [""""""""Les oiseaux s'en volent et les fleurs tombent""""""""]. It moved me by its splendour, the colours, the movement.' Hence follow 16 lines of reserved comment."""
"""[Tristan] Bernard is very engaging. I do not know why but he is.[...] It is very good of you to have sent me that volume with the others. [Elémir] Bourges--ah, that's another matter.There are magnificent pages there. But all together more than anything else, it's surprising. You say to yourself: so that is """"""""Le Crépuscule des Dieux""""""""! And you continue  to be struck by the poverty of the subject.[...]. You told me to start with  that book. After fnishing it I opened the other [""""""""Les oiseaux s'en volent et les fleurs tombent""""""""]. It moved me by its splendour, the colours, the movement.' Hence follow 16 lines of reserved comment."""
"""It was a joy to have your book [""""""""Hors du Foyer""""""""]. A thousand thanks. I have just finished reading it and, and I am charmed.'"""
"""Many thanks. I've just read the first chapter at once to take possession and have laid the book [""""""""The Problems of Philosophy""""""""] aside till Monday -- when the short story will be off my hands.'"""
"""I was glad to see your hand, as it forced me to write to you.  About 5 or 6 weeks ago I had the impulse to write to you about the high satisfaction I had from your last book, but with the base indifference that sometimes paralyses the most ardent souls, I simply did not write.  Your poetry gives me real pleasure.'  """
"""I recommend to you Laurent Tailhade.  (Such trifles as ?Place des Victoires? which I would give my head to have written originally in English.)'  """
"""The novel --Good! Très fort!! As Pinker could not have done much with it before Easter I held it up here for a second reading.'"""
"""It is dificult to express the joy I felt at the arrival of the """"""""Complete Works of M. Barnabooth"""""""".[...].The first reading of the """"""""Journal Intime"""""""" makes an unforgettable impression.' Hence follow 16 lines of unqualified praise. """
"""Just a word to tell you I have finished your Mother's book [""""""""A Confederate Girl's Diary""""""""]. Admirable.' Hence follow 14 lines of praise. """
"""Henry James to H. G. Wells, 21 September 1913, thanking him for a copy of his new novel, """"""""The Passionate Friends"""""""": 'I am too impatient to let you know [italics]how[end italics] wonderful I find this last [...] I bare my head before [...] the high immensity [...] which has made me absorb the so full-bodied thing in deep and prolonged gustatory draughts.'"""
"""I am glad I read the little book [""""""""The Problems of Philosophy""""""""] before coming to your essays [""""""""Philosophical Essays""""""""]. If in reading the first I felt moving step by step, with delight, on the firmest ground, the other gave me the sense of an enlarged vision in the clearest, the purest atmosphere.' Hence follow another 10 lines of praise and gratitude. """
"""Your good letter arrived yesterday--a great pleasure and a source of serious misgivings. I have had your latest volume and surely I acknowledged it! [...] You mean """"""""Monochromes"""""""" don't you? Well I have that volume of which I wrote to you that it delighted me [...]'"""
"""I am sending today the """"""""Grand Elixir"""""""" to London.[...] That the story is clever, that the writing is in many respects admirable there can be no doubt.' Hence follow 12 lines of constructive criticism."""
"""My desultory and totally unorganised reading of George Eliot, Thackeray, Mrs Gaskell, Carlyle, Emerson and Merejkowski made little impression upon this routine, though their writings offered occasional compensation for its utter futility.  """"""""The reading of 'Romola,'"""""""" enthusiastically records my diary for April 27th, 1913, """"""""has left me in a state of exultation!""""""""'"""
""". . .  I send you a book which I picked up as a bargain in the catalogue of a second-hand bookseller,  You will see that under the headings of the different countries it gives on each double page a complete conspectus of all important events which happened during a given period.  I consider it a work which is absolutely invaluable to the novelist who deals, however indirectly or briefly, with any past period, And I have used it constantly ever since I bought a copy of the original publication about twelve years ago.'  """
"""[her governess Helen Roothman] 'introduced Edith to the works of Verlaine, Rimbaud and Mallarme. Though Edith had had a taste for Baudelaire through Swinburne's translations of the author of """"""""Les Fleurs du mal"""""""", she found her governess' favorites even more to her liking'."""
"""[her governess Helen Roothman] 'introduced Edith to the works of Verlaine, Rimbaud and Mallarme. Though Edith had had a taste for Baudelaire through Swinburne's translations of the author of """"""""Les Fleurs du mal"""""""", she found her governess' favorites even more to her liking'."""
"""[her governess Helen Roothman] 'introduced Edith to the works of Verlaine, Rimbaud and Mallarme. Though Edith had had a taste for Baudelaire through Swinburne's translations of the author of """"""""Les Fleurs du mal"""""""", she found her governess' favorites even more to her liking'."""
"""I didn't write to thank you for the delightful volume [""""""""The Pathos of Distance: A Book of a Thousand and One Moments""""""""] as I hoped [...] to have the pleasure of seeing you here for a day.[...]. Je goute infiniment tout ce que vous écrivez. Apart from the temperamental sympathy I feel for your work the lightness of your surface touch playing over the deeper meaning of your criticism is very fascinating.' """
"""Forgive me for the delay in thanking you for the volume you were so kind to as to send me. How well done, well conceived, well said! Your """"""""Ariane"""""""" is easily the most charming morality given to me to read in this vale of tears and grimaces where I have wandered for nearly 53 years. In the sequel to """"""""Robinson Crusoe"""""""" the most delightful thing is to see how you have succeeded in capturing the charm of this good animal that only ever walked on four legs.'  """
"""[Around 1912-13, when she began her association with Mrs Catherine Dawson Scott] Charlotte [Mew] [...] was reading Flaubert as always, Chekhov, Conrad and Verlaine'. """
"""[Around 1912-13, when she began her association with Mrs Catherine Dawson Scott] Charlotte [Mew] [...] was reading Flaubert as always, Chekhov, Conrad and Verlaine'. """
"""[Around 1912-13, when she began her association with Mrs Catherine Dawson Scott] Charlotte [Mew] [...] was reading Flaubert as always, Chekhov, Conrad and Verlaine'. """
"""[Around 1912-13, when she began her association with Mrs Catherine Dawson Scott] Charlotte [Mew] [...] was reading Flaubert as always, Chekhov, Conrad and Verlaine'. """
"""Yet when the War broke out, I did not clearly understand what was meant by homosexuality, incest or sodomy, and was puzzled by the shadow that clung to the name of Oscar Wilde, whose plays I discovered in 1913 and read with a rapturous delight in their epigrams.'"""
"""Uneasily I recalled a passage from Daniel Deronda that I had read in comfortable detachment the year before:'"""
"""Just after leaving school, I had been plunged into the same tumult of agonised inquiry by reading Mrs. Humphry Ward's """"""""Robert Elsmere"""""""".'"""
"""My diary for October 5th, 1932, recorded the impression made upon me by the writer whose """"""""Modern Utopia"""""""" had been a beacon light of my schooldays:'"""
"""For hour after hour we did """"""""Search the Scriptures"""""""". These were booklets in which texts from a book in the Bible were printed with blank spaces; we were to fill in the chapter and the verse where they could be found. I could not find them; other boys could.'"""
"""Religion was a sore trial ... Dean Farrar contributed to my suspicion of God, and my suspicion of God — """"""""I haven't done anything; really I haven't"""""""" — gave ghastly reality to Eric's school in which the mortality should have attracted the attention of authority.'"""
"""Le Havre, though undamaged by war, was stark and gloomy to march through ... """"""""We are quite near Agincourt"""""""", I wrote dutifully to my old history master at school, feeling as far from the thin skin of my patriotism as I could be. """"""""This quarrel honourable"""""""" -- of course we all """"""""did"""""""" Henry V -- seemed to be some quirk in Shakespeare rather than anything stable in the English character.'"""
"""Henry James to Hugh Walpole, 11 April 1913: 'I have  [...] read -- with difficulty -- another Young Fiction of the day [...] Gilbert Cannan's """"""""Round the Corner"""""""".' """
"""I often found peace in the pages of Ecclesiastes or Isaiah, or in the writings of men whom Barry has described as the heralds of revolt - John Inglesant, George Eliot, Carlyle, Heine, Loti, Nietzsche, etc. But in time even literature palls.'"""
"""I often found peace in the pages of Ecclesiastes or Isaiah, or in the writings of men whom Barry has described as the heralds of revolt - John Inglesant, George Eliot, Carlyle, Heine, Loti, Nietzsche, etc. But in time even literature palls.'"""
"""I often found peace in the pages of Ecclesiastes or Isaiah, or in the writings of men whom Barry has described as the heralds of revolt - John Inglesant, George Eliot, Carlyle, Heine, Loti, Nietzsche, etc. But in time even literature palls.'"""
"""I often found peace in the pages of Ecclesiastes or Isaiah, or in the writings of men whom Barry has described as the heralds of revolt - John Inglesant, George Eliot, Carlyle, Heine, Loti, Nietzsche, etc. But in time even literature palls.'"""
"""I often found peace in the pages of Ecclesiastes or Isaiah, or in the writings of men whom Barry has described as the heralds of revolt - John Inglesant, George Eliot, Carlyle, Heine, Loti, Nietzsche, etc. But in time even literature palls.'"""
"""I often found peace in the pages of Ecclesiastes or Isaiah, or in the writings of men whom Barry has described as the heralds of revolt - John Inglesant, George Eliot, Carlyle, Heine, Loti, Nietzsche, etc. But in time even literature palls.'"""
"""I often found peace in the pages of Ecclesiastes or Isaiah, or in the writings of men whom Barry has described as the heralds of revolt - John Inglesant, George Eliot, Carlyle, Heine, Loti, Nietzsche, etc. But in time even literature palls.'"""
"""the first books in his library are Bibles. The largest is his mother's, who perhaps put it there. Brought up as a devout Evangelical herself, she reared him in her faith; he fully shared it at first, reading a Bible passage every day with the aid of scripture Union notes and piuosly including texts and sermon topics in his early letters'."""
"""the first books in his library are Bibles. The largest is his mother's, who perhaps put it there. Brought up as a devout Evangelical herself, she reared him in her faith; he fully shared it at first, reading a Bible passage every day with the aid of scripture Union notes and piuosly including texts and sermon topics in his early letters'."""
"""Owen turned to his third main interest, the earth sciences, doing his earnest but unscholarly best to tackle the Victorian debate between science and religion. He was soon """"""""reading analysing, collecting, sifting and classifying Evidence"""""""" and """"""""grappling as I never did before with the problem of Evolution"""""""". He read a statement of the Christian answer to Darwinism but contemptuously wrote """"""""Shallow!"""""""" against its discussion of art. His conclusion was probably summed up in a comment he had marked in Keats's letters, """"""""Nothing in this world is proveable""""""""; when he met these words again in W.M. Rossetti's life of Keats, he added, """"""""at least [italics] proved [end italics] W.O."""""""".' """
"""Owen turned to his third main interest, the earth sciences, doing his earnest but unscholarly best to tackle the Victorian debate between science and religion. He was soon """"""""reading analysing, collecting, sifting and classifying Evidence"""""""" and """"""""grappling as I never did before with the problem of Evolution"""""""". He read a statement of the Christian answer to Darwinism but contemptuously wrote """"""""Shallow!"""""""" against its discussion of art. His conclusion was probably summed up in a comment he had marked in Keats's letters, """"""""Nothing in this world is proveable""""""""; when he met these words again in W.M. Rossetti's life of Keats, he added, """"""""at least [italics] proved [end italics] W.O."""""""".' """
"""Owen turned to his third main interest, the earth sciences, doing his earnest but unscholarly best to tackle the Victorian debate between science and religion. He was soon """"""""reading analysing, collecting, sifting and classifying Evidence"""""""" and """"""""grappling as I never did before with the problem of Evolution"""""""". He read a statement of the Christian answer to Darwinism but contemptuously wrote """"""""Shallow!"""""""" against its discussion of art. His conclusion was probably summed up in a comment he had marked in Keats's letters, """"""""Nothing in this world is proveable""""""""; when he met these words again in W.M. Rossetti's life of Keats, he added, """"""""at least [italics] proved [end italics] W.O."""""""".' """
"""Owen turned to his third main interest, the earth sciences, doing his earnest but unscholarly best to tackle the Victorian debate between science and religion. He was soon """"""""reading analysing, collecting, sifting and classifying Evidence"""""""" and """"""""grappling as I never did before with the problem of Evolution"""""""". He read a statement of the Christian answer to Darwinism but contemptuously wrote """"""""Shallow!"""""""" against its discussion of art. His conclusion was probably summed up in a comment he had marked in Keats's letters, """"""""Nothing in this world is proveable""""""""; when he met these words again in W.M. Rossetti's life of Keats, he added, """"""""at least [italics] proved [end italics] W.O."""""""".' """
"""Detailed summary of notes on front inside cover, flyleaf, title page, half-title page, first page of text, and rear inside cover. Very heavily annotated, with marginalia in both English and German throughout. This book was also read by Mario Calderoni and his marginal annotations are also evident. Read by Vernon Lee in March 1913 and re-read in 1920."""
"""I was thoroughly charmed by the volumes of verse. I read them with the liveliest sympathy and sincere admiration. The study of Pierre Loti is very interesting. What's more I think nothing could be fairer. As for """"""""L'enseignement de Goethe"""""""" I am all the more inclined to accept it from your hand since I have never read a line of the Great Man. I don't know German and I quail before translations.'"""
"""I was thoroughly charmed by the volumes of verse. I read them with the liveliest sympathy and sincere admiration. The study of Pierre Loti is very interesting. What's more I think nothing could be fairer. As for """"""""L'enseignement de Goethe"""""""" I am all the more inclined to accept it from your hand since I have never read a line of the Great Man. I don't know German and I quail before translations.'"""
"""I was thoroughly charmed by the volumes of verse. I read them with the liveliest sympathy and sincere admiration. The study of Pierre Loti is very interesting. What's more I think nothing could be fairer. As for """"""""L'enseignement de Goethe"""""""" I am all the more inclined to accept it from your hand since I have never read a line of the Great Man. I don't know German and I quail before translations.'"""
"""Henry James to Andre Raffalovich, 7 November 1913: 'I thank you very kindly indeed for the volume of [Aubrey] Beardsley's letters, by which I have been greatly touched [...] the personal spirit in him, the beauty in nature, is disclosed to me by your letters as wonderful and [...] deeply pathetic and interesting.'"""
"""Henry James to Hugh Walpole, 21 August 1913: 'I have been reading over Tolstoi's interminable """"""""Peace and War"""""""" [sic] and am struck by the fact that I now protest as much as I admire.'"""
"""Henry James to Hugh Walpole, 14 October 1913: 'I have just been re-reading over Tolstoi'."""
"""In such a State the development of the individual would be possible, and unless it be true that """"""""History with all her volumes vast hath but one page,"""""""" that development will progress steadily on to perfection.'"""
"""I had read every line of several volumes of the 'Home Magazine' -especially a grotesque serial called 'The Wallypug of Why', an enjoyable fantasy about the plots of a cathedral gargoyle: also bits from the 'Children's Encyclopaedia', 'Hereward the Wake', comics and 'Marriage on Two Hundred a Year', one of the popular handbooks of the period."""
"""I had read every line of several volumes of the 'Home Magazine' -especially a grotesque serial called 'The Wallypug of Why', an enjoyable fantasy about the plots of a cathedral gargoyle: also bits from the 'Children's Encyclopaedia', 'Hereward the Wake', comics and 'Marriage on Two Hundred a Year', one of the popular handbooks of the period."""
"""I had read every line of several volumes of the 'Home Magazine' -especially a grotesque serial called 'The Wallypug of Why', an enjoyable fantasy about the plots of a cathedral gargoyle: also bits from the 'Children's Encyclopaedia', 'Hereward the Wake', comics and 'Marriage on Two Hundred a Year', one of the popular handbooks of the period."""
"""I had read every line of several volumes of the 'Home Magazine' -especially a grotesque serial called 'The Wallypug of Why', an enjoyable fantasy about the plots of a cathedral gargoyle: also bits from the 'Children's Encyclopaedia', 'Hereward the Wake', comics and 'Marriage on Two Hundred a Year', one of the popular handbooks of the period."""
"""I had read every line of several volumes of the 'Home Magazine' -especially a grotesque serial called 'The Wallypug of Why', an enjoyable fantasy about the plots of a cathedral gargoyle: also bits from the 'Children's Encyclopaedia', 'Hereward the Wake', comics and 'Marriage on Two Hundred a Year', one of the popular handbooks of the period."""
"""I had read every line of several volumes of the 'Home Magazine' -especially a grotesque serial called 'The Wallypug of Why', an enjoyable fantasy about the plots of a cathedral gargoyle: also bits from the 'Children's Encyclopaedia', 'Hereward the Wake', comics and 'Marriage on Two Hundred a Year', one of the popular handbooks of the period."""
"""Bkft in garden. Elsie read Prayers. Carefully studied newspapers.'"""
"""Henry James to Rhoda Broughton, 10 August 1914: 'we walked, this strange Sunday afternoon (9th), my niece Peggy, her youngest brother and I [...] to see and have tea with a genial and garrulous old Irish friend (Lady Mathew, who has a house here for the summer), and came away an hour later bearing with us a substantial green volume, by an admitrable eminent hand [ie Broughton's], which our hostess had just read with such a glow of satisfaction that she overflowed into easy lending.'"""
"""‘Lady Dorothy Neville tells us about Dickens – how one evening , when a number of people were asked to meet him – he just remained silent – but another evening she met him & only half a dozen present appeared at his best, his conversation being brilliant – like the best passages of his books ...'	"""
"""‘In reading the lives of the great men or interesting women of the 18th century we find them recording many “bon mots” of their friends - as a fact these people only went to houses where they knew there would be something good to hear. In reading Pepys and Evelyn & such men how very small our minds seem to have grown – one often hears Oh! So & so only talks shop – wh.[which] No doubt is pleasing to the one who talks but trying to the Listeners ...’"""
"""‘In reading the lives of the great men or interesting women of the 18th century we find them recording many “bon mots” of their friends - as a fact these people only went to houses where they knew there would be something good to hear. In reading Pepys and Evelyn & such men how very small our minds seem to have grown – one often hears Oh! So & so only talks shop – wh.[which] No doubt is pleasing to the one who talks but trying to the Listeners ...’"""
"""‘In a dictionary I looked at it says conversation is the “act of conversing or familiar talk” – but one generally thinks of it – as unrestrained or informal talk.’	 """
"""‘Swift says – “One of the best rules in Conversation is never to say a thing which any of the company can reasonably wish you had rather left unsaid – nor can there well be anything more contrary to the ends for which people meet together than to part dissatisified with each other or themselves ...’	"""
"""Tell Father the Huns haven't started to run yet. If he reads the September """"""""National Review"""""""" he will be surprised at the warning of the writer against the Cabinet. It is well worth reading. It says that in the Black Week, Haldane didn't want any interference of England; Asquith didn't want any Expeditionary Force and Churchill saved the situation in ordering Fleet Mobilization """"""""on his own"""""""" before the war. Also the Territorials at the event of war are untrained: we have no army really: all are practically recruits now in England.'"""
"""Charlotte Mew to Mrs Catherine Dawson Scott, 12 May 1914: '""""""""Looking through some of Ella [D'Arcy]'s old letters [...] I find she wrote to me 3 about the Requiescat ... she had seen it in """"""""The Nation""""""""and wrote [...] Thanking me for sending it to her [...] and adding """"""""it goes into my private anthology"""""""".'"""
"""Wrote to Clara & thanked for flowers & book & gave account of birthday. Finished Wall of Partition.'"""
"""Finished """"""""In heart of Africa"""""""".'"""
"""Many thanks for the copy of your book which I have read with the greatest of interest and pleasure.'"""
"""In a letter to Mrs Herzog he says: """"""""Wells's new novel, Marriage, of which I have just read the proofs, contains more intimate conveyances of the atmosphere of married life than anybody has ever achieved before, I am rather annoyed as I am about to try and get the same intimacy in my Clayhanger-Hilda book, entitled These Twain.'"""
"""News from the front there was none. No one knew where the front was. The """"""""Evening Paper,"""""""" a single sheet, printed in large characters on one side only, confined itself to recording that Liége still held out, and that General French had gone to Paris.'"""
"""Hedley took [me to] Reading Room and changed book and read Times and Illustrated News.'"""
"""Hedley took [me to] Reading Room and changed book and read Times and Illustrated News.'"""
"""Read to May.'"""
"""It's very quiet.  I've re-read L'Entrave.  I suppose Colette is the only woman in France who does just this.  I don't care a fig at present for anyone I know except her.'"""
"""It's very quiet.  I've re-read L'Entrave.  I suppose Colette is the only woman in France who does just this.  I don't care a fig at present for anyone I know except her.'"""
"""Read Xtian Observer on War ... Began Father & Son by Goss. 9. May filled hot water bottle & brought hot water. To bed 9.30.'"""
"""Read Xtian Observer on War ... Began Father & Son by Goss. 9. May filled hot water bottle & brought hot water. To bed 9.30.'"""
"""A dead man, just reported to me lying close by. Went out and found (from his identity disc) he was No. 8863, B West, Suffolk Regiment. Lying with his overcoat tied over his face alongside a ruined farm. Died possibly from wounds. Horrid job, lifting his head to get at his identity disc. I buried him at dusk, and said the Lord's Prayer over him. Couldn't read any prayers as we couldn't have any light, and as it was three bullets came so close to us, might have been aimed at us.'"""
"""Read """"""""The Mother"""""""".'"""
"""You shock me.  Not by liking """"""""The Way of all Flesh"""""""", but by liking """"""""The Devil?s Garden"""""""" and  """"""""Fortitude"""""""" .  . . . it is not excusable to lose your head about badness or mediocrity.  About """"""""The Devil?s Garden"""""""" there is nothing to be said, it simply does not exist.  """"""""Fortitude"""""""" is by a man who has written one real book (""""""""Mr, Perrin & Mr. Traill"""""""") , but """"""""Fortitude"""""""" is undoubtedly a failure.'  """
"""You shock me.  Not by liking """"""""The Way of all Flesh"""""""", but by liking """"""""The Devil?s Garden"""""""" and  """"""""Fortitude"""""""" .  . . . it is not excusable to lose your head about badness or mediocrity.  About """"""""The Devil?s Garden"""""""" there is nothing to be said, it simply does not exist.  """"""""Fortitude"""""""" is by a man who has written one real book (""""""""Mr, Perrin & Mr. Traill"""""""") , but """"""""Fortitude"""""""" is undoubtedly a failure.'  """
"""You shock me.  Not by liking """"""""The Way of all Flesh"""""""", but by liking """"""""The Devil?s Garden"""""""" and  """"""""Fortitude"""""""" .  . . . it is not excusable to lose your head about badness or mediocrity.  About """"""""The Devil?s Garden"""""""" there is nothing to be said, it simply does not exist.  """"""""Fortitude"""""""" is by a man who has written one real book (""""""""Mr, Perrin & Mr. Traill"""""""") , but """"""""Fortitude"""""""" is undoubtedly a failure.'  """
"""You shock me.  Not by liking """"""""The Way of all Flesh"""""""", but by liking """"""""The Devil?s Garden"""""""" and  """"""""Fortitude"""""""" .  . . . it is not excusable to lose your head about badness or mediocrity.  About """"""""The Devil?s Garden"""""""" there is nothing to be said, it simply does not exist.  """"""""Fortitude"""""""" is by a man who has written one real book (""""""""Mr, Perrin & Mr. Traill"""""""") , but """"""""Fortitude"""""""" is undoubtedly a failure.'  """
"""You have been looking for the wrong things in """"""""The Passionate Friends"""""""", & failing to see the right things.'   """
"""I like """"""""The Dark Flower"""""""" very much, & wrote to tell Galsworthy so?a thing I have never done before about a book of his, though he is a friend of mine.'  """
"""It seems to me you had better read some good novels in which there is no slush nor tush. You might read """"""""Bubu de Montparnasse"""""""", by C.L. Philippe (if you haven?t already done so), and """"""""Dans les rues"""""""", by J.H. Rosny ain?.'  """
"""It seems to me you had better read some good novels in which there is no slush nor tush. You might read """"""""Bubu de Montparnasse"""""""", by C.L. Philippe (if you haven?t already done so), and """"""""Dans les rues"""""""", by J.H. Rosny ain?.'   """
"""You don't mind if I suggest that you should take a glance at Curle's short stories """"""""Life is a Dream""""""""-- not all in the vol. but three of them. Read first """"""""Blanca Palillos"""""""", then the """"""""Remittance Man"""""""" and finish with the one called """"""""A Memory"""""""". Each in its way has a distinct value [...]'"""
"""Read John Woolman.'"""
"""I spent all the morning in my office in the barn at Battalion H.Q. writing up my official War Diary, writing a card home, reading the French Paper and doing some strength returns and other correspondence work.'"""
"""A mail arrived after dusk. Someone sent me the Bishop's address at the Guildhall, and I read it out to those around, at their request.'"""
"""I felt too tired for much reading. Gwen did some sewing after supper.'"""
""". . . reading the reviews, not even the book, of Mrs Parnell's """"""""Life of Parnell"""""""".  There was a full-page review in """"""""The Times"""""""" of 19 May, and on 21 May another long piece in """"""""The Times Literary Supplement"""""""", which Bennett read, and which emphasized the passionate nature of Parnell's love . . .'"""
"""Aubrey Hicks offers an illustration of how little world news reached even the best-informed workers. His father, a painter on the Rothschild estate at Tring, had attended night school and read widely, and unlike most of his neighbours he took in a quality newspaper, the Daily Chronicle. Young Aubrey read it avidly... but in the midst of [sensational events such as the sinking of the Titanic and the Wright brothers' first flight] he had only the vaguest recollection of reading something about Sir Edward Grey's diplomacy'."""
"""‘There was Jack Mathieu, the blind poet, now a tea salesman. Every few weeks his sulky would pull up at the front gate, and the young boy driving the vehicle would help Jack up the front steps and seat him at my father’s side,... I would sit there, half listening, half dreaming, but I knew they talked about books and sometimes politics. It was from Jack Mathieu that I first heard the name, Henry Lawson. He was an enthusiastic “Lawson man”, my father was not. I wish I had learned just why they differed.'"""
"""Madame de Polignac gave me in 1913 a little yellow volume of poems entitled """"""""Les Vivants et les Morts"""""""", and at her house I met next year the divinely, the almost frighteningly gifted poet, Anna de Noailles.'"""
"""... all of us were at all times longing for news, and it was rare that we ever got any except for the German version, and that only from the local paper, all the leading German papers were forbidden, yet they used to get into the camp, and we were often amused by the """"""""Berliner Tagblatt"""""""" and the """"""""Leipziger Neueste Nachrichten"""""""".'"""
"""... all of us were at all times longing for news, and it was rare that we ever got any except for the German version, and that only from the local paper, all the leading German papers were forbidden, yet they used to get into the camp, and we were often amused by the """"""""Berliner Tagblatt"""""""" and the """"""""Leipziger Neueste Nachrichten"""""""".'"""
"""When I was a bit older he read to me from Edward Lear's """"""""Nonsense Songs and Stories"""""""". """"""""Mr Yongy Bongy Bo"""""""", """"""""The Owl and the Pussy Cat"""""""" and """"""""The Old Man from the Kingdom of Tess"""""""", were favorites, but he enjoyed reading all of them.' """
"""He admired Edward Lear and would spend whole evenings reading """"""""The Nonsense Songs and Stories"""""""" and he was also very fond of the Lewis Carroll books. The verses in these seemed to have a particular attraction for him and he would read them through aloud several times.'"""
"""I believe [Arthur] Symons' verse was almost the only verse that my husband ever read, I mean with any real appreciation and pleasure. Usually I had to read any manuscript in this form &mdash; and he would, quite unblushingly, put forward my opinion as his own when acknowledging receipt.'"""
"""[James] Garvin used very strong words in his article in the """"""""Observer"""""""" today, the article was headed """"""""England's Fame or Shame"""""""" ... Got the """"""""Times"""""""" Sunday edition, the first that has been issued for a long time, there was serious news reported in it.'"""
"""Once I planned that we should spend the evening reading Slowacki, and all day I kept looking forward to it. After supper we sat as usual in the living room. I began with """"""""Grob Agamemmona"""""""". I read it aloud, without interruption and not lifting my eyes from the book; finally, having reached the end I looked up at Conrad and felt frightened. He sat immobile, looking angry and pained; suddenly he jumped to his feet and rushed out of the room, without saying a word, or even looking at my mother or myself, like a man deeply hurt. [...] It had probably been a long time since Conrad had read that poem and he was overcome by a sudden and unexpected emotion which he could neither control nor conceal.' """
"""On his arrival in Poland Conrad knew from our contemporary literature only """"""""Popioly"""""""" and """"""""Panna Mery"""""""". During his two-month stay he devoured almost all that was worth reading in fiction and drama. """"""""Devoured"""""""" is the right word, for he read with unusual, unbelievable speed. I was constantly bringing him new books; he used to get impatient when on finishing one, there was not another at hand. In every case his judgement was correct &mdash; in respect both of the book as a whole and of the particular style of each author. Wyspianski and Zeromski made the greatest impression on him. """"""""Oh, how I would like to translate it!"""""""" he said about """"""""Warszawianska"""""""".[...] His favorite books by Zeromski were """"""""Popioly"""""""" and """"""""Syzyfowy prace"""""""". I should mention Prus. The first work of Prus I gave Conrad was """"""""Emancypantki"""""""", one of my favorite books.[...] I warned him """"""""Perhaps the first volume will not be up to your expectations, but don't give up [...]"""""""" (In the case of """"""""Chlopi"""""""" I could not persuade him to read further volumes; """"""""I know already what's coming"""""""" he said.) [...] When he had finished the entire novel [""""""""Emancypatki""""""""], he remarked with amazement, """"""""Ma chère, c'est mieux que Dickens!"""""""". [...] First I gave him """"""""Lalka """""""" to read, then """"""""Faraon"""""""". [...] Conrad kept asking for more books by Prus [...]. He read with passion """"""""Palac i rudera"""""""" and """"""""Powracajaca fala"""""""", books which I confess left me thoroughly bored.'"""
"""On his arrival in Poland Conrad knew from our contemporary literature only """"""""Popioly"""""""" and """"""""Panna Mery"""""""". During his two-month stay he devoured almost all that was worth reading in fiction and drama. """"""""Devoured"""""""" is the right word, for he read with unusual, unbelievable speed. I was constantly bringing him new books; he used to get impatient when on finishing one, there was not another at hand. In every case his judgement was correct &mdash; in respect both of the book as a whole and of the particular style of each author. Wyspianski and Zeromski made the greatest impression on him. """"""""Oh, how I would like to translate it!"""""""" he said about """"""""Warszawianska"""""""".[...] His favorite books by Zeromski were """"""""Popioly"""""""" and """"""""Syzyfowy prace"""""""". I should mention Prus. The first work of Prus I gave Conrad was """"""""Emancypantki"""""""", one of my favorite books.[...] I warned him """"""""Perhaps the first volume will not be up to your expectations, but don't give up [...]"""""""" (In the case of """"""""Chlopi"""""""" I could not persuade him to read further volumes; """"""""I know already what's coming"""""""" he said.) [...] When he had finished the entire novel [""""""""Emancypatki""""""""], he remarked with amazement, """"""""Ma chère, c'est mieux que Dickens!"""""""". [...] First I gave him """"""""Lalka """""""" to read, then """"""""Faraon"""""""". [...] Conrad kept asking for more books by Prus [...]. He read with passion """"""""Palac i rudera"""""""" and """"""""Powracajaca fala"""""""", books which I confess left me thoroughly bored.'"""
"""On his arrival in Poland Conrad knew from our contemporary literature only """"""""Popioly"""""""" and """"""""Panna Mery"""""""". During his two-month stay he devoured almost all that was worth reading in fiction and drama. """"""""Devoured"""""""" is the right word, for he read with unusual, unbelievable speed. I was constantly bringing him new books; he used to get impatient when on finishing one, there was not another at hand. In every case his judgement was correct &mdash; in respect both of the book as a whole and of the particular style of each author. Wyspianski and Zeromski made the greatest impression on him. """"""""Oh, how I would like to translate it!"""""""" he said about """"""""Warszawianska"""""""".[...] His favorite books by Zeromski were """"""""Popioly"""""""" and """"""""Syzyfowy prace"""""""". I should mention Prus. The first work of Prus I gave Conrad was """"""""Emancypantki"""""""", one of my favorite books.[...] I warned him """"""""Perhaps the first volume will not be up to your expectations, but don't give up [...]"""""""" (In the case of """"""""Chlopi"""""""" I could not persuade him to read further volumes; """"""""I know already what's coming"""""""" he said.) [...] When he had finished the entire novel [""""""""Emancypatki""""""""], he remarked with amazement, """"""""Ma chère, c'est mieux que Dickens!"""""""". [...] First I gave him """"""""Lalka """""""" to read, then """"""""Faraon"""""""". [...] Conrad kept asking for more books by Prus [...]. He read with passion """"""""Palac i rudera"""""""" and """"""""Powracajaca fala"""""""", books which I confess left me thoroughly bored.'"""
"""On his arrival in Poland Conrad knew from our contemporary literature only """"""""Popioly"""""""" and """"""""Panna Mery"""""""". During his two-month stay he devoured almost all that was worth reading in fiction and drama. """"""""Devoured"""""""" is the right word, for he read with unusual, unbelievable speed. I was constantly bringing him new books; he used to get impatient when on finishing one, there was not another at hand. In every case his judgement was correct &mdash; in respect both of the book as a whole and of the particular style of each author. Wyspianski and Zeromski made the greatest impression on him. """"""""Oh, how I would like to translate it!"""""""" he said about """"""""Warszawianska"""""""".[...] His favorite books by Zeromski were """"""""Popioly"""""""" and """"""""Syzyfowy prace"""""""". I should mention Prus. The first work of Prus I gave Conrad was """"""""Emancypantki"""""""", one of my favorite books.[...] I warned him """"""""Perhaps the first volume will not be up to your expectations, but don't give up [...]"""""""" (In the case of """"""""Chlopi"""""""" I could not persuade him to read further volumes; """"""""I know already what's coming"""""""" he said.) [...] When he had finished the entire novel [""""""""Emancypatki""""""""], he remarked with amazement, """"""""Ma chère, c'est mieux que Dickens!"""""""". [...] First I gave him """"""""Lalka """""""" to read, then """"""""Faraon"""""""". [...] Conrad kept asking for more books by Prus [...]. He read with passion """"""""Palac i rudera"""""""" and """"""""Powracajaca fala"""""""", books which I confess left me thoroughly bored.'"""
"""On his arrival in Poland Conrad knew from our contemporary literature only """"""""Popioly"""""""" and """"""""Panna Mery"""""""". During his two-month stay he devoured almost all that was worth reading in fiction and drama. """"""""Devoured"""""""" is the right word, for he read with unusual, unbelievable speed. I was constantly bringing him new books; he used to get impatient when on finishing one, there was not another at hand. In every case his judgement was correct &mdash; in respect both of the book as a whole and of the particular style of each author. Wyspianski and Zeromski made the greatest impression on him. """"""""Oh, how I would like to translate it!"""""""" he said about """"""""Warszawianska"""""""".[...] His favorite books by Zeromski were """"""""Popioly"""""""" and """"""""Syzyfowy prace"""""""". I should mention Prus. The first work of Prus I gave Conrad was """"""""Emancypantki"""""""", one of my favorite books.[...] I warned him """"""""Perhaps the first volume will not be up to your expectations, but don't give up [...]"""""""" (In the case of """"""""Chlopi"""""""" I could not persuade him to read further volumes; """"""""I know already what's coming"""""""" he said.) [...] When he had finished the entire novel [""""""""Emancypatki""""""""], he remarked with amazement, """"""""Ma chère, c'est mieux que Dickens!"""""""". [...] First I gave him """"""""Lalka """""""" to read, then """"""""Faraon"""""""". [...] Conrad kept asking for more books by Prus [...]. He read with passion """"""""Palac i rudera"""""""" and """"""""Powracajaca fala"""""""", books which I confess left me thoroughly bored.'"""
"""On his arrival in Poland Conrad knew from our contemporary literature only """"""""Popioly"""""""" and """"""""Panna Mery"""""""". During his two-month stay he devoured almost all that was worth reading in fiction and drama. """"""""Devoured"""""""" is the right word, for he read with unusual, unbelievable speed. I was constantly bringing him new books; he used to get impatient when on finishing one, there was not another at hand. In every case his judgement was correct &mdash; in respect both of the book as a whole and of the particular style of each author. Wyspianski and Zeromski made the greatest impression on him. """"""""Oh, how I would like to translate it!"""""""" he said about """"""""Warszawianska"""""""".[...] His favorite books by Zeromski were """"""""Popioly"""""""" and """"""""Syzyfowy prace"""""""". I should mention Prus. The first work of Prus I gave Conrad was """"""""Emancypantki"""""""", one of my favorite books.[...] I warned him """"""""Perhaps the first volume will not be up to your expectations, but don't give up [...]"""""""" (In the case of """"""""Chlopi"""""""" I could not persuade him to read further volumes; """"""""I know already what's coming"""""""" he said.) [...] When he had finished the entire novel [""""""""Emancypatki""""""""], he remarked with amazement, """"""""Ma chère, c'est mieux que Dickens!"""""""". [...] First I gave him """"""""Lalka """""""" to read, then """"""""Faraon"""""""". [...] Conrad kept asking for more books by Prus [...]. He read with passion """"""""Palac i rudera"""""""" and """"""""Powracajaca fala"""""""", books which I confess left me thoroughly bored.'"""
"""On his arrival in Poland Conrad knew from our contemporary literature only """"""""Popioly"""""""" and """"""""Panna Mery"""""""". During his two-month stay he devoured almost all that was worth reading in fiction and drama. """"""""Devoured"""""""" is the right word, for he read with unusual, unbelievable speed. I was constantly bringing him new books; he used to get impatient when on finishing one, there was not another at hand. In every case his judgement was correct &mdash; in respect both of the book as a whole and of the particular style of each author. Wyspianski and Zeromski made the greatest impression on him. """"""""Oh, how I would like to translate it!"""""""" he said about """"""""Warszawianska"""""""".[...] His favorite books by Zeromski were """"""""Popioly"""""""" and """"""""Syzyfowy prace"""""""". I should mention Prus. The first work of Prus I gave Conrad was """"""""Emancypantki"""""""", one of my favorite books.[...] I warned him """"""""Perhaps the first volume will not be up to your expectations, but don't give up [...]"""""""" (In the case of """"""""Chlopi"""""""" I could not persuade him to read further volumes; """"""""I know already what's coming"""""""" he said.) [...] When he had finished the entire novel [""""""""Emancypatki""""""""], he remarked with amazement, """"""""Ma chère, c'est mieux que Dickens!"""""""". [...] First I gave him """"""""Lalka """""""" to read, then """"""""Faraon"""""""". [...] Conrad kept asking for more books by Prus [...]. He read with passion """"""""Palac i rudera"""""""" and """"""""Powracajaca fala"""""""", books which I confess left me thoroughly bored.'"""
"""On his arrival in Poland Conrad knew from our contemporary literature only """"""""Popioly"""""""" and """"""""Panna Mery"""""""". During his two-month stay he devoured almost all that was worth reading in fiction and drama. """"""""Devoured"""""""" is the right word, for he read with unusual, unbelievable speed. I was constantly bringing him new books; he used to get impatient when on finishing one, there was not another at hand. In every case his judgement was correct &mdash; in respect both of the book as a whole and of the particular style of each author. Wyspianski and Zeromski made the greatest impression on him. """"""""Oh, how I would like to translate it!"""""""" he said about """"""""Warszawianska"""""""".[...] His favorite books by Zeromski were """"""""Popioly"""""""" and """"""""Syzyfowy prace"""""""". I should mention Prus. The first work of Prus I gave Conrad was """"""""Emancypantki"""""""", one of my favorite books.[...] I warned him """"""""Perhaps the first volume will not be up to your expectations, but don't give up [...]"""""""" (In the case of """"""""Chlopi"""""""" I could not persuade him to read further volumes; """"""""I know already what's coming"""""""" he said.) [...] When he had finished the entire novel [""""""""Emancypatki""""""""], he remarked with amazement, """"""""Ma chère, c'est mieux que Dickens!"""""""". [...] First I gave him """"""""Lalka """""""" to read, then """"""""Faraon"""""""". [...] Conrad kept asking for more books by Prus [...]. He read with passion """"""""Palac i rudera"""""""" and """"""""Powracajaca fala"""""""", books which I confess left me thoroughly bored.'"""
"""I received a card from the war in France from Lieutenant E. R. Jones, who is on service out there, with the few words ... """"""""I am quite well"""""""".' """
"""Went out with May to pay bills when snow & sleet stopped. She left me at Reading Room where I read Times & daily mirror & Graphic.'"""
"""Went out with May to pay bills when snow & sleet stopped. She left me at Reading Room where I read Times & daily mirror & Graphic.'"""
"""Went out with May to pay bills when snow & sleet stopped. She left me at Reading Room where I read Times & daily mirror & Graphic.'"""
"""We got up and 9 am surrounded by the females of the farm who were in the kitchen. I in my pyjamas. However, I hid behind the table when I dressed. I just read a ridiculous account of the attack here last Monday 14th, in the <i>Daily Mail</i>. How the Royal Scots and Gordons took four lines of trenches, that our cavalry were used on the flank, and that the Germans were surrounded by """"""""a ring of khaki"""""""". Unfortunately it was most the other way on: there are no cavalry within miles, nor could they have been used in this enclosed wire country sodden with water; and we took one trench with awful loss.'"""
"""I wish you would send me the Daily Mail every other day, & also magazines (Pearsons etc) would be immensely appreciated. I see by a paper of the 18th that Whitby and Scarborough have been bombarded. The photographs in it are very similar to sights very common here.'"""
"""Henry James to Compton Mackenzie, 21 January 1914: 'When I wrote to [James B.] Pinker I had only read """"""""S[inister].S[treet]""""""""., but I have now taken """"""""Carnival"""""""" in persistent short draughts -- which is how I took """"""""S[inister].S[treet]"""""""". and is how I take anything I take at all'."""
"""Henry James to Compton Mackenzie, 21 January 1914: 'When I wrote to [James B.] Pinker I had only read """"""""S[inister].S[treet]""""""""., but I have now taken """"""""Carnival"""""""" in persistent short draughts -- which is how I took """"""""S[inister].S[treet]"""""""". and is how I take anything I take at all'."""
""". . . reading the reviews, not even the book, of Mrs Parnell's """"""""Life of Parnell"""""""".  There was a full-page review in """"""""The Times"""""""" of 19 May, and on 21 May another long piece in """"""""The Times Literary Supplement"""""""", which Bennett read, and which emphasized the passionate nature of Parnell's love . . . '"""
"""On my First Communion day, November 21st 1914, I felt nothing at the actual receiving of the sacrament but in reading Francis Thompson's poems that day (my mother had bought them for me not knowing what she was giving me) I found something terrible, sweet and transforming which really did make me draw breath and pant after it...'"""
"""Henry James to Hugh Walpole, 21 November 1914: '[H. G.] Wells has published a mere flat tiresomeness (""""""""Sir Isaac Harman's Wife""""""""); at least I had, for the first time with anything of Wells's, simply to let it slide.'"""
"""I was very soon interrupted by a sergeant of the Royal Fusiliers, who brought me a message ... from their C.O. to ours. He stumbled over the pillow (the baggage end of my valise and very hard) and woke up the C.O. who did not seem to take much notice. Soon however he saw me light the men's lantern to read the message, and was all alive again as he always is when there is anything doing.'"""
"""There is a Brigade Order out about the show on the 19th. In it we read that it was supposed to pin German troops to this front to prevent them from fighting the Russians. On the other hand, the official communique (known as Comic Cuts) dismisses the whole thing in two lines. Can't help thinking Comic Cuts has a better sense of values.'"""
"""There is a Brigade Order out about the show on the 19th. In it we read that it was supposed to pin German troops to this front to prevent them from fighting the Russians. On the other hand, the official communique (known as Comic Cuts) dismisses the whole thing in two lines. Can't help thinking Comic Cuts has a better sense of values.'"""
"""Knitted and Daily Mail. Rheims Cathedral destroyed by Germans. Early dinner ¼ 1. Rested in d:r:'"""
"""Tea in Garden[.] Went out with May to lower Heath. Finished """"""""Lay down yr. arms"""""""" Read again Stephen [indecipherable]. Supper in garden. Hot bath.'"""
"""That's why [an attack of gout] I did not write to thank you for your book [""""""""A Hatchment""""""""] (and the Ranee's) [""""""""My Life in Sarawak""""""""] as soon as I ought to have done. Upon my word it's a marvellous volume [...]. The Ranee's book is delightfully ladylike but her sentiment for the land and the people is so obviously genuine that all her sins of omission shall be forgiven her.' """
"""That's why [an attack of gout] I did not write to thank you for your book [""""""""A Hatchment""""""""] (and the Ranee's) [""""""""My Life in Sarawak""""""""] as soon as I ought to have done. Upon my word it's a marvellous volume [...]. The Ranee's book is delightfully ladylike but her sentiment for the land and the people is so obviously genuine that all her sins of omission shall be forgiven her.' """
"""Went with May to reading room at 10 a.m. Read Times. Back at 11.30.'"""
"""The British officers formed a circulating library, and it was always possible to get any number of the Tauchnitz books in English and in French. There was no lack of reading material, but there was a tendency for other people to borrow your book before you had finished with it, and if anyone lost a volume that he had brought out, he had nothing to exchange for another ... many books were also sent to officers from home, and generally arrived safely.'"""
"""We were always allowed to take in the German newspapers, and for a short time by the courtesy of a highly placed gentleman, a few copies of <i>The Times</i> and some illustrated English papers drifted into the camp.'"""
"""We were always allowed to take in the German newspapers, and for a short time by the courtesy of a highly placed gentleman, a few copies of <i>The Times</i> and some illustrated English papers drifted into the camp.'"""
"""We were always allowed to take in the German newspapers, and for a short time by the courtesy of a highly placed gentleman, a few copies of <i>The Times</i> and some illustrated English papers drifted into the camp.'"""
"""I received a very long &amp; most interesting letter from Lieut. E. R. Jones from Marseilles France where he is stationed with the Indian troops who are on field service.'"""
"""It is really remarkable how oblivious we are to what is going on overseas. There is very little in the papers about the British Army, even if we had time to read them, and, anyway, we are too self-centred and interested in our job to worry much about the War.'"""
"""I read a little after supper also Gwen &amp; Jack.'"""
"""Talking of the necessity for the censoring of letters ... I find quite a number of the men writing absolute lies about the danger they go through; and their extraordinary courage and all that sort of thing; the more illiterate the writer, the greater the lie is the rule, and not one letter in ten, printed in the papers, received from men in the ranks, gives anything like and accurate description of any action which they attempt to describe.'"""
"""May finished Only a Governess. Pr. ¼ past 9. 1 Cor vii.'"""
"""May finished Only a Governess. Pr. ¼ past 9. 1 Cor vii.'"""
"""I went to town in the evening Jack in school brought budget home. I read a little after supper. Mother feeling very comfortable.'"""
"""'We are so glad to know you are both flourishing. We know of your Sicilian interlude from your letter to the """"""""Times"""""""".'"""
"""Rained all day without stopping. Read Butler's Crusade. May bought winter dress at Selfridge's £1.0.5. payed her with cheque..'"""
"""In your issue of August 29th, reviewing war literature, you say: """"""""Almost without exception  during the last fortnight our eminent novelists have rushed into print as authorities on all matters of foreign policy and military strategy."""""""" Can you name these novelists?'"""
"""As to applicants having received better treatment from Poor Law Guardians than from the Fund, My authority was a detailed article dealing with the condition of affairs in Manchester published in the Manchester Guardian of the 11th inst.'  """
""" """"""""A CALM IRRESISTIBLE WELL-BEING - ALMOST mystic in character, and yet doubtless connected with physical conditions"""""""" writes Dorothy'."""
"""Henry James to William Roughead, 29 January 1914:'I devoured the tender Mary Blandy [subject of one of Roughead's chronicles of murder trials] in a single feast [...] You tell the story with excellent art and animation'."""
"""""""""""Oct 23 1913 Excellent book. The best account of the great Tory re-action that I know, - except in Scotland, Cockburn's"""""""". Vol. II has date of reading: """"""""June 29 1914"""""""". Volumes contain several marginal references to """"""""Uncle Tom"""""""" [i.e. Lord Macaulay]."""
"""As I was watching the columns of earth and smoke, there was suddenly a whirring sound and a piece of iron plonked into the mud at my feet, where it lay sizzling. It was six inches long and had jagged edges. I was considerably scared and dived into the dugout to tell Armitage. He thought it was time to haul out his pocket testament and read a chapter or two.'"""
"""Thanks too for the Chinese books. I have already looked at the introduction and certain sections of the """"""""Lute [of Jade]"""""""". Very fine. Extraordinary subtle feeling I'll write more about them after getting the full taste.' """
"""To 5 Rosslyn Hill at 10 a.m. Had an hour's Greek reading with Eva + read all 1<sup>st</sup> Chapter of John's Gospel.'"""
"""Finished Batchelor's Comedy.'"""
"""I keep the two books a little longer. """"""""Shakespeare"""""""" is good.'"""
"""C. [David Lloyd George] is in very good spirits after a week-end rest. Yesterday I went down to W.H. [Walton Heath] & spent the afternoon with him, & we had a jolly time. We have both been reading Wells' last book The Wife of Sir Isaac Harman and C. thinks it is his most brilliant work. Wells has modified his views considerably, though, since he wrote Anne Veronica!' """
"""C. [David Lloyd George] is in very good spirits after a week-end rest. Yesterday I went down to W.H. [Walton Heath] & spent the afternoon with him, & we had a jolly time. We have both been reading Wells' last book The Wife of Sir Isaac Harman and C. thinks it is his most brilliant work. Wells has modified his views considerably, though, since he wrote Anne Veronica!' """
"""C. [David Lloyd George] is in very good spirits after a week-end rest. Yesterday I went down to W.H. [Walton Heath] & spent the afternoon with him, & we had a jolly time. We have both been reading Wells' last book The Wife of Sir Isaac Harman and C. thinks it is his most brilliant work. Wells has modified his views considerably, though, since he wrote Anne Veronica!' """
"""[Laurent Tailhade] must have lent him one of his two volumes of collected poems because Owen soon started a translation of a [italics] ballade elegiaque [end italics] from it'."""
"""During my schooldays, which coincided with the dramatic climax of the suffrage movement, I had read Olive Schreiner and followed the militant campaigns with the excitement of a sympathetic spectator, but my growing consciousness that women suffered from remediable injustices was due less to the movement for the vote than to my early environment with its complacent acceptance of female subordination.'"""
"""She was deep in the writings of Father Tyrrel, of Bergson and of William James during these years'"""
"""She was deep in the writings of Father Tyrrel, of Bergson and of William James during these years'"""
"""She was deep in the writings of Father Tyrrel, of Bergson and of William James during these years'"""
"""We see some funny things when we are censoring our men's letters. One hero wrote home """"""""We are fighting every day"""""""" ... One man was pathetically quaint: """"""""Christmas Day we spent in the trenches; I didn't get any food"""""""". (His own damned fault if he did not, but I think he was just piling on the agony. A man can't starve out here.)'"""
"""Rarely do the men write of their life out here; too illiterate; most of the letters are confined to remarks on their own health; questions to the welfare of those at home; and prayers; so very often, prayers to God to take care of those they have left behind them. From 90% of the letters you would never discover the men were on active service. A very strong religious strain runs through most of the letters, and I rather admire my old shell-backs for it.'"""
"""[the father of Harry Burton] 'an irregularly employed housepainter, liked a """"""""stirring novel"""""""" but nothing more challenging than Conan Doyle: """"""""He had no use whatever for anything remotely approaching the spiritual in art, literature or music..."""""""", and yet the whole family rea and, on some level, took pleasure in sharing and discussing their reading. His mother recited serials from the Family Reader and analyzed them at length with grandma over a cup of tea. Every few minutes his father would offer up a snippet from the Daily Chronicle or Lloyd's Weekly News. The children were not discouraged from reading aloud, perhaps from Jules Verne: """"""""I can smell to this day the Journey to the Centre of the Earth"""""""", Burton recalled. The whole family made use of the public library and enjoyed together children's magazines like Chips and The Butterfly'."""
"""[the father of Harry Burton] 'an irregularly employed housepainter, liked a """"""""stirring novel"""""""" but nothing more challenging than Conan Doyle: """"""""He had no use whatever for anything remotely approaching the spiritual in art, literature or music..."""""""", and yet the whole family rea and, on some level, took pleasure in sharing and discussing their reading. His mother recited serials from the Family Reader and analyzed them at length with grandma over a cup of tea. Every few minutes his father would offer up a snippet from the Daily Chronicle or Lloyd's Weekly News. The children were not discouraged from reading aloud, perhaps from Jules Verne: """"""""I can smell to this day the Journey to the Centre of the Earth"""""""", Burton recalled. The whole family made use of the public library and enjoyed together children's magazines like Chips and The Butterfly'."""
"""[the father of Harry Burton] 'an irregularly employed housepainter, liked a """"""""stirring novel"""""""" but nothing more challenging than Conan Doyle: """"""""He had no use whatever for anything remotely approaching the spiritual in art, literature or music..."""""""", and yet the whole family rea and, on some level, took pleasure in sharing and discussing their reading. His mother recited serials from the Family Reader and analyzed them at length with grandma over a cup of tea. Every few minutes his father would offer up a snippet from the Daily Chronicle or Lloyd's Weekly News. The children were not discouraged from reading aloud, perhaps from Jules Verne: """"""""I can smell to this day the Journey to the Centre of the Earth"""""""", Burton recalled. The whole family made use of the public library and enjoyed together children's magazines like Chips and The Butterfly'."""
"""[the father of Harry Burton] 'an irregularly employed housepainter, liked a """"""""stirring novel"""""""" but nothing more challenging than Conan Doyle: """"""""He had no use whatever for anything remotely approaching the spiritual in art, literature or music..."""""""", and yet the whole family rea and, on some level, took pleasure in sharing and discussing their reading. His mother recited serials from the Family Reader and analyzed them at length with grandma over a cup of tea. Every few minutes his father would offer up a snippet from the Daily Chronicle or Lloyd's Weekly News. The children were not discouraged from reading aloud, perhaps from Jules Verne: """"""""I can smell to this day the Journey to the Centre of the Earth"""""""", Burton recalled. The whole family made use of the public library and enjoyed together children's magazines like Chips and The Butterfly'."""
"""[the father of Harry Burton] 'an irregularly employed housepainter, liked a """"""""stirring novel"""""""" but nothing more challenging than Conan Doyle: """"""""He had no use whatever for anything remotely approaching the spiritual in art, literature or music..."""""""", and yet the whole family rea and, on some level, took pleasure in sharing and discussing their reading. His mother recited serials from the Family Reader and analyzed them at length with grandma over a cup of tea. Every few minutes his father would offer up a snippet from the Daily Chronicle or Lloyd's Weekly News. The children were not discouraged from reading aloud, perhaps from Jules Verne: """"""""I can smell to this day the Journey to the Centre of the Earth"""""""", Burton recalled. The whole family made use of the public library and enjoyed together children's magazines like Chips and The Butterfly'."""
""" """"""""They were neither of them quite enough in love to imagine that ?350 a year would supply them with all the comforts of life"""""""" (Jane Austen's """"""""Elinor and Edward"""""""").  My God! say I'"""
"""Girls in the top forms [at Roedean] were allowed to read ... in a small school library ... but ... [Margaret Cole] forfeited that privilege when a sub-prefect reported her for reading Macaulay's """"""""Essays"""""""" during preparation time ...'"""
"""""""""""It was when reading Gilbert Murray's rendering of Euripides' Medea, by the side of the [Shrewsbury School] cricket field, that [Neville] Cardus was noticed by the headmaster, C. A. Alington, who invited him to be his secretary after the start of the Great War."""""""" """
"""At 1.30 p.m. the Headmaster posted an edition of the '<i>Argus</i>' containing the news of the Declaration of War made by England against Germany. So the die is cast. Pray God we save our coasts from invasion!'"""
"""I plucked a couple of fowls Jack helped 1 for Miss Thomas Cambrian house another for brother John. I also read a little before retiring.'"""
"""Jack read in the evening &mdash; I managed to get a look at the budget.'"""
"""Read story to May while she worked — afterwards verified cheque book and pass book.'"""
"""Send an English newpaper (not the Daily Mail as we have it here) occasionally. We are forbidden to send picture postcards now. I am in a hurry to catch the mail, so I must close.'"""
"""Read paper. British vessel sunk by German mine. Many German vessels captured by British. Great success in Belgium. Lord Kitchener Minister of War.'"""
"""Read aloud to May.'"""
"""Infinite thanks for the most precious and admirable volume [Knave of Hearts] [...] meanwhile I am as ever yours with admiration of the poet and affection for the man...'"""
"""Read evening papers. Germans defeated with great loss. Belgians splendid both in tactics and bravery. To rest at 9.15 with hot bottle.'"""
"""Back to the front line, taking over a stretch of our own, which shows the Staff trusts us ... Some papers came by post - just what I want here.'"""
"""Made a very successful raisin rice pudding over a charcoal brazier. This is War; a straw-strewn barn, heaps of periodicals, a glowing brazier, puddings, and plenty.'"""
"""I am proud to learn that there is [a phrase in """"""""Lord Jim""""""""] worthy to serve as an epigraph to one of the books of """"""""Les Caves du Vatican"""""""". What a beautiful start! What things you have put in the so characteristic and interesting pages of this fine beginning!'"""
"""I had very little leisure time to lie with mother but read in the evening.'"""
"""During the whole of my stay I continually asked to be allowed to have English books, but apart from one small, rather sloppy novel I was only permitted a German-English grammar. As I did not know even the shape of the German letters this book was of very little use to me, but the small dictionary at the end was useful in making up conversation with the jailers.'"""
"""During the whole of my stay I continually asked to be allowed to have English books, but apart from one small, rather sloppy novel I was only permitted a German-English grammar. As I did not know even the shape of the German letters this book was of very little use to me, but the small dictionary at the end was useful in making up conversation with the jailers.'"""
"""The routine of every day was precisely the same. We were wakened at five, and the coffee for breakfast was provided at half-past ... After dressing, and performing the menial duties of the day, there came the most trying part, waiting for the long hours of the morning to pass by. I used to attempt to learn German words out of a dictionary, and to draw anatomical diagrams from memory, for after a few days we were permitted some paper and a pencil.'"""
"""Dense fog. Could hardly see ... May had to go to bed till night. I read Memoir of J. E. Butler.'"""
"""Afternoon — Rest till 3.45. worked together. Read """"""""24 hours in a day"""""""" How to use them. Good hints but do not agree with much of it. To bed 9.15.'"""
"""Henry James, in letter of 19 August 1914, thanks Edith Wharton for 'D'Annunzio's frenchified ode', which he has apparently read and admired."""
"""Henry James to Hugh Walpole, 5 February 1914: 'I have the volume [one by Walpole] (since last night), and shall attack it as soon as I finish Conrad's """"""""Chance"""""""". I have so nearly done this that I shall probably proceed tonight, in bed, to Walpole's Certainty [""""""""The Duchess of Wrexe""""""""].''"""
"""Gradually, very gradually, Australians will realize what they owe to England. How all my English blood courses through my veins when I read of England's responses to the great call! It is true of course that Australians are joining the colours here, but the majority are either of the well-to-do classes, or else recent immigrants.'"""
"""Henry James, in letter of 21 November 1914 to Hugh Walpole, writes of his bemusement at the second volume of Compton Mackenzie's """"""""Sinister Street"""""""": 'I don't know what it means [...] the thing affects me on the whole as a mere wide waste.' """
"""When we were allowed to write post cards home on the 6th Oct 1914 (first time) Frau Braun [wife of the German camp commander] did the censoring, and as the Frau was not very good at English we were asked to write but little and clearly, we heard that the good Frau used to stay up nearly all night trying to read our correspondence, with the aid of a dictionary.'"""
"""We missed news more than anything else, there was a notice board in the court yard and we got the German version on that, needless to say this was not very satisfying.'"""
"""Do you read Blatchford in the Weekly Despatch? He is very good this week on """"""""The Danger of the Submarine"""""""" and warns us again.'"""
"""The bulletin of war news, posted up each morning outside the Kommandantur, boasted each day of the capture of countless Russian and French prisoners.' """
"""There is no real objection to marrying a woman with a fortune but there is to marrying a fortune with a woman.' <br/>[This is evidently an extract from a book recorded at the bottom of page, after the day's entry]"""
"""Wrote a letter home asking for statement of accounts ... Many Fr. and Russians (Baltic) arrived. Read Scarlet Pimpernel.'"""
"""I read the lonely Nietzsche: but I felt a bit ashamed of my feelings for this man in the past.  He is, if you like, """"""""human, all too human.""""""""  Read until late.  I felt wretched simply beyond words.  Life was like sawdust and sand.' """
"""Read Miss Burney George III illness + recovery'"""
"""80th day of imprisonment ... Friday. Slept well. Played cards sick of it ... 4 pcs from Joe and Ed. James. Started reading """"""""Mystery of Hover Heath"""""""" by Bertram Mitford.' """
"""He is likely to have read a good deal of French verse as well as prose during the winter of 1914-15; there are several relevant books in his library, including a few marked anthologies, and a 1914 transcription of Verlaine's sonnet 'Mon reve familier'.'"""
"""Sat. Welcome May. Letter from home. Read """"""""The Right Stuff"""""""" by Ian Hay ... Up 62 in bridge. Thunder Storm.'"""
"""Mon. Very few letters. None for me. All well. Read Naval Occasions by Bartimeus. V Good.'"""
"""Sat. Nil. [i.e., no mail]. Read The Riddle of the Sands by Erskine Childers.'"""
"""Tues. Received letter from no one[.] Damnation[.] Reading Man &amp; Superman by Bernard Shaw.'"""
"""I haven't meet [sic] any Aber Boys out here yet only A Potts of North Parade, & we were stationed in the same place for about 3 weeks & not knowing about him until I received the Cambrian News from home & I was in the trenches at the time ready to attack in the great charge at [indecipherable], when the paper was delivered to me and after I had time in the course of 3 days after I had a peep at the paper & found the other Aber boy was in the neighbourhood so went in search of him ...' """
"""No parcel aft. French. Supposed to play Rugger ... Ev bridge. Won. Read Reins of Chance by C Ranger Gull.'"""
"""Sunday. Rainy day. Met at 11am for Church Service which was cancelled. Walked about. Read The Broken Road by Mason.'"""
"""Began Court Life by HRH The Infanta Eulalia of Spain.'"""
"""Out in motor with Miss Kitching who gave me picture testament and Observer. Read Greek Test. with Eva[.] Finished Rev. 9.'"""
"""Out in motor with Miss Kitching who gave me picture testament and Observer. Read Greek Test. with Eva[.] Finished Rev. 9.'"""
"""Rest in dining room. Greek. Rev 10[.] Dinner 7.30. Signed against drink.'"""
"""Wed. Nil. Marriage is popular because it combines the max<sup>m</sup> of temptation with the max<sup>m</sup> of opportunity.'"""
"""Then I woke up, switched on the light, & began to read Venus & Adonis.  It's pretty stuff - rather like the Death of Procris'."""
"""I think """"""""The Genius"""""""" is a pretty good book.' """
"""Snow was falling ... and there was no chance of getting out to the terrace, so that the rest of the day had to be devoted to Poker and Bridge, games of which we were all heartily sick. Reading was difficult on account of the ceaseless noise kept up by Gollywog [a French officer prisoner] and his merry men [playing chess].' """
"""Sun. Rather depressed. No go. Reading Pickwick Papers &amp;c.'"""
"""Thurs. Nil by mail. Read Red Eve by Ryder Haggard.'"""
"""Tues. PC from Registrar. read the Right of Way by Sir Gilbert Parker.'"""
"""We are much interested in the view taken by Mr. Norris in his book """"""""When will the Lord return"""""""" that His coming is indicated by Scripture to be about 1918.'"""
"""Made my head ache reading + went to bed early.'"""
"""Sat. Read Play You Never Can Tell by Bernard Shaw &amp; Odd Things by Dolf Wyllarde. Ev Badminton with Bolton.' """
"""Sat. Read Play You Never Can Tell by Bernard Shaw & Odd Things by Dolf Wyllarde. Ev Badminton with Bolton.' """
"""Rawlinson sore leg. Wrote a letter home asking for biscuits &amp;c. Read The Wayfarers by JC Snaith.'"""
"""Thursday 14 March 1915: 'If I'd written this diary last night which I was too excited to do, I should have left a row of question marks at the end. What excited me was the evening paper. After printing [for Hogarth Press] all afternoon I went out later, bought a Star, looked at it casually under the public House lamp, & read that the Prime Minister needed our prayers. We were faced with momentous decisions [...] We evolved from this an offer of peace to France: but it appears to be only L[loyd]. G[eorge].'s way of whipping up his gallery. Anyhow, I was whipped.'"""
"""Letter from home May 5<sup>th</sup>. Roullette -5. Read Slave of Lamp by Merriman.'"""
"""Wed. Lovely day. Won at bridge. Nil by mail. Read Dialstone Lane by Jacobs.'"""
"""Rest in dining room with hot bottle ... Finished Rev 11 in Gr. Testament with Eva.'"""
"""Sun. Read """"""""The Crystal Stopper"""""""" by Maurice Blanc ... Unable to play Badminton.'"""
"""""""""""I think it was Victor Hugo's book Les Miserables that decided me to do what I could to alleviate the distress and suffering of the poor. That story gives you such a vivid picture of the under side of life, all the wretched & sordid details of the troubles of the poor -- troubles that could be lessened.""""""""' """
"""11.30 service. Rather depressed. Ev Bridge Won. Read the Wayfarers &amp; the Country of the Blind by HG Wells.'"""
"""11.30 service. Rather depressed. Ev Bridge Won. Read the Wayfarers & the Country of the Blind by HG Wells.'"""
"""Paxton has a bet of a dinner that war will be over by 1<sup>st</sup> July. So Bridge. Read Under Two Flags by Ouida.' """
"""Received a parcel of four books from ? The Farringdons by Ellen Thornycroft Fowler Beside the Bonnie Brier Bush by Ian Maclaren Tommy &amp; Co by Jerome K Jerome Donovan by Edna Lyall. Read """"""""Owd Bob"""""""" by Alfred Ollivant. Very little bread.'"""
"""10 [a.m.] service then walked ... Read Sea Urchins by Jacobs.'"""
"""Thurs. Lovely day. Read Lost World by Conan Doyle. Nil [i.e., no mail]."""
"""I am sitting in my dug-out this evening eagerly discussing over a mug of tea poets and poems with a brother officer, when he is called away about some ammunition for his machine-gun. I pick up a book, and being in the middle of a fairy-like sonnet, am sent for about a little matter of bombs! Trouble expected.'"""
"""Sister Edith remains and kindly helped me wind pink wool at night Read """"""""what I found out"""""""" so long that I could not read any more!! so May hunted up wool for me to knit.'"""
"""Arthur very pleased with photo frame. Read booklets by Rev. R F Horton DD.'"""
"""Read South Sea Tales by Jack London.'"""
"""Sat. Nil. Read """"""""Courtship of Morris &mdash;"""""""" by AEW Mason.'"""
"""Rumours that Italy have declared war. Read Tropical Tales by """"""""Dolf Wyllard"""""""". Ev Roulette.'"""
"""Read """"""""Famous Modern Battles"""""""" by [   ]. Ev. Bridge.'"""
"""After following the progress of the new Allied expedition to Salonika, and studying with mixed feelings the competitive journalistic outbursts over the shooting of Nurse Cavell, the three of us read, rather sadly, in """"""""The Times"""""""" of October 15th, the customary account of the opening of the Michaelmas term at Oxford, and speculated whether we should ever again see as students the grey walls clothed in their scarlet robes of autumn creeper.'"""
"""Back for early dinner. 1.30. Rest on sofa[.] Read Greek with Eva to Rev 14. v 13. Henry in for tea brought Evening Standard. Bombs dropped by Zeppelin, but no serious injury. Eva put fire out 9.30.'"""
"""Went to Library[.] Finished """"""""What I found out"""""""".'"""
"""Glorious day, warm sun. It is funny to sit here quietly chatting and reading with a peaceful view behind over field and wood, when if you move two feet you are as good as dead. A pied wagtail keeps running about in front, heedless of the cracking bullets.'"""
"""Saturday. Very stormy wind + heavy showers too wet to walk about. So bridge. Read A Sign of Four by Conan Doyle.'"""
"""Read fairy tales by George MacDonald.'"""
"""Read service. Read Observer.'"""
"""I have the """"""""Cambrian News"""""""" sent to me every week so I am able to read of the good work you and Friends are doing to Cheer up the Aber[ystwyth] Boys out here.' """
"""Read """"""""Mr Justice Raffles"""""""".'"""
"""Greek with Eva Rev 15 to end.'"""
"""Tues. Parcel from Pemb. ... Read The Ashes of Vengeance by Sommerville.'"""
"""Reading the new volume of Eddie Marsh's poets, nothing new to me in it. Wish the Kaiser would let me go back to my work at writing poems. Slow and sure is my way, I'm sure, and the good work was bound to come along sooner or later. And now if I get done in, I leave only a sheaf of minor verse, mostly derived from memory."""
"""Wed. Not a good day. No letter ... Feeling weak and done to the world.<br/>Read Call of the Wild by Jack London.'"""
"""The night before the coming of the first parcel, I was reading the same news in the Aber papers: how that first this one and then that one had received parcels of cigarettes.' """
"""It may interest you to know that I have at last succeeded in meeting an Aber boy and one too whose name I note in the last issue of the Cambrian News acknowledging a gift of smokes from you.'"""
"""Wrote to Albert [Albert Ruskin Cook, her son in Uganda] + posted. Mended skirt with brown wool. Read papers: Daily Mail and News.'"""
"""Wrote to Albert [Albert Ruskin Cook, her son in Uganda] + posted. Mended skirt with brown wool. Read papers: Daily Mail and News.'"""
"""Monday. Lovely day frosty. Received 6 PCs ... Walked a good deal. Read Spanish Gold by Geo A. Birmingham ... Bridge ... Dolly home from S. Africa. Caught with light on after 10pm. Row?'  """
"""Read ... Knave of Diamonds by Ella [   ].'"""
"""Read story of a yacht race. Bed 9.'"""
"""Read Rev 20 with Eva.'"""
"""A delightful 2 weeks mail began to come in at noon. Many Hindustani books, etc. Reuters very interesting. Italy on the verge. 7 ops. in the day.'"""
"""Set the night working parties on their job. Got the paper — no news.'"""
"""Your father's book is wonderful. I read the articles of course at the time; but now collected, in the mass, they astonish one by their marvellous insight into the future.'"""
"""A most refreshing and quiet day in Makindye — did not even go to church. Got 9 letters written[;] in the aft. sat on the hill side and read to K. [Katharine Cook] Jowett's Things that matter most.'"""
"""Lloyd George, the Chancellor of the Exchequer ... liked to get away from political anxieties by devouring what he called """"""""shilling shockers"""""""": adventure stories, American westerns, and thrillers, though he would occasionally leaven the mixture by rereading Dickens  and what he considered the erotic passages of Byron, Milton and Burns.  He did latch on to some best-sellers, such as Jeffrey Farnol's The Amateur Gentleman (1913), which he read """"""""over and over again"""""""" ...'"""
"""Lloyd George, the Chancellor of the Exchequer ... liked to get away from political anxieties by devouring what he called """"""""shilling shockers"""""""": adventure stories, American westerns, and thrillers, though he would occasionally leaven the mixture by rereading Dickens  and what he considered the erotic passages of Byron, Milton and Burns.  He did latch on to some best-sellers, such as Jeffrey Farnol's The Amateur Gentleman (1913), which he read """"""""over and over again"""""""" ...'"""
"""Lloyd George, the Chancellor of the Exchequer ... liked to get away from political anxieties by devouring what he called """"""""shilling shockers"""""""": adventure stories, American westerns, and thrillers, though he would occasionally leaven the mixture by rereading Dickens  and what he considered the erotic passages of Byron, Milton and Burns.  He did latch on to some best-sellers, such as Jeffrey Farnol's The Amateur Gentleman (1913), which he read """"""""over and over again"""""""" ...'"""
"""Lloyd George, the Chancellor of the Exchequer ... liked to get away from political anxieties by devouring what he called """"""""shilling shockers"""""""": adventure stories, American westerns, and thrillers, though he would occasionally leaven the mixture by rereading Dickens  and what he considered the erotic passages of Byron, Milton and Burns.  He did latch on to some best-sellers, such as Jeffrey Farnol's The Amateur Gentleman (1913), which he read """"""""over and over again"""""""" ...'"""
"""Lloyd George, the Chancellor of the Exchequer ... liked to get away from political anxieties by devouring what he called """"""""shilling shockers"""""""": adventure stories, American westerns, and thrillers, though he would occasionally leaven the mixture by rereading Dickens  and what he considered the erotic passages of Byron, Milton and Burns.  He did latch on to some best-sellers, such as Jeffrey Farnol's The Amateur Gentleman (1913), which he read """"""""over and over again"""""""" ...'"""
"""... we got no news at Göttingen  except from scraps of English papers which came in parcels, the Göttingen paper was one of the worst in Germany, and we did not take it in, the time we spent in this lager was extremely monotonous, and depressing.'"""
"""Read Count Hannibal by Stanley Weyman ... Aft. Rugger. Officers 4 Men 3.'"""
"""Mon. 9-11 Tennis[.] Weak. Then read Eldorado by Baroness Orczy. No letter. [Thomas then lists debts incurred in that day's round of roulette games.]"""
"""Robert Graves lent me his manuscript poems to read: some very bad, violent and repulsive.  A few full of promise and real beauty. He oughtn't to publish yet.'"""
"""Friday. Cold + wet under foot. Frenchman fainted after bath. Bridge. Still losing. Fr. + read The Fighting Chance by RW Chambers.'"""
"""Saturday. Finished Hover Heath. Started Mystery of Orcival by [Thomas has left a blank here, evidently meaning to fill in the author information later]. 4-6 cards. """
"""Saturday 2 January 1915: 'I read Guy Mannering upstairs for 20 minutes'."""
"""Sun. Nil [i.e., no mail]. Reading Recits d'un Soldat.'"""
"""Read services at home and Sunday Times.'"""
"""Thanks very much for the book and the """"""""Spectator"""""""" page.[...] These are all delightful pieces. You must autograph the book for me.' """
"""Thanks very much for the book and the """"""""Spectator"""""""" page.[...] These are all delightful pieces. You must autograph the book for me.' """
"""I have read and sewed to-day, but not written a word'."""
"""Sunday, 20 June[.] Well-earned day off. Slept like the dead. Afternoon bath and change. Then lounge with an old paper. We are not allowed to leave camp.'"""
"""Dinner. Coffee and rest in my room. Read Observer carefully. Supper and bed at 9.'"""
"""Sun. As usual. Walking Round and Reading.'"""
"""Thurs. Letter from Bess. Sent PC home. Read """"""""Bad Times"""""""" Ireland by George A. Birmingham. Game of rounders.'"""
"""Sun. Nil. Read A Trap to Catch a Dream.'"""
"""Friday. Lovely day. Walked about[.] No letters. Shown sketches by Russian ... Read Aysha by Rider Haggard. Ev Bridge. Did not play well. Gym gets on well.'"""
"""Read Morning Post newspaper. Rained all day cld. not go out.'"""
"""Mon. Nil [i.e., no post]. Gym. Hurt finger. Read The Orange Lady by Bailey.'"""
"""Saw promotion to Captain in Gazette.'"""
"""Finished Blizzard Land.'"""
"""Read """"""""White Fang"""""""" by Jack London."""""""""""
"""After tea sat over the fire and read the Lancet until time to go up to our cafe for dinner.'"""
"""Read Ordeal by battle by F. S. Oliver (very interesting).'"""
"""Fine day. Gym balances almost done. No letters. Read the Green Flag by Doyle. Ev Bridge. Play improving.'"""
"""Didn't go out all day. May brought me from Library """"""""Women the world over"""""""" and took back """"""""Candles in the flame"""""""" and """"""""Lighter side of school life[""""""""].'"""
"""Out with May. She left me in Reading Room when she went about housemaid — read daily graphic[.] Took out """"""""Through Central Africa from East to West"""""""". Very gratifying account of my sons, Albert + Jack [Cook, medical missionaries in Uganda].'"""
"""Out with May. She left me in Reading Room when she went about housemaid — read daily graphic[.] Took out """"""""Through Central Africa from East to West"""""""". Very gratifying account of my sons, Albert + Jack [Cook, medical missionaries in Uganda].'"""
"""Parcel from Pemb. War Fund. Worked on tennis court ... Read Old Wives Tale and Anna of Five Towns (Arnold Bennett).' """
"""Parcel from Pemb. War Fund. Worked on tennis court ... Read Old Wives Tale and Anna of Five Towns (Arnold Bennett).' """
"""Sun. Morn. Service. Cold much better. Read a Knight on Wheels by """"""""Ian Hay"""""""". Card from Findlay. Much fighting on West.'"""
"""Paid Laundress and Daily Mail ... Elsie at ¼ to six. Supper at 7.15. Read + worked. Bed 9.10.'"""
"""Today I saw a good review of your book [""""""""Bernal Diaz del Castillo""""""""] in the D[ai]ly Chr[onicle]: by some woman. I am going to get the vol. forthwith.' """
"""Monday. No letters ... 11 Parade 11.30 Gym. Walked about. Read Handy Andy by Sam Lover. Irish rot. Little French more bridge.'"""
"""Sun. Reading cursed strike in Wales.'"""
"""Friday, 25 June[.] Raining, and we are sheltering in dugouts in the trenches we are repairing. Been out six weeks now under shellfire more or less the whole time; to work every day, there is nothing to distinguish one day from another. Up at 6, start away 8, return at 5, turn in 9. Confined to camp every evening — just lounge and read. Change of locality and work the only matters of interest.'"""
"""I have adopted Stendhal.  Every night I read him now & first thing in the morning.'"""
"""I have adopted Stendhal.  Every night I read him now & first thing in the morning.'"""
"""Bought book on War [possibly """"""""Ordeal by Battle,"""""""" by F. S. Oliver] to send to A. C. [Albert Ruskin Cook, her son in Uganda]. Finished reading The Tide on the Morning Bar.'"""
"""Read the Poison Belt by A. Conan Doyle.'"""
"""Fri[.] Lovely day. As usual. Tired of it all. Read """"""""Three Men on a bummel"""""""" by Jerome K Jerome.'"""
"""Sat. Cold day ... angry ... Reading Experiences in Fr-Ge War 1870 by Archibald Forbes"""
"""Finished Women [the World Over?]. Bed 8.30 ... Naval victory important.'"""
"""Talking of slang, the Tommies' name for England is """"""""Blighty"""""""". This puzzled me for a bit, till I remembered one of Kipling's stories in which [italics]""""""""Belait""""""""[end italics] occurs as a Hindustanee word for Europe. I suppose they brought it from India.'"""
"""Fri. Nil [i.e., no post]. Read The Vultures by Merriman.'"""
"""Gwen's hand is improving. I applied some carbonate of soda to [indecipherable] having read about in a medical book.'"""
"""Fri. Read America the War by Hugo M&uuml;nsterberg. Roulette +1.50 for Sat.'"""
"""Very wet. Read """"""""Mistress of Brae Farm"""""""" by Carey.'"""
"""Sometimes when I think  ... of the Dream-city, with its grey towers and autumn sunsets, and the little room where surrounded by books I used to read """"""""Tess of the D'Urbervilles before a glowing fire at twelve o'clock at night, I can only cry inwardly: """"""""I [italics] hate [end italics] nursing!  How tired I am of this War - will it never end!""""""""'"""
"""Read Thief in Night Hornung. Ev Roulette.'"""
"""Saw a <i>Daily Mirror</i> today which contained a photograph of Georgette, the """"""""Belle of Bray"""""""", surrounded by some of our sergeants.'"""
"""Zeppelin. A great rush for the windows ... This evening was marked by the arrival of a parcel of books, Tauchnitz edition, which we had been allowed to order. No doubt the publishers are glad of the chance to unload their stock of British authors, as, after the war is over, there will not be much demand for the Tauchnitz volumes.' """
"""Read Round the Fire Stories by Conan Doyle. Joined the Library. Started Lettres de Mon Moulin Par Alphonse Daudet. No sign of peace. Will it last another year 2:1 it will.'"""
"""Read Round the Fire Stories by Conan Doyle. Joined the Library. Started Lettres de Mon Moulin Par Alphonse Daudet. No sign of peace. Will it last another year 2:1 it will.'"""
"""Finished Mistress of Brae Farm.'"""
"""Copied extracts p 93 of Kerton's [sic] E.A. [Through Central Africa from East to West]'"""
"""Many thanks for the book which is excellent and super excellent; even to the point of making me uneasy lest its true and vibrating notes be lost in the beating of the pans and (more or less) savage yowling of the market place.'"""
"""Read """"""""Daily Mail Year Book"""""""".'"""
"""Very heavy rain. Early dinner in doors. Skimmed Observer.'"""
"""Bought mackintosh 29m knife 3. Heavy snow. Read Harry Dale's Jockey Wild Rose by Nat Gould ... Herring for breakfast.'"""
"""Answer to prayer: [May] came in safe and early Read Fanny Burney (Court of George III)'"""
"""Reading The Prisoner of Zenda by Anthony Hope. Betting in Holland 10:1 that War will be over this year.'"""
"""How soon are you going to use that contribution by my friend Miss Pauline Smith?  I think that last week?s issue was an excellent one.'    """
"""Mon. Nil [i.e., no post]. Sent a PC home. Read """"""""The Witness for the Defence by AEW Mason.'"""
"""Rest and sleep upstairs[.] Read the Queen's Tragedy by Benson.'"""
"""Sat. Read """"""""The Importance of Being Earnest"""""""" by Oscar Wilde. Ev Roulette.'"""
"""Parcels from home and Bess. Read """"""""Letters from a Self Made Merchant to His Son"""""""" by George Horace Lorimer.'"""
"""Sunday. Finished Orcival. Read """"""""Vigil"""""""" by Harold Begbie. 4-5 Service. Spoilt all by laughing. Sorry for parson.'"""
"""Sunday. Finished Orcival. Read """"""""Vigil"""""""" by Harold Begbie. 4-5 Service. Spoilt all by laughing. Sorry for parson.'"""
"""Got to bed at about midnight again after finding a landscape of Messines and Wulverghem in our house in an illustrated Paper drawn for the same view or nearly so as one I did myself there. I cut this out and sent it home.'"""
"""Read in the evening and later read with J. a good deal of poetry'."""
"""Read in the evening and later read with J. a good deal of poetry'."""
"""Shrapnel and pieces of shell were falling all about us and we expected every minute to be our last ... It was a rotten half hour ... During this bombardment a <i>London Telegram</i> was handed round. It stated that about forty thousand Welsh miners were on strike for more pay. They all ought to be hung. Fancy them out on strike while their countrymen are enduring what we were having at that moment, and it was all for their sake as well as our own. The irony of it struck us all.'"""
"""Read """"""""The Right Stuff"""""""" by Ian Hay.'"""
"""Sun. read """"""""Virginia of the Rhodesians"""""""" by Cynthia Stockley. Miserable day.'"""
"""I moved into Army Corps H.Q. today as I was coming to Imbros and wanted to leave my things safe, and the last of the 1st. Div. H.Q. is leaving the Gully ... There was a light in the window of our little Imbros cottage – it looked so snug – when Bazley and I got there ... Last night – after walking about all day in order to keep warm – I had a hurried dinner and got into bed as quick as I could – but not before my feet were getting frozen ... I put on two pairs of dry socks instead, and a leather balaclava (it’s really an airman’s cap) over my head and ears – and crawled in. The hot water bottle was beautiful. I pulled up the biscuit box – which makes my chair, to the bedside, stood it on end with the lamp on it just by my head; pulled the great head cover flap of my sleeping bag right down over my shoulders and head, leaving just space enough to see my book and nothing else; pulled the blanket (which covered the sleeping bag) right over my hands so that there was only one thumb exposed – and then settled down to read the life and voyages of poor old Captain Cook. At last, for the first time in three days, I was able to read without being frozen – I was just decently warm….Far down below me I could hear the pick, pick, pick, of the men excavating 15 feet below a chamber for bombs ... And so I read of the fate of the poor old Yorkshire seaman, the matter of fact Cook, who found the most important part my country, and I scarcely think realised what he had found. If he had been told that 127 years later his barren discovery would be sending to the Mediterranean 300,000 of the best troops the British nation possesses, he might have been a little more astonished at himself for discovering it ...’"""
"""M. [Marjorie Cook, A. R. Cook's daughter] still has a high temp. — 104.1 in aft. Began to give Citrated milk. She enjoyed me reading to her """"""""The man at the gate"""""""" and The Impregnable City.'"""
"""I am writing these few lines to let you know that I received your Cambrian News, and also the ciggarretes [sic], they went round to all the Aber boys, which they gratefully enjoyed ...'"""
"""[Spoto states that Hitchcock read Flaubert when he was around 15 or 16 and] 'He afterwards admitted that his favourite character in fiction was Emma Bovary.'"""
"""I flung myself on my bed afterwards and tried to get some comfort from the volume of Wordsworth which had been the delight of my scholarship work in that long-ago that was already beginning to be labelled """"""""pre-war""""""""."""
"""By way of compensating him for my heretical indifference to the loveliness of Greek - a loveliness that came back to me in quieter days, more potent than life, more permanent than war - I enclosed with my letter the cutting of a recent """"""""Times"""""""" leader which had encouraged me to hope for the future resurrection of pre-war literary values.' [In the next sentence Vera Brittain states that the Times leader was called """"""""The Unsubmerged City"""""""".]"""
"""To console myself, I concluded, I had been re-reading one of our favourite fragments from W. E. Henley's """"""""Bric-a-Brac"""""""":"""
"""Once, in the midst of trying to read a Strindberg play, I felt ghostly fingers gently stirring my hair, and twice mysterious footsteps walked slowly up the ward, stopped opposite my table and never returned.'"""
"""At Maidstone, both on this occasion and subsequently when I served several months in separate confinement as a convict preparatory to going to Parkhurst, I was able, through the chaplain's kindness, to study not only Greek philosophy, but also Locke, Hume, Berkeley, Kant, Hegel, Fichte, Schelling, Schopenhauer, Fechner, Lotze, etc. Being a very rapid reader and having some ability in getting at the gist of a book I got through a fair amount of really interesting reading. ... In the summer I grabbed a book as soon as it was light enough to read, say, four o'clock, read till and during breakfast, dinner, supper and continued till 9:30 or 10 o'clock at night, an average of 8 to 10 hours a day. There were times, of course, when the burden of prison life bred a spirit of discontent and restlessness which books could not assuage.' """
"""At Maidstone, both on this occasion and subsequently when I served several months in separate confinement as a convict preparatory to going to Parkhurst, I was able, through the chaplain's kindness, to study not only Greek philosophy, but also Locke, Hume, Berkeley, Kant, Hegel, Fichte, Schelling, Schopenhauer, Fechner, Lotze, etc. Being a very rapid reader and having some ability in getting at the gist of a book I got through a fair amount of really interesting reading. ... In the summer I grabbed a book as soon as it was light enough to read, say, four o'clock, read till and during breakfast, dinner, supper and continued till 9:30 or 10 o'clock at night, an average of 8 to 10 hours a day. There were times, of course, when the burden of prison life bred a spirit of discontent and restlessness which books could not assuage.' """
"""At Maidstone, both on this occasion and subsequently when I served several months in separate confinement as a convict preparatory to going to Parkhurst, I was able, through the chaplain's kindness, to study not only Greek philosophy, but also Locke, Hume, Berkeley, Kant, Hegel, Fichte, Schelling, Schopenhauer, Fechner, Lotze, etc. Being a very rapid reader and having some ability in getting at the gist of a book I got through a fair amount of really interesting reading. ... In the summer I grabbed a book as soon as it was light enough to read, say, four o'clock, read till and during breakfast, dinner, supper and continued till 9:30 or 10 o'clock at night, an average of 8 to 10 hours a day. There were times, of course, when the burden of prison life bred a spirit of discontent and restlessness which books could not assuage.' """
"""At Maidstone, both on this occasion and subsequently when I served several months in separate confinement as a convict preparatory to going to Parkhurst, I was able, through the chaplain's kindness, to study not only Greek philosophy, but also Locke, Hume, Berkeley, Kant, Hegel, Fichte, Schelling, Schopenhauer, Fechner, Lotze, etc. Being a very rapid reader and having some ability in getting at the gist of a book I got through a fair amount of really interesting reading. ... In the summer I grabbed a book as soon as it was light enough to read, say, four o'clock, read till and during breakfast, dinner, supper and continued till 9:30 or 10 o'clock at night, an average of 8 to 10 hours a day. There were times, of course, when the burden of prison life bred a spirit of discontent and restlessness which books could not assuage.' """
"""At Maidstone, both on this occasion and subsequently when I served several months in separate confinement as a convict preparatory to going to Parkhurst, I was able, through the chaplain's kindness, to study not only Greek philosophy, but also Locke, Hume, Berkeley, Kant, Hegel, Fichte, Schelling, Schopenhauer, Fechner, Lotze, etc. Being a very rapid reader and having some ability in getting at the gist of a book I got through a fair amount of really interesting reading. ... In the summer I grabbed a book as soon as it was light enough to read, say, four o'clock, read till and during breakfast, dinner, supper and continued till 9:30 or 10 o'clock at night, an average of 8 to 10 hours a day. There were times, of course, when the burden of prison life bred a spirit of discontent and restlessness which books could not assuage.' """
"""At Maidstone, both on this occasion and subsequently when I served several months in separate confinement as a convict preparatory to going to Parkhurst, I was able, through the chaplain's kindness, to study not only Greek philosophy, but also Locke, Hume, Berkeley, Kant, Hegel, Fichte, Schelling, Schopenhauer, Fechner, Lotze, etc. Being a very rapid reader and having some ability in getting at the gist of a book I got through a fair amount of really interesting reading. ... In the summer I grabbed a book as soon as it was light enough to read, say, four o'clock, read till and during breakfast, dinner, supper and continued till 9:30 or 10 o'clock at night, an average of 8 to 10 hours a day. There were times, of course, when the burden of prison life bred a spirit of discontent and restlessness which books could not assuage.' """
"""At Maidstone, both on this occasion and subsequently when I served several months in separate confinement as a convict preparatory to going to Parkhurst, I was able, through the chaplain's kindness, to study not only Greek philosophy, but also Locke, Hume, Berkeley, Kant, Hegel, Fichte, Schelling, Schopenhauer, Fechner, Lotze, etc. Being a very rapid reader and having some ability in getting at the gist of a book I got through a fair amount of really interesting reading. ... In the summer I grabbed a book as soon as it was light enough to read, say, four o'clock, read till and during breakfast, dinner, supper and continued till 9:30 or 10 o'clock at night, an average of 8 to 10 hours a day. There were times, of course, when the burden of prison life bred a spirit of discontent and restlessness which books could not assuage.' """
"""At Maidstone, both on this occasion and subsequently when I served several months in separate confinement as a convict preparatory to going to Parkhurst, I was able, through the chaplain's kindness, to study not only Greek philosophy, but also Locke, Hume, Berkeley, Kant, Hegel, Fichte, Schelling, Schopenhauer, Fechner, Lotze, etc. Being a very rapid reader and having some ability in getting at the gist of a book I got through a fair amount of really interesting reading. ... In the summer I grabbed a book as soon as it was light enough to read, say, four o'clock, read till and during breakfast, dinner, supper and continued till 9:30 or 10 o'clock at night, an average of 8 to 10 hours a day. There were times, of course, when the burden of prison life bred a spirit of discontent and restlessness which books could not assuage.' """
"""At Maidstone, both on this occasion and subsequently when I served several months in separate confinement as a convict preparatory to going to Parkhurst, I was able, through the chaplain's kindness, to study not only Greek philosophy, but also Locke, Hume, Berkeley, Kant, Hegel, Fichte, Schelling, Schopenhauer, Fechner, Lotze, etc. Being a very rapid reader and having some ability in getting at the gist of a book I got through a fair amount of really interesting reading. ... In the summer I grabbed a book as soon as it was light enough to read, say, four o'clock, read till and during breakfast, dinner, supper and continued till 9:30 or 10 o'clock at night, an average of 8 to 10 hours a day. There were times, of course, when the burden of prison life bred a spirit of discontent and restlessness which books could not assuage.' """
"""At Maidstone, both on this occasion and subsequently when I served several months in separate confinement as a convict preparatory to going to Parkhurst, I was able, through the chaplain's kindness, to study not only Greek philosophy, but also Locke, Hume, Berkeley, Kant, Hegel, Fichte, Schelling, Schopenhauer, Fechner, Lotze, etc. Being a very rapid reader and having some ability in getting at the gist of a book I got through a fair amount of really interesting reading. ... In the summer I grabbed a book as soon as it was light enough to read, say, four o'clock, read till and during breakfast, dinner, supper and continued till 9:30 or 10 o'clock at night, an average of 8 to 10 hours a day. There were times, of course, when the burden of prison life bred a spirit of discontent and restlessness which books could not assuage.' """
"""At Maidstone, both on this occasion and subsequently when I served several months in separate confinement as a convict preparatory to going to Parkhurst, I was able, through the chaplain's kindness, to study not only Greek philosophy, but also Locke, Hume, Berkeley, Kant, Hegel, Fichte, Schelling, Schopenhauer, Fechner, Lotze, etc. Being a very rapid reader and having some ability in getting at the gist of a book I got through a fair amount of really interesting reading. ... In the summer I grabbed a book as soon as it was light enough to read, say, four o'clock, read till and during breakfast, dinner, supper and continued till 9:30 or 10 o'clock at night, an average of 8 to 10 hours a day. There were times, of course, when the burden of prison life bred a spirit of discontent and restlessness which books could not assuage.' """
"""Showery. Read Truth about an Author ... Letter from Bess.'"""
"""I bought a book by Henry James yesterday and read it, as they say, """"""""until far into the night"""""""".  It was not very interesting or very good, but I can wade through pages and pages of dull, turgid James for the sake of that sudden sweet shock, that violent throb of delight that he gives me at times.  I don't doubt this is genius: only there is an extraordinary amount of pan and an amazingly raffine' flash - '"""
"""In his copy of Vigny's """"""""Chatterton"""""""" he marked the sentence, """"""""En toi la reverie continuelle a tue l'action"""""""", and in Renan he marked a comment that the Celts knew how to plunge their hands into a man's entrails and bring out secrets of the infinite. What he always thought of as his Celtic strain would have been fascinated by """"""""La Tentation de St Antoine"""""""", in which Flaubert meticulously describes the saint's visions of strange and dreadful beings. Owen read the book with care, underlining frequently. Tailhade had also marked it, writing """"""""cretin!"""""""" against a criticism by the editor of the novel's """"""""grands defauts"""""""". Evidently agreing with Tailhade, Owen went on to read at least two more of Flaubert's novels, """"""""Madame Bovary"""""""" and """"""""Salammbo"""""""". """"""""Flaubert has my vote for novel-writing!"""""""", he exclaimed to Gunston in July 1915, and he told his mother that he was reading """"""""Salammbo"""""""" """"""""with more interest than the Communiques"""""""".'"""
"""In his copy of Vigny's """"""""Chatterton"""""""" he marked the sentence, """"""""En toi la reverie continuelle a tue l'action"""""""", and in Renan he marked a comment that the Celts knew how to plunge their hands into a man's entrails and bring out secrets of the infinite. What he always thought of as his Celtic strain would have been fascinated by """"""""La Tentation de St Antoine"""""""", in which Flaubert meticulously describes the saint's visions of strange and dreadful beings. Owen read the book with care, underlining frequently. Tailhade had also marked it, writing """"""""cretin!"""""""" against a criticism by the editor of the novel's """"""""grands defauts"""""""". Evidently agreing with Tailhade, Owen went on to read at least two more of Flaubert's novels, """"""""Madame Bovary"""""""" and """"""""Salammbo"""""""". """"""""Flaubert has my vote for novel-writing!"""""""", he exclaimed to Gunston in July 1915, and he told his mother that he was reading """"""""Salammbo"""""""" """"""""with more interest than the Communiques"""""""".'"""
"""In his copy of Vigny's """"""""Chatterton"""""""" he marked the sentence, """"""""En toi la reverie continuelle a tue l'action"""""""", and in Renan he marked a comment that the Celts knew how to plunge their hands into a man's entrails and bring out secrets of the infinite. What he always thought of as his Celtic strain would have been fascinated by """"""""La Tentation de St Antoine"""""""", in which Flaubert meticulously describes the saint's visions of strange and dreadful beings. Owen read the book with care, underlining frequently. Tailhade had also marked it, writing """"""""cretin!"""""""" against a criticism by the editor of the novel's """"""""grands defauts"""""""". Evidently agreing with Tailhade, Owen went on to read at least two more of Flaubert's novels, """"""""Madame Bovary"""""""" and """"""""Salammbo"""""""". """"""""Flaubert has my vote for novel-writing!"""""""", he exclaimed to Gunston in July 1915, and he told his mother that he was reading """"""""Salammbo"""""""" """"""""with more interest than the Communiques"""""""".'"""
"""In his copy of Vigny's """"""""Chatterton"""""""" he marked the sentence, """"""""En toi la reverie continuelle a tue l'action"""""""", and in Renan he marked a comment that the Celts knew how to plunge their hands into a man's entrails and bring out secrets of the infinite. What he always thought of as his Celtic strain would have been fascinated by """"""""La Tentation de St Antoine"""""""", in which Flaubert meticulously describes the saint's visions of strange and dreadful beings. Owen read the book with care, underlining frequently. Tailhade had also marked it, writing """"""""cretin!"""""""" against a criticism by the editor of the novel's """"""""grands defauts"""""""". Evidently agreing with Tailhade, Owen went on to read at least two more of Flaubert's novels, """"""""Madame Bovary"""""""" and """"""""Salammbo"""""""". """"""""Flaubert has my vote for novel-writing!"""""""", he exclaimed to Gunston in July 1915, and he told his mother that he was reading """"""""Salammbo"""""""" """"""""with more interest than the Communiques"""""""".'"""
"""In his copy of Vigny's """"""""Chatterton"""""""" he marked the sentence, """"""""En toi la reverie continuelle a tue l'action"""""""", and in Renan he marked a comment that the Celts knew how to plunge their hands into a man's entrails and bring out secrets of the infinite. What he always thought of as his Celtic strain would have been fascinated by """"""""La Tentation de St Antoine"""""""", in which Flaubert meticulously describes the saint's visions of strange and dreadful beings. Owen read the book with care, underlining frequently. Tailhade had also marked it, writing """"""""cretin!"""""""" against a criticism by the editor of the novel's """"""""grands defauts"""""""". Evidently agreing with Tailhade, Owen went on to read at least two more of Flaubert's novels, """"""""Madame Bovary"""""""" and """"""""Salammbo"""""""". """"""""Flaubert has my vote for novel-writing!"""""""", he exclaimed to Gunston in July 1915, and he told his mother that he was reading """"""""Salammbo"""""""" """"""""with more interest than the Communiques"""""""".'"""
"""M. [Marjorie Cook, A. R. Cook's daughter] enjoys being read to in the aft. I have read to her """"""""The Impregnable City"""""""" and """"""""The Diamond Ship"""""""".'"""
"""M. [Marjorie Cook, A. R. Cook's daughter] enjoys being read to in the aft. I have read to her """"""""The Impregnable City"""""""" and """"""""The Diamond Ship"""""""".'"""
"""Thursday. Lovely day. Walked about good deal. Pollard arrived. Fr. Read A Fleet in Being by Kipling. All well.'"""
"""Saturday. Received a P.C. from joe James. Cold day. No parcel for me. Read """"""""The Continental Times"""""""" Bundle of <del>drivel</del> lies. Did some French. Read The Cantonment by BM Croker. V Good. I fear this is to be a long war. Ev Bridge.' """
"""Saturday. Received a P.C. from joe James. Cold day. No parcel for me. Read """"""""The Continental Times"""""""" Bundle of <del>drivel</del> lies. Did some French. Read The Cantonment by BM Croker. V Good. I fear this is to be a long war. Ev Bridge.' """
"""Monday. Morn. did little German. Aft. Read 5 ch. Matthew. 5 pm bath. 7-8 whist -2. Bought a bag 8&frac12; Expected to leave Paderborn. Read a Tale of Two Cities (Dick)'"""
"""Monday. Morn. did little German. Aft. Read 5 ch. Matthew. 5 pm bath. 7-8 whist -2. Bought a bag 8&frac12; Expected to leave Paderborn. Read a Tale of Two Cities (Dick)'"""
"""Reading The Career of Beauty Darling by Dolf Wyllarde.'"""
"""I have nearly finished """"""""Confession d?un homme d?aujourd?hui"""""""".  It is very good and helped me to pass a difficult Sunday.'   """
"""I looked over the Budget before sending it away to India for Milly Jones.'"""
"""[George?] Ward to tea — brought most interesting paper on Jews ardent to return to their own land.'"""
"""Rhea and his staff are hard at work—Rhea working more particularly at the bacteriology of wounds with special reference to anaërobes ... Jack McCrae looked very fit, but acknowledged that it was impossible to get down to reading. The papers in the medical journals seemed to him sadly small and piffling in view of the great issues of the war.'"""
"""Henry James to James B. Pinker, 6 January 1915: 'be thanked [...] for your conveyance to me of Arnold Bennett's healthy article (which I had seen and much relished, though I do myself deprecate everywhere the laying on of any rose-colour too thick), and of Wells's admirable scarification, as I hold it, of G[eorge].B[ernard].S[haw]. -- in which I find myself ready to back himn up to the hilt.'"""
"""Henry James to James B. Pinker, 6 January 1915: 'be thanked [...] for your conveyance to me of Arnold Bennett's healthy article (which I had seen and much relished, though I do myself deprecate everywhere the laying on of any rose-colour too thick), and of Wells's admirable scarification, as I hold it, of G[eorge].B[ernard].S[haw]. -- in which I find myself ready to back himn up to the hilt.'"""
"""Henry James to James B. Pinker, 6 January 1915: 'I have had to settle down [...] to looking at almost nothing but """"""""The Times"""""""" and """"""""The Morning Post""""""""; the latter for its comparative avoidance of cheap optimisms; whch I hate to be too much fed with.'"""
"""Henry James to James B. Pinker, 6 January 1915: 'I have had to settle down [...] to looking at almost nothing but """"""""The Times"""""""" and """"""""The Morning Post""""""""; the latter for its comparative avoidance of cheap optimisms; whch I hate to be too much fed with.'"""
"""Henry James to H. G. Wells, 6 July 1915: 'I was given yesterday at a club your volume """"""""Boon, etc."""""""", from a loose leaf in which I learn that you kindly sent it me [...] I have just been reading, to acknowledge it intelligently, a considerable number of its pages -- though not all; for, to be perfectly frank, I have been in that respect beaten for the first time -- or rather for the first time but one -- by a book of yours'. """
"""Read Rev:6 in Greek with Eva.'"""
"""Read The Sands of Pleasure by Montmartre.'"""
"""Sat. No letter. No parcel ... read M<sup>rs</sup> Wiggs of Cabbage Patch.'"""
"""dont forget daily paper every day if you can for I look forward to my paper. we are having it hot out here just. I expect it warm at home now. we expect leave this mounth but we dont know for certain. [spelling and punctuation errors in the original]'"""
"""Her reading as a child was voracious, although her late start in learning to read for herself left her with a cosy taste for being read to. Her governess hads read aloud to her the story of Perseus and """"""""Jungle Jinks"""""""" and most things in between. Once she read for herself, she had a passion for George Macdonald: his Curdie was one of her heroes. She loved Baroness Orczy's """"""""Scarlet Pimpernel"""""""", and E. Nesbit's books. She read Dickens exhaustively as a child and, as a result, could not read him as a young adult: """"""""There is no more oxygen left, for me, anywhere in the atmosphere of his writings"""""""".'"""
"""Her reading as a child was voracious, although her late start in learning to read for herself left her with a cosy taste for being read to. Her governess hads read aloud to her the story of Perseus and """"""""Jungle Jinks"""""""" and most things in between. Once she read for herself, she had a passion for George Macdonald: his Curdie was one of her heroes. She loved Baroness Orczy's """"""""Scarlet Pimpernel"""""""", and E. Nesbit's books. She read Dickens exhaustively as a child and, as a result, could not read him as a young adult: """"""""There is no more oxygen left, for me, anywhere in the atmosphere of his writings"""""""".'"""
"""Her reading as a child was voracious, although her late start in learning to read for herself left her with a cosy taste for being read to. Her governess hads read aloud to her the story of Perseus and """"""""Jungle Jinks"""""""" and most things in between. Once she read for herself, she had a passion for George Macdonald: his Curdie was one of her heroes. She loved Baroness Orczy's """"""""Scarlet Pimpernel"""""""", and E. Nesbit's books. She read Dickens exhaustively as a child and, as a result, could not read him as a young adult: """"""""There is no more oxygen left, for me, anywhere in the atmosphere of his writings"""""""".'"""
"""Her reading as a child was voracious, although her late start in learning to read for herself left her with a cosy taste for being read to. Her governess hads read aloud to her the story of Perseus and """"""""Jungle Jinks"""""""" and most things in between. Once she read for herself, she had a passion for George Macdonald: his Curdie was one of her heroes. She loved Baroness Orczy's """"""""Scarlet Pimpernel"""""""", and E. Nesbit's books. She read Dickens exhaustively as a child and, as a result, could not read him as a young adult: """"""""There is no more oxygen left, for me, anywhere in the atmosphere of his writings"""""""".'"""
"""10 a.m. Service. Read Mrs Murphy &amp; also a Rolling Stone by BM Croker. Walked a little. All's well.'"""
"""10 a.m. Service. Read Mrs Murphy & also a Rolling Stone by BM Croker. Walked a little. All's well.'"""
"""Read Mrs Murphy by <del>Frank Richardson</del> <br/>Read Ship's Coy by WW Jacobs.'"""
"""Read Mrs Murphy by <del>Frank Richardson</del> <br/>Read Ship's Coy by WW Jacobs.'"""
"""In the German barracks """"""""<i>Gott strafe England</i>"""""""" was chalked up in many conspicuous places. It was also the headline on their bread coupon cards.'"""
"""C. [David Lloyd George] says that Ibsen's Doll's House was the work that converted him to woman suffrage, & presented the woman's point of view to him.' """
"""Am reading Meredith's Egoist. C. [David Lloyd George] said he was afraid it would lessen my love for him, as he throws such a clear light on the male character. C. says that Meredith has just such an insight on character as the physician has on your body when he puts the electric light arrangement on his forehead. C says too that Meredith was the first to conceive the revolt of woman &mdash; the revolt against the accepted relations of husband and wife, that is to say.' """
"""Am reading Meredith's Egoist. C. [David Lloyd George] said he was afraid it would lessen my love for him, as he throws such a clear light on the male character. C. says that Meredith has just such an insight on character as the physician has on your body when he puts the electric light arrangement on his forehead. C says too that Meredith was the first to conceive the revolt of woman -- the revolt against the accepted relations of husband and wife, that is to say.' """
"""I have just come across these lines by A. E., which I like, because the stars are your only companions on sentry duty in the trenches; and they seem filled with majesty and peace, as does the sunrise too [quotes stanza five of A. E.'s poem """"""""Shadows and Lights""""""""].'"""
"""It [""""""""The Freelands""""""""] is a most beautifully done thing. [...]. I kept your book for a propitious day and finished it about midnight. Then I put out the light opened the window and listened to the noise of the Zep passing nearly overhead.[...] That was the night of the second raid on London.'"""
"""Henry James to Margot Asquith, 9 April 1915, thanking her for sending him her diary to read ('a few days ago'): 'I have absorbed every word of every page with the liveliest appreciation [...] I have read the thing intimately, and I take off my hat to you as the Balzac of diarists.'"""
"""Enjoyed reading war news and papers.'"""
"""Mon. No letter. No parcel. Read Buried Alive by Arnold Bennett.'"""
"""Didn't go out all day. May brought me from Library """"""""Women the world over"""""""" and took back """"""""Candles in the flame"""""""" and """"""""Lighter side of school life[""""""""].'"""
"""Up very early. Medicine successful. Joined in [Fam.?] Prayer. Clock run down at last and so wound by May ... Read """"""""The Westcotes"""""""".'"""
"""Tues. Sent letter to Findlay. Fine day. Nil by mail. Read 2535 Mayfair by Frank Richardson.'"""
"""May brought back from the Library Home of the Blizzard.'"""
"""‘Will & I were both glad to get news from home and only lament the absence of so many of our old Qsl'd papers. Newspaper in Egypt i.e. printed here, is worthy to be given the name of “rag” even. They are aweful slights on modern Journalism. What English papers there may be obtainable here must be paid for through the neck. For instance, the London “Daily Express”, which is ½ d in the “Old Dart”, costs 2 piastres (5d) here in Egypt.’"""
"""‘Will & I were both glad to get news from home and only lament the absence of so many of our old Qsl'd papers. Newspaper in Egypt i.e. printed here, is worthy to be given the name of “rag” even. They are aweful slights on modern Journalism. What English papers there may be obtainable here must be paid for through the neck. For instance, the London “Daily Express”, which is ½ d in the “Old Dart”, costs 2 piastres (5d) here in Egypt.’"""
"""We were allowed to see two German papers—the """"""""Kölnische Zeitung"""""""" and the """"""""Lokal Würzburger Anzeiger."""""""" These papers arrived after lunch, and anything of interest in them was translated aloud for the benefit of the club by Reddy, who knew German thoroughly. The former showed a disposition to break forth into sensational headlines, and was rabidly and sometimes comically anti-English.' """
"""We were allowed to see two German papers—the """"""""Kölnische Zeitung"""""""" and the """"""""Lokal Würzburger Anzeiger."""""""" These papers arrived after lunch, and anything of interest in them was translated aloud for the benefit of the club by Reddy, who knew German thoroughly. The former showed a disposition to break forth into sensational headlines, and was rabidly and sometimes comically anti-English.' """
"""During the period of our captivity at Munden the time passed more heavily, I think, than at any later period, owing to the fact that we had practically no reading matter ... No daily papers or periodicals of any sort were allowed, not even German, only a rag called <i>The Continental Times</i> ... There were only about a dozen English novels in the camp, and no means of obtaining more; consequently, to keep one's mind occupied, one had to read them over and over again ...'"""
"""You need have no fear about my looking after myself and behaving myself May, because I only go out about 3 nights a week, and then usually by myself. I either walk round the town or go to the Y.M.C.A. at Romford, where there are all kinds of games and concerts. When I stop in camp I either go in our own Y.M.C.A. and read books or war news, or sew buttons on, or have a chat with another decent fellow out of our room on military affairs. So you see I behave myself alright.'"""
"""Well I am getting on topping: today we have been on a brigade field day round a place called """"""""The Devils Punch bowl"""""""" It's a piece of land about 3 miles round the top. The top is flat for about 3 yards and then slopes down to an awful depth. A sailor was murdered there in 1756, as he was going to Portsmouth by an highway man. They buried the sailor, and erected a stone telling all about the barborous murder. About 50 yards away there is a stone cross which the highwayman was hung on. The murdered sailor was a Witney man. On another old stone near our camp its got Portsmouth 33 miles, and Hyde Park Corner 36 miles, which shows that we are not so far from the seaside or London. It always seems curious to see such names on a mile stone.'"""
"""Well I am getting on topping: today we have been on a brigade field day round a place called """"""""The Devils Punch bowl"""""""" It's a piece of land about 3 miles round the top. The top is flat for about 3 yards and then slopes down to an awful depth. A sailor was murdered there in 1756, as he was going to Portsmouth by an highway man. They buried the sailor, and erected a stone telling all about the barborous murder. About 50 yards away there is a stone cross which the highwayman was hung on. The murdered sailor was a Witney man. On another old stone near our camp its got Portsmouth 33 miles, and Hyde Park Corner 36 miles, which shows that we are not so far from the seaside or London. It always seems curious to see such names on a mile stone.'"""
"""Our Adjutant told us the history of the 1st K.R.R [King's Royal Rifles] in this war, by a diary from one of their officers. They got on fine until they went into action at the battle of Mons. They had a terrible share in it. They had 400 out of 1,000 men killed that day. The French retired and the K.R.R. held on for 3 hours after the French had gone. Then K.R.R. had to march 170 miles, fighting all the way. After the Marne, the other 600 were nearly wiped out. Well as it is tea time I must now close ...'"""
"""A boy thrust a """"""""Star"""""""" into my hand, and, shivering with cold in the hot sunshine, I made myself read it.'"""
"""‘ ... I mean are we willing to suffer for the Empire? - Well if so - It must be now! - Think of Belgium - you have read I expect in the papers of their suffering  at the hands of the Germans - The horrors don’t seem real to us - We can hardly believe that such brutality can exist  in a so called civilized country , but it does - & we must realize it, & that their fate may be ours - (Read from pamphlet - & say also French Commission) ... let us do our part to save the Empire ... Mothers boastingly say I wont let my son go - & yet other sons are giving to keep those sons in comfort & ease at home. (pamphlet front page -) ... & why should Q.ld Mothers turn a deaf ear when the nation calls - is it that she wont hear what is asked of her? Is life running so smoothly - a comfortable house - good food & clothing & judging by the numbers of picture show patronised – plenty of amusements - bringing up her children in selfishness - so they are unwilling to do their part when called upon - This is not a time of pleasuring ...'"""
"""I am sending you a cutting out of the """"""""Daily Telegraph"""""""" of Aug 30th containing the London Gazette wherein I am transferred to a Service Battalion and taken off probation. I am now a full blown 2/Lt and am entitled to my parchment from the War Office.'  """
"""I was delighted with Miss Glasgow's novel [""""""""Life and Gabriella: The Story of a Woman's Courage""""""""]; the insight, the mastery of her craft, the interest and charm of the narrative-- all this is of the very first order.'"""
"""In the morning a little """"""""Inferno"""""""". James's """"""""Washington Square"""""""" (his first, American manner) and Turgeneff's [sic] """"""""Fumée""""""""; but Russian books are always a slight effort to me, I suppose by reason of the lackage of style in translation.' """
"""In the morning a little """"""""Inferno"""""""". James's """"""""Washington Square"""""""" (his first, American manner) and Turgeneff's [sic] """"""""Fumée""""""""; but Russian books are always a slight effort to me, I suppose by reason of the leakage of style in translation.' """
"""In the morning a little """"""""Inferno"""""""". James's """"""""Washington Square"""""""" (his first, American manner) and Turgeneff's [sic] """"""""Fumée""""""""; but Russian books are always a slight effort to me, I suppose by reason of the leakage of style in translation.' """
"""""""""""Lady Cynthia Asquith ... believed [as she recorded in her diary] that 'Meredith is very good for reading aloud.'  On 10 March 1916 she tested this proposition by reading 'Mamma [Countess Wemyss] two chapters of The Egoist after dinner: she fell asleep'."""""""""""
"""I am enjoying Moule's """"""""Veni Creator"""""""".'"""
"""Brigadier General Sir Charles Crewe ... came in to inspect the Hospital. The General was so nice. He had diligently read up the literature on Uganda, Bp. Tucker's book, etc., and said he knew the great change in the country was entirely due to the influence of the miss[ionarie]s.'"""
"""This morning we made for Bécourt Wood. In a sand-bag shelter in the wood I found two novels—""""""""Exton Manor"""""""" by Archibald Marshall and """"""""Justice"""""""" by Galsworthy, which I have annexed.'"""
"""This morning we made for Bécourt Wood. In a sand-bag shelter in the wood I found two novels—""""""""Exton Manor"""""""" by Archibald Marshall and """"""""Justice"""""""" by Galsworthy, which I have annexed.'"""
"""Since I came here I have been very interested in the Bible.  I have read the Bible for hours on end.'"""
"""‘I am enclosing P.C.[post card] I got in my billy [ a container, usually makeshift, for boiling water or tea sometimes sent with gifts for soldiers]. I think it is a very nice verse on it so I am sending it along.’"""
"""I keep reading Tess and The Return of the Native -- they fit in admirably with my thoughts.'"""
"""Talked twenty minutes with two Egyptian officers who seemed a little out of the picture, and to bed, after fifty or sixty pages of """"""""Mr Britling"""""""".'"""
"""Rose 7.15 and seem to have spent day writing, going on with Henry James's """"""""Ambassadors"""""""", finishing """"""""Britling"""""""", but most of all sleeping.'"""
"""On with """"""""Ambassadors"""""""" and some of Jane Harrison's """"""""Ancient Art and Ritual"""""""": which makes me fear I shall never rise to the rarer heights of folklore and anthropology.'"""
"""To Makindye. Enjoyed reading Jowett's """"""""Things That Matter Most"""""""".'"""
"""I don?t know whether the translation from the Russian, """"""""The Golovleff Family"""""""", (published by Knopf out your way) is any good, but the book is great.  I read it twice in French.'"""
"""We are getting together a good library of 1 franc English books.'"""
"""Am enjoying Leviticus with commentaries in the morning.'"""
"""Each day there is a """"""""Budget"""""""" published, the work of the more literary and energetic of our members, chiefly consisting of the various """"""""officials"""""""" taken from the German papers, with leading articles on any special bits of news. There is also a monthly production with short stories and illustrations which is wonderfully good. The summer number is just out, and there is a hit at me under """"""""Things We Want to Know"""""""": whether """"""""Joy Riding in an aeroplane over imperfectly known country is not an overrated amusement?""""""""'"""
"""Bed 10.30, nearing end of wonderful """"""""Ambassadors"""""""".'"""
"""Went for a long run this afternoon; tonight I am """"""""lazing"""""""" in front of a fire with a pipe, a book, and two or three friends.'"""
"""Got a large packet of letters by my cyclist orderly, including a charming little edition of the <i>Imitation of Christ</i> from Sonia.'"""
"""Yesterday my Elizabeth and I went to the most remarkable poets' Reading I have ever attended. It was held at Lord Byron's beautiful house in Piccadilly... I was moved by Mr de la Mare reading five poems of great beauty. Elizabeth was thrilled at seeing for the first time W.H. Davies, a strange tiny poet. He read """"""""Love's Silent Hour"""""""" and three others. Hilary [Hilaire Belloc] read """"""""The Poor of London"""""""" and """"""""the Dons"""""""". He got a big reception'."""
"""Ex-Foreign Secretary Sir Edward Grey in the Falloden Papers, on how he spent his time after being deposed from the Cabinet in 1916: ' ... I spent some weeks alone in the country.  During that time I read, or re-read, several of Shakespeare's plays.'"""
"""Not many miles away to the left lies Landrecies, which R. L. Stevenson refers to, in """"""""An Inland Voyage,"""""""" as, """"""""a point in the great warfaring system of Europe which might on some future day be ranged about with cannon, smoke, and thunder."""""""" That evening, the prophecy was fulfilled.'"""
"""In one of the thoughtful editorials to which readers of the """"""""Irish Homestead"""""""" are accustomed, I find condensed into a single phrase the idea which I have been struggling to express. """"""""Duty to one's race,"""""""" says A.E., """"""""is not inevitable. It is the result of education, of intellectual atmosphere, or of the social order.""""""""' """
"""I read Barbusse in trenches and he made me see things I had never seen before though they were before my eyes every day; yet his description bore the same relation to an ordinary man's as does a passage of Æschylus.'"""
"""Yesterday my Elizabeth and I went to the most remarkable poets' Reading I have ever attended. It was held at Lord Byron's beautiful house in Piccadilly... I was moved by Mr de la Mare reading five poems of great beauty. Elizabeth was thrilled at seeing for the first time W.H. Davies, a strange tiny poet. He read """"""""Love's Silent Hour"""""""" and three others. Hilary [Hilaire Belloc] read """"""""The Poor of London"""""""" and """"""""the Dons"""""""". He got a big reception'."""
"""Copious MS notes and doodles throughout. First date """"""""Trevelyan May 1852"""""""". One sketch is a drawing of """"""""Alice [his sister] opening a box of soldiers. An anticipation of the holidays. What a child I was!"""""""" This vol. read by Sir George at prep school and Harrow """"""""20 chap a day Wed. July 4th 1855"""""""" and in a later hand """"""""when I worked so hard for the trials, and was so disappointed in coming out fourteenth. But the work won me the Gregory scholarship a year later on."""""""" I.i p.68: """"""""These crosses in the text seem to represent the portion each boy was called on to translate."""""""" I.ii p.85 """"""""I hate Harris""""""""; """"""""I detest Harris""""""""; p.87: """"""""I HATE HARRIS""""""""; under this: """"""""Poor little boy that I was; what a bad time I had with that able, and, (as I now know) not unkindly master"""""""". Many subsequent dates of reading, incl. Jan 20 1915 """"""""sixty years after I was first reading it in the same volume at Harrow""""""""; Sep 29 1922 """"""""our wedding day""""""""; March 14 1916 """"""""Germans sent terms of peace to America through Colonel House: - and what terms!"""""""" """"""""Finished this old book April 4 1916 Welcome. Almost everything reminds me of the most depressed and unsatisfactory period of my life, when I was the last boy in a form of 35, 63 years ago. What a mere child I was!"""""""" """
"""In the issue for December 23rd, 1915 of the NewYork """"""""Nation"""""""" there is an extremely fine article on me by Stuart P. Sherman.  On the whole I regard it as the best article I have seen on the subject.  I should very much like to have seen this article reprinted, either with other by the same hand or alone, but I suppose that there is no chance of this.'  """
"""After a less than frugal luncheon (no ice aboard) I made an attempt to read """"""""The Egoist"""""""" (a tattered copy of which lay on the desk) but gave it up and lay, practically for the rest of the voyage, a high heaved and higher-heaving log of uncomplaining misery.[...] In more conscious moments contrived almost to finish the unique """"""""Egoist"""""""" (last read at Cambridge): near the end it approaches a high tragic Vaudeville, and [De] Craye's wit does not wear well; but how direct and simple the whole effect, and how much easier and more compelling than Henry James.'    """
"""But having time to write up this, with a letter or so, to fifnish the amazing """"""""Ambassadors"""""""", as well as """"""""Embarrassments"""""""" (I and III especially good) the unusual """"""""Other House"""""""" and a volume of Leslie Stephen (a little diffuse), and eaten very little with never a threat of nausea, I have suffered from nothing beyond irritation at the abnormal dalay,with faint boredom at the meals.[...] Read also five Sonnets every morning.'"""
"""But having time to write up this, with a letter or so, to finish the amazing """"""""Ambassadors"""""""", as well as """"""""Embarrassments"""""""" (I and III especially good) the unusual """"""""Other House"""""""" and a volume of Leslie Stephen (a little diffuse), and eaten very little with never a threat of nausea, I have suffered from nothing beyond irritation at the abnormal delay,with faint boredom at the meals.[...] Read also five Sonnets every morning.'"""
"""But having time to write up this, with a letter or so,to fifnish the amazing """"""""Ambassadors"""""""", as well as """"""""Embarrassments"""""""" (I and III especially good) the unusual """"""""[The] Other House"""""""" and a volume of Leslie Stephen (a little diffuse), and eaten very little with never a threat of nausea, I have suffered from nothing beyond irritation at the abnormal dalay,with faint boredom at the meals.[...] Read also five Sonnets every morning.'"""
"""But having time to write up this, with a letter or so,to fifnish the amazing """"""""Ambassadors"""""""", as well as """"""""Embarrassments"""""""" (I and III especially good) the unusual """"""""[The] Other House"""""""" and a volume of Leslie Stephen (a little diffuse), and eaten very little with never a threat of nausea, I have suffered from nothing beyond irritation at the abnormal dalay,with faint boredom at the meals.[...] Read also five Sonnets every morning.'"""
"""Little Marjorie's birthday. The verses in Daily Light were as usual uplifting ... Much enjoyed J. 20. 19, 20 with the patients in Hope Ward.'"""
"""Little Marjorie's birthday. The verses in Daily Light were as usual uplifting ... Much enjoyed J. 20. 19, 20 with the patients in Hope Ward.'"""
"""It makes me feel lonely at times when I read the letters in the Cam. News from some of the Aber. boys, as they all seem to have some Aber. boys with them but I'm on my own here.'"""
"""His [Henry James] autobiographical two books are admirable; but what makes them so wonderful are the very same qualities that make his novels admirable.]'"""
"""His [Henry James] autobiographical two books are admirable; but what makes them so wonderful are the very same qualities that make his novels admirable.]'"""
"""Another sharp frost and thick fog this morning. Reading Curzon's Monasteries in the Lavant which Meiklejohn sent me at Christmas. More amusing than Eothen, but Doughty's Arabia Deserta spoils one for every other book of that sort.'"""
"""Am reading """"""""Snow Upon the Desert"""""""", by Miss Macnaughten, rather a jolly tale. Very good concert party here tonight, from the Canadian Corps.'"""
"""I have at length had an opportunity to read """"""""The Farm Servant"""""""".  At first I thought it wasn?t going to be anything very particular, but it began to hold me soon afterwards.'  """
"""Rather like celibate life in Paris again.  I dined at the club and read Macready's diary;. . .'"""
"""Yesterday afternoon as I was lying reading in my hut the C.O. came in and told me I had to go to Warloy (behind Albert) to relieve the surgeon specialist.'"""
"""[Owen] bought [Harold] Monro's latest book, """"""""Children of Love"""""""", and became a familiar visitor [at the Poetry Bookshop]. He was impressed by the war poems in """"""""Children of Love"""""""""""
"""Monro gave [Owen] access to new work that was to be invaluable to him in 1917-18 and may have drawn his attention to several established writers whom he had hitherto neglected (Yeats, Housman and Tagore, for instance, are mentioned in 1916 letters for the first time)'"""
"""Monro gave [Owen] access to new work that was to be invaluable to him in 1917-18 and may have drawn his attention to several established writers whom he had hitherto neglected (Yeats, Housman and Tagore, for instance, are mentioned in 1916 letters for the first time)'"""
"""Monro gave [Owen] access to new work that was to be invaluable to him in 1917-18 and may have drawn his attention to several established writers whom he had hitherto neglected (Yeats, Housman and Tagore, for instance, are mentioned in 1916 letters for the first time)'"""
"""How sorry I was to learn through the Cambrian News of poor Lieut. Oswald Green's death, also Lieut. C. Ellis.'"""
"""As I was keen to go abroad, and half fearful of the war ending before my dream was consummated, I was not to be tempted by Marian's opinions ... And so she proceeded to attack my illusions by sending me copies of the most anti-war periodicals as soon as I got back to camp. Every fortnight I received a bundle of literature, which included the <i>Workers' Dreadnought</i>, the <i>Cambridge Magazine</i>, <i>Freedom</i>, the <i>Clarion</i>, and Communist pamphlets all wrapped up in the innocent-looking <i>Christian Commonwealth</i>. What General Bulfin would have said had he seen these literary bombshells spread about the hut defies speculation, but the enlightenment that I and other readers derived from this source was a fitting prelude to the disillusionment that was shortly to overtake us.'"""
"""As I was keen to go abroad, and half fearful of the war ending before my dream was consummated, I was not to be tempted by Marian's opinions ... And so she proceeded to attack my illusions by sending me copies of the most anti-war periodicals as soon as I got back to camp. Every fortnight I received a bundle of literature, which included the <i>Workers' Dreadnought</i>, the <i>Cambridge Magazine</i>, <i>Freedom</i>, the <i>Clarion</i>, and Communist pamphlets all wrapped up in the innocent-looking <i>Christian Commonwealth</i>. What General Bulfin would have said had he seen these literary bombshells spread about the hut defies speculation, but the enlightenment that I and other readers derived from this source was a fitting prelude to the disillusionment that was shortly to overtake us.'"""
"""As I was keen to go abroad, and half fearful of the war ending before my dream was consummated, I was not to be tempted by Marian's opinions ... And so she proceeded to attack my illusions by sending me copies of the most anti-war periodicals as soon as I got back to camp. Every fortnight I received a bundle of literature, which included the <i>Workers' Dreadnought</i>, the <i>Cambridge Magazine</i>, <i>Freedom</i>, the <i>Clarion</i>, and Communist pamphlets all wrapped up in the innocent-looking <i>Christian Commonwealth</i>. What General Bulfin would have said had he seen these literary bombshells spread about the hut defies speculation, but the enlightenment that I and other readers derived from this source was a fitting prelude to the disillusionment that was shortly to overtake us.'"""
"""As I was keen to go abroad, and half fearful of the war ending before my dream was consummated, I was not to be tempted by Marian's opinions ... And so she proceeded to attack my illusions by sending me copies of the most anti-war periodicals as soon as I got back to camp. Every fortnight I received a bundle of literature, which included the <i>Workers' Dreadnought</i>, the <i>Cambridge Magazine</i>, <i>Freedom</i>, the <i>Clarion</i>, and Communist pamphlets all wrapped up in the innocent-looking <i>Christian Commonwealth</i>. What General Bulfin would have said had he seen these literary bombshells spread about the hut defies speculation, but the enlightenment that I and other readers derived from this source was a fitting prelude to the disillusionment that was shortly to overtake us.'"""
"""As I was keen to go abroad, and half fearful of the war ending before my dream was consummated, I was not to be tempted by Marian's opinions ... And so she proceeded to attack my illusions by sending me copies of the most anti-war periodicals as soon as I got back to camp. Every fortnight I received a bundle of literature, which included the <i>Workers' Dreadnought</i>, the <i>Cambridge Magazine</i>, <i>Freedom</i>, the <i>Clarion</i>, and Communist pamphlets all wrapped up in the innocent-looking <i>Christian Commonwealth</i>. What General Bulfin would have said had he seen these literary bombshells spread about the hut defies speculation, but the enlightenment that I and other readers derived from this source was a fitting prelude to the disillusionment that was shortly to overtake us.'"""
"""As I was keen to go abroad, and half fearful of the war ending before my dream was consummated, I was not to be tempted by Marian's opinions ... And so she proceeded to attack my illusions by sending me copies of the most anti-war periodicals as soon as I got back to camp. Every fortnight I received a bundle of literature, which included the <i>Workers' Dreadnought</i>, the <i>Cambridge Magazine</i>, <i>Freedom</i>, the <i>Clarion</i>, and Communist pamphlets all wrapped up in the innocent-looking <i>Christian Commonwealth</i>. What General Bulfin would have said had he seen these literary bombshells spread about the hut defies speculation, but the enlightenment that I and other readers derived from this source was a fitting prelude to the disillusionment that was shortly to overtake us.'"""
"""One could find books in Thiepval; I am guilty of taking my copy of Ferdinand von Freiligrath's bombastic poems from that uncatalogued library.'"""
"""In my wooden hut, by means of a folding card-table and a remnant of black satin for tablecloth, I made a small shrine for a few of the books that Roland and I had admired and read together.  """"""""The Story of an African Farm"""""""" was there and """"""""The Poems of Paul Verlaine"""""""", as well as """"""""The Garden of Kama"""""""" and """"""""Pecheur d'Islande"""""""".  To these I added Robert Hugh Benson's Prayer Book, """"""""Vexilla Regis"""""""", not only in honour of Roland's Catholicism, but because my mother had sent me some lines, which I frequently read and cried over, from Benson's """"""""Prayer after a Crushing Bereavement"""""""":' """
"""Although, during those noisy, monotonous weeks, I had at last time to read the newspapers, with their perturbing accounts of the Easter Rebellion in Ireland, and Townshend's surrender at Kut, and the first stages of Roger Casement's progress towards his execution in August, there was still more than enough opportunity for thoughts about the past.'"""
"""Journal entry of March 1916 entitled """"""""Notes on Dostoevsky"""""""" gives 2 pages of notes on """"""""The Idiot"""""""" and """"""""The Possessed""""""""."""
"""Journal entry of March 1916 entitled """"""""Notes on Dostoevsky"""""""" gives 2 pages of notes on """"""""The Idiot"""""""" and """"""""The Possessed""""""""."""
"""And I have read Dreiser?s """"""""The Financier"""""""", which I could never get hold of till the other day. This book, despite its dreadful slovenliness in details of phrase, is an extremely remarkable affair indeed.  It gave me intense pleasure.  This is praise.  I wish I knew Dreiser intimately.  Wells?s new novel is very fine.'  """
"""I see by the Camb. News that J. Thomas has received the D.C.M. + I hope there will be a few more Aber boys who ill come home with the same honour.'"""
"""Thank you very much for sending me the papers — it's a treat to read some B'ham news and know what's going on in Brum.'"""
"""The event of the week has been the surrender of Kut [Kut-al-Amara, April 1916], and with it the nonfulfilment of what we have been striving to do. I feel that the home public will be very angry. All along this campaign has been hidden from the public. The Communiques were masterpieces of fiction and truth. We gasped at several of them Of course I cannot speak too plainly on the subject ... The real crux of the position has been the number of troops engaged. I cannot tell you yet of this, nor of the very severe casualties we had ... The casualness and lack of interest shown by so many of our leaders, fairly takes the keenness out of the junior ranks ...’"""
"""Many thanks for the inscribed D.F. ['The Dark Forest'] Overwork has delayed me much with it.  I thought the opening rather vague and lacking in direction ? due no doubt to """"""""recency"""""""" (a new word) of the impressions.  However the book gathers force.  By the time it finishes it is the best book of yours since Mr P & Mr. T.'"""
"""I read """"""""[The]Advertisement"""""""" yesterday only--thrice over. très fort.' """
"""""""""""July 19 1909. Ah me. I was reading this soon after dear little Paul died."""""""" [Paul = grandson of George Otto Trevelyan.]. This after a section of Caligula """"""""quorum dou infantes adhuc rapti, unus jam puerascens.""""""""  """"""""Dec 16th 1916 Lloyd George called on to form a government."""""""" Many marginal notes copied from Lord Macaulay's own copy of the book: """"""""The marks on the outer margin, and the notes signed M, are copied from Macaulay's Bipontine edition. He does not seem to have regularly marked the Octavius."""""""""""
"""Read two books lately, one in French called """"""""L'Éveil"""""""" and another by Una Silberrad called """"""""John """"""""Bolsover"""""""". We buy odd books in the village and pass them on when we have read them.' """
"""Read two books lately, one in French called """"""""L'Éveil"""""""" and another by Una Silberrad called """"""""John """"""""Bolsover"""""""". We buy odd books in the village and pass them on when we have read them.' """
"""The men of my section &mdash; with whom I shared its contents &mdash; had previously heard &amp; read in the """"""""C.N."""""""" of the charitable disposition of the people of dear old Aber., &amp; with me they associate themselves in returning thanks [for the parcel of cigarettes].'"""
"""Infinite thanks for the honour and for the book. The copy having reached me two days ago I delayed writing until I had read those pages you have been so good as to dedicate to me.[...] Altogether a treat as mere reader [...]."""
"""Here I sit reading the Saturday Review, New Statesman etc and feeling rather humpy.'"""
"""I like this book very much. [""""""""Mr. Britling Sees It Through""""""""] It is extremely original & sympathetic, & the scenes that ought to be the best are the best.  In fact it is an impressive work.  . . . P.S. You will doubtless find some of the corrections quite inadmissible.  They are all simply suggestions.  A.B.'"""
"""Ever so many thanks for the honour of the dedication; and for the copy [of """"""""Figures of Several Centuries""""""""] which reached me yesterday. I sat up with it of course. There are marvellous pages there.'"""
"""For my own War reading I found, as the popularity of """"""""The Times Broadsheets"""""""" proved, that the essential was, remoteness from actuality. Henry James, by his sublime irrelevance to the general agony, provided escape, civilisation &mdash; almost intelligence. [Entry continues as diary or letter extract inserted into text]. My greatest acquisition is some realisation of his extraordinary greatness. Since Desdemona dropped her handkerchief, no one has managed to extract such thrills out of the apparently unimportant. My other refuge is William Blake &mdash; the first or the second childhood (it doesn't matter which) of William Shakespeare.' """
"""For my own War reading I found, as the popularity of """"""""The Times Broadsheets"""""""" proved, that the essential was, remoteness from actuality. Henry James, by his sublime irrelevance to the general agony, provided escape, civilisation &mdash; almost intelligence. [Entry continues as diary or letter extract inserted into text]. My greatest acquisition is some realisation of his extraordinary greatness. Since Desdemona dropped her handkerchief, no one has managed to extract such thrills out of the apparently unimportant. My other refuge is William Blake &mdash; the first or the second childhood (it doesn't matter which) of William Shakespeare.' """
"""I was reading in the headquarters shelter when the great man [the Brigadier-General] suddenly drew aside the sacking of the entrance, and gleamed stupendously in our candlelight, followed by an almost equally menacing Staff Captain.'"""
"""I will stay in this farmhouse while the gas course lasts [...] and get the old peasant in the evenings to recite more """"""""[Fables of] La Fontaine"""""""" to me, in the Béthune dialect, and walk out to see the neighbouring inns and shrines, and read -- Bless me, Kapp [a fellow officer and satirical artist, recently sent away to the Press Bureau] has gone away with my """"""""John Clare""""""""! He has the book yet for all I know [...]."""
"""The commanding officer, a timid, fragile man, gave me (as his way was) a pocket Testament bound in green suède, with coloured pictures. It went with me always, mainly unconsulted; it survives.'"""
"""Soldiers who have been out here 6 months can speak French, and some of the French can speak English perfectly. I can speak just a little French now. In most of the Y.M.C.A's at Aldershot ladies teach soldiers the French language free of charge. You can get 1d papers here with pretty well everything you want on it. On one side of the paper there are articles, and in English, opposite the English names, are the French names, which apply to the same article. Nutty idea isn't it.'"""
"""Our billet was a chemist's house, well furnished with ledgers and letters strewn about from bureaux, chiefly the scrawl of poor people in Thiepval and other places of the past who bemoaned the bad crops, and their consequent inability to pay up.'"""
""" ... at Stanway in 1916 for her sister's twenty-first birthday, Lady Cynthia [Asquith] entertained family and guests after dinner by [mockingly] reading from The Rosary [by Florence L. Barclay] ...'"""
"""Fortunately, the casualties were not very heavy and we varied the time by hunting rats and watching the mice playing about in the dug-outs. My own favourite practice was to lie in the sombre light of a candle reading the <i>Golden Treasury</i>, or else scribbling verses of my own composition.'"""
"""My friend Marian continued to send the bunch of periodicals that helped to shatter my illusions about the righteousness of the War. Particularly I was impressed by the <i>Cambridge Magazine</i> and the quotations it gave from the foreign press.'"""
"""This last week many little amenities have softened our lot; after a fornight's detention we had the good fortune to have our grand-motherly sergeant as chief of the guard. In our recent tour of the home counties under his superintendence we had established a certain authority over him by reason of his dependence upon us for remembering his documents, catching trains, and most principally, not losing ourselves! Thanks to this moral ascendancy, we were able to raid our kits and get almost anything we wanted — toilet things and books were the greatest <i>desiderata</i> — and since then I have been enjoying <i>Browning as a Philosophical and Religious Teacher</i>. I hope to finish this and then do <i>Sartor</i> again, so as to take Browning's and Carlyle's philosophies of life with me to think over during the Scrubs [detention] months.'"""
"""Some """"""""Vie Parisiennes"""""""" heartened me, and I needed it, for not one line yet to hand from Europe or Cairo &mdash; a cruel and needless privation.'"""
"""Getting on capitally with the Anatomy of the Brain in Gerrish.'"""
"""The poets John read at Highgate Junior School included Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Thomas Campbell and Edgar Allan Poe'."""
"""The poets John read at Highgate Junior School included Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Thomas Campbell and Edgar Allan Poe'."""
"""The poets John read at Highgate Junior School included Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Thomas Campbell and Edgar Allan Poe'."""
"""[that civilians could believe soldiers were happy in the trenches] is evident from plenty of civilian verse, including, for example, a poem in John Oxenham's """"""""The Vision Splendid"""""""" (1917), a book Owen had read at Craiglockhart'."""
"""Thank you very much for sending me your contribution towards the solution of the great problem [Polish independence].[...] Your arguments and your conclusions seem to me absolutely incontrovertible.'"""
"""The first 60 pages [of """"""""Summer""""""""] might well have been written with one of those quill feathers one finds lying on a quiet field on a hot brooding summer day.' [Hence follow two paragraphs of appreciative comment.]"""
"""I am anxious for the day when your English will be good enough for you to enjoy Meredith, Hardy, Locke and other great authors.  The works of Meredith and Hardy are quite on another plane to what you have read so far.   I shall never forget my first Meredith.   It was """"""""Richard Feverel"""""""".  It was quite a revelation to me as to what a book might be.   Every other Meredith I have supremely enjoyed.   As far as I can remember I have read """"""""Evan Harrington"""""""", """"""""Vittoria"""""""", """"""""Rhoda Fleming"""""""", """"""""Harry Richmans"""""""",""""""""The Egoist"""""""", """"""""Diana of the Crossways"""""""".   I do not know which I like the best, I found every one absolutely finer that any other books.  His style is exceedingly difficult, in fact it is bad because it is obscure, but do not doubt his greatness.   He is great, very great, in spite of his style.   He is not a novelist for the general public.   You have to be a man of letters, even although only in embryo, to enjoy him.   I think I have nearly all his works but I must some day get his biography of Professor Seccombe.   I like Seccombe's style so much.  you will meet articles of his in the """"""""Bookman.""""""""'"""
"""I am anxious for the day when your English will be good enough for you to enjoy Meredith, Hardy, Locke and other great authors.  The works of Meredith and Hardy are quite on another plane to what you have read so far.   I shall never forget my first Meredith.   It was """"""""Richard Feverel"""""""".  It was quite a revelation to me as to what a book might be.   Every other Meredith I have supremely enjoyed.   As far as I can remember I have read """"""""Evan Harrington"""""""", """"""""Vittoria"""""""", """"""""Rhoda Fleming"""""""", """"""""Harry Richmans"""""""",""""""""The Egoist"""""""", """"""""Diana of the Crossways"""""""".   I do not know which I like the best, I found every one absolutely finer that any other books.  His style is exceedingly difficult, in fact it is bad because it is obscure, but do not doubt his greatness.   He is great, very great, in spite of his style.   He is not a novelist for the general public.   You have to be a man of letters, even although only in embryo, to enjoy him.   I think I have nearly all his works but I must some day get his biography of Professor Seccombe.   I like Seccombe's style so much.  you will meet articles of his in the """"""""Bookman.""""""""'"""
"""I am anxious for the day when your English will be good enough for you to enjoy Meredith, Hardy, Locke and other great authors.  The works of Meredith and Hardy are quite on another plane to what you have read so far.   I shall never forget my first Meredith.   It was """"""""Richard Feverel"""""""".  It was quite a revelation to me as to what a book might be.   Every other Meredith I have supremely enjoyed.   As far as I can remember I have read """"""""Evan Harrington"""""""", """"""""Vittoria"""""""", """"""""Rhoda Fleming"""""""", """"""""Harry Richmans"""""""",""""""""The Egoist"""""""", """"""""Diana of the Crossways"""""""".   I do not know which I like the best, I found every one absolutely finer that any other books.  His style is exceedingly difficult, in fact it is bad because it is obscure, but do not doubt his greatness.   He is great, very great, in spite of his style.   He is not a novelist for the general public.   You have to be a man of letters, even although only in embryo, to enjoy him.   I think I have nearly all his works but I must some day get his biography of Professor Seccombe.   I like Seccombe's style so much.  you will meet articles of his in the """"""""Bookman.""""""""'"""
"""I am anxious for the day when your English will be good enough for you to enjoy Meredith, Hardy, Locke and other great authors.  The works of Meredith and Hardy are quite on another plane to what you have read so far.   I shall never forget my first Meredith.   It was """"""""Richard Feverel"""""""".  It was quite a revelation to me as to what a book might be.   Every other Meredith I have supremely enjoyed.   As far as I can remember I have read """"""""Evan Harrington"""""""", """"""""Vittoria"""""""", """"""""Rhoda Fleming"""""""", """"""""Harry Richmans"""""""",""""""""The Egoist"""""""", """"""""Diana of the Crossways"""""""".   I do not know which I like the best, I found every one absolutely finer that any other books.  His style is exceedingly difficult, in fact it is bad because it is obscure, but do not doubt his greatness.   He is great, very great, in spite of his style.   He is not a novelist for the general public.   You have to be a man of letters, even although only in embryo, to enjoy him.   I think I have nearly all his works but I must some day get his biography of Professor Seccombe.   I like Seccombe's style so much.  you will meet articles of his in the """"""""Bookman.""""""""'"""
"""I am anxious for the day when your English will be good enough for you to enjoy Meredith, Hardy, Locke and other great authors.  The works of Meredith and Hardy are quite on another plane to what you have read so far.   I shall never forget my first Meredith.   It was """"""""Richard Feverel"""""""".  It was quite a revelation to me as to what a book might be.   Every other Meredith I have supremely enjoyed.   As far as I can remember I have read """"""""Evan Harrington"""""""", """"""""Vittoria"""""""", """"""""Rhoda Fleming"""""""", """"""""Harry Richmans"""""""",""""""""The Egoist"""""""", """"""""Diana of the Crossways"""""""".   I do not know which I like the best, I found every one absolutely finer that any other books.  His style is exceedingly difficult, in fact it is bad because it is obscure, but do not doubt his greatness.   He is great, very great, in spite of his style.   He is not a novelist for the general public.   You have to be a man of letters, even although only in embryo, to enjoy him.   I think I have nearly all his works but I must some day get his biography of Professor Seccombe.   I like Seccombe's style so much.  you will meet articles of his in the """"""""Bookman.""""""""'"""
"""I am anxious for the day when your English will be good enough for you to enjoy Meredith, Hardy, Locke and other great authors.  The works of Meredith and Hardy are quite on another plane to what you have read so far.   I shall never forget my first Meredith.   It was """"""""Richard Feverel"""""""".  It was quite a revelation to me as to what a book might be.   Every other Meredith I have supremely enjoyed.   As far as I can remember I have read """"""""Evan Harrington"""""""", """"""""Vittoria"""""""", """"""""Rhoda Fleming"""""""", """"""""Harry Richmans"""""""",""""""""The Egoist"""""""", """"""""Diana of the Crossways"""""""".   I do not know which I like the best, I found every one absolutely finer that any other books.  His style is exceedingly difficult, in fact it is bad because it is obscure, but do not doubt his greatness.   He is great, very great, in spite of his style.   He is not a novelist for the general public.   You have to be a man of letters, even although only in embryo, to enjoy him.   I think I have nearly all his works but I must some day get his biography of Professor Seccombe.   I like Seccombe's style so much.  you will meet articles of his in the """"""""Bookman.""""""""'"""
"""24 January 1918: 'To the Club, where I found Lytton by himself, & not feeling inclined for talk we read our papers near together.'"""
"""10 December 1917: 'My afternoon was very nearly normal; to Mudies, tea in an A.B.C. reading a life of Gaudier Brzeska'."""
"""24 January 1918: 'To the Club, where I found Lytton by himself, & not feeling inclined for talk we read our papers near together.'"""
"""I am extremely busy & my novel isn?t getting a fair chance.  I solace myself with the """"""""note books"""""""" of Samuel Butler.'  """
"""In afternoon Linder and I went to AVESNES to buy books and wine. Home by a very swift French car which put the wind up us both.'"""
"""Reading Injuries to Joints — capital. Nice & cool again.'"""
"""We ... took possession of a chateau in the Rue d'Amiens and moved in. I visited Bastion at 9 pm and took my boots off for the first time since the 7th. Slept peacefully in a wet valise. Saw newspapers.'"""
"""To tea at No 1 [squadron's mess] with Moore, v.good tea. Not to church all day — must go next week. Read in the evening.'"""
"""This morning on opening my eyes I saw the noble vol [on Keats] delicately deposited by my side, while I slept, by Jessie's instructions (I live en vieux garçon, in the spare room now); and now after reading the preface and looking at the illustrations I sit down in robe-de-chambre and pantoufles to thank you for the copy, for the inscription [...]'"""
"""This morning [Reginald Perceval] Gibbon's corespondence [on the aftermath of the battle of Caporetto] in the """"""""D[aily]C[hronicle]"""""""" was very reserved.'"""
"""Finished Hey Groves' modern methods of treating fractures an excellent book. Started Saville's Clinical Medicine — 7 hrs. reading.'"""
"""Finished Hey Groves' modern methods of treating fractures & excellent book. Started Saville's Clinical Medicine — 7 hrs. reading.'"""
"""<b>Life in Hospital</b> You chiefly occupy your time a) sucking thermometers b) sleeping (if able) c) eating or drinking d) reading. I may add that the sleeping part was almost unknown to me.'"""
"""Made several friends among visitors. The two who were in charge of the Women's Red Cross Branch were Irish and on finding that I too belonged to the same spot became very interested. I got several books from them. Then there was the lady who used to collect Irish papers for me — I got several Examiners and Killarney Echos.'"""
"""Made several friends among visitors. The two who were in charge of the Women's Red Cross Branch were Irish and on finding that I too belonged to the same spot became very interested. I got several books from them. Then there was the lady who used to collect Irish papers for me — I got several Examiners and Killarney Echos.'"""
"""Made several friends among visitors. The two who were in charge of the Women's Red Cross Branch were Irish and on finding that I too belonged to the same spot became very interested. I got several books from them. Then there was the lady who used to collect Irish papers for me — I got several Examiners and Killarney Echos.'"""
"""Please send me April magazines. Have seen the March ones. The mud is awful &mdash; 3 mules drowned in shell craters last night, it is terrible.'"""
"""Cummings in for dinner and another from No 1 [squadron]. Read and talked ... after dinner. Bed at 11 — slept excellently.'"""
"""Lady Cynthia Asquith's diary recorded about one January Sunday in 1917, """"""""Stayed in bed until dinner.  I read 'East Lynne' till my eyes ached.""""""""'"""
"""Lunched alone at the hotel, reading with indecent hilarity O. Henry's """"""""Gentle Grafter"""""""", as good short stories as you want; almost worthy to rank with Maupassant, Kipling and Wells.'"""
"""Thanks most awfully for your letters & parcels, the gloves were """"""""topping"""""""" also the books — I have read most of them but will read them again!'"""
"""Nothing before """"""""Le Feu"""""""" had given such an appallingly vivid description of trench warfare or combined it with such passionate political conviction. The English translation, """"""""Under Fire"""""""", appeared in June 1917 and Sassoon was reading it by mid-August; he lent it to Owen, who seems to have read it at Craiglockhart and again in December'."""
"""Another sweltering day. News in the paper of a great air raid on London in which 80 people have been killed and several hundreds wounded. Apparently all the German planes seem to have escaped safely.'"""
"""Weak and tired and inclined as always when out of action and interest, to go to pieces. Read, after twenty years, Merriman's miserable """"""""[The] Sowers"""""""", Psalms and John iii in Arabic, some Tennyson and Swinburne, and the """"""""Adventures of Sherlock Holmes"""""""".'  """
"""Weak and tired and inclined as always when out of action and interest, to go to pieces. Read, after twenty years, Merriman's miserable """"""""[The] Sowers"""""""", Psalms and John iii in Arabic, some Tennyson and Swinburne, and the """"""""Adventures of Sherlock Holmes"""""""".'  """
"""Weak and tired and inclined as always when out of action and interest, to go to pieces. Read, after twenty years, Merriman's miserable """"""""[The] Sowers"""""""", Psalms and John iii in Arabic, some Tennyson and Swinburne, and the """"""""Adventures of Sherlock Holmes"""""""".'  """
"""You ought to read """"""""He looked in my Window"""""""" by Robert Halifax (publ. by Chatto & Windus). It is really remarkable.'  """
"""Wrote, and read """"""""Persian Gulf Gazetteer"""""""", a unique and monumental compilation, and a political history of the Middle East beyond compare.'"""
"""At luncheon [read] Scott's """"""""Architecture of Humanism"""""""", a valuable and permanent contribution to honest thought on the subject, and a book I rejoice to have. But Lord,  how circumscribed are one's ideas without an occasional contradiction delivered well and flat between the eyes.'"""
"""Thanks most awfully for the topping parcel of Xmas things. The pipe's ripping & so are the cigarettes & I am sure the books will be most interesting.'"""
"""Read and wrote letters in the afternoon. Got 3 parcels for Xmas. To Church in evening and stayed to H.C. very nice service. Tender driven into ditch on way back — bitterly cold.'"""
"""To tea with No 1 [squadron]. The Hun [i.e., the aircraft shot down by the squadron in the morning's engagement] fought jolly well and was Lt Voss who had got 17 of our machines. Lecture na poo. Read in evening. Great show tomorrow.'"""
"""Marjorie [Cook's daughter] has lost her little gold locket. Reading Savile's Clinical Medicine.'"""
"""I forgot in my last letter to say that I found Beer’s book very good, certainly useful to me.  [Clifford Beer, """"""""A Mind That Found Itself""""""""].  . . . By the way, have you read """"""""A Theory of the Leisure Class""""""""?  It is a wonderful book, damnably written.'  """
"""Anecdotish dinner; bed about 10, where read Milton's """"""""P[aradise] L[ost] and Watson's """"""""Jerusalem"""""""".'"""
"""Anecdotish dinner; bed about 10, where read Milton's """"""""P[aradise] L[ost] and Watson's """"""""Jerusalem"""""""".'"""
"""I started to read """"""""Bleak House"""""""" by Dickens when I was at the base and I should like to get on with it. You might get a small 1/- edition and send it on it will you as I have a bit of time when not in the trenches ... Don't forget to send the Daily Post occasionally so I can see what's happening in B'ham.'"""
"""Read Freeman on race and language, which holds well to date, especially in his negation of Austria and Turkey as possible empires. John v Arabic and Homer's """"""""Odyssey"""""""" xix.' """
"""Years of reading had made [Ruth Slate] tired of squabbling between competing religious sects, and it was Tolstoy's Resurrection that finally gave her the courage to plow her own furrow: """"""""I must be different, or the best in me will die!""""""""... With an evangelical zeal freed from the moorings of dogma, Ruth plunged into the post-Victorian 'sex question'. She heard lectures on eugenics and women's diseases and read Auguste Forel's Sexual Ethics, though she could hardly bear to glance through The Great Scourge, where Christabel Pankhurst insisted that the vast majority of men were infected with venereal disease. She was intrigued when a woman argued in the avant-garde New Age that the temple prostitutes of the East were a much better arrangement than the """"""""unsanitary"""""""" way of ordering these things in the West. She gravitated to Francoise Lafitte and the Freewoman magazine, which agitated for the sexual emancipation of women'."""
"""Years of reading had made [Ruth Slate] tired of squabbling between competing religious sects, and it was Tolstoy's Resurrection that finally gave her the courage to plow her own furrow: """"""""I must be different, or the best in me will die!""""""""... With an evangelical zeal freed from the moorings of dogma, Ruth plunged into the post-Victorian 'sex question'. She heard lectures on eugenics and women's diseases and read Auguste Forel's Sexual Ethics, though she could hardly bear to glance through The Great Scourge, where Christabel Pankhurst insisted that the vast majority of men were infected with venereal disease. She was intrigued when a woman argued in the avant-garde New Age that the temple prostitutes of the East were a much better arrangement than the """"""""unsanitary"""""""" way of ordering these things in the West. She gravitated to Francoise Lafitte and the Freewoman magazine, which agitated for the sexual emancipation of women'."""
"""Years of reading had made [Ruth Slate] tired of squabbling between competing religious sects, and it was Tolstoy's Resurrection that finally gave her the courage to plow her own furrow: """"""""I must be different, or the best in me will die!""""""""... With an evangelical zeal freed from the moorings of dogma, Ruth plunged into the post-Victorian 'sex question'. She heard lectures on eugenics and women's diseases and read Auguste Forel's Sexual Ethics, though she could hardly bear to glance through The Great Scourge, where Christabel Pankhurst insisted that the vast majority of men were infected with venereal disease. She was intrigued when a woman argued in the avant-garde New Age that the temple prostitutes of the East were a much better arrangement than the """"""""unsanitary"""""""" way of ordering these things in the West. She gravitated to Francoise Lafitte and the Freewoman magazine, which agitated for the sexual emancipation of women'."""
"""Years of reading had made [Ruth Slate] tired of squabbling between competing religious sects, and it was Tolstoy's Resurrection that finally gave her the courage to plow her own furrow: """"""""I must be different, or the best in me will die!""""""""... With an evangelical zeal freed from the moorings of dogma, Ruth plunged into the post-Victorian 'sex question'. She heard lectures on eugenics and women's diseases and read Auguste Forel's Sexual Ethics, though she could hardly bear to glance through The Great Scourge, where Christabel Pankhurst insisted that the vast majority of men were infected with venereal disease. She was intrigued when a woman argued in the avant-garde New Age that the temple prostitutes of the East were a much better arrangement than the """"""""unsanitary"""""""" way of ordering these things in the West. She gravitated to Francoise Lafitte and the Freewoman magazine, which agitated for the sexual emancipation of women'."""
"""Years of reading had made [Ruth Slate] tired of squabbling between competing religious sects, and it was Tolstoy's Resurrection that finally gave her the courage to plow her own furrow: """"""""I must be different, or the best in me will die!""""""""... With an evangelical zeal freed from the moorings of dogma, Ruth plunged into the post-Victorian 'sex question'. She heard lectures on eugenics and women's diseases and read Auguste Forel's Sexual Ethics, though she could hardly bear to glance through The Great Scourge, where Christabel Pankhurst insisted that the vast majority of men were infected with venereal disease. She was intrigued when a woman argued in the avant-garde New Age that the temple prostitutes of the East were a much better arrangement than the """"""""unsanitary"""""""" way of ordering these things in the West. She gravitated to Francoise Lafitte and the Freewoman magazine, which agitated for the sexual emancipation of women'."""
"""Jude the Obscure, Edward Carpenter's Love's Coming of Age, Grant Allen's The Woman Who Did, H.G. Well's The New Machiavelli and Ann Veronica, as well as the examples of Mary Wollstonecraft and George Eliot all made Eva [Slawson] think furiously about free love.'"""
"""Jude the Obscure, Edward Carpenter's Love's Coming of Age, Grant Allen's The Woman Who Did, H.G. Well's The New Machiavelli and Ann Veronica, as well as the examples of Mary Wollstonecraft and George Eliot all made Eva [Slawson] think furiously about free love.'"""
"""Jude the Obscure, Edward Carpenter's Love's Coming of Age, Grant Allen's The Woman Who Did, H.G. Well's The New Machiavelli and Ann Veronica, as well as the examples of Mary Wollstonecraft and George Eliot all made Eva [Slawson] think furiously about free love.'"""
"""Jude the Obscure, Edward Carpenter's Love's Coming of Age, Grant Allen's The Woman Who Did, H.G. Well's The New Machiavelli and Ann Veronica, as well as the examples of Mary Wollstonecraft and George Eliot all made Eva [Slawson] think furiously about free love.'"""
"""The sculptress Kathleen Bruce, widow of the Arctic explorer Captain Scott ... became positively scornful when she read [H. G.] Wells's """"""""God the Invisible King"""""""" in 1917 ...'"""
"""One day when drawing our parcels we received some little cardboard packets of compressed dates as usual, but this time a small white strip of paper was pasted on the outside of each bearing the words, """"""""Produce of Mesopotamia under British occupation."""""""" This must have been pleasant reading for the Huns.'"""
"""I found a letter-box and feverishly endeavoured to decipher, in the semi-darkness, a long word printed in black letters on a white background. With a sinking heart I slowly made out the letters B—R—I—E. Was it necessary to read any further? Surely this was proof positive that I was still under the gentle sway of the Kaiser! What else could the remainder be but """"""""feasten"""""""" completing the German word for letter-box.'"""
"""The story you sent me (I'm glad to have it) I remembered of course very well. It isn't the sort of thing that is ever forgotten.' """
"""Finished Surgical Diagnosis by Martin 750 pp.'"""
"""Don't forget a cake & send Daily Mail every other day and Motor Cycle & Motor Cycling and the mags.'"""
"""This last week many little amenities have softened our lot; after a fornight's detention we had the good fortune to have our grand-motherly sergeant as chief of the guard. In our recent tour of the home counties under his superintendence we had established a certain authority over him by reason of his dependence upon us for remembering his documents, catching trains, and most principally, not losing ourselves! Thanks to this moral ascendancy, we were able to raid our kits and get almost anything we wanted — toilet things and books were the greatest <i>desiderata</i> — and since then I have been enjoying <i>Browning as a Philosophical and Religious Teacher</i>. I hope to finish this and then do <i>Sartor</i> again, so as to take Browning's and Carlyle's philosophies of life with me to think over during the Scrubs [detention] months.'"""
"""I saw a <i>Daily Mail</i> in the evening. The Germans are gone back on an 82-mile front, extending from Arras in the north to a good bit below us here in the south ... What strikes one so much is our utter lack of mobility.'"""
"""The newspapers amuse us here immensely &mdash; we read of the Ger[mans] being <i>driven</i> back by our chaps &mdash; in reality he is walking away of his own free will, as slowly and as fast as he likes to.'"""
"""Wrote up, finished O. Henry's """"""""Cabbages and Kings"""""""" (an inferior S. American """"""""South Wind"""""""" but good) and some more G. [Geoffrey] Scott. Bed 10.'"""
"""April 22nd ... Various souvenirs in the Officers Mess. A work on vegetal medicine & a fat and amiable Hun dog that had my bone after lunch ... Got a parcel from home with Asparagus and Turtle Soup & the Daily Mail.'"""
"""April 22nd ... Various souvenirs in the Officers Mess. A work on vegetal medicine & a fat and amiable Hun dog that had my bone after lunch ... Got a parcel from home with Asparagus and Turtle Soup & the Daily Mail.'"""
"""Those 2 poems of Masefield's are very good....Poetry counteracts the deadening influence a good deal....I am reading """"""""The Loom of Youth"""""""" in bits....It is very good and it is very true even if slightly exaggerated....'    """
"""If one read at all one was soon noticed. I lay in bed one night with a book I had bought at Smith's. They had a shop near our hut in Catterick Camp. It was S. R. Crockett's <i>The Smugglers</i>. I was snuggling down in my blanket and enjoying the look of printed pages and only wishing for quietness to read. A cinder fell on my bed. I glanced up but no one was looking my way. This happened two or three times, till one hit my face and fell on the book. I just caught Simpson as I looked up. He was a potter's lad from Hanley. I got out of bed and went for him. He had no idea of boxing, and I could hit him anywhere. He was swinging and kicking all the time. The hut was in an uproar. They were all for him ... Someone kicked me in the ribs as I crawled back to bed. My face was like a melon at one side next morning.'"""
"""I understand from Mr. Bagguley that it is you who are the craftsman of the binding of the """"""""Candide"""""""" which he has been so kind as to give me.  Will you allow me to offer you my most sincere congratulations on your extraordinary art?'  """
""" 'I don’t think I have concealed from you my opinion that """"""""Fortitude"""""""" and """"""""The Duchess"""""""" [The Duchess of Wrexe] are not on a level with the other three. [Mr Perrin and Mr Traill (1911), The Dark Forest (1916) and The Green Mirror (1918)].  But this unlevelness does not worry me in the least.  It is constantly found in the greatest novelists, and is natural & inevitable.'  """
""" 'I don’t think I have concealed from you my opinion that """"""""Fortitude"""""""" and """"""""The Duchess"""""""" [The Duchess of Wrexe] are not on a level with the other three. [Mr Perrin and Mr Traill (1911), The Dark Forest (1916) and The Green Mirror (1918)].  But this unlevelness does not worry me in the least.  It is constantly found in the greatest novelists, and is natural & inevitable.'"""
"""Weak and tired and inclined as always when out of action and interest, to go to pieces. Read, after twenty years, Merriman's miserable """"""""[The] Sowers"""""""", Psalms and John iii in Arabic, some Tennyson and Swinburne, and the """"""""Adventures of Sherlock Holmes"""""""".'  """
"""Read Freeman on race and language, which holds well to date, especially in his negation of Austria and Turkey as possible empires. John v Arabic and Homer's """"""""Odyssey"""""""" xix.' """
"""So we lay all day in the rolling swell, fair in the blast of the dried fish; reading John vii, Odyssey xxiv, a mutilated copy of """"""""Middlemarch"""""""" and late man pages of the """"""""Oxford Book"""""""".'"""
"""So we lay all day in the rolling swell, fair in the blast of the dried fish; reading John vii, Odyssey xxiv, a mutilated copy of """"""""Middlemarch"""""""" and late man pages of the """"""""Oxford Book"""""""".'"""
"""Brekker in bed: Up on patrol at 10 am v.thick, line patrol. Got lost ... Back after lunch. Thick as pea soup! Nearly lost. Bridge in evening. Lost 3 fr. Bed early, read in bed.'"""
"""Coldish this morning, with the tiny oil-stove and no boiler — fire till after dark. I have been reading <u>The Romance of War!</u> and am now finishing this [i.e., the diary entry] before going back to the mess for lunch.'"""
"""There was more definite news in <i>The Times</i> to-day of the Cambrai victory.' """
"""Looked through Shorthouse's """"""""[The] Little Schoolmaster Mark"""""""", not without pleasure,[...].'"""
"""The letter began with a keen criticism of Robert Service's """"""""Rhymes of a Red Cross Man"""""""", which had just been sent out to him from England.  He particularly resented, it seemed, a line in the poem called """"""""Pilgrims"""""""" which described death as """"""""the splendid release"""""""".'"""
"""I am reading nothing but snatches of """"""""Paradise Lost"""""""" while waiting for the bath to fill.'"""
"""Up at 7. Most of the day reading Doughty and trying with Gertrude Bell to settle route after Buraida.[...] Continued to glean for a Najd glossary from Doughty's Index till nearly midnight.'"""
"""The others slept while I wrote and read again with pleasure and admiration """"""""Sinister Street, [Vol] II"""""""". A glorious promise if only that youth is not murdered in the Aegean.'"""
"""I went to the Divisional canteen which is close by, and made arrangements with them about supplying tea and sugar for my recreation room. Thence home. Details of the battle [of Cambrai] were in <i>The Times</i>.'"""
"""Your opening pages [of """"""""Turgenev: A Study""""""""] are excellent , excellent! I was much delighted with your masterly thrusts to all that thick headed crowd. As to the rest of the book you know that I  do know it well.'"""
"""Strong breeze and weather agreeable so far from Karachi. Green's """"""""History"""""""", Macaulay, Ruskin, """"""""Oxford Book [?of English Verse]"""""""" and Horace every day.'"""
"""Strong breeze and weather agreeable so far from Karachi. Green's """"""""History"""""""", Macaulay, Ruskin, """"""""Oxford Book [?of English Verse]"""""""" and Horace every day.'"""
"""Strong breeze and weather agreeable so far from Karachi. Green's """"""""History"""""""", Macaulay, Ruskin, """"""""Oxford Book [?of English Verse]"""""""" and Horace every day.'"""
"""Strong breeze and weather agreeable so far from Karachi. Green's """"""""History"""""""", Macaulay, Ruskin, """"""""Oxford Book [of English Verse]"""""""" and Horace every day.'"""
"""Strong breeze and weather agreeable so far from Karachi. Green's """"""""History"""""""", Macaulay, Ruskin, """"""""Oxford Book [of English Verse]"""""""" and Horace every day.'"""
"""On the way back [from the Bombay Secretariat] bought a few clothes and some books from Thacker, a better *libraire* than you will find in all Africa.[...] Out again at five and discovered Tarapooree Walla, a bookshop recalling in its extent, variety and disorder the best traditions of the Charing Cross Road. Ran amok.[...] Early to bed but read until 11.45 when finding myself weak and nervy took my first grain of opium (pill) and to sleep.''"""
"""MS notes in vols. I and II, including some copied from Lord Macaulay's copy of the text. Dates of reading include: """"""""May 28 1917 Welcombe The most interesting military story I ever read, as told by the hero of it. If Pharsalia had gone the other way the Kaiser and the Czar would now be called """"""""Pompey"""""""". An anonymous piece has the MS note: """"""""This is far and away the worst Latin I have ever read of the great Ciceronian age of prose. The text is mortally corrupt; but besides that, the style is detestable. And yet I read it with interest."""""""" In this Sir George echoes Macaulay's comment on the same piece: """"""""It is dreadfully corrupt."""""""""""
"""Read with interest Dostoevsky's """"""""[The] House of the Dead"""""""".'"""
"""Thanks for books & pyjamas & toffee ... Please send Motor Cycling & Motor Cycle & an occasional Daily Mail &mdash; we get none here &mdash; we're miles from civilization.'"""
"""Thanks for books & pyjamas & toffee ... Please send Motor Cycling & Motor Cycle & an occasional Daily Mail &mdash; we get none here &mdash; we're miles from civilization.'"""
"""Thanks for books & pyjamas & toffee ... Please send Motor Cycling & Motor Cycle & an occasional Daily Mail &mdash; we get none here &mdash; we're miles from civilization.'"""
"""Don't forget a cake & send Daily Mail every other day and Motor Cycle & Motor Cycling and the mags.'"""
"""Don't forget a cake & send Daily Mail every other day and Motor Cycle & Motor Cycling and the mags.'"""
"""Towards evening the General [George McMunn] lent me """"""""Blackwood's Centenary"""""""", in which I read twice, with eager disappointment, Charles Whibley's tribute to H. C. [Storrs' maternal uncle Henry (Harry) Cockayne-Cust, MP who had died in March 1917] ending with four misquotations in two lines.' """
"""I received on the 3rd a parcel from you with biscuits and bulls eyes, and same time books and jersey with letter. The books are very welcome. I shall enjoy reading what I read before the war, but no matter.'"""
"""After arranging for the little gunner captain to go straight through from Fas so as to be in Kuweit [sic] by 8, and testing Marris' verse translation of Horace's """"""""Odes"""""""", a creditable if unlovely performance, I had set, pressed and appreciated my new camp-bed.'"""
"""I have had a pleasant, lazy morning reading old James Grant's <u>Romance of War!</u>. I expect the romance was always under one's own cap and tunic.'"""
"""There was a study of you [André Gide] in the """"""""Times"""""""". Have you sen it? It is intelligent up to a point and respectful.' """
"""Here I enjoyed a number of days in reading <i>A Tale of Two Cities</i>, and in sending off contributions to the <i>Balkan News</i>, which was a racy little news sheet published by the military authorities.'"""
"""So home to read in <i>The Times</i> the startling news that the Russians under Lenin, a revolutionary, are beginning preliminary negotiations towards peace. Really the outlook has seldom looked so dark.'"""
"""My sticks of rhubarb were wrapped up in a copy of the """"""""Star"""""""" containing Lloyd George's last, more than eloquent speech.  As I snipped up the rhubarb my eye fell, was fixed and fastened on, that sentence wherein he tells us that we have grasped our niblick and struck out for the open course.'"""
"""Putting my weakest books to the wall last night I came across a copy of """"""""Howard's End"""""""" and had a look into it.  But it's not good enough.  E.M.Forster never gets any further than warming the teapot.  He's a rare fine hand at that.  Feel this teapot.  Is it not beautifully warm?  Yes, but there ain't going to be no tea.'"""
"""Tea at the Y.M.C.A. Club. Read after tea. Rain off. Bought socks. Supper in town — bed.'"""
"""the two poets [Owen and Sassoon] probably talked more about literature than anything else. Owen found that they had been """"""""following parallel trenches all our lives"""""""" and """"""""had more friends in common, authors I mean, than most people can boast of in a lifetime"""""""". By chance, Sassoon was reading a small volume of Keats which Lady Ottoline [Morrel] had sent him. He shared Owen's interest in the late-Victorian poets, including Housman, whose influence is often apparent in his war poems, but Owen was surprised to discover that he admired Hardy """"""""more than anybody living"""""""". No doubt Sassoon persuaded him to start reading Hardy's poems. In return, Owen showed him Tailhade's book'"""
"""the two poets [Owen and Sassoon] probably talked more about literature than anything else. Owen found that they had been """"""""following parallel trenches all our lives"""""""" and """"""""had more friends in common, authors I mean, than most people can boast of in a lifetime"""""""". By chance, Sassoon was reading a small volume of Keats which Lady Ottoline [Morrel] had sent him. He shared Owen's interest in the late-Victorian poets, including Housman, whose influence is often apparent in his war poems, but Owen was surprised to discover that he admired Hardy """"""""more than anybody living"""""""". No doubt Sassoon persuaded him to start reading Hardy's poems. In return, Owen showed him Tailhade's book'"""
"""The leisurely life on this surgical block left plenty of time for reading the various newspapers sent to me from England.'"""
"""Often, when my incompetent needle refused, as it has always refused throughout my life, to collaborate with my intentions, the kimono was abandoned for such scanty literature as I had collected from home - Thomas Hardy's poems, John Masefield's """"""""Gallipoli"""""""", numerous copies of """"""""Blackwood's Magazine"""""""", and the recently published Report of the Commission on the Dardanelles.'"""
"""the short stories she did know, from Downe days, were Richard Middleton's colection """"""""The Ghost Ship"""""""" and E.M. Forster's """"""""The Celestial Omnibus"""""""".'"""
"""In 1917 ... [John Buchan] was treated for a duodenal ulcer.  Recuperating after the operation, he read through a dozen of the Waverley Novels, the Valois and D'Artagnan cycles of Dumas, then Victor Hugo's """"""""Notre Dame"""""""" and the immense """"""""Les Miserables"""""""" ... ending up with half a dozen of Balzac ...'"""
"""In 1917 ... [John Buchan] was treated for a duodenal ulcer.  Recuperating after the operation, he read through a dozen of the Waverley Novels, the Valois and D'Artagnan cycles of Dumas, then Victor Hugo's """"""""Notre Dame"""""""" and the immense """"""""Les Miserables"""""""" ... ending up with half a dozen of Balzac ...'"""
"""In 1917 ... [John Buchan] was treated for a duodenal ulcer.  Recuperating after the operation, he read through a dozen of the Waverley Novels, the Valois and D'Artagnan cycles of Dumas, then Victor Hugo's """"""""Notre Dame"""""""" and the immense """"""""Les Miserables"""""""" ... ending up with half a dozen of Balzac ...'"""
"""In 1917 ... [John Buchan] was treated for a duodenal ulcer.  Recuperating after the operation, he read through a dozen of the Waverley Novels, the Valois and D'Artagnan cycles of Dumas, then Victor Hugo's """"""""Notre Dame"""""""" and the immense """"""""Les Miserables"""""""" ... ending up with half a dozen of Balzac ...'"""
"""In 1917 ... [John Buchan] was treated for a duodenal ulcer.  Recuperating after the operation, he read through a dozen of the Waverley Novels, the Valois and D'Artagnan cycles of Dumas, then Victor Hugo's """"""""Notre Dame"""""""" and the immense """"""""Les Miserables"""""""" ... ending up with half a dozen of Balzac ...'"""
"""In 1917 ... [John Buchan] was treated for a duodenal ulcer.  Recuperating after the operation, he read through a dozen of the Waverley Novels, the Valois and D'Artagnan cycles of Dumas, then Victor Hugo's """"""""Notre Dame"""""""" and the immense """"""""Les Miserables"""""""" ... ending up with half a dozen of Balzac ...'"""
"""He [Owen] bought Monro's latest collection """"""""Strange Meetings"""""""" (1917), with its interesting title, and """"""""Georgian Poetry 1916-1917"""""""". This new volume of the anthology, published by the Bookshop in November, included work by Sassoon, Graves, Monro, Robert Nichols, John Masefield, W.W. Gibson, Walter de la Mare and John Drinkwater. Owen eventually possessed at least fifteen volumes by these Georgians and their original leader, Brooke; this was by far the largest representation of modern verse in his shelves, and most of it was bought and read in November-December 1917.'"""
"""He [Owen] bought Monro's latest collection """"""""Strange Meetings"""""""" (1917), with its interesting title, and """"""""Georgian Poetry 1916-1917"""""""". This new volume of the anthology, published by the Bookshop in November, included work by Sassoon, Graves, Monro, Robert Nichols, John Masefield, W.W. Gibson, Walter de la Mare and John Drinkwater. Owen eventually possessed at least fifteen volumes by these Georgians and their original leader, Brooke; this was by far the largest representation of modern verse in his shelves, and most of it was bought and read in November-December 1917.'"""
"""He [Owen] bought Monro's latest collection """"""""Strange Meetings"""""""" (1917), with its interesting title, and """"""""Georgian Poetry 1916-1917"""""""". This new volume of the anthology, published by the Bookshop in November, included work by Sassoon, Graves, Monro, Robert Nichols, John Masefield, W.W. Gibson, Walter de la Mare and John Drinkwater. Owen eventually possessed at least fifteen volumes by these Georgians and their original leader, Brooke; this was by far the largest representation of modern verse in his shelves, and most of it was bought and read in November-December 1917.'"""
"""[another of Owen's poetic influences was] Brooke's friend W.W. Gibson, whose """"""""Battle"""""""" (1915) Owen read in December [1915]'"""
"""Nothing before """"""""Le Feu"""""""" had given such an appallingly vivid description of trench warfare or combined it with such passionate political conviction. The English translation, """"""""Under Fire"""""""", appeared in June 1917 and Sassoon was reading it by mid-August; he lent it to Owen, who seems to have read it at Craiglockhart and again in December'."""
"""Owen met H.G. Wells in November, one of the leading writers about the war and its politics, an advocate of internationalism, efficiency, the defeat of militarism by military means. Owen read at least two of his books in December'."""
"""In December he read Lang's translation of the elegies by Bion and Moschus that had been Shelley's model for """"""""Adonais"""""""".'"""
"""Thanks so much for your letter & the little Book. (The Vision Splendid by John Oxenham) That was a ripping little poem wasn't it? I guess it's just about right!' """
"""Enjoyed Ps 39.'"""
"""His injury had not been permanent, and he now sat day after day beside Winifred's bed, talking to her about Russian literature and reading aloud from """"""""Crime and Punishment"""""""".'"""
"""I got up at that moment to re-read your article on Leon Bloy.  The memory of it suddenly rose in my mind, like a scent'."""
"""I got up at that moment to re-read your article on Leon Bloy.  The memory of it suddenly rose in my mind, like a scent'."""
"""A slight work, but just about perfect.  In fact I do not know how to find fault with it.  [""""""""Nocturne"""""""", 1917] . . . And I left off """"""""Wuthering Heights"""""""" in order to read it, which was a fairly clear test. (Never read W.H. before.  Very fine.) . . . Marguerite is now reading """"""""Nocturne"""""""", confound her!'  """
"""Elizabeth worked hard for the lessons she liked, and instead of preparation for the ones she didn't like she read poetry, the Bible, and checked out the facts of life in the encyclopaedia'."""
"""Elizabeth worked hard for the lessons she liked, and instead of preparation for the ones she didn't like she read poetry, the Bible, and checked out the facts of life in the encyclopaedia'."""
"""Tchehov [Chekhov] makes me feel that this longing to write stories of such uneven length is quite justified.  Geneva is a long story, and Hamilton is very short [...] Tchehov is quite right about women; yes, he is quite right.'"""
"""Tchehov [Chekhov] makes me feel that this longing to write stories of such uneven length is quite justified.  Geneva is a long story, and Hamilton is very short [...] Tchehov is quite right about women; yes, he is quite right.'"""
"""During this period my indebtedness to an eighteenth-century poet became enormous.  At every spare moment I read Young’s “Night Thoughts on Life, Death and Immortality”, and I felt the benefit of this grave and intellectual voice speaking out of a profound eighteenth–century calm, often in metaphor which came home to one even in a pillbox. The mere amusement of discovering lines applicable to our crisis kept me from despair.'"""
"""Finished Abdominal Injuries.'"""
"""Have you read Frank Harris?s privately published Life & Confessions of Oscar Wilde?  It is a strange & powerful book, written by a man who is a curious mixture of impulses noble and ignoble.  I am just finishing it.  The best things I have read for ages are the Chekhov short stories in the new complete edition (2 vols out) published here by Chatto & Windus, translated by the eternal Constance Garnett.  These stories are unmatched.'"""
"""Still very rough. No chance of [church] service. Finished George Eliot's """"""""Middlemarch"""""""".'"""
"""Out round waggon lines to fix new places to park amm. waggons and then round dump in morning. In after luncheon—Gibbs out. Read Morley's <i>Robespierre</i>—those times nearly as mad as these.'"""
"""Reported sick again as the swelling on my leg has not gone down. There is not a sound of a gun to be heard now ... We are now having a thunderstorm, the first rain for fourteen days or more and the first thunderstorm I have seen in the seven months I have been in this country. Finished a book by Guy Boothby called <i>A Millionaire's Love Story</i>.'"""
"""Enjoyed Bees in Amber.'"""
"""A slight work, but just about perfect.  In fact I do not know how to find fault with it.  [""""""""Nocturne"""""""", 1917] . . . And I left off """"""""Wuthering Heights"""""""" in order to read it, which was a fairly clear test. (Never read W.H. before.  Very fine.) . . . Marguerite is now reading """"""""Nocturne"""""""", confound her!'  """
"""750 miles due E. of Ascension Island. Wireless Reuters as usual. America in State of War. W. drive still continues. Close on St. Quentin ... Finished Stitt's Tropical Diseases.'"""
"""750 miles due E. of Ascension Island. Wireless Reuters as usual. America in State of War. W. drive still continues. Close on St. Quentin ... Finished Stitt's Tropical Diseases.'"""
"""Two letters from home ... Explored cellars and caves with Okell ... Search shop above and find volumes of """"""""Lisez[?] moi.""""""""'"""
"""Pilot came on board & took us up the 16 miles to Beira. Landed at 3.15 pm ... had tea at the Savoy & latest telegrams & papers. There was a Times of Jan 16 & a Spectator of Jan 27. Heard of the push in the W. [i.e., on the Western Front].'"""
"""Pilot came on board & took us up the 16 miles to Beira. Landed at 3.15 pm ... had tea at the Savoy & latest telegrams & papers. There was a Times of Jan 16 & a Spectator of Jan 27. Heard of the push in the W. [i.e., on the Western Front].'"""
"""Pilot came on board & took us up the 16 miles to Beira. Landed at 3.15 pm ... had tea at the Savoy & latest telegrams & papers. There was a Times of Jan 16 & a Spectator of Jan 27. Heard of the push in the W. [i.e., on the Western Front].'"""
"""Still the same fine weather. Reading Head Injuries.'"""
"""Enjoyed """"""""The second mile"""""""" by Fosdick. Actually in bed by 10.30 pm!'"""
"""'Finished """"""""[The] Rose and Ring"""""""" (how satisfying) and turned over the """"""""Assemblies of al-Hariri"""""""", which confirms my old opinion that there is but one book in Arabic and that is the """"""""Arabian Nights"""""""". The Admiralty Handbook of Mesopotamia, a compilation of the first order, and invaluable to me. Bed 10, and again cold (72°).' """
"""'Finished """"""""[The] Rose and Ring"""""""" (how satisfying) and turned over the """"""""Assemblies of al-Hariri"""""""", which confirms my old opinion that there is but one book in Arabic and that is the """"""""Arabian Nights"""""""". The Admiralty Handbook of Mesopotamia, a compilation of the first order, and invaluable to me. Bed 10, and again cold (72°).' """
"""'Finished """"""""[The] Rose and Ring"""""""" (how satisfying) and turned over the """"""""Assemblies of al-Hariri"""""""", which confirms my old opinion that there is but one book in Arabic and that is the """"""""Arabian Nights"""""""". The Admiralty Handbook of Mesopotamia, a compilation of the first order, and invaluable to me. Bed 10, and again cold (72°).' """
"""We had a beautiful service and a celebration afterwards. Just as I was packing up we heard a crackling overhead and, on looking up, saw a plane come tearing down on fire ... It was a terrible sight ... I got home late in the evening. The paper had in it the formal declaration of war between the U.S.A. and Germany.'"""
"""Pray, when you see [Wilson] Follett, give him a warm greeting from me. His little book is one of these things one does not forget. I saw some time ago a study of Galsworthy by him (and a lady who must be either his wife or his sister) which within the limits if a magazine article was simply admirable for insight and expression.'"""
"""Off at 5.15 am. Sea smooth. Read 60 pp. of Surgical Diagnosis.'"""
"""Read Kipling's """"""""Diversities"""""""", Steevans """"""""India"""""""" Wells """"""""War [of the Worlds]"""""""" """"""""Dynamiter"""""""" and a little Graham Wallas and Metchnikhoff, but with fatigue and unease.'"""
"""Read Kipling's """"""""Diversities"""""""", Steevans """"""""India"""""""" Wells """"""""War [of the Worlds]"""""""" """"""""Dynamiter"""""""" and a little Graham Wallas and Metchnikhoff, but with fatigue and unease.'"""
"""Read Kipling's """"""""Diversities"""""""", Steevans """"""""India"""""""" Wells """"""""War [of the Worlds]"""""""" """"""""Dynamiter"""""""" and a little Graham Wallas and Metchnikhoff, but with fatigue and unease.'"""
"""Read Kipling's """"""""Diversities"""""""", Steevans """"""""India"""""""" Wells """"""""War [of the Worlds]"""""""" """"""""Dynamiter"""""""" and a little Graham Wallas and Metchnikhoff, but with fatigue and unease.'"""
"""Read Kipling's """"""""Diversities"""""""", Steevans """"""""India"""""""" Wells """"""""War [of the Worlds]"""""""" """"""""Dynamiter"""""""" and a little Graham Wallas and Metchnikhoff, but with fatigue and unease.'"""
"""Read Kipling's """"""""Diversities"""""""", Steevens' """"""""India"""""""", Wells """"""""War [?of the Worlds]"""""""" """"""""Dynamiter"""""""" and a little Graham Wallas and Metchnikhoff, but with fatigue and unease.'"""
"""I think MacGill has written one or two excellent things on the Push. [Patrick MacGill, The Great Push , 1916]   I do want you to realise that intelligent people here, though civilian, well understand that most of the stuff printed in the dailies about the army is largely tosh.'  """
"""Beira all day — am getting on with Surgical Diagnosis, & Tropical Diseases by Stitt.'"""
"""Beira all day — am getting on with Surgical Diagnosis, & Tropical Diseases by Stitt.'"""
"""Lovely day ... Read in afternoon and played bridge — lost 4f 25 c! Bed — v cold!'"""
"""Everyone talking very loud about successes reported from the line  'our objective gained', '5000 prisoners', and so on. I try to be serene through it all - and get into a corner and read Far from the Madding Crowd in a desultory way."""
"""Forged ahead with Savile's Clinical Medicine.'"""
"""Thanks for your pamphlet, to which I responded with every feeling and conviction that go to make up my """"""""less perishable"""""""" being. And how beautifully all those deeply felt truths are said!'"""
"""I was a good time in the army before I knew what a whore was. We never asked the English master when we were doing the <i>Faerie Queene</i>, because of his cloth, and he jumped it rather.'"""
"""The sergeant was a small chap, and all night was so tireless that I thought of Alan Breck Stewart in <i>Kidnapped</i>.'"""
"""I never feel any emotions now, except the great terrible desire always surging up to get away ... I was thinking a lot today of a book we had at school, <i>Poems of To-day</i>. All the Form liked this book. We could understand just what the poets meant. [Comments further on individual poems in the anthology]'"""
"""What I've thought of most to-day, and it has been running in my mind all the time, for we had to learn it by heart, is Rupert Brooke's <i>The Soldier</i>. I cannot feel like that. I do not want my body to rot away under this field, with its yellow earth and thin, pale grass. Perhaps Brooke could feel like that because he'd <i>had</i> something in this world. He'd been to Berlin, and he'd had lovely warm afternoons in Cambridgeshire ... and he's had time to enjoy things. <i>I</i> have never had time to think. I have had <i>nothing, nothing</i> ... Rupert Brooke had longer than I've had to see things and enjoy them. He was ten years older than I am now.' """
"""11 a.m. Take """"""""snap"""""""" of Sr. [sister] Murphy in Red Cross Toga. Read for an hour.' """
"""Erich had a little book which he greatly valued. In order to cheer my captivity he showed this book to me. When I saw the way Erich used to linger over its pages at night before going to sleep I thought that it was some pious work given him by his mother before he left the Fatherland. When he showed it to me I found that it was pornographic. The text was meaningless to me, as Erich regretfully acknowledged, but, he indicated, brightening considerably, the illustrations were indeed realistic.'"""
"""Foggy all day. Down for patrol but no bon. Read in Mess all day. Wrote letters. Beastly cold.'"""
"""Our first lessons were from Ford Madox Ford's 'English Review' which was publishing some of the best young writers of the time. We discussed Bridges and Masefield... For myself the suger-bag blue of the 'English Review' was decisive. One had thought literature was in books written by dead people who had been oppressively over-educated. Here was writing by people who were alive and probably writing at this moment..."""
"""Bartlett dug out one of James Russell Lowell's poems, 'The Vision of Sir Launfal', though why he chose that dim poem I do not know: we went on to Tennyson, never learning by heart."""
"""Bartlett dug out one of James Russell Lowell's poems, 'The Vision of Sir Launfal', though why he chose that dim poem I do not know: we went on to Tennyson, never learning by heart."""
"""Bartlett's picture of the Hispaniola lying beached in the Caribbean, on the clean-swept sand, its poop, round house, mainsails and fore-tops easily identified, had grown out of the flat print words of Treasure Island. Bartlett was a good painter in water-colour. When we read Kidnapped he made us paint the Scottish moors. We laughed over Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn."""
"""Bartlett's picture of the Hispaniola lying beached in the Caribbean, on the clean-swept sand, its poop, round house, mainsails and fore-tops easily identified, had grown out of the flat print words of Treasure Island. Bartlett was a good painter in water-colour. When we read Kidnapped he made us paint the Scottish moors. We laughed over Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn."""
"""Bartlett's picture of the Hispaniola lying beached in the Caribbean, on the clean-swept sand, its poop, round house, mainsails and fore-tops easily identified, had grown out of the flat print words of Treasure Island. Bartlett was a good painter in water-colour. When we read Kidnapped he made us paint the Scottish moors. We laughed over Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn."""
"""Bartlett's picture of the Hispaniola lying beached in the Caribbean, on the clean-swept sand, its poop, round house, mainsails and fore-tops easily identified, had grown out of the flat print words of Treasure Island. Bartlett was a good painter in water-colour. When we read Kidnapped he made us paint the Scottish moors. We laughed over Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn."""
"""That I understood very little of what I read did not really matter to me (Washington Irving's 'Life of Columbus' was as awful as the dictionary because of the long words). I was caught by the passion for print as an alcoholic is caught by the bottle."""
"""I had also read 'Paper Bag Cookery' -one of my father's fads -because I wanted to try it. Now I saw 'The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius' in leatherL it defeated me. Wordsworth and Milton at least wrote in short lines with wide margins. I moved on to a book by Hall Caine called 'The Bondman'. It appeared to be about a marriage and I noticed that the men and women talked in the dangerous adult language  which I associated with 'The bad girl of the family'. 'The Bondman' also suggested a doom -the sort of doom my mother sang about which was connected with Trinity Church and owing the rent."""
"""I had also read 'Paper Bag Cookery' -one of my father's fads -because I wanted to try it. Now I saw 'The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius' in leather: it defeated me. Wordsworth and Milton at least wrote in short lines with wide margins. I moved on to a book by Hall Caine called 'The Bondman'. It appeared to be about a marriage and I noticed that the men and women talked in the dangerous adult language  which I associated with 'The bad girl of the family'. 'The Bondman' also suggested a doom -the sort of doom my mother sang about which was connected with Trinity Church and owing the rent."""
"""I had also read 'Paper Bag Cookery' -one of my father's fads -because I wanted to try it. Now I saw 'The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius' in leather: it defeated me. Wordsworth and Milton at least wrote in short lines with wide margins. I moved on to a book by Hall Caine called 'The Bondman'. It appeared to be about a marriage and I noticed that the men and women talked in the dangerous adult language  which I associated with 'The bad girl of the family'. 'The Bondman' also suggested a doom -the sort of doom my mother sang about which was connected with Trinity Church and owing the rent."""
"""I moved to Marie Corelli and there I found a book of newspaper articles called 'Free Opinions'. The type was large. The words were easy, rather contemptibly so. I read and then stopped in anger. Marie Corelli had insulted me. She was against popular education, against schools, against Public libraries and said that common people like us made the books dirty because we never washed, and that we infected them with disease. """
"""I had a look at 'In tune with the infinite'. I moved on to my father's single volume, India paper edition of 'Shakespeare's Complete Works' and started at the beginning with the 'Rape of Lucrece' and the sonnets and continued slowly through the plays during the coming year. For relief I took up Marie Corelli's 'Master Christain' which I found more moving than Shakespeare and more intelligible than 'Thanatopsis'."""
"""I had a look at 'In tune with the infinite'. I moved on to my father's single volume, India paper edition of 'Shakespeare's Complete Works' and started at the beginning with the 'Rape of Lucrece' and the sonnets and continued slowly through the plays during the coming year. For relief I took up Marie Corelli's 'Master Christain' which I found more moving than Shakespeare and more intelligible than 'Thanatopsis'."""
"""I had a look at 'In tune with the infinite'. I moved on to my father's single volume, India paper edition of 'Shakespeare's Complete Works' and started at the beginning with the 'Rape of Lucrece' and the sonnets and continued slowly through the plays during the coming year. For relief I took up Marie Corelli's 'Master Christian' which I found more moving than Shakespeare and more intelligible than 'Thanatopsis'."""
"""I had a look at 'In tune with the infinite'. I moved on to my father's single volume, India paper edition of 'Shakespeare's Complete Works' and started at the beginning with the 'Rape of Lucrece' and the sonnets and continued slowly through the plays during the coming year. For relief I took up Marie Corelli's 'Master Christian' which I found more moving than Shakespeare and more intelligible than 'Thanatopsis'."""
"""Do you read the Sunday Times?  It is a poor paper, but has great military articles by Spenser Wilkinson, one of the foremost European authorities.  This man does not in the least hide his notions about the running of the British Army by the old cavalry crew at the War Office.'  """
"""Spender [J.A. Spender, editor of the Westminster Gazette] has recently introduced me to Thucydides & I think he is the greatest of all historians.  Indeed I need say no more than that if I wrote history this is the way I should write it.'  """
"""Tuesday 10 September 1918: 'My intellectual snobbishness was chastened this morning by hearing from Janet [Case] that she reads Don Quixote & Paradise Lost, & her sister Lucretius in the evenings.'"""
"""Tuesday 10 September 1918: 'My intellectual snobbishness was chastened this morning by hearing from Janet [Case] that she reads Don Quixote & Paradise Lost, & her sister Lucretius in the evenings.'"""
"""Tuesday 10 September 1918: 'My intellectual snobbishness was chastened this morning by hearing from Janet [Case] that she reads Don Quixote & Paradise Lost, & her sister Lucretius in the evenings.'"""
"""Tuesday 10 September 1918: 'Though I am not the only person in Sussex who reads Milton, I mean to write down my impressions of Paradise Lost [...] Impressions fairly well describes the sort of thing left in my mind. I have left many riddles unread. I have slipped on too easily to taste the full flavour [goes on to describe and discuss in detail] [...] But how smooth, strong & elaborate it all is! What poetry!'"""
"""... [J. M.] Barrie's secretary wrote, """"""""One of his great solaces was Anthony Trollope, whom, like many others, he rediscovered after the First World War.""""""""'"""
"""I felt an urgent need of some renunciatory act, some way of life absolutely opposed to a world of personally-owned things ... There was no Good Will. I read Epicurus and Marcus Aurelius. I aspired to a form of living that seemed to purge the spirit of all the pulls of the law of gravity, all the pressures drawing one into a nexus of relations where one had continually to commit a ‘lesser evil’…’"""
"""In bed all day. Dad and Mum came in the afternoon, Great. Nickie and Northwood called after. Read and smoked all day. Played bridge. Huns have got Messines ... this is awful!'"""
"""High wind and low clouds. No patrols at all. Rugger v Australian team in afternoon. Won 7–6. Ripping game. Read and wrote letters in evening.' """
"""Still sore and indignant, I happened one day to read some verses by Sir Owen Seaman which I found in a copy of """"""""Punch"""""""" dated April 3rd, 1918 - the very week in which our old strongholds had fallen and the camp at Etaples had been a struggling pandemonium of ambulances, stretchers and refugee nurses:'"""
"""I ought to have thanked you before for the book [""""""""Siri Ram""""""""] which I read directly it reached my hands.'"""
"""In bed all day. Elsie in afternoon. Read and smoked all day.'"""
"""Many marginal notes include: """"""""The marginal notes and lines are from Macaulay's Deux Ponts edition. NB I did not read through Aurus Gellius: but observed the contents of the chapter, glanced through the text if it excited my curiosity, and carefully read all, and all around, Macaulay's notes and marginal lines."""""""" """"""""Wallington July 16 1918"""""""" """"""""I am beginning to relish Aulus Gellius as much as my uncle did. (See the letter to Ellis of July 25 1836. Life and Letters Chapter VI)."""""""" """"""""August 10 1918 George [G.M. Trevelyan] came to Wallington from Italy this morning."""""""" """"""""August 13 1918 - Janet and the children left today - George yesterday"""""""". """"""""August 12 1918 Wallington I say farewell to Aulus Gellius with regret; and am inclined to think I like him even as much as Macaulay. Perhaps a little better, because at 80 one is more of the age for trifles than at 35; and prettier trifling than the setting of the dialogues I hardly know."""""""""""
"""There was unpleasant news in the paper. The Bolsheviks have made peace with the Central Powers and so now all Russia is at peace, and a regular war flame is running through Germany.'"""
"""That's first rate stuff. I have read all but two of the stories, which'll have their turn this afternoon and I shall take up your copy on Monday myself and deliver it to Pinker with my own hands.'"""
"""Raining hard nearly all day. Down town with Mum in morning and then sat and read and smoked in front of fire.'"""
"""Read and played bridge in evening. Lost 18 fr. Beastly cold, no patrol.' """
"""Down town with Dad. Mess about on bike all day and read and smoked in garden. Leg rather sore.'"""
"""In bed all day. Bob Craig and Janie Clark in afternoon. Bob gave me """"""""Traffics and Discoveries"""""""". Leg much better. Bailleul has fallen. <u>Damn and Blast it!</u>'"""
"""On Sunday morning, June 16th, I opened the """"""""Observer"""""""", which appeared to be chiefly concerned with the new offensive - for the moment at a standstill - in the Noyon-Montdidier sector of the Western Front, and instantly saw at the head of a column the paragraph for which I had looked so long and so fearfully.'"""
"""There followed a quotation from the correspondent of the Corriere della Sera, who described """"""""the Austrian attack on the Italian positions in the neighbourhood of the Tonale Pass"""""""".'"""
"""Better. Read a bit and smoked a bit. Head still bad. Bed all day.'"""
"""I return to you the type and the proof which you have sent me. The """"""""English Review"""""""" thing is wonderfully done, [...]. The Edward Grey in Paris article is very cleverly done. It is  mordant, it is witty.'"""
"""I return to you the type and the proof which you have sent me. The """"""""English Review"""""""" thing is wonderfully done, [...]. The Edward Grey in Paris article is very cleverly done. It is  mordant, it is witty.'"""
"""I went up the line to the 168 batteries and had a most excellent lunch with Hastings and Poole at B battery in a dug-out which the former has built in a trench there. They were shelling us now and again with short bursts of small shells which went just over and to the left. Hastings showed me the proofs of a poem called """"""""Regent Street"""""""" which has been taken by the <i>English Review</i>. It turned out a wet afternoon.'"""
"""Fall of Wythschaete and Meteren. Back to our old line on the ridge. In bed all day. Gin and Kathleen and Cousin Aggie in afternoon. Read and smoked all day.'"""
"""Brekker in bed! Bon! Up at 11.30 — down town and bought some things. Read and drew in the afternoon. To dance at Dr Lawrie's in evening: 8.30 to 1.45. Quite bon show. My dancing dud full of Australians. One V.C. there. Girls not very pretty.'"""
"""Very nice weather. Very hot indeed. Reading on the sands. Also took a shot of some fisher girls in their picturesque costumes, digging for worms and bait.'"""
"""Your R.A.F. paper is very good [...].'"""
"""Better. Read and wrote and smoked all day.'"""
"""The paper very full of Sir W. Robertson's resignation though the reason and details are still a mystery. The most remarkable news was that Germany has declared war again on the Bolsheviks!!! Our raid last night was most successful. We captured about thirty prisoners and our casualties were very light indeed. Another lovely day, but misty.'"""
"""Brian flew over. Kirk in p.m. I did not go as leg pretty sore. Read poems in afternoon, felt rotten at night.'"""
"""Have you read Dolly Richardson’s """"""""Backwater""""""""?  If not, do.  It is a book.'"""
"""[Garratt] spent his free evenings in Birmingham's Central Free Library reading Homer, Epitectus, Longius and Plato's Dialogues, a classical education which further undemined his confidence in the status quo: """"""""I began to wonder in what way we had advanced from the ancient civilisations of Greece and Rome"""""""". In the First World War, he took Palgrave's Golden Treasury with him to France and wrote his own verses in the trenches'.."""
"""Emrys Daniel Hughes, [an] imprisoned CO and son of a Tonypandy miner, learned that the authorities were not unaware of the subversive potential of great literature. Following a Home Office directive to examine prisoners' books, the chaplain confiscated a volume of Shelley, though not before Hughes had a chance to read and discuss it. The padre also apparently removed Tristram Shandy from the prison library: Hughes found it whilst cleaning the chaplain's rookm and had read it on the sly... In More's Utopia he discovered a radical rethinking of criume and punishment. The World Set Free, in which HG Wells predicted the devastation of nuclear war, naturally spoke to his antiwar activism, and he was greatly impressed by the Quaker idealism in George Fox's journal, a biography of William Penn and Walt Whitman's poems.'"""
"""Emrys Daniel Hughes, [an] imprisoned CO and son of a Tonypandy miner, learned that the authorities were not unaware of the subversive potential of great literature. Following a Home Office directive to examine prisoners' books, the chaplain confiscated a volume of Shelley, though not before Hughes had a chance to read and discuss it. The padre also apparently removed Tristram Shandy from the prison library: Hughes found it whilst cleaning the chaplain's rookm and had read it on the sly... In More's Utopia he discovered a radical rethinking of criume and punishment. The World Set Free, in which HG Wells predicted the devastation of nuclear war, naturally spoke to his antiwar activism, and he was greatly impressed by the Quaker idealism in George Fox's journal, a biography of William Penn and Walt Whitman's poems.'"""
"""Emrys Daniel Hughes, [an] imprisoned CO and son of a Tonypandy miner, learned that the authorities were not unaware of the subversive potential of great literature. Following a Home Office directive to examine prisoners' books, the chaplain confiscated a volume of Shelley, though not before Hughes had a chance to read and discuss it. The padre also apparently removed Tristram Shandy from the prison library: Hughes found it whilst cleaning the chaplain's rookm and had read it on the sly... In More's Utopia he discovered a radical rethinking of criume and punishment. The World Set Free, in which HG Wells predicted the devastation of nuclear war, naturally spoke to his antiwar activism, and he was greatly impressed by the Quaker idealism in George Fox's journal, a biography of William Penn and Walt Whitman's poems.'"""
"""Emrys Daniel Hughes, [an] imprisoned CO and son of a Tonypandy miner, learned that the authorities were not unaware of the subversive potential of great literature. Following a Home Office directive to examine prisoners' books, the chaplain confiscated a volume of Shelley, though not before Hughes had a chance to read and discuss it. The padre also apparently removed Tristram Shandy from the prison library: Hughes found it whilst cleaning the chaplain's rookm and had read it on the sly... In More's Utopia he discovered a radical rethinking of criume and punishment. The World Set Free, in which HG Wells predicted the devastation of nuclear war, naturally spoke to his antiwar activism, and he was greatly impressed by the Quaker idealism in George Fox's journal, a biography of William Penn and Walt Whitman's poems.'"""
"""Emrys Daniel Hughes, [an] imprisoned CO and son of a Tonypandy miner, learned that the authorities were not unaware of the subversive potential of great literature. Following a Home Office directive to examine prisoners' books, the chaplain confiscated a volume of Shelley, though not before Hughes had a chance to read and discuss it. The padre also apparently removed Tristram Shandy from the prison library: Hughes found it whilst cleaning the chaplain's rookm and had read it on the sly... In More's Utopia he discovered a radical rethinking of criume and punishment. The World Set Free, in which HG Wells predicted the devastation of nuclear war, naturally spoke to his antiwar activism, and he was greatly impressed by the Quaker idealism in George Fox's journal, a biography of William Penn and Walt Whitman's poems.'"""
"""Emrys Daniel Hughes, [an] imprisoned CO and son of a Tonypandy miner, learned that the authorities were not unaware of the subversive potential of great literature. Following a Home Office directive to examine prisoners' books, the chaplain confiscated a volume of Shelley, though not before Hughes had a chance to read and discuss it. The padre also apparently removed Tristram Shandy from the prison library: Hughes found it whilst cleaning the chaplain's rookm and had read it on the sly... In More's Utopia he discovered a radical rethinking of criume and punishment. The World Set Free, in which HG Wells predicted the devastation of nuclear war, naturally spoke to his antiwar activism, and he was greatly impressed by the Quaker idealism in George Fox's journal, a biography of William Penn and Walt Whitman's poems.'"""
"""[Emrys Hughes] read the social history of Macaulay, Froude, and J.R. Green; Thorold Rogers's Six Centuries of Work and Wages particularly appealed to him because it offered """"""""not the history of kings and queens, but of the way ordinary people ha struggled to live throughout the centuries..."""""""" Hughes was one of those agitators who found a virtual Marxism in Thomas Carlyle. The French Revolution inspired the hope that a popular revolt somewhere would end the war...'"""
"""[Emrys Hughes] read the social history of Macaulay, Froude, and J.R. Green; Thorold Rogers's Six Centuries of Work and Wages particularly appealed to him because it offered """"""""not the history of kings and queens, but of the way ordinary people ha struggled to live throughout the centuries..."""""""" Hughes was one of those agitators who found a virtual Marxism in Thomas Carlyle. The French Revolution inspired the hope that a popular revolt somewhere would end the war...'"""
"""[Emrys Hughes] read the social history of Macaulay, Froude, and J.R. Green; Thorold Rogers's Six Centuries of Work and Wages particularly appealed to him because it offered """"""""not the history of kings and queens, but of the way ordinary people ha struggled to live throughout the centuries..."""""""" Hughes was one of those agitators who found a virtual Marxism in Thomas Carlyle. The French Revolution inspired the hope that a popular revolt somewhere would end the war...'"""
"""[Emrys Hughes] read the social history of Macaulay, Froude, and J.R. Green; Thorold Rogers's Six Centuries of Work and Wages particularly appealed to him because it offered """"""""not the history of kings and queens, but of the way ordinary people ha struggled to live throughout the centuries..."""""""" Hughes was one of those agitators who found a virtual Marxism in Thomas Carlyle. The French Revolution inspired the hope that a popular revolt somewhere would end the war...'"""
"""[Emrys Hughes] read the social history of Macaulay, Froude, and J.R. Green; Thorold Rogers's Six Centuries of Work and Wages particularly appealed to him because it offered """"""""not the history of kings and queens, but of the way ordinary people ha struggled to live throughout the centuries..."""""""" Hughes was one of those agitators who found a virtual Marxism in Thomas Carlyle. The French Revolution inspired the hope that a popular revolt somewhere would end the war...'"""
"""Emrys Daniel Hughes, son of a Welsh miner, first treated Pilgrim's Progress as an illustrated adventure story. When he was jailed during the first World War for refusing conscription, he reread it and discovered a very different book: """"""""Lord Hategood could easily have been in the Government. I had talked with Mr Worldly Wiseman and had been in the Slough of Despond and knew all the jurymen who had been on the jury at the trial of Hopeful at Vanity Fair. And Vanity Fair would of course have been all for the War.""""""""'"""
"""And Bennett had now become a man of influence, largely through his """"""""New Age"""""""" pieces.  These articles, which he had begun in 1908, were widely read and admired . . . Ford Madox Ford, writing in 1918, described the readers of the """"""""New Age"""""""" as """"""""very numerous and from widely different classes . . . army officers . . . colonial governors . . . higher Civil Service officials, solicitors and members of the Bar.  On the other hand, I have known it read regularly by board-school teachers, shop assistants, servants, artisans, and members of the poor generally. . . """"""""'"""
"""Percy Wall, jailed for defying draft notices in the First World War, was inspired in part by a copy of Queen Mab owned by his  father, a Marxist railway worker. But neither father nor son applied ideological tests to literature. In the prison library - with some guidance from a fellow conscientious objector who happened to be an important publishing executive - Percy discovered Emerson, Macaulay, Bacon, Shakespeare and Lambb. It was their style rather than their politics he found liberating: from them """"""""I learned self-expression and acquired or strengthened standards of literature"""""""".'"""
"""Percy Wall, jailed for defying draft notices in the First World War, was inspired in part by a copy of Queen Mab owned by his  father, a Marxist railway worker. But neither father nor son applied ideological tests to literature. In the prison library - with some guidance from a fellow conscientious objector who happened to be an important publishing executive - Percy discovered Emerson, Macaulay, Bacon, Shakespeare and Lamb. It was their style rather than their politics he found liberating: from them """"""""I learned self-expression and acquired or strengthened standards of literature"""""""".'"""
"""Percy Wall, jailed for defying draft notices in the First World War, was inspired in part by a copy of Queen Mab owned by his  father, a Marxist railway worker. But neither father nor son applied ideological tests to literature. In the prison library - with some guidance from a fellow conscientious objector who happened to be an important publishing executive - Percy discovered Emerson, Macaulay, Bacon, Shakespeare and Lamb. It was their style rather than their politics he found liberating: from them """"""""I learned self-expression and acquired or strengthened standards of literature"""""""".'"""
"""Percy Wall, jailed for defying draft notices in the First World War, was inspired in part by a copy of Queen Mab owned by his  father, a Marxist railway worker. But neither father nor son applied ideological tests to literature. In the prison library - with some guidance from a fellow conscientious objector who happened to be an important publishing executive - Percy discovered Emerson, Macaulay, Bacon, Shakespeare and Lamb. It was their style rather than their politics he found liberating: from them """"""""I learned self-expression and acquired or strengthened standards of literature"""""""".'"""
"""Percy Wall, jailed for defying draft notices in the First World War, was inspired in part by a copy of Queen Mab owned by his  father, a Marxist railway worker. But neither father nor son applied ideological tests to literature. In the prison library - with some guidance from a fellow conscientious objector who happened to be an important publishing executive - Percy discovered Emerson, Macaulay, Bacon, Shakespeare and Lamb. It was their style rather than their politics he found liberating: from them """"""""I learned self-expression and acquired or strengthened standards of literature"""""""".'"""
"""Percy Wall, jailed for defying draft notices in the First World War, was inspired in part by a copy of Queen Mab owned by his  father, a Marxist railway worker. But neither father nor son applied ideological tests to literature. In the prison library - with some guidance from a fellow conscientious objector who happened to be an important publishing executive - Percy discovered Emerson, Macaulay, Bacon, Shakespeare and Lamb. It was their style rather than their politics he found liberating: from them """"""""I learned self-expression and acquired or strengthened standards of literature"""""""".'"""
"""Copious MS notes in hand of George Otto Trevelyan. Dates of reading are: Oct 1902 (on a train in Italy); Sept 16 1905; May 12 1918 (at Welcombe). He notes the dates when Macaulay read his own copy of Demosthenes and says of the reading in 1837: """"""""The last time in 2 days"""""""".  In 1902: """"""""Certainly Holmes is a marvellous scholar"""""""" but in 1918: """"""""Holmes writes of oratory like a pedant, narrow, sceptical and critical, - who never heard a fine speech in his life."""""""""""
"""2 March 1918: '[On 19 February] we went to Asheham [...] I saw no-one; for 5 days I wasn't in a state for reading [due to influenza]; but I did finally read Morley & other books; but reading when done to kill time has a kind of drudgy look in it [...] One day I sat in the garden reading Shakespeare; I remember the ecstacy'."""
"""2 March 1918: '[On 19 February] we went to Asheham [...] I saw no-one; for 5 days I wasn't in a state for reading [due to influenza]; but I did finally read Morley & other books; but reading when done to kill time has a kind of drudgy look in it [...] One day I sat in the garden reading Shakespeare; I remember the ecstacy'."""
"""I do not think that """"""""Victory"""""""" is anything like equal to """"""""Chance"""""""".  In fact it is not first-rate Conrad, """"""""Chance"""""""" is.  """"""""Bealby"""""""" I have never read.  Wells sends me all his books; but he didn’t send """"""""Bealby"""""""" along, and I lost the list and didn’t get it.' """
"""I do not think that """"""""Victory"""""""" is anything like equal to """"""""Chance"""""""".  In fact it is not first-rate Conrad, """"""""Chance"""""""" is.  """"""""Bealby"""""""" I have never read.  Wells sends me all his books; but he didn’t send """"""""Bealby"""""""" along, and I lost the list and didn’t get it.'"""
"""I do not think that """"""""Victory"""""""" is anything like equal to """"""""Chance"""""""".  In fact it is not first-rate Conrad, """"""""Chance"""""""" is.  """"""""Bealby"""""""" I have never read.  Wells sends me all his books; but he didn’t send """"""""Bealby"""""""" along, and I lost the list and didn’t get it.'"""
"""To King's funeral at noon [Alexander King-Clark, Knocker's brother-in-law, who had committed suicide]. R.I.P. he did his bit and I think it is for the best. Lunch at West Hall with Dad. Home for tea. Reading """"""""Our Admirable Betty"""""""". Quite good. Bed early. Elsie [Knocker's sister and King-Clark's widow] is splendid.'"""
"""Owen seems to have started reading Swinburne in earnest in 1916. When he returned to the front in 1918, knowing that he would kill and probably be killed, he took volumes of both Shelley and Swinburne with him, but after he had been in action he sent the Shelley back to Shrewsbury, keeping only Swinburne's """"""""Poems and Ballads"""""""", the one book of poetry still in his kit at his death'."""
"""Read and played croquet in evening.'"""
"""We were in London at a quarter to 2. The evening paper contained a short communiqué saying we had attacked this morning around Albert. Apparently it is not on a very wide front, but there are no details.'"""
"""<i>The Times</i> correspondent declares that the great German offensive in the West is imminent, which is cheery. What a war!' """
"""I had tea at C.R.A. ... and then back to the ch√¢teau where we are now installed. Our room is immense and very cold but it is a fine place to be in ... The mess very comfortable with two easy chairs, etc., and huge lot of bound <i>Illustrations</i>, which are very amusing to read.'"""
"""I have been happier lately. [The other soldiers] have not called me """"""""College"""""""" for a long time, and they do not interfere when I try to read.'"""
"""I have had a weekend's C.B. Unshaven on parade ... from six to ten on Saturday and Sunday nights I had to double 600 yards to the guardroom, to report, every half-hour, when """"""""defaulters"""""""" blew. It meant I could not read for more than a few minutes at a time, and I had <i>Tom Sawyer</i>. I was the only man in the hut those two evenings, except for the old hut orderly, asleep on a form near the stove. How I would have loved to lie down and read or sleep in the quietness.'"""
"""""""""""The Green Mirror"""""""" reached me alright.[...] I didn't write to you about it as I expected almost every day to have you here for a talk about that and other things.'"""
"""The weather is damnable, especially when one has neither car nor taxi.  I read ¼ of """"""""Nicholas Nickleby"""""""" yesterday because I had no brain left.  It wasn’t so bad in its crude, posterish way.  Anyhow, it could be read.'  """
"""V quiet all day, rested leg. Read and sketched most of the time.'"""
"""...an article of his in the Daily News on 21 November, blaming Liberal leadership, produced from Asquith himself """"""""a polite letter of self - justification""""""""'. """
"""As to """"""""The Hist[ory] of the British Army"""""""" it is """"""""tout bonnement admirable!"""""""". No other phrase can do justice to it.' """
"""I should have read S.& H. [""""""""Shops and Houses""""""""] earlier, despite J. & P. , but I couldn’t get the book off Marguerite.  Conjugal unpleasantness became so acute on the point that I was obliged to buy a second copy.  I think this book shows marked development on the part of the author.  There are about 150 pp. as good as the very best few pages of On the Staircase, & some much better.'"""
"""I should have read S.& H. [""""""""Shops and Houses""""""""] earlier, despite J. & P. , but I couldn’t get the book off Marguerite.  Conjugal unpleasantness became so acute on the point that I was obliged to buy a second copy.  I think this book shows marked development on the part of the author.  There are about 150 pp. as good as the very best few pages of On the Staircase, & some much better.'"""
"""I should have read S.& H. [""""""""Shops and Houses""""""""] earlier, despite J. & P. , but I couldn’t get the book off Marguerite.  Conjugal unpleasantness became so acute on the point that I was obliged to buy a second copy.  I think this book shows marked development on the part of the author.  There are about 150 pp. as good as the very best few pages of On the Staircase, & some much better.'"""
"""Read and smoked (beaucoup) in evening. Bed at 11.00.'"""
"""Sketched and read all day. Leg rather sore — did not dash about much.'"""
"""Pardon my frankness.  This is most distinctly an idea for a play.  And you have put everything into it except the play.  [The Sane Star]... Play returned herewith. A.B.'"""
"""Dud and no patrols all day. Read and smoked. Dinner in Pop. [Poperinge] with Jack.'"""
"""The sergeant of the guard one day asked me to lend him a book to read. I said I was afraid I'd nothing he'd care for, but I'd look. This was my Detention Cell Library: <i>Fellowship Hymn Book</i> and Weymouth; Rauschenbusch <i>Christianity and the Social Crisis</i>; <i>The Meaning of Prayer, The Manhood of the Master, and Prayers for Students</i> (S.C.M.); Otto's and Hugo's German grammars; Luther's Testament, and Goethe's Faust!'"""
"""The sergeant of the guard one day asked me to lend him a book to read. I said I was afraid I'd nothing he'd care for, but I'd look. This was my Detention Cell Library: <i>Fellowship Hymn Book</i> and Weymouth; Rauschenbusch <i>Christianity and the Social Crisis</i>; <i>The Meaning of Prayer, The Manhood of the Master, and Prayers for Students</i> (S.C.M.); Otto's and Hugo's German grammars; Luther's Testament, and Goethe's Faust!'"""
"""The sergeant of the guard one day asked me to lend him a book to read. I said I was afraid I'd nothing he'd care for, but I'd look. This was my Detention Cell Library: <i>Fellowship Hymn Book</i> and Weymouth; Rauschenbusch <i>Christianity and the Social Crisis</i>; <i>The Meaning of Prayer, The Manhood of the Master, and Prayers for Students</i> (S.C.M.); Otto's and Hugo's German grammars; Luther's Testament, and Goethe's Faust!'"""
"""The sergeant of the guard one day asked me to lend him a book to read. I said I was afraid I'd nothing he'd care for, but I'd look. This was my Detention Cell Library: <i>Fellowship Hymn Book</i> and Weymouth; Rauschenbusch <i>Christianity and the Social Crisis</i>; <i>The Meaning of Prayer, The Manhood of the Master, and Prayers for Students</i> (S.C.M.); Otto's and Hugo's German grammars; Luther's Testament, and Goethe's Faust!'"""
"""The sergeant of the guard one day asked me to lend him a book to read. I said I was afraid I'd nothing he'd care for, but I'd look. This was my Detention Cell Library: <i>Fellowship Hymn Book</i> and Weymouth; Rauschenbusch <i>Christianity and the Social Crisis</i>; <i>The Meaning of Prayer, The Manhood of the Master, and Prayers for Students</i> (S.C.M.); Otto's and Hugo's German grammars; Luther's Testament, and Goethe's Faust!'"""
"""The sergeant of the guard one day asked me to lend him a book to read. I said I was afraid I'd nothing he'd care for, but I'd look. This was my Detention Cell Library: <i>Fellowship Hymn Book</i> and Weymouth; Rauschenbusch <i>Christianity and the Social Crisis</i>; <i>The Meaning of Prayer, The Manhood of the Master, and Prayers for Students</i> (S.C.M.); Otto's and Hugo's German grammars; Luther's Testament, and Goethe's Faust!'"""
"""The sergeant of the guard one day asked me to lend him a book to read. I said I was afraid I'd nothing he'd care for, but I'd look. This was my Detention Cell Library: <i>Fellowship Hymn Book</i> and Weymouth; Rauschenbusch <i>Christianity and the Social Crisis</i>; <i>The Meaning of Prayer, The Manhood of the Master, and Prayers for Students</i> (S.C.M.); Otto's and Hugo's German grammars; Luther's Testament, and Goethe's Faust!'"""
"""The sergeant of the guard one day asked me to lend him a book to read. I said I was afraid I'd nothing he'd care for, but I'd look. This was my Detention Cell Library: <i>Fellowship Hymn Book</i> and Weymouth; Rauschenbusch <i>Christianity and the Social Crisis</i>; <i>The Meaning of Prayer, The Manhood of the Master, and Prayers for Students</i> (S.C.M.); Otto's and Hugo's German grammars; Luther's Testament, and Goethe's Faust!'"""
"""The sergeant of the guard one day asked me to lend him a book to read. I said I was afraid I'd nothing he'd care for, but I'd look. This was my Detention Cell Library: <i>Fellowship Hymn Book</i> and Weymouth; Rauschenbusch <i>Christianity and the Social Crisis</i>; <i>The Meaning of Prayer, The Manhood of the Master, and Prayers for Students</i> (S.C.M.); Otto's and Hugo's German grammars; Luther's Testament, and Goethe's Faust!'"""
"""The sergeant of the guard one day asked me to lend him a book to read. I said I was afraid I'd nothing he'd care for, but I'd look. This was my Detention Cell Library: <i>Fellowship Hymn Book</i> and Weymouth; Rauschenbusch <i>Christianity and the Social Crisis</i>; <i>The Meaning of Prayer, The Manhood of the Master, and Prayers for Students</i> (S.C.M.); Otto's and Hugo's German grammars; Luther's Testament, and Goethe's Faust!'"""
"""Another big push in to-day's paper on a 30-mile front from Morlancourt, south of Arras, right down to Lihons.'"""
"""‘When this long dreaded war at last broke out – The gallant old soldier to whom we would not listen, when he warned us, that it was coming - gave utterance to these words - “There is but one duty for the British citizen at the present time -- men & women – young & old – rich & poor all alike must place everything  at the service of the State – Nothing must be kept back, time, energy, money, talent, even life itself must be freely offered in this supreme crisis – Arm & prepare to quit yourselves like men for the time of your ordeal has come” Any statement as to the women  citizens of the present, wh.[which] I can make must resolve itself into an answer to the question – How far have the woman citizens ans.[answered] Lord Roberts call to place everything at the service of the state?’"""
"""Raid on Valenciennes. Very little to do each day but reading. Have given my name in for a correspondence course.'"""
"""I doubt if you ought to call France & Flaubert """"""""dry"""""""". """"""""L’Education Sentimentale"""""""" ought to be read with ease.  Ditto """"""""Thais"""""""", & """"""""La Rotisserie"""""""".  Personally, though, I think France over-rated.  You ought to read """"""""Bubu de Montparnasse"""""""" of Charles Louis Philippe.  This is a great little novel, one of the finest modern French novels.  I think """"""""Coeur simple"""""""" is the best thing Flaubert ever wrote, except his correspondence, which is his best work, & ought to be read.  I tell you that Lytton Strachey’s """"""""Eminent Victorians"""""""" is a most juicy & devastating affair, I thoroughly enjoyed it.'  """
"""I doubt if you ought to call France & Flaubert """"""""dry"""""""". """"""""L’Education Sentimentale"""""""" ought to be read with ease.  Ditto """"""""Thais"""""""", & """"""""La Rotisserie"""""""".  Personally, though, I think France over-rated.  You ought to read """"""""Bubu de Montparnasse"""""""" of Charles Louis Philippe.  This is a great little novel, one of the finest modern French novels.  I think """"""""Coeur simple"""""""" is the best thing Flaubert ever wrote, except his correspondence, which is his best work, & ought to be read.  I tell you that Lytton Strachey’s """"""""Eminent Victorians"""""""" is a most juicy & devastating affair, I thoroughly enjoyed it.'"""
"""I doubt if you ought to call France & Flaubert """"""""dry"""""""". """"""""L’Education Sentimentale"""""""" ought to be read with ease.  Ditto """"""""Thais"""""""", & """"""""La Rotisserie"""""""".  Personally, though, I think France over-rated.  You ought to read """"""""Bubu de Montparnasse"""""""" of Charles Louis Philippe.  This is a great little novel, one of the finest modern French novels.  I think """"""""Coeur simple"""""""" is the best thing Flaubert ever wrote, except his correspondence, which is his best work, & ought to be read.  I tell you that Lytton Strachey’s """"""""Eminent Victorians"""""""" is a most juicy & devastating affair, I thoroughly enjoyed it.'"""
"""I doubt if you ought to call France & Flaubert """"""""dry"""""""". """"""""L’Education Sentimentale"""""""" ought to be read with ease.  Ditto """"""""Thais"""""""", & """"""""La Rotisserie"""""""".  Personally, though, I think France over-rated.  You ought to read """"""""Bubu de Montparnasse"""""""" of Charles Louis Philippe.  This is a great little novel, one of the finest modern French novels.  I think """"""""Coeur simple"""""""" is the best thing Flaubert ever wrote, except his correspondence, which is his best work, & ought to be read.  I tell you that Lytton Strachey’s """"""""Eminent Victorians"""""""" is a most juicy & devastating affair, I thoroughly enjoyed it.'"""
"""I doubt if you ought to call France & Flaubert """"""""dry"""""""". """"""""L’Education Sentimentale"""""""" ought to be read with ease.  Ditto """"""""Thais"""""""", & """"""""La Rotisserie"""""""".  Personally, though, I think France over-rated.  You ought to read """"""""Bubu de Montparnasse"""""""" of Charles Louis Philippe.  This is a great little novel, one of the finest modern French novels.  I think """"""""Coeur simple"""""""" is the best thing Flaubert ever wrote, except his correspondence, which is his best work, & ought to be read.  I tell you that Lytton Strachey’s """"""""Eminent Victorians"""""""" is a most juicy & devastating affair, I thoroughly enjoyed it.'"""
"""I doubt if you ought to call France & Flaubert """"""""dry"""""""". """"""""L’Education Sentimentale"""""""" ought to be read with ease.  Ditto """"""""Thais"""""""", & """"""""La Rotisserie"""""""".  Personally, though, I think France over-rated.  You ought to read """"""""Bubu de Montparnasse"""""""" of Charles Louis Philippe.  This is a great little novel, one of the finest modern French novels.  I think """"""""Coeur simple"""""""" is the best thing Flaubert ever wrote, except his correspondence, which is his best work, & ought to be read.  I tell you that Lytton Strachey’s """"""""Eminent Victorians"""""""" is a most juicy & devastating affair, I thoroughly enjoyed it.'"""
"""We have a lovely mess, well warmed and, like all the town, lit with electric light ... Harley came in to dine and sent for his <i>Times</i>, which he got to-day. In it were details of the surrender of that large part of the German Fleet which, under the Terms of the Armistice, they have been compelled to surrender.'"""
"""I am of course with you entirely both as to the matter and the expression of the Agricultural pamphlet. Thanks very much for sending me the copy.'"""
"""To see """"""""Ching Lee Soo"""""""" with whole family at 6 p.m. Very bon show. Read and wrote letters after dinner. Gally in to dine. Raining.'"""
"""I have pleasure in stating that Mr. T.S. Eliot (whom I understand to be a candidate for a commission in the Quartermasters or Interpreters Corps) has an intimate knowledge of the French language.  Also that he is a writer of distinguished merit, for whose work  personally I have a great admiration.'  """
"""Down town with Dad and Mum in morning. Gally and Leon in for tea and dinner. Dad read """"""""Literary Lapses"""""""" after dinner — very bon! Bed early.'"""
"""Discharged from Hospital. No word from the Air Board ... Swept paths etc and read and smoked. Chilly day rather. Mum bad gout in foot.'"""
"""I was up early and round to the machine-gunners about their piano for to-night's concert ... After making all the arrangements for a practice this afternoon, carrying the piano over, etc., I went over on [horseback] to C.R.A. at Rance about a circulating library, for which we have been given the sum of 500 francs. It is difficult to know what to order, but I was lucky enough last night to find a catalogue from <i>The Times</i> of all kinds of cheap and pocket editions. But the price nowadays is awful! The little 7d. editions are now up to 1s. 9d., so we shan't get very many for our money. I left the catalogues with Burne for him to look over.'  """
"""27 January 1918: 'Desmond has read some of the Newcomes lately: finds no depth, but a charming rippling conventional picturesqueness.'"""
"""Tea with the Wilkinsons ... pretty appalling! Not to Church in evening. Read and had prayers.'"""
"""I was up early and round to the machine-gunners about their piano for to-night's concert ... After making all the arrangements for a practice this afternoon, carrying the piano over, etc., I went over on [horseback] to C.R.A. at Rance about a circulating library, for which we have been given the sum of 500 francs. It is difficult to know what to order, but I was lucky enough last night to find a catalogue from <i>The Times</i> of all kinds of cheap and pocket editions. But the price nowadays is awful! The little 7d. editions are now up to 1s. 9d., so we shan't get very many for our money. I left the catalogues with Burne for him to look over.'  """
"""I will confess at once that I have read the book [""""""""The Reconnaissance""""""""] once only, and that of course is not enough;[...].The subject in itself is certainly a very difficult one because of its deep nature and its necessarily superficial aspects.'"""
"""... when evening came I sought the isolation of a disused hut at the bottom of a garden and revelled in poetic creations by candlelight as a solace to my distraught mind. And as the Palgrave's <i>Treasury</i> became more battered so it became more of a blessing.'"""
"""Pretty dud. No patrols ... Read in evening. Belgian Hanriot over.'"""
"""Read in afternoon and then clipped all the border for Dad. Pretty tiring work ... Bed at 12. Finished book """"""""The Pendulum"""""""" — rather poor. Pretty tired.'"""
"""This is a very good number.  The Wells review seems most just, but I haven’t yet finished the book.  [The Soul of a Bishop]'"""
"""This is a very good number. [The New Statesman].  The Wells review seems most just, but I haven’t yet finished the book.  [The Soul of a Bishop]'"""
"""This is a very good number.  [New Statesman]  The Wells review seems most just, but I haven’t yet finished the book.  [The Soul of a Bishop]'"""
"""January 3rd. Cloudy day. Went with Col Pasteurs to look over the French Hospital at the Imperial Hotel. Read the """"""""Decline and Fall"""""""" all afternoon and evening.'"""
"""Bed at 12. Read and smoked till then. Very cold — frozen in bed. """"""""B"""""""" Flt came back from break.'"""
"""Mowed lawn all morning with Dad. Then boked down town. Then biked round and round the lawn! ... Supper and after short stroll came back and finished """"""""The Red Planet"""""""", perfectly great.'"""
"""My warmest thanks for the inscribed copy which arrived yesterday. The first time I read the book was in 1908, the last was in '12 or early '13 when the copy disappeared [...] Directly the little friendly looking vol. was put into my hands yesterday afternoon I read [...] the intro. and the first 15 pages where there are passages for which I have a special affection [...].'"""
"""‘The change that came over the extremists [‘extreme feminists’] is described very well in an interview  which appeared about two months ago, in the “New York Evening Post” under the heading of """"""""the new Mrs Emmeline Pankhurst"""""""", portion of which I will now read to you: - “The war has made deep changes in people & institututions – but in no person or institution have the changes been more searching & complete than those wrought in Mrs Emmeline Pankhurst – There was once a time when Germany gave as one of the chief reasons why England could not go to war  -- The activities of Mrs Pankhurst & her cohort of wild women ----Mrs Pankhurst had a wide reputation over the world, as its most dangerous fanatic – I remember a suffrage campaign in Northern Connecticut, several years ago, where we could not find a village so small, nor an audience so ignorant  that Mrs Pankhurt’s name was not flung around as a taunt & a rejection of our pleas – The forces of Revolution & Radicalism claimed Mrs Pankhurst  for their own ---- When she came to the United States, curious crowds filled Carnegie Hall & Madison Square Gardens to see this woman who chained herself to iron bars , & starved in prision & sent her followers out on errands of incendiarism & wholesale destruction  -- Now Mrs Pankhurst is in this country as spokeswoman for the strongest agent of law & order in the world --- She is here to work for the war, but she has words to say about other things than war. She is strangely serene, except when you mention Russia  & Ellen Kay --- She looks well & happy & many years younger than when she came on errands of militant propagand ---- she has much to say about Radicals & Agitators for instance – I asked her about the socialists & labour men in England & their probable influence on matters of peace & reconstruction --- She swept them aside -- ”What use are these people? She said. All they do is talk, talk, talk, & agitate & oppose -- They have no power & they are fit to have no power --- They are impractical, these rebels. They could not govern or take responsibility if they had the chance --- They talk about conferences with"""
"""In 1916 one of the tasks of the second Mrs Hardy was to read aloud in the evenings at their Dorchester home, Max Gate, to the old great man whom she so carefully tended.  It was difficult to know what he would and wouldn't like [...] but he took to """"""""The Farmer's Bride""""""""'."""
"""I started reading my inscribed copy [of """"""""Mr Perrin and Mr Traill""""""""] straight away. How well (and freshly) all this is done!' [Hence follow four more lines of appreciative comment.]"""
""" ... in 1917-18, when he was 90, Sir Edward Fry asked his wife and daughters to read Lockhart's """"""""Life of Scott"""""""" to him to take his mind off the Great War, which, as a Quaker, he abhorred -- """"""""and for many hours every day ... to all ten volumes ... he listened in the last winter of his life.""""""""'"""
"""Recorded in diary of Lady Cynthia Asquith, 15 January 1918: 'The Professor [of English Literature at Oxford, Sir Walter Raleigh] has just re-discovered Dickens -- having not touched him for years and approached him critically, he has now found himself caught up in a flame of love and admiration ...'"""
""" ... in Egypt during the Great War [E. M.] Forster applied himself to read [Henry] James.  Struggling with What Maisie Knew (1897), he rather thought that """"""""she is my very limit ...""""""""'"""
"""Bonar Law told him that """"""""his sister had been a very great admirer"""""""", but that since this book she had """"""""done with"""""""" him.'"""
"""[Sydney] Cockerell [...] busied himself with sending """"""""The Farmer's Bride"""""""" to everyone he could think of [...] Wilfred Scawen Blunt [...] found the situations in Charlotte [Mew]'s poems puzzling and questioned their """"""""sexual sincerity"""""""".  Siegfried Sassoon was captivated at once and remained her faithful reader always.  A. E. Housman [...] liked the little book, although he complained [in letter of 9 September 1918] that, like most female poets, Miss Mew put in ornament that did not suit the speaker.' """
"""[Sydney] Cockerell [...] busied himself with sending """"""""The Farmer's Bride"""""""" to everyone he could think of [...] Wilfred Scawen Blunt [...] found the situations in Charlotte [Mew]'s poems puzzling and questioned their """"""""sexual sincerity"""""""".  Siegfried Sassoon was captivated at once and remained her faithful reader always.  A. E. Housman [...] liked the little book, although he complained [in letter of 9 September 1918] that, like most female poets, Miss Mew put in ornament that did not suit the speaker.' """
"""The magazines, when more demanding than the """"""""Tatler"""""""", still belonged to the Conservative variety, such as the weekly """"""""Times"""""""", the """"""""Spectator"""""""" and """"""""Blackwood's"""""""", so that my impression of the winter's most significant events - the Bolshevik November coup d'etat two months after the proclamation of the Russian Republic, and the final act at Brest Litovsk on March 2nd, 1918, following the complete collapse of the Russian armies - was inevitably onesided.' """
"""[letter from General Hastings Anderson to Janet Trevelyan] What strikes me most in your mother's book [""""""""Fields of Victory""""""""] is her marvellous insight into the way of thinking of the soldiers - I mean those who knew most of what was really happening - who were actually engaged in the great struggle. One would say the book was written by one who had played a prominent part in the War in France, and with knowledge of the thoughts of the high directing staffs'."""
"""Alan taught himself to read in  about thee weeks from a book called <i>Reading without Tears</i>.'"""
"""The only  books he had were little nature-study notebooks, supplemented by  his mother reading <i>The Pilgrim's Progress</i> aloud. Once she cheated by leaving out a long theological dissertation, but that made him very cross. """"""""You spoil the <i>whole thing</i>"""""""" he shouted, and ran up to his bedroom.'"""
"""Her first WEA summer scool at the end of the First World War, was """"""""a new and undreamt-of experience... We argued over Wilson's Fourteen Points and in literary sessions read and explored Browning's poems. It was a strange joy to browse overthe niceties of Bishop Blougram's Apology or to delve into the intricacies of The Ring and the Book... It was a month of almost complete happiness; a pinnacle of joy never to be quite reached again"""""""".'"""
"""Her first WEA summer school at the end of the First World War, was """"""""a new and undreamt-of experience... We argued over Wilson's Fourteen Points and in literary sessions read and explored Browning's poems. It was a strange joy to browse overthe niceties of Bishop Blougram's Apology or to delve into the intricacies of The Ring and the Book... It was a month of almost complete happiness; a pinnacle of joy never to be quite reached again"""""""".'"""
"""However many times [Hugh] Walpole read Scott, he never ceased to be moved, as in 1918, when he """"""""read a little Heart of Midlothian and actually wept, at my age too, over Jeanie's meeting with the Queen ...""""""""'"""
"""[Sydney] Cockerell [...] busied himself with sending """"""""The Farmer's Bride"""""""" to everyone he could think of [...] Wilfred Scawen Blunt [...] found the situations in Charlotte [Mew]'s poems puzzling and questioned their """"""""sexual sincerity"""""""".  Siegfried Sassoon was captivated at once and remained her faithful reader always.  A. E. Housman [...] liked the little book, although he complained [in letter of 9 September 1918] that, like most female poets, Miss Mew put in ornament that did not suit the speaker.' """
"""I have just read """"""""Mrs. Pankhurst's Own Story"""""""" and Mrs. Swanwick's autobiography, """"""""I have been Young"""""""". Both books show that by this time there was a tremendous demand on the part of women for the franchise'."""
"""Fortunately for me, about this time I read two books by Joseph Macabe, an ex-Catholic priest, """"""""The Religion of Women"""""""" and """"""""Women in Political Evolution"""""""", which I still think are the finest ever written on the subject. They are like a film showing women's life throughout the ages, our faults and our virtues, and the economic reasons for our inferiority before the law.'"""
"""Fortunately for me, about this time I read two books by Joseph Macabe, an ex-Catholic priest, """"""""The Religion of Women"""""""" and """"""""Women in Political Evolution"""""""", which I still think are the finest ever written on the subject. They are like a film showing women's life throughout the ages, our faults and our virtues, and the economic reasons for our inferiority before the law.'"""
"""[A Sheffield Survey organised by Arnold Freeman in 1918, assessing 816 manual workers, gives the following case:] 'Private in an infantry regiment, formerly a skilled painter, age eighteen. Spends evenings painting, reading, working on model airplanes. Has attended art school....Patronizes Free Library. Has read The Pickwick Papers, The Old Curiosity Shop, David Copperfield, Bulwer Lytton, Ballantyne, Henty, Robinson Crusoe, Quentin Dirward, Ivanhoe, Waverley, Kidnapped, Treasure Island and Two Years before the Mast, as well as the travels of David Livingstone, Fridtjof Nansen, Matthew Peary and Scott of the Antarctic'."""
"""[A Sheffield Survey organised by Arnold Freeman in 1918, assessing 816 manual workers, gives the following case:] 'Private in an infantry regiment, formerly a skilled painter, age eighteen. Spends evenings painting, reading, working on model airplanes. Has attended art school....Patronizes Free Library. Has read The Pickwick Papers, The Old Curiosity Shop, David Copperfield, Bulwer Lytton, Ballantyne, Henty, Robinson Crusoe, Quentin Dirward, Ivanhoe, Waverley, Kidnapped, Treasure Island and Two Years before the Mast, as well as the travels of David Livingstone, Fridtjof Nansen, Matthew Peary and Scott of the Antarctic'."""
"""[A Sheffield Survey organised by Arnold Freeman in 1918, assessing 816 manual workers, gives the following case:] 'Private in an infantry regiment, formerly a skilled painter, age eighteen. Spends evenings painting, reading, working on model airplanes. Has attended art school....Patronizes Free Library. Has read The Pickwick Papers, The Old Curiosity Shop, David Copperfield, Bulwer Lytton, Ballantyne, Henty, Robinson Crusoe, Quentin Dirward, Ivanhoe, Waverley, Kidnapped, Treasure Island and Two Years before the Mast, as well as the travels of David Livingstone, Fridtjof Nansen, Matthew Peary and Scott of the Antarctic'."""
"""[A Sheffield Survey organised by Arnold Freeman in 1918, assessing 816 manual workers, gives the following case:] 'Private in an infantry regiment, formerly a skilled painter, age eighteen. Spends evenings painting, reading, working on model airplanes. Has attended art school....Patronizes Free Library. Has read The Pickwick Papers, The Old Curiosity Shop, David Copperfield, Bulwer Lytton, Ballantyne, Henty, Robinson Crusoe, Quentin Dirward, Ivanhoe, Waverley, Kidnapped, Treasure Island and Two Years before the Mast, as well as the travels of David Livingstone, Fridtjof Nansen, Matthew Peary and Scott of the Antarctic'."""
"""[A Sheffield Survey organised by Arnold Freeman in 1918, assessing 816 manual workers, gives the following case:] 'Private in an infantry regiment, formerly a skilled painter, age eighteen. Spends evenings painting, reading, working on model airplanes. Has attended art school....Patronizes Free Library. Has read The Pickwick Papers, The Old Curiosity Shop, David Copperfield, Bulwer Lytton, Ballantyne, Henty, Robinson Crusoe, Quentin Dirward, Ivanhoe, Waverley, Kidnapped, Treasure Island and Two Years before the Mast, as well as the travels of David Livingstone, Fridtjof Nansen, Matthew Peary and Scott of the Antarctic'."""
"""[A Sheffield Survey organised by Arnold Freeman in 1918, assessing 816 manual workers, gives the following case:] 'Private in an infantry regiment, formerly a skilled painter, age eighteen. Spends evenings painting, reading, working on model airplanes. Has attended art school....Patronizes Free Library. Has read The Pickwick Papers, The Old Curiosity Shop, David Copperfield, Bulwer Lytton, Ballantyne, Henty, Robinson Crusoe, Quentin Dirward, Ivanhoe, Waverley, Kidnapped, Treasure Island and Two Years before the Mast, as well as the travels of David Livingstone, Fridtjof Nansen, Matthew Peary and Scott of the Antarctic'."""
"""[A Sheffield Survey organised by Arnold Freeman in 1918, assessing 816 manual workers, gives the following case:] 'Private in an infantry regiment, formerly a skilled painter, age eighteen. Spends evenings painting, reading, working on model airplanes. Has attended art school....Patronizes Free Library. Has read The Pickwick Papers, The Old Curiosity Shop, David Copperfield, Bulwer Lytton, Ballantyne, Henty, Robinson Crusoe, Quentin Dirward, Ivanhoe, Waverley, Kidnapped, Treasure Island and Two Years before the Mast, as well as the travels of David Livingstone, Fridtjof Nansen, Matthew Peary and Scott of the Antarctic'."""
"""[A Sheffield Survey organised by Arnold Freeman in 1918, assessing 816 manual workers, gives the following case:] 'Private in an infantry regiment, formerly a skilled painter, age eighteen. Spends evenings painting, reading, working on model airplanes. Has attended art school....Patronizes Free Library. Has read The Pickwick Papers, The Old Curiosity Shop, David Copperfield, Bulwer Lytton, Ballantyne, Henty, Robinson Crusoe, Quentin Dirward, Ivanhoe, Waverley, Kidnapped, Treasure Island and Two Years before the Mast, as well as the travels of David Livingstone, Fridtjof Nansen, Matthew Peary and Scott of the Antarctic'."""
"""[A Sheffield Survey organised by Arnold Freeman in 1918, assessing 816 manual workers, gives the following case:] 'Private in an infantry regiment, formerly a skilled painter, age eighteen. Spends evenings painting, reading, working on model airplanes. Has attended art school....Patronizes Free Library. Has read The Pickwick Papers, The Old Curiosity Shop, David Copperfield, Bulwer Lytton, Ballantyne, Henty, Robinson Crusoe, Quentin Dirward, Ivanhoe, Waverley, Kidnapped, Treasure Island and Two Years before the Mast, as well as the travels of David Livingstone, Fridtjof Nansen, Matthew Peary and Scott of the Antarctic'."""
"""[A Sheffield Survey organised by Arnold Freeman in 1918, assessing 816 manual workers, gives the following case:] 'Private in an infantry regiment, formerly a skilled painter, age eighteen. Spends evenings painting, reading, working on model airplanes. Has attended art school....Patronizes Free Library. Has read The Pickwick Papers, The Old Curiosity Shop, David Copperfield, Bulwer Lytton, Ballantyne, Henty, Robinson Crusoe, Quentin Dirward, Ivanhoe, Waverley, Kidnapped, Treasure Island and Two Years before the Mast, as well as the travels of David Livingstone, Fridtjof Nansen, Matthew Peary and Scott of the Antarctic'."""
"""[A Sheffield Survey organised by Arnold Freeman in 1918, assessing 816 manual workers, gives the following case:] 'Private in an infantry regiment, formerly a skilled painter, age eighteen. Spends evenings painting, reading, working on model airplanes. Has attended art school....Patronizes Free Library. Has read The Pickwick Papers, The Old Curiosity Shop, David Copperfield, Bulwer Lytton, Ballantyne, Henty, Robinson Crusoe, Quentin Dirward, Ivanhoe, Waverley, Kidnapped, Treasure Island and Two Years before the Mast, as well as the travels of David Livingstone, Fridtjof Nansen, Matthew Peary and Scott of the Antarctic'."""
"""[A Sheffield Survey organised by Arnold Freeman in 1918, assessing 816 manual workers, gives the following case:] 'Private in an infantry regiment, formerly a skilled painter, age eighteen. Spends evenings painting, reading, working on model airplanes. Has attended art school....Patronizes Free Library. Has read The Pickwick Papers, The Old Curiosity Shop, David Copperfield, Bulwer Lytton, Ballantyne, Henty, Robinson Crusoe, Quentin Dirward, Ivanhoe, Waverley, Kidnapped, Treasure Island and Two Years before the Mast, as well as the travels of David Livingstone, Fridtjof Nansen, Matthew Peary and Scott of the Antarctic'."""
"""[A Sheffield Survey organised by Arnold Freeman in 1918, assessing 816 manual workers, gives the following case:] 'Private in an infantry regiment, formerly a skilled painter, age eighteen. Spends evenings painting, reading, working on model airplanes. Has attended art school....Patronizes Free Library. Has read The Pickwick Papers, The Old Curiosity Shop, David Copperfield, Bulwer Lytton, Ballantyne, Henty, Robinson Crusoe, Quentin Dirward, Ivanhoe, Waverley, Kidnapped, Treasure Island and Two Years before the Mast, as well as the travels of David Livingstone, Fridtjof Nansen, Matthew Peary and Scott of the Antarctic'."""
"""[A Sheffield Survey organised by Arnold Freeman in 1918, assessing 816 manual workers, gives the following case:] 'Private in an infantry regiment, formerly a skilled painter, age eighteen. Spends evenings painting, reading, working on model airplanes. Has attended art school....Patronizes Free Library. Has read The Pickwick Papers, The Old Curiosity Shop, David Copperfield, Bulwer Lytton, Ballantyne, Henty, Robinson Crusoe, Quentin Dirward, Ivanhoe, Waverley, Kidnapped, Treasure Island and Two Years before the Mast, as well as the travels of David Livingstone, Fridtjof Nansen, Matthew Peary and Scott of the Antarctic'."""
"""[A Sheffield Survey organised by Arnold Freeman in 1918, assessing 816 manual workers, gives the following case:] 'Private in an infantry regiment, formerly a skilled painter, age eighteen. Spends evenings painting, reading, working on model airplanes. Has attended art school....Patronizes Free Library. Has read The Pickwick Papers, The Old Curiosity Shop, David Copperfield, Bulwer Lytton, Ballantyne, Henty, Robinson Crusoe, Quentin Dirward, Ivanhoe, Waverley, Kidnapped, Treasure Island and Two Years before the Mast, as well as the travels of David Livingstone, Fridtjof Nansen, Matthew Peary and Scott of the Antarctic'."""
"""[A Sheffield Survey organised by Arnold Freeman in 1918, assessing 816 manual workers, gives the following case:] 'Private in an infantry regiment, formerly a skilled painter, age eighteen. Spends evenings painting, reading, working on model airplanes. Has attended art school....Patronizes Free Library. Has read The Pickwick Papers, The Old Curiosity Shop, David Copperfield, Bulwer Lytton, Ballantyne, Henty, Robinson Crusoe, Quentin Dirward, Ivanhoe, Waverley, Kidnapped, Treasure Island and Two Years before the Mast, as well as the travels of David Livingstone, Fridtjof Nansen, Matthew Peary and Scott of the Antarctic'."""
"""[A Sheffield Survey organised by Arnold Freeman in 1918, assessing 816 manual workers, gives the following case:] 'Private in an infantry regiment, formerly a skilled painter, age eighteen. Spends evenings painting, reading, working on model airplanes. Has attended art school....Patronizes Free Library. Has read The Pickwick Papers, The Old Curiosity Shop, David Copperfield, Bulwer Lytton, Ballantyne, Henty, Robinson Crusoe, Quentin Dirward, Ivanhoe, Waverley, Kidnapped, Treasure Island and Two Years before the Mast, as well as the travels of David Livingstone, Fridtjof Nansen, Matthew Peary and Scott of the Antarctic'."""
"""[A Sheffield Survey organised by Arnold Freeman in 1918, assessing 816 manual workers, gives the following case:] 'Engine tenter, age twenty-seven...Often attends operas...Methodically building up a personal library following the guidelines of Arnold Bennett's Literary Taste. Has read the Bible, Shakespeare (The Merchant of Venice, Julius Caesar, The Tempest, Much Ado about Nothing), Pope, Tennyson, Masefield, Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Emerson, William Morris, most of Ruskin, Dickens (Nicholas Nickleby, David Copperfield, Oliver Twist, A Tale of Two Cities, The Old Curiosity Shop, A Christmas Carol), The Cloister and the Hearth, GK Chesterton, Bernard Shaw (Major Barbara, John Bull's Other Island, The Doctor's Dilemma, Man and Superman, The Shewing up of Blanco Posnet, The Devil's Disciple, You Never Can Tell, Socialism and Superior Brains, Fabian Essays, An Unsocial Socialist, The Irrational Knot), John Galsworthy, about a dozen books by H.G. Wells and perhaps twenty by Bennett, Sidney and Beatrice Webb's Industrial Democracy and other books on trade unionism, Sir Oliver Lodge, Edward Carpenter's Towards Democracy and The Intermediate Sex, J.A. Hobson and Alfred Marshall on Economics and Plato's Republic'."""
"""[A Sheffield Survey organised by Arnold Freeman in 1918, assessing 816 manual workers, gives the following case:] 'Engine tenter, age twenty-seven...Often attends operas...Methodically building up a personal library following the guidelines of Arnold Bennett's Literary Taste. Has read the Bible, Shakespeare (The Merchant of Venice, Julius Caesar, The Tempest, Much Ado about Nothing), Pope, Tennyson, Masefield, Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Emerson, William Morris, most of Ruskin, Dickens (Nicholas Nickleby, David Copperfield, Oliver Twist, A Tale of Two Cities, The Old Curiosity Shop, A Christmas Carol), The Cloister and the Hearth, GK Chesterton, Bernard Shaw (Major Barbara, John Bull's Other Island, The Doctor's Dilemma, Man and Superman, The Shewing up of Blanco Posnet, The Devil's Disciple, You Never Can Tell, Socialism and Superior Brains, Fabian Essays, An Unsocial Socialist, The Irrational Knot), John Galsworthy, about a dozen books by H.G. Wells and perhaps twenty by Bennett, Sidney and Beatrice Webb's Industrial Democracy and other books on trade unionism, Sir Oliver Lodge, Edward Carpenter's Towards Democracy and The Intermediate Sex, J.A. Hobson and Alfred Marshall on Economics and Plato's Republic'."""
"""[A Sheffield Survey organised by Arnold Freeman in 1918, assessing 816 manual workers, gives the following case:] 'Engine tenter, age twenty-seven...Often attends operas...Methodically building up a personal library following the guidelines of Arnold Bennett's Literary Taste. Has read the Bible, Shakespeare (The Merchant of Venice, Julius Caesar, The Tempest, Much Ado about Nothing), Pope, Tennyson, Masefield, Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Emerson, William Morris, most of Ruskin, Dickens (Nicholas Nickleby, David Copperfield, Oliver Twist, A Tale of Two Cities, The Old Curiosity Shop, A Christmas Carol), The Cloister and the Hearth, GK Chesterton, Bernard Shaw (Major Barbara, John Bull's Other Island, The Doctor's Dilemma, Man and Superman, The Shewing up of Blanco Posnet, The Devil's Disciple, You Never Can Tell, Socialism and Superior Brains, Fabian Essays, An Unsocial Socialist, The Irrational Knot), John Galsworthy, about a dozen books by H.G. Wells and perhaps twenty by Bennett, Sidney and Beatrice Webb's Industrial Democracy and other books on trade unionism, Sir Oliver Lodge, Edward Carpenter's Towards Democracy and The Intermediate Sex, J.A. Hobson and Alfred Marshall on Economics and Plato's Republic'."""
"""[A Sheffield Survey organised by Arnold Freeman in 1918, assessing 816 manual workers, gives the following case:] 'Engine tenter, age twenty-seven...Often attends operas...Methodically building up a personal library following the guidelines of Arnold Bennett's Literary Taste. Has read the Bible, Shakespeare (The Merchant of Venice, Julius Caesar, The Tempest, Much Ado about Nothing), Pope, Tennyson, Masefield, Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Emerson, William Morris, most of Ruskin, Dickens (Nicholas Nickleby, David Copperfield, Oliver Twist, A Tale of Two Cities, The Old Curiosity Shop, A Christmas Carol), The Cloister and the Hearth, GK Chesterton, Bernard Shaw (Major Barbara, John Bull's Other Island, The Doctor's Dilemma, Man and Superman, The Shewing up of Blanco Posnet, The Devil's Disciple, You Never Can Tell, Socialism and Superior Brains, Fabian Essays, An Unsocial Socialist, The Irrational Knot), John Galsworthy, about a dozen books by H.G. Wells and perhaps twenty by Bennett, Sidney and Beatrice Webb's Industrial Democracy and other books on trade unionism, Sir Oliver Lodge, Edward Carpenter's Towards Democracy and The Intermediate Sex, J.A. Hobson and Alfred Marshall on Economics and Plato's Republic'."""
"""[A Sheffield Survey organised by Arnold Freeman in 1918, assessing 816 manual workers, gives the following case:] 'Engine tenter, age twenty-seven...Often attends operas...Methodically building up a personal library following the guidelines of Arnold Bennett's Literary Taste. Has read the Bible, Shakespeare (The Merchant of Venice, Julius Caesar, The Tempest, Much Ado about Nothing), Pope, Tennyson, Masefield, Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Emerson, William Morris, most of Ruskin, Dickens (Nicholas Nickleby, David Copperfield, Oliver Twist, A Tale of Two Cities, The Old Curiosity Shop, A Christmas Carol), The Cloister and the Hearth, GK Chesterton, Bernard Shaw (Major Barbara, John Bull's Other Island, The Doctor's Dilemma, Man and Superman, The Shewing up of Blanco Posnet, The Devil's Disciple, You Never Can Tell, Socialism and Superior Brains, Fabian Essays, An Unsocial Socialist, The Irrational Knot), John Galsworthy, about a dozen books by H.G. Wells and perhaps twenty by Bennett, Sidney and Beatrice Webb's Industrial Democracy and other books on trade unionism, Sir Oliver Lodge, Edward Carpenter's Towards Democracy and The Intermediate Sex, J.A. Hobson and Alfred Marshall on Economics and Plato's Republic'."""
"""[A Sheffield Survey organised by Arnold Freeman in 1918, assessing 816 manual workers, gives the following case:] 'Engine tenter, age twenty-seven...Often attends operas...Methodically building up a personal library following the guidelines of Arnold Bennett's Literary Taste. Has read the Bible, Shakespeare (The Merchant of Venice, Julius Caesar, The Tempest, Much Ado about Nothing), Pope, Tennyson, Masefield, Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Emerson, William Morris, most of Ruskin, Dickens (Nicholas Nickleby, David Copperfield, Oliver Twist, A Tale of Two Cities, The Old Curiosity Shop, A Christmas Carol), The Cloister and the Hearth, GK Chesterton, Bernard Shaw (Major Barbara, John Bull's Other Island, The Doctor's Dilemma, Man and Superman, The Shewing up of Blanco Posnet, The Devil's Disciple, You Never Can Tell, Socialism and Superior Brains, Fabian Essays, An Unsocial Socialist, The Irrational Knot), John Galsworthy, about a dozen books by H.G. Wells and perhaps twenty by Bennett, Sidney and Beatrice Webb's Industrial Democracy and other books on trade unionism, Sir Oliver Lodge, Edward Carpenter's Towards Democracy and The Intermediate Sex, J.A. Hobson and Alfred Marshall on Economics and Plato's Republic'."""
"""[A Sheffield Survey organised by Arnold Freeman in 1918, assessing 816 manual workers, gives the following case:] 'Engine tenter, age twenty-seven...Often attends operas...Methodically building up a personal library following the guidelines of Arnold Bennett's Literary Taste. Has read the Bible, Shakespeare (The Merchant of Venice, Julius Caesar, The Tempest, Much Ado about Nothing), Pope, Tennyson, Masefield, Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Emerson, William Morris, most of Ruskin, Dickens (Nicholas Nickleby, David Copperfield, Oliver Twist, A Tale of Two Cities, The Old Curiosity Shop, A Christmas Carol), The Cloister and the Hearth, GK Chesterton, Bernard Shaw (Major Barbara, John Bull's Other Island, The Doctor's Dilemma, Man and Superman, The Shewing up of Blanco Posnet, The Devil's Disciple, You Never Can Tell, Socialism and Superior Brains, Fabian Essays, An Unsocial Socialist, The Irrational Knot), John Galsworthy, about a dozen books by H.G. Wells and perhaps twenty by Bennett, Sidney and Beatrice Webb's Industrial Democracy and other books on trade unionism, Sir Oliver Lodge, Edward Carpenter's Towards Democracy and The Intermediate Sex, J.A. Hobson and Alfred Marshall on Economics and Plato's Republic'."""
"""[A Sheffield Survey organised by Arnold Freeman in 1918, assessing 816 manual workers, gives the following case:] 'Engine tenter, age twenty-seven...Often attends operas...Methodically building up a personal library following the guidelines of Arnold Bennett's Literary Taste. Has read the Bible, Shakespeare (The Merchant of Venice, Julius Caesar, The Tempest, Much Ado about Nothing), Pope, Tennyson, Masefield, Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Emerson, William Morris, most of Ruskin, Dickens (Nicholas Nickleby, David Copperfield, Oliver Twist, A Tale of Two Cities, The Old Curiosity Shop, A Christmas Carol), The Cloister and the Hearth, GK Chesterton, Bernard Shaw (Major Barbara, John Bull's Other Island, The Doctor's Dilemma, Man and Superman, The Shewing up of Blanco Posnet, The Devil's Disciple, You Never Can Tell, Socialism and Superior Brains, Fabian Essays, An Unsocial Socialist, The Irrational Knot), John Galsworthy, about a dozen books by H.G. Wells and perhaps twenty by Bennett, Sidney and Beatrice Webb's Industrial Democracy and other books on trade unionism, Sir Oliver Lodge, Edward Carpenter's Towards Democracy and The Intermediate Sex, J.A. Hobson and Alfred Marshall on Economics and Plato's Republic'."""
"""[A Sheffield Survey organised by Arnold Freeman in 1918, assessing 816 manual workers, gives the following case:] 'Engine tenter, age twenty-seven...Often attends operas...Methodically building up a personal library following the guidelines of Arnold Bennett's Literary Taste. Has read the Bible, Shakespeare (The Merchant of Venice, Julius Caesar, The Tempest, Much Ado about Nothing), Pope, Tennyson, Masefield, Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Emerson, William Morris, most of Ruskin, Dickens (Nicholas Nickleby, David Copperfield, Oliver Twist, A Tale of Two Cities, The Old Curiosity Shop, A Christmas Carol), The Cloister and the Hearth, GK Chesterton, Bernard Shaw (Major Barbara, John Bull's Other Island, The Doctor's Dilemma, Man and Superman, The Shewing up of Blanco Posnet, The Devil's Disciple, You Never Can Tell, Socialism and Superior Brains, Fabian Essays, An Unsocial Socialist, The Irrational Knot), John Galsworthy, about a dozen books by H.G. Wells and perhaps twenty by Bennett, Sidney and Beatrice Webb's Industrial Democracy and other books on trade unionism, Sir Oliver Lodge, Edward Carpenter's Towards Democracy and The Intermediate Sex, J.A. Hobson and Alfred Marshall on Economics and Plato's Republic'."""
"""[A Sheffield Survey organised by Arnold Freeman in 1918, assessing 816 manual workers, gives the following case:] 'Engine tenter, age twenty-seven...Often attends operas...Methodically building up a personal library following the guidelines of Arnold Bennett's Literary Taste. Has read the Bible, Shakespeare (The Merchant of Venice, Julius Caesar, The Tempest, Much Ado about Nothing), Pope, Tennyson, Masefield, Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Emerson, William Morris, most of Ruskin, Dickens (Nicholas Nickleby, David Copperfield, Oliver Twist, A Tale of Two Cities, The Old Curiosity Shop, A Christmas Carol), The Cloister and the Hearth, GK Chesterton, Bernard Shaw (Major Barbara, John Bull's Other Island, The Doctor's Dilemma, Man and Superman, The Shewing up of Blanco Posnet, The Devil's Disciple, You Never Can Tell, Socialism and Superior Brains, Fabian Essays, An Unsocial Socialist, The Irrational Knot), John Galsworthy, about a dozen books by H.G. Wells and perhaps twenty by Bennett, Sidney and Beatrice Webb's Industrial Democracy and other books on trade unionism, Sir Oliver Lodge, Edward Carpenter's Towards Democracy and The Intermediate Sex, J.A. Hobson and Alfred Marshall on Economics and Plato's Republic'."""
"""[A Sheffield Survey organised by Arnold Freeman in 1918, assessing 816 manual workers, gives the following case:] 'Engine tenter, age twenty-seven...Often attends operas...Methodically building up a personal library following the guidelines of Arnold Bennett's Literary Taste. Has read the Bible, Shakespeare (The Merchant of Venice, Julius Caesar, The Tempest, Much Ado about Nothing), Pope, Tennyson, Masefield, Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Emerson, William Morris, most of Ruskin, Dickens (Nicholas Nickleby, David Copperfield, Oliver Twist, A Tale of Two Cities, The Old Curiosity Shop, A Christmas Carol), The Cloister and the Hearth, GK Chesterton, Bernard Shaw (Major Barbara, John Bull's Other Island, The Doctor's Dilemma, Man and Superman, The Shewing up of Blanco Posnet, The Devil's Disciple, You Never Can Tell, Socialism and Superior Brains, Fabian Essays, An Unsocial Socialist, The Irrational Knot), John Galsworthy, about a dozen books by H.G. Wells and perhaps twenty by Bennett, Sidney and Beatrice Webb's Industrial Democracy and other books on trade unionism, Sir Oliver Lodge, Edward Carpenter's Towards Democracy and The Intermediate Sex, J.A. Hobson and Alfred Marshall on Economics and Plato's Republic'."""
"""[A Sheffield Survey organised by Arnold Freeman in 1918, assessing 816 manual workers, gives the following case:] 'Engine tenter, age twenty-seven...Often attends operas...Methodically building up a personal library following the guidelines of Arnold Bennett's Literary Taste. Has read the Bible, Shakespeare (The Merchant of Venice, Julius Caesar, The Tempest, Much Ado about Nothing), Pope, Tennyson, Masefield, Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Emerson, William Morris, most of Ruskin, Dickens (Nicholas Nickleby, David Copperfield, Oliver Twist, A Tale of Two Cities, The Old Curiosity Shop, A Christmas Carol), The Cloister and the Hearth, GK Chesterton, Bernard Shaw (Major Barbara, John Bull's Other Island, The Doctor's Dilemma, Man and Superman, The Shewing up of Blanco Posnet, The Devil's Disciple, You Never Can Tell, Socialism and Superior Brains, Fabian Essays, An Unsocial Socialist, The Irrational Knot), John Galsworthy, about a dozen books by H.G. Wells and perhaps twenty by Bennett, Sidney and Beatrice Webb's Industrial Democracy and other books on trade unionism, Sir Oliver Lodge, Edward Carpenter's Towards Democracy and The Intermediate Sex, J.A. Hobson and Alfred Marshall on Economics and Plato's Republic'."""
"""[A Sheffield Survey organised by Arnold Freeman in 1918, assessing 816 manual workers, gives the following case:] 'Engine tenter, age twenty-seven...Often attends operas...Methodically building up a personal library following the guidelines of Arnold Bennett's Literary Taste. Has read the Bible, Shakespeare (The Merchant of Venice, Julius Caesar, The Tempest, Much Ado about Nothing), Pope, Tennyson, Masefield, Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Emerson, William Morris, most of Ruskin, Dickens (Nicholas Nickleby, David Copperfield, Oliver Twist, A Tale of Two Cities, The Old Curiosity Shop, A Christmas Carol), The Cloister and the Hearth, GK Chesterton, Bernard Shaw (Major Barbara, John Bull's Other Island, The Doctor's Dilemma, Man and Superman, The Shewing up of Blanco Posnet, The Devil's Disciple, You Never Can Tell, Socialism and Superior Brains, Fabian Essays, An Unsocial Socialist, The Irrational Knot), John Galsworthy, about a dozen books by H.G. Wells and perhaps twenty by Bennett, Sidney and Beatrice Webb's Industrial Democracy and other books on trade unionism, Sir Oliver Lodge, Edward Carpenter's Towards Democracy and The Intermediate Sex, J.A. Hobson and Alfred Marshall on Economics and Plato's Republic'."""
"""[A Sheffield Survey organised by Arnold Freeman in 1918, assessing 816 manual workers, gives the following case:] 'Engine tenter, age twenty-seven...Often attends operas...Methodically building up a personal library following the guidelines of Arnold Bennett's Literary Taste. Has read the Bible, Shakespeare (The Merchant of Venice, Julius Caesar, The Tempest, Much Ado about Nothing), Pope, Tennyson, Masefield, Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Emerson, William Morris, most of Ruskin, Dickens (Nicholas Nickleby, David Copperfield, Oliver Twist, A Tale of Two Cities, The Old Curiosity Shop, A Christmas Carol), The Cloister and the Hearth, GK Chesterton, Bernard Shaw (Major Barbara, John Bull's Other Island, The Doctor's Dilemma, Man and Superman, The Shewing up of Blanco Posnet, The Devil's Disciple, You Never Can Tell, Socialism and Superior Brains, Fabian Essays, An Unsocial Socialist, The Irrational Knot), John Galsworthy, about a dozen books by H.G. Wells and perhaps twenty by Bennett, Sidney and Beatrice Webb's Industrial Democracy and other books on trade unionism, Sir Oliver Lodge, Edward Carpenter's Towards Democracy and The Intermediate Sex, J.A. Hobson and Alfred Marshall on Economics and Plato's Republic'."""
"""[A Sheffield Survey organised by Arnold Freeman in 1918, assessing 816 manual workers, gives the following case:] 'Engine tenter, age twenty-seven...Often attends operas...Methodically building up a personal library following the guidelines of Arnold Bennett's Literary Taste. Has read the Bible, Shakespeare (The Merchant of Venice, Julius Caesar, The Tempest, Much Ado about Nothing), Pope, Tennyson, Masefield, Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Emerson, William Morris, most of Ruskin, Dickens (Nicholas Nickleby, David Copperfield, Oliver Twist, A Tale of Two Cities, The Old Curiosity Shop, A Christmas Carol), The Cloister and the Hearth, GK Chesterton, Bernard Shaw (Major Barbara, John Bull's Other Island, The Doctor's Dilemma, Man and Superman, The Shewing up of Blanco Posnet, The Devil's Disciple, You Never Can Tell, Socialism and Superior Brains, Fabian Essays, An Unsocial Socialist, The Irrational Knot), John Galsworthy, about a dozen books by H.G. Wells and perhaps twenty by Bennett, Sidney and Beatrice Webb's Industrial Democracy and other books on trade unionism, Sir Oliver Lodge, Edward Carpenter's Towards Democracy and The Intermediate Sex, J.A. Hobson and Alfred Marshall on Economics and Plato's Republic'."""
"""[A Sheffield Survey organised by Arnold Freeman in 1918, assessing 816 manual workers, gives the following case:] 'Engine tenter, age twenty-seven...Often attends operas...Methodically building up a personal library following the guidelines of Arnold Bennett's Literary Taste. Has read the Bible, Shakespeare (The Merchant of Venice, Julius Caesar, The Tempest, Much Ado about Nothing), Pope, Tennyson, Masefield, Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Emerson, William Morris, most of Ruskin, Dickens (Nicholas Nickleby, David Copperfield, Oliver Twist, A Tale of Two Cities, The Old Curiosity Shop, A Christmas Carol), The Cloister and the Hearth, GK Chesterton, Bernard Shaw (Major Barbara, John Bull's Other Island, The Doctor's Dilemma, Man and Superman, The Shewing up of Blanco Posnet, The Devil's Disciple, You Never Can Tell, Socialism and Superior Brains, Fabian Essays, An Unsocial Socialist, The Irrational Knot), John Galsworthy, about a dozen books by H.G. Wells and perhaps twenty by Bennett, Sidney and Beatrice Webb's Industrial Democracy and other books on trade unionism, Sir Oliver Lodge, Edward Carpenter's Towards Democracy and The Intermediate Sex, J.A. Hobson and Alfred Marshall on Economics and Plato's Republic'."""
"""[A Sheffield Survey organised by Arnold Freeman in 1918, assessing 816 manual workers, gives the following case:] 'Engine tenter, age twenty-seven...Often attends operas...Methodically building up a personal library following the guidelines of Arnold Bennett's Literary Taste. Has read the Bible, Shakespeare (The Merchant of Venice, Julius Caesar, The Tempest, Much Ado about Nothing), Pope, Tennyson, Masefield, Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Emerson, William Morris, most of Ruskin, Dickens (Nicholas Nickleby, David Copperfield, Oliver Twist, A Tale of Two Cities, The Old Curiosity Shop, A Christmas Carol), The Cloister and the Hearth, GK Chesterton, Bernard Shaw (Major Barbara, John Bull's Other Island, The Doctor's Dilemma, Man and Superman, The Shewing up of Blanco Posnet, The Devil's Disciple, You Never Can Tell, Socialism and Superior Brains, Fabian Essays, An Unsocial Socialist, The Irrational Knot), John Galsworthy, about a dozen books by H.G. Wells and perhaps twenty by Bennett, Sidney and Beatrice Webb's Industrial Democracy and other books on trade unionism, Sir Oliver Lodge, Edward Carpenter's Towards Democracy and The Intermediate Sex, J.A. Hobson and Alfred Marshall on Economics and Plato's Republic'."""
"""[A Sheffield Survey organised by Arnold Freeman in 1918, assessing 816 manual workers, gives the following case:] 'Engine tenter, age twenty-seven...Often attends operas...Methodically building up a personal library following the guidelines of Arnold Bennett's Literary Taste. Has read the Bible, Shakespeare (The Merchant of Venice, Julius Caesar, The Tempest, Much Ado about Nothing), Pope, Tennyson, Masefield, Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Emerson, William Morris, most of Ruskin, Dickens (Nicholas Nickleby, David Copperfield, Oliver Twist, A Tale of Two Cities, The Old Curiosity Shop, A Christmas Carol), The Cloister and the Hearth, GK Chesterton, Bernard Shaw (Major Barbara, John Bull's Other Island, The Doctor's Dilemma, Man and Superman, The Shewing up of Blanco Posnet, The Devil's Disciple, You Never Can Tell, Socialism and Superior Brains, Fabian Essays, An Unsocial Socialist, The Irrational Knot), John Galsworthy, about a dozen books by H.G. Wells and perhaps twenty by Bennett, Sidney and Beatrice Webb's Industrial Democracy and other books on trade unionism, Sir Oliver Lodge, Edward Carpenter's Towards Democracy and The Intermediate Sex, J.A. Hobson and Alfred Marshall on Economics and Plato's Republic'."""
"""[A Sheffield Survey organised by Arnold Freeman in 1918, assessing 816 manual workers, gives the following case:] 'Engine tenter, age twenty-seven...Often attends operas...Methodically building up a personal library following the guidelines of Arnold Bennett's Literary Taste. Has read the Bible, Shakespeare (The Merchant of Venice, Julius Caesar, The Tempest, Much Ado about Nothing), Pope, Tennyson, Masefield, Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Emerson, William Morris, most of Ruskin, Dickens (Nicholas Nickleby, David Copperfield, Oliver Twist, A Tale of Two Cities, The Old Curiosity Shop, A Christmas Carol), The Cloister and the Hearth, GK Chesterton, Bernard Shaw (Major Barbara, John Bull's Other Island, The Doctor's Dilemma, Man and Superman, The Shewing up of Blanco Posnet, The Devil's Disciple, You Never Can Tell, Socialism and Superior Brains, Fabian Essays, An Unsocial Socialist, The Irrational Knot), John Galsworthy, about a dozen books by H.G. Wells and perhaps twenty by Bennett, Sidney and Beatrice Webb's Industrial Democracy and other books on trade unionism, Sir Oliver Lodge, Edward Carpenter's Towards Democracy and The Intermediate Sex, J.A. Hobson and Alfred Marshall on Economics and Plato's Republic'."""
"""[A Sheffield Survey organised by Arnold Freeman in 1918, assessing 816 manual workers, gives the following case:] 'Engine tenter, age twenty-seven...Often attends operas...Methodically building up a personal library following the guidelines of Arnold Bennett's Literary Taste. Has read the Bible, Shakespeare (The Merchant of Venice, Julius Caesar, The Tempest, Much Ado about Nothing), Pope, Tennyson, Masefield, Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Emerson, William Morris, most of Ruskin, Dickens (Nicholas Nickleby, David Copperfield, Oliver Twist, A Tale of Two Cities, The Old Curiosity Shop, A Christmas Carol), The Cloister and the Hearth, GK Chesterton, Bernard Shaw (Major Barbara, John Bull's Other Island, The Doctor's Dilemma, Man and Superman, The Shewing up of Blanco Posnet, The Devil's Disciple, You Never Can Tell, Socialism and Superior Brains, Fabian Essays, An Unsocial Socialist, The Irrational Knot), John Galsworthy, about a dozen books by H.G. Wells and perhaps twenty by Bennett, Sidney and Beatrice Webb's Industrial Democracy and other books on trade unionism, Sir Oliver Lodge, Edward Carpenter's Towards Democracy and The Intermediate Sex, J.A. Hobson and Alfred Marshall on Economics and Plato's Republic'."""
"""[A Sheffield Survey organised by Arnold Freeman in 1918, assessing 816 manual workers, gives the following case:] 'Engine tenter, age twenty-seven...Often attends operas...Methodically building up a personal library following the guidelines of Arnold Bennett's Literary Taste. Has read the Bible, Shakespeare (The Merchant of Venice, Julius Caesar, The Tempest, Much Ado about Nothing), Pope, Tennyson, Masefield, Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Emerson, William Morris, most of Ruskin, Dickens (Nicholas Nickleby, David Copperfield, Oliver Twist, A Tale of Two Cities, The Old Curiosity Shop, A Christmas Carol), The Cloister and the Hearth, GK Chesterton, Bernard Shaw (Major Barbara, John Bull's Other Island, The Doctor's Dilemma, Man and Superman, The Shewing up of Blanco Posnet, The Devil's Disciple, You Never Can Tell, Socialism and Superior Brains, Fabian Essays, An Unsocial Socialist, The Irrational Knot), John Galsworthy, about a dozen books by H.G. Wells and perhaps twenty by Bennett, Sidney and Beatrice Webb's Industrial Democracy and other books on trade unionism, Sir Oliver Lodge, Edward Carpenter's Towards Democracy and The Intermediate Sex, J.A. Hobson and Alfred Marshall on Economics and Plato's Republic'."""
"""[A Sheffield Survey organised by Arnold Freeman in 1918, assessing 816 manual workers, gives the following case:] 'Engine tenter, age twenty-seven...Often attends operas...Methodically building up a personal library following the guidelines of Arnold Bennett's Literary Taste. Has read the Bible, Shakespeare (The Merchant of Venice, Julius Caesar, The Tempest, Much Ado about Nothing), Pope, Tennyson, Masefield, Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Emerson, William Morris, most of Ruskin, Dickens (Nicholas Nickleby, David Copperfield, Oliver Twist, A Tale of Two Cities, The Old Curiosity Shop, A Christmas Carol), The Cloister and the Hearth, GK Chesterton, Bernard Shaw (Major Barbara, John Bull's Other Island, The Doctor's Dilemma, Man and Superman, The Shewing up of Blanco Posnet, The Devil's Disciple, You Never Can Tell, Socialism and Superior Brains, Fabian Essays, An Unsocial Socialist, The Irrational Knot), John Galsworthy, about a dozen books by H.G. Wells and perhaps twenty by Bennett, Sidney and Beatrice Webb's Industrial Democracy and other books on trade unionism, Sir Oliver Lodge, Edward Carpenter's Towards Democracy and The Intermediate Sex, J.A. Hobson and Alfred Marshall on Economics and Plato's Republic'."""
"""[A Sheffield Survey organised by Arnold Freeman in 1918, assessing 816 manual workers, gives the following case:] 'Engine tenter, age twenty-seven...Often attends operas...Methodically building up a personal library following the guidelines of Arnold Bennett's Literary Taste. Has read the Bible, Shakespeare (The Merchant of Venice, Julius Caesar, The Tempest, Much Ado about Nothing), Pope, Tennyson, Masefield, Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Emerson, William Morris, most of Ruskin, Dickens (Nicholas Nickleby, David Copperfield, Oliver Twist, A Tale of Two Cities, The Old Curiosity Shop, A Christmas Carol), The Cloister and the Hearth, GK Chesterton, Bernard Shaw (Major Barbara, John Bull's Other Island, The Doctor's Dilemma, Man and Superman, The Shewing up of Blanco Posnet, The Devil's Disciple, You Never Can Tell, Socialism and Superior Brains, Fabian Essays, An Unsocial Socialist, The Irrational Knot), John Galsworthy, about a dozen books by H.G. Wells and perhaps twenty by Bennett, Sidney and Beatrice Webb's Industrial Democracy and other books on trade unionism, Sir Oliver Lodge, Edward Carpenter's Towards Democracy and The Intermediate Sex, J.A. Hobson and Alfred Marshall on Economics and Plato's Republic'."""
"""[A Sheffield Survey organised by Arnold Freeman in 1918, assessing 816 manual workers, gives the following case:] 'Engine tenter, age twenty-seven...Often attends operas...Methodically building up a personal library following the guidelines of Arnold Bennett's Literary Taste. Has read the Bible, Shakespeare (The Merchant of Venice, Julius Caesar, The Tempest, Much Ado about Nothing), Pope, Tennyson, Masefield, Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Emerson, William Morris, most of Ruskin, Dickens (Nicholas Nickleby, David Copperfield, Oliver Twist, A Tale of Two Cities, The Old Curiosity Shop, A Christmas Carol), The Cloister and the Hearth, GK Chesterton, Bernard Shaw (Major Barbara, John Bull's Other Island, The Doctor's Dilemma, Man and Superman, The Shewing up of Blanco Posnet, The Devil's Disciple, You Never Can Tell, Socialism and Superior Brains, Fabian Essays, An Unsocial Socialist, The Irrational Knot), John Galsworthy, about a dozen books by H.G. Wells and perhaps twenty by Bennett, Sidney and Beatrice Webb's Industrial Democracy and other books on trade unionism, Sir Oliver Lodge, Edward Carpenter's Towards Democracy and The Intermediate Sex, J.A. Hobson and Alfred Marshall on Economics and Plato's Republic'."""
"""[A Sheffield Survey organised by Arnold Freeman in 1918, assessing 816 manual workers, gives the following case:] 'Engine tenter, age twenty-seven...Often attends operas...Methodically building up a personal library following the guidelines of Arnold Bennett's Literary Taste. Has read the Bible, Shakespeare (The Merchant of Venice, Julius Caesar, The Tempest, Much Ado about Nothing), Pope, Tennyson, Masefield, Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Emerson, William Morris, most of Ruskin, Dickens (Nicholas Nickleby, David Copperfield, Oliver Twist, A Tale of Two Cities, The Old Curiosity Shop, A Christmas Carol), The Cloister and the Hearth, GK Chesterton, Bernard Shaw (Major Barbara, John Bull's Other Island, The Doctor's Dilemma, Man and Superman, The Shewing up of Blanco Posnet, The Devil's Disciple, You Never Can Tell, Socialism and Superior Brains, Fabian Essays, An Unsocial Socialist, The Irrational Knot), John Galsworthy, about a dozen books by H.G. Wells and perhaps twenty by Bennett, Sidney and Beatrice Webb's Industrial Democracy and other books on trade unionism, Sir Oliver Lodge, Edward Carpenter's Towards Democracy and The Intermediate Sex, J.A. Hobson and Alfred Marshall on Economics and Plato's Republic'."""
"""[A Sheffield Survey organised by Arnold Freeman in 1918, assessing 816 manual workers, gives the following case:] 'Engine tenter, age twenty-seven...Often attends operas...Methodically building up a personal library following the guidelines of Arnold Bennett's Literary Taste. Has read the Bible, Shakespeare (The Merchant of Venice, Julius Caesar, The Tempest, Much Ado about Nothing), Pope, Tennyson, Masefield, Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Emerson, William Morris, most of Ruskin, Dickens (Nicholas Nickleby, David Copperfield, Oliver Twist, A Tale of Two Cities, The Old Curiosity Shop, A Christmas Carol), The Cloister and the Hearth, GK Chesterton, Bernard Shaw (Major Barbara, John Bull's Other Island, The Doctor's Dilemma, Man and Superman, The Shewing up of Blanco Posnet, The Devil's Disciple, You Never Can Tell, Socialism and Superior Brains, Fabian Essays, An Unsocial Socialist, The Irrational Knot), John Galsworthy, about a dozen books by H.G. Wells and perhaps twenty by Bennett, Sidney and Beatrice Webb's Industrial Democracy and other books on trade unionism, Sir Oliver Lodge, Edward Carpenter's Towards Democracy and The Intermediate Sex, J.A. Hobson and Alfred Marshall on Economics and Plato's Republic'."""
"""[A Sheffield Survey organised by Arnold Freeman in 1918, assessing 816 manual workers, gives the following case:] 'Engine tenter, age twenty-seven...Often attends operas...Methodically building up a personal library following the guidelines of Arnold Bennett's Literary Taste. Has read the Bible, Shakespeare (The Merchant of Venice, Julius Caesar, The Tempest, Much Ado about Nothing), Pope, Tennyson, Masefield, Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Emerson, William Morris, most of Ruskin, Dickens (Nicholas Nickleby, David Copperfield, Oliver Twist, A Tale of Two Cities, The Old Curiosity Shop, A Christmas Carol), The Cloister and the Hearth, GK Chesterton, Bernard Shaw (Major Barbara, John Bull's Other Island, The Doctor's Dilemma, Man and Superman, The Shewing up of Blanco Posnet, The Devil's Disciple, You Never Can Tell, Socialism and Superior Brains, Fabian Essays, An Unsocial Socialist, The Irrational Knot), John Galsworthy, about a dozen books by H.G. Wells and perhaps twenty by Bennett, Sidney and Beatrice Webb's Industrial Democracy and other books on trade unionism, Sir Oliver Lodge, Edward Carpenter's Towards Democracy and The Intermediate Sex, J.A. Hobson and Alfred Marshall on Economics and Plato's Republic'."""
"""[A Sheffield Survey organised by Arnold Freeman in 1918, assessing 816 manual workers, gives the following case:] 'Engine tenter, age twenty-seven...Often attends operas...Methodically building up a personal library following the guidelines of Arnold Bennett's Literary Taste. Has read the Bible, Shakespeare (The Merchant of Venice, Julius Caesar, The Tempest, Much Ado about Nothing), Pope, Tennyson, Masefield, Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Emerson, William Morris, most of Ruskin, Dickens (Nicholas Nickleby, David Copperfield, Oliver Twist, A Tale of Two Cities, The Old Curiosity Shop, A Christmas Carol), The Cloister and the Hearth, GK Chesterton, Bernard Shaw (Major Barbara, John Bull's Other Island, The Doctor's Dilemma, Man and Superman, The Shewing up of Blanco Posnet, The Devil's Disciple, You Never Can Tell, Socialism and Superior Brains, Fabian Essays, An Unsocial Socialist, The Irrational Knot), John Galsworthy, about a dozen books by H.G. Wells and perhaps twenty by Bennett, Sidney and Beatrice Webb's Industrial Democracy and other books on trade unionism, Sir Oliver Lodge, Edward Carpenter's Towards Democracy and The Intermediate Sex, J.A. Hobson and Alfred Marshall on Economics and Plato's Republic'."""
"""[A Sheffield Survey organised by Arnold Freeman in 1918, assessing 816 manual workers, gives the following case:] 'Engine tenter, age twenty-seven...Often attends operas...Methodically building up a personal library following the guidelines of Arnold Bennett's Literary Taste. Has read the Bible, Shakespeare (The Merchant of Venice, Julius Caesar, The Tempest, Much Ado about Nothing), Pope, Tennyson, Masefield, Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Emerson, William Morris, most of Ruskin, Dickens (Nicholas Nickleby, David Copperfield, Oliver Twist, A Tale of Two Cities, The Old Curiosity Shop, A Christmas Carol), The Cloister and the Hearth, GK Chesterton, Bernard Shaw (Major Barbara, John Bull's Other Island, The Doctor's Dilemma, Man and Superman, The Shewing up of Blanco Posnet, The Devil's Disciple, You Never Can Tell, Socialism and Superior Brains, Fabian Essays, An Unsocial Socialist, The Irrational Knot), John Galsworthy, about a dozen books by H.G. Wells and perhaps twenty by Bennett, Sidney and Beatrice Webb's Industrial Democracy and other books on trade unionism, Sir Oliver Lodge, Edward Carpenter's Towards Democracy and The Intermediate Sex, J.A. Hobson and Alfred Marshall on Economics and Plato's Republic'."""
"""[A Sheffield Survey organised by Arnold Freeman in 1918, assessing 816 manual workers, gives the following case:] 'Engine tenter, age twenty-seven...Often attends operas...Methodically building up a personal library following the guidelines of Arnold Bennett's Literary Taste. Has read the Bible, Shakespeare (The Merchant of Venice, Julius Caesar, The Tempest, Much Ado about Nothing), Pope, Tennyson, Masefield, Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Emerson, William Morris, most of Ruskin, Dickens (Nicholas Nickleby, David Copperfield, Oliver Twist, A Tale of Two Cities, The Old Curiosity Shop, A Christmas Carol), The Cloister and the Hearth, GK Chesterton, Bernard Shaw (Major Barbara, John Bull's Other Island, The Doctor's Dilemma, Man and Superman, The Shewing up of Blanco Posnet, The Devil's Disciple, You Never Can Tell, Socialism and Superior Brains, Fabian Essays, An Unsocial Socialist, The Irrational Knot), John Galsworthy, about a dozen books by H.G. Wells and perhaps twenty by Bennett, Sidney and Beatrice Webb's Industrial Democracy and other books on trade unionism, Sir Oliver Lodge, Edward Carpenter's Towards Democracy and The Intermediate Sex, J.A. Hobson and Alfred Marshall on Economics and Plato's Republic'."""
"""[A Sheffield Survey organised by Arnold Freeman in 1918, assessing 816 manual workers, gives the following case:] 'Engine tenter, age twenty-seven...Often attends operas...Methodically building up a personal library following the guidelines of Arnold Bennett's Literary Taste. Has read the Bible, Shakespeare (The Merchant of Venice, Julius Caesar, The Tempest, Much Ado about Nothing), Pope, Tennyson, Masefield, Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Emerson, William Morris, most of Ruskin, Dickens (Nicholas Nickleby, David Copperfield, Oliver Twist, A Tale of Two Cities, The Old Curiosity Shop, A Christmas Carol), The Cloister and the Hearth, GK Chesterton, Bernard Shaw (Major Barbara, John Bull's Other Island, The Doctor's Dilemma, Man and Superman, The Shewing up of Blanco Posnet, The Devil's Disciple, You Never Can Tell, Socialism and Superior Brains, Fabian Essays, An Unsocial Socialist, The Irrational Knot), John Galsworthy, about a dozen books by H.G. Wells and perhaps twenty by Bennett, Sidney and Beatrice Webb's Industrial Democracy and other books on trade unionism, Sir Oliver Lodge, Edward Carpenter's Towards Democracy and The Intermediate Sex, J.A. Hobson and Alfred Marshall on Economics and Plato's Republic'."""
"""[A Sheffield Survey organised by Arnold Freeman in 1918, assessing 816 manual workers, gives the following case:] 'Engine tenter, age twenty-seven...Often attends operas...Methodically building up a personal library following the guidelines of Arnold Bennett's Literary Taste. Has read the Bible, Shakespeare (The Merchant of Venice, Julius Caesar, The Tempest, Much Ado about Nothing), Pope, Tennyson, Masefield, Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Emerson, William Morris,, most of Ruskin, Dickens (Nicholas Nickleby, David Copperfield, Oliver Twist, A Tale of Two Cities, The OLd Curiosity Shop, A Christmas Carol), The Cloister and the Hearth, GK Chesterton, Bernard Shaw (Major Barbara, John Bull's Other Island, The Doctor's Dilemma, Man and Superman, The Shewing up of Blanco Posnet, The Devil's Disciple, You Never Can Tell, Socialism and Superor Brains, Fabian Essays, An Unsocial Socialist, The Irrational Knot), John Galsworthy, about a dozen books by H.G. Wells and perhaps twenty by Bennett, Sidney and Beatrice Webb's Industrial Democracy and other books on trade unionism, Sir Oliver Lodge, Edward Carpenter's Towards Democracy and The Intermediate Sex, J.A. Hobson and Alfred Marshall on Economics and Plato's Republic'."""
"""[A Sheffield Survey organised by Arnold Freeman in 1918, assessing 816 manual workers, gives the following case:] 'Engine tenter, age twenty-seven...Often attends operas...Methodically building up a personal library following the guidelines of Arnold Bennett's Literary Taste. Has read the Bible, Shakespeare (The Merchant of Venice, Julius Caesar, The Tempest, Much Ado about Nothing), Pope, Tennyson, Masefield, Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Emerson, William Morris, most of Ruskin, Dickens (Nicholas Nickleby, David Copperfield, Oliver Twist, A Tale of Two Cities, The Old Curiosity Shop, A Christmas Carol), The Cloister and the Hearth, GK Chesterton, Bernard Shaw (Major Barbara, John Bull's Other Island, The Doctor's Dilemma, Man and Superman, The Shewing up of Blanco Posnet, The Devil's Disciple, You Never Can Tell, Socialism and Superior Brains, Fabian Essays, An Unsocial Socialist, The Irrational Knot), John Galsworthy, about a dozen books by H.G. Wells and perhaps twenty by Bennett, Sidney and Beatrice Webb's Industrial Democracy and other books on trade unionism, Sir Oliver Lodge, Edward Carpenter's Towards Democracy and The Intermediate Sex, J.A. Hobson and Alfred Marshall on Economics and Plato's Republic'."""
"""[A Sheffield Survey organised by Arnold Freeman in 1918, assessing 816 manual workers, gives the following case:] 'Engine tenter, age twenty-seven...Often attends operas...Methodically building up a personal library following the guidelines of Arnold Bennett's Literary Taste. Has read the Bible, Shakespeare (The Merchant of Venice, Julius Caesar, The Tempest, Much Ado about Nothing), Pope, Tennyson, Masefield, Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Emerson, William Morris, most of Ruskin, Dickens (Nicholas Nickleby, David Copperfield, Oliver Twist, A Tale of Two Cities, The Old Curiosity Shop, A Christmas Carol), The Cloister and the Hearth, GK Chesterton, Bernard Shaw (Major Barbara, John Bull's Other Island, The Doctor's Dilemma, Man and Superman, The Shewing up of Blanco Posnet, The Devil's Disciple, You Never Can Tell, Socialism and Superior Brains, Fabian Essays, An Unsocial Socialist, The Irrational Knot), John Galsworthy, about a dozen books by H.G. Wells and perhaps twenty by Bennett, Sidney and Beatrice Webb's Industrial Democracy and other books on trade unionism, Sir Oliver Lodge, Edward Carpenter's Towards Democracy and The Intermediate Sex, J.A. Hobson and Alfred Marshall on Economics and Plato's Republic'."""
"""[A Sheffield Survey organised by Arnold Freeman in 1918, assessing 816 manual workers, gives the following case:] 'Engine tenter, age twenty-seven...Often attends operas...Methodically building up a personal library following the guidelines of Arnold Bennett's Literary Taste. Has read the Bible, Shakespeare (The Merchant of Venice, Julius Caesar, The Tempest, Much Ado about Nothing), Pope, Tennyson, Masefield, Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Emerson, William Morris, most of Ruskin, Dickens (Nicholas Nickleby, David Copperfield, Oliver Twist, A Tale of Two Cities, The Old Curiosity Shop, A Christmas Carol), The Cloister and the Hearth, GK Chesterton, Bernard Shaw (Major Barbara, John Bull's Other Island, The Doctor's Dilemma, Man and Superman, The Shewing up of Blanco Posnet, The Devil's Disciple, You Never Can Tell, Socialism and Superior Brains, Fabian Essays, An Unsocial Socialist, The Irrational Knot), John Galsworthy, about a dozen books by H.G. Wells and perhaps twenty by Bennett, Sidney and Beatrice Webb's Industrial Democracy and other books on trade unionism, Sir Oliver Lodge, Edward Carpenter's Towards Democracy and The Intermediate Sex, J.A. Hobson and Alfred Marshall on Economics and Plato's Republic'."""
"""[A Sheffield Survey organised by Arnold Freeman in 1918, assessing 816 manual workers, gives the following case:] 'Engine tenter, age twenty-seven...Often attends operas...Methodically building up a personal library following the guidelines of Arnold Bennett's Literary Taste. Has read the Bible, Shakespeare (The Merchant of Venice, Julius Caesar, The Tempest, Much Ado about Nothing), Pope, Tennyson, Masefield, Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Emerson, William Morris, most of Ruskin, Dickens (Nicholas Nickleby, David Copperfield, Oliver Twist, A Tale of Two Cities, The Old Curiosity Shop, A Christmas Carol), The Cloister and the Hearth, GK Chesterton, Bernard Shaw (Major Barbara, John Bull's Other Island, The Doctor's Dilemma, Man and Superman, The Shewing up of Blanco Posnet, The Devil's Disciple, You Never Can Tell, Socialism and Superior Brains, Fabian Essays, An Unsocial Socialist, The Irrational Knot), John Galsworthy, about a dozen books by H.G. Wells and perhaps twenty by Bennett, Sidney and Beatrice Webb's Industrial Democracy and other books on trade unionism, Sir Oliver Lodge, Edward Carpenter's Towards Democracy and The Intermediate Sex, J.A. Hobson and Alfred Marshall on Economics and Plato's Republic'."""
"""[A Sheffield Survey organised by Arnold Freeman in 1918, assessing 816 manual workers, gives the following case:] 'Engine tenter, age twenty-seven...Often attends operas...Methodically building up a personal library following the guidelines of Arnold Bennett's Literary Taste. Has read the Bible, Shakespeare (The Merchant of Venice, Julius Caesar, The Tempest, Much Ado about Nothing), Pope, Tennyson, Masefield, Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Emerson, William Morris, most of Ruskin, Dickens (Nicholas Nickleby, David Copperfield, Oliver Twist, A Tale of Two Cities, The Old Curiosity Shop, A Christmas Carol), The Cloister and the Hearth, GK Chesterton, Bernard Shaw (Major Barbara, John Bull's Other Island, The Doctor's Dilemma, Man and Superman, The Shewing up of Blanco Posnet, The Devil's Disciple, You Never Can Tell, Socialism and Superior Brains, Fabian Essays, An Unsocial Socialist, The Irrational Knot), John Galsworthy, about a dozen books by H.G. Wells and perhaps twenty by Bennett, Sidney and Beatrice Webb's Industrial Democracy and other books on trade unionism, Sir Oliver Lodge, Edward Carpenter's Towards Democracy and The Intermediate Sex, J.A. Hobson and Alfred Marshall on Economics and Plato's Republic'."""
"""[A Sheffield Survey organised by Arnold Freeman in 1918, assessing 816 manual workers, gives the following case:] 'Engine tenter, age twenty-seven...Often attends operas...Methodically building up a personal library following the guidelines of Arnold Bennett's Literary Taste. Has read the Bible, Shakespeare (The Merchant of Venice, Julius Caesar, The Tempest, Much Ado about Nothing), Pope, Tennyson, Masefield, Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Emerson, William Morris, most of Ruskin, Dickens (Nicholas Nickleby, David Copperfield, Oliver Twist, A Tale of Two Cities, The Old Curiosity Shop, A Christmas Carol), The Cloister and the Hearth, GK Chesterton, Bernard Shaw (Major Barbara, John Bull's Other Island, The Doctor's Dilemma, Man and Superman, The Shewing up of Blanco Posnet, The Devil's Disciple, You Never Can Tell, Socialism and Superior Brains, Fabian Essays, An Unsocial Socialist, The Irrational Knot), John Galsworthy, about a dozen books by H.G. Wells and perhaps twenty by Bennett, Sidney and Beatrice Webb's Industrial Democracy and other books on trade unionism, Sir Oliver Lodge, Edward Carpenter's Towards Democracy and The Intermediate Sex, J.A. Hobson and Alfred Marshall on Economics and Plato's Republic'."""
"""[A Sheffield Survey organised by Arnold Freeman in 1918, assessing 816 manual workers, gives the following case:] 'Engine tenter, age twenty-seven...Often attends operas...Methodically building up a personal library following the guidelines of Arnold Bennett's Literary Taste. Has read the Bible, Shakespeare (The Merchant of Venice, Julius Caesar, The Tempest, Much Ado about Nothing), Pope, Tennyson, Masefield, Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Emerson, William Morris, most of Ruskin, Dickens (Nicholas Nickleby, David Copperfield, Oliver Twist, A Tale of Two Cities, The Old Curiosity Shop, A Christmas Carol), The Cloister and the Hearth, GK Chesterton, Bernard Shaw (Major Barbara, John Bull's Other Island, The Doctor's Dilemma, Man and Superman, The Shewing up of Blanco Posnet, The Devil's Disciple, You Never Can Tell, Socialism and Superior Brains, Fabian Essays, An Unsocial Socialist, The Irrational Knot), John Galsworthy, about a dozen books by H.G. Wells and perhaps twenty by Bennett, Sidney and Beatrice Webb's Industrial Democracy and other books on trade unionism, Sir Oliver Lodge, Edward Carpenter's Towards Democracy and The Intermediate Sex, J.A. Hobson and Alfred Marshall on Economics and Plato's Republic'."""
"""[analysis of a female respondent in Arnold Freeman's 1918 Sheffield Survey] 'Munitions worker, age eighteen... Has read Seebohm Rowntree's """"""""Poverty"""""""" and a basic economics textbook, as well as """"""""Little Women"""""""".'"""
"""[analysis of a female respondent in Arnold Freeman's 1918 Sheffield Survey] 'Munitions worker, age eighteen... Has read Seebohm Rowntree's """"""""Poverty"""""""" and a basic economics textbook, as well as """"""""Little Women"""""""".'"""
"""[analysis of a female respondent in Arnold Freeman's 1918 Sheffield Survey] 'Munitions worker, age eighteen... Has read Seebohm Rowntree's """"""""Poverty"""""""" and a basic economics textbook, as well as """"""""Little Women"""""""".'"""
"""[analysis of a female respondent in Arnold Freeman's 1918 Sheffield Survey] 'Machinist in a shell factory, age twenty-four... Has read Shakespeare, Burns, Keats, Scott, Tennyson, Dickens, Vanity Fair, The Rubiyat of Omar Khayyam, Ella Wheeler Wilcox, biography and history'"""
"""[analysis of a female respondent in Arnold Freeman's 1918 Sheffield Survey] 'Machinist in a shell factory, age twenty-four... Has read Shakespeare, Burns, Keats, Scott, Tennyson, Dickens, Vanity Fair, The Rubiyat of Omar Khayyam, Ella Wheeler Wilcox, biography and history'"""
"""[analysis of a female respondent in Arnold Freeman's 1918 Sheffield Survey] 'Machinist in a shell factory, age twenty-four... Has read Shakespeare, Burns, Keats, Scott, Tennyson, Dickens, Vanity Fair, The Rubiyat of Omar Khayyam, Ella Wheeler Wilcox, biography and history'"""
"""[analysis of a female respondent in Arnold Freeman's 1918 Sheffield Survey] 'Machinist in a shell factory, age twenty-four... Has read Shakespeare, Burns, Keats, Scott, Tennyson, Dickens, Vanity Fair, The Rubiyat of Omar Khayyam, Ella Wheeler Wilcox, biography and history'"""
"""[analysis of a female respondent in Arnold Freeman's 1918 Sheffield Survey] 'Machinist in a shell factory, age twenty-four... Has read Shakespeare, Burns, Keats, Scott, Tennyson, Dickens, Vanity Fair, The Rubiyat of Omar Khayyam, Ella Wheeler Wilcox, biography and history'"""
"""[analysis of a female respondent in Arnold Freeman's 1918 Sheffield Survey] 'Machinist in a shell factory, age twenty-four... Has read Shakespeare, Burns, Keats, Scott, Tennyson, Dickens, Vanity Fair, The Rubiyat of Omar Khayyam, Ella Wheeler Wilcox, biography and history'"""
"""[analysis of a female respondent in Arnold Freeman's 1918 Sheffield Survey] 'Machinist in a shell factory, age twenty-four... Has read Shakespeare, Burns, Keats, Scott, Tennyson, Dickens, Vanity Fair, The Rubiyat of Omar Khayyam, Ella Wheeler Wilcox, biography and history'"""
"""[analysis of a female respondent in Arnold Freeman's 1918 Sheffield Survey] 'Machinist in a shell factory, age twenty-four... Has read Shakespeare, Burns, Keats, Scott, Tennyson, Dickens, Vanity Fair, The Rubiyat of Omar Khayyam, Ella Wheeler Wilcox, biography and history'"""
"""[analysis of a female respondent in Arnold Freeman's 1918 Sheffield Survey] 'Machinist in a shell factory, age twenty-four... Has read Shakespeare, Burns, Keats, Scott, Tennyson, Dickens, Vanity Fair, The Rubiyat of Omar Khayyam, Ella Wheeler Wilcox, biography and history'"""
"""[analysis of a female respondent in Arnold Freeman's 1918 Sheffield Survey] 'Machinist in a shell factory, age twenty-four... Has read Shakespeare, Burns, Keats, Scott, Tennyson, Dickens, Vanity Fair, The Rubiyat of Omar Khayyam, Ella Wheeler Wilcox, biography and history'"""
"""[analysis of a female respondent in Arnold Freeman's 1918 Sheffield Survey] 'Machine file cutter, age twenty-five... Has read The Old Curiosity Shop, Innocents Abroad, The Scarlet Pimpernel, and the Bible'"""
"""[analysis of a female respondent in Arnold Freeman's 1918 Sheffield Survey] 'Machine file cutter, age twenty-five... Has read The Old Curiosity Shop, Innocents Abroad, The Scarlet Pimpernel, and the Bible'"""
"""[analysis of a female respondent in Arnold Freeman's 1918 Sheffield Survey] 'Machine file cutter, age twenty-five... Has read The Old Curiosity Shop, Innocents Abroad, The Scarlet Pimpernel, and the Bible'"""
"""[analysis of a female respondent in Arnold Freeman's 1918 Sheffield Survey] 'Machine file cutter, age twenty-five... Has read The Old Curiosity Shop, Innocents Abroad, The Scarlet Pimpernel, and the Bible'"""
"""[analysis of a female respondent in Arnold Freeman's 1918 Sheffield Survey] 'Housewife, age twenty-eight... Has read """"""""David Copperfield"""""""", """"""""The Old Curiosity Shop"""""""", """"""""Lorna Doone"""""""", Louisa May Alcott and the travels of Livingstone and Darwin'."""
"""[analysis of a female respondent in Arnold Freeman's 1918 Sheffield Survey] 'Housewife, age twenty-eight... Has read """"""""David Copperfield"""""""", """"""""The Old Curiosity Shop"""""""", """"""""Lorna Doone"""""""", Louisa May Alcott and the travels of Livingstone and Darwin'."""
"""[analysis of a female respondent in Arnold Freeman's 1918 Sheffield Survey] 'Housewife, age twenty-eight... Has read """"""""David Copperfield"""""""", """"""""The Old Curiosity Shop"""""""", """"""""Lorna Doone"""""""", Louisa May Alcott and the travels of Livingstone and Darwin'."""
"""[analysis of a female respondent in Arnold Freeman's 1918 Sheffield Survey] 'Housewife, age twenty-eight... Has read """"""""David Copperfield"""""""", """"""""The Old Curiosity Shop"""""""", """"""""Lorna Doone"""""""", Louisa May Alcott and the travels of Livingstone and Darwin'."""
"""[analysis of a female respondent in Arnold Freeman's 1918 Sheffield Survey] 'Housewife, age twenty-eight... Has read """"""""David Copperfield"""""""", """"""""The Old Curiosity Shop"""""""", """"""""Lorna Doone"""""""", Louisa May Alcott and the travels of Livingstone and Darwin'."""
"""[analysis of a female respondent in Arnold Freeman's 1918 Sheffield Survey] 'Housewife, age twenty-eight... Has read """"""""David Copperfield"""""""", """"""""The Old Curiosity Shop"""""""", """"""""Lorna Doone"""""""", Louisa May Alcott and the travels of Livingstone and Darwin'."""
"""[analysis of a female respondent in Arnold Freeman's 1918 Sheffield Survey] 'Cutlery worker, age seventy-two...Fond of Longfellow, Stevenson, Ruskin, William Morris and Charles Dickens'"""
"""[analysis of a female respondent in Arnold Freeman's 1918 Sheffield Survey] 'Cutlery worker, age seventy-two...Fond of Longfellow, Stevenson, Ruskin, William Morris and Charles Dickens'"""
"""[analysis of a female respondent in Arnold Freeman's 1918 Sheffield Survey] 'Cutlery worker, age seventy-two...Fond of Longfellow, Stevenson, Ruskin, William Morris and Charles Dickens'"""
"""[analysis of a female respondent in Arnold Freeman's 1918 Sheffield Survey] 'Cutlery worker, age seventy-two...Fond of Longfellow, Stevenson, Ruskin, William Morris and Charles Dickens'"""
"""[analysis of a female respondent in Arnold Freeman's 1918 Sheffield Survey] 'Cutlery worker, age seventy-two...Fond of Longfellow, Stevenson, Ruskin, William Morris and Charles Dickens'"""
"""As the winter grew colder and colder I spent the deep trough of the early hours in a huddled heap beside the stove, drinking sample bottles of liqueur from Paris-Plage out of a tin egg-cup, and reading an impressive poem called """"""""The City of Fear"""""""" by a certain Captain Gilbert Frankau, who had not then begun to dissipate his rather exciting talents upon the romances of cigar merchants:'   """
"""The last few days have been all the same, Nothing to do but sit around reading and chatting. The weather has changed. It is now pouring with rain.'"""
"""I was no better reconciled to staying at home when I read in """"""""The Times"""""""" a few weeks after my return that the persistent German raiders had at last succeeded in their intention of smashing up the Etaples hospitals, which, with the aid of the prisoner-patients, had so satisfactorily protected the railway line for three years without further trouble or expense to the military authorities.'"""
"""Mrs Ward never allowed the springs of thought to grow dry for lack of reading. The one advantage that she gained from her short nights - for her hours of sleep were rarely more and often less than six - was that the long hours of wakefulness in the early morning gave her time for the reading of many books and of poetry'."""
"""I don't dare to work any more tonight.  That is why I asked for another Dickens; if I read him in bed he diverts my mind.'"""
"""His [Wilfred Owen's] literary interests must always have been a mystery to her, although she admired them, for her own reading scarcely extended beyond light novels and the pious, naive verse of John Oxenham'."""
"""His [Wilfred Owen's] literary interests must always have been a mystery to her, although she admired them, for her own reading scarcely extended beyond light novels and the pious, naive verse of John Oxenham'."""
"""His books, over three hundred of which are preserved as he left them in 1918, show the range - and limitations - of his interests at school and later. Shakespeare, Scott, Keats and Dickens predominate, but he also worked on Milton, several eighteenth-century authors, and some Elizabethan and late Medieval poets. About two thirds of his library can be classified as """"""""English literature"""""""", including biographies of at least twenty authors [explanatory sentence about dominance of biography not criticism in those days]. There are also nearly fifty books in or about French, a high proportion for someone of Owen's respectable but ordinary educational background. the rest are mostly botany, history and classics. The imprints are often those of the popular """"""""libraries"""""""" of the time - Everyman's Library, the People's Books, the Home University Library, Penny Poets - cheap editions aimed at the growing market of young people like himself who were keen on self-improvement'."""
"""His books, over three hundred of which are preserved as he left them in 1918, show the range - and limitations - of his interests at school and later. Shakespeare, Scott, Keats and Dickens predominate, but he also worked on Milton, several eighteenth-century authors, and some Elizabethan and late Medieval poets. About two thirds of his library can be classified as """"""""English literature"""""""", including biographies of at least twenty authors [explanatory sentence about dominance of biography not criticism in those days]. There are also nearly fifty books in or about French, a high proportion for someone of Owen's respectable but ordinary educational background. the rest are mostly botany, history and classics. The imprints are often those of the popular """"""""libraries"""""""" of the time - Everyman's Library, the People's Books, the Home University Library, Penny Poets - cheap editions aimed at the growing market of young people like himself who were keen on self-improvement'."""
"""His books, over three hundred of which are preserved as he left them in 1918, show the range - and limitations - of his interests at school and later. Shakespeare, Scott, Keats and Dickens predominate, but he also worked on Milton, several eighteenth-century authors, and some Elizabethan and late Medieval poets. About two thirds of his library can be classified as """"""""English literature"""""""", including biographies of at least twenty authors [explanatory sentence about dominance of biography not criticism in those days]. There are also nearly fifty books in or about French, a high proportion for someone of Owen's respectable but ordinary educational background. the rest are mostly botany, history and classics. The imprints are often those of the popular """"""""libraries"""""""" of the time - Everyman's Library, the People's Books, the Home University Library, Penny Poets - cheap editions aimed at the growing market of young people like himself who were keen on self-improvement'."""
"""His books, over three hundred of which are preserved as he left them in 1918, show the range - and limitations - of his interests at school and later. Shakespeare, Scott, Keats and Dickens predominate, but he also worked on Milton, several eighteenth-century authors, and some Elizabethan and late Medieval poets. About two thirds of his library can be classified as """"""""English literature"""""""", including biographies of at least twenty authors [explanatory sentence about dominance of biography not criticism in those days]. There are also nearly fifty books in or about French, a high proportion for someone of Owen's respectable but ordinary educational background. the rest are mostly botany, history and classics. The imprints are often those of the popular """"""""libraries"""""""" of the time - Everyman's Library, the People's Books, the Home University Library, Penny Poets - cheap editions aimed at the growing market of young people like himself who were keen on self-improvement'."""
"""His books, over three hundred of which are preserved as he left them in 1918, show the range - and limitations - of his interests at school and later. Shakespeare, Scott, Keats and Dickens predominate, but he also worked on Milton, several eighteenth-century authors, and some Elizabethan and late Medieval poets. About two thirds of his library can be classified as """"""""English literature"""""""", including biographies of at least twenty authors [explanatory sentence about dominance of biography not criticism in those days]. There are also nearly fifty books in or about French, a high proportion for someone of Owen's respectable but ordinary educational background. the rest are mostly botany, history and classics. The imprints are often those of the popular """"""""libraries"""""""" of the time - Everyman's Library, the People's Books, the Home University Library, Penny Poets - cheap editions aimed at the growing market of young people like himself who were keen on self-improvement'."""
"""His books, over three hundred of which are preserved as he left them in 1918, show the range - and limitations - of his interests at school and later. Shakespeare, Scott, Keats and Dickens predominate, but he also worked on Milton, several eighteenth-century authors, and some Elizabethan and late Medieval poets. About two thirds of his library can be classified as """"""""English literature"""""""", including biographies of at least twenty authors [explanatory sentence about dominance of biography not criticism in those days]. There are also nearly fifty books in or about French, a high proportion for someone of Owen's respectable but ordinary educational background. the rest are mostly botany, history and classics. The imprints are often those of the popular """"""""libraries"""""""" of the time - Everyman's Library, the People's Books, the Home University Library, Penny Poets - cheap editions aimed at the growing market of young people like himself who were keen on self-improvement'."""
"""His books, over three hundred of which are preserved as he left them in 1918, show the range - and limitations - of his interests at school and later. Shakespeare, Scott, Keats and Dickens predominate, but he also worked on Milton, several eighteenth-century authors, and some Elizabethan and late Medieval poets. About two thirds of his library can be classified as """"""""English literature"""""""", including biographies of at least twenty authors [explanatory sentence about dominance of biography not criticism in those days]. There are also nearly fifty books in or about French, a high proportion for someone of Owen's respectable but ordinary educational background. the rest are mostly botany, history and classics. The imprints are often those of the popular """"""""libraries"""""""" of the time - Everyman's Library, the People's Books, the Home University Library, Penny Poets - cheap editions aimed at the growing market of young people like himself who were keen on self-improvement'."""
"""Owen seems to have started reading Swinburne in earnest in 1916. When he returned to the front in 1918, knowing that he would kill and probably be killed, he took volumes of both Shelley and Swinburne with him, but after he had been in action he sent the Shelley back to Shrewsbury, keeping only Swinburne's """"""""Poems and Ballads"""""""", the one book of poetry still in his kit at his death'."""
"""the two poets [Owen and Sassoon] probably talked more about literature than anything else. Owen found that they had been """"""""following parallel trenches all our lives"""""""" and """"""""had more friends in common, authors I mean, than most people can boast of in a lifetime"""""""". By chance, Sassoon was reading a small volume of Keats which Lady Ottoline [Morrel] had sent him. He shared Owen's interest in the late-Victorian poets, including Housman, whose influence is often apparent in his war poems, but Owen was surprised to discover that he admired Hardy """"""""more than anybody living"""""""". No doubt Sassoon persuaded him to start reading Hardy's poems. In return, Owen showed him Tailhade's book'"""
"""It is very exciting to read about the B'sh troops in Spa & Malmedy, bits of land that I know as well as the top of Campden Hill.'"""
"""On July 5th [1918] Katharine [Cook] saw Albert [Ruskin Cook] off from Paddington station. As the train pulled out Albert was """"""""glad to have a corner seat and a copy of <i>The Times</i>"""""""" until he recovered himself.' """
"""I have read - given way to reading - two books by Octave Mirbeau - and after them I see dreadfully and finally, (1) that the French are a filthy people, (2) that their corruption is so puante [stinking] - I'll never go near 'em again.'"""
"""I have read - given way to reading - two books by Octave Mirbeau - and after them I see dreadfully and finally, (1) that the French are a filthy people, (2) that their corruption is so puante [stinking] - I'll never go near 'em again.'"""
"""‘... In """"""""Cassell”s Dictionary"""""""" it says the word ‘Democracy’ is “The form of government in which the sovereignty is in the hands of the people & exercised by them directly or indirectly – The people regarded as ruling themselves – As Democracy is often applied to Socialism or Radicalism – I looked up these words also ...'"""
"""We find Xenophone Plato & Aristotle  took a moderate Democracy as their ideal - & called it Constitutional Government…Xenophones said of his native city – “That the consequences of democracy  was that the lot of the wicked should be better than that of the Good.”…'"""
"""we read in New England – Virginia, Carolina. New York & Pennsylvania, of their forming little colonies & electing deputies & the form of their Government began as far back as 1619 ...'"""
"""Penelope Fitzgerald relates how, during Charlotte Mew's stay at his home in December 1918, Thomas Hardy 'read some of his own poems to her, and she read him something which pleased him very much, """"""""Saturday Market"""""""".'"""
"""Penelope Fitzgerald relates how, during Charlotte Mew's stay at his home in December 1918, Thomas Hardy 'read some of his own poems to her, and she read him something which pleased him very much, """"""""Saturday Market"""""""".'"""
"""I have just got my French article in print: it reads quite nicely'."""
"""Thank you very much for the books. Monahan I like. E[zra] P[ound] is certainly a poet but I am afraid I am too old and too wooden-headed to appreciate him as perhaps he deserves.'"""
"""Thank you very much for the books. Monahan I like. E[zra] P[ound] is certainly a poet but I am afraid I am too old and too wooden-headed to appreciate him as perhaps he deserves.'"""
"""I have just seen (quoted in the National News) the following extract from """"""""Gerald Cumberland’s"""""""" A Book of Reminiscences.  . .'"""
"""Sunday, 7 April Hand nearly well. Get out any afternoon, hospital blue, overcoat. Picture-house or library, concerts. Food here very good, plenty of books. Expecting to be marked """"""""Away"""""""" any day.'"""
"""Dud all day. No flying ... Did nothing, but read and smoke. Bed early.'"""
"""You say [in Walpole's critical study """"""""Joseph Conrad""""""""(1916)] that I have been under the formative influence of """"""""Madame Bovary"""""""". In fact I have read it only after finishing """"""""A.[Almayer's] F.[Folly]"""""""" as I did all the other works of Flaubert; and anyway my Flaubert is the Flaubert of """"""""St. Antoine"""""""" and """"""""Ed[ucation] Sent[imentale]"""""""" and that only from the point of view of rendering of concrete things and visual impressions.'"""
"""To Cinema with girl in afternoon, quite good fun. Back at 6.15. Read and smoked and talked in evening.'"""
"""In bed all day. Read and smoked. Talked rot to the T.wire most of the time. About time I went home, the Day sister hates me! ... Leg rather sore.'"""
"""Dud for patrols all day. Wind and low clouds. Read and smoked. 15 guests for dinner! Cinema after. I read and stayed in Peacock's room. Bed early.'"""
"""Up for early show ... Started to snow and carried on nearly all day! No patrols; did nothing except read and smoke.'"""
"""That vol[ume][""""""""Colour Studies in Paris""""""""] is full of charm and contains many pages of rare distinction and luminous like pearls[...].'"""
"""Thanks so much for your two letters & the copies of """"""""Flying"""""""" books — very good. I am afraid I didn't think much of Boyd Cable's story """"""""Quick Work"""""""". The maniac of a pilot he describes as his hero would have been shot down at once! He did the very worst possible thing — diving away from a Hun! ... I do wish people like Boyd Cable would not show their ignorance by trying to write about flying! The best article was """"""""Impressions of Leave"""""""" which was priceless. The story """"""""Eighteen"""""""" was unnecessarily lugubrious.'"""
"""Thanks so much for your two letters & the copies of """"""""Flying"""""""" books — very good. I am afraid I didn't think much of Boyd Cable's story """"""""Quick Work"""""""". The maniac of a pilot he describes as his hero would have been shot down at once! He did the very worst possible thing — diving away from a Hun! ... I do wish people like Boyd Cable would not show their ignorance by trying to write about flying! The best article was """"""""Impressions of Leave"""""""" which was priceless. The story """"""""Eighteen"""""""" was unnecessarily lugubrious.'"""
"""Read and looked at Joe's Bible after Kirk. Bed v.tired.'"""
"""A motor bicycle drew up at our door and a haggard dispatch rider stumbled in to put a scrap of paper into my hand. It was a page torn out of an army notebook with a scribbled message in pencil from a lieutenant addressed to his commanding officer; the date and time upon it belonged to the afternoon before. The writer was holding on with a handful of men at a point (he gave a rough map reference) but they were nearly surrounded — could help be sent, very soon or it would come too late? The messenger had been trying ever since to find the CO and had failed; the message <i>must</i> be delivered to someone — and now to me of all people! The message, I pointed out, was twelve hours old, but the dispatch rider seemed stupefied with his utter failure and weariness. He went dumbly away with his scrap of paper. And I tried to dismiss from my mind a tiny detail in a disastrous landscape — a huddle of brown down there at the map reference, where, in all likelihood, a young officer and a dozen men would be lying together dead.'"""
"""Yes. I've seen """"""""Contact's"""""""" [Alan Bott's] work. It is very good . But he's not the only one.' """
"""In the July of 1918 a copy of """"""""The Farmer's Bride"""""""" arrived in [Sydney] Cockerell's vast daily post, with a stiff little note from Charlotte [Mew] [...] No worry [...] about his reading it; he always read everything, and he fell in love immediately with """"""""The Farmer's Bride"""""""".' """
"""A Writer's Recollections, by Mrs Humphry Ward, had been published in the autumn of 1918. V[irginia] W[oolf] had read it then'. """
"""There is a trifling scene in Virginia's book where a charming young creature in a bright fantastic attitude plays the flute: it positively frightens me - to realise this utter coldness and indifference'."""
"""The novel can't just leave the war out [...] What has been - stands - but Jane Austen could not write Northanger Abbey now - or if she did I'd have none of her'."""
"""George Moore’s 'Avowals' is highly agreeable.'"""
"""The whole household went to bed early [...] then with a mind refreshed and made receptive [...] I sat down to read your two articles — and it was a delightful (c'est le mot juste) experience.'"""
"""There is an awfully good little book on English wild flowers with good clear illustrations, but it costs 7/6. Is it worth it?'"""
"""I am reading 'Mr. Sponge’s Sporting Tour'.  Rather good.'"""
"""I have received some copies of """"""""The Roll Call"""""""".  They are odious in a very high degree.  I do not complain of the quality of the paper, but I object to there being two half-titles one before the title and the other after it!  I object more strongly to the illustrated cover being passed without reference to the author and still more strongly to the descriptive matter not being submitted to the author.  The description of the book inside the jacket: """"""""Can a man love two women is the theme of this book"""""""", is perfectly ridiculous and extremely misleading.'  """
"""Saturday 15 March 1919: '[Mary Agnes Hamilton] told me a curious thing about the sensibilities of my family -- Adrian [Stephen] had asked her to tell me how much he'd liked The Voyage Out, which he has just read for the first time, & is too shy to write & tell me so himself.'"""
"""I return """"""""The Moon and Sixpence"""""""" and your criticism.  I agree with your criticism but I do not think that you have laid sufficient [? stress] on the positive qualities of the book.  Any how, I read it with interest, and I think the Tahiti chapters are really very good.  Also the man has a sardonic crude humour which pleaseth me.'"""
"""It was filled with a high but vague nonconformity, and tried to combine the ideals of revivalist Christianity and great literature. There were articles on 'aspects' of Ruskin, Carlyle, Browning, and other uplifting Victorians, and a great number of quotations, mainly """"""""thoughts"""""""" from their works.... For some time this paper coloured my attitude to literature. I acquired a passion for """"""""thoughts"""""""" and """"""""thinkers"""""""", and demanded from literature a moral inspiration which would improve my character.'"""
"""[Muir's] account of his reading material as a young man in Glasgow points to an involvement with poems of the Romantic and post-Romantic periods which were concerned both with visionary experience and with the need to transcend human suffering. He tells us: I was enchanted by The Solitary Reaper, the Ode to a Nightingale, the Ode to the West Wind, The Lotus Eaters, and the chorus from Atalanta in Calydon'."""
"""[Muir's] account of his reading material as a young man in Glasgow points to an involvement with poems of the Romantic and post-Romantic periods which were concerned both with visionary experience and with the need to transcend human suffering. He tells us: I was enchanted by The Solitary Reaper, the Ode to a Nightingale, the Ode to the West Wind, The Lotus Eaters, and the chorus from Atalanta in Calydon'."""
"""[Muir's] account of his reading material as a young man in Glasgow points to an involvement with poems of the Romantic and post-Romantic periods which were concerned both with visionary experience and with the need to transcend human suffering. He tells us: I was enchanted by The Solitary Reaper, the Ode to a Nightingale, the Ode to the West Wind, The Lotus Eaters, and the chorus from Atalanta in Calydon'."""
"""[Muir's] account of his reading material as a young man in Glasgow points to an involvement with poems of the Romantic and post-Romantic periods which were concerned both with visionary experience and with the need to transcend human suffering. He tells us: I was enchanted by The Solitary Reaper, the Ode to a Nightingale, the Ode to the West Wind, The Lotus Eaters, and the chorus from Atalanta in Calydon'."""
"""I ought to have thanked you before, for the very curious pamphlet containing Swinburne's sweet little joke. I enjoyed both the verse and the prose (especially the prose) immensely.' """
"""MS notes and marks throughout, including: """"""""May 2 1919. Exquisite book! I seem to hear my dear friend [Henry James] talk, - oh so slowly - as we stroll arm in arm in the Warwickshire meadows which he loved so long and well - as I loved him, and he me"""""""". On t-p: """"""""Trevelyan Welcombe"""""""""""
"""Sunday 20 April 1919: 'In the idleness which succeeds [writing] any long article [...] I got out this diary, & read as one always does read one's own writing, with a kind of guilty intensity. I confess that the rough & random style of it, often so ungrammatical, & crying for a word altered, afflicted me somewhat. I am trying to tell whichever self it is that reads this hereafter that I can write very much better [...] And now I may add my little compliment to the effect that it has a slapdash & vigour, & sometimes hits an unexpected bulls eye [goes on to discuss further reasons for, and artistic benefits of, keeping diary].'"""
"""I write to thank you for the book  [...]. I have already seen most of the papers composing your new vol. [""""""""Old Junk""""""""] and I have appreciated their graphic power, personal point of view and felicity of  expression. I glanced in here and there with renewed pleasure.'"""
"""Ever so many thanks for copy of """"""""[The] Sepoy"""""""". Everything you write is a matter of most sympathetic interest to me; and in the case of this book I must say I enjoyed  thoroughly in every way, in the facts,  in the presentation and in the spirit of the writing itself.' """
"""Sunday 21 September 1919: 'By paying 5/ I have become a member of the Lewes public library. It is an amusing place -- full of old ghosts; books half way to decomposition [...] I could not resist Mrs Ward, & I stand in her unconscionably long hours, as if she were a bath of tepid water that one lacks the courage to leave [goes on to comment further on Ward's autobiography].'"""
"""It appeareth to me that you have attempted the impossible in 'The Secret City'.  Therefore be not surprised if I think you have not achieved the same.'  """
"""The enclosed press cuttings have just arrived via Clifford. I've read 'em. It might be a good plan to give The Authors Club as an address for the Press Cuttings people, as the fewer things go to S.L. the better.'"""
"""The [underlined] whole [end underlining] trouble [in Bowen's relationships with her friends Phyllis and Clifford] is that Clifford doesn't admire your poetry!! so that somehow there is something lacking in their personal sympathy with me!!! And [underlined] I [end underlining] don't admire Clifford's, - tho' I try and dissemble a little - so you [underlined] see [end underlining]!! And this morning relations with P. were a trifle strained becaused she read me some poetry she'd written, for criticism, I said I thought there were always too many Stars & Pools & Buds in what she wrote, & she said I was so dreadfully sophisticated and affected!'"""
"""I read Celery through from cover to cover last night in bed.  It really is good.'"""
"""The [underlined] whole [end underlining] trouble [in Bowen's relationships with her friends Phyllis and Clifford] is that Clifford doesn't admire your poetry!! so that somehow there is something lacking in their personal sympathy with me!!! And [underlined] I [end underlining] don't admire Clifford's, - tho' I try and dissemble a little - so you [underlined] see [end underlining]!! And this morning relations with P. were a trifle strained becaused she read me some poetry she'd written, for criticism, I said I thought there were always too many Stars & Pools & Buds in what she wrote, & she said I was so dreadfully sophisticated and affected!'"""
"""The [underlined] whole [end underlining] trouble [in Bowen's relationships with her friends Phyllis and Clifford] is that Clifford doesn't admire your poetry!! so that somehow there is something lacking in their personal sympathy with me!!! And [underlined] I [end underlining] don't admire Clifford's, - tho' I try and dissemble a little - so you [underlined] see [end underlining]!! And this morning relations with P. were a trifle strained becaused she read me some poetry she'd written, for criticism, I said I thought there were always too many Stars & Pools & Buds in what she wrote, & she said I was so dreadfully sophisticated and affected!'"""
"""The [underlined] whole [end underlining] trouble [in Bowen's relationships with her friends Phyllis and Clifford] is that Clifford doesn't admire your poetry!! so that somehow there is something lacking in their personal sympathy with me!!! And [underlined] I [end underlining] don't admire Clifford's, - tho' I try and dissemble a little - so you [underlined] see [end underlining]!! And this morning relations with P. were a trifle strained becaused she read me some poetry she'd written, for criticism, I said I thought there were always too many Stars & Pools & Buds in what she wrote, & she said I was so dreadfully sophisticated and affected!'"""
"""I have read (before breakfast) your """"""""Gambetta"""""""" a most excellent thing both as picture and appreciation of the man.'"""
"""Thanks very much for your sympathetic book. It is vividly interesting (I am on p.70) and am flattered to think that its writer, who knows so much of human affairs, thinks so well of my work. I trust we may meet [...] on your return from Damascus next year.' """
"""I wish you were down here, darling so that we cd. consult - about ads in the paper. Just look at this [presumably an advertisement enclosed with the letter]. I don't know where Fulking is - but I have written to the owner to ask & if it is not too far I shall run over to see it.'"""
"""P.'s roving eye fell upon your letter of today, & read the beginning of the sentence about """"""""Poor old Phyllis & her poems!"""""""" Which led to demands to know how it ended. Which led to strenuous refusals on my part & denials of her right to ask, and assurances of the trviality of the reference. Which led to really violent hysteria.'"""
"""Sunday 28 December 1919, following illness with influenza: 'I've read two vast volumes of the Life of Butler; & am racing through Greville Memoirs -- both superbly fit for illness. Butler has the effect of paring the bark off feelings: all left a little raw, but vivid -- a lack of sap though [goes on to comment further on Butler and his biographer, Henry Festing Jones]'."""
"""Sunday 28 December 1919, following illness with influenza: 'I've read two vast volumes of the Life of Butler; & am racing through Greville Memoirs -- both superbly fit for illness. Butler has the effect of paring the bark off feelings: all left a little raw, but vivid -- a lack of sap though [goes on to comment further on Butler and his biographer, Henry Festing Jones]'."""
"""Many thanks for the inscribed copy. [...]. On the 28th May I finished correcting the last pages of """"""""Rescue"""""""" [...]. The same evening I picked up """"""""Sri Ram"""""""" as I limped to bed, and went on reading it through the still, very still, hours of night to the end, marvelling and musing over the pages.'"""
"""Calm day.  In garden read early poems in Oxford Book.  Discussed our future library.  In the evening read Dostoevsky'."""
"""Calm day.  In garden read early poems in Oxford Book.  Discussed our future library.  In the evening read Dostoevsky'."""
"""Let me thank you for the Swinburne bibliography which I've read with the greatest interest.'"""
"""That same night, in a perfect, clear, still moonlight, I lay in a tent, obsessed by insomnia... And I will interpolate that, for myself, I had been reading, actually, """"""""The Red Badge of Courage"""""""" by the light of a candle stuck onto a bully-beef case at my camp-bed head.'"""
"""Kipling had now been supplemented with Henty, Ballantyne, Rider  Haggard and John Buchan, all with their own tales of imperial derring-do to tell theimpressionable young colonial'."""
"""Then came those old-fashioned books of natural history that dealt courageously with The Universe, illustrating it with quaint engravings of strange rock formations in the Hartz Mountains, the Mammoth caves in Kentucky, the Aurora Borealis, and the eruption of  Mount Etna; always with little men armed with long staves, looking as though they themselves were responsible for the phenomena. But none of these were part of the school curricula.' """
"""Read the new Army of Occupation Orders. We are to get 28/- per week bonus for staying on. Rather good work.'"""
"""I regret that you have given up the """"""""New Statesman"""""""".  The old editor has returned from the war & the paper is in its best form.'  """
"""The justness of all these things said in """"""""Another Sheaf"""""""" is what strikes one most.'"""
"""I didn't thank you for the book [""""""""Papa's War and Other Satires"""""""" ] by letter because I knew I was coming to town at once. You know my opinion of all the pieces composing it.'"""
"""The ... grandiloquent """"""""education programme"""""""" we were able to satisfy sufficiently. A number of the """"""""boys"""""""" were barely literate and Miss Nettleton could deal with the three R's. Some of them were not at all too old to sit around her on the floor like children while she read them <i>Treasure Island</i> or <i>The Wind in the Willows</i>: this could be counted as an hour of """"""""English"""""""".'"""
"""The ... grandiloquent """"""""education programme"""""""" we were able to satisfy sufficiently. A number of the """"""""boys"""""""" were barely literate and Miss Nettleton could deal with the three R's. Some of them were not at all too old to sit around her on the floor like children while she read them <i>Treasure Island</i> or <i>The Wind in the Willows</i>: this could be counted as an hour of """"""""English"""""""".'"""
"""Tuesday 10 August 1920: 'Reading Don Q. still -- I confess rather sinking in the sand -- rather soft going [...] but he has the loose, far scattered vitality of the great books, which keeps me going'."""
"""Can’t something be done to buck up the 'Lit. Suppl'.?  It is getting duller & duller, though it always contains 1 or 2 good articles.'"""
"""I do not agree with you as to Gibbs’ book.  . . .  I have not yet seen a good war book.  Doyle if course is ridiculous.  I am sending you a copy of 'Polite Farces' by this post,  It is no good, but as you want it you shall have it.  """
"""I do not agree with you as to Gibbs’ book.  . . .  I have not yet seen a good war book.  Doyle if course is ridiculous.  I am sending you a copy of 'Polite Farces' by this post,  It is no good, but as you want it you shall have it. ' """
"""I have read 100 pages of 'L. Leuwen'. [Lucien Leuwen]  It is exceedingly fine, but I don’t yet class it with 'La Chartreuse'.[La Chartreuse de Parme]"""
"""I have read 100 pages of 'L. Leuwen'. [Lucien Leuwen]  It is exceedingly fine, but I don’t yet class it with 'La Chartreuse'.[La Chartreuse de Parme]"""
"""Have you read 'The Pretty Lady'?  It was while reading 'Isabelle' that the form of this novel suddenly presented itself to me, and I began to write it at once.  Yet nothing could be less like calm 'Isabelle' than this feverish novel.'  """
"""Mrs Mary Berenson’s article on eighteenth century architecture in Spain most interestingly illustrates a principle which is capable of wide application.  Our attitude towards architecture is far too much dominated by the aesthetic canons of the past.'  """
"""It seems to me that I have to write to you in the same nagging strain as I do to Wells,  In spite of my brotherly admonitions & my fatherly threats apropos of previous books there are at least as many grammatical slips in this one as in any.  . . . Such, imperfectly, respectfully, & fragmentarily are my views about this history which you have so affectionately dedicated to the aged one.  There are lots of questions I want to ask you about it.  Will you dine Thursday 21st?'"""
"""Ever so many thanks too for the """"""""Life and Miracles"""""""" which I have just read for the second time.There is no one but you to render so poignantly the pathetic and desperate effects of human credulity. It is a marvellous piece of sustained narrative and of intensely personal prose.'"""
"""Wednesday 15 September 1920: 'Blessed with fine weather, I could look from my window, through the vine leaves, & see Lytton sitting in the deck chair reading Alfieri from a lovely vellum copy, dutifully looking out words. He wore a white felt hat, & the usual grey clothes; was long, & tapering as usual; looking so mild & so ironical, his beard just cut short [...] For my own encouragement, I may note that he praised the Voyage Out voluntarily; """"""""[italics]extremely[end italics] good"""""""" it seemed to him on re-reading, especially the satire of the Dalloways.' """
"""Wednesday 15 September 1920: 'Blessed with fine weather, I could look from my window, through the vine leaves, & see Lytton sitting in the deck chair reading Alfieri from a lovely vellum copy, dutifully looking out words. He wore a white felt hat, & the usual grey clothes; was long, & tapering as usual; looking so mild & so ironical, his beard just cut short [...] For my own encouragement, I may note that he praised the Voyage Out voluntarily; """"""""[italics]extremely[end italics] good"""""""" it seemed to him on re-reading, especially the satire of the Dalloways.' """
"""Thanks ever so much for the admirable book of portraits. Every one is a revelation-especially of course those of the people one knows, if ever so little.'"""
"""Thursday 19 August 1920: 'Yesterday [...] read [Sophocles'] Trachiniae with comparative ease -- always comparative -- oh dear me!'"""
"""January 18. No letters: strike still on. A fine day. But what is that to me? I am an invalid. I spend my life in bed. Read Shakespeare in the morning. I feel I cannot bear this silence to-day. I am haunted by thoughts.'"""
"""Thank you for the """"""""Saint-Simon"""""""", which to my great joy arrived this morning. I finished the play the day before yesterday. Tonight I finish revising. Tomorrow I plunge into """"""""Saint-Simon"""""""".'"""
"""Pray forgive me keeping your article on Mérimée so long. I read it as soon as it arrived — and then re-read it yesterday. It is one of the best pieces by you I've read, though your work never fails to delight.'"""
"""Marginal marks and MS notes throughout, incl. v.2 giving Nov 12 1904 as the """"""""second time of reading"""""""" and v.1 July 24, 1920: """"""""3rd time of reading A most excellent military history; - I think, the best I ever read"""""""". V.II has a MS chronology on pastedown and endpaper, giving the dates of Bonaparte's movements in April and May 1796. Notes incl. translations of French words, and comments e.g., by a footnote on a letter published in Le Moniteur """"""""dont l'authenticite nous pariat fort suspecte"""""""", he writes: """"""""rather!"""""""""""
"""MS notes and marginal marks throughout the book, in the hand of Sir George Otto Trevelyan. Dates of reading include """"""""Sept. 21 1914 Aloud to C[aroline]""""""""; """"""""Dec 30 1920 with C"""""""". One note alludes to the First World War: when Motley writes of a """"""""train of unforeseen transactions"""""""", Sir George comments: """"""""We have enough of that just now. Aug . 31 1915""""""""."""
"""Thank you very much for Mr Holliday's book, which has certainly got a lot of good things in it and which I enjoyed greatly.'"""
"""20 April 1920: 'Saw the birth of Ka's son in the Times this morning, & feel slightly envious all day in consequence.'"""
"""The more I read of H.G.’s 'Outline' the more staggered I am by it.'  """
""" '. . .  There have been 2 supreme books since your regretted departure.  G. Moore’s 'Avowals' and the letters of Chekhov . . .'"""
""" . . .  There have been 2 supreme books since your regretted departure.  G. Moore’s 'Avowals' and the letters of Chekhov . . ."""
"""Byron was a great genius.  'Don' Juan is a terrific work.  But there is scarcely a page of it which does not show that an artistic conscience was not Byron’s strong point.  . . . Not long since I re-read Quentin Durward.   What a book of hasty expedients, adroit evasions of difficulties, and artistic ‘slimness’. '  """
"""Byron was a great genius.  'Don' Juan is a terrific work.  But there is scarcely a page of it which does not show that an artistic conscience was not Byron’s strong point.  . . . Not long since I re-read 'Quentin Durward'.   What a book of hasty expedients, adroit evasions of difficulties, and artistic ‘slimness’.'   """
"""What to me [...] seems most wonderful in the """"""""Cartagena"""""""" book is its inextinguishable vitality, the unchanged strength of feeling, steadfastness of sympathies and force of expresssion. I turned the pages with unfailing delight [...]. """
"""About 2/3rds of this play is undoubtedly very fine.  I think it weakens in structure in the 3rd act.  . . . I only met the dedication tonight.  Thanks. It is very agreeable to me.'  """
"""There is no particular talk in this house except the slump in theatres, & the general & increasing badness of the 'London Mercury'.  I find the L.M. very dull & pompous.'  """
""". . . and I wish to tell you that it was the first chapters of 'A Mummer’s Wife' which opened my eyes to the romantic nature of the district that I had blindly inhabited for over twenty years.  You are indeed the father of all my Five Towns books.'"""
"""I enclose in this envelope a copy of the 'Economic Review of the Foreign Press'.  . . .  I know the periodical very well as I have read it consistently for over three years.'"""
"""[the curriculum at the Dragon School] included much memorizing of poetry, particularly Tennyson's 'Ulysses' and 'Morte d'Arthur'. John learned a lot of poetry by heart and won a prize for recitation'."""
"""[the curriculum at the Dragon School] included much memorizing of poetry, particularly Tennyson's 'Ulysses' and 'Morte d'Arthur'. John learned a lot of poetry by heart and won a prize for recitation'."""
"""Tuesday 31 August 1920: 'Finished Sophocles this morning -- read mostly at Asheham.'"""
"""Siegfried Sassoon [...] bought [Sydney] Cockerell the first number of [Harold] Monro's new shilling magazine, """"""""The Monthly Chapbook"""""""". On the last page was Charlotte [Mew]'s """"""""Sea Love"""""""", certainly a new poem, which delighted both of them (and delighted [Thomas] Hardy too when it arrived at Max Gate).'"""
"""Siegfried Sassoon [...] bought [Sydney] Cockerell the first number of [Harold] Monro's new shilling magazine, """"""""The Monthly Chapbook"""""""". On the last page was Charlotte [Mew]'s """"""""Sea Love"""""""", certainly a new poem, which delighted both of them (and delighted [Thomas] Hardy too when it arrived at Max Gate).'"""
"""Perpetually through my head, interfering with the detached contemplation of Hobbes's """"""""Leviathan"""""""" and Mill on """"""""Liberty"""""""", ran a sentence from one of the Elizabethan documents:  """"""""The Queen of Scots is the mother of a gallant son, but I am a barren stock.""""""""'"""
"""Siegfried Sassoon [...] bought [Sydney] Cockerell the first number of [Harold] Monro's new shilling magazine, """"""""The Monthly Chapbook"""""""". On the last page was Charlotte [Mew]'s """"""""Sea Love"""""""", certainly a new poem, which delighted both of them (and delighted [Thomas] Hardy too when it arrived at Max Gate).'"""
"""Louis Untermeyer [an American poet] [...] had [...] been carried away by """"""""Madeleine[in Church]"""""""" when Siegfried Sassoon read it to him [in 1920]'."""
"""He read """"""""The Lost Girl"""""""" at the end of November just when he was himself most deeply engaged in trivia, and immediately recognizes it as """"""""the work of a genius"""""""", Lawrence as """"""""far and away the best of the younger school""""""""'."""
"""Sunday 5 December 1920: 'My brain is tired of reading Coleridge. Why do I read Coleridge? It is partly the result of Eliot [i.e. The Sacred Wood] whom I've not read; but L[eonard]. has & reviewed & praised into the bargain.' """
"""  ‘Wayfarer’ expresses the ignorance of himself and his friends about the late Charles Garvice . . . He brackets Charles Garvice and Mrs Florence Barclay together.  This he should not do.   Charles Garvice had an immensely greater hold on the public than Mrs, Barclay . . . The work of Charles Garvice has little artistic importance; but he was a thoroughly competent craftsman.'  """
"""  ‘Wayfarer’ expresses the ignorance of himself and his friends about the late Charles Garvice . . . He brackets Charles Garvice and Mrs Florence Barclay together.  This he should not do.   Charles Garvice had an immensely greater hold on the public than Mrs, Barclay . . . The work of Charles Garvice has little artistic importance; but he was a thoroughly competent craftsman.  """
"""  ‘Wayfarer’ expresses the ignorance of himself and his friends about the late Charles Garvice . . . He brackets Charles Garvice and Mrs Florence Barclay together.  This he should not do.   Charles Garvice had an immensely greater hold on the public than Mrs, Barclay . . . The work of Charles Garvice has little artistic importance; but he was a thoroughly competent craftsman.  """
"""I have this moment received your very kind letter with the enclosure of verse for which I hasten to send you my warm thanks. The verse is very genuine and has appealed to me. My compliments to David Morton for having captured this musing mood so charmingly and with such a felicity of expression and images.' """
"""I am glad to see that today you give some figures to show what the coal strike is really about.  The public seldom knows what a strike is about. . . No paper gives impartial and full labour news, and the worst sinner is the 'Daily Herald'."""
"""I am glad to see that today you give some figures to show what the coal strike is really about.  The public seldom knows what a strike is about. . . No paper gives impartial and full labour news, and the worst sinner is the 'Daily Herald'."""
"""The readng of """"""""Memories and Notes"""""""" has been one continuous delight. As you know I have been privileged to see some of these papers  even in typescript and some in their serial form. But the quality of their interest and freshness is of the kind that does not perish in the reading and re-reading.'"""
"""Wednesday 10 August 1921: 'I may well ask, what is truth? And I cant ask it in my natural tones, since my lips are wet with Edmund Gosse. How often have I said that I would never read anyone before beginning to write? The book came at breakfast, & I fell. He is one of the respectables [...] But how low in tone it all is -- purred out by the firesides of Dowagers. That is not quite true, seeing that he has some sturdiness, some independence, & some love of letters. The peculiar combination of suavity, gravity, malignity, & common sense always repels me.'"""
"""I must begin by thanking you for the little book of satirical pieces [""""""""Groteski""""""""] which I read with great enjoyment and in that sympathetic mood which your work arouses in me.'"""
"""Thank you for sending me the comedy. I found it [...] interesting and greatly entertaining, which however did not prevent me from taking your work quite seriously.'"""
"""It is 1,000 pities the 'Express' didn’t get the Wells Washington stuff.  His first 3 articles in the 'Mail' have been absolutely tremendous.  """
"""Monday 12 September 1921: 'I have finished the Wings of the Dove, & make this comment. His [Henry James's] manipulations become so elaborate towards the end that instead of feeling the artist you merely feel the man who is posing the subject. And then I think he loses the power to feel the crisis. He becomes merely excessively ingenious [goes on to comment further on text].'"""
"""[Following transcription of two substantial paragraphs, in which Leigh Hunt describes Coleridge] '[this] is all I can take the trouble to quote from Leigh Hunt's memoirs vol 2 page 223, supposing I should want to cook this up again somewhere. L.H. was our spiritual grandfather, a free man [...] These free, vigorous spirits advance the world, & when one lights on them in the strange waste of the past one says Ah you're my sort -- a great compliment.'"""
"""Friday 15 April 1921: 'I have been lying recumbent all day reading Carlyle, and now Macaulay, first to see if Carlyle wrote better than Lytton [Strachey], then to see if Macaulay sells better. Carlyle (reminiscences) is more colloquial and scrappy than I remembered, but he has his merits. -- more punch in his phrase than in Lytton's.'"""
"""Friday 15 April 1921: 'I have been lying recumbent all day reading Carlyle, and now Macaulay, first to see if Carlyle wrote better than Lytton [Strachey], then to see if Macaulay sells better. Carlyle (reminiscences) is more colloquial and scrappy than I remembered, but he has his merits. -- more punch in his phrase than in Lytton's.'"""
"""Sunday 15 May 1921: 'I read 4 pages of sneer & condescending praise of me in the Dial the other day. Oddly enough, I have drawn the sting of it by deciding to print it among my puffs, where it will come in beautifully. The Dial is everything honest & vigorous & advanced; so I ought to feel crushed.'"""
"""12 September 1921: '[James Strachey] is the easiest & gayest of companions. Here he leapt onto my bed, directly I left it, & lay reading Jane's pamphlet.'"""
"""Thursday 15 September 1921: 'I have been dabbling in K.M.'s stories, & have to rinse my mind -- in Dryden? Still, if she were not so clever she coudn't be so disagreeable.'"""
"""Yesterday I read the first inst[alment] of """"""""To Let"""""""" in a spirit of philistinish curiosity.'"""
"""Stayed in bed all the morning as it was raining and very cold. Walked out to Llandaff Cathedral to see Rossetti picture. Service going on; fat clergyman preaching; awful piffle;'Let me die the death of the righteous'. Reading Strachey's 'Queen Victoria' all evening."""
"""18 December 1921: 'Roger's visit [on 17 December] went off specially well [...] Roger had Benda in his pocket & read a passage aloud'. """
"""Rudo [R.H.Sauter] shows much charm in """"""""Awakening"""""""", which harmonised with the charm of the text in a fascinating way.'"""
"""And first of all my tender thanks for the copy of the limited edition [...]. The reading of it was an absorbing experience.'"""
"""[L.M. Montgomery] 'read a great deal; she mentions fifty different authors in her journal which covers the years 1910 to 1921. Titles range from Gibbon's """"""""Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire"""""""" to Beatrix Potter's """"""""Peter Rabbit"""""""" and Thackeray's """"""""Vanity Fair"""""""". She also read many female writers, such as George Eliot, Charlotte Bronte, Edith Wharton and Olive Schreiner'."""
"""[L.M. Montgomery] 'read a great deal; she mentions fifty different authors in her journal which covers the years 1910 to 1921. Titles range from Gibbon's """"""""Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire"""""""" to Beatrix Potter's """"""""Peter Rabbit"""""""" and Thackeray's """"""""Vanity Fair"""""""". She also read many female writers, such as George Eliot, Charlotte Bronte, Edith Wharton and Olive Schreiner'."""
"""[L.M. Montgomery] 'read a great deal; she mentions fifty different authors in her journal which covers the years 1910 to 1921. Titles range from Gibbon's """"""""Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire"""""""" to Beatrix Potter's """"""""Peter Rabbit"""""""" and Thackeray's """"""""Vanity Fair"""""""". She also read many female writers, such as George Eliot, Charlotte Bronte, Edith Wharton and Olive Schreiner'."""
"""[L.M. Montgomery] 'read a great deal; she mentions fifty different authors in her journal which covers the years 1910 to 1921. Titles range from Gibbon's """"""""Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire"""""""" to Beatrix Potter's """"""""Peter Rabbit"""""""" and Thackeray's """"""""Vanity Fair"""""""". She also read many female writers, such as George Eliot, Charlotte Bronte, Edith Wharton and Olive Schreiner'."""
"""[L.M. Montgomery] 'read a great deal; she mentions fifty different authors in her journal which covers the years 1910 to 1921. Titles range from Gibbon's """"""""Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire"""""""" to Beatrix Potter's """"""""Peter Rabbit"""""""" and Thackeray's """"""""Vanity Fair"""""""". She also read many female writers, such as George Eliot, Charlotte Bronte, Edith Wharton and Olive Schreiner'."""
"""[L.M. Montgomery] 'read a great deal; she mentions fifty different authors in her journal which covers the years 1910 to 1921. Titles range from Gibbon's """"""""Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire"""""""" to Beatrix Potter's """"""""Peter Rabbit"""""""" and Thackeray's """"""""Vanity Fair"""""""". She also read many female writers, such as George Eliot, Charlotte Bronte, Edith Wharton and Olive Schreiner'."""
"""[L.M. Montgomery] 'read a great deal; she mentions fifty different authors in her journal which covers the years 1910 to 1921. Titles range from Gibbon's """"""""Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire"""""""" to Beatrix Potter's """"""""Peter Rabbit"""""""" and Thackeray's """"""""Vanity Fair"""""""". She also read many female writers, such as George Eliot, Charlotte Bronte, Edith Wharton and Olive Schreiner'."""
"""Copious MS notes, some correcting translation, others commenting on world affairs or noting events in Trevelyan's own life. MS dates of reading up to 1921 and list of 8 men selected for University Scholarship in 1850, incl. Trevelyan. Notes include: """"""""August 18 1887"""""""" """"""""Oct. 15. 1919"""""""" Page 573: """"""""George's convoy have reached Udine [i.e. G.M. Trevelyan, his son]. How extraordinarily interesting the notes written during this crisis are!"""""""" P. 469: """"""""Aug 16 1915 Warsaw has fallen. Rige in dire peril"""""""" P. 511: """""""" Aug 16 1915 Runciman and Massingham visited us yesterday."""""""" """"""""P. 560: """"""""Aug 14 1889. Rain and no grouse, having spoiled the day's shooting""""""""."""
"""Copious notes and dates of reading, incl. Dec 1918, Sept 1921. Trevelyan transcribes the dates when Macaulay also read Demosthenes (1836, 1837). Several references to the difficulty of the text, e.g.: """"""""All the same, Demosthenes is tough reading: far more difficult to me than Herodotus and Plato, or the ordinary narrative of Thucydides, let alone Xenophon."""""""" On p.1: """"""""The Olynthiacs were the first Demosthenes I read, in prefect room at Harrow, about 1853."""""""""""
"""MS annotations and marginal marks incl. v.1 p.503, in reply to the author's comment """"""""we must now throw a glance to the external"""""""", Sir George writes: """"""""High time that you did. Seldom has so able a writer been so swamped and mastered by his materials."""""""" Describes ch. 6 as """"""""Terribly lengthy. Such masses of extracts ... are out of place in such a book as this."""""""" V.4 p.530 in reply to the author's wish to have fostered through his work a """"""""love of freedom of thought, of speech, and of life"""""""" Sir George writes """"""""This is a true claim on the part of Motley, and is the prime merit of his history"""""""". """"""""Motley on the whole has raised himself by this volume [2]. He has a fine enthusiasm for liberty and public right."""""""" """"""""The fourth volume ... is deeply interesting, and, in some respects, better constructed and written than the other three. Welcombe. May 26. 1916"""""""". Dates of reading include: """"""""Nov 3 1915 - Wallington"""""""" and """"""""June 28 - with C[aroline] Wallington 1921.""""""""  """
"""As for yourself — I have been dwelling with you mentally for several days between the covers of your book [...].' """
"""I have just read through the Zeromski novel you mean: """"""""History of a Sin"""""""". I don't think it will do for translation. The international murderess episodes take but a little space after all. The whole thing is disagreeable and often incomprehensible in comment and psychology. Often it is gratuitously ferocious. You now I am not squeamish. The other work the great historical machine  is called """"""""Ashes"""""""" (Popioly). Both of course have a certain greatness.[...] [but] both take too much for granted in the way of receptivity and tolerance.' """
""" Your novel ['The Young Enchanted'] shows once more your most genuine and even devilish gift for narrative.  By God you can tell a story!  Also the first half of the book is full of charming things,  excellent bits of observation and fancy, new gleams of light on the world,  But, also by God, I will not hide from you my conviction that the book does not improve as it goes on . . . . The mere details of writing I think are better than in 'The Captives'."""
"""Tuesday 25 January 1921: 'K. M. (as the papers call her) swims from triumph to triumph in the reviews; save that [J. C.] Squire doubts her genius -- so, I'm afraid, do I. These little points, though so cleanly collected, don't amount to much, I think. I read her at the Club last night'. """
"""Thank you very much for sending me the text [of John Galsworthy's play """"""""The Family Man""""""""] which I have looked over with considerable interest. There are several rather considerable typing mistakes in that copy [...]'"""
""". . . then Edith Sitwell appeared, her nose longer than an ant-eaters, and read some of her absurd stuff...'"""
"""Throughout his career Conrad was haunted by the idea of writing a Napoleonic novel, for which he did a prodigious amount of background reading.[...] However it was not until June 1920 that he eventually started to write """"""""Suspense"""""""", and early in 1921 he spent two months in Corsica to saturate himself in Napoleonic atmosphere, revive memories of harbours and sailors and do further background reading, as the list of books borrowed from the Ajaccio library, recorded by Jean-Aubry, indicates.' [see note 118, p.316] """
"""Throughout his career Conrad was haunted by the idea of writing a Napoleonic novel, for which he did a prodigious amount of background reading.[...] However it was not until June 1920 that he eventually started to write """"""""Suspense"""""""", and early in 1921 he spent two months in Corsica to saturate himself in Napoleonic atmosphere, revive memories of harbours and sailors and do further background reading, as the list of books borrowed from the Ajaccio library, recorded by Jean-Aubry, indicates.' [see note 118, p.316] """
"""Throughout his career Conrad was haunted by the idea of writing a Napoleonic novel, for which he did a prodigious amount of background reading.[...] However it was not until June 1920 that he eventually started to write """"""""Suspense"""""""", and early in 1921 he spent two months in Corsica to saturate himself in Napoleonic atmosphere, revive memories of harbours and sailors and do further background reading, as the list of books borrowed from the Ajaccio library, recorded by Jean-Aubry, indicates.' [see note 118, p.316] """
"""Throughout his career Conrad was haunted by the idea of writing a Napoleonic novel, for which he did a prodigious amount of background reading.[...] However it was not until June 1920 that he eventually started to write """"""""Suspense"""""""", and early in 1921 he spent two months in Corsica to saturate himself in Napoleonic atmosphere, revive memories of harbours and sailors and do further background reading, as the list of books borrowed from the Ajaccio library, recorded by Jean-Aubry, indicates.' [see note 118, p.316] """
"""Throughout his career Conrad was haunted by the idea of writing a Napoleonic novel, for which he did a prodigious amount of background reading.[...] However it was not until June 1920 that he eventually started to write """"""""Suspense"""""""", and early in 1921 he spent two months in Corsica to saturate himself in Napoleonic atmosphere, revive memories of harbours and sailors and do further background reading, as the list of books borrowed from the Ajaccio library, recorded by Jean-Aubry, indicates.' [see note 118, p.316] """
"""According to Florrie [his mother] Dylan taught himself to read from second-rate comics such as """"""""Rainbow""""""""'."""
"""Let me thank you warmly  for the two magnificent and interesting vol[ume]s about the South-Sea Isles which you have been good enough to send me.' """
"""Let me thank you warmly  for the two magnificent and interesting vol[ume]s about the South-Sea Isles which you have been good enough to send me.' """
"""Quiet day. Read Marlowe's 'Jew of Malta' after dinner, and worked late on horse poem. Didn't go to Boat Race"""
"""Pardon my forwardness, but I must tell you I think that 'Streaks' is another what-I-call-a-book.  In fact I should say it is better than 'Impressions'.  """
"""Pardon my forwardness, but I must tell you I think that 'Streaks' is another what-I-call-a-book.  In fact I should say it is better than 'Impressions'.  """
"""Staying for a fortnight with Miss Heath Jones in Cornwall - where I read aloud to her a large selection of the works of Bernard Shaw, including the newly published """"""""Back to Methuselah"""""""", but otherwise had plenty of time for  reminiscent meditation - I realised that the past two years at Oxford were going to take a good deal of getting over; they had meant an effort so great that I had not calculated its cost until it was finished.'"""
"""[Spoto states that Hitchcock read Marie Corelli's """"""""The Sorrows of Satan"""""""" in 1920/21 in preparation for helping to make a film of it which was afterwards abandoned.]"""
"""Yet learn to read I did, for when I was ill in bed at the age of seven, our doctor lent me Ruskin's """"""""King of the Golden River"""""""", and I most certainly read that. It is, in fact, the first book I can actually remember having read at all and John Ruskin, of all people, is the first author to have written his name on my mind.'"""
"""But during my convalescence the reading of a newly published selection of internationalist essays, entitled """"""""The Evolution of World Peace,"""""""" restored to me that sense of the cause's momentous dignity...'"""
"""But at least, through my work at Oxford and my subsequent reading of F. S. Marvin and Gilbert Murray and H. G. Wells, I had come to realise history as the whole story of man's development from the cave to comparative civilisation,'"""
"""Before that illumined moment of rich inspiration, Winifred had been experimenting with other kinds of writing, and studying such treasure-troves of style as the travel books of Sir Walter Raleigh and the prose works of Milton.'"""
"""Jack Common recalled that his mother brought him a secondhand and severely abridged """"""""Life of Johnson"""""""" for 1d., and he had to read it several times before he even partially absorbed it'."""
"""To her father she wrote about her term work, the poetry she was reading and with details about new publications. """"""""Do"""""""", she urged him, """"""""try to get hold of 'The London Mercury', a new periodical edited by J.C. Squire. The first number has just appeared and is quite excellent, - but I don't suppose it will keep it up. There are hitherto unpublished poems by Rupert Brooke and Thomas Hardy"""""""".'"""
"""To her father she wrote about her term work, the poetry she was reading and with details about new publications. """"""""Do"""""""", she urged him, """"""""try to get hold of 'The London Mercury', a new periodical edited by J.C. Squire. The first number has just appeared and is quite excellent, - but I don't suppose it will keep it up. There are hitherto unpublished poems by Rupert Brooke and Thomas Hardy"""""""".'"""
"""Thanks for the press cuttings. The accident on board that ship was an extraordinary one.'"""
"""The conception of this particular novel [""""""""Riceyman Steps""""""""] was probably sparked off by the discovery, in an old Southampton bookshop, T. James and Co., of 34 Bernard Street, of a curious old book called """"""""Lives and Anecdotes of Misers"""""""", by F. Sommer Merryweather (1850). Bennett bought it in 1921 on one of his yachting expeditions, read it and used it.'  """
"""A few days ago in fact I re-read """"""""Les Caves du Vatican"""""""", with the same interest but with an admiration that grows on each new reading. The infinity of things you put into that book, where the hand is so light and the thought so deep, is truly marvellous.'"""
"""Many thanks for the charming copy of """"""""The Brassbounder"""""""". It is as fresh and attractive as ever to read and I am still under the charm of this sincere and fascinating record of things that have now passed away for ever.'"""
"""Read part of Jonson's 'Silent Woman' after dinner,while Berners perused something by Scriabine, and the Colonel nodded over a Battalion War History."""
"""Many MS dates of reading: """"""""Feb 13 1907 Welcombe""""""""; """"""""Nov 10 1909 Rome (Read in one day)""""""""; """"""""June 1915 Welcombe""""""""; """"""""October 1921 Wallington Have read the Euthyphron 6 times in 15 years."""""""" Includes a MS list of """"""""My personal favourites in the dialogues of Plato"""""""". MS. notes in ink copied from Macaulay's folio edition of this text; this edition also belonged to Macaulay. """
"""January 1. Read W.J.D.'s poems. I feel very near to him in mind.'"""
"""In his diary (1 March 1922) Forster recorded, while on the boat returning from India, his early impressions of Proust: """"""""Bought Du Cote de Chez Swann at Marseilles and note how cleverly Proust uses his memories and experiences to illustrate his state of mind [...] His work impresses me by its weight and length, and sometimes touches me by its truth to my feelings.""""""""'"""
"""I ought to have thanked you before for Mrs Soskice's book. I remember it had a good press when it first appeared. It certainly has a quality but it is very much like the one-time Juliet.'"""
"""It was at this meeting, where she was one of the speakers, that I first saw Rebecca West, whose novel """"""""The Judge"""""""", which had recently been published, I had read with a disturbed and passionate interest.'"""
"""February 12. J. [Middleton Murry] read the Tchehov [sic] aloud. I had read one of the stories myself and it seemed to me nothing.  But read aloud it was a masterpiece.  How was that?'"""
"""Tuesday 14 February 1922: 'I am reading [in convalescence, following week of illness] Moby Dick: Princesse de Cleves; Lord Salisbury; Old Mortality; Small Talk at Wreyland; with an occasional bite at the Life of Lord Tennyson, of Johnson; & anything else I find handy. But this is all dissipated & invalidish. I can only hope that like dead leaves they may fertilise my brain.'"""
"""Tuesday 14 February 1922: 'I am reading [in convalescence, following week of illness] Moby Dick: Princesse de Cleves; Lord Salisbury; Old Mortality; Small Talk at Wreyland; with an occasional bite at the Life of Lord Tennyson, of Johnson; & anything else I find handy. But this is all dissipated & invalidish. I can only hope that like dead leaves they may fertilise my brain.'"""
"""Tuesday 14 February 1922: 'I am reading [in convalescence, following week of illness] Moby Dick: Princesse de Cleves; Lord Salisbury; Old Mortality; Small Talk at Wreyland; with an occasional bite at the Life of Lord Tennyson, of Johnson; & anything else I find handy. But this is all dissipated & invalidish. I can only hope that like dead leaves they may fertilise my brain.'"""
"""Tuesday 14 February 1922: 'I am reading [in convalescence, following week of illness] Moby Dick: Princesse de Cleves; Lord Salisbury; Old Mortality; Small Talk at Wreyland; with an occasional bite at the Life of Lord Tennyson, of Johnson; & anything else I find handy. But this is all dissipated & invalidish. I can only hope that like dead leaves they may fertilise my brain.'"""
"""Tuesday 14 February 1922: 'I am reading [in convalescence, following week of illness] Moby Dick: Princesse de Cleves; Lord Salisbury; Old Mortality; Small Talk at Wreyland; with an occasional bite at the Life of Lord Tennyson, of Johnson; & anything else I find handy. But this is all dissipated & invalidish. I can only hope that like dead leaves they may fertilise my brain.'"""
"""Tuesday 14 February 1922: 'I am reading [in convalescence, following week of illness] Moby Dick: Princesse de Cleves; Lord Salisbury; Old Mortality; Small Talk at Wreyland; with an occasional bite at the Life of Lord Tennyson, of Johnson; & anything else I find handy. But this is all dissipated & invalidish. I can only hope that like dead leaves they may fertilise my brain.'"""
"""Tuesday 14 February 1922: 'I am reading [in convalescence, following week of illness] Moby Dick: Princesse de Cleves; Lord Salisbury; Old Mortality; Small Talk at Wreyland; with an occasional bite at the Life of Lord Tennyson, of Johnson; & anything else I find handy. But this is all dissipated & invalidish. I can only hope that like dead leaves they may fertilise my brain.'"""
"""15 February 1922: 'I thought to myself, as Lytton was talking, Now I will remember this & write it down in my diary tomorrow [...] """"""""Latest Racine"""""""" he had read on the posters at Waterloo; thought it referred to Masefield; then re-read Racing.'"""
"""Wednesday 16 August 1922: 'I have read 200 pages [of Ulysses] so far -- not a third; & have been amused, stimulated, charmed interested by the first 2 or 3 chapters -- to the end of the Cemetery scene; & then puzzled, bored, irritated, & disillusioned as by a queasy undergraduate scratching his pimples [...] An illiterate, underbred book it seems to me: the book of a self-taught working man, & we all know how distressing they are, how egotistic, insistent, raw, striking, & ultimately nauseating [...] I may revise this later. I do not compromise my critical sagacity. I plant a stick in the ground to mark page 200.'"""
"""Ever so many thanks for the little book of fantasy and charm and sharp irony seasoning the tragic story of poor Loveday, who had no other name.[...] Its a gem in its way.'"""
"""Saturday 18 February 1922: 'According to the papers, the cost of living is now I dont know how much lower than last year [...] You cant question Nelly [Woolf's cook] much without rubbing a sore. She threatens at once to send up a cheap meal [...] Not a very grievous itch; & quelled by the sight of the new Byron letters just come from Mudie's [library].'"""
"""Saturday 18 February 1922: 'I want to read Byron's Letters, but I must go on with La Princesse de Cleves. This masterpiece has long been on my conscience. Me to talk of fiction & not to have read this classic! But reading classics is generally hard going. Especially classics like this one, which are classics because of their perfect taste, shapeliness, composire, artistry [...] I think the beauty very great, but hard to appreciate [comments further on text].'"""
"""Saturday 18 February 1922: 'Within the last few minutes I have skimmed the reviews in the New Statesman; between coffee & cigarette I read the Nation: now the best brains in England (metaphorically speaking) sweated themselves for I dont know how many hours to give me this brief condescending sort of amusement [...] Reviews seem to me more & more frivolous.'"""
"""Saturday 18 February 1922: 'Within the last few minutes I have skimmed the reviews in the New Statesman; between coffee & cigarette I read the Nation: now the best brains in England (metaphorically speaking) sweated themselves for I dont know how many hours to give me this brief condescending sort of amusement [...] Reviews seem to me more & more frivolous.'"""
"""Friday 23 June 1922: 'Eliot dined last Sunday & read his poem. He sang it & chanted it rhythmed it. It has great beauty & force of phrase: symmetry; & tensity. What connects it together, I'm not so sure. But he read till he had to rush -- letters to write about the London Magazine -- & discussion thus was curtailed. One was left, however, with some strong emotion. The Waste Land, it is called'."""
"""I dictate these few words to thank you most heartily for your letters and especially for your little tale which I have read with absolute delight and appreciation of every point, and greatest sympathy with the mind which conceived it and the literary gift which guided the pen. During the last few weeks I have been finishing a novel and have been too absorbed to write to anyone.'"""
"""One late evening in the dim firelight of our rooms at Oxford after the War, she turned from reading aloud to me Swinburne's """"""""Super Flumina Babylonis"""""""" - a favourite poem associated in her mind with war-time loss and all premature death - and opened the notebook which contained her copies of Bill's verses.'"""
"""... I took up a volume with the uncompromising title My Past by a Countess Marie Larisch... T. S. Eliot was certainly one who read it, and before he wrote The Waste Land... Anyone familiar with Eliot's poem does not read very far before coming upon a similarity of names and places that can be hardly be fortuitous. We have seen that the Wittelbachs – which included the Empress and their cousin, the “mad king” Ludwig – occupied various castles around the Bavarian lake. “The archduke was my cousin” (lines 13-14 of the poem)... The Waste Land decor, moreover, bears kinship to certain passages in Countess Larisch's book. The opening lines of Part IV echo an account of the Empress' dressing-room, with its notable combination of magnificence and ennui. And the """"""""Chapel Perilous"""""""" of Part V curiously resembles the tumbledown chapter-house at Heiligenkreuz, to which the uncles of Maria Vetsera carried her mangled remains.' """
"""Copious MS notes, including a chronology explaining the ages of the characters: """"""""Samuel born 1833, 29 in 1862/ Constance born 1846, 16 in 1862/ Sophia born 1847, 15 in 1862 [etc.]"""""""". Dates of reading: """"""""Read aloud Wallington Oct 13 1915""""""""; """"""""Finished Dec. 13 1922"""""""". """
"""""""""""Abdication"""""""" arrived four of five days ago. How short the book is and how much you have managed to put into it. As you may imagine I read it at once.' """
"""January 2...What I chiefly admire in Jane Austen is that what she promises, she performs, i.e. if Sir T. is to arrive, we have his arrival at length, and it's excellent and exceeds our expectations. This is rare; it is also my very weakest point. Easy to see why...'"""
"""MS date of reading by G.O. Trevelyan: Sep 2 1922. Also: """"""""The pencil notes in this volume, which are cut off partially in the re-binding of it, are by a previous possessor. I have rubbed these out as we went along""""""""."""
"""Many thanks for your Laforgue. Your introduction couldn't be more interesting as regards both matter and tone. It is very very well done. Your author's text is odd [curieux]. Its charm is felt through the facts.'"""
"""I've lately read nothing but Marcel Proust.'"""
"""Tuesday 22 August 1922: ''Boen [Hawkesford] came to tea on Sunday [...] She is changing; reading Bliss under [Edward] Shanks' orders'."""
"""Yesterday I read bits of Barbellion, whose life seemd to be filled, like mine, with rejected manuscripts.'"""
"""Thank you for the book. Reading it gave me very great pleasure.'"""
"""Best wishes for the book's career begun yesterday—wasn't it?'"""
"""I must thank you for the volume which has just arrived.[...]. What  I have felt and thought is more suitable for talk, warm and many coloured than for the cold blue tint of the typewriter.'"""
"""Thanks my dearest fellow for the Che[k]hov vol. He is too delightful for words. Very great work. Very great. Do tell your wife of my admiration that grows and grows with every page of her translations I read. The renderings in this vol have impressed me extremely.'"""
"""Thank you, my dearest for all the books  you have presented me with, in particular for Fredro, qui m'a donné un plaisir extrème à lire et à regarder les images.'"""
"""I was very happy to receive """"""""La Musique et les nations"""""""" yesterday. I read the Debussy immediately and with the greatest of pleasure.' """
"""The book you sent me was a great pleasure to me. Some of the ships I knew personally.'"""
"""Pontigny is not marked in the largest and best English atlas.  But I had the wit to look for it  in the 'Grand Larousse'.  """
""" I have read 'Roasted Angels' and I now return it.  It is a very unusual and even a very remarkable play.  It is full of wit and fancy and most admirably written.  I should like to know who H. Hamer is.  He, or she, must have been writing for quite some little time."""
"""January 3...I read """"""""The Tempest"""""""". The papers came. I over-read them. Tell the truth. I did no work. In fact I was more idle and hateful than ever...""""""""The Tempest"""""""" seems to me astonishing this time.  When one reads the same play again, it is never the same play.'"""
"""January 3...I read """"""""The Tempest"""""""". The papers came. I over-read them. Tell the truth. I did no work. In fact I was more idle and hateful than ever...""""""""The Tempest"""""""" seems to me astonishing this tiem.  When one reads the same play again, it is never the same play.'"""
"""John Buchan was there, brisk and unpretentious, and the bluff and cordial Hugh Walpole, over whose new novel, """"""""The Cathedral"""""""", I was to laugh and weep so rapturously in the next few months.'"""
"""In """"""""The Leviathan"""""""" of Thomas Hobbes, one of the seventeenth-century philosophers whom we had studied in our classes on Political Science, she found for her quotation page a passage which exactly fitted the theme:'"""
"""In his Scrap Book in 1922 ... [George Saintsbury] recorded that he was 'reading for the hundredth time the Short Story of the World -- Scott's """"""""Wandering Willie's Tale"""""""".'"""
"""[Lehmann's novel """"""""Dusty Answer"""""""" has a structure] 'possibly derived from May Sinclair's bleak and brilliant portrait of misguided self sacrifice, """"""""Life and Death of Harriet Frean"""""""", which Rosamond read on its publication in 1922 and much admired'."""
"""I have just borrowed a copy of 'Ulysses'.  It appears to me to be jolly good, and it is certainly the most obscene genuine literature ever published, not excepting Juvenal and Co."""
"""January 4...I have read a good deal of """"""""Cosmic Anatomy"""""""" and understood it far better.  Yes, such a book does fascinate me.  Why does J. [Middleton Murry] hate it so? To get a glimpse of the relation of things - to follow that relation and find it remains true through the ages enlarges my little mind as nothing else does.  It's only a greater view of psychology....Read Shakespeare.'"""
"""January 5... Read """"""""Cosmic Anatomy"""""""". I managed to work a little.'"""
"""January 5... J. and I read """"""""Mansfield Park"""""""" with great enjoyment. I wonder if J. [Middleton Murry] is as content as he appears? It seems too good to be true.'"""
"""Monday 6 February 1922: 'What a sprightly journalist Clive Bell is! I have just read him, & see how my sentences would have to be clipped to march in time with his.'"""
"""January 6... Read Shakespeare, read """"""""Cosmic Anatomy"""""""", read The Oxford Dictionary.'"""
"""January 6... Read Shakespeare, read """"""""Cosmic Anatomy"""""""", read The Oxford Dictionary.'"""
"""January 6... Read Shakespeare, read """"""""Cosmic Anatomy"""""""", read The Oxford Dictionary.'"""
"""Wednesday 6 September 1922: 'I finished Ulysses, & think it a mis-fire. Genius it has I think; but of the inferior water. The book is diffuse. It is brackish. It is pretentious. It is underbred, not only in the obvious sense, but in the literary sense [...] I'm reminded all the time of some callow board school boy [...] full of wits & powers, but so self-conscious & egotistical that he loses his head, becomes extravagant, mannered, uproarious, ill at ease, makes kindly people feel sorry for him, & stern ones merely annoyed; & one hopes he'll grow out of it; but as Joyce is 40 this scarcely seems likely. I have not read it carefully; & only once; & it is very obscure; so no doubt I have scamped the virtue of it more than is fair.'"""
"""For the last two days I have been reading """"""""The [Forsythe] Saga"""""""" which makes a wonderful volume.[...] How fresh """"""""The Man of Property"""""""" reads. For that book I have a special affection. I have not read it for a couple of years, or more...' """
"""January 7... I read """"""""Cosmic Anatomy"""""""", Shakespeare and the Bible. Jonah.'"""
"""January 7... I read """"""""Cosmic Anatomy"""""""", Shakespeare and the Bible. Jonah.'"""
"""January 7... I read """"""""Cosmic Anatomy"""""""", Shakespeare and the Bible. Jonah.'"""
"""I read with the greatest of interest  your communications to the """"""""Times [Literary Supplement]"""""""" in the Dumas-Maquet affair. All this story is quite new to me.'"""
"""It was The Waste Land that compelled recognition... The title, we know, comes from Miss J. L. Weston's book From Ritual to Romance, the theme of which is anthropological: the Waste Land there has a significance in terms of Fertility Ritual.' """
"""While she was on board the yacht in August, the proofs of """"""""Riceyman Steps"""""""" arrived; She read them tucked up under rugs in the deck house on a """"""""wild grey day"""""""", and they made her weep.'"""
"""I went yesterday to Montreux and then changed and went in a funny funicular to a place called Gstaadt where we arrived at 7.30.  I read Byron all the time.'"""
"""I have been re-reading 'Du Côté.'  Well, it is marvellous.  I have also been re-reading 'Anna Karenina'.  Well, it is more marvellous.  I have also been re-reading 'Les Frères'.  Well, it is most marvellous.  Das ist das.  """
"""I have been re-reading 'Du Côté.'  Well, it is marvellous.  I have also been re-reading 'Anna Karenina'.  Well, it is more marvellous.  I have also been re-reading 'Les Frères'.  Well, it is most marvellous.  Das ist das.  """
"""I have been re-reading 'Du Côté.'  Well, it is marvellous.  I have also been re-reading 'Anna Karenina'.  Well, it is more marvellous.  I have also been re-reading 'Les Frères'.  Well, it is most marvellous.  Das ist das.  """
""".. . . I have no prejudice against the young, rather the reverse, and yet I am looking in vain for a really good novel by that generation, and 'Men Like Gods', with all its limitations, seems to me to contain more fundamental ‘stuff’ than anything else I have read for a long time.  I am very disappointed with Lawrence, who appears to me to have genius concealed somewhere within him.  Joyce has enormous power and originality, but he lacks the balance which is essential to great work.  George Moore can write the heads off any of you, and he is nearly 70.  I will tell you the men you need for your paper- Lynd, Forster, MacCarthy, Tomlinson.  Get them.  """
"""Thank you very much for your letter and the pamphlet in which I was very much interested.' """
"""I am rather dithered after writing nearly all night & [underlined] then [end underlining] reading the [underlined] Marsden Case [end underlining] - not without satisfaction.'"""
"""Intellectually, he seems to have been most concerned with the affairs of Middleton Murry's new periodical, the """"""""Adelphi"""""""".  . . . doesn't like Murry's layout and advertising. . .criticized Middleton Murry's editorials about his late wife Katherine Mansfield. . . . Bennett's letters about this problem are a model of tact . . .'"""
"""I was just about to write to you on the """"""""Dole """""""" articles. They are wonderfully the right thing: matter, tone, attitude, interest.[...] Jessie is lost in admiration.'"""
"""I have been interrupted [in finishing a play] by getting back the m.s. of [underlined] Mr. Bosphorus [end underlining] which I have just gone through again, cutting it a little. I shall send it off again this afternoon.'"""
"""Feeling low-spirited and headachy. Drank half a bottle of white wine at the reform and read 150 pages of Men like Gods by H. G. Wells. I can't understand Turner thinking the book bad. H.G's idea of Utopia(rather a garden-shrub world) isn't altogether my taste, but the fresh and hopeful vigour of the book roused my enthusiasm, and made me long to escape into a cleaner and more civilised future."""
"""I'm reading """"""""A Son at the Front"""""""" in book form. The wife reads serials in magazines which I don't.'"""
"""I have not read 'La Garçonne'.  I got about half way through it and then I had to give up, not because of its indecency but because it its dullness, poorness, and badness.  The indecency is only episodic, but I have never read such indecency in the work of a reputable author published by a reputable firm.  . . . It has also to be remembered that M. Margueritte has written, whether alone or in collaboration with his late brother, several novels of genuine importance, such as 'Le Désastre'. """
"""I have not read 'La Garçonne'.  I got about half way through it and then I had to give up, not because of its indecency but because it its dullness, poorness, and badness.  The indecency is only episodic, but I have never read such indecency in the work of a reputable author published by a reputable firm.  . . . It has also to be remembered that M. Margueritte has written, whether alone or in collaboration with his late brother, several novels of genuine importance, such as 'Le Désastre'. """
"""behind my back, E.J. is reading H.G.'s [underlined] Outline of History [end underlining] & making riotous comments on Amenhotep IV who she declares is a lidie with two heads'."""
"""After reading what you said about 'The Eternal Husband', I read that story again.  Je le trouve un peu manqué, surtout vers le fin.  """
"""Dined with Anzie Wylde at Old Queen Street. Some 'expert' business men have interested him in the floating of a company for exploiting the entire anatomy of sharks (New Zealand ones).  He was full of the scheme, which will, it is hoped, prove, by profits and products, that the shark is one of man's most useful friends. I spend a lot of time reading 'Seven Pillars of Wisdom' (lent me by T.E.L.) Note: One of eight copies which Lawrence had printed by the 'Oxford Times' for private circulation."""
"""Saturday 17 March 1923: 'Written, for a wonder, at 10 o'clock at night [...] my brain saturated with the Silent Woman. I am reading her because we now read plays at 46 [Gordon Square].'"""
"""Newman Flower, head of Cassell's, describes returning to work after period of illness to find first bound copy of Hall Caine's The Woman of Knockaloe (1923): 'I began to read ... [the introduction, signed by himself].  They were pages of adulation of the author and his beliefs.  And I had not written nor seen a word of it!'"""
"""Copious MS notes, incl.: """"""""The Midas was the first oration of Demosthenes which Macaulay gave me, as a schoolboy, to read ...The marks on the outer margin are copied from his Dindorf edition."""""""" MS dates of reading: April 13 1917 and Jan 16 1923. """"""""Finished --- on the 30th Jan 1923 - the day on which a more exulted culprit than Midias was brought to account. How these masterpieces grow upon one's appreciation at each reading! I am now just halfway between 84 and 85; - nearly 70 years since I read the Midias for the first time."""""""" P.125: """"""""Macaulay gave the the Meidias to read while I was at Harrow. His choice of books which he lent me while at school is significant. The Meidias, the Gorgias, the Plutus of Aristophanes, Quintus Curtius, Dialogues of the Dead of Lucian. When I was preparing for the Gregory Scholarship examination he gave me Juvenal with a translation on the opposite side."""""""""""
"""Copious MS notes and marginal marks, including some showing signs of irritation: v.5 p.96 """"""""Oh do have done!""""""""; v.4: """"""""Oh do shut up"""""""". Several dates of reading noted including: """"""""Read aloud Nov 7 1904. Charles Dalrymple came this evening""""""""; """"""""Read aloud June 28 1923""""""""."""
"""MS notes including dates of reading, e.g.: """"""""July 18 1916 Welcombe""""""""; """"""""March 29 1923 with Anna [i.e. Anna Philips, George Otto Trevelyan's sister-in-law]; """"""""Read aloud to C [i.e. Lady Caroline Trevelyan] and most of it to her and Anna. Dec 23 1923 Welcombe""""""""."""
"""Many marginal notes, including dates of reading: May 27, 1919 and June 22-July 1 1923. """"""""Too much Hohanzollen. Without that family these Berliners might have been quiet, decent people enough."""""""" Also, on flyleaf: """"""""Published 1886. See p. 145"""""""". Text on p. 145 has: """"""""For fifteen years now we have enjoyed peace and all its blessings, and this we owe to German trustwowrthiness."""""""" George Otto Trevelyan writes beside this: """"""""So it was 1886. Bismarck was born in 1815."""""""""""
"""MS notes in all vol. other than I, XI and XVI. Some are copied from Macaulay's own copy of Cicero which he read between 1835-7: """"""""transferred by me from his Bipontine edition [to] the outside margin of the Delpin""""""""; """"""""Macaulay's notes are marked with M"""""""". Sir George's dates of reading incude: 1899; 1903; """"""""June 18 1904 Chamonix""""""""; """"""""Nov 17 1909 Rome A heavy day of rain & the break up of our long spell of fine weather""""""""; """"""""Wallington Oct 12 1916""""""""; """"""""Christmas Day 1918 Welcombe""""""""; 1919; """"""""June 21 1921 Wallington""""""""; 1923. Sir George responds to Macaulay's comments: """"""""I understand my uncle's feelings about it in India, and his reservations twenty years afterwards."""""""" V.3: """"""""On the whole I agree with Macaulay about the comparative value of the Third Book [...]"""""""". Vol. 12 draws historical parallels: """"""""It is strange to read these letters. Cicer's cruel anxiety about the course to be taken [...] were like out anxieties about America, the Balkans, and the Scandinavian States. Then, as now, the whole civilised world was in question"""""""" [written in 1915]. """
""" """"""""I have been reading Grey Wethers,"""""""" said the Marquis- """"""""a magnificent book.  The descriptions of the downs are as fine as any in the language.  Such power!  Such power!  Not a pleasant book of course!  But what English!"""""""" '"""
""" On your recommendation I have just bought 'The Dance of Life' and am reading it.  It repayeth perusal, & I thank thee.  (But I have been an admirer of Havelock for 30 years.)"""
"""Will you please give my warm regards to your husband and tell him I have just finished reading the """"""""Rumak"""""""" with the greatest possible interest. I think it's simply wonderful in its sustained power and charm of expression.[...] I haven't been able as yet to find time to begin """"""""Pustka.''"""
"""It is very curious her [Ford's daughter's] coquettish mischievousness. If you shew her a letter she will always say it wrong: but when she is sitting on the bed in the morning with a newspaper & thinks no one is noticing her, she prattles on about B for Bodog's; P for Piggy & points to the right letters.'"""
"""Heartfelt thanks for your letter and the pamphlet about Einstein which for me is a small masterpiece of its kind.'"""
"""Thank you for your little book of innermost thoughts.[...] And you have proved your excellent humanity by the manner and matter of your essays.'"""
"""Various MS notes and marks including date of reading: June 23 1923 and a note on p.311 """"""""The birthplace"""""""": """"""""This was based on the story of Mr. Skipsey, told to Carry [i.e. Lady Caroline Trevelyan] by the Spence Watsons, and by her to Henry James."""""""""""
"""The vol. of your stories arrived while we were over in Havre [...]. Thanks, my dear fellow its a jolly good handful. Some of them I've seen before in Mags. but not many.'"""
"""Warmest thanks for the vol and for the inscription. Oh my dear how good how profoundly appealing all this is &mdash; this little selection.'"""
"""Now as regards the 'N.R.F'., am I unjust?  All I know is that under Copeau, I panted monthly for the 'N.R.F'. Under Rivière, I pass a fortnight before opening it.  The foremost is fundamental and unanswerable literary criticism!  Yes, I had read 'Clodomir l’assassin'.  It was marvellous.  """
"""Now as regards the 'N.R.F'., am I unjust?  All I know is that under Copeau, I panted monthly for the 'N.R.F'. Under Rivière, I pass a fortnight before opening it.  The foremost is fundamental and unanswerable literary criticism!  Yes, I had read 'Clodomir l’assassin'.  It was marvellous.  Inspired by your letter, I searched out the Numbers containing it and read it again. . ."""
"""We have just had a new edition of the works of Hale White (Mark Rutherford).  It is a miserable and ill-printed edition, but it exists, and I am reading him all over again. Hale White is a great writer who adopted a form which he never learnt how to use: the novel. His construction is usually naïf to the point of absurdity.  But he is full of great stuff, and a most genuine stylist—one of the best, I think.'  """
"""Heavily annotated, mainly in pencil in French (though some summary notes in English), throughout. Note on inside cover tells us that this book was re-read in February 1923."""
"""Pardon a word of unsolicited criticism about your venture.  I think the contents are pretty creditable, but I think that the material presentation leaves something to be desired.  The page is not good, and the type is entirely without distinction.  . . . Taken as a whole, the mere look of the review is extremely disappointing—even to the sinister colour of the cover."""
"""[Father] taught himself to read English almost perfectly. Mother somehow taught herself enough English to get the gist of the contents of English newspapers. Father, oddly, refused to read the English papers; I fancy he thought more highly of books. I dimly remember evenings, before mother became very ill, when she sat with him at the kitchen table while he ate his dinner, and with obvious delight read an English paper to him. She also of course read """"""""Die Zeit"""""""", and letters in Yiddish from relatives left behind in Lithuania; these came more and more infrequently and finally died away. I suppose she never had time to read anything else'."""
"""The Lawrence is magnificent.  Pity he is falling more & more into the trick of repeating a word or a phrase.  It irritates the reader & enfeebles the sturff.  Also the connection between trees & human beings is not very strong.  But really this article is the goods.  The Tomlinson article is also magnificent.  Not better stuff than this is being done.  The K.M. story is excellently characteristic.  Mr. Joiner is good; it halts at the beginning.  . . .  I think the number is simply splendid—especially for a first number. & you are to be seriously & gravely congratulated upon it.  """
"""The Lawrence is magnificent.  Pity he is falling more & more into the trick of repeating a word or a phrase.  It irritates the reader & enfeebles the sturff.  Also the connection between trees & human beings is not very strong.  But really this article is the goods.  The Tomlinson article is also magnificent.  Not better stuff than this is being done.  The K.M. story is excellently characteristic.  Mr. Joiner is good; it halts at the beginning.  . . .  I think the number is simply splendid—especially for a first number. & you are to be seriously & gravely congratulated upon it.  """
"""The Lawrence is magnificent.  Pity he is falling more & more into the trick of repeating a word or a phrase.  It irritates the reader & enfeebles the sturff.  Also the connection between trees & human beings is not very strong.  But really this article is the goods.  The Tomlinson article is also magnificent.  Not better stuff than this is being done.  The K.M. story is excellently characteristic.  Mr. Joiner is good; it halts at the beginning.  . . .  I think the number is simply splendid—especially for a first number. & you are to be seriously & gravely congratulated upon it.  """
"""The Lawrence is magnificent.  Pity he is falling more & more into the trick of repeating a word or a phrase.  It irritates the reader & enfeebles the sturff.  Also the connection between trees & human beings is not very strong.  But really this article is the goods.  The Tomlinson article is also magnificent.  Not better stuff than this is being done.  The K.M. story is excellently characteristic.  Mr. Joiner is good; it halts at the beginning.  . . .  I think the number is simply splendid—especially for a first number. & you are to be seriously & gravely congratulated upon it.  """
"""The Lawrence is magnificent.  Pity he is falling more & more into the trick of repeating a word or a phrase.  It irritates the reader & enfeebles the sturff.  Also the connection between trees & human beings is not very strong.  But really this article is the goods.  The Tomlinson article is also magnificent.  Not better stuff than this is being done.  The K.M. story is excellently characteristic.  Mr. Joiner is good; it halts at the beginning.  . . .  I think the number is simply splendid—especially for a first number. & you are to be seriously & gravely congratulated upon it.  """
"""I will strive to let you have a note about André Maurois’s 'Ariel ou la vie de Shelley'.  It is a very bright thing."""
"""Thursday 30 Auguust: 'My goodness, the wind! Last night we looked at the meadow trees, flinging about [...] I read such a white dimity rice puddingy chapter of Mrs Gaskell in the gale """"""""Wives and Daughters""""""""'."""
"""I have read your delightful and penetrating (I use the word deliberately) """"""""[Mysterious] Japan"""""""". I have the book. I was looking into it again only the other day. Pray do send me your """"""""Roosevelt"""""""" and don't forget to write your name on the flyleaf.'"""
"""I have been laid up for days and days and your volume of H[udson]'s letters was the most welcome alleviation to the worry and general horror of the situation. I think that your little introduction at the beginning is the most charming and touching thing that I ever remember having read. The letters themselves are of course particularly interesting.'"""
"""I am better now and hasten to thank you for the more than generous sample of the """"""""Criterion"""""""" which is really very good and did help me through some pretty bad sleepless hours of more than one night.' """
"""Saturday 27 March 1926: '[Gerald Gould] reads novels incessantly; got a holiday 3 years ago, & prided himself on reading nothing but Tchekhov'."""
"""After reading """"""""Living Alone"""""""" in 1923, Winifred wrote Stella a letter of appreciation.  When no answer arrived she concluded that Stella Benson, like so many authors, put her """"""""fan mail"""""""" in the wastepaper basket, but months afterwards a reply came from South China.' """
""" 'Riceyman Steps' had brought him new prestige; it was read by lords and barbers, and Conrad was reported to say that it showed 'Bennett victorious'."""
"""...he read widely about working-class life in the district.'"""
""" I have a wonderful miniature edition of Byron’s 'Don Juan', illustrated, for you, with a staggering Victorian preface.  I am bound to say, with all my modesty, that it takes me to find these things.  """
"""I sat up late reading of Mr. Jingle's artifices, until at last I began to speculate drowsily as to that gentleman's proficiency on ski. It seemed that he was arguing fiercely with Mr.Snodgrass on the advantages of the stem Christiania over the telemark, and I caught fragments such as, """"""""Magnificent feeling-always use it-sharp swing-no bone breaker-good turn-very!"""""""" While Mr. Pickwick, clad in gaiters,smiled benignantly in the background.' """
"""Monday 6 August 1923: 'We went over to Charleston yesterday [...] Clive was sitting in the drawing room window reading Dryden.'"""
""" It is not an article at all.  [‘Adrien van de Venne’ in Studies (Dublin), June 1923] It is a romance, a drama, an epic; and puts you in the grande lignée des collectionneurs. I read it with greatest interest, and pride in you.  I shall certainly not return it.  I shall keep it to astound people with."""
"""Your Comédie du Laboratoire is perfect. Très chic — as French painters used to say of their pictures. This formula expresses the highest praise.'"""
"""Many thanks for the two copies, especially the grand format, of Crane's biography. Both sizes are very attractively got up. I very well like your fount and the spacing of the lines. I am going to drop a few lines to Mr Beer to congratulate him on his achievement. It is a live book, more so than any biography I ever read.'"""
"""Sorry I am late in thanking you for the little book and the friendly inscription. I greatly enjoyed the parodies on those writers I have read.'"""
"""I've had the """"""""Fortnightly [Review]"""""""" sent to me. I've just finished your """"""""Sainte Beuve"""""""". My dear fellow! It's an admirable analytical exposition of the man himself. I've never read anything of this kind that gave me the same sense of penetrating vision coupled with formal perfection.'"""
"""I am sorry I put in an, apparently, unlucky form what I had to say about the two pieces of prose you sent me.'"""
"""I am sending back the pamphlet of the rules of the [National] Club. It is very interesting but but it occurs to me, my dear Gardiner [...] I cannot very well belong to the Club by the mere fact that I was born a R[oman] C[atholic]...' """
"""I am obliged for your letter and the enclosures.  I return all the latter, together with my report and adjudication.  . . . In my opinion the three best contributions, in order of merit, are: 1. Tommy Fiddler By “Muda” [may have been Lapage]  2. From Bondage By “Cinna” [Geoffrey Bullough] 3.  The Best Policy  By Kate Simmonds."""
"""I am obliged for your letter and the enclosures.  I return all the latter, together with my report and adjudication.  . . . In my opinion the three best contributions, in order of merit, are: 1. Tommy Fiddler By “Muda” [may have been Lapage]  2. From Bondage By “Cinna” [Geoffrey Bullough] 3.  The Best Policy  By Kate Simmonds."""
"""I am obliged for your letter and the enclosures.  I return all the latter, together with my report and adjudication.  . . . In my opinion the three best contributions, in order of merit, are: 1. Tommy Fiddler By “Muda” [may have been Lapage]  2. From Bondage By “Cinna” [Geoffrey Bullough] 3.  The Best Policy  By Kate Simmonds."""
"""[Baby] is making progress with her reading & can - most times - identify the sound & the curly S & the elegant L. Perhaps she will be writing short stories by your return!'"""
"""As for me I am reading Wells on history! I think it wickeder than I did: but it's an amazing piece of book-making. When he gets past clerical & medieval times he's quite sound from a Left point of view till he gets to Napoleon! But [underlined] how [end underlining] jealous he is of all great men from Pericles and J. Caesar to everyone else. You see him saying: """"""""No! I couldn't do what Alexander did. So I'll do for [underlined] his [end underlining] reputation!"""""""" And the joke of it is that he damns every one of them - Solomon, Mahomet, Alexander, Julius Caesar & the rest for being untrustworthy with women! I've never seen Satan so splendidly reprove sin.'"""
"""I liked """"""""Engineer"""""""" very very much indeed! The idea, the execution, the style.[...] Shall I return the MS to you?'"""
"""For weeks I've had a bad wrist or I would have thanked you before for the """"""""[A] M[an] [in] the Z[oo]"""""""". D[avid] may be congratulated in pulling off this piece with great tact and subtlety.' """
"""I suppose I've added to my awareness of the English Language, through looking up thousands of words in Webster, and wearing out the binding of Roget's Thesaurus. And I've read a lot more than in any previous winter of my life. What? 'Seven Pillars' (350,000 words) for a start. That was worth doing, and needed concentrated effort."""
"""I have read 'A Passage to India' with interest and admiration, though the characters are all more or less repellent (except Fielding who is mostly Forster himself)."""
"""Thank you for the magazines and books. I haven't yet dipped into the novel. I am very touched by the favourable response of the critics to the translation [of """"""""A Set of Six""""""""]. The article in """"""""Robotnik"""""""" is very good and has greatly pleased me.'"""
"""The play arrived yesterday and I read it in the evening (the proper time for plays) with the greatest appreciation.' [...] Some day &mdash; if you permit me &mdash; I'll send you the copy so you may write your name and mine on the flyleaf.'  """
"""Marginal marks and MS notes. Dates of reading on final page and the note: """"""""What was the year when we saw so much of the American family who so much reminded us of the Dossons? It could not be 1913; as we spent Christmas with them in Rome; and in 1913 Carry [i.e. Lady Caroline Trevelyan] never left her bed!"""""""""""
"""Various marginal marks and MS dates of reading including: """"""""Welcombe. Read to C[Lady Caroline Trevelyan] and Anna [his sister-in-law]. Feb 14 1910""""""""; """"""""Feb 21 1924"""""""". """
"""[...] two or three times a week after dinner we got out the chessmen and board and spent a couple of hours playing through the games in Capablanca's book. We played every game in the book, J[oseph] C[onrad] reading the moves, stopping where Capablanca had made a comment, so we could write down our own observations.' """
"""The single bed proved very unsuitable for Joseph Conrad, because apart from its legitimate purpose as a resting place, his bed had to be hospitable to a heap of books, all open and face downwards, maps, bed-rest, and more than once a wooden Spratt's dog-biscuit box he had ordered his man to place at the foot of the bed to brace his feet against.'"""
"""I am wholly delighted with your """"""""R.[iceyman] S.[teps]. Wholly. You will give me credit for not having missed any special gems but it is the whole achievement as I went from page to page that secured my admiration. [...] I closed the book at 7 in the morning after the shortest sleepless night of my experience [...]'"""
"""I cannot understand the small sale of 'Felix' ['Young Felix'] in this bloody country.'   """
"""  I have a collection of 8 short stories of hers, [Pauline Smith] all, in my opinion, fine.  Middleton Murry would have published them in a small volume, but his publishing enterprise has not come to anything.  I have been wondering whether you would care to publish them.  . . . I ought to mention that Miss Smith is now at work on a novel, which, so far as I have read it, is at least as fine as the best things in the short stories.  """
"""  I have a collection of 8 short stories of hers, [Pauline Smith] all, in my opinion, fine.  Middleton Murry would have published them in a small volume, but his publishing enterprise has not come to anything.  I have been wondering whether you would care to publish them.  . . . I ought to mention that Miss Smith is now at work on a novel, which, so far as I have read it, is at least as fine as the best things in the short stories.  """
"""As to the novel I think that between us two, if I tell you that I consider it """"""""tout à fait chic"""""""" you will understand perfectly how much that """"""""phrase de l'atelier"""""""" means to the initiated.'"""
""" I want you to tell R.M. du Gard how highly I esteem 'Barois'.  When I first bought it, ages ago, I was so impressed by it that I had it charmingly bound, and I often read in it again. . . . I am very pleased with 'Amants, heureux amants', especially that last story; Valery’s best work, I think.    """
""" I want you to tell R.M. du Gard how highly I esteem 'Barois'.  When I first bought it, ages ago, I was so impressed by it that I had it charmingly bound, and I often read in it again. . . . I am very pleased with 'Amants, heureux amants', especially that last story; Valery’s best work, I think.    """
"""He was annoyed by some of Priestley's comments in """"""""The Mercury"""""""" (February 1924) as he notes in his journal . . .'"""
""" I offer you my sincere & almost violent congratulations on 'C'.  I have been greatly impressed by it.  It held me throughout its immense length.  """
"""Many thanks for letting me have a view of the Nelson letter which is most interesting. I appreciate very much you taking the risk of loss in order to give me that pleasure.'"""
"""Forgive me for not thanking you sooner for the book [""""""""Incidences""""""""]. It's my gouty wrist I can barely hold a pen. But I don't need to tell you that I find your pages always congenial beyond measure. In the volume you so kindly sent to me there are some pages that I know. I did not know the Prefaces. I read them with delight &mdash; and also the reflections on mythology.'"""
"""My gouty wrist has kept me from thanking you immediately for the volume of poems that you so kindly sent me. [...] What more can I say to give you an idea of the pleasure (complete and faultless) that the reading of your verses has given me?'"""
"""When Middleton Murry attacked George Moore in an editorial of the """"""""Adelphi"""""""" in April 1924, he [Arnold Bennett] wrote a very strong letter of protest, and rightly: Murry's piece, """"""""Wrap me up in my Aubusson Carpet"""""""", had been a characteristically emotional and unbalanced attack . . .'"""
"""Today's """"""""J[ohn] B[lunt]"""""""" is particularly good.  [...] The last three """"""""Blunts"""""""" were remarkably good.'"""
"""Remember with great pleasure weeks recovering from abortion in 1924 and for once holding my life in suspension, not wanting anything, not even concerned with the future, but perfectly happy reading Proust...'"""
""" I have now read 'Tunnel Trench'.  The copy which you kindly gave me got lost—I don’t know how, but I obtained another one.  . . . Of course the play is not ‘nice’ reading, and of course we who never went to the front in a fighting capacity hate to be reminded by those who did so go that there ever was a war. But all that does not matter.  My criticism of the play, or of myself, would be that I cannot quite find the central moral idea upon which it is based.  """
"""My warm thanks for the inscribed copy of """"""""Bolshevik Persecution"""""""" you have been kind enough to send me. I have read with interest this most remarkably able account of a significant episode in the long tale of religious persecution.'"""
"""I had letter from Sir Hugh Clifford. He sends me six copies of his address to the Legislative Council.[...] The report is very interesting.' """
"""I think the 'C.N.' is fine.  It is bound to make you respected among those whose respect alone is a comfort in moments of depression.  For myself, I have been more impressed by it than by any novel from a new writer for years.  """
"""Many thanks for so kindly sending me your book.  Of course I read the essay on myself when it appeared in the Mercury. (One never misses these things.)  Equally of course I did not agree with all of it, but at any rate I thought it very able...'"""
""" Many thanks for so kindly sending me your book.  Of course I read the essay on myself when it appeared in the 'Mercury'. (One never misses these things.)  Equally of course I did not agree with all of it, but at any rate I thought it very able and I agree heartily with all the praise; also I thought that some of the animadversions were rather good.  """
"""I read with the greatest pleasue  what you say about Trollope. I made his acquaintance full thirty years ago and made up my mind about his value then, as a writer of remarkable talent for imaginative rendering of the social life of his time, with its activities and interests and incipient thoughts.[ ...] I was considerably impressed with them [The """"""""Palliser"""""""" novels] in the early eighties when I chanced upon a novel entitled """"""""Phineas Finn"""""""".  Haven't seen them since, to tell you the truth [...]'"""
"""I feel compunctions not having written before about """"""""The Forest"""""""" &mdash; a piece of work to which I came with the greatest interest. [...]. Anyway its a fine thing.' """
"""Many thanks for """"""""La Maison natale"""""""", which you have so kindly sent me. I have just finished reading it and am greatly impressed by the simple and effective way you treat what I consider the most difficult subject in the realm of the spirit.'  """
"""I am sorry I am so late in thanking you for the two vols of Polish Literature which I have read with the highest appreciation &mdash; and for the brochure on the religious element in Polish national life which told me many things I did not know before.'  """
"""I am sorry I am so late in thanking you for the two vols of Polish Literature which I have read with the highest appreciation &mdash; and for the brochure on the religious element in Polish national life which told me many things I did not know before.'  """
"""I am sorry I am so late in thanking you for the two vols of Polish Literature which I have read with the highest appreciation &mdash; and for the brochure on the religious element in Polish national life which told me many things I did not know before.'  """
"""John was not only reading and quoting Lord Alfred Douglas at Marlborough. Ernest Betjeman [his father] was scandalized to discover that he was also corresponding with the former lover of Oscar Wilde'."""
"""Monday 1 June 1925: 'Now comes Mrs Hardy to say that Thomas reads, & hears the C[ommon]. R[eader]. read, with """"""""great pleasure"""""""".'"""
"""Sunday 17 May 1925: 'Yesterday we had tea with Margaret in her new house [...] She is severe to Lilian [Harris, her companion], who [...] is not allowed to plant flowers, she said bitterly, because it worries Margaret, & so nothing is done to the garden, which too worries Margaret. For these worries, she takes Ethel M. Dell & Dickens.'"""
"""Sunday 17 May 1925: 'Yesterday we had tea with Margaret in her new house [...] She is severe to Lilian [Harris, her companion], who [...] is not allowed to plant flowers, she said bitterly, because it worries Margaret, & so nothing is done to the garden, which too worries Margaret. For these worries, she takes Ethel M. Dell & Dickens.'"""
"""I noticed strangely few misprints in 'C.A.’s Pa'. though I had my malicious eye open for them.  """
"""In 1925 Ifan Edwards was driven by unemployment to read Das Kapital in the public library. """"""""It took him about four hundred pages of close print to come to the crux of his argument in the classic illustration of a labourer looking for a job in a factory, and, as he said, expecting nothing but a hiding"""""""", Edwards remembered. """"""""This little aside appealed to me very much, as I had had one or two hidings myself"""""""".'"""
"""We avidly read every page of every issue of the famous """"""""Saturday Evening Post"""""""". We learned a lot from the U.S. advertising therein and sometimes cribbed a few ideas.'"""
"""Copious MS notes; multiple dates of reading , incl. """"""""Sept 15 1915 Wallington""""""""; """"""""July 3 1922 A glorious winter""""""""; """"""""Finished Herodotus, all of him, once again this day Sept. 10 1925. He is a cordial in old age, and an anodyne in poor health. But I shall now pass willingly enough to Thucydides with a fine, clear legible type. My old copy was bought 73 years ago, at Harrow! I am reading, side by side with my two Greek historians, the Annals and the Histories of Tacitus. Macaulay found in the three of them """"""""something he could find in no one else""""""""; and my experience is the same as his. G.O. Trevelyan"""""""" """
"""Many MS notes, some of which are transcribed from those of Lord Macaulay in another edition: """"""""Macaulay's notes and marginal lines (on the outside margins) are transferred from his Bipontine edition. His notes are marked with an """"""""M""""""""."""""""" Sir George's dates of reading include: """"""""Florence Jan. 22 1901. The day of Queen Victoria's death""""""""; Jam 25 1901 """"""""On way from Florence to Rome, Edward the Seventh proclaimed yesterday""""""""; June 22 1920; Aug 2 1924 """"""""Read with unceasing zest and admiration. May I live to finish him! But I was 86 last month"""""""";  p.740: """"""""a rare good writer. But a very difficult one to read, I must confess, as a student of very mature age (1924)""""""""; Dec 24 1924 """"""""With Herodotus and Thucydides, he appertains to the first three historians of the Ancient World. I am reading them all again, with Suetonius if indeed I can live to finish them. This is the 4th time in this century that I have read them all through""""""""; Jan 17 1925. P.1629, Sir George writes: """"""""The development of Nero is a marvellous story, marvellously told; - as Carlyle would have written it, had he been a Roman of the age of Tacitus. I read it as I read the """"""""French Revolution"""""""" in the Trinity backs in the summer of 1858, when I ought to have been reading Pindar and Thucydides. That summer I read the French Revolution three times on end [underlined twice]; besides devouring the Third Volume of """"""""Modern Painters"""""""" and """"""""Men and Women"""""""". As far as a place in the classical Tripos was concerned I doubt if I could have been better employed."""""""" P.2750: """"""""As fine history, and as much to my mind, as any I ever read. Tacitus was much the same age as Carlyle, when he wrote the French Revolution, - which I read as an undergraduate at Trinity; reading three times through one end, with no book between. I did very much the same by this volume of Tacitus in the course of this winter, at 87 years of age."""""""""""
""". . . her short stories, 'The Little Karoo', all set in the South Africa of her childhood, were widely admired and are still remembered.  Bennett must have felt a justified pride in writing an introduction for the collection, in 1925, describing himself as """"""""the earliest wondering admirer  of her strange, austere, tender and ruthless talent""""""""'.  """
""" I venture to write a very few words about your book on me.  It has given me great pleasure.  . . . The book is incomparably better than Darton’s—at any rate than the first edition of Darton’s.  I never read the second. """
""" I venture to write a very few words about your book on me.  It has given me great pleasure.  . . . The book is incomparably better than Darton’s—at any rate than the first edition of Darton’s.  I never read the second. """
"""Monday 21 December 1925: 'I read her [Vita Sackville-West's] poem; which is more compact, better seen & felt than anything yet of hers.'"""
"""Now my sweet Francis I have read your book in this Alpine district.   . . . There is not, really, much fault to be found with 'T.N.Y.C.'  It is well-constructed; and the pace is maintained; I mean it doesn’t flag.  """
"""I enclose 2 brief notes about your 2 stories.  There is not the slightest doubt in my mind that you can produce excellent saleable stories.  I have practically no fault to find with these technically.  """
"""I have been horribly remiss in writing to thank you for """"""""Mrs Dalloway"""""""", but as I didn't want to write you the 'How-charming-of-you-to-send-me-your-book-I-am-looking-forward-to-reading-so-much' sort of letter, I thought I would wait until I had read both it and The Common Reader, which I am sorry to say I have now done.'"""
"""I have been horribly remiss in writing to thank you for """"""""Mrs Dalloway"""""""", but as I didn't want to write you the 'How-charming-of-you-to-send-me-your-book-I-am-looking-forward-to-reading-so-much' sort of letter, I thought I would wait until I had read both it and The Common Reader, which I am sorry to say I have now done.'"""
"""I do not know sufficient about Villiers de l’Isle Adam to advise you.  His best known book is 'L’Eve Future'.  I have read half of it twice, but could never get to the end of it.  Axel (play) is another famous book of his but I have not read it.  His short stories are very renowned indeed.  Contes Cruels and Nouveaux Contes Cruels. I have read all these.  I should say that they were pretty wonderful fifty or sixty years ago , but what they would look like in a translation I cannot predict.  """
"""I do not know sufficient about Villiers de l’Isle Adam to advise you.  His best known book is 'L’Eve Future'.  I have read half of it twice, but could never get to the end of it.  'Axel' (play) is another famous book of his but I have not read it.  His short stories are very renowned indeed.  'Contes Cruels' and 'Nouveaux Contes Cruels'. I have read all these.  I should say that they were pretty wonderful fifty or sixty years ago , but what they would look like in a translation I cannot predict.  """
"""I do not know sufficient about Villiers de l’Isle Adam to advise you.  His best known book is 'L’Eve Future'.  I have read half of it twice, but could never get to the end of it.  'Axel' (play) is another famous book of his but I have not read it.  His short stories are very renowned indeed.  'Contes Cruels' and 'Nouveaux Contes Cruels'. I have read all these.  I should say that they were pretty wonderful fifty or sixty years ago , but what they would look like in a translation I cannot predict.  """
"""I do not know sufficient about Villiers de l’Isle Adam to advise you.  His best known book is 'L’Eve Future'.  I have read half of it twice, but could never get to the end of it.  'Axel' (play) is another famous book of his but I have not read it.  His short stories are very renowned indeed.  'Contes Cruels' and 'Nouveaux Contes Cruels'. I have read all these.  I should say that they were pretty wonderful fifty or sixty years ago , but what they would look like in a translation I cannot predict.  """
"""‘Many Mothers have no help - not even a daughter - & the Home  needs a lot of attention especially if one is not a good manager  - so only she can do it -  & perhaps she gives up trying to keep Sunday as a day of rest or refreshment for her spiritual life - Then how much time do we give to reading the Bible - God’s word - we do not know  Bible as our Grandmothers did - nor do we read it with the joy  & keenness the poor newly converted black does -  perhaps we have given up reading our Bibles - at first we were ill in bed - & it was an effort or we were too tired going to bed _ came home late from an evenings pleasure  _ & in the morning we have to hurry, -  so after this carelessness a few times -  our conscience doesn’t prick us quite so badly  & so the habit dropped - Then another excuse the children have grown bigger  - & could read themselves  & we ceased to be a help to them but we forget it  is so much easier for our growing girls & boys - if Mother will only talk over difficult passage which not being understood, is soon forgotten - & wh.[which] if explained might be so helpful ... his has all been on our domestic country life - I want you to think on broader lines - let us read more about other countries -  see what they are doing ... Then think of Russia we read many accounts of her plight in the papers - she is being ruled cruelly & oppressively by 3 million rulers  - & she is a nation of 300,000,000 ...’"""
"""‘Many Mothers have no help - not even a daughter - & the Home  needs a lot of attention especially if one is not a good manager  - so only she can do it -  & perhaps she gives up trying to keep Sunday as a day of rest or refreshment for her spiritual life - Then how much time do we give to reading the Bible - God’s word - we do not know  Bible as our Grandmothers did - nor do we read it with the joy  & keenness the poor newly converted black does -  perhaps we have given up reading our Bibles - at first we were ill in bed - & it was an effort or we were too tired going to bed _ came home late from an evenings pleasure  _ & in the morning we have to hurry, -  so after this carelessness a few times -  our conscience doesn’t prick us quite so badly  & so the habit dropped - Then another excuse the children have grown bigger  - & could read themselves  & we ceased to be a help to them but we forget it  is so much easier for our growing girls & boys - if Mother will only talk over difficult passage which not being understood, is soon forgotten - & wh.[which] if explained might be so helpful ... his has all been on our domestic country life - I want you to think on broader lines - let us read more about other countries -  see what they are doing ... Then think of Russia we read many accounts of her plight in the papers - she is being ruled cruelly & oppressively by 3 million rulers  - & she is a nation of 300,000,000 ...’"""
"""But in """"""""Current History"""""""" for September, Bruce Bliven, an editor of """"""""The New Statesman"""""""", ventured upon a prophecy: """"""""An active progressive movement is needed as it has never been before.... Such a progressive movement may not play a part in the national campaign in 1928 or 1932, but when it finally comes it will amount to something!""""""""'"""
"""As a ?1-a-week warehouse clerk in the early 1920s, H.E. Bates spent most of the workday with Conrad, Hardy, Wells, Bennett, Galsworthy, Edith Wharton and Willa Cather'."""
"""As a ?1-a-week warehouse clerk in the early 1920s, H.E. Bates spent most of the workday with Conrad, Hardy, Wells, Bennett, Galsworthy, Edith Wharton and Willa Cather'."""
"""As a ?1-a-week warehouse clerk in the early 1920s, H.E. Bates spent most of the workday with Conrad, Hardy, Wells, Bennett, Galsworthy, Edith Wharton and Willa Cather'."""
"""As a ?1-a-week warehouse clerk in the early 1920s, H.E. Bates spent most of the workday with Conrad, Hardy, Wells, Bennett, Galsworthy, Edith Wharton and Willa Cather'."""
"""As a ?1-a-week warehouse clerk in the early 1920s, H.E. Bates spent most of the workday with Conrad, Hardy, Wells, Bennett, Galsworthy, Edith Wharton and Willa Cather'."""
"""As a ?1-a-week warehouse clerk in the early 1920s, H.E. Bates spent most of the workday with Conrad, Hardy, Wells, Bennett, Galsworthy, Edith Wharton and Willa Cather'."""
"""As a ?1-a-week warehouse clerk in the early 1920s, H.E. Bates spent most of the workday with Conrad, Hardy, Wells, Bennett, Galsworthy, Edith Wharton and Willa Cather'."""
"""""""""""I read """"""""The Runners"""""""" last week,"""""""" he continued, and told her that he had advised John Lane to refuse it.'"""
"""Mr Wilson introduced us to another author - Victor Hugo... in 1925, """"""""Les Miserables"""""""" gripped us even more than """"""""Pickwick"""""""". Mr Wilson must have abridged it ruthlessly, but he made everything in nineteenth-century France sound as if it were happening in the England of our own day...The reading of """"""""Les Miserables"""""""" bound us together in one common experience.'"""
"""Some marginal annotation in pencil in English throughout the volume; read January 1925"""
"""I have new books by Maurice Baring, Sylvia Lynd, and W Gerhardi lying unread and they are all coming to dinner on the 17th inst.!  And I shan’t have read anything of them by that time.  I only read in bed, and before napping in the afternoon . . ."""
"""Now I have had my dinner, or rather Pippin has had most of my dinner, and it is dark and the house is silent, and the book of Elizabethan lyrics which I have been trying to read seems to be all about love-(blast it)-so I threw it across the room in anger because it made things worse.'"""
"""I return the typescript of your book.  ['Politicians and the Press'] You asked me to tell you whether I thought it was interesting.  It is very interesting, and it is all interesting.  But of course it is barefaced propaganda on behalf of the two 'Expresses'.  """
"""I am reading Proust, and dislike his mentality more and more.  I get the sense of that flabby, diseased, asthmatic man, all frowsty in bed till evening, and preoccupied with such contemptible things - nothing but women and snobbery.'"""
"""Thursday 1 July: '[in library of Robert Bridges, during visit to Morrell family at Garsington] I asked to see the Hopkins manuscripts; & sat looking at them with that gigantic grasshopper Aldous [Huxley] folded up in a chair close by.'"""
"""(I read it through at a sitting - but that of course is not a good test...) """
"""I let Colonel Haworth read a bit of it.  """"""""By God!"""""""" he said, """"""""this is the first book I've read on Persia which gives one the slightest idea what it's like."""""""" ' """
"""Winifred did not care, for she was reading Conrad's """"""""Suspense"""""""" - a noble and spacious book which made the early nineteenth century come alive for her in a clear yet faint glow like candlelight."""""""""""
"""I see there is a little reference to him [Drake] in a rude interview with me in the [underlined] World [end underlining] that I send you.'"""
"""  I have finished my novel . . . This is largely due to the exercises in 'The Culture of the Abdomen'.  They are marvellous.  Thank Gertrude for me. . . I am also dieting (in accordance with a book entitled 'Eat & Grow Thin') to reduce my weight & have clearly diminished myself by ¬Ω a stone.  """
"""  I have finished my novel . . . This is largely due to the exercises in 'The Culture of the Abdomen'.  They are marvellous.  Thank Gertrude for me. . . I am also dieting (in accordance with a book entitled 'Eat & Grow Thin') to reduce my weight & have clearly diminished myself by ¬Ω a stone.  """
"""What really [underlined] has [end underlining] harmed me here [as opposed to Violet Hunt's memoirs]- oddly enough -is Jessie's letter to the [underlined] Times [end underlining]'. """
"""When, during the 1926 miners' strike, [G.A.W. Tomlinson] read 'The Charge of the Light Brigade', an obvious political message """"""""crashed into my mind, mixing together the soldiers of the poem and the men of the pits, I was terribly excited. Why hadn't all the clever people found this out?"""""""".'"""
"""I have been too much bothered & depressed by the S.L. ['South Lodge', Fiord's code for Violet Hunt] book to write [...] In the meantime Rebecca [West] naturally has sailed in & made matters excruciatingly more disagreeable. She has told several people that V.H. is an admirable and martyred saint & that every word in the book is true.'"""
"""I have been too much bothered & depressed by the S.L. ['South Lodge', Ford's code for Violet Hunt] book to write [...] In the meantime Rebecca [West] naturally has sailed in & made matters excruciatingly more disagreeable. She has told several people that V.H. is an admirable and martyred saint & that every word in the book is true.'"""
"""Oh dear, [...] that's what comes of living alone in the rain and reading Wordsworth.'"""
"""D. H. Lawrence . . . reviewed the novel [The World of William Clissold by Wells] in the """"""""Calendar"""""""" of October 1926, in a piece which Bennett says shows his """"""""childish and spiteful disposition"""""""".'  """
"""The only thing S.L. [Violet Hunt's memoirs] says about you, by the bye, is that I am now wandering homeless over Europe with a younger and more robust Egeria. I meant to send you the review in the N.Y. Times which contained those phrases, but I forgot it and it is impossible to get back issues of papers here.'"""
"""Mrs van Doren told me yesterday that Macfee - one of her reviewers- had received a letter full of the most incredible Billingsgate from Jessie because he had mentioned my book about C. more favourably than hers. I've read hers. It's really quite good and not [underlined] very [end underlining] offensive to me.'"""
"""Wednesday 24 March 1926: 'These disjointed reflections I scribble on a divine, if gusty, day; being about, after reading Anna Karenina, to dine at a pot-house with Rose Macaulay -- not a cheerful entertainment; but an experience perhaps.'"""
"""Darling, do you know what I did last night after writing to you?  I meant to finish my lecture, but fell to reading the Georgics (mine, not Virgil's), and really I thought they were rather good.'"""
"""Beaverbrook vetted all the politics, finding only two or three small slips in the entire novel, which is a tribute to his briefing and to Bennett's attention.'"""
"""The more I read the book, the more wonderful it seems to me. It is really a great book. Arthur says, and I more than agree with him, that the passage about Pyramus and Thisbe will, in the future, be regarded as one of the greatest passages in English literature. As I say, I agree, but the whole book in its entirety is to me like some wonderful and unspeakably moving music. It excites one, moves one, intoxicates one to an incredible degree. The worst is, it unfits one for daily life. To have to eat one's lunch in the middle of reading it is practically impossible. And I got, literally, no sleep after it, on Friday night. I couldn't sleep after it. This isn't talent - not even great talent- not even a great gift - it is genius. You know what my pride in you is. I am most terribly proud to be your sister.'"""
"""I took the Boni brothers out to lunch at a speak-easy & Albert said (A.) he had read SL's memoirs completely through & could find nothing in it but a most touching tribute to myself & that in it I stand out as a tremendous hero of romance!!!'"""
"""Saturday 27 February 1926: 'Mrs. Webb's book has made me think a little what I could say of my own life. I read some of 1923 this morning, being headachy again'."""
"""Saturday 27 February 1926: 'Mrs. Webb's book has made me think a little what I could say of my own life. I read some of 1923 this morning, being headachy again'."""
""" Thanks for your letter & 'The Polyglots'.  I regret not to be able to agree with you as to the latter.  I have read it, & though it is loose & contains some merely silly pages, I much enjoyed it.  I think it is an original and diverting work, with power in many places, and un peu touchant."""
"""Saturday 27 March 1926: '[Gerald Gould] reads novels incessantly; got a holiday 3 years ago, & prided himself on reading nothing but Tchekhov'."""
"""He sat down on the floor beside me, and helped me to look up """"""""droil"""""""".  """"""""What's this?"""""""" he said, taking up my proofs.  I simpered.  He took them out into the garden, spread a rug very carefully on the grass, and began to read.  I fled upstairs and packed.  After an hour I re-appeared. The Laureate was still reading.'"""
"""Tuesday 28 September 1926: 'Intense depression: I have to confess that this has overcome me several times since September 6th [...] Somehow, my reading had lapsed [...] One night I got hold of Geoffrey Scott's book on Architecture, & a little spark of motive power awoke in me. This is a warning, then; never to cease the use of the brain.'"""
"""I had a nice day yesterday lying out under the trees in a deck-chair reading Bertie Russell's """"""""On Education"""""""".  A good firm book.'"""
"""I read """"""""The Old Houses of Flanders"""""""" & """"""""Clair de Lune"""""""", first half, & """"""""Thank Goodness the Moving is Over"""""""" last night after my speech... & I was signing copies of my books for an hour an a half afterwards!'"""
"""While her terminally ill sister Anne was staying at a nursing home in Priory Road, West Hampstead, Charlotte Mew 'came every day with novels to read aloud and amuse them both, starting with David Garnett's [italics]Go She Must[end italics].'"""
""" I’ve read 200 pp of 'Clissold'.  Formless & wordy, I agree (introductory note foolish); but so far I think the book is very good.  It is full of brains, & very provocative & stimulating, & I enjoyed it.  If you want to realise how positively good 'Clissold' is, read a bit of 'The Silver Spoon'.  But I know you won’t.  Coward!"""
""" I’ve read 200 pp of 'Clissold'.  Formless & wordy, I agree (introductory note foolish); but so far I think the book is very good.  It is full of brains, & very provocative & stimulating, & I enjoyed it.  If you want to realise how positively good 'Clissold' is, read a bit of 'The Silver Spoon'.  But I know you won’t.  Coward!"""
"""In the summer [of 1926] [...] [Charlotte Mew and her sister Caroline Frances Ann] were both reading [italics]Gentlemen Prefer Blondes[end italics]'."""
"""In the summer [of 1926] [...] [Charlotte Mew and her sister Caroline Frances Ann] were both reading [italics]Gentlemen Prefer Blondes[end italics]'."""
"""Saturday 31 July [entry headed 'My Own Brain,' and beginning 'Here is a whole nervous breakdown in miniature']: 'A desire to read poetry set in on Friday. This brings back a sense of my own individuality. Read some Dante & Bridges, without troubling to understand, but got pleasure from them.'"""
"""Saturday 31 July [entry headed 'My Own Brain,' and beginning 'Here is a whole nervous breakdown in miniature']: 'A desire to read poetry set in on Friday. This brings back a sense of my own individuality. Read some Dante & Bridges, without troubling to understand, but got pleasure from them.'"""
"""The Daily mail has persistent articles about Stabilisation at 100' [reference to currency fluctuations]"""
""".....I've been ill with heart trouble - why I can't imagine, as it has always been quite strong so Sachie lent me his country house for a fortnight. I sat on the verandah all day, reading and sleeping. I read a lot of Dryden, in a lovely first edition (Dryden was by birth a county neighbour, which accounts for the library being full of his work) - Pope, the life of Alexander the Great, of whom there is a portrait wearing a periwig, and delightful eighteenth century books about the moral worth of animals, praising the industry of the Bee, reproving the Ostrich for being a Bad Parent.....'"""
""".....I've been ill with heart trouble - why I can't imagine, as it has always been quite strong so Sachie lent me his country house for a fortnight. I sat on the verandah all day, reading and sleeping. I read a lot of Dryden, in a lovely first edition ( Dryden was by bith a county neighbour, which accounts for the library being full of his work) - Pope, the life of Alexander the Great, of whom there is a portrait wearing a periwig, and delightful eighteenth century books about the moral worth of animals, praising the industry of the Bee, reproving the Ostrich for being a Bad Parent.....'"""
"""We had met Dickens before, but only """"""""The Old Curiosity Shop"""""""" and """"""""The Chimes"""""""", both of which, in their mean little school editions, were enough to sour a boy against the novels for the rest of his life.'"""
"""We had met Dickens before, but only """"""""The Old Curiosity Shop"""""""" and """"""""The Chimes"""""""", both of which, in their mean little school editions, were enough to sour a boy against the novels for the rest of his life.'"""
"""More I reflect on the novel the higher I place it: attempts to read Swift, Miss Burney, Smollett, place it on a pinnacle.'"""
"""More I reflect on the novel the higher I place it: attempts to read Swift, Miss Burney, Smollett, place it on a pinnacle.'"""
"""In  Commonplace Book entries made during 1926, E. M. Forster comments upon, and transcribes passages from, Defoe's Moll Flanders, remarking upon the work as 'A puzzling book -- gynomorphic, [with] not one stitch of the man-made', and discussing aspects including character and form."""
"""[Percy Lubbock] thinks [""""""""The Craft of Fiction"""""""" -- a sensitive yet poor spirited book] that the aim of a novel should be capable of being put into a phrase, """"""""ten words that reveal its unity"""""""", and so boggles at War and Peace, though he """"""""duly"""""""" recognises its vitality [...] Must I read him through?'"""
"""Among entries made in 1926 in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book is a passage from Vanbrugh, The Provok'd Wife III.i (opening '[italics]Virtue[end italics], alas, is no more like the thing that is called so than 'tis like vice itself')."""
"""Robinson Crusoe an English book -- and only the English could have accepted it as adult literature: comforted by feeling that the life of adventure could be led by a man duller than themselves. No gaiety wit or invention [...] Boy scout manual. Unlike Moll or Roxana or Selkirk himself, Crusoe never develops or modifies. As much bored as I was 30 years ago. Its only literary merit is the well conceived crescendo of the savages. Historically important, no doubt, and the parent of other insincerities, such as Treasure Island [...] I shan't read Part II. [goes on to quote from, and comment upon, text further]'"""
"""Among texts discussed and quoted from at length in 1926 Commonplace Book of E. M. Forster is Henry James, The Ambassadors, with comments including 'Pattern exquisitely woven,' and 'However hard you shake his sentences, no banality falls out.'"""
"""Among texts discussed and quoted from in 1926 Commonplace Book of E. M. Forster is Norman Douglas, D. H. Lawrence and Maurice Magnus: A Plea for Better Manners (1924)."""
"""Among texts discussed and quoted from in 1926 Commonplace Book of E. M. Forster is Herman Melville, Billy Budd, with remarks including 'Billy Budd [...] has goodness, of the glowing aggressive sort which cannot exist unless it has evil to consume'."""
"""Great Expectations. Alliance between atmosphere and plot (the convicts) make it more solid and satisfactory than anything else of D[ickens]. known to me. Very fine writing occasionally ([italics]end of Pt.I[end italics].) [...] Occasional hints not developed -- e.g. [...] Jagger's [sic] character [italics]does[end italics] nothing, Herbert Pocket's has to be revised. But all the defects are trivial, and the course of events is both natural and exciting [goes on to comment further, and to quote at length from conclusion to 'the first stage of Pip's Expectations']'. """
"""Remarks in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book of 1926 include 'Nearly all novels go off at the end,' with examples including Sylvia Townsend Warner, Lolly Willowes ('how silly the book becomes when the witchcraft starts, how worse than silly when it culminates')."""
"""Remarks in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book of 1926 include 'Nearly all novels go off at the end,' with further comments including: 'Bunny's books are so good because they [italics]don't[end italics] go off. A Man at the Zoo [sic] fails at the end because the author daren't put the lady into the cage as well as the man. But Fox and Sailor strengthen steadily.'"""
"""Remarks in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book of 1926 include 'Nearly all novels go off at the end,' with further comments including: 'Bunny's books are so good because they [italics]don't[end italics] go off. A Man at the Zoo [sic] fails at the end because the author daren't put the lady into the cage as well as the man. But Fox and Sailor strengthen steadily.'"""
"""Remarks in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book of 1926 include 'Nearly all novels go off at the end,' with further comments including: 'Bunny's books are so good because they [italics]don't[end italics] go off. A Man at the Zoo [sic] fails at the end because the author daren't put the lady into the cage as well as the man. But Fox and Sailor strengthen steadily.'"""
"""Entries in E. M. Forster, Commonplace Book (1926) include passage on character in tragedy from Aristotle, Poetics."""
"""Mr Wilson had no more patience than we had with Little Nell and the atrocious Trotty Veck. He shovelled the sentiment and the trushery behind him, and started straight off with """"""""Pickwick Papers"""""""". """"""""Pickwick"""""""" is not a very mature Dickens and not very mature humour, but it semmed to us quite the funniest book we had ever met.'"""
"""I do not know whether Mr Wilson read """"""""Pickwick"""""""" right through, but I certainly did. My copy bears a plate inside the cover [school prize details]... It was the first of a succession of Dickens volumes on Indian paper, in stiff blue covers, with the original Phiz and Seymour illustrations. In 1926, at the Secondary School, I received """"""""Barnaby Rudge""""""""; in 1927, """"""""Dombey and Son""""""""; in 1928, """"""""Nicholas Nickleby"""""""". """"""""Great Expectations, which followed """"""""Pickwick"""""""" in Mr Wilson's scheme, I acquired in the red, cardboard-backed Nelson's Classics, price One Shilling and Sixpence, a series which became my regular source of Christmas and birthday presents from uncles and friends... These books were my winter reading between the ages of ten and fourteen... [continues]' """
"""He had recommended T.S. Eliot to the War Office in 1918, and continued to praise his poetry and his periodical, the """"""""Criterion""""""""'."""
"""Although Bennett had reservations about the book, he had enjoyed it, and had at once written to tell his friend so'. """
"""Jean's friend lent her George Moore's """"""""Heloise and Abelard"""""""" - """"""""one of the loveliest; all that my Wyclif book should have been and was not,"""""""" Winifred confessed, lamenting that she was required to present prizes just when she wanted to finish it.  In spite of the novel's length and these interruptions, its owner reported that Winifred returned it, read from cover to cover, within a couple of days.'"""
"""Owing to his giving me the books, am now reading C by M. Baring. I am surprised to find it as good as it is. But how good is it? Easy to say it is not a great book. But what qualities does it lack? That it adds nothing to one's vision of life, perhaps. Yet it is hard to find a serious flaw.'"""
"""There Bennett worked on his novel, read Dreiser and Balzac, . . .'"""
"""I’ve finished Baring’s 'Cat’s Cradle'.  770 large pages.  Well, it isn’t so bad, though highly curious in technique.  . . . I’m now reading Stendhal’s 'Promenades dans Rome'.  """
"""I’ve finished Baring’s 'Cat’s Cradle'.  770 large pages.  Well, it isn’t so bad, though highly curious in technique.  . . . I’m now reading Stendhal’s 'Promenades dans Rome'.  """
"""I read C.C. ['Cat's Cradle'] very carefully in a fortnight: about 50 pp. a day.  It held me all right, though not quite so strongly as 'C'. As with 'C'., 'C. C.' is strongest & best in the last ¼ or 1/3. . . . My boy, you may have made 70 corrections in the new edition, but there are plenty more to make.  . . ."""
"""MS note at the end of """"""""The man of destiny"""""""": """"""""Dec 5 1926 Read aloud to C, [i.e. Lady Caroline Trevelyan] - as I once did to poor George Vanderbilt""""""""."""
"""Dearest - you don't know what """"""""The Land"""""""" means to me!  I read it incessantly - it has become a real wide undertone to my life.'"""
"""...he continued to . . . reassess his first loves, such as Balzac, whom he begins to doubt: in May 1926 he finds him """"""""thin and tedious"""""""", says he will try """"""""Splendeurs et Miseres des Courtisanes"""""""" again, and """"""""if that won't pass, I'll try 'Cousine Bette', which I think is the finest Balzac . . .""""""""'"""
"""I was lately forced into the rather close examination of this book, for I had to translate it into French, that forcing me to give it much closer attention than would be the case in any reading however minute. And I will permit myself to say that I was astounded at the work I must have put into the construction of the book, at the intricate tangle of references and cross-references.'"""
"""I had not known Thornton Wilder, though I had been among the thousands who read """"""""The Bridge of San Luis Rey"""""""".'"""
"""I have just written an introduction to a posthumous work of George Sturt’s (who generally wrote under the name of George Bourne—very good. I mean really).  In order to write it I read through all the letters I received from him in the course of about 28 years.  """
"""I was out like a lark at nine this morning to breakfast with Isabel Paterson - who did not expect me till one, Sunday breakfast here being alleesamee lunch. So she was not up and I sat and read manuscripts of hers till twelve and at one I had to go and give Capes lunch at the Nat Arts Club'"""
"""I received your book some time ago, from the publishers.  My life is made terrible by my 'Evening Standard' article.  When I took the job on it was clearly understood that I should be absolutely free to review or not to review or not to review, just as I chose.  I cannot read all the books which I ought to read, nor even 10% of them.  Often I am so puzzled how to be fair that I ignore a whole lot of books and write about some general subject. It is a way out."""
"""on Saturday the English proofs of Last Post descended on me and on Monday the American one's and I literally could do nothing else as Boni's wanted the proofs back on Monday night. That however was impossible, but I got them finished yesterday and then was too exhausted to do anything. In addition I have any amount of reading to do for the Collier's serial'."""
"""on Saturday the English proofs of Last Post descended on me and on Monday the American one's and I literally could do nothing else as Boni's wanted the proofs back on Monday night. That however was impossible, but I got them finished yesterday and then was too exhausted to do anything. In addition I have any amount of reading to do for the Collier's serial'."""
"""on Saturday the English proofs of Last Post descended on me and on Monday the American one's and I literally could do nothing else as Boni's wanted the proofs back on Monday night. That however was impossible, but I got them finished yesterday and then was too exhausted to do anything. In addition I have any amount of reading to do for the Collier's serial'."""
"""Bennett, Dorothy, and the Board of Sloane Productions Ltd read all the notices the next day and found them satisfactory.'"""
"""Saturday 18 June 1927: 'I read -- any trash. Maurice Baring; sporting memoirs.'"""
"""Saturday 18 June 1927: 'I read -- any trash. Maurice Baring; sporting memoirs.'"""
"""Copious MS notes in the hand of Sir George Otto Trevelyan, including: """"""""The marginal lines, and notes, are copied from Macaulay's Dindorf."""""""" Many MS dates of reading between 1926-7. """"""""It is a curious circumstance that (considering the enormous amount of Greek that I have read) I should have read this wonderful book of Anabases for the first time at the age of 88 and a half!"""""""""""
"""I have just read a very bad book by Edith Wharton & am cross with it for being bad because I thougt she never [underlined] was [end underlining].'"""
"""Tuesday 20 September 1927: 'I opened the Morning Post & read the death of Philip Ritchie [...] I think for the first time, I felt this death leaves me an elderly laggard; makes me feel I have no right to go on; as if my life was at the expense of his. And I had not been kind; not asked him to dinner & so on.'"""
"""I am sending you a copy of the [underlined] Saturday Review [end underlining] with an article of mine & your Lavigne picture.'"""
"""I have begun DEMIGODS which is the provisional title of the Ney book and what with reading up for it and worrying over it I am fair moidert'."""
"""[At his parents' house] We saw photos of Ezra as a baby and his first poems in an Idaho paper and no end of things that wd make poor Ezra squirm'."""
"""I am not half so pleased [as with """"""""The Last Post""""""""] with """"""""New York is not America"""""""", the American proofs of which I am now wading through. The sentences seem to be so dreadfully long.'"""
"""I have inspected all the work the binder has done for you and as far as I can rember it seems to be what you ordered. He has put 'Hueffer' on the back of 'Thus to Revisit' having copied the jacket - but I suppose that is of no great consequence.'"""
"""I have read your novel, and as you were kind enough to send it to me, I hope you will not mind me giving my opinion of it.  I certainly think it is a much better book than 'Adam in Moonshine', which appeared to me to be not the work of a novelist.  'Benighted' seems to me to be the work of a novelist.  """
"""I have read your novel, and as you were kind enough to send it to me, I hope you will not mind me giving my opinion of it.  I certainly think it is a much better book than 'Adam in Moonshine', which appeared to me to be not the work of a novelist.  'Benighted' seems to me to be the work of a novelist.  """
"""Be not vexed that I have only just read 'Akhnaton'.  Of late months I have had so much in the way of absolutely imperative perusal that I’ve got frightfully behind.  I am still six behind with friends' books.  """
"""I was so delighted with your cutting from the Crapouillot: I am sure I must seem quite fatuous, I shew it to so many people'"""
"""[After lunch] I shall come back and begin an article I am to write about the technique of the novel for Canby - suggested by a book of E.M. Forster's, which is pretty bad'."""
"""I am a little tired of writing eulogies. I wrote one of Asch the other day, and I am writing one of Lucy Madox Roberts whose book I immensely admire.'"""
"""In Commonplace Book for 1927 E. F. Forster transcribes passage on time from vol. I, ch.iv of Thomas Mann, The Magic Mountain, accompanying this with comments including: 'Thomas Mann a bore, but from a sense of literary duty rather than personally.' """
"""Elusiveness. Shut up always in the same carcase, one is puzzled by this charge, which is brought against me not only by an ill-bred-and-natured journalist Priestley in today's D.N. but by friendly and sensitive Leonard Woolf. Is it just that I am different to most people, or that, knowing the difference, I have developed to conceal it?'"""
"""Passages transcribed in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book for 1927 include Oscar Browning's reflections, quoted in H. E. Wortham's biography of him, on the potential of the human mind, and the chances governing realisation, or non-realisation of this ('I have been drawn to think rather of the tens who have failed than of the units who have succeeded, and of the ore that lies buried in our social strata rather than of the bright coins which circulate from hand to hand')."""
"""[a teacher at St  Edmunds Scool, Canterbury] 'encouraged him by supplying him regularly with the literary pages of Le Figaro. From then on Durrell became hooked on French Literature'."""
"""He travelled alone, by train, . . . reading """"""""The Brothers Karamazov"""""""" for the fourth time'."""
"""Bennett had seen a placard announcing its publication in Cassell's """"""""Storyteller"""""""" magazine on Victoria Station just before his departure for Sicily in April.'"""
"""Vol. III: """"""""Sept 10 1922 A jolly book with all its faults and absurdities. The social manners and ways of three generations ago are illustrated cheerfully in its pages."""""""" """"""""Read again, with the same amusement, in the winter of 1927-8"""""""". Vol.II p.137: """"""""The whole novel is burlesque. It is to me, as it was to my mother, uncle [Lord Macaulay], and to my sister Margaret, supremely and singularly readable. Dec 5 1927 Welcombe"""""""""""
"""I have never thought very well of Bunin.  I say this with the greatest respect for your opinion, and I admit that you are much more likely to be right than I am.  'A Gentleman from San Francisco' I thought very crude indeed, and I could not get on with 'The Village'."""
"""I have never thought very well of Bunin.  I say this with the greatest respect for your opinion, and I admit that you are much more likely to be right than I am.  'A Gentleman from San Francisco' I thought very crude indeed, and I could not get on with 'The Village'."""
"""On 9 February he read in the paper news that turned his mind from the future to the past.  His old friend George Sturt was dead.'"""
"""When I was about six, she decided that the time had come for me to learn to read. And that was when she made her mistake. Instead of merely sitting me down in front of Peter Rabbit, The Secret Garden or the Jungle Books and telling me to get on with it, she provided a dreadful book about a Rosy-Faced Family who Lived Next Door and Had Cats that Sat on Mats, and expected me to get on with that. I was outraged – I, who had walked the boards with the Crummles, and fought beside Beowulf in the darkened Hall of Heriot. I took one look, and decided that the best way of making sure that I should never meet the Rosy-Faced Family or any of their unspeakable kind in the future was not to learn to read at all. So I didn’t, and my mother never quite had the hardness of heart to stop reading to me. We had lessons and lessons and lessons; and we got practically nowhere.' """
"""[quotation from Maurice Bowra's Memoirs] The first time I met him [John Betjeman] he talked fluently about half forgotten authors of the nineteenth century - Sir Henry Taylor, Ebeneezer Elliott, Philip James Bailey, and Sir Lewis Morris'."""
"""[quotation from Maurice Bowra's Memoirs] The first time I met him [John Betjeman] he talked fluently about half forgotten authors of the nineteenth century - Sir Henry Taylor, Ebeneezer Elliott, Philip James Bailey, and Sir Lewis Morris'."""
"""[quotation from Maurice Bowra's Memoirs] The first time I met him [John Betjeman] he talked fluently about half forgotten authors of the nineteenth century - Sir Henry Taylor, Ebeneezer Elliott, Philip James Bailey, and Sir Lewis Morris'."""
"""[quotation from Maurice Bowra's Memoirs] The first time I met him [John Betjeman] he talked fluently about half forgotten authors of the nineteenth century - Sir Henry Taylor, Ebeneezer Elliott, Philip James Bailey, and Sir Lewis Morris'."""
"""I am told that in a book of Sir Chartres Biron there is a passage against book censorship.  Can you give me the reference to this passage?  One of them is entitled 'Pious Opinions'.  I have it."""
"""On the conclusion of the  'Well of Loneliness' case, I propose to devote an article to it in the Evening Standard.  I need not tell you that I am anti-police."""
"""After Thomas Hardy's death on 11 January 1928, his literary executor Sydney Cockerell 'found a piece of paper on which Hardy had copied out """"""""Fin de Fete"""""""" [by Charlotte Mew]'."""
"""My own darling, I write to you in the middle of reading """"""""Orlando"""""""", in such a turmoil of excitement and confusion that I scarcely know where (or who!) I am.  It came this morning by the first post and I have been reading it ever since, and am now half-way through.  Virginia sent it to me in a lovely leather binding - bless her.'"""
"""And you know she [Ford's daughter, Julie] acted about her story just like a grown-up I know: No, it was not good enough for me to see. She had not had enough experience. Perhaps one day when she had had experience. And she supposed no-one would print her silly story. And she went and read it to Fannie, and then to Mlle Renee and at last she let me see it and explained that it would look much better when she had made a clean copy.'"""
"""And you know she [Ford's daughter, Julie] acted about her story just like a grown-up I know: No, it was not good enough for me to see. She had not had enough experience. Perhaps one day when she had had experience. And she supposed no-one would print her silly story. And she went and read it to Fannie, and then to Mlle Renee and at last she let me see it and explained that it would look much better when she had made a clean copy.'"""
"""Almost every day there is some reference to it [Ford's book on Conrad] here or there. I am sending you a copy of the Saturday Review which has one.'"""
"""I have read 'To the Pure', in the American edition, and I brought it into an article for the Standard which I wrote and delivered before the summons was taken out.  As the summons preceded the day for publication of the article. The article of course had to be held over.  I shall embody the substance of it in another article which will appear as soon as Biron has delivered himself.  """
"""""""""""What an admirable and clear type this most readable book is printed in! June 18 1928"""""""". """"""""Perhaps the last time this amazing, but most amusing, book has been read, and reread, by many Macaulays and Trevelyans. June 9 1928"""""""". With a note by this in the hand of Sir Charles Philips Trevelyan: """"""""Only nine weeks before he died."""""""""""
"""Communication between these poets and myself was instantaneous. I saw with delighted amazement that all poetry had been written specially for me. Although I spoke - in my back street urchin accents - of La Belly Dame Sans Murky, yet in Keats's chill little poem I seemed to sense some essence of the eternal ritual of romantic love. And Tennyson's """"""""Morte d'Arthur"""""""" bowled me over. I read it again and again until I fairly lived in a world of """"""""armies that clash by night"""""""" and stately weeping Queens. So the poets helped me escape the demands of communal living which now, at thirteen, were beginning to be intolerable to me'."""
"""Communication between these poets and myself was instantaneous. I saw with delighted amazement that all poetry had been written specially for me. Although I spoke - in my back street urchin accents - of La Belly Dame Sans Murky, yet in Keats's chill little poem I seemed to sense some essence of the eternal ritual of romantic love. And Tennyson's """"""""Morte d'Arthur"""""""" bowled me over. I read it again and again until I fairly lived in a world of """"""""armies that clash by night"""""""" and stately weeping Queens. So the poets helped me escape the demands of communal living which now, at thirteen, were beginning to be intolerable to me'."""
"""MS notes and dates of reading include: """"""""Top of Beamerside while electioneering at Melrose, July 6th, 1868""""""""; p.40: """"""""Weybridge 1872. St. George's Hill, returning from taking Charley and Carry [son and wife] for a row on the Mole""""""""; p.170: """"""""In train to Wells with my father, May 22 1874."""""""" Titlepage verso: GO Trevelyan The companion of a lifetime which was never dull in Horace's company."""""""" Note in the hand of his son, Sir Charles Philips Trevelyan: """"""""It was by his bedside when he died."""""""" """
"""A note on endpaper by Sir Charles Philips Trevelyan: """"""""This volume was among the books being read by Sir George Trevelyan when his last illness took him."""""""""""
"""Marginal marks and MS notes throughout,including p.xiii: """"""""[The author's husband] deeply disapproved of her pleasure-seeking ways at such a time [...] Her hospitality had in it a strong dah of sheer gluttony; and she was a reckless, and most ill-natured gossip."""""""" Also, very critical of the editing: """"""""The editing is bad. Chapter X ought to end about page 143."""""""" Dates of reading: """"""""Oct 25 1910 Uncle Tom's birthday [i.e. Lord Macaulay] - the battle of Agincourt""""""""; August 8 1921; March 15 1925; Jan. 4 1924; July 4 1928. """
"""Many MS notes, incl. some copied from Lord Macaulay's own copy of Livy: """"""""I copied these marginal notes, and lines, from Macaulay's Bipontine edition in the winter of 1910 at Wallington. GOT."""""""" Sir George's dates of reading include 1914,1915,1917,1918, """"""""read with C[aroline] Jan 14 1919""""""""; 1927. At end of v.4: """"""""I read this book in the same number of days as Macaulay. But he was likewise constructing the penal code, and establishing the Indian education system."""""""" Sir George's notes in Livy often comment on Macaulay's earlier observations, almost as if they are having a conversation, e.g. where in book XXVI ch 32 Macaulay writes: """"""""The conduct of the Roman senate was on the whole honorable to them, the state of public opinion among the ancients considered"""""""", Trevelyan comments: """"""""How differently the Reichstag is showing in the case of Belgium. On Jan 28 1915 he writes: """""""" I have now, day for day kept up, through these five books, exactly the same pace as my uncle. Shall now ease off. My age is more than twice his; and he [underlined] was Macaulay. Would I could talk Livy over with him, and tell him about this [underlined] war! How he would have recognised the spirit and self-sacrifice of the country."""""""" 1918: """"""""I have now finished my war-time reading of the whole of Livy."""""""" Sir George's notes draw parallels between Livy and current affairs: """"""""very different from the actions of the Germans towards Pointcarre's property""""""""; p.679: """"""""I wish such a speech as this could be made in Russia today (Sep. 10 1917). P.2877: """"""""Jan 17 1915. A beautiful winter Sunday. Colonel Charrington Smith and his party came to tea. They are going to take part in a greater war than Hannibal, Philip and Antiochus together."""""""" Throughout, he uses his book to comment on events in his own life, e.g. Feb 12 1915: """"""""George [i.e. G.M. Trevelyan] returned from Serbia yesterday. God be thanked for it."""""""" At the end of the book: """"""""I seldom have been more interested in any history. I read the account of the great battle of Antiochus in a translation of Livy when I was a little boy at Mr Seawell's and never since. Feb. 1 1915"""""""". Note on p.3034 gives the date of reading as July 30, 1928 i.e. 18 days before Sir George died."""
"""After dinner, (a delicious dinner), Virginia read us her memoir of Old Bloomsbury.  She had read it to me already at Saulieu, but I loved hearing it again; I want you to hear it.'"""
"""The Last Post has hitherto had rather a bad press. There were two most violent attacks - on that and N.Y.i. N. A. in the [underlined] Times [end underlining] last Sunday, for no discoverable reason, and the [underlined] Herald-Tribune [end underlining] was not very good. I have written nice things on everbody on that paper, so they can't very well employ their staff to write about me. So Irita - rather at my suggestion - got an English novelist called Macfee to do it, a sort of blighted person I wanted to give a job to. However, as a set off Harry Hensen of the World which has hitherto not liked me, gave it his column and as he is one of the most celebrated column-writers in the States that is not so bad.'"""
"""The Last Post has hitherto had rather a bad press. There were two most violent attacks - on that and N.Y.i. N. A. in the [underlined] Times [end underlining] last Sunday, for no discoverable reason, and the [underlined] Herald-Tribune [end underlining] was not very good. I have written nice things on everbody on that paper, so they can't very well employ their staff to write about me. So Irita - rather at my suggestion - got an English novelist called Macfee to do it, a sort of blighted person I wanted to give a job to. However, as a set off Harry Hensen of the World which has hitherto not liked me, gave it his column and as he is one of the most celebrated column-writers in the States that is not so bad.'"""
"""The Last Post has hitherto had rather a bad press. There were two most violent attacks - on that and N.Y.i. N. A. in the [underlined] Times [end underlining] last Sunday, for no discoverable reason, and the [underlined] Herald-Tribune [end underlining] was not very good. I have written nice things on everbody on that paper, so they can't very well employ their staff to write about me. So Irita - rather at my suggestion - got an English novelist called Macfee to do it, a sort of blighted person I wanted to give a job to. However, as a set off Harry Hensen of the World which has hitherto not liked me, gave it his column and as he is one of the most celebrated column-writers in the States that is not so bad.'"""
"""Considerable marginalia in pencil, mainly in English, in all three volumes. ?Ended reading Jan.22 XXVIII? on the inside front cover of vol. 1. """
"""Tuesday 24 April 1928: 'I was reading Othello last night, & was impressed by the volley & volume & tumble of his words: too many I should say, were I reviewing for the Times [goes on to comment further on Shakespeare] [...] I've read only French for 4 weeks.'"""
"""Tuesday 24 April 1928: 'I was reading Othello last night, & was impressed by the volley & volume & tumble of his words: too many I should say, were I reviewing for the Times [goes on to comment further on Shakespeare] [...] I've read only French for 4 weeks.'"""
"""It was at this time, too, in the 'silent' reading periods at school, that - conventionally enough, I suppose, for a bookish child - I came upon Stevenson's """"""""Treasure Island"""""""", """"""""Don Quixote"""""""", """"""""David Copperfield"""""""", all in abridged versions'."""
"""It was at this time, too, in the 'silent' reading periods at school, that - conventionally enough, I suppose, for a bookish child - I came upon Stevenson's """"""""Treasure Island"""""""", """"""""Don Quixote"""""""", """"""""David Copperfield"""""""", all in abridged versions'."""
"""It was at this time, too, in the 'silent' reading periods at school, that - conventionally enough, I suppose, for a bookish child - I came upon Stevenson's """"""""Treasure Island"""""""", """"""""Don Quixote"""""""", """"""""David Copperfield"""""""", all in abridged versions'."""
"""Charlotte [Mew] used to read [...] [lines from her 1912 poem """"""""The Changeling"""""""", in which a child speaker ponders reasons for its own existence] aloud [...] to children of her acquaintance, giving no explanation, because she believed [...] that none would be needed.  They understood her at once.'"""
"""Sunday 25 November 1928: 'I took Essex & Eth (Lytton's) down [to Rodmell] to read, & Lord forgive me! -- find it a poor book. I have not finished it, and am keeping it to see if my [text ends]'."""
"""""""""""The marginal lines and notes are copied from Macaulay's Bipontine edition They are of high interest NB The notes in pencil are my notes, of difficult interpretations, to assist me when re-reading the book again."""""""" """"""""Read Velleius again very carefully, as if for the Tripos ..""""""""  Several MS dates of reading, indicated below, including September 29 1924 """"""""Our 55th wedding anniversary"""""""". """
"""I told Forster that I was prepared to stand absolutely for both the merits and the decency of the book.'  [The Well of Loneliness]"""
"""Considerable marginalia in pencil, mainly in English, in all three volumes. ?Finished reading this volume 29 Feb 1928? on the inside cover on vol. 2. """
"""I am very touched by all the tributes in your New Year's letter, & enormously pleased with The Last Post. I don't believe you have any last idea how much I admire your genius, & how proud it makes me of my association with you [Stella then talks about her own painting] But your letter, & the """"""""Last Post"""""""" together, seem to mark the end of our long intimacy, which did have a great deal of happiness in it for me, & which did involve us in a great deal of decent effort.'"""
"""[Lehmann and her first husband, Leslie Runcimann] 'were great readers, particularly of modern novelists such as Huxley, Lawrence and Gerhardie.'"""
"""[Lehmann and her first husband, Leslie Runcimann] 'were great readers, particularly of modern novelists such as Huxley, Lawrence and Gerhardie.'"""
"""[Lehmann and her first husband, Leslie Runcimann] 'were great readers, particularly of modern novelists such as Huxley, Lawrence and Gerhardie.'"""
"""I do not know whether Mr Wilson read """"""""Pickwick"""""""" right through, but I certainly did. My copy bears a plate inside the cover [school prize details]... It was the first of a succession of Dickens volumes on Indian paper, in stiff blue covers, with the original Phiz and Seymour illustrations. In 1926, at the Secondary School, I received """"""""Barnaby Rudge""""""""; in 1927, """"""""Dombey and Son""""""""; in 1928, """"""""Nicholas Nickleby"""""""". """"""""Great Expectations, which followed """"""""Pickwick"""""""" in Mr Wilson's scheme, I acquired in the red, cardboard-backed Nelson's Classics, price One Shilling and Sixpence, a series which became my regular source of Christmas and birthday presents from uncles and friends... These books were my winter reading between the ages of ten and fourteen... [continues]' """
"""I do not know whether Mr Wilson read """"""""Pickwick"""""""" right through, but I certainly did. My copy bears a plate inside the cover [school prize details]... It was the first of a succession of Dickens volumes on Indian paper, in stiff blue covers, with the original Phiz and Seymour illustrations. In 1926, at the Secondary School, I received """"""""Barnaby Rudge""""""""; in 1927, """"""""Dombey and Son""""""""; in 1928, """"""""Nicholas Nickleby"""""""". """"""""Great Expectations, which followed """"""""Pickwick"""""""" in Mr Wilson's scheme, I acquired in the red, cardboard-backed Nelson's Classics, price One Shilling and Sixpence, a series which became my regular source of Christmas and birthday presents from uncles and friends... These books were my winter reading between the ages of ten and fourteen... [continues]' """
"""I do not know whether Mr Wilson read """"""""Pickwick"""""""" right through, but I certainly did. My copy bears a plate inside the cover [school prize details]... It was the first of a succession of Dickens volumes on Indian paper, in stiff blue covers, with the original Phiz and Seymour illustrations. In 1926, at the Secondary School, I received """"""""Barnaby Rudge""""""""; in 1927, """"""""Dombey and Son""""""""; in 1928, """"""""Nicholas Nickleby"""""""". """"""""Great Expectations, which followed """"""""Pickwick"""""""" in Mr Wilson's scheme, I acquired in the red, cardboard-backed Nelson's Classics, price One Shilling and Sixpence, a series which became my regular source of Christmas and birthday presents from uncles and friends... These books were my winter reading between the ages of ten and fourteen... [discusses at length the realism he found in the Phiz illustrations for """"""""Dombey and Son"""""""": 'I would pick up my book sometimes and try to read by the glow from the coals, and the world I entered seemed not too far removed from the world I left. It was no more walking from one room into the next.']"""
"""I do not know whether Mr Wilson read """"""""Pickwick"""""""" right through, but I certainly did. My copy bears a plate inside the cover [school prize details]... It was the first of a succession of Dickens volumes on Indian paper, in stiff blue covers, with the original Phiz and Seymour illustrations. In 1926, at the Secondary School, I received """"""""Barnaby Rudge""""""""; in 1927, """"""""Dombey and Son""""""""; in 1928, """"""""Nicholas Nickleby"""""""". """"""""Great Expectations, which followed """"""""Pickwick"""""""" in Mr Wilson's scheme, I acquired in the red, cardboard-backed Nelson's Classics, price One Shilling and Sixpence, a series which became my regular source of Christmas and birthday presents from uncles and friends... These books were my winter reading between the ages of ten and fourteen... [continues]'"""
"""I do not know whether Mr Wilson read """"""""Pickwick"""""""" right through, but I certainly did. My copy bears a plate inside the cover [school prize details]... It was the first of a succession of Dickens volumes on Indian paper, in stiff blue covers, with the original Phiz and Seymour illustrations. In 1926, at the Secondary School, I received """"""""Barnaby Rudge""""""""; in 1927, """"""""Dombey and Son""""""""; in 1928, """"""""Nicholas Nickleby"""""""". """"""""Great Expectations, which followed """"""""Pickwick"""""""" in Mr Wilson's scheme, I acquired in the red, cardboard-backed Nelson's Classics, price One Shilling and Sixpence, a series which became my regular source of Christmas and birthday presents from uncles and friends... These books were my winter reading between the ages of ten and fourteen... [continues]'"""
"""Passages transcribed into E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1928) include remarks on spatial relations between man, atoms, and stars, and on the effects of temperature on matter, from A. S. Eddington, Stars and Atoms (1927)."""
"""Passages transcribed into E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1928) include character Margaret's remarks on married life from Thomas Deloney, The Gentle Craft (Pt. II)."""
"""[Lehmann and her first husband, Leslie Runcimann] 'were great readers, particularly of modern novelists such as Huxley, Lawrence and Gerhardie.'"""
"""[Lehmann and her first husband, Leslie Runcimann] 'were great readers, particularly of modern novelists such as Huxley, Lawrence and Gerhardie.'"""
"""[Lehmann and her first husband, Leslie Runcimann] 'were great readers, particularly of modern novelists such as Huxley, Lawrence and Gerhardie.'"""
"""After Thomas Hardy's death on 11 January 1928, his literary executor Sydney Cockerell 'asked Florence [Hardy] to read aloud to him, chapter by chapter, the manuscript of Hardy's memoirs.  This occupied most evenings'."""
"""Yes I know Sudermann ? his play ?Magda? was one of Mrs Pat. Campbell?s great parts ? and I believe he was the author of a book called ?The Song of Songs? that Billie Wood lent me ? and that I was shocked to find you reading.   I have just got through Susan Glaspell?s ?Road to the Temple?, and C.E.Montague?s ?Right off the Map?.   For lighter reading I?ve had Rose Macauley?s ? Keeping up Appearances?, and I?m reading all sorts of things about Shelley for my possible literature class.   The present one is ?Shelley and the Unromantics?.   The author lives in Birkenhead.'"""
"""Yes I know Sudermann ? his play ?Magda? was one of Mrs Pat. Campbell?s great parts ? and I believe he was the author of a book called ?The Song of Songs? that Billie Wood lent me ? and that I was shocked to find you reading.   I have just got through Susan Glaspell?s ?Road to the Temple?, and C.E.Montague?s ?Right off the Map?.   For lighter reading I?ve had Rose Macauley?s ? Keeping up Appearances?, and I?m reading all sorts of things about Shelley for my possible literature class.   The present one is ?Shelley and the Unromantics?.   The author lives in Birkenhead.'"""
"""Yes I know Sudermann ? his play ?Magda? was one of Mrs Pat. Campbell?s great parts ? and I believe he was the author of a book called ?The Song of Songs? that Billie Wood lent me ? and that I was shocked to find you reading.   I have just got through Susan Glaspell?s ?Road to the Temple?, and C.E.Montague?s ?Right off the Map?.   For lighter reading I?ve had Rose Macauley?s ? Keeping up Appearances?, and I?m reading all sorts of things about Shelley for my possible literature class.   The present one is ?Shelley and the Unromantics?.   The author lives in Birkenhead.'"""
"""Yes I know Sudermann ? his play ?Magda? was one of Mrs Pat. Campbell?s great parts ? and I believe he was the author of a book called ?The Song of Songs? that Billie Wood lent me ? and that I was shocked to find you reading.   I have just got through Susan Glaspell?s ?Road to the Temple?, and C.E.Montague?s ?Right off the Map?.   For lighter reading I?ve had Rose Macauley?s ? Keeping up Appearances?, and I?m reading all sorts of things about Shelley for my possible literature class.   The present one is ?Shelley and the Unromantics?.   The author lives in Birkenhead.'"""
"""Yes I know Sudermann ? his play ?Magda? was one of Mrs Pat. Campbell?s great parts ? and I believe he was the author of a book called ?The Song of Songs? that Billie Wood lent me ? and that I was shocked to find you reading.   I have just got through Susan Glaspell?s ?Road to the Temple?, and C.E.Montague?s ?Right off the Map?.   For lighter reading I?ve had Rose Macauley?s ? Keeping up Appearances?, and I?m reading all sorts of things about Shelley for my possible literature class.   The present one is ?Shelley and the Unromantics?.   The author lives in Birkenhead.'"""
"""Thoroughgood’s notice of Wells’s book was deplorable.  ['Mr Blettsworthy on Rampole Island'].  For one thing the book is magnificently written.  To me it is the best novel Wells has written for years.  Being a member of what are called ‘The Big Four’ I make a rule of never dealing with the work of the other three myself.  It would not be becoming of me to do so.  Moreover I could not possibly say what I think of Galsworthy.'   """
"""I have been doing a good deal of reading for the Ney book, though it is difficult to get all the books I want'"""
"""A scene was then read from The Lamentable Tragedy of Arden of Faversham T. C. Elliot taking the part of Arden[.] S A Reynolds was Franklin & Geo Burrow Michael.'"""
"""There followed an amusing passage from Ben Jonsons Silent Woman with C I Evans as Morose Geo Burrow as Mute & R H Robson as Truewit."""
"""She did take to reading me The Little Matchgirl rather more frequently as time went on. Maybe she hoped that I would learn to read as a means of avoiding that particular story, but I have a nasty suspicion that it was done as a means of providing light relief for herself, because The Little Match Girl always made me cry.' """
"""Feeling rather miz at the moment as I have been reading three days worth of the """"""""Express"""""""" and """"""""Evening Standard"""""""".  They really fill me with alarm.  I simply shall be unable to write the sort of sob-stuff they want.'"""
"""Monday 18 November 1929: '[following argument with cook] My mind is like a gum when an aching tooth has been drawn. I am having a holiday -- reading old Birrell'."""
"""Monday 2 September 1929: 'I have just read a page or two out of Samuel Butler's notebooks to take the taste of Alice Meynell's life out of my mouth. One rather craves brilliance & cantankerousness. Yet I am interested; a little teased by the tight airless Meynell style; & then I think what they had that we had not -- some suavity & grace, certainly [comments further on Meynell's work, life and personality] [...] When one reads a life one often compares one's own life with it. And doing this I was aware of some sweetness & dignity in those lives compared with ours [...] Yet in fact their lives would be intolerable -- so insincere, so elaborate; so I think [goes on to comment further on Meynell family, and others' reminiscences of them]'. """
"""Monday 2 September 1929: 'I have just read a page or two out of Samuel Butler's notebooks to take the taste of Alice Meynell's life out of my mouth. One rather craves brilliance & cantankerousness. Yet I am interested; a little teased by the tight airless Meynell style; & then I think what they had that we had not -- some suavity & grace, certainly [comments further on Meynell's work, life and personality] [...] When one reads a life one often compares one's own life with it. And doing this I was aware of some sweetness & dignity in those lives compared with ours [...] Yet in fact their lives would be intolerable -- so insincere, so elaborate; so I think [goes on to comment further on Meynell family, and others' reminiscences of them]'. """
"""I wish I could write short novels like your completely admirable 'L’Ecole des Femmes'.  But I can’t."""
"""Reading Berlioz’s 'Soirées de L’Orchestre' the other day I found that an opera on the Aztec subject was actually written and composed in Berlioz’s time.  """
"""Wednesday 23 October 1929: 'Since I have been back [apparently to London, from Sussex home] I have read Virginia Water (a sweet white grape); God; -- all founded, & teased & spun out upon one quite simple & usual psychological experience; but the mans no poet & cant make one see; all his sentences are like steel lines on an engraving. I am reading Racine, have bought La Fontaine, & so intend to make my sidelong approach to French literature, circling & brooding'."""
"""Wednesday 23 October 1929: 'Since I have been back [apparently to London, from Sussex home] I have read Virginia Water (a sweet white grape); God; -- all founded, & teased & spun out upon one quite simple & usual psychological experience; but the mans no poet & cant make one see; all his sentences are like steel lines on an engraving. I am reading Racine, have bought La Fontaine, & so intend to make my sidelong approach to French literature, circling & brooding'."""
"""Wednesday 23 October 1929: 'Since I have been back [apparently to London, from Sussex home] I have read Virginia Water (a sweet white grape); God; -- all founded, & teased & spun out upon one quite simple & usual psychological experience; but the mans no poet & cant make one see; all his sentences are like steel lines on an engraving. I am reading Racine, have bought La Fontaine, & so intend to make my sidelong approach to French literature, circling & brooding'."""
"""Much marginalia in pencil in English throughout the volume. 'Finished reading Giovedi Santi 1929' written on the half-title page. Received from Evelyn Wimbush, Christmas 1928."""
"""Thank you for your appreciative letter.  I am glad to have it.  I did not say that 'A High Wind' would be the best book of the autumn.  As for Powys, he is a friend of mine, but I could not get on with his book, and so I have said nothing about it.  I think that you have touched its weak spot in saying that it is too abnormal.  """
"""Thank you for your appreciative letter.  I am glad to have it.  I did not say that 'A High Wind' would be the best book of the autumn.  As for Powys, he is a friend of mine, but I could not get on with his book, and so I have said nothing about it.  I think that you have touched its weak spot in saying that it is too abnormal.  """
"""My recollection of 'The Pilgrim's Progress' is a little clearer, as it was the impression of much physical activity and play, such as springing out at Sheila from dark corners pretending to be Apollyon"""
"""On incident stays clear in my mind. It was on one of the rare days, other than Christmas and New Year, when my grandmother and I went into the sitting room above the shop. The time was late afternoon, just before tea, and I was standing near the window, looking through one of the volumes of a garish and expensive """"""""History of the World War"""""""" which my father had bought from a door-to-door salesman who had persuaded him that """"""""it would be very useful for the little boy's education"""""""". Some illustration in the book -a photograph or drawing of a battleship or aeroplane or shell-burst or trench warfare - must have caught my fancy, and, as I noticed that John Slater was looking out from his window on the opposite side of the street, I held up my picture against the glass so that he might see it. The street was narrow enough for anyone with good eyesight even to read the caption if it were printed in large enough letters. John nodded and promptly held up a picture in a book he was reading. I turned over a page or two and then held up another picture. John responded. And soon we found ourselves caught up in a competition...'"""
"""On incident stays clear in my mind. It was on one of the rare days, other than Christmas and New Year, when my grandmother and I went into the sitting room above the shop. The time was late afternoon, just before tea, and I was standing near the window, looking through one of the volumes of a garish and expensive """"""""History of the World War"""""""" which my father had bought from a door-to-door salesman who had persuaded him that """"""""it would be very useful for the little boy's education"""""""". Some illustration in the book -a photograph or drawing of a battleship or aeroplane or shell-burst or trench warfare - must have caught my fancy, and, as I noticed that John Slater was looking out from his window on the opposite side of the street, I held up my picture against the glass so that he might see it. The street was narrow enough for anyone with good eyesight even to read the caption if it were printed in large enough letters. John nodded and promptly held up a picture in a book he was reading. I turned over a page or two and then held up another picture. John responded. And soon we found ourselves caught up in a competition...'"""
"""When, in my schooldays, I read H.G. Wells's """"""""Kipps"""""""", I recognised it as in some ways a portrait of my father.'"""
"""When, a year or two later, we read """"""""Julius Caesar"""""""" at school, I recognised the scene immediately... I did not find it very funny, but I recognised its authenticity. Shakespeare knew what he was talking about: he had met people like my Uncle Tom.'"""
"""Until then, all the books I possessed had been children's annuals and the like. Except for """"""""Robinson Crusoe"""""""", very few of the children's classics had come my way. I had read no Kipling nor """"""""The Wind in the Willows"""""""" nor """"""""Alice"""""""".'"""
"""Tom... introduced me to Poe's """"""""Tales"""""""", to my first detective stories and to the early novels of H.G. Wells.'"""
"""Tom... introduced me to Poe's """"""""Tales"""""""", to my first detective stories and to the early novels of H.G. Wells.'"""
"""Tom... introduced me to Poe's """"""""Tales"""""""", to my first detective stories and to the early novels of H.G. Wells.'"""
"""After the examination, when we were expected to feel free as hares, we all flopped with reaction. There seemed just nothing that we wanted to do. There were no lessons, and we spent most of the time reading whatever we liked. It happened that my father had picked up at the stationer's a sixpenny copy of Wells's """"""""Kipps"""""""" and I began to chuckle over this, as we sat in class.'"""
"""I?m glad you like the Shaw.   Stanley bought me one of the early editions ? I haven?t read it through yet ? I?m trying to get through Spengler?s second volume of The Decline of the West.   Have just finished ? Du cot? de chez Swann?.   By the way let me know a list of good modern French novels ? especially novels of ideas ? the Catholic movement, the socialists, etc?'"""
"""I?m glad you like the Shaw.   Stanley bought me one of the early editions ? I haven?t read it through yet ? I?m trying to get through Spengler?s second volume of The Decline of the West.   Have just finished ? Du cot? de chez Swann?.   By the way let me know a list of good modern French novels ? especially novels of ideas ? the Catholic movement, the socialists, etc?'"""
"""I also have been reading ?All Quiet?.  Stanley and I stood for an hour outside my hotel at midnight in Southampton Row ? and rowed about it.'"""
"""Passages transcribed into E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1929) include section from Horace Walpole's letter of 13 November 1760 to George Montagu, describing the funeral of George II."""
""" """"""""Impressions and experiences which are important for the man may take no place in the poetry, and those which become important in the poetry may play quite a negligible part in the man, the personality."""""""" This [T. S. Eliot, Sacred Wood, p52] seems sound, but """"""""emotions which he has never experienced will serve his turn as well as those familiar to him"""""""" is surely nonsense. He recovers in """"""""Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality, but an escape from personality. But of course only those who have personality and emotions know what it means to want to escape from those things.""""""""'"""
"""He even found time to be as courteous and helpful as ever to old friends, reading through, for instance, William Rothenstein's 'Men and Memories in typescript, with many encouraging and critical comments'."""
"""I have been reading a very fine essay by Rebecca West, ?The Strange Necessity?. It is on the nature of Art ? and even Robert Lynd considers it difficult. I?ve just finished my second reading ? and will go through it again to copy out definitions. She has really a first class mind.' """
"""Eddington (5.1.29). After reading his Nature of the Physical World as carefully as I can, the new ideas become more possible to me and therefore less wonderful. They degenerate into mathematical symbols which we are content to use without understanding.'"""
"""From a tattered old volume of Grimm’s Fairy Tales passed around among us, we learned to read, even I, at long last, discovering suddenly what the mystery was all about. I have no recollection of the actual process; I do not know how or why or when or wherefore the light dawned. I only know that when I went to Miss Beck’s Academy I could not read, and that by the end of my first term, without any apparent transition period, I was reading, without too much trouble, anything that came my way.' """
"""Began reading through the """"""""Encyclopaedia Britannica"""""""" today. Another ten years project, at least. My odyssey through Chambers's """"""""Twentieth Cent. Dictionary"""""""" seems to be within a year of completion - that will make it nine years - one less than my calculated time.'"""
"""Began reading through the """"""""Encyclopaedia Britannica"""""""" today. Another ten years project, at least. My odyssey through Chambers's """"""""Twentieth Cent. Dictionary"""""""" seems to be within a year of completion - that will make it nine years - one less than my calculated time.'"""
"""Even those who read widely about sex often learned very little. In the 1920s Jennie Lee won a psychology degree from the University of Edinburgh... She went beyond the syllabus to read Ellis and Freud. While her collier father could not bring himself to discuss the subject, he was progressive enough to leave a book by Marie Stopes where she was likely to find it. All the same, Jennie was still capable of chatting with a prostitute on Princes Street without realizing what was going on. Stopes on sex """"""""was all a bit remote and unattractive"""""""", she found'."""
"""when Gladys [Teal] took a job at a draper's shop around 1930, a female assistant gave her a Marie Stopes book on birth control , which she gratefully read'."""
"""An emancipated working woman like Elizabeth Ring was free to read the works of Freud, Havelock Ellis and Bertrand Russell in the late 1920s, but she was familiar with these books only because her schoolteachers had her exchange them at the Finsbury Public Library'."""
"""An emancipated working woman like Elizabeth Ring was free to read the works of Freud, Havelock Ellis and Bertrand Russell in the late 1920s, but she was familiar with these books only because her schoolteachers had her exchange them at the Finsbury Public Library'."""
"""An emancipated working woman like Elizabeth Ring was free to read the works of Freud, Havelock Ellis and Bertrand Russell in the late 1920s, but she was familiar with these books only because her schoolteachers had her exchange them at the Finsbury Public Library'."""
"""[Edith] Hall recalled that she discovered Thomas Hardy in a WEA class in the 1920s when """"""""Punch and other publications of that kind showed cartoons depicting the servant class as stupid and 'thick'...[Tess of the d'Urbervilles] was the first serious novel I had read up to this time in which the heroine had not been of gentle birth and the labouring classes as brainless automatons. This book made me feel human"""""""".'"""
"""her main intellectual interests were always literary, and as a novelist she was predominantly engaged in the business of reading and writing, with a keen critical interest in the works of other writers. She read avidly, modern poets such as T.S. Eliot, Roy Fuller, Auden and Cecil Day Lewis, and contemporary novelists, admiring in particular the work of Faulkner and Ford Madox Ford, Virginia Woolf, Ivy Compton Burnett, Sylvia Townsend Warner, Jean Rhys and Elizabeth Bowen. Jean Rhys's bleak, beautiful novel """"""""Voyage in the Dark"""""""", published in the same month as [Lehmann's] """"""""Invitation to the Waltz"""""""", had much impressed Rosamond, who invited its author to tea'."""
""" 'Moby Dick'. The present vogue of Hermann Melville is mainly due to two English novelists, Frank Swinnerton and myself.  We both of us have great opportunities for publicity and 8 or 10 years ago, in the Reform Club, we decided to convince the world that 'Moby Dick' was the greatest of all sea-novels.  And we did!  There is a lot more of Melville that you ought to read, if you have not already read it.  Some of the ‘Piazza Tales’ are wonderful.  And the novel 'Pierre', though while mad and very strange and overstrained, is really original and remarkable.  Some of the still stranger books I have not yet read or tried to read.  The trouble is that the esoteric books can only be obtained in the complete edition of the works.  Happily I possess it.  I believe that the original editions of 'Typee' and 'Omoo' are much better than the current editions, which have been expurgated.  Please note that I think 'Evan Harrington' is better than 'Beauchamp’s Career' and 'The Woodlanders' better than the 'Mayor of Casterbridge'.  """
""" 'Moby Dick'. The present vogue of Hermann Melville is mainly due to two English novelists, Frank Swinnerton and myself.  We both of us have great opportunities for publicity and 8 or 10 years ago, in the Reform Club, we decided to convince the world that 'Moby Dick' was the greatest of all sea-novels.  And we did!  There is a lot more of Melville that you ought to read, if you have not already read it.  Some of the ‘Piazza Tales’ are wonderful.  And the novel 'Pierre', though while mad and very strange and overstrained, is really original and remarkable.  Some of the still stranger books I have not yet read or tried to read.  The trouble is that the esoteric books can only be obtained in the complete edition of the works.  Happily I possess it.  I believe that the original editions of 'Typee' and 'Omoo' are much better than the current editions, which have been expurgated.  Please note that I think 'Evan Harrington' is better than 'Beauchamp’s Career' and 'The Woodlanders' better than the 'Mayor of Casterbridge'.  """
""" 'Moby Dick'. The present vogue of Hermann Melville is mainly due to two English novelists, Frank Swinnerton and myself.  We both of us have great opportunities for publicity and 8 or 10 years ago, in the Reform Club, we decided to convince the world that 'Moby Dick' was the greatest of all sea-novels.  And we did!  There is a lot more of Melville that you ought to read, if you have not already read it.  Some of the ‘Piazza Tales’ are wonderful.  And the novel 'Pierre', though while mad and very strange and overstrained, is really original and remarkable.  Some of the still stranger books I have not yet read or tried to read.  The trouble is that the esoteric books can only be obtained in the complete edition of the works.  Happily I possess it.  I believe that the original editions of 'Typee' and 'Omoo' are much better than the current editions, which have been expurgated.  Please note that I think 'Evan Harrington' is better than 'Beauchamp’s Career' and 'The Woodlanders' better than the 'Mayor of Casterbridge'.  """
""" 'Moby Dick'. The present vogue of Hermann Melville is mainly due to two English novelists, Frank Swinnerton and myself.  We both of us have great opportunities for publicity and 8 or 10 years ago, in the Reform Club, we decided to convince the world that 'Moby Dick' was the greatest of all sea-novels.  And we did!  There is a lot more of Melville that you ought to read, if you have not already read it.  Some of the ‘Piazza Tales’ are wonderful.  And the novel 'Pierre', though while mad and very strange and overstrained, is really original and remarkable.  Some of the still stranger books I have not yet read or tried to read.  The trouble is that the esoteric books can only be obtained in the complete edition of the works.  Happily I possess it.  I believe that the original editions of 'Typee' and 'Omoo' are much better than the current editions, which have been expurgated.  Please note that I think 'Evan Harrington' is better than 'Beauchamp’s Career' and 'The Woodlanders' better than the 'Mayor of Casterbridge'.  """
""" 'Moby Dick'. The present vogue of Hermann Melville is mainly due to two English novelists, Frank Swinnerton and myself.  We both of us have great opportunities for publicity and 8 or 10 years ago, in the Reform Club, we decided to convince the world that 'Moby Dick' was the greatest of all sea-novels.  And we did!  There is a lot more of Melville that you ought to read, if you have not already read it.  Some of the ‘Piazza Tales’ are wonderful.  And the novel 'Pierre', though while mad and very strange and overstrained, is really original and remarkable.  Some of the still stranger books I have not yet read or tried to read.  The trouble is that the esoteric books can only be obtained in the complete edition of the works.  Happily I possess it.  I believe that the original editions of 'Typee' and 'Omoo' are much better than the current editions, which have been expurgated.  Please note that I think 'Evan Harrington' is better than 'Beauchamp’s Career' and 'The Woodlanders' better than the 'Mayor of Casterbridge'.  """
""" 'Moby Dick'. The present vogue of Hermann Melville is mainly due to two English novelists, Frank Swinnerton and myself.  We both of us have great opportunities for publicity and 8 or 10 years ago, in the Reform Club, we decided to convince the world that 'Moby Dick' was the greatest of all sea-novels.  And we did!  There is a lot more of Melville that you ought to read, if you have not already read it.  Some of the ‘Piazza Tales’ are wonderful.  And the novel 'Pierre', though while mad and very strange and overstrained, is really original and remarkable.  Some of the still stranger books I have not yet read or tried to read.  The trouble is that the esoteric books can only be obtained in the complete edition of the works.  Happily I possess it.  I believe that the original editions of 'Typee' and 'Omoo' are much better than the current editions, which have been expurgated.  Please note that I think 'Evan Harrington' is better than 'Beauchamp’s Career' and 'The Woodlanders' better than the 'Mayor of Casterbridge'.  """
""" 'Moby Dick'. The present vogue of Hermann Melville is mainly due to two English novelists, Frank Swinnerton and myself.  We both of us have great opportunities for publicity and 8 or 10 years ago, in the Reform Club, we decided to convince the world that 'Moby Dick' was the greatest of all sea-novels.  And we did!  There is a lot more of Melville that you ought to read, if you have not already read it.  Some of the ‘Piazza Tales’ are wonderful.  And the novel 'Pierre', though while mad and very strange and overstrained, is really original and remarkable.  Some of the still stranger books I have not yet read or tried to read.  The trouble is that the esoteric books can only be obtained in the complete edition of the works.  Happily I possess it.  I believe that the original editions of 'Typee' and 'Omoo' are much better than the current editions, which have been expurgated.  Please note that I think 'Evan Harrington' is better than 'Beauchamp’s Career' and 'The Woodlanders' better than the 'Mayor of Casterbridge'.  """
""" 'Moby Dick'. The present vogue of Hermann Melville is mainly due to two English novelists, Frank Swinnerton and myself.  We both of us have great opportunities for publicity and 8 or 10 years ago, in the Reform Club, we decided to convince the world that 'Moby Dick' was the greatest of all sea-novels.  And we did!  There is a lot more of Melville that you ought to read, if you have not already read it.  Some of the ‘Piazza Tales’ are wonderful.  And the novel 'Pierre', though while mad and very strange and overstrained, is really original and remarkable.  Some of the still stranger books I have not yet read or tried to read.  The trouble is that the esoteric books can only be obtained in the complete edition of the works.  Happily I possess it.  I believe that the original editions of 'Typee' and 'Omoo' are much better than the current editions, which have been expurgated.  Please note that I think 'Evan Harrington' is better than 'Beauchamp’s Career' and 'The Woodlanders' better than the 'Mayor of Casterbridge'.  """
"""""""""""Reflection: It is presumably a bad thing to look through articles, reviews, etc. to find one's own name. Yet I often do."""""""" And that same week, she is agonizing over """"""""one slight snub"""""""" in """"""""The Times Literary Supplement"""""""".'  """
"""Read French and German newspapers.  Wrote three paragraphs.  Fiddled about.'"""
"""Monday 3 March 1930: 'Rodmell again [...] Suppose health were shown on a thermometer I have gone up 10 degrees since yesterday, when I lay, mumbling the bones of Dodo: if it had bones'."""
"""Wednesday 20 August 1930: 'I am reading Dante, & I say, yes, this makes all writing unnecessary [...] I read the Inferno for half an hour at the end of my own page [of current work]: & that is the place of honour'."""
"""To bunk. Finished reading Aldington's brochure on Lawrence. A slight thing. Odds. Wrote home. Reading. Supper. Finished reading Book I of """"""""Golden Treasury"""""""". Sisters and nurses here all very decent.'"""
"""To bunk. Finished reading Aldington's brochure on Lawrence. A slight thing. Odds. Wrote home. Reading. Supper. Finished reading Book I of """"""""Golden Treasury"""""""". Sisters and nurses here all very decent.'"""
""" A very fine book indeed, recently published, is Siegfried Sassoon’s 'Memoirs of an Infantry Officer'.  I thought that I could never tolerate another war book, but this one, after the first 30 or 40 pages is really extremely distinguished.  It has style, wit, beauty and truthfulness.  """
"""Wednesday 24 September 1930: 'I am reading Dante; & my present view of reading is to elongate immensely. I take a week over one canto. No hurry.'"""
"""Sunday 26 January 1930: 'We have been at Rodmell [...] At night I read Lord Chaplin's life.'"""
"""Saturday 27 December 1930: 'We came down [to Rodmell] on Tuesday, & next day my cold was the usual influenza, & I am in bed with the usual temperature [...] I moon torpidly through book after book: Defoe's Tour; Rowan's auto[biograph]y; Benson's Memoirs; Jeans; in the familiar way [...] Oh & I've read Q[ueen]. V[ictoria]'s letters [...] Q.V. entirely unaesthetic; a kind of Prussian competence, & belief in herself her only prominences [...] Knew her own mind. But the mind radically commonplace.' """
"""Saturday 27 December 1930: 'We came down [to Rodmell] on Tuesday, & next day my cold was the usual influenza, & I am in bed with the usual temperature [...] I moon torpidly through book after book: Defoe's Tour; Rowan's auto[biograph]y; Benson's Memoirs; Jeans; in the familiar way [...] Oh & I've read Q[ueen]. V[ictoria]'s letters [...] Q.V. entirely unaesthetic; a kind of Prussian competence, & belief in herself her only prominences [...] Knew her own mind. But the mind radically commonplace.' """
"""Saturday 27 December 1930: 'We came down [to Rodmell] on Tuesday, & next day my cold was the usual influenza, & I am in bed with the usual temperature [...] I moon torpidly through book after book: Defoe's Tour; Rowan's auto[biograph]y; Benson's Memoirs; Jeans; in the familiar way [...] Oh & I've read Q[ueen]. V[ictoria]'s letters [...] Q.V. entirely unaesthetic; a kind of Prussian competence, & belief in herself her only prominences [...] Knew her own mind. But the mind radically commonplace.' """
"""Saturday 27 December 1930: 'We came down [to Rodmell] on Tuesday, & next day my cold was the usual influenza, & I am in bed with the usual temperature [...] I moon torpidly through book after book: Defoe's Tour; Rowan's auto[biograph]y; Benson's Memoirs; Jeans; in the familiar way [...] Oh & I've read Q[ueen]. V[ictoria]'s letters [...] Q.V. entirely unaesthetic; a kind of Prussian competence, & belief in herself her only prominences [...] Knew her own mind. But the mind radically commonplace.' """
"""Saturday 27 December 1930: 'We came down [to Rodmell] on Tuesday, & next day my cold was the usual influenza, & I am in bed with the usual temperature [...] I moon torpidly through book after book: Defoe's Tour; Rowan's auto[biograph]y; Benson's Memoirs; Jeans; in the familiar way. The parson -- Skinner -- who shot himself emerges like a bloody sun in a fog. a book worth perhaps looking at again in a clearer mood [goes on to remark further on this text] [...] Oh & I've read Q[ueen]. V[ictoria]'s letters [...] Q.V. entirely unaesthetic; a kind of Prussian competence, & belief in herself her only prominences [...] Knew her own mind. But the mind radically commonplace.' """
"""Saturday 27 December 1930: 'We came down [to Rodmell] on Tuesday, & next day my cold was the usual influenza, & I am in bed with the usual temperature [...] I moon torpidly through book after book: Defoe's Tour; Rowan's auto[biograph]y; Benson's Memoirs; Jeans; in the familiar way [...] Oh & I've read Q[ueen]. V[ictoria]'s letters [...] Q.V. entirely unaesthetic; a kind of Prussian competence, & belief in herself her only prominences [...] Knew her own mind. But the mind radically commonplace.' """
"""Thursday 28 August 1930: 'I am reading R. Lehmann, with some interest & admiration -- she has a clear hard mind, beating up now & again to poetry; but I am as usual appalled by the machinery of fiction: its much work for little result. Yet I see no other outlet for her gifts.' """
"""Raw February Afternoon 2-30 [...] Reading Vaughan [quotes two stanzas beginning 'Thou art a  moon-like toil'] [...] Reading F. R. Lucas also [quotes seven lines beginning with 'Your quiet altar after all was best']'."""
"""Raw February Afternoon 2-30 [...] Reading Vaughan [quotes two stanzas beginning 'Thou art a  moon-like toil'] [...] Reading F. R. Lucas also [quotes seven lines beginning with 'Your quiet altar after all was best']'."""
"""Raw February Afternoon 2-30 [...] Thought, after reading little Cyril Conolly [sic], of the new generation knocking at the door, and wondered whether it is more than a set of knuckle bones.'"""
"""A few weeks before my fourteenth birthday I read that Einstein was coming to Glasgow to address the university, and made up my mind to go and listen to him'."""
"""Monday 3 March 1930: 'Molly Hamilton writes a d----d bad novel. She has the wits to construct a method of telling a story; & then heaps it with the dreariest, most confused litter of old clothes. When I stop to read a page attentively I am shocked by the dishabille of her English. It is like hearing cooks & scullions chattering; she scarcely articulates [...] And the quality of the emotion is so thick & squab, the emotions of secondrate women painters, of spotted & pimpled young men'."""
"""I am really set up with these books, and ?Les Nouvelles?.   I do no other reading ? for it keeps up my language and keeps me more than abreast of current thought ? for England is always behind chronologically in Philosophy though she is alright when she starts.'"""
"""Upon the age of ten or eleven I moved in a world evoked by a series of volumes published by the Religious Tract Society in the Edwardian period. The outstanding authors on the Society's list were Hesba Stretton, Mrs O.F. Walton and Amy Le Feuvre. I knew nearly all their books, but three of them stood out, and I remember them most vividly to this day: 'Little Meg's Children', 'Jessica's First Prayer', and Christie's Old Organ'. Most of the titles, incidentally, were phrased possessively."""
"""Upon the age of ten or eleven I moved in a world evoked by a series of volumes published by the Religious Tract Society in the Edwardian period. The outstanding authors on the Society's list were Hesba Stretton, Mrs O.F. Walton and Amy Le Feuvre. I knew nearly all their books, but three of them stood out, and I remember them most vividly to this day: 'Little Meg's Children', 'Jessica's First Prayer', and Christie's Old Organ'. Most of the titles, incidentally, were phrased possessively."""
"""Upon the age of ten or eleven I moved in a world evoked by a series of volumes published by the Religious Tract Society in the Edwardian period. The outstanding authors on the Society's list were Hesba Stretton, Mrs O.F. Walton and Amy Le Feuvre. I knew nearly all their books, but three of them stood out, and I remember them most vividly to this day: 'Little Meg's Children', 'Jessica's First Prayer', and Christie's Old Organ'. Most of the titles, incidentally, were phrased possessively."""
"""Upon the age of ten or eleven I moved in a world evoked by a series of volumes published by the Religious Tract Society in the Edwardian period. The outstanding authors on the Society's list were Hesba Stretton, Mrs O.F. Walton and Amy Le Feuvre. I knew nearly all their books, but three of them stood out, and I remember them most vividly to this day: 'Little Meg's Children', 'Jessica's First Prayer', and Christie's Old Organ'. Most of the titles, incidentally, were phrased possessively."""
"""Even those who read widely about sex often learned very little. In the 1920s Jennie Lee won a psychology degree from the University of Edinburgh... She went beyond the syllabus to read Ellis and Freud. While her collier father could not bring himself to discuss the subject, he was progressive enough to leave a book by Marie Stopes where she was likely to find it. All the same, Jennie was still capable of chatting with a prostitute on Princes Street without realizing what was going on. Stopes on sex """"""""was all a bit remote and unattractive"""""""", she found'."""
"""Even those who read widely about sex often learned very little. In the 1920s Jennie Lee won a psychology degree from the University of Edinburgh... She went beyond the syllabus to read Ellis and Freud. While her collier father could not bring himself to discuss the subject, he was progressive enough to leave a book by Marie Stopes where she was likely to find it. All the same, Jennie was still capable of chatting with a prostitute on Princes Street without realizing what was going on. Stopes on sex """"""""was all a bit remote and unattractive"""""""", she found'."""
"""For Paul Fletcher, a colliery winder's son in a Lancashire mining town, the Magnet's appeal lay precisely in that """"""""code of schoolboy honour"""""""". """"""""Although I never realised it at the time, it proved to influence me more about right or wrong than any other book"""""""", he recalled, """"""""And that includes the Bible"""""""". After all, the Greyfriars code """"""""was as well defined as the scriptures [were] nebulous"""""""".'"""
"""Coachman's daughter Anne Tibble was enraged by """"""""The Waste Land"""""""", which she read as a scholarship student at a redbrick university: """"""""Eliot's neurosis of disillusion was horrifying... almost utterly invalid...almost entirely without feeling for others. Eliot showed people as ugly, stupid, shabby, vulgarian, squalid, somehow indecent...the 'broken fingernails of dirty hands'...Weren't these my father's and my mother's hands?"""""""". The experience of reading it plunged her into depression, but in the late 1920s it was difficult to express her real feelings about one of the greatest living poets...Instead, she channelled her scholarly energies toward the poetry of John Clare, whose work affirmed the literacy of working people'."""
"""Coachman's daughter Anne Tibble was enraged by """"""""The Waste Land"""""""", which she read as a scholarship student at a redbrick university: """"""""Eliot's neurosis of disillusion was horrifying... almost utterly invalid...almost entirely without feeling for others. Eliot showed people as ugly, stupid, shabby, vulgarian, squalid, somehow indecent...the 'broken fingernails of dirty hands'...Weren't these my father's and my mother's hands?"""""""". The experience of reading it plunged her into depression, but in the late 1920s it was difficult to express her real feelings about one of the greatest living poets...Instead, she channelled her scholarly energies toward the poetry of John Clare, whose work affirmed the literacy of working people'."""
"""[Bernard] Shaw the buffoon, the joker, the iconoclast, appeared day by day in every newspaper like a living comic strip. """"""""That jackass"""""""", my father would umph, half-teasingly, as he read the latest outrageous saying in the """"""""Daily Mail"""""""".'"""
"""Passages transcribed in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1930) include three stanzas (beginning 'Old warder of these buried bones') from Tennyson, In Memoriam (1870 edition)."""
"""Passages transcribed in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1930) include Tennyson, 'A Farewell'."""
"""Passages transcribed in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1930) include Poem LII ('Far in a western brookland') of A. E. Housman, A Shropshire Lad."""
"""Texts discussed in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1930) include Corneille, Trois Discours ('Sur le poeme dramatique'; 'Sur la tragedie'; 'Sur les trois unites')."""
"""Texts discussed, and quoted from at length, in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1930) include The Conquest of Granada, and its prefatory Essay of Heroic Plays."""
"""Texts discussed, and quoted from at length, in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1930) include The Conquest of Granada, and its prefatory Essay of Heroic Plays."""
"""Rodogune 1646. Despite indistinct and I believe undistinguished diction, this is the most moving and exciting play of Corneille I've struck [...] Antiochus and Seleucus are devoted to each other, and there it is; their love for Rod[[ogune]. and the commands of Cleopatre doesn't contend with their devotion'."""
"""Texts discussed and quoted from in E. M. Forster, Commonplace Book (1930) include John Dryden, Preface to The Maiden Queen, regarding which Forster comments: 'Interesting but not sound. It's true that a writer knows whether he has carried out his aims, but he may be biassed in favour of his model, all the same'."""
"""Texts discussed and quoted from at length in E. M. Forster, Commonplace Book (1930) include Samuel Johnson, Rasselas, to which Forster refers as 'a charming and important (why decried as dull?) composition'."""
"""Texts discussed and quoted from at length in E. M. Forster, Commonplace Book (1930) include Samuel Johnson, Life of Savage, to which Forster refers as 'Good tempered account of a trying friend [...] S[avage]. reminds me of what I've just heard of Cyril Conolly [sic]. Lord Tyrconnel= Logan Pearsall Smith.'"""
"""Texts discussed and quoted from in E. M. Forster, Commonplace Book (1930) include Samuel Johnson, Preface to the English Dictionary and Plan (addressed to Chesterfield)."""
"""Texts discussed and quoted from in E. M. Forster, Commonplace Book (1930) include Samuel Johnson, Preface to the English Dictionary and Plan (addressed to Chesterfield)."""
"""[under heading 'Johnson on Othello]: 'Consulted original ed. to see if Raleigh misses out much. Naturally J. is stupider than he suggests: but was not stupid.'"""
"""[under heading 'Johnson on Othello]: 'Consulted original ed. to see if Raleigh misses out much. Naturally J. is stupider than he suggests: but was not stupid.'"""
"""[under heading 'Battle of the Books']: 'How I dislike Swift, and how is it possible to take this ill tempered ill informed stuff [...] seriously as criticism, even as destructive criticism? On [sic] a piece with his other works -- Jerries emptied with the same conscientiousness, same elaborate presentation of blame as praise. I feel, (as usual except perhaps in Laputa) a void behind the much advertised bitterness. I feel he never grows up [goes on to draw detailed comparison with ch. 3 of A Tale of a Tub].'"""
"""[under heading 'Battle of the Books']: 'How I dislike Swift, and how is it possible to take this ill tempered ill informed stuff [...] seriously as criticism, even as destructive criticism? On [sic] a piece with his other works -- Jerries emptied with the same conscientiousness, same elaborate presentation of blame as praise. I feel, (as usual except perhaps in Laputa) a void behind the much advertised bitterness. I feel he never grows up [goes on to draw detailed comparison with ch. 3 of A Tale of a Tub].'"""
"""Texts on which detailed notes made in E. M. Forster, Commonplace Book (1930) include Boileau, L'Art Poetique, comments on which include: 'He realises that experience is valuable to a writer and that the heart of the reader must be touched: but his conceptions of experience and the heart are jejune.'"""
"""Dante, De Vulgari Eloquentia 1309 (?) which I'd never read and now only have in translation, must have been written excitedly, and while Div[ina]. Com[media] was forming in his mind. What a pity it only deals with Canzone! [goes on to comment further on passages noted from text]'"""
"""V[irginia] W[oolf] made notes (see Holograph Reading Notes, vols XI and XII in the Berg Collection) on George Puttenham's The Arte of English Poesie (1589); on William Webbe's A Discourse of English Poetrie (1586) -- both in Constable's English reprints of 1895; and on Gabriel Harvey's Works, ed. A. B. Grosart, 1884; his Commonplace Book, ed. G. C. Moore Smith, 1913; and his Letter Book, 1573-1580, ed. E. J. L. Scott, 1884.'"""
"""V[irginia] W[oolf] made notes (see Holograph Reading Notes, vols XI and XII in the Berg Collection) on George Puttenham's The Arte of English Poesie (1589); on William Webbe's A Discourse of English Poetrie (1586) -- both in Constable's English reprints of 1895; and on Gabriel Harvey's Works, ed. A. B. Grosart, 1884; his Commonplace Book, ed. G. C. Moore Smith, 1913; and his Letter Book, 1573-1580, ed. E. J. L. Scott, 1884.'"""
"""V[irginia] W[oolf] made notes (see Holograph Reading Notes, vols XI and XII in the Berg Collection) on George Puttenham's The Arte of English Poesie (1589); on William Webbe's A Discourse of English Poetrie (1586) -- both in Constable's English reprints of 1895; and on Gabriel Harvey's Works, ed. A. B. Grosart, 1884; his Commonplace Book, ed. G. C. Moore Smith, 1913; and his Letter Book, 1573-1580, ed. E. J. L. Scott, 1884.'"""
"""V[irginia] W[oolf] made notes (see Holograph Reading Notes, vols XI and XII in the Berg Collection) on George Puttenham's The Arte of English Poesie (1589); on William Webbe's A Discourse of English Poetrie (1586) -- both in Constable's English reprints of 1895; and on Gabriel Harvey's Works, ed. A. B. Grosart, 1884; his Commonplace Book, ed. G. C. Moore Smith, 1913; and his Letter Book, 1573-1580, ed. E. J. L. Scott, 1884.'"""
"""V[irginia] W[oolf] made notes (see Holograph Reading Notes, vols XI and XII in the Berg Collection) on George Puttenham's The Arte of English Poesie (1589); on William Webbe's A Discourse of English Poetrie (1586) -- both in Constable's English reprints of 1895; and on Gabriel Harvey's Works, ed. A. B. Grosart, 1884; his Commonplace Book, ed. G. C. Moore Smith, 1913; and his Letter Book, 1573-1580, ed. E. J. L. Scott, 1884.'"""
"""on his eighth birthday, 27 February 1920, an ox-cart drew up outside Everleas Lodge with a present for him - a huge parcel of books. His father had bought him a complete set of Dickens which had belonged to a recently expired tea-planter. Durrell claimed later that he never got beyond the Pickwick Papers (sometimes he said that he got through about ten of them), but Dickens gave him a vision of merrie England... supplemented later by reading Thackeray and R.S. Surtees. In Surtees' convivial tales of the hunting, shooting, sporting Mr Jorrocks and his pursuitful adventures, there was something ruddy, jolly and rumbustious, which appealed to the perky youngster'."""
"""on his eighth birthday, 27 February 1920, an ox-cart drew up outside Everleas Lodge with a present for him - a huge parcel of books. His father had bought him a complete set of Dickens which had belonged to a recently expired tea-planter. Durrell claimed later that he never got beyond the Pickwick Papers (sometimes he said that he got through about ten of them), but Dickens gave him a vision of merrie England... supplemented later by reading Thackeray and R.S. Surtees. In Surtees' convivial tales of the hunting, shooting, sporting Mr Jorrocks and his pursuitful adventures, there was something ruddy, jolly and rumbustious, which appealed to the perky youngster'."""
"""From Appendix ('Biographical Outlines of Persons Most Frequently Mentioned') to The Diary of Virginia Woolf vol.4: 'Reading V[irginia] W[oolf]'s A Room of One's Own fired [Ethel Smyth] with the desire to meet the author, which she did in 1930'."""
"""He returned to London to . . . Somerset Maugham's """"""""Cakes and Ale"""""""", which he admired . . .'"""
"""He returned to London to . . . Lawrence's """"""""Virgin and the Gipsy"""""""", which he admired even more [than """"""""Cakes and Ale""""""""].'"""
"""Passages transcribed into E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1929-30) include  descriptions and reflections on vagrants from Chekhov's story 'Uprooted.'"""
"""I?m so glad you got your books.  But I knew as far as a ?yarn? was concerned it was your book.   Oakroyd is a masterpiece.'"""
"""I am really appreciating all the books and seem at the moment to be reading only French.   I have not by any means exhausted them yet.   ?Mahatma Gandhi? I am reading at the moment, but someone yesterday lent me Katherine Mayo?s ?Mother India?, and all my thoughts are boulevers?es [upset] by the horrors she pictures."""
"""I am really appreciating all the books and seem at the moment to be reading only French.   I have not by any means exhausted them yet.   ?Mahatma Gandhi? I am reading at the moment, but someone yesterday lent me Katherine Mayo?s ?Mother India?, and all my thoughts are boulevers?es [upset] by the horrors she pictures."""
""" I have now read your story.  I return it herewith.  I think that it is very well done.  """
"""To bunk about 8.0. Reading.'"""
"""Shaw's St Joan and Joyce's Ulysses into which I looked today (8-11-30) made me ashamed of my own writing. They have something to say, but I am only paring away insincerities.'"""
"""Shaw's St Joan and Joyce's Ulysses into which I looked today (8-11-30) made me ashamed of my own writing. They have something to say, but I am only paring away insincerities.'"""
"""G. L. Dickinson wrote to V[irginia] W[oolf] in praise of The Waves on 23 October [1931], and again, after re-reading, on 13 November 1931.'"""
"""Friday 14 February 1931: 'Janet Case yesterday [...] I suppose over 70 now [...] She clings to youth. """"""""But we never see any young people"""""""" & so reads Tom Eliot &c'."""
"""Finished reading """"""""The Intimate Journals of Paul Gauguin"""""""". Very fresh mind - he at once joins the company of those whom we wish we could have met. Such a distinctive French book makes a Scot feel that he is rather a dog-collared dog. We cannot recall Mary Stuart without seeing the shadow of Knox at her back.'"""
"""Vanessa [Bell] wrote [to her sister Virginia Woolf] from Charleston (n.d., Berg [Collection]): """"""""I have been for the last 3 days completely submerged in The Waves -- & am left rather gasping, out of breath, choking, half drowned, as you might expect. I must read it again when I may hope to float more quietly -- but meanwhile I'm so overcome by the beauty ...'"""""""" """
"""Monday 20 April 1931: 'Arrived [at La Rochelle] at 7.30 -- so quick one drives: I forgot our 2 punctures. One at Thouart [Thouars]; kept us, as the man did not mend it while we lunched. I read Sons & Lovers [by D. H. Lawrence], every word.'"""
"""25 December 1931: 'After writing the last page, Nov. 16th, I could not go on writing without a perpetual headache; & so took a month lying down; have not written a line; have read Faust, Coningsby &c.'"""
"""25 December 1931: 'After writing the last page, Nov. 16th, I could not go on writing without a perpetual headache; & so took a month lying down; have not written a line; have read Faust, Coningsby &c.'"""
"""An historical moment - completed my odyssey through Chambers's """"""""Dictionary"""""""" - I began 8 years and 8 months ago. Have still 30 pages of supplement - but last night saw the completion of the dictionary proper.'"""
"""Thursday 28 May 1931: 'Disappointed, reading lightly through, by The man who died, D.H.L.'s last. Reading Sons and Lovers first, then the last I seem to span the measure of his powers & trace his decline. A kind of Guy Fawkes dressing up grew on him it seems, in spite of the lovely silver-bright writing here & there: something sham. Making himself into a God, I suppose.'"""
"""Read a couple of ballads to Eve.'"""
"""Finished reading """"""""The Northern Muse"""""""", arranged by John Buchan. A fine anthology - yet one must admit that our greatest poems are ballads by unknown men. If a choice had to be made, we could not sacrifice the ballad corpus even for Burns or Dunbar. Here all the passions and pains of humanity stark clear from the shadow of individuality. Here are the poems of Everyman.'"""
"""They arrived late that evening bringing letters from home, and newspapers. As regards the world's news I confess that the first thing I turned to was the cricket reports. How Kent was faring in the county championships seemed of greater importance than the latest political crisis, divorce,  scandal or arsenical poisoning.' """
"""I had not heard of """"""""Wind in the Willows"""""""" until I read it during the summer holiday of my seventeenth year!'"""
"""The [reference room of the public library] was almost airless, catarrhal from the fumes of the coke-stove, musty and dusty from the half-mouldering, out-of-date sets of """"""""The Encyclopedia Britannica"""""""" and the """"""""Dictionary of National Biography"""""""". We took down pages and pages of what, in the end, proved to be quite useless notes on the lives of Gustavus Adolphus and Richelieu...'"""
"""The [reference room of the public library] was almost airless, catarrhal from the fumes of the coke-stove, musty and dusty from the half-mouldering, out-of-date sets of """"""""The Encyclopedia Britannica"""""""" and the """"""""Dictionary of National Biography"""""""". We took down pages and pages of what, in the end, proved to be quite useless notes on the lives of Gustavus Adolphus and Richelieu...'"""
"""Our syllabus was large, covering at least twelve set books: two plays of Shakespeare's, two volumes of Milton and two of Keats; Chaucer, Sheridan, Lamb, Scott's """"""""Old Mortality"""""""" and the first book of """"""""The Golden Treasury"""""""", with its marvellous pickings of Coleridge, Shelly, Byron and, especially, Wordsworth, which excited me, at that age, more than any other poetry written.'"""
"""Our syllabus was large, covering at least twelve set books: two plays of Shakespeare's, two volumes of Milton and two of Keats; Chaucer, Sheridan, Lamb, Scott's """"""""Old Mortality"""""""" and the first book of """"""""The Golden Treasury"""""""", with its marvellous pickings of Coleridge, Shelly, Byron and, especially, Wordsworth, which excited me, at that age, more than any other poetry written.'"""
"""Our syllabus was large, covering at least twelve set books: two plays of Shakespeare's, two volumes of Milton and two of Keats; Chaucer, Sheridan, Lamb, Scott's """"""""Old Mortality"""""""" and the first book of """"""""The Golden Treasury"""""""", with its marvellous pickings of Coleridge, Shelly, Byron and, especially, Wordsworth, which excited me, at that age, more than any other poetry written.'"""
"""Our syllabus was large, covering at least twelve set books: two plays of Shakespeare's, two volumes of Milton and two of Keats; Chaucer, Sheridan, Lamb, Scott's """"""""Old Mortality"""""""" and the first book of """"""""The Golden Treasury"""""""", with its marvellous pickings of Coleridge, Shelly, Byron and, especially, Wordsworth, which excited me, at that age, more than any other poetry written.'"""
"""Our syllabus was large, covering at least twelve set books: two plays of Shakespeare's, two volumes of Milton and two of Keats; Chaucer, Sheridan, Lamb, Scott's """"""""Old Mortality"""""""" and the first book of """"""""The Golden Treasury"""""""", with its marvellous pickings of Coleridge, Shelly, Byron and, especially, Wordsworth, which excited me, at that age, more than any other poetry written.'"""
"""Our syllabus was large, covering at least twelve set books: two plays of Shakespeare's, two volumes of Milton and two of Keats; Chaucer, Sheridan, Lamb, Scott's """"""""Old Mortality"""""""" and the first book of """"""""The Golden Treasury"""""""", with its marvellous pickings of Coleridge, Shelly, Byron and, especially, Wordsworth, which excited me, at that age, more than any other poetry written.'"""
"""Our syllabus was large, covering at least twelve set books: two plays of Shakespeare's, two volumes of Milton and two of Keats; Chaucer, Sheridan, Lamb, Scott's """"""""Old Mortality"""""""" and the first book of """"""""The Golden Treasury"""""""", with its marvellous pickings of Coleridge, Shelly, Byron and, especially, Wordsworth, which excited me, at that age, more than any other poetry written.'"""
"""Our syllabus was large, covering at least twelve set books: two plays of Shakespeare's, two volumes of Milton and two of Keats; Chaucer, Sheridan, Lamb, Scott's """"""""Old Mortality"""""""" and the first book of """"""""The Golden Treasury"""""""", with its marvellous pickings of Coleridge, Shelly, Byron and, especially, Wordsworth, which excited me, at that age, more than any other poetry written.'"""
"""Our syllabus was large, covering at least twelve set books: two plays of Shakespeare's, two volumes of Milton and two of Keats; Chaucer, Sheridan, Lamb, Scott's """"""""Old Mortality"""""""" and the first book of """"""""The Golden Treasury"""""""", with its marvellous pickings of Coleridge, Shelly, Byron and, especially, Wordsworth, which excited me, at that age, more than any other poetry written.'"""
"""Our syllabus was large, covering at least twelve set books: two plays of Shakespeare's, two volumes of Milton and two of Keats; Chaucer, Sheridan, Lamb, Scott's """"""""Old Mortality"""""""" and the first book of """"""""The Golden Treasury"""""""", with its marvellous pickings of Coleridge, Shelly, Byron and, especially, Wordsworth, which excited me, at that age, more than any other poetry written.'"""
"""Our syllabus was large, covering at least twelve set books: two plays of Shakespeare's, two volumes of Milton and two of Keats; Chaucer, Sheridan, Lamb, Scott's """"""""Old Mortality"""""""" and the first book of """"""""The Golden Treasury"""""""", with its marvellous pickings of Coleridge, Shelly, Byron and, especially, Wordsworth, which excited me, at that age, more than any other poetry written.'"""
"""Our syllabus was large, covering at least twelve set books: two plays of Shakespeare's, two volumes of Milton and two of Keats; Chaucer, Sheridan, Lamb, Scott's """"""""Old Mortality"""""""" and the first book of """"""""The Golden Treasury"""""""", with its marvellous pickings of Coleridge, Shelly, Byron and, especially, Wordsworth, which excited me, at that age, more than any other poetry written.'"""
"""Texts quoted from at length in E. M. Forster, Commonplace Book (1931) include Henry James, Letters, passages from which cover topics including the writings of Pater, Kipling and Hardy."""
"""Aubrey in young John Collier's book of selections has reminded me of the value of the quaint and the charming: they may bring the past when properly juxtaposed. How many anecdotes and conversations I've let die -- half a civilisation already'."""
"""In puzzled words Raymond Gram Swing commented in """"""""Harper's Magazine"""""""" on """"""""the complete refusal of the British public to face the serious facts of their decline"""""""", while Harold Laski sustained this verdict by writing in """"""""The Forum"""""""" on Britain's """"""""prevailing temper of depression"""""""" and """"""""widespread fatalism"""""""".'"""
"""He had been reading, she said, J.W. Dunne's """"""""Experiment with Time"""""""" - also Einstein and Addington.'"""
"""I enjoy thoroughly ?Les Nouvelles? ? it is most useful to me also ? and ?Gringoire? is good for me ? it tempers my Francophile complex.   I have not yet had time to complete ?Le Blois Vert?, in this rush.   But I must tell you that my little collection of French books is my most cherished possession.'  """
"""I enjoy thoroughly ?Les Nouvelles? ? it is most useful to me also ? and ?Gringoire? is good for me ? it tempers my Francophile complex.   I have not yet had time to complete ?Le Blois Vert?, in this rush.   But I must tell you that my little collection of French books is my most cherished possession.'  """
"""I enjoy thoroughly ?Les Nouvelles? ? it is most useful to me also ? and ?Gringoire? is good for me ? it tempers my Francophile complex.   I have not yet had time to complete ?Le Blois Vert?, in this rush.   But I must tell you that my little collection of French books is my most cherished possession.'  """
"""Tuesday 7 July 1931: 'I am reading Don Juan; & dispatch a biography every two days.'"""
"""Tuesday 7 July 1931: 'I am reading Don Juan; & dispatch a biography every two days.'"""
"""So that, whatever may have been its deeper cause, the love which filled my imagination was of a kind that seemed, to me, to have little to do with what I meant by sex. """"""""Love"""""""" was something I had learned about from """"""""David Copperfield"""""""" and """"""""Under the Greenwood Tree"""""""" and from the stories in """"""""The Woman's Weekly"""""""", which my mother occasionally bought. And of course, from the poetry I was beginning to enjoy. I was naively oblivious to the sexual innuendoes of Keats and Tennyson but their romantic raptures set me trembling like a tuning fork. """"""""Come into the garden, Maud"""""""" roused nothing of the derision, or even downright ribaldry, that it would surely rouse in a boy of today.' """
"""So that, whatever may have been its deeper cause, the love which filled my imagination was of a kind that seemed, to me, to have little to do with what I meant by sex. """"""""Love"""""""" was something I had learned about from """"""""David Copperfield"""""""" and """"""""Under the Greenwood Tree"""""""" and from the stories in """"""""The Woman's Weekly"""""""", which my mother occasionally bought. And of course, from the poetry I was beginning to enjoy. I was naively oblivious to the sexual innuendoes of Keats and Tennyson but their romantic raptures set me trembling like a tuning fork. """"""""Come into the garden, Maud"""""""" roused nothing of the derision, or even downright ribaldry, that it would surely rouse in a boy of today.' """
"""So that, whatever may have been its deeper cause, the love which filled my imagination was of a kind that seemed, to me, to have little to do with what I meant by sex. """"""""Love"""""""" was something I had learned about from """"""""David Copperfield"""""""" and """"""""Under the Greenwood Tree"""""""" and from the stories in """"""""The Woman's Weekly"""""""", which my mother occasionally bought. And of course, from the poetry I was beginning to enjoy. I was naively oblivious to the sexual innuendoes of Keats and Tennyson but their romantic raptures set me trembling like a tuning fork. """"""""Come into the garden, Maud"""""""" roused nothing of the derision, or even downright ribaldry, that it would surely rouse in a boy of today.' """
"""So that, whatever may have been its deeper cause, the love which filled my imagination was of a kind that seemed, to me, to have little to do with what I meant by sex. """"""""Love"""""""" was something I had learned about from """"""""David Copperfield"""""""" and """"""""Under the Greenwood Tree"""""""" and from the stories in """"""""The Woman's Weekly"""""""", which my mother occasionally bought. And of course, from the poetry I was beginning to enjoy. I was naively oblivious to the sexual innuendoes of Keats and Tennyson but their romantic raptures set me trembling like a tuning fork. """"""""Come into the garden, Maud"""""""" roused nothing of the derision, or even downright ribaldry, that it would surely rouse in a boy of today.' """
"""So that, whatever may have been its deeper cause, the love which filled my imagination was of a kind that seemed, to me, to have little to do with what I meant by sex. """"""""Love"""""""" was something I had learned about from """"""""David Copperfield"""""""" and """"""""Under the Greenwood Tree"""""""" and from the stories in """"""""The Woman's Weekly"""""""", which my mother occasionally bought. And of course, from the poetry I was beginning to enjoy. I was naively oblivious to the sexual innuendoes of Keats and Tennyson but their romantic raptures set me trembling like a tuning fork. """"""""Come into the garden, Maud"""""""" roused nothing of the derision, or even downright ribaldry, that it would surely rouse in a boy of today.' """
"""Thursday 11 February 1932: 'My mind is set running upon A Knock on the Door (whats its name?) owing largely to reading """"""""Wells on Woman"""""""" -- how she must be ancillary & decorative in the world of the future, because she has been tried, in 10 years, & has not proved anything.'"""
"""Wednesday 11 May: 'again this heroism in the attempt at pen & ink: but I am tired of reading Rousseau: it is 6 o'clock [...] we are shaking & rattling through Lombardy towards the Alps [on way back from holiday in Greece]'."""
"""Read """"""""An Anthology of War Poems"""""""", introduced by Edmund Blunden. Owen's poetry stands well above all the others - his """"""""Strange Meeting"""""""" is worth all the others put together - or nearly so. Branford's sonnets are conspicuous and Sassoon's work distinctive, but Owen has not only Branford's """"""""high seriousness"""""""" and Sasoon's objectivity but also a sure craftsmanship - he is always the artist in full control of his medium. Beside his work, Sassoon's sounds almost hysterical and Blunden's slightly artificial. After laying down this book I realised for the first time that, notwithstanding the large company of our war poets, our really fine war poems are very few in number.'"""
"""Read """"""""An Anthology of War Poems"""""""", introduced by Edmund Blunden. Owen's poetry stands well above all the others - his """"""""Strange Meeting"""""""" is worth all the others put together - or nearly so. Branford's sonnets are conspicuous and Sassoon's work distinctive, but Owen has not only Branford's """"""""high seriousness"""""""" and Sasoon's objectivity but also a sure craftsmanship - he is always the artist in full control of his medium. Beside his work, Sassoon's sounds almost hysterical and Blunden's slightly artificial. After laying down this book I realised for the first time that, notwithstanding the large company of our war poets, our really fine war poems are very few in number.'"""
"""Read """"""""An Anthology of War Poems"""""""", introduced by Edmund Blunden. Owen's poetry stands well above all the others - his """"""""Strange Meeting"""""""" is worth all the others put together - or nearly so. Branford's sonnets are conspicuous and Sassoon's work distinctive, but Owen has not only Branford's """"""""high seriousness"""""""" and Sasoon's objectivity but also a sure craftsmanship - he is always the artist in full control of his medium. Beside his work, Sassoon's sounds almost hysterical and Blunden's slightly artificial. After laying down this book I realised for the first time that, notwithstanding the large company of our war poets, our really fine war poems are very few in number.'"""
"""Writing and reading: To have the great masters always before one is the most thorough searchlight upon self-esteem: especially is this necessary for any Scot - since a literary reputation is so easily won here.'"""
"""Wednesday 13 July 1932: 'Old Joseph Wright & Lizzie Wright are people I respect. Indeed I do hope the 2nd vol. will come this morning. He was a maker of dialect dixeries: he was a workhouse boy [...] And he married Miss Lea a clergyman's daughter. And I've just read their love letters with respect [goes on to comment further on text].'"""
"""Finished reading """"""""Bengal Lancer"""""""" by F. Yeats-Brown. A pleasant book - by a likeable fellow. It's a pity he merely whets our appetite for a feast of yoga - but cannot satisfy it.'"""
"""At Ruskin College he was exposed to Marx, but he found a more compelling Utopian prophet when he read Lewis Carroll to his daughters: """"""""Then one could look at life and affairs from the proper angle, for was not all our work to this end - that little children should live in their Wonderland, and mothers and fathers be heartful of the good of life because they were"""""""".'"""
"""At Ruskin College he was exposed to Marx, but he found a more compelling Utopian prophet when he read Lewis Carroll to his daughters: """"""""Then one could look at life and affairs from the proper angle, for was not all our work to this end - that little children should live in their Wonderland, and mothers and fathers be heartful of the good of life because they were"""""""".'"""
"""Tuesday 2 February 1932: 'I am reading Wells' science of life, & have reached the hen that became a cock or vice versa.'"""
"""Monday 2 May 1932: 'Well it is five minutes to ten: but where am I, writing with pen & ink? Not in my studio. In the gorge, or valley, at Delphi, under an olive tree, sitting on dry earth covered with white daisies. L. is reading his Greek grammar beside me'."""
"""Sunday 2 October 1932: 'I am [...] reading DHL. with the usual sense of frustration. Not that he & I have too much in common -- the same pressure to be ourselves: so that I dont escape when I read him; am surfeited [...] What I enjoy (in the Letters) is the sudden visualisation [...] but I get no satisfaction from his explanations of what he sees [goes on to comment further on text]'. """
"""Nietzsche is one of the very few philosophers who remain poets in the midst of their philosophising; perhaps he is the only one. His words are often as near to actual living as it is possible for words to be - they are very nearly made of flesh. Often, when reading Nietzsche, one feels as if one were on a high hill in a bright windy day; we are always aware of action, space and an atmosphere which is best rendered by the word """"""""caller"""""""". We may call Nietzsche's philosophy pantomimic - every word is a bold gesture, a moment in a noble dance.'"""
"""This morning I have been reading Matthew Arnold, for my Anthology, in an easy chair in the sun. This afternoon I shall do some gardening. I have a garden-bed, under my window, which is my own but the whole surrounding the house must be got ready for the reception of Ceres. My chief and most regular exercise is wood-chopping, which I do in honour of Ares.'"""
"""Thursday 21 July 1932: 'Alice Ritchie ringing me up [...] said """"""""One thing I want to say. Please dont go so far away in your next book"""""""". She had just re-read The Waves: magnificent: but loneliness almost unbearable.'"""
"""... at about half past two walking up Oxford Street I saw Bumpus's, the famous bookshop. There was an exhibition on there free of charge, the library and papers of John Locke, the famous English philosopher. So I went in and had a look. There were the books that the sage used, his desk, his manuscripts, his private notebooks ... One of the notebooks was open and I read a note to the effect that a man told him how at a certain place in France five miles from such and such a spot was """"""""a spring which was cold in summer and hot in winter."""""""" """"""""This,"""""""" added Locke, in a touch which I appreciated, """"""""he told me he knew from his own observation.""""""""'"""
"""We reached his room about eleven. To do what? Not a blessed thing but to sit before a fire and talk and read again.... On his shelf was ... Edmund Rostand's [italics] Cyrano de Bergerac [end italics] in the original French. I started to read the famous speech on his nose. My good friend went ahead with me line for line without the book. Then he in turn read the """"""""Non merci"""""""" speech with immense gusto.'"""
"""When I reached home someone had dropped a letter in the box telling me to come over on Sunday between eleven and twelve because she would be at home then. I went, we went for lunch, went to the Student Movement House and read magazines and talked about them between for and eight, and then six of us met in her room and read Pirandello's Six characters in search of an author ... That is the sort of thing that is happening day after day. That is, of course, if you want it. If you want to go dancing you can ... But if you want to live the intellectual life Bloomsbury is the place."""
"""I wrote endless imitations, though I never thought them to be imitations but, rather wonderfully original things, like eggs laid by tigers. They were imitations of anything I happened to be reading at the time: Sir Thomas Brown, de Quincey, Henry Newbolt, the Ballads, Blake, Baroness Orczy, Marlowe, Chums, the Imagists, the Bible, Poe, Keats, Lawrence, Anon., and Shakespeare. A mixed lot as you see, and randomly remembered'."""
"""I wrote endless imitations, though I never thought them to be imitations but, rather wonderfully original things, like eggs laid by tigers. They were imitations of anything I happened to be reading at the time: Sir Thomas Brown, de Quincey, Henry Newbolt, the Ballads, Blake, Baroness Orczy, Marlowe, Chums, the Imagists, the Bible, Poe, Keats, Lawrence, Anon., and Shakespeare. A mixed lot as you see, and randomly remembered'."""
"""I wrote endless imitations, though I never thought them to be imitations but, rather wonderfully original things, like eggs laid by tigers. They were imitations of anything I happened to be reading at the time: Sir Thomas Brown, de Quincey, Henry Newbolt, the Ballads, Blake, Baroness Orczy, Marlowe, Chums, the Imagists, the Bible, Poe, Keats, Lawrence, Anon., and Shakespeare. A mixed lot as you see, and randomly remembered'."""
"""I wrote endless imitations, though I never thought them to be imitations but, rather wonderfully original things, like eggs laid by tigers. They were imitations of anything I happened to be reading at the time: Sir Thomas Brown, de Quincey, Henry Newbolt, the Ballads, Blake, Baroness Orczy, Marlowe, Chums, the Imagists, the Bible, Poe, Keats, Lawrence, Anon., and Shakespeare. A mixed lot as you see, and randomly remembered'."""
"""I wrote endless imitations, though I never thought them to be imitations but, rather wonderfully original things, like eggs laid by tigers. They were imitations of anything I happened to be reading at the time: Sir Thomas Brown, de Quincey, Henry Newbolt, the Ballads, Blake, Baroness Orczy, Marlowe, Chums, the Imagists, the Bible, Poe, Keats, Lawrence, Anon., and Shakespeare. A mixed lot as you see, and randomly remembered'."""
"""I wrote endless imitations, though I never thought them to be imitations but, rather wonderfully original things, like eggs laid by tigers. They were imitations of anything I happened to be reading at the time: Sir Thomas Brown, de Quincey, Henry Newbolt, the Ballads, Blake, Baroness Orczy, Marlowe, Chums, the Imagists, the Bible, Poe, Keats, Lawrence, Anon., and Shakespeare. A mixed lot as you see, and randomly remembered'."""
"""I wrote endless imitations, though I never thought them to be imitations but, rather wonderfully original things, like eggs laid by tigers. They were imitations of anything I happened to be reading at the time: Sir Thomas Brown, de Quincey, Henry Newbolt, the Ballads, Blake, Baroness Orczy, Marlowe, Chums, the Imagists, the Bible, Poe, Keats, Lawrence, Anon., and Shakespeare. A mixed lot as you see, and randomly remembered'."""
"""I wrote endless imitations, though I never thought them to be imitations but, rather wonderfully original things, like eggs laid by tigers. They were imitations of anything I happened to be reading at the time: Sir Thomas Brown, de Quincey, Henry Newbolt, the Ballads, Blake, Baroness Orczy, Marlowe, Chums, the Imagists, the Bible, Poe, Keats, Lawrence, Anon., and Shakespeare. A mixed lot as you see, and randomly remembered'."""
"""I wrote endless imitations, though I never thought them to be imitations but, rather wonderfully original things, like eggs laid by tigers. They were imitations of anything I happened to be reading at the time: Sir Thomas Brown, de Quincey, Henry Newbolt, the Ballads, Blake, Baroness Orczy, Marlowe, Chums, the Imagists, the Bible, Poe, Keats, Lawrence, Anon., and Shakespeare. A mixed lot as you see, and randomly remembered'."""
"""I wrote endless imitations, though I never thought them to be imitations but, rather wonderfully original things, like eggs laid by tigers. They were imitations of anything I happened to be reading at the time: Sir Thomas Brown, de Quincey, Henry Newbolt, the Ballads, Blake, Baroness Orczy, Marlowe, Chums, the Imagists, the Bible, Poe, Keats, Lawrence, Anon., and Shakespeare. A mixed lot as you see, and randomly remembered'."""
"""Let me say that the things that first made me love language and want to work [italics] in [end italics] it and [italics] for [end italics] it were nursery rhymes and folk tales, the Scottish Ballads, a few lines of hymns, the most famous Bible stories and the rhythms of the Bible, Blake's """"""""Songs of Innocence"""""""", and the quite incomprehensible magical majesty and nonsense of Shakespeare heard, read, and near murdered in the first forms of my school'."""
"""Let me say that the things that first made me love language and want to work [italics] in [end italics] it and [italics] for [end italics] it were nursery rhymes and folk tales, the Scottish Ballads, a few lines of hymns, the most famous Bible stories and the rhythms of the Bible, Blake's """"""""Songs of Innocence"""""""", and the quite incomprehensible magical majesty and nonsense of Shakespeare heard, read, and near murdered in the first forms of my school'."""
"""Let me say that the things that first made me love language and want to work [italics] in [end italics] it and [italics] for [end italics] it were nursery rhymes and folk tales, the Scottish Ballads, a few lines of hymns, the most famous Bible stories and the rhythms of the Bible, Blake's """"""""Songs of Innocence"""""""", and the quite incomprehensible magical majesty and nonsense of Shakespeare heard, read, and near murdered in the first forms of my school'."""
"""Let me say that the things that first made me love language and want to work [italics] in [end italics] it and [italics] for [end italics] it were nursery rhymes and folk tales, the Scottish Ballads, a few lines of hymns, the most famous Bible stories and the rhythms of the Bible, Blake's """"""""Songs of Innocence"""""""", and the quite incomprehensible magical majesty and nonsense of Shakespeare heard, read, and near murdered in the first forms of my school'."""
"""I read """"""""Mansfield Park"""""""" [Jane Austen].  Proust applied to la petite noblesse de campagne.  I also read Aristotle's Ethics, feeling that it was really high time, before I got to Rome, to know what was meant by """"""""good"""""""".'"""
"""But it was in a """"""""Good Housekeeping"""""""" article on """"""""How to Enjoy Bad Health"""""""" that she quoted the remarks with which he prefaced his announcement that she could not hope to live for more than two years.'"""
"""I stayed behind in the waiting-room, reading a favourable review in """"""""Punch"""""""" of Phyllis Bentley's newly published novel , """"""""Inheritance"""""""", which Winifred had voted """"""""magnificent,"""""""" and never dreamed that sentence of death was being passed upon her behind the closed door.'"""
"""In some respects this little work of criticism is the profoundest of Winifred's books.'"""
"""H. J. Jackson discusses T. H. White's reading and annotating of C. G. Jung, Two Essays on Analytical Psychology (1928); Sigmund Freud, Introductory Lectures on Psycho-Analysis (1923), and Alfred Adler, Practice and Theory of Individual Psychology (1924), conjecturing that White read these before 1932 (when aged 26)."""
"""H. J. Jackson notes T. H. White's reading and annotating of C. G. Jung, Two Essays on Analytical Psychology (1928); Sigmund Freud, Introductory Lectures on Psycho-Analysis (1923), and Alfred Adler, Practice and Theory of Individual Psychology (1924), conjecturing that White read these before 1932 (when aged 26)."""
"""H. J. Jackson notes T. H. White's reading and annotating of C. G. Jung, Two Essays on Analytical Psychology (1928); Sigmund Freud, Introductory Lectures on Psycho-Analysis (1923), and Alfred Adler, Practice and Theory of Individual Psychology (1924), conjecturing that White read these before 1932 (when aged 26)."""
"""For some reason we were never confronted with the famous animal books in childhood -neither """"""""The Wind in the Willows"""""""" nor """"""""Winne-the-Pooh"""""""", nor any Beatrix Potter -and when I did meet the works of Kenneth Grahame and A.A. Milne, at the age of twelve or thirteen, I was past them to the extent that I read from a height, like a connoisseur, with no involvement, accepting with sophistication rather than naivety the clothing, the speecg and the human motives of the animals."""
"""For some reason we were never confronted with the famous animal books in childhood -neither """"""""The Wind in the Willows"""""""" nor """"""""Winne-the-Pooh"""""""", nor any Beatrix Potter -and when I did meet the works of Kenneth Grahame and A.A. Milne, at the age of twelve or thirteen, I was past them to the extent that I read from a height, like a connoisseur, with no involvement, accepting with sophistication rather than naivety the clothing, the speecg and the human motives of the animals."""
"""Lancashire weaver Elizabeth Blackburn... proceeded to an evening institute course in English literature and by the rhythm of the looms she memorised all of The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Shelley's """"""""Ode to the West Wind"""""""", Milton's Lycidas, and Gray's Elegy. She discovered the ancient Greeks at the home of a neighbour, a self-educated classicist with six children, and a Sunday school teacher introduced her to the plays of Bernard Shaw. While attending her looms she silently analysed the character of Jane Eyre's Mr Rochester, """"""""sometimes to the detriment of my weaving"""""""".'"""
"""Lancashire weaver Elizabeth Blackburn... proceeded to an evening institute course in English literature and by the rhythm of the looms she memorised all of The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Shelley's """"""""Ode to the West Wind"""""""", Milton's Lycidas, and Gray's Elegy. She discovered the ancient Greeks at the home of a neighbour, a self-educated classicist with six children, and a Sunday school teacher introduced her to the plays of Bernard Shaw. While attending her looms she silently analysed the character of Jane Eyre's Mr Rochester, """"""""sometimes to the detriment of my weaving"""""""".'"""
"""Lancashire weaver Elizabeth Blackburn... proceeded to an evening institute course in English literature and by the rhythm of the looms she memorised all of The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Shelley's """"""""Ode to the West Wind"""""""", Milton's Lycidas, and Gray's Elegy. She discovered the ancient Greeks at the home of a neighbour, a self-educated classicist with six children, and a Sunday school teacher introduced her to the plays of Bernard Shaw. While attending her looms she silently analysed the character of Jane Eyre's Mr Rochester, """"""""sometimes to the detriment of my weaving"""""""".'"""
"""Lancashire weaver Elizabeth Blackburn... proceeded to an evening institute course in English literature and by the rhythm of the looms she memorised all of The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Shelley's """"""""Ode to the West Wind"""""""", Milton's Lycidas, and Gray's Elegy. She discovered the ancient Greeks at the home of a neighbour, a self-educated classicist with six children, and a Sunday school teacher introduced her to the plays of Bernard Shaw. While attending her looms she silently analysed the character of Jane Eyre's Mr Rochester, """"""""sometimes to the detriment of my weaving"""""""".'"""
"""Lancashire weaver Elizabeth Blackburn... proceeded to an evening institute course in English literature and by the rhythm of the looms she memorised all of The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Shelley's """"""""Ode to the West Wind"""""""", Milton's Lycidas, and Gray's Elegy. She discovered the ancient Greeks at the home of a neighbour, a self-educated classicist with six children, and a Sunday school teacher introduced her to the plays of Bernard Shaw. While attending her looms she silently analysed the character of Jane Eyre's Mr Rochester, """"""""sometimes to the detriment of my weaving"""""""".'"""
"""Lancashire weaver Elizabeth Blackburn... proceeded to an evening institute course in English literature and by the rhythm of the looms she memorised all of The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Shelley's """"""""Ode to the West Wind"""""""", Milton's Lycidas, and Gray's Elegy. She discovered the ancient Greeks at the home of a neighbour, a self-educated classicist with six children, and a Sunday school teacher introduced her to the plays of Bernard Shaw. While attending her looms she silently analysed the character of Jane Eyre's Mr Rochester, """"""""sometimes to the detriment of my weaving"""""""".'"""
"""I began now to borrow from the Sanatorium Library books on nature and the countryside -Hardy, Hudson, Jefferies, Gilbert White; books on birds, animals, snakes and trees. And all these presented a picture of an England which, except in a few secluded spots, no longer survived.'"""
"""I began now to borrow from the Sanatorium Library books on nature and the countryside -Hardy, Hudson, Jefferies, Gilbert White; books on birds, animals, snakes and trees. And all these presented a picture of an England which, except in a few secluded spots, no longer survived.'"""
"""I began now to borrow from the Sanatorium Library books on nature and the countryside -Hardy, Hudson, Jefferies, Gilbert White; books on birds, animals, snakes and trees. And all these presented a picture of an England which, except in a few secluded spots, no longer survived.'"""
"""I began now to borrow from the Sanatorium Library books on nature and the countryside -Hardy, Hudson, Jefferies, Gilbert White; books on birds, animals, snakes and trees. And all these presented a picture of an England which, except in a few secluded spots, no longer survived.'"""
"""I began now to borrow from the Sanatorium Library books on nature and the countryside -Hardy, Hudson, Jefferies, Gilbert White; books on birds, animals, snakes and trees. And all these presented a picture of an England which, except in a few secluded spots, no longer survived.'"""
"""Texts from which passages quoted in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book, 1931-32, include remarks on animal genitalia in Voltaire, Des Singularites de la Nature (incorporating comments such as 'Ce mecanisme est bien admirable; mais la sensation que la nature a jointe a ce mecanisme est plus admirable encore')."""
"""Passages quoted in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book, 1932, include this remark from Charles F. Richardson 'Critical Introduction' to The Complete Poems of Edgar Allan Poe: 'It may be added that Poe stands supreme, even in the only morally pure national literature the world has ever seen, in the absolute chastity of his every word.'"""
"""Passages transcribed at length in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1932) include reflections by Indu Rakshit on 'the representation of the feminine' in contemporary Western and Indian art."""
"""At that time Winifred's Derbyshire contemporary, the poet and novelist Thomas Moult, was editing a series of """"""""Modern Writers on Modern Writers"""""""".  When he invited her to contribute a volume and choose her own author, she selected Virginia Woolf, whose novels she had always admired, as a deliberate exercise in intellectual discipline.' """
"""Phyliis's novel, """"""""Inheritance"""""""", had become the fiction-star of that spring.'"""
"""Writing and reading: continue to wrestle with words in a very sticky fashion.'"""
"""Sunday 8 May 1932: 'Here it is, the last evening [of holiday in Greece]; very hot, very dusty. The loudspeaker is braying; L. reading, not without sympathy, Ethel Smyth; it is 2 minutes to 7'."""
"""Sunday 8 May 1932: 'I've scarcely read [on holiday in Greece] [...] only Roger's Eastman, & Wells, & Murry.'"""
"""Sunday 8 May 1932: 'I've scarcely read [on holiday in Greece] [...] only Roger's Eastman, & Wells, & Murry.'"""
"""Sunday 8 May 1932: 'I've scarcely read [on holiday in Greece] [...] only Roger's Eastman, & Wells, & Murry.'"""
"""Read to-day that Corot, Degas, Manet, Cezanne were all """"""""paternal parasites"""""""" as regards money - if I can do my share in the Scottish Renaissance perhaps I'll justify my parasitism yet.'"""
"""I lay down on my bed and tried to improve my mind, reading articles about the political situation in the Pacific Ocean - but it was rather difficult because Janice insisted on reading aloud passages from the life and letters of Gauguin, the artist.'"""
"""I lay down on my bed and tried to improve my mind, reading articles about the political situation in the Pacific Ocean - but it was rather difficult because Janice insisted on reading aloud passages from the life and letters of Gauguin, the artist.'"""
"""Saturday 12 August 1933: 'I've been reading Faber on Newman; compared his account of a nervous breakdown; the refusal of some part of the mechanism; is that what happens to me? Not quite. Because I'm not evading anything. I long to write The Pargiters [work in progress]. No. I think the effort to live in 2 spheres: the novel; & life is a strain'. """
"""Still in bed. Have finished the love letters and left my pair on the brink of marriage... [She] is as lively and hare-brained a rattle as anyone could wish... She nearly killed herself by going out hatless in an east wind so as not to upset the dressing of her hair; another time she fell off a wall """"""""trying to hide her ankles"""""""" from Dr Fyffe. Yet another time in her zeal for study she sewed the bodices to the skirts of her frocks so that she could dress in ten minutes.'"""
"""Last night by a log-fire, I seemed the loneliest most contented man in the world. I was reading Romeo and Juliet and beginning this letter to you. I had a kitten & my terrier Mick, (who shiver and stare at each other) & the wireless muttering and playing music ever so distantly.'"""
""" Before  starting on the march we attended a service in the Mission Church[...].[Hugh]Ruttledge read the first lesson and [E.O.]Shebbeare the second; it was impressive to hear them clattering up the slippery aisle in their nailed boots.'"""
"""Sunday 14 May 1933: 'I am reading -- skipping -- the Sacred Fount [by Henry James] -- about the most inappropriate of all books for this din -- sitting by the open window, looking across heads & heads & heads -- all Siena parading in gray & pink & the cars hooting. How finely run along all those involuted thread [in James]? I dont -- thats the answer. I let 'em break. I only mark that the sign of a masterly writer is the power to break his mould callously [goes on to comment further on James].' """
"""Sunday 17 December: 'I dined with Clive [Bell] to see Sickert the other night [15 December] [...] he [Sickert]'s chiselled, severe; has read: was reading Goldoni he said. & Flaubert's letters.'"""
"""Sunday 17 December: 'I dined with Clive [Bell] to see Sickert the other night [15 December] [...] he [Sickert]'s chiselled, severe; has read: was reading Goldoni he said. & Flaubert's letters.'"""
"""Sunday 15 January 1933: 'I am reading Parnell.'"""
"""Wednesday 16 August 1933: 'I want to discuss Form, having been reading Turgenev [goes on to make remarks on this topic]'."""
"""Many thanks for the 3 chapters - they look entrancing, but I haven't had time to do more than glance at them as I've had a sitter all day'."""
"""Cape has seen the first 4 chapters [of what Stella calls 'Towards Tomorrow']. He finds them full of charm but says he could not make a better offer than Gollancz's, nor indeed such a good one.'"""
"""The first review of """"""""Seeds in the Wind"""""""" came along today - """"""""The Glasgow Evening News"""""""" - Power may have done it. Overpraised - but some truth too in it: certainly a good send-off to the verse.'"""
"""Before leaving Kampa we visited Dr Kellas's grave.[...]Then Shebby, the oldest member of the Expedition, read Psalm 121, """"""""I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills,""""""""  while the rest of us stood by with bared heads. On this morning of brilliant clarity, Chomiomo Pauhunri and Kanchenjau, the three peaks climbed by this great pioneer, were full in view behind the brown plain.'"""
"""Satirday 2 September 1933: 'I am reading with extreme greed a book by Vera Britain [sic], called The Testament of Youth. Not that I much like her. A stringy metallic mind, with I suppose, the sort of taste I should dislike in real life. But her story, told in detail, without reserve, of the war, & how she lost lover & brother, & dabbled her hands in entrails [as nurse] [...] runs rapidly, vividly across my eyes. A very good book of its sort. The new sort, the hard anguished sort, that I could never write [comments further] [...] I give her credit for having lit up a long passage to me at least. I read & read & read & neglect Turgenev & Miss [Ivy] C[ompton]. Burnett.'"""
"""I am re-reading """"""""Anna Karenina"""""""" with great pleasure and only wish I could attempt a book on a scale like that. So many groups of distinct, yet intertwining lives, all so broad yet so sharp in detail.'"""
"""Sunday 21 May 1933: 'Tonight sitting at the open window of a secondrate inn in Draguignan [...] I dip into Creevey; L[eonard]. into Golden Bough.'"""
"""Sunday 21 May 1933: 'Tonight sitting at the open window of a secondrate inn in Draguignan [...] I dip into Creevey; L[eonard]. into Golden Bough.'"""
"""23 September 1933: 'I am reading Margot [Oxford] -- """"""""V W our greatest English authoress;"""""""" Molly Hamilton on Webbs: & Turgenev.'"""
"""23 September 1933: 'I am reading Margot [Oxford] -- """"""""V W our greatest English authoress;"""""""" Molly Hamilton on Webbs: & Turgenev.'"""
"""Thursday 24 August 1933: 'I have spent the morning reading the Confessions of Arsene Houssaye left here yesterday by Clive [Bell].' """
"""A week in Edinburgh looking up Carlyle MSS before Christmas'"""
"""Wednesday 26 July 1933: 'When I cant write of a morning -- as now -- I try to tune myself on other books: couldnt settle on any save T. Hardy's life just now. Rather to my liking.'"""
"""Monday 26 June 1933: 'The present moment. 7 o'clock on June 26th: [...] I after reading Henry 4 Pt one saying whats the use of writing; reading, imperfectly, a poem by Leopardi'. """
"""Monday 26 June 1933: 'The present moment. 7 o'clock on June 26th: [...] I after reading Henry 4 Pt one saying whats the use of writing; reading, imperfectly, a poem by Leopardi'. """
"""Read """"""""Poems 1909-1925"""""""" by T.S. Eliot. I have never had any inclination to read Eliot's book but a whim prompted me to name it when Moll asked what book I'd like. I am afraid reading Eliot hasn't changed my opinion of him. His poetry is rooted in a pedantic intellectuality: a waste-land verily: a valley of dry bones without any blood: there is wit - but the wit is also dry; brittle - no Rabelsaisian sap: no human richness: only the false disillusionment of the young could model itself on this verse.'"""
"""Thursday 5 October 1933: '[At Labour Party Conference, Hastings] I talked to Pethick L.; a frost-bitten blue eyed little old man now; & he was reading Holtby on V. W. You [italics]are[end italics] V. W.? Yes. I said'."""
"""Later in my teens, on a first visit to London, I bought for one-and-six in the Charing Cross Road, a red-covered copy of """"""""The War Poems of Siegfried Sassoon"""""""". it was my first clear view of my father's world of 1914-18, and I went on to read Graves, Blunden, Owen'."""
"""Later in my teens, on a first visit to London, I bought for one-and-six in the Charing Cross Road, a red-covered copy of """"""""The War Poems of Siegfried Sassoon"""""""". it was my first clear view of my father's world of 1914-18, and I went on to read Graves, Blunden, Owen'."""
"""Later in my teens, on a first visit to London, I bought for one-and-six in the Charing Cross Road, a red-covered copy of """"""""The War Poems of Siegfried Sassoon"""""""". it was my first clear view of my father's world of 1914-18, and I went on to read Graves, Blunden, Owen'."""
"""Later in my teens, on a first visit to London, I bought for one-and-six in the Charing Cross Road, a red-covered copy of """"""""The War Poems of Siegfried Sassoon"""""""". it was my first clear view of my father's world of 1914-18, and I went on to read Graves, Blunden, Owen'."""
"""I had by this time [his mid-teens] also struck up a friendship with a young, unemployed, linotype operator, six or seven years older than myself. He lived in a street at the back of the Lodging House, was a member of the Left book Club, and lent me (among much else) his copy of Orwell's """"""""The Road to Wigan Pier"""""""". Somehow, too, I came upon the poems of Auden, Spender, Day-Lewis, MacNeice; Isherwood's """"""""Goodbye to Berlin"""""""".'"""
"""I had by this time [his mid-teens] also struck up a friendship with a young, unemployed, linotype operator, six or seven years older than myself. He lived in a street at the back of the Lodging House, was a member of the Left book Club, and lent me (among much else) his copy of Orwell's """"""""The Road to Wigan Pier"""""""". Somehow, too, I came upon the poems of Auden, Spender, Day-Lewis, MacNeice; Isherwood's """"""""Goodbye to Berlin"""""""".'"""
"""I had by this time [his mid-teens] also struck up a friendship with a young, unemployed, linotype operator, six or seven years older than myself. He lived in a street at the back of the Lodging House, was a member of the Left book Club, and lent me (among much else) his copy of Orwell's """"""""The Road to Wigan Pier"""""""". Somehow, too, I came upon the poems of Auden, Spender, Day-Lewis, MacNeice; Isherwood's """"""""Goodbye to Berlin"""""""".'"""
"""I had by this time [his mid-teens] also struck up a friendship with a young, unemployed, linotype operator, six or seven years older than myself. He lived in a street at the back of the Lodging House, was a member of the Left book Club, and lent me (among much else) his copy of Orwell's """"""""The Road to Wigan Pier"""""""". Somehow, too, I came upon the poems of Auden, Spender, Day-Lewis, MacNeice; Isherwood's """"""""Goodbye to Berlin"""""""".'"""
"""I had by this time [his mid-teens] also struck up a friendship with a young, unemployed, linotype operator, six or seven years older than myself. He lived in a street at the back of the Lodging House, was a member of the Left book Club, and lent me (among much else) his copy of Orwell's """"""""The Road to Wigan Pier"""""""". Somehow, too, I came upon the poems of Auden, Spender, Day-Lewis, MacNeice; Isherwood's """"""""Goodbye to Berlin"""""""".'"""
"""I had by this time [his mid-teens] also struck up a friendship with a young, unemployed, linotype operator, six or seven years older than myself. He lived in a street at the back of the Lodging House, was a member of the Left book Club, and lent me (among much else) his copy of Orwell's """"""""The Road to Wigan Pier"""""""". Somehow, too, I came upon the poems of Auden, Spender, Day-Lewis, MacNeice; Isherwood's """"""""Goodbye to Berlin"""""""".'"""
"""Ray Postgate has given me some [underlined] excellent [end underlining] reviews of it was the Nightingale by Isabel Paterson & (better still) by W.R. Benet under the title """"""""Uncle Ford"""""""". I expect you have seen them.'"""
"""Ray Postgate has given me some [underlined] excellent [end underlining] reviews of it was the Nightingale by Isabel Paterson & (better still) by W.R. Benet under the title """"""""Uncle Ford"""""""". I expect you have seen them.'"""
"""Amid several warmly appreciative judgements came a frank note from St. John Ervine, who wrote that my book had entirely changed his opinion of me.'"""
"""As he left Frankfort the passengers in the train were discussing the break-up of the Disarmament Conference, and in London a """"""""Times"""""""" editorial reproved the Fuhrer like an outraged schoolmaster upbraiding a recalcitrant pupil.'"""
"""Finished """"""""Capital"""""""" - the cenotaph of its subject.'"""
"""5 October 1933: 'I spent yesterday in bed; headache; infinite weariness up my back; clouds forming in my neck; half asleep; through the rift reading Steen (author of Stallion) on Hugh Walpole. My word -- how Hugh can let that rotten pear lie on his name God knows.'"""
"""I breakfasted luxuriously in my tent off porridge, fried ham and tea and afterwards read """"""""Pickwick Papers"""""""", pausing now and then to anoint myself with face cream.'"""
"""Thursday 7 December 1933: 'I was walking through Leicester Sqre -- how far from China -- just now when I read Death of noted Novelist on the poster. And I thought of Hugh Walpole. But it is Stella Benson [...] I did not know her, but have a sense of those fine patient eyes; the weak voice; the cough; the sense of oppression. She sat on the terrace with me at Rodmell [Woolf's country residence]. And now, so quickly, it is gone, what might have been a friendship [reflects further on acquaintanceship with Benson] [...] How mournful the afternoon seems, with the newspaper carts dashing away up Kingsway """"""""Death of Noted Novelist"""""""" on the placard [...] Why not my name on the posters?' """
"""On the way up I read Lady Chatterley's Lover, in the new full continental edition a friend got from Germany. I now retract what I said that DHL's letters are more important than his novel. Lady C. is a vastly important book. I understand it. I understand it as necessary. It is delicate and pure. One of the purest things I have ever read. It is far too long. But the strong necessary teaching is there. In parts its as direct and simple as the Bible. Its an amazing love-song; no not a love-song, a life-song. It has given me confidence and courage. It could purge the world.Nevertheless I feel its a thing, a teaching, I must take and pass. I could not stay just in that region. That was Lawrence. But I feel that my goal is quite different. I salute Lady Chatterley, & I will not say leave it behind, but leave it aside. As I said in my last, sex is to art what sleep is to waking life. Full spiritual wakefulness is without sex & is a new innocence, a new childishness if you like.'"""
"""Friday 7 July 1933: 'Being headachy [...] I have spent the whole morning reading old diaries, and am now (10 to 1) much refreshed. This is by way of justifying these many written books [...] The diary amuses me.'"""
"""Before we turned in Raymond, at Hugh's suggestion, read aloud Norton's 1924 despatch, in which he summoned up the possibilities of climbing Everest.'"""
"""When looking at Hacker's """"""""Annunciation"""""""" I was especially attracted by the water-pot, and said as much in my letter to L-. Afterwards, from Jung, I learned how much symbolism has gathered about the """"""""vas"""""""". I learned from Jung also why I chose the whale as a symbol in """"""""Stanzas on Time"""""""" and in the bairn-rhyme """"""""The Whale"""""""". Sunch an illuminating explanation of one;s own intuitive choosing is startling.'"""
"""I am reading Carlyle as usual. What a man! ... When I read men like C., I pant along happily at their skirts, thinking myself safe and then, not even knowing I'm there, [they] cuff me with a great fist of a phrase that sends me sprawling ... Reading C. one feels that [italics] nothing [end italics] is worth writing, least of all own tiny things. No one ever had less [italics] message [end italics] than I have and that my duty in times like these is hardly to 'chirrup' on a quiet bough...'"""
"""I have been in bed 9 days now and still must not get up. My one enjoyment is in reading the letters of Carlyle and Jane Welsh before their marriage... She begins in the smartest, pertest, Jane Welsh way, but gradually the other Jane begins to break through, passionate, melancholy, impatient, fun-loving - fame-hungry almost - and nervous. But she seems to care for him only as a friend - the idea of marriage is disgusting to her. She is very like me; they had not met for months, had only two hours, and she wasted it all by forcing a quarrel she did not want. And her """"""""arch enemy"""""""" was headache.'"""
"""Such a moment I experienced last night when I read Murray's article in """"""""New Britain"""""""" on """"""""Shakespeare and Socialism"""""""" - I felt as if in my sonnet, """"""""To Marx"""""""", I had put Murray's prose into verse. Both the article and the sonnet must have been written practically at the same time.'"""
"""At present sunk deep in Harriet Martineau: very much attracted in spite of her complacent priggishness and self-righteousness. A very [italics] true [end italics] nature there; honest and unflinching and courageous. One gets nourished by the oddest people...'"""
"""Copies of """"""""The Solitary Way"""""""" came along: looks quite nice. Looking at this handful of lyrics of unequal quality, one is tempted to question if they are worth all the bother of a publication. Yet a glimpse of life may be reflected here and there which might have been unrecorded by any other intelligence.'"""
"""Tuesday 16 January: 'I have let all this time -- 3 weeks at Monks [House, Sussex residence] -- slip because I was there so divinely happy & pressed with ideas [...] So I never wrote a word of farewell to the year [...] nothing about the walks I had ever so far into the downs; or the reading -- Marvell of an evening, & the usual trash.' """
"""Tuesday 21 August 1934: 'I read Une Vie last night, & it seemed to me rather marking time & watery -- heaven help me -- in comparison [to last chapter of own work in progress]'."""
"""Saturday 21 July 1934: 'I am reading Sh[akespea]re plays the fag end of the morning. Have read, Pericles, Titus Andronicus, & Coriolanus.'"""
"""Saturday 21 July 1934: 'I am reading Sh[akespea]re plays the fag end of the morning. Have read, Pericles, Titus Andronicus, & Coriolanus.'"""
"""T. S. Eliot's The Rock. A Pageant Play had been performed at Sadler's Wells Theatre 28 May-9 June [1934] in aid of the Forty-Five Churches Fund of the Diocese of London, and was published at the same time. V[irginia] W[oolf] only read it, and expressed her views in a letter to Stephen Spender'."""
"""Tuesday 24 July 1934: 'Dinner last night at the Hutchinsons [...] Tom [Eliot] read Mr Barker's poems, chanting, intoning. Barker has some strange gift he thinks & dimly through a tangle of words ideas emerge.'"""
"""I rarely take a book about with me now and Keats' letters have lasted me nearly two months'."""
"""Thursday 30 August 1934: 'No letters at all this summer. But there will be many next year, I predict. And I dont mind; the day, yesterday to be exact, being so triumphant: writing: the walk; reading, Leeson, a detective, Saint Simon, Henry James' preface to P. of a Lady -- very clever, [word illegible] but one or two things I recognise: then Gide's Journal, again full of startling recollection -- things I cd have said myself.'"""
"""Thursday 30 August 1934: 'No letters at all this summer. But there will be many next year, I predict. And I dont mind; the day, yesterday to be exact, being so triumphant: writing: the walk; reading, Leeson, a detective, Saint Simon, Henry James' preface to P. of a Lady -- very clever, [word illegible] but one or two things I recognise: then Gide's Journal, again full of startling recollection -- things I cd have said myself.'"""
"""Thursday 30 August 1934: 'No letters at all this summer. But there will be many next year, I predict. And I dont mind; the day, yesterday to be exact, being so triumphant: writing: the walk; reading, Leeson, a detective, Saint Simon, Henry James' preface to P. of a Lady -- very clever, [word illegible] but one or two things I recognise: then Gide's Journal, again full of stratling recollection -- things I cd have said myself.'"""
"""Thursday 30 August 1934: 'No letters at all this summer. But there will be many next year, I predict. And I dont mind; the day, yesterday to be exact, being so triumphant: writing: the walk; reading, Leeson, a detective, Saint Simon, Henry James' preface to P. of a Lady -- very clever, [word illegible] but one or two things I recognise: then Gide's Journal, again full of stratling recollection -- things I cd have said myself.'"""
"""Tuesday 30 January 1934: 'Yesterday I went to Shapland about my watch bracelet [...] came back; sat; talked; Julian [Bell, nephew] came to tea; read Young;s French travels'."""
"""She pinned it to her coat; and returned to London reading the 1349 closely-typed pages of St. John Ervine's recently completed biography of General Booth, """"""""God's Soldier"""""""".'"""
"""But perhaps her most appropriate comment on the end of Lawrence's tormented life had been made the previous year in a review of Liddell Hart's """"""""T.E. Lawrence in Arabia and After"""""""".'"""
"""Shortly afterwards Victor Gollancz issued a pamphlet, entitled """"""""Fascists at Olympia"""""""", which contained statements from eye-witnesses, vistims of assault, and doctors who attended the injured.'"""
"""The fresh-sounding work of the War generation, which began to appear in the late 1920s and early 1930s, provided him with important models. Huxley, Wells and Aldington (especially """"""""Death of a Hero"""""""") were rapidly digested; his poetic models were Edith Sitwell, Aldington, Nichols, Sassoon and Graves (in the cheap Benn's Sixpenny Poets editions), to be followed by the more lasting influences of Eliot and D.H. Lawrence...He read an essay by Lawrence in which he showed how England treated its writers. That, he said, made him decide """"""""to swim against the current"""""""".'"""
"""The fresh-sounding work of the War generation, which began to appear in the late 1920s and early 1930s, provided him with important models. Huxley, Wells and Aldington (especially """"""""Death of a Hero"""""""") were rapidly digested; his poetic models were Edith Sitwell, Aldington, Nichols, Sassoon and Graves (in the cheap Benn's Sixpenny Poets editions), to be followed by the more lasting influences of Eliot and D.H. Lawrence...He read an essay by Lawrence in which he showed how England treated its writers. That, he said, made him decide """"""""to swim against the current"""""""".'"""
"""The fresh-sounding work of the War generation, which began to appear in the late 1920s and early 1930s, provided him with important models. Huxley, Wells and Aldington (especially """"""""Death of a Hero"""""""") were rapidly digested; his poetic models were Edith Sitwell, Aldington, Nichols, Sassoon and Graves (in the cheap Benn's Sixpenny Poets editions), to be followed by the more lasting influences of Eliot and D.H. Lawrence...He read an essay by Lawrence in which he showed how England treated its writers. That, he said, made him decide """"""""to swim against the current"""""""".'"""
"""The fresh-sounding work of the War generation, which began to appear in the late 1920s and early 1930s, provided him with important models. Huxley, Wells and Aldington (especially """"""""Death of a Hero"""""""") were rapidly digested; his poetic models were Edith Sitwell, Aldington, Nichols, Sassoon and Graves (in the cheap Benn's Sixpenny Poets editions), to be followed by the more lasting influences of Eliot and D.H. Lawrence...He read an essay by Lawrence in which he showed how England treated its writers. That, he said, made him decide """"""""to swim against the current"""""""".'"""
"""The fresh-sounding work of the War generation, which began to appear in the late 1920s and early 1930s, provided him with important models. Huxley, Wells and Aldington (especially """"""""Death of a Hero"""""""") were rapidly digested; his poetic models were Edith Sitwell, Aldington, Nichols, Sassoon and Graves (in the cheap Benn's Sixpenny Poets editions), to be followed by the more lasting influences of Eliot and D.H. Lawrence...He read an essay by Lawrence in which he showed how England treated its writers. That, he said, made him decide """"""""to swim against the current"""""""".'"""
"""The fresh-sounding work of the War generation, which began to appear in the late 1920s and early 1930s, provided him with important models. Huxley, Wells and Aldington (especially """"""""Death of a Hero"""""""") were rapidly digested; his poetic models were Edith Sitwell, Aldington, Nichols, Sassoon and Graves (in the cheap Benn's Sixpenny Poets editions), to be followed by the more lasting influences of Eliot and D.H. Lawrence...He read an essay by Lawrence in which he showed how England treated its writers. That, he said, made him decide """"""""to swim against the current"""""""".'"""
"""The fresh-sounding work of the War generation, which began to appear in the late 1920s and early 1930s, provided him with important models. Huxley, Wells and Aldington (especially """"""""Death of a Hero"""""""") were rapidly digested; his poetic models were Edith Sitwell, Aldington, Nichols, Sassoon and Graves (in the cheap Benn's Sixpenny Poets editions), to be followed by the more lasting influences of Eliot and D.H. Lawrence...He read an essay by Lawrence in which he showed how England treated its writers. That, he said, made him decide """"""""to swim against the current"""""""".'"""
"""The fresh-sounding work of the War generation, which began to appear in the late 1920s and early 1930s, provided him with important models. Huxley, Wells and Aldington (especially """"""""Death of a Hero"""""""") were rapidly digested; his poetic models were Edith Sitwell, Aldington, Nichols, Sassoon and Graves (in the cheap Benn's Sixpenny Poets editions), to be followed by the more lasting influences of Eliot and D.H. Lawrence...He read an essay by Lawrence in which he showed how England treated its writers. That, he said, made him decide """"""""to swim against the current"""""""".'"""
"""The fresh-sounding work of the War generation, which began to appear in the late 1920s and early 1930s, provided him with important models. Huxley, Wells and Aldington (especially """"""""Death of a Hero"""""""") were rapidly digested; his poetic models were Edith Sitwell, Aldington, Nichols, Sassoon and Graves (in the cheap Benn's Sixpenny Poets editions), to be followed by the more lasting influences of Eliot and D.H. Lawrence...He read an essay by Lawrence in which he showed how England treated its writers. That, he said, made him decide """"""""to swim against the current"""""""".'"""
"""The fresh-sounding work of the War generation, which began to appear in the late 1920s and early 1930s, provided him with important models. Huxley, Wells and Aldington (especially """"""""Death of a Hero"""""""") were rapidly digested; his poetic models were Edith Sitwell, Aldington, Nichols, Sassoon and Graves (in the cheap Benn's Sixpenny Poets editions), to be followed by the more lasting influences of Eliot and D.H. Lawrence...He read an essay by Lawrence in which he showed how England treated its writers. That, he said, made him decide """"""""to swim against the current"""""""".'"""
"""He lapped up those French writers who kicked against those conventions - Rabelais, Villon, Baudelaire, Rimbaud'"""
"""He lapped up those French writers who kicked against those conventions - Rabelais, Villon, Baudelaire, Rimbaud'"""
"""He lapped up those French writers who kicked against those conventions - Rabelais, Villon, Baudelaire, Rimbaud'"""
"""He lapped up those French writers who kicked against those conventions - Rabelais, Villon, Baudelaire, Rimbaud'"""
"""like any bright young intellectual of his day, he was greatly influenced by Freud and writers on sex, such as Havelock Ellis and Norman Haire, who had taken their cue from Freud's liberating initiative'."""
"""like any bright young intellectual of his day, he was greatly influenced by Freud and writers on sex, such as Havelock Ellis and Norman Haire, who had taken their cue from Freud's liberating initiative'."""
"""like any bright young intellectual of his day, he was greatly influenced by Freud and writers on sex, such as Havelock Ellis and Norman Haire, who had taken their cue from Freud's liberating initiative'."""
"""""""""""Capricornia"""""""" [was] very lively reporting - and frank about the half-caste situation in North Australia, and shows how the poor blacks are treated and makes them loveable. It shd be very controversial and sell immensely.'"""
"""The more I go into Jane, the more, in a way, she repels me. The Love-Letters, read for the 3rd time, show [italics] him [end italics] in a far better light. She is maddening with her archness and her flirtations and her sham high-browism and her """"""""wee wee Cicero"""""""". But it is interesting to see how awful young girls are.; novelists, except Tolstoy, never se it...'"""
"""Transcript of interview: 'I don’t think there was anything that I wasn’t allowed to read. It was only when I went to school to boarding school and all my friends were reading Gone with the Wind, and my mother decided she would rather I didn’t read Gone with the Wind because of a very racy chapter where Melanie gives birth to a baby and she didn’t think that was suitable for me. I was thirteen or fourteen and I didn’t read it but I did read Vicky Baum’s Hotel Berlin which had a much worse scene where a woman gave birth in a rowing boat… I can’t think of anything that was actually banned at all. I read lots and lots of my father’s books and this was a book that I loved - Palgrave’s Golden Treasury [shows book]. My mother gave me this [shows book]. This is the one I learned to read on. This is the Water Babies. I remember sitting up in bed reading Mrs Be Done By As You Did and shouting out “I can read, I can read”! I was six.  I didn’t learn to read until quite late.'"""
"""Has Eliot, for example, not returned from the """"""""Waste Land"""""""" back to a more dogmatic climate - his latest book, """"""""After Strange Gods"""""""", is almost priggish in tone; and slightly medieval. I do not suggest that his attitude is valueless - it is, I fancy, a necessary corrective'"""
"""Reading over the adjoining note, on Gibbon's death, today, leaves me with a sense of inhumanity.'"""
"""Monday 11 March 1935: 'I am reading Chateaubriand; & to my joy find I can read an Italian novel for pleasure, currently, easily.'"""
"""Monday 11 March 1935: 'I am reading Chateaubriand; & to my joy find I can read an Italian novel for pleasure, currently, easily.'"""
"""Find no desire to write this book ['The Lost Traveller'] since Tom read it. It produced a effect on him at first but that seemed to wear off.'"""
"""Considerable marginalia in pencil in English, especially on the following pages: 30, 186, 216, 220-224."""
"""Considerable marginalia in pencil in English throughout."""
"""Some textual marginalia in pencil in French on pages 173 and 176, and pencil marks throughout."""
"""Textual marginalia in pencil in French on page 46 only, and some pencil marks in the margins throughout."""
"""Textual marginalia in pencil in French in the second half of the volume (Arreat's translation of Hirth) only."""
"""Some marginalia in pencil in English and French on the following pages: 97, 206, 241, 321."""
"""Marginalia in pencil in French on page 191 only; some vertical pencil marks in the margins elsewhere."""
"""Considerable marginal annotation in pencil in English throughout."""
"""Considerable marginal annotation in pencil in English throughout."""
"""Considerable textual marginalia in English throughout."""
"""Detailed notes at the front and considerable marginalia in both English and French throughout."""
"""Some marginal notes in English and French throughout, especially pp.127-37"""
"""Brief notes on the front flyleaf, and some marginal notes in English and French throughout."""
"""Some marginal notes in French throughout. Given by the author to Vernon Lee."""
"""A few marginal notes in pencil in English, thought not all are necessarily in Vernon Lee's hand."""
"""Considerable marginal notes in pencil in English and French throughout; summary index of notes on the title page and flyleaf."""
"""Some marginalia in pencil in French and English throughout. Bound together with Fr?d?ric Paulhan, 'Les ph?nom?nes affectifs et les lois de leur apparition' (Paris : Felix Alcan, 1887) """
"""Some marginalia in pencil in French and English throughout. Bound together with Alexis Bertrand, 'La psychologie de l?effort: les doctrines contemporaines'"""
"""Some considerable marginalia in pencil, mainly in English, but some in German throughout. """
"""Some marginalia in pencil in French on the following pages:147-8, 154-5."""
"""Considerable marginalia in pencil in English and French throughout."""
"""Some marginalia in pencil in French on the following pages: 14, 37, 44, 76, 88"""
"""Some marginalia in pencil in English on page 5 only."""
"""Notes on flyleaf and marginalia in English in pencil throughout"""
"""Considerable marginalia in pencil in English throughout the volume. There are notes in ink by Lujo Brentano on the rear flyleaf. This volume was given to Vernon Lee by Lujo Brentano on 30 September 1928."""
"""Considerable marginalia in pencil, mainly in English, but some in German, throughout the volume. This volume was given to Vernon Lee by Lujo Brentano (no date recorded)."""
"""Considerable marginalia in pencil, mainly in English, in all three volumes. Volume 3 is published in 1929."""
"""Some marginalia in pencil in English on the following pages only: 65, 232-3."""
"""Some marginalia, mainly in French but some in English, throughout."""
"""Detailed marginalia in French in pencil on the following pages: 49-51"""
"""Heavily annotated, with considerable marginalia in pencil in both English and Italian. Summary of responses (with page references) on the half-title page. Presented to Vernon Lee by the author in 1904."""
"""Some marginalia in English in pencil, especially on the following pages: 47, 51, 63, 177-8"""
"""Marginalia in pencil in English on the following pages: 59, 208, 211, 256."""
"""Detailed notes on the front flyleaf and half-title page, and extensive marginalia in pencil in French throughout."""
"""Some marginal annotation in pencil in English throughout the volume, and summary notes on the inside front cover."""
"""Some marginal annotation in pencil in English and French throughout the volume."""
"""Some marginal annotation in pencil in French throughout the volume."""
"""Some marginal annotation in pencil in English throughout the volume."""
"""Some marginal annotation in pencil in English and French throughout the volume; a brief summary of notes on the front flyleaf."""
"""Some marginal annotation in pencil in English on the following pages only: 256, 265-6, 274."""
"""Summary index in pencil in Vernon Lee's hand on page 244."""
"""Much marginalia in pencil, mainly in French but some in English, throughout the volume; summary notes on the rear end papers."""
"""Brief notes in pencil on the front flyleaf, and some marginalia on the following pages only (all in English): 32, 34."""
"""Brief marginal notes in pencil in English throughout the volume."""
"""Brief marginal notes in pencil in English throughout the volume."""
"""Brief summary of notes on inside front cover, and marginalia in pencil in English throughout the volume."""
"""Some marginalia in pencil in English throughout the volume."""
"""Summary of notes on the half-title page and rear papers. Heavily annotated, with marginalia in both English and German throughout. """
"""Notes in pencil in the rear inside cover, and some light marginalia in pencil throughout the volume; this is extensive on the following pages: 90, 108-111, 116-7, 134-5, 140-1, 175, 185."""
"""Heavy marginal annotation in pencil, almost always in English, throughout the volume."""
"""Heavy marginal annotation in pencil, almost always in English, throughout the volume. There are detailed notes with page references pasted into the volume opposite the title page, and this is continued on the rear inside cover."""
"""Some marginal annotation in pencil and ink in English on the following pages only: 15, 17, 28."""
"""Only one marginal gloss ('good') written in pencil on one page only. Note that this book does not have page numbers."""
"""Considerable marginalia, mainly in English but some in German, throughout the volume. Detailed notes on the rear inside cover."""
"""Friday 13 September 1935: 'Reading Love for Love, Life of Anthony Hope, &c.'"""
"""Friday 13 September 1935: 'Reading Love for Love, Life of Anthony Hope, &c.'"""
"""Sunday 14 April 1935: 'Now for Alfieri & Nash & other notables: so happy I was reading alone last night [...] I read Annie S. Swan on her life with considerable respect. Almost always this comes from an Au[tobiograph]y: a liking, at least some imaginative stir: for no doubt her books, which she cant count, & has no illusions about, but she cant stop telling stories, are wash, pigs, hogs -- any wash you choose. But she is a shrewd capable old woman.'"""
"""Sunday 14 April 1935: 'Now for Alfieri & Nash & other notables: so happy I was reading alone last night [...] I read Annie S. Swan on her life with considerable respect. Almost always this comes from an Au[tobiograph]y: a liking, at least some imaginative stir: for no doubt her books, which she cant count, & has no illusions about, but she cant stop telling stories, are wash, pigs, hogs -- any wash you choose. But she is a shrewd capable old woman.'"""
"""Sunday 14 April 1935: 'Now for Alfieri & Nash & other notables: so happy I was reading alone last night [...] I read Annie S. Swan on her life with considerable respect. Almost always this comes from an Au[tobiograph]y: a liking, at least some imaginative stir: for no doubt her books, which she cant count, & has no illusions about, but she cant stop telling stories, are wash, pigs, hogs -- any wash you choose. But she is a shrewd capable old woman.'"""
"""I have read Tom's [note]book. I had no right to perhaps, without telling him but he has read mine and I did. It gave me a real shock - perhaps because it so confirmed my own picture of what happened and which he so strenuously denied [...] Of course it is painful to me to read of all his natural, happy ecstasy over Frances, because it shows me so clearly what I have missed in him'"""
"""I have read Tom's [note]book. I had no right to perhaps, without telling him but he has read mine and I did. It gave me a real shock - perhaps because it so confirmed my own picture of what happened and which he so strenuously denied [...] Of course it is painful to me to read of all his natural, happy ecstasy over Frances, because it shows me so clearly what I have missed in him'"""
"""Mummy is now reading """"""""[T]he Time of Man"""""""", so you can't have it back just yet: but you'll get it some day'."""
"""Even when Winifred could read with the effortless rapidity that she never lost, she found her own stories and poems more entertaining than the sentimental pieties of """"""""Christie's Old Organ"""""""", """"""""Jessica's First Prayer"""""""" and """"""""A Peep Behind the Scenes""""""""."""
"""Advance copy of """"""""Brief Words"""""""" came along; looks very well - scarcely anything that could be improved upon - excepting the actual contents. I can understand something of a woman's feelings on seeing her child.'"""
"""[?] Sunday 29 September 1935: 'Yesterday I [...] read the Lovers Melancholy & skimmed the top of the words; & want to go on reading things miles away -- beautiful hard words. remote. Not Mrs Easdale, who is silly, egotistic, sloppy, & very conventional. I am shocked to find Rodmell patched onto those pages.'"""
"""[?] Sunday 29 September 1935: 'Yesterday I [...] read the Lovers Melancholy & skimmed the top of the words; & want to go on reading things miles away -- beautiful hard words. remote. Not Mrs Easdale, who is silly, egotistic, sloppy, & very conventional. I am shocked to find Rodmell patched onto those pages.'"""
"""Read [italics] The Captain's Doll [end italics] [D.H. Lawrence] again (about the 8th time I think) and like it better than ever. Odd how again, though, the woman is more real than the man. The man is a mouthpiece for the right ideas but he doesn't quite [italics] exist [end italics]. Hannele exists yet the doll is oddly more alive than the Captain.'"""
"""Saturday 20 April 1935: 'The scene has now changed to Rodmell [...] Good Friday was a complete fraud -- rain & more rain. I tried walking along the bank [...] Then I came home & read -- Stephen Spender [The Destructive Element] [...] It has considerable swing & fluency; & some general ideas; but peters out in the usual litter of an undergraduates table [discusses text further]'."""
"""Monday 20 May 1935: 'Quentin bought an Italian paper & read of  [T. E.] Lawrence's death.' """
"""For days I've been trying to copy out that passage - pages from Heseltine [Peter Warlock, the composer]'s letters: the book is on my table: I have the time. Why can't I do it?'"""
"""Sunday 26 May 1935: 'I'm writing at Aix-en-Provence on a Sunday evening [...] I'm dipping into K.M.'s letters, Stendhal on Rome [...] Cant formulate a phrase for K.M. All I think a little posed & twisted by illness & [John Middleton] Murry; but agonised, & at moments that direct flick at the thing seen which was her gift.'"""
"""Sunday 26 May 1935: 'I'm writing at Aix-en-Provence on a Sunday evening [...] I'm dipping into K.M.'s letters, Stendhal on Rome [...] Cant formulate a phrase for K.M. All I think a little posed & twisted by illness & [John Middleton] Murry; but agonised, & at moments that direct flick at the thing seen which was her gift.'"""
"""[she thinks her own writing] was almost always imitation of what I had read. I realised the immense difference between Charlotte's work and my own. Charlotte [d'Erlanger], I think was a born writer: forceful, economical and with a real eye. The [italics] quality [end italics] of her work showed through all the ignorance of childhood.'"""
"""Thursday 29 August 1935: 'Reading Miss Mole, Abbe Dunnet (good), an occasional bite at Hind & Panther'."""
"""Thursday 29 August 1935: 'Reading Miss Mole, Abbe Dunnet (good), an occasional bite at Hind & Panther'."""
"""Thursday 29 August 1935: 'Reading Miss Mole, Abbe Dunnet (good), an occasional bite at Hind & Panther'."""
"""On the flyleaf of her novel she quoted from V. Sackville-West's pastoral poem, """"""""The Land"""""""", a verse which testified to her abiding sense of the Yorkshire that made her.'"""
"""I have just been reading and digesting Engel's Conditions of the Working Classes in England, in intention, heaven knows, a noble work; but he can't write, so it raised anger in me, instead of grief. '"""
"""Reading (except the Field book on child psychology...) too indigestible. Even H[umphrey] J[ennings]'s innocuous [italics] Little town in France [end italics] began by being sweet but sat heavily on my belly.'"""
"""Reading (except the Field book on child psychology...) too indigestible. Even H[umphrey] J[ennings]'s innocuous [italics] Little town in France [end italics] began by being sweet but sat heavily on my belly.'"""
"""[a young Quaker] has made me read Woolman's journal which I found very genuine and moving but not so [italics] bouleversant [italics] as to convert me to the Friends. Can one talk of spirituality as being """"""""provincial""""""""? Or is that just my old Catholic snobbery?'"""
""" """"""""Junior,"""""""" she said to him, """"""""you reeely must look.  You remember Mrs Furnivall said that the part between Dieppy and Purris was vurry vurry interesting.""""""""  Junior merely grunted and went on reading """"""""Time"""""""".  And I, pretending to read Charles Lamb, wondered how a woman of over forty could still suppose Dieppe was called Dieppy.'"""
"""I think she thought I was French as I was reading the """"""""Matin"""""""".  But when I picked up Lamb which was obviously an English book, she began throwing out leading questions.'"""
"""One must know Hemingway if one is to understand post war writing.   I read too ?The Open Secret?.   Oliver Onions was a great favourite of mine once.   He was a past master of the topical novel.'"""
"""""""""""I am going to call attention in this department,"""""""" it ran, """"""""to the fact that the most informing - and upsetting - book to read to-day on the Abyssinian crisis is """"""""Mandoa, Mandoa!""""""""  I wrote the review in """"""""Books""""""""; this summer I bought the English edition to re-read in the light of present events.  Heavens, how well it stood the test!""""""""'"""
"""Barclay Hudson, an American living near by, lent him a new novel to read. It was published in Paris by the Obelisk Press, a publisher specializing mainly in pornography in English for visiting tourists, and in books banned elsewhere. The novel Hudson lent him was the recently published """"""""Tropic of Cancer"""""""" by Henry Miller. The impact was immediate, and he read it straight through twice...""""""""There isn't a good word to express its excellence"""""""", he wrote. """"""""Of course, like all works of genius it's strong fruit and you'd have to be careful about getting it into England"""""""".'"""
"""The book will give me the greatest delight.   I am getting a bit past ?yarns? ? but I enjoyed ?Matador? because it is quite a document on Spain to day and apparently written on the spot.   I believe Margaret Steen is a Liverpool woman and she is credited as a careful writer.   I must try for ?Stallion? which made a big noise last year.   But ?Tu viens? [Are you coming] seems to be the kind of thing I turn to best ? observation of life without the painted veil of fiction.'"""
"""Saturday 31 August 1935: 'Read Hind & Panther. D.H.L. by E. (good) & slept.'"""
"""Saturday 31 August 1935: 'Read Hind & Panther. D.H.L. by E. (good) & slept.'"""
"""Throughout our childhood, mother read aloud to us, usually at the kitchen table, but sometimes, as a treat, in the front room and sometimes, on warm summer evenings, in the meadow beyond the garden... The books she chose for these readings were, I now see, startingly bad. Two of her greatest favourites were 'Coming Through the Rye' and 'Freckles'. The first was a tale with a middle-class Victorian background showing true love thwarted by a designing woman... But there was a passage at the end of 'Freckles' which overcame her so that she could not continue... """
"""Throughout our childhood, mother read aloud to us, usually at the kitchen table, but sometimes, as a treat, in the front room and sometimes, on warm summer evenings, in the meadow beyond the garden... The books she chose for these readings were, I now see, startingly bad. Two of her greatest favourites were 'Coming Through the Rye' and 'Freckles'. The first was a tale with a middle-class Victorian background showing true love thwarted by a designing woman... But there was a passage at the end of 'Freckles' which overcame her so that she could not continue... """
"""in 'The Scarlet Pimpernel' there was the key line, 'That demmed elusive Pimpernel'; and, of course, 'demmed' would never do, so Mother substituted 'awful'. I think she deliberately chose a word which did not scan and which obviously was not the original one... 'The Scarlet Pimpernel', incidentally, was another great favourite of Mother's..."""
"""It was after our second family holiday in the West Highlands of Scotland, when I was thirteen, that someone recommended that we should all read 'The Flight of the Heron' by D.K. Broster, as it dealt with that part of the country at the time of the '45 rebellion. My mother bought it, and the most exciting period of my reading life began. I was possessed by a rapture, an ecstacy, for which nothing in all my experience, and certainly not religion, had prepared me. I remember the actual surroundings in which I sat reading the book, on a bench in Phear Park, for example, on a sunny Saturday morning."""
"""My mother read it [The Flight of the Heron] with pleasure, but not with the passion I felt but which it seems I successfully hid from her. She soon got on to the sequels, 'The Gleam in the North' and 'The Dark Mile', and mentioned casually one day that she had glanced at the last page of 'The Dark Mile' and seen that 'he was mashing someone called Olivia' -I recoiled. Mashing. My faithful Ewen, who had married Alison in the first book. But it was all right. It was his cousin Ian. Mother could not tell the difference."""
"""My mother read it [The Flight of the Heron] with pleasure, but not with the passion I felt but which it seems I successfully hid from her. She soon got on to the sequels, 'The Gleam in the North' and 'The Dark Mile', and mentioned casually one day that she had glanced at the last page of 'The Dark Mile' and seen that 'he was mashing someone called Olivia' -I recoiled. Mashing. My faithful Ewen, who had married Alison in the first book. But it was all right. It was his cousin Ian. Mother could not tell the difference."""
"""My mother read it [The Flight of the Heron] with pleasure, but not with the passion I felt but which it seems I successfully hid from her. She soon got on to the sequels, 'The Gleam in the North' and 'The Dark Mile', and mentioned casually one day that she had glanced at the last page of 'The Dark Mile' and seen that 'he was mashing someone called Olivia' -I recoiled. Mashing. My faithful Ewen, who had married Alison in the first book. But it was all right. It was his cousin Ian. Mother could not tell the difference."""
"""My mother read it [The Flight of the Heron] with pleasure, but not with the passion I felt but which it seems I successfully hid from her. She soon got on to the sequels, 'The Gleam in the North' and 'The Dark Mile', and mentioned casually one day that she had glanced at the last page of 'The Dark Mile' and seen that 'he was mashing someone called Olivia' -I recoiled. Mashing. My faithful Ewen, who had married Alison in the first book. But it was all right. It was his cousin Ian. Mother could not tell the difference."""
"""My mother read it [The Flight of the Heron] with pleasure, but not with the passion I felt but which it seems I successfully hid from her. She soon got on to the sequels, 'The Gleam in the North' and 'The Dark Mile', and mentioned casually one day that she had glanced at the last page of 'The Dark Mile' and seen that 'he was mashing someone called Olivia' -I recoiled. Mashing. My faithful Ewen, who had married Alison in the first book. But it was all right. It was his cousin Ian. Mother could not tell the difference."""
"""Sheila read 'The Flight of the Heron' too, but was less impressed. I think she realised how I felt; she once teased me about it."""
"""Derek Davies could not recall that his mother had ever read a book. His father, a die-caster in an automobile factory, read only local and sports papers and two novels a week - a Western or a detective thriller: """"""""Yet quite unintentionally he gave me... a love of reading... He never seemed to vary the diet, he never discussed either the books he read or newspaper items, and he never urged me to read for myself... I... was soon reading everything he read. by the age of eleven or twelve I must have read a couple of hundred of his novels..."""""""" In addition to the newspapers and his father's novels, he consumed books for younger children and travel books for adults (""""""""Tibet, I remember, was one passionate preoccupation""""""""). He jumped from the """"""""Wizard"""""""" and """"""""Hotspur"""""""", which his parents considered """"""""trash"""""""" to their twenty-two bound volumes of """"""""The Illustrated New History of the 1914-18 War"""""""". """"""""Undeterred by the fact that I had neither the space nor the money to embark on even the most modest layout, I consumed book after book on the building of model railways. Gradually, as I found out how to use the School Library and the Public Library, some degree of selection took place, but as nobody at school before the sixth form advised me what to read the selection remained distinctly erratic... At about fourteen... I read every word of T.E. Lawrence's 'Seven Pillars of Wisdom', although I had only the faintest glimmer of its real significance"""""""".' """
"""Derek Davies could not recall that his mother had ever read a book. His father, a die-caster in an automobile factory, read only local and sports papers and two novels a week - a Western or a detective thriller: """"""""Yet quite unintentionally he gave me... a love of reading... He never seemed to vary the diet, he never discussed either the books he read or newspaper items, and he never urged me to read for myself... I... was soon reading everything he read. by the age of eleven or twelve I must have read a couple of hundred of his novels..."""""""" In addition to the newspapers and his father's novels, he consumed books for younger children and travel books for adults (""""""""Tibet, I remember, was one passionate preoccupation""""""""). He jumped from the """"""""Wizard"""""""" and """"""""Hotspur"""""""", which his parents considered """"""""trash"""""""" to their twenty-two bound volumes of """"""""The Illustrated New History of the 1914-18 War"""""""". """"""""Undeterred by the fact that I had neither the space nor the money to embark on even the most modest layout, I consumed book after book on the building of model railways. Gradually, as I found out how to use the School Library and the Public Library, some degree of selection took place, but as nobody at school before the sixth form advised me what to read the selection remained distinctly erratic... At about fourteen... I read every word of T.E. Lawrence's 'Seven Pillars of Wisdom', although I had only the faintest glimmer of its real significance"""""""".' """
"""Derek Davies could not recall that his mother had ever read a book. His father, a die-caster in an automobile factory, read only local and sports papers and two novels a week - a Western or a detective thriller: """"""""Yet quite unintentionally he gave me... a love of reading... He never seemed to vary the diet, he never discussed either the books he read or newspaper items, and he never urged me to read for myself... I... was soon reading everything he read. by the age of eleven or twelve I must have read a couple of hundred of his novels..."""""""" In addition to the newspapers and his father's novels, he consumed books for younger children and travel books for adults (""""""""Tibet, I remember, was one passionate preoccupation""""""""). He jumped from the """"""""Wizard"""""""" and """"""""Hotspur"""""""", which his parents considered """"""""trash"""""""" to their twenty-two bound volumes of """"""""The Illustrated New History of the 1914-18 War"""""""". """"""""Undeterred by the fact that I had neither the space nor the money to embark on even the most modest layout, I consumed book after book on the building of model railways. Gradually, as I found out how to use the School Library and the Public Library, some degree of selection took place, but as nobody at school before the sixth form advised me what to read the selection remained distinctly erratic... At about fourteen... I read every word of T.E. Lawrence's 'Seven Pillars of Wisdom', although I had only the faintest glimmer of its real significance"""""""".' """
"""Passages transcribed in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1935) include reflections on associations of placenames and other words, and on effects of 'the world' upon strong and weak characters, in Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms."""
"""... [Alice Meynell] followed up her first success with “Scotland For Ever” and others of the same kind ...The whole family had embraced the Roman Catholic religion about that time and an emotional experience caused her to find an outlet in her poetry and her best-known sonnet, “Renouncement” was published. In his editor’s introduction to “Sonnets of this Century” William Sharp says “Rosetti repeated “Renouncement” to me, he had learnt it by heart and said it was one of the three finest sonnets ever written by a woman.” ... Coventry Patmore, who said, in one of his essays, “Mrs. Meynell is the only woman of recent times who has achieved distinction of style.” ...'"""
"""‘... The most important [side of life] to all Christians is the question of the spiritual outlook – I know your Guild is helping in this work – but when we read in the statistics that there are 156,237 females in Brisbane alone – Mothers or potential Mothers with houses – we wonder, when we look round  at the attendances at our own Churches, if the joy of Christianity has ever been taught - ...'	"""
"""Durrell's studies at the British Museum turned even further towards the Elizabethans. He took in Sidney, Marlowe, Nashe, Greene, Peel and Tourneur, as well as Shakespeare'."""
"""Durrell's studies at the British Museum turned even further towards the Elizabethans. He took in Sidney, Marlowe, Nashe, Greene, Peel and Tourneur, as well as Shakespeare'."""
"""Durrell's studies at the British Museum turned even further towards the Elizabethans. He took in Sidney, Marlowe, Nashe, Greene, Peel and Tourneur, as well as Shakespeare'."""
"""Durrell's studies at the British Museum turned even further towards the Elizabethans. He took in Sidney, Marlowe, Nashe, Greene, Peel and Tourneur, as well as Shakespeare'."""
"""Durrell's studies at the British Museum turned even further towards the Elizabethans. He took in Sidney, Marlowe, Nashe, Greene, Peel and Tourneur, as well as Shakespeare'."""
"""Durrell's studies at the British Museum turned even further towards the Elizabethans. He took in Sidney, Marlowe, Nashe, Greene, Peel and Tourneur, as well as Shakespeare'."""
"""He was also interesting himself in poets such as Keats, Fitzgerald and Yeats'."""
"""He was also interesting himself in poets such as Keats, Fitzgerald and Yeats'."""
"""He was also interesting himself in poets such as Keats, Fitzgerald and Yeats'."""
"""He consumed works of western philosophy, from Rousseau to Wyndham Lewis. All this he added to his diet of sexology - Freud, Remy de Gourmont, de Sade and Krafft-Ebing. And with the Mediterranean in mind, he read D.H. Lawrence's """"""""Sea and Sardinia"""""""" and Norman Douglas's """"""""South Wind""""""""'."""
"""He consumed works of western philosophy, from Rousseau to Wyndham Lewis. All this he added to his diet of sexology - Freud, Remy de Gourmont, de Sade and Krafft-Ebing. And with the Mediterranean in mind, he read D.H. Lawrence's """"""""Sea and Sardinia"""""""" and Norman Douglas's """"""""South Wind""""""""'."""
"""He consumed works of western philosophy, from Rousseau to Wyndham Lewis. All this he added to his diet of sexology - Freud, Remy de Gourmont, de Sade and Krafft-Ebing. And with the Mediterranean in mind, he read D.H. Lawrence's """"""""Sea and Sardinia"""""""" and Norman Douglas's """"""""South Wind""""""""'."""
"""He consumed works of western philosophy, from Rousseau to Wyndham Lewis. All this he added to his diet of sexology - Freud, Remy de Gourmont, de Sade and Krafft-Ebing. And with the Mediterranean in mind, he read D.H. Lawrence's """"""""Sea and Sardinia"""""""" and Norman Douglas's """"""""South Wind""""""""'."""
"""He consumed works of western philosophy, from Rousseau to Wyndham Lewis. All this he added to his diet of sexology - Freud, Remy de Gourmont, de Sade and Krafft-Ebing. And with the Mediterranean in mind, he read D.H. Lawrence's """"""""Sea and Sardinia"""""""" and Norman Douglas's """"""""South Wind""""""""'."""
"""He consumed works of western philosophy, from Rousseau to Wyndham Lewis. All this he added to his diet of sexology - Freud, Remy de Gourmont, de Sade and Krafft-Ebing. And with the Mediterranean in mind, he read D.H. Lawrence's """"""""Sea and Sardinia"""""""" and Norman Douglas's """"""""South Wind""""""""'."""
"""He consumed works of western philosophy, from Rousseau to Wyndham Lewis. All this he added to his diet of sexology - Freud, Remy de Gourmont, de Sade and Krafft-Ebing. And with the Mediterranean in mind, he read D.H. Lawrence's """"""""Sea and Sardinia"""""""" and Norman Douglas's """"""""South Wind""""""""'."""
"""When """"""""Seven Pillars of Wisdom"""""""" appeared at the end of July 1935, Winifred reviewed it in """"""""Time and Tide"""""""".'"""
"""Friday 31 May 1935: 'Some good German woman sends a pamphlet on me, into which I couldnt resist looking, though nothing so much upsets & demoralises as this looking at ones face in the glass. And a German glass produces an extreme diffuseness & complexity so that I cant get either praise or blame but must begin twisting among long words.'"""
"""On the plane I saw in the paper of the fellow ahead of me, """"""""Le Marechal Pilzudski est mort hier"""""""".'"""
"""At the time of her death I had read only part of """"""""South Riding"""""""", which was to bring her back to me, and I found no reason to change the words which I had written in my notebook as she lay dying.'"""
"""Sunday 6 January 1935: 'We lunched with Maynard & Lydia [Keynes] [...] talked about [...] Wells -- [Maynard] had read his Au[tobiograph]y. Thought him a little squit [...] A lack of decency, said M. [...] Then he read us a long magnificently spry and juicy letter from Shaw, on a sickbed, aged 77. The whole of economics twiddled round on his finger, with the usual dives & gibes & colloquialities. The most artificial of all styles, I said, like his seeming natural speaking.'"""
"""Sunday 6 January 1935: 'We lunched with Maynard & Lydia [Keynes] [...] talked about [...] Wells -- [Maynard] had read his Au[tobiograph]y. Thought him a little squit [...] A lack of decency, said M. [...] Then he read us a long magnificently spry and juicy letter from Shaw, on a sickbed, aged 77. The whole of economics twiddled round on his finger, with the usual dives & gibes & colloquialities. The most artificial of all styles, I said, like his seeming natural speaking.'"""
"""Belchamber (1904) by Howard (""""""""Howdie"""""""") Overing Sturgis (1855-1920), a prosperous American expatriate, has for its principal character """"""""Sainty"""""""" -- the Marquis and Earl of Belchamber. V[rginia] W[oolf] read the """"""""World's Classics"""""""" edition of 1935, with an introduction by Gerard Hopkins which draws a portrait of the author.' """
"""I have just been reading the record of a dangerous voyage, [italics] Malte Laurids Brigg [end italics]. Yet Rilke returned safely. I have seen a photo of him in a black coat and a watch chain standing in the gateway of a German castle. Where have I been from which there was any danger of not returning? Even from insanity I came back to find a name, a latchkey, a home, identifying friends. In writing I hug the shore all the time. Rilke's book hs affected me profoundly; given me the sense of being out of my depth, of a dazzling interconnection between two worlds in which one simultaneously moves. It has left me sensitised like a watch that has been too near a magnet. The effect was so violent that I had to lie down at intervals while I was reading it; I was shaking as if in a high fever.'"""
"""It is strange that in poetry, when I was eleven, I had what I can only call my first revelation from which I emerged dazed, unable to fit the two worlds together. It has happened again now with the Rilke book'."""
"""Finished """"""""Sunset Song"""""""". No doubt at all about the richness, the routhiness of this book. Careless, often unnecessarily """"""""course"""""""", to employ his own far too much over-worked word, but the humanity is there, and the bright objectiveness which is the need of modern art.'"""
"""Saturday 7 September 1935: 'A heavenly quiet morning reading Alfieri by the open window & not smoking [...] I've stopped 2 days now The Years [novel in progress]:& feel the power to settle, calmly & firmly on books coming back at once. John Bailey's life, come today, makes me doubt though -- what? Everything [...] I've only just glanced & got the smell of Lit. dinner. Lit. Sup, Lit this that & the other -- & the one remark to the effect that Virginia Woolf, of all people, has been given Cowper by Desmond [MacCarthy], & likes it! I, who read Cowper when I was 15 -- d----d nonsense.'"""
"""Saturday 7 September 1935: 'A heavenly quiet morning reading Alfieri by the open window & not smoking [...] I've stopped 2 days now The Years [novel in progress]:& feel the power to settle, calmly & firmly on books coming back at once. John Bailey's life, come today, makes me doubt though -- what? Everything [...] I've only just glanced & got the smell of Lit. dinner. Lit. Sup, Lit this that & the other -- & the one remark to the effect that Virginia Woolf, of all people, has been given Cowper by Desmond [MacCarthy], & likes it! I, who read Cowper when I was 15 -- d----d nonsense.'"""
"""Thursday 9 May 1935: 'Sitting in the sun outside the German Customs. A car with the swastika on the back window has just passed into Germany. L[eonard]. is in the customs. I am nibbling at Aaron's Rod [by D. H. Lawrence, 1922]. Ought I to go in and see what is happening? A fine dry windy morning. The Dutch Customs took 10 seconds. This has taken 10 minutes already.'"""
"""What I gather from the few poems of Hopkins that I have read is that the passion in his verse is predominantly intellectual and has a tortured quality about it; indicative almost of an unnatural constriction of the body: and this may be so, as Hopkins was a Jesuit priest.'"""
"""Sunday 11 January 1936: 'A very fine day [...] I read Borrow's Wild Wales, into which I can plunge head foremost [...] then [...] to tea with Nessa [sister] [...] Home, & dine alone, & sleep over Mr Clarkson's memoirs. He had a sexual kink, & a passion for fish'."""
"""Sunday 11 January 1936: 'A very fine day [...] I read Borrow's Wild Wales, into which I can plunge head foremost [...] then [...] to tea with Nessa [sister] [...] Home, & dine alone, & sleep over Mr Clarkson's memoirs. He had a sexual kink, & a passion for fish'."""
"""Every day I become more aware of the extraordinary interpenetration of people's lives. I think of the share Emily had in Djuna's book ['Nightwood'], of the share Emily will have in mine if I can write it, of the small share I have in hers and may have in Siepmann's, of the way I saw something in Tom's drowning story ['I have been Drowned'] of which he was unaware and which Emily brought to flower so that now he has written a quite extraordinary story, beyond anything he has done before and which gave me the same feeling of strangeness, delight, almost awe that Emily's two last poems, """"""""Melville"""""""" and """"""""The Creation"""""""" gave me'."""
"""Every day I become more aware of the extraordinary interpenetration of people's lives. I think of the share Emily had in Djuna's book ['Nightwood'], of the share Emily will have in mine if I can write it, of the small share I have in hers and may have in Siepmann's, of the way I saw something in Tom's drowning story ['I have been Drowned'] of which he was unaware and which Emily brought to flower so that now he has written a quite extraordinary story, beyond anything he has done before and which gave me the same feeling of strangeness, delight, almost awe that Emily's two last poems, """"""""Melville"""""""" and """"""""The Creation"""""""" gave me'."""
"""When I read Rilke I seem to understand her ['Roberta's] death... she really had carried it about with her, nourished it, achieved it' [alluding to story about Rilke's death on p.70]"""
"""I read voraciously the lives of painters and the journals of poets. I am nourished and nourished but I bring forth nothing'."""
"""I read voraciously the lives of painters and the journals of poets. I am nourished and nourished but I bring forth nothing'."""
"""last night [Barker] read me Coleridge's """"""""Ode on Dejection"""""""" which is very beautiful in parts. It exactly expresses those bad negative states in which one looks and sees nothing - the """"""""grief without a pang"""""""".'"""
"""Up to dinner, talking to Emily, practising the piano, playing with the children, reading Hoare's admirable article on Rimbaud the day had gone well... Eric has promised me some money for new clothes. Now the planning of them has become a nightmare. I want the clothes very badly. But looking through the pages of [italics] Vogue [end italics] has filled me with numb despair.' [because it is so hard to choose]"""
"""Up to dinner, talking to Emily, practising the piano, playing with the children, reading Hoare's admirable article on Rimbaud the day had gone well... Eric has promised me some money for new clothes. Now the planning of them has become a nightmare. I want the clothes very badly. But looking through the pages of [italics] Vogue [end italics] has filled me with numb despair.' [because it is so hard to choose]"""
"""Had Aldous Huxley been as richly endowed with imagination as with intellectual penetration, his """"""""Brave New World"""""""" might have been a truly creative challenge to our machine age. But, lacking the moral indignation and the humanising solicitude of Swift, he fails in his Savage to create a real sponsor for humanity. And the superficiality of his philosophy is shown in the last scene.'"""
"""Reading the Father Zossima chapter ['The Brothers Karamazov'] I felt the confessor-saint fulfilled exactly the same function as the psycho-analyst. The psycho-analyst cuts a poor and shabby figure beside the saint but he is the best substitute an age of non-faith can produce.'"""
"""Sunday 21 June 1936, during composition of The Years: 'A very strange, most remarkable summer [...] I am learning my craft in the most fierce conditions. Really reading Flaubert's letters I hear my own voice cry out Oh art! Patience. Find him consoling, admonishing.'"""
"""I am surprised to find that though suspicious of surrealist dogma I like some of their work, notably and unexpectedly [Andre] Bretons's [italics] Nadja [end italics]. Attracted back to my old adolescent love [of] the magical.'"""
"""Finished reading """"""""Grey Granite"""""""" by Grassic Gibbon. Hasn't the richness of """"""""Sunset Song"""""""" but has much of its verve. One is ever conscious of a certain rank liveliness about G's work: much of it fermentive - like maure'"""
"""Friday 27 November 1936: 'Dined alone, read Sir T. Browne's letters.'"""
"""I love Emily and am too much afraid of hurting her. Her book ['The Tigron' - unpublished] is so very personal to her. she seems to wants us and the world to judge it, not as a thing in itself but """"""""think what this woman must have been through to write it..."""""""" I love a great deal of the book but I am not happy about it as a whole.'"""
"""When she [Emily Coleman] reads and loves anything she makes it part of her, underlining with a peculiar heaviness... If you borrow Emily's Wordsworth you will read not Wordsworth but Emily's Wordsworth. She will fearlessly correct and alter passages. She does not read; she flings herself upon and passionately possess a work...'"""
"""When she [Emily Coleman] reads and loves anything she makes it part of her, underlining with a peculiar heaviness... If you borrow Emily's Wordsworth you will read not Wordsworth but Emily's Wordsworth. She will fearlessly correct and alter passages. She does not read; she flings herself upon and passionately possess a work...'"""
"""Saturday 29 February 1936: 'I read Quennel [sic] on Byron: dont like that young mans clever agile thin blooded mind'."""
"""The book which I had ordered had arrived and gives me the same exciting feeling when I glance into it  - I have told you before how I want you to read ?Dodsworth?, and now you will be able to as I am sending it to you ? I daren?t get too enthusiastic about it in case you don?t like it.  ???.  I have been reading ?Mutiny on the Bounty?, but it seems tame after the film. ??  . I now have two books to read out of the library, ?Daughter to Philip? by Beatrice Kean Seymour, and ?Jake?, by Naomi Royde-Smith, which I have heard about somewhere, and is I think the story of a musician.'"""
"""By reading Frances' letters to Tom I have learnt a great deal about Frances and a great deal about Tom. They are not very agreeable things'."""
"""Passages transcribed in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1935-6) include two quotations from Herman Melville, Mardi."""
"""‘I was surprised in going round the monuments in St. Johns Church where the famous Dean Ramsay was rector in his time to see a tablet with this on it –“Muriel daughter of the Right Rev. Daniel Sandford L.L.D. sometime Bishop of Tasmania 1868-1889” ... This was the name I saw on a Hotel – “The old sailors ark” ... In a Mission Church railed enclosure were some old carved stones, These words were written below them “Stones from the Nettersbow, part of which stood east of this spot (it was demolished in 1764) ... I had a laugh when I saw over the entrance to the Public Library these words “Let there be Light” – At last I found what I had been looking for – The monument of a dog ... Under the figure of the dog are these words – “From the life, just before his death” –then several coats of arms – National one of Scotland - & among these these words “A Tribute” to the “affectionate fidelity of Grey friars Bobby – In 1858 this faithful dog followed the remains of his master to Greyfriars Churchyard & lingered near the spot until his death in 1872” – “With permission erected by the Baroness Burdett Coutts” - & then as I walked round the Churchyard of Greyfriars Church - I saw this on a tombstone – “John Gray died 1858 “Auld Jack” – Master of Greyfriars Bobby and even in his ashes most beloved - Erected by American Lovers of “Bobby” ... St. Giles Cathedral – which is the Church of Scotland is full of war memorials ... One memorial I must tell you – because it is of a woman & so few women are given this honour, it is a tablet 3 figures of Angels with folded wings - & on the breast of each is a symbol – Faith. Hope. Charity - & these words “To the beloved & honoured memory of Elsie Maud Inglis surgeon & philanthropist – Founder of the Scottish Women’s Hospital for Service with the Allies in France Serbia & Russia – born 1864 – died on active service 1917 Mons janua Vitae (Death is the gate to life)... Another memorial I must tell you about was that of Sir John Gordon (Bart) of Hadds ... This tablet was erected in 1933 by his descendent John Campbell Gordon Marquis"""
"""Margaret Wharton's parents were highly literate, and with their encouragement she entered a teaching training college in 1936, but they taught her nothing about sex: """"""""Though we read books like 'Tess of the d'Urbervilles' and 'Hatter's Castle' both dealing with defloration of innocence and an ultimate baby, we drew no parallels and made no application to ourselves. I even read Radclyffe Hall's classic story of lesbianism, The Well of Loneliness, without having the faintest idea of what it was about'."""
"""Margaret Wharton's parents were highly literate, and with their encouragement she entered a teaching training college in 1936, but they taught her nothing about sex: """"""""Though we read books like 'Tess of the d'Urbervilles' and 'Hatter's Castle' both dealing with defloration of innocence and an ultimate baby, we drew no parallels and made no application to ourselves. I even read Radclyffe Hall's classic story of lesbianism, The Well of Loneliness, without having the faintest idea of what it was about'."""
"""Margaret Wharton's parents were highly literate, and with their encouragement she entered a teaching training college in 1936, but they taught her nothing about sex: """"""""Though we read books like 'Tess of the d'Urbervilles' and 'Hatter's Castle' both dealing with defloration of innocence and an ultimate baby, we drew no parallels and made no application to ourselves. I even read Radclyffe Hall's classic story of lesbianism, The Well of Loneliness, without having the faintest idea of what it was about'."""
"""Sunday 5 January 1936: 'My head is quiet today, soothed by reading the Trumpet Major last night'."""
"""A clean table and proper lighting make me solider, I find. Tonight I have swept all the rubbish off my board and read some of Oedipus Tyrannus with only the lamp and two vases in sight. One vase has four roses, the other a spray of oak leaves: the acorns when the sun falls on them, have a blue bloom. [Midnight 5-9-36]'"""
"""Her [Laura Riding's] talent I cannot judge, having seen too little. Much of what I have seen seems a nervous and complacent exhibitionism; her criticism shrewd but patronising, some of the poems really deep and fine... There may be a good deal of the suppressed or unsuppressed Lesbian in her'."""
"""I've just received """"""""The Great Trade Route"""""""" this morning, and there's a gentleman on the cover who tells me that it is """"""""bland, ironic humurous [sic] discursive, always amusing, throughly convincing"""""""" & I've been trying to find the place where I left off in the proofs but have just realized how futile such a search is & have gone back to the beginning.'"""
"""Passages transcribed into E. M. Forster, Commonplace Book (1937) include part of Le Morte D'Arthur, XX.3, opening: ' """"""""So upon Trinity Sunday at night King Arthur dreamed a womderful dream [...] that to him there seemed he sat upon a chaflet [platform] in a chair, and the chair was fast to a wheel """"""""'. Underneath, Forster notes: 'Copied, with modernised spelling, just as King George VI returned from his coronation to his palace.'"""
"""Monday 12 September 1937: '[At Memoir Club meeting] Maynard read a very packed profound & impressive paper so far as I could follow, about Cambridge youth; their philosophy; its consequences [...] The beauty & unworldliness of it. I was impressed by M. & felt a little flittery & stupid. Then he had to rest; it turned grey & cold. M. had to be slowly conveyed -- a bed made on the ground floor at Charleston. Nevertheless a very human satisfactory meeting.'"""
"""Thursday 15 April 1937: 'Reading Balzac: reading A. Birrell's memoirs'."""
"""Thursday 15 April 1937: 'Reading Balzac: reading A. Birrell's memoirs'."""
"""About 3.30, C.M.G. came striding in, resplendent in full Highland rig-out ... He had a number of MSS with him and read part of his """"""""Red Scotland"""""""", which sounded quite convincing. As he read, he supported himself at an angle over my table, the angle increased with the reading until he was literally dropping cigarette ash and dialectical materialism all about me. I thought it might relieve the congestion if he removed his plaid - but discovered that it was part of the regalia.'"""
"""Friday 19 March 1937: '""""""""They"""""""" say almost universally that The Years is a masterpiece [...] The praise chorus began yesterday: by the way I was walking in Covent Garden & found St Pauls, CG for the first time [...] then went to Burnets [of Garrick St.] [...] bought the E. Standard & found myself glorified as I read it in the Tube.'"""
"""I sat in my rickety camp chair which had been artfully and ingeniously repaired by [Sherpa] Wangdi to prevent it falling to pieces, and read Shakespeare's sonnets.'"""
"""There was nothing for me to do but lie in my sleeping bag,write up my botanical notes, read and in between whiles eat chocolate.[...] Among the papers I had received by mail were copies of """"""""The Spectator"""""""" and """"""""The Times"""""""". The news of the day was, as usual, depressing, but I got a certain amount of kick out of the literary reviews, especially as regards one book which """"""""The Times"""""""" praised highly, and """"""""The Spectator"""""""" damned to perdition. Such contentiousness seemed  to me symbolical of the distant combative world. Another paper, an illustrated weekly, told me in a wealth of detail and many diagrammatic drawings, how to make my house gas-proof, but it said nothing about tents. It all seemed utterly fantastic viewed from the Valley of Flowers.'  """
"""Fortunately Peter had lots of reading matter and he loaned me """"""""Doctor Johnson"""""""".'"""
"""The clerk who cashes my cheques at the bank is quite a bright, intelligent-looking boy. To-day I had a copy of [italics] Bouvard et Pecuchet [end italics]. He looked at it with curiosity then said """"""""I expect you think I'm rude, looking like that. But I used to read a lot of those sorts of books once"""""""" """"""""What sort of books?"""""""" """"""""Oh, yellow books like that. I picked up a lot in a booksellers. But mine were much bigger than that"""""""" """"""""What were they?"""""""" """"""""Oh I don't remember their names or what they were about"""""""" """"""""Do you remember the authors?"""""""" """"""""Can't say I do. I seem to remember one was some sort of a Japanese story"""""""" """"""""And they were in French?"""""""" """"""""Oh yes, in French of course"""""""".'"""
"""[Basil Nicholson] loves Marvell's poems and Durer's drawings. He has a great admiration for Keats but won't read the letters """"""""because he feels they will probably annoy him"""""""".'"""
"""[Basil Nicholson] loves Marvell's poems and Durer's drawings. He has a great admiration for Keats but won't read the letters """"""""because he feels they will probably annoy him"""""""".'"""
"""Tuesday 25 May 1937, in account of travels in France, 7-23 May 1937: 'At Rodez the best hotel in the world [...] Reading Elle et Lui, a very good best seller [by George Sand]. Cant stop reading.'"""
"""Tuesday 25 May 1937, in account of travels in France, 7-23 May 1937: 'Reading Beckford by [Guy] Chapman [1937] -- but why write about this cold egotist? this nugatory man?' """
"""Wednesday 24 February 1937: 'Started reading French again: Misanthrope & Colette's memoirs given me last summer by Janie [Jane-Simone Bussy]: when I was in the dismal drowse & cdn't fix on that or anything.'"""
"""Wednesday 24 February 1937: 'Started reading French again: Misanthrope & Colette's memoirs given me last summer by Janie [Jane-Simone Bussy]: when I was in the dismal drowse & cdn't fix on that or anything.'"""
"""Thursday 24 June 1937: 'A letter from Ott. [...] She has been [italics]very[end italics] ill [following stroke] [...] but is recovering at Tunbridge Wells. Pipsy reads Emma to her, & she reads H. James to herself.'"""
"""Thursday 24 June 1937: 'A letter from Ott. [...] She has been [italics]very[end italics] ill [following stroke] [...] but is recovering at Tunbridge Wells. Pipsy reads Emma to her, & she reads H. James to herself.'"""
"""Monday 1 June 1937: 'I should make a note of Desmond [MacCarthy]'s queer burst of intimacy the other evening [...] last Tuesday, that is; [he] read us his L[eslie]. S[tephen]. lecture, a rather laboured but honest but perfunctory lecture: after which he & I sitting in the twilight with the door open, L[eonard]. [Woolf] coming in & out, discussed his shyness: he says he thinks it made him uncreative.' """
"""Heaven knows there is enough infantile cruelty in his [Basil Nicholson's] book'."""
"""Tuesday 30 March 1937: 'Ethel rings up to say she has re-read Years, under Miss [Alice] Hudson [JP]'s direction, & finds it no longer unintelligible, but superb -- How can this be true of any mind?'"""
"""Tuesday 30 November 1937: 'Reading Chateaubriand now, bought in 6 fine vols for one guinea at Cambridge'."""
"""Either at school or at home I read all the classics considered necessary for children: 'Treasure Island', 'Kidnapped', 'Little Women', 'David Copperfield', 'Ivanhoe', 'Robinson Crusoe'. I suppose I enjoyed them; I certainly did not resent or avoid them. Very occasionally some incident would seem to connect with my own life: the doings of the Spanish Inquisition in 'Westward Ho!' for example, fitted in exactly with what I had heard about Roman Catholics. But on the whole the themes appeared completely abstract and impersonal, even when the author intended a message to strike home. 'Uncle Tom's Cabin' did not cause me a moment's concern for the plight of Negro slaves in America, and neither did 'The Water Babies' for the sufferings of the child chimney-sweeps, not because these situations had been done away with, but because no book stirred me in that way... """
"""Either at school or at home I read all the classics considered necessary for children: 'Treasure Island', 'Kidnapped', 'Little Women', 'David Copperfield', 'Ivanhoe', 'Robinson Crusoe'. I suppose I enjoyed them; I certainly did not resent or avoid them. Very occasionally some incident would seem to connect with my own life: the doings of the Spanish Inquisition in 'Westward Ho!' for example, fitted in exactly with what I had heard about Roman Catholics. But on the whole the themes appeared completely abstract and impersonal, even when the author intended a message to strike home. 'Uncle Tom's Cabin' did not cause me a moment's concern for the plight of Negro slaves in America, and neither did 'The Water Babies' for the sufferings of the child chimney-sweeps, not because these situations had been done away with, but because no book stirred me in that way... """
"""Either at school or at home I read all the classics considered necessary for children: 'Treasure Island', 'Kidnapped', 'Little Women', 'David Copperfield', 'Ivanhoe', 'Robinson Crusoe'. I suppose I enjoyed them; I certainly did not resent or avoid them. Very occasionally some incident would seem to connect with my own life: the doings of the Spanish Inquisition in 'Westward Ho!' for example, fitted in exactly with what I had heard about Roman Catholics. But on the whole the themes appeared completely abstract and impersonal, even when the author intended a message to strike home. 'Uncle Tom's Cabin' did not cause me a moment's concern for the plight of Negro slaves in America, and neither did 'The Water Babies' for the sufferings of the child chimney-sweeps, not because these situations had been done away with, but because no book stirred me in that way... """
"""Either at school or at home I read all the classics considered necessary for children: 'Treasure Island', 'Kidnapped', 'Little Women', 'David Copperfield', 'Ivanhoe', 'Robinson Crusoe'. I suppose I enjoyed them; I certainly did not resent or avoid them. Very occasionally some incident would seem to connect with my own life: the doings of the Spanish Inquisition in 'Westward Ho!' for example, fitted in exactly with what I had heard about Roman Catholics. But on the whole the themes appeared completely abstract and impersonal, even when the author intended a message to strike home. 'Uncle Tom's Cabin' did not cause me a moment's concern for the plight of Negro slaves in America, and neither did 'The Water Babies' for the sufferings of the child chimney-sweeps, not because these situations had been done away with, but because no book stirred me in that way... """
"""Either at school or at home I read all the classics considered necessary for children: 'Treasure Island', 'Kidnapped', 'Little Women', 'David Copperfield', 'Ivanhoe', 'Robinson Crusoe'. I suppose I enjoyed them; I certainly did not resent or avoid them. Very occasionally some incident would seem to connect with my own life: the doings of the Spanish Inquisition in 'Westward Ho!' for example, fitted in exactly with what I had heard about Roman Catholics. But on the whole the themes appeared completely abstract and impersonal, even when the author intended a message to strike home. 'Uncle Tom's Cabin' did not cause me a moment's concern for the plight of Negro slaves in America, and neither did 'The Water Babies' for the sufferings of the child chimney-sweeps, not because these situations had been done away with, but because no book stirred me in that way... """
"""Either at school or at home I read all the classics considered necessary for children: 'Treasure Island', 'Kidnapped', 'Little Women', 'David Copperfield', 'Ivanhoe', 'Robinson Crusoe'. I suppose I enjoyed them; I certainly did not resent or avoid them. Very occasionally some incident would seem to connect with my own life: the doings of the Spanish Inquisition in 'Westward Ho!' for example, fitted in exactly with what I had heard about Roman Catholics. But on the whole the themes appeared completely abstract and impersonal, even when the author intended a message to strike home. 'Uncle Tom's Cabin' did not cause me a moment's concern for the plight of Negro slaves in America, and neither did 'The Water Babies' for the sufferings of the child chimney-sweeps, not because these situations had been done away with, but because no book stirred me in that way... """
"""Either at school or at home I read all the classics considered necessary for children: 'Treasure Island', 'Kidnapped', 'Little Women', 'David Copperfield', 'Ivanhoe', 'Robinson Crusoe'. I suppose I enjoyed them; I certainly did not resent or avoid them. Very occasionally some incident would seem to connect with my own life: the doings of the Spanish Inquisition in 'Westward Ho!' for example, fitted in exactly with what I had heard about Roman Catholics. But on the whole the themes appeared completely abstract and impersonal, even when the author intended a message to strike home. 'Uncle Tom's Cabin' did not cause me a moment's concern for the plight of Negro slaves in America, and neither did 'The Water Babies' for the sufferings of the child chimney-sweeps, not because these situations had been done away with, but because no book stirred me in that way... """
"""Either at school or at home I read all the classics considered necessary for children: 'Treasure Island', 'Kidnapped', 'Little Women', 'David Copperfield', 'Ivanhoe', 'Robinson Crusoe'. I suppose I enjoyed them; I certainly did not resent or avoid them. Very occasionally some incident would seem to connect with my own life: the doings of the Spanish Inquisition in 'Westward Ho!' for example, fitted in exactly with what I had heard about Roman Catholics. But on the whole the themes appeared completely abstract and impersonal, even when the author intended a message to strike home. 'Uncle Tom's Cabin' did not cause me a moment's concern for the plight of Negro slaves in America, and neither did 'The Water Babies' for the sufferings of the child chimney-sweeps, not because these situations had been done away with, but because no book stirred me in that way... """
"""Either at school or at home I read all the classics considered necessary for children: 'Treasure Island', 'Kidnapped', 'Little Women', 'David Copperfield', 'Ivanhoe', 'Robinson Crusoe'. I suppose I enjoyed them; I certainly did not resent or avoid them. Very occasionally some incident would seem to connect with my own life: the doings of the Spanish Inquisition in 'Westward Ho!' for example, fitted in exactly with what I had heard about Roman Catholics. But on the whole the themes appeared completely abstract and impersonal, even when the author intended a message to strike home. 'Uncle Tom's Cabin' did not cause me a moment's concern for the plight of Negro slaves in America, and neither did 'The Water Babies' for the sufferings of the child chimney-sweeps, not because these situations had been done away with, but because no book stirred me in that way... """
"""Once or twice some description of physical pain broke through my detachment: the detailed account of the binding of a young girl's feet in a missionary book about China, or the evocation of the agony, like walking on a thousand knives, endured by the mermaid who was given human legs. The story of 'The Little Mermaid' was in fact one which did make me feel and understand. The hopelessness of a relationship between two people born in different elements was somehow an emotion which I could grasp to the point of distress and one which came back to me in adult life with a sense of complete continuity. But this understanding was almost an aberration."""
"""Once or twice some description of physical pain broke through my detachment: the detailed account of the binding of a young girl's feet in a missionary book about China, or the evocation of the agony, like walking on a thousand knives, endured by the mermaid who was given human legs. The story of 'The Little Mermaid' was in fact one which did make me feel and understand. The hopelessness of a relationship between two people born in different elements was somehow an emotion which I could grasp to the point of distress and one which came back to me in adult life with a sense of complete continuity. But this understanding was almost an aberration."""
"""In 'The Ugly Duckling' the meaning was something that in my own way I thought about much of the time: I was destined for a higher sphere and would be appreciated when I achieved it; and yet I did not see it in the story or make the connection at all. In fact I interpretted it in the most banal and inaccurate fashion as saying that the plain would become pretty."""
"""Of course the book I read most consistently throughout these years was the Bible, but its influence on me, though obviously great, was not directly literary. I never thought of it as a book at all: as far as I was concerned, it might well have been called 'The Bible Designed NOT to be Read as Literature'."""
"""Sydney [Larkin's father] gave him free run of his library and his appetite for books grew enormously. """"""""Thanks to my father"""""""", he wrote later: """"""""our house contained not only the principal works of most main English writers in some form or other (admittedly there were exceptions, like Dickens), but also nearly-complete collections of authors my father favoured - Hardy, Bennett, Wilde, Butler and Shaw, and later on Lawrence, Huxley and Katherine Mansfield"""""""".'"""
"""Sydney [Larkin's father] gave him free run of his library and his appetite for books grew enormously. """"""""Thanks to my father"""""""", he wrote later: """"""""our house contained not only the principal works of most main English writers in some form or other (admittedly there were exceptions, like Dickens), but also nearly-complete collections of authors my father favoured - Hardy, Bennett, Wilde, Butler and Shaw, and later on Lawrence, Huxley and Katherine Mansfield"""""""".'"""
"""Sydney [Larkin's father] gave him free run of his library and his appetite for books grew enormously. """"""""Thanks to my father"""""""", he wrote later: """"""""our house contained not only the principal works of most main English writers in some form or other (admittedly there were exceptions, like Dickens), but also nearly-complete collections of authors my father favoured - Hardy, Bennett, Wilde, Butler and Shaw, and later on Lawrence, Huxley and Katherine Mansfield"""""""".'"""
"""Sydney [Larkin's father] gave him free run of his library and his appetite for books grew enormously. """"""""Thanks to my father"""""""", he wrote later: """"""""our house contained not only the principal works of most main English writers in some form or other (admittedly there were exceptions, like Dickens), but also nearly-complete collections of authors my father favoured - Hardy, Bennett, Wilde, Butler and Shaw, and later on Lawrence, Huxley and Katherine Mansfield"""""""".'"""
"""Sydney [Larkin's father] gave him free run of his library and his appetite for books grew enormously. """"""""Thanks to my father"""""""", he wrote later: """"""""our house contained not only the principal works of most main English writers in some form or other (admittedly there were exceptions, like Dickens), but also nearly-complete collections of authors my father favoured - Hardy, Bennett, Wilde, Butler and Shaw, and later on Lawrence, Huxley and Katherine Mansfield"""""""".'"""
"""Sydney [Larkin's father] gave him free run of his library and his appetite for books grew enormously. """"""""Thanks to my father"""""""", he wrote later: """"""""our house contained not only the principal works of most main English writers in some form or other (admittedly there were exceptions, like Dickens), but also nearly-complete collections of authors my father favoured - Hardy, Bennett, Wilde, Butler and Shaw, and later on Lawrence, Huxley and Katherine Mansfield"""""""".'"""
"""Sydney [Larkin's father] gave him free run of his library and his appetite for books grew enormously. """"""""Thanks to my father"""""""", he wrote later: """"""""our house contained not only the principal works of most main English writers in some form or other (admittedly there were exceptions, like Dickens), but also nearly-complete collections of authors my father favoured - Hardy, Bennett, Wilde, Butler and Shaw, and later on Lawrence, Huxley and Katherine Mansfield"""""""".'"""
"""Sydney [Larkin's father] gave him free run of his library and his appetite for books grew enormously. """"""""Thanks to my father"""""""", he wrote later: """"""""our house contained not only the principal works of most main English writers in some form or other (admittedly there were exceptions, like Dickens), but also nearly-complete collections of authors my father favoured - Hardy, Bennett, Wilde, Butler and Shaw, and later on Lawrence, Huxley and Katherine Mansfield"""""""".'"""
"""Passages transcribed into E. M. Forster, Commonplace Book (1937) include extract from Cowley's Essay No. 5 ('The Garden'), dedicated to John Evelyn, and opening: 'I never had any other Desire so strong, and so like to Covetousness as that one which I have had always. That I might be Master at last of a small House and a large Garden, with very modern Conveniencies joined to them, and there dedicate the remainder of my Life to the Culture of them and the study of Nature.'  """
"""Passages transcribed into E. M. Forster, Commonplace Book (1937) include the description of the  death of Mr Badman's wife (opening 'Now, said she, I am going to rest for my sorrows, my sighs, my tears, my mournings, and complaints') from chapter 16 of John Bunyan, The Life and Death of Mr Badman."""
"""Passages transcribed into E. M. Forster, Commonplace Book (1937) include reflections upon benefits of reading both devotional and 'gallant' books, and the heart's ability to '[reconcile contrary things]' [source ed's translation] from La Bruyere's essay 'Du Coeur'."""
"""Passages transcribed at length into E. M. Forster, Commonplace Book (1937) include the description of the suicide of John Cox, from chapter 19 of John Bunyan's Life and Death of Mr Badman."""
"""In 1937 she was having """"""""a heavenly time"""""""" reading Montherlant, and writing a piece on him for the """"""""New Statesman"""""""".'"""
"""Sydney [Larkin's father] gave him free run of his library and his appetite for books grew enormously. """"""""Thanks to my father"""""""", he wrote later: """"""""our house contained not only the principal works of most main English writers in some form or other (admittedly there were exceptions, like Dickens), but also nearly-complete collections of authors my father favoured - Hardy, Bennett, Wilde, Butler and Shaw, and later on Lawrence, Huxley and Katherine Mansfield"""""""".'"""
"""Sunday 4 April 1937: 'Reading Balzac with great pleasure. Novel reading power is coming back.'"""
"""I slept most of the morning, and in the afternoon I lay in the sun and read copies of the Calcutta """"""""Statesman """""""" four months old, that Auden had brought for wrapping up geological specimens. I derived as much enjoyment from them as if they had been that morning's issue.'  """
"""Now half Paris is wanting to take my likeness & indeed a Spanish painter is doing it all the time while I am writing this. He sits about doing me while I work or read or play patience'."""
"""Monday 8 March 1937: 'What I noticed on the walk to Cockfosters [on 6 March] were: [records various observations] [...] then the tramps [...] The middle aged woman was trying to make a fire: a man in townish clothes was lying on his side in the grass [...] When we [Woolf and husband Leonard] came back after an hour the woman had got the fire to burn [...] She was cutting a slice of bread off a loaf, but there was no butter. At night it became very cold, & as we sat down to our duck L. said he wondered how they [s]pent the night. I said probably they go to the workhouse. This fitted in well with What shall we do then, wh. I read in the train. But incidentally I'm not so much impressed as I expected by it. Vivid, but rather wordy so far.' """
"""I feel a curious kinship with, dislike of, yet pity for Katherine Mansfield, whose letters I am reading again. I see all my weaknesses in her, admire her for her frantic attempts to be honest and deal with them. I can now read her, feeling her equal not an awestruck inferior as I used to. I know all she knew.'"""
"""My chief pleasure at the moment is Darwin's [italics] Voyage of the Beagle [end italics]... it is so fresh, so clear, so solid, so modest, so alive. When I read a book like that I am full of admiration yet I feel so humiiated and despairing too...'"""
"""Reading Darwin's [book] I wish I had loved objective things and looked at them when I was a child instead of feeding always on books and fancy'."""
"""Thursday 1 September 1937: 'A violent attack on 3 Gs in Scrutiny by Q. Leavis. I dont think it gave me an entire single thrill of horror. And I didnt read it through [...] But I read eno' to see that it was all personal - about Queenie's own grievances & retorts to my snubs.'"""
"""I read one of the green volumes of notes [diary] to him [Ian] (Sept to Nov 1937). It interested him very much, said it articulated a great many of his own feelings. At first he was very enthusiastic, then suddenly clouded over and was obviously feeling cold and contempotuous towards me'."""
"""I am so much enjoying [italics] The Mill on the Floss [end italics] but would so much like to earn the right to read it.'"""
"""Having read again Housman's """"""""More Poems"""""""", one is forced to the conclusion that his philosophic attitude had been definitely exploited in his previous two collections; and his self-awareness is shown in limiting his work to these.'"""
""" 'Our library too was a weighty affair. Shipton had the longest novel that had been published in recent years, Warren a 2,000-page work on physiology.[...] On Good Friday [...] the rest of us lay about, played chess or read the less technical portion of our curiously assorted library. This included """"""""Gone with the Wind"""""""" (Shipton) """"""""Seventeenth Century Verse"""""""" (Oliver), """"""""Montaigne's Essays"""""""" (Warren), """"""""Don Quixote"""""""" (self), """"""""Adam Bede"""""""" (Lloyd), """"""""Martin Chuzzlewit"""""""" (Smythe), """"""""Stones of Venice"""""""" (Odell) and a few others. Warren,who rejoined us that day, besides his weighty tome on Physiology -in which there were several funny anecdotes if one took the trouble to look - had with him a yet weightier volume on the singularly inappropriate subject of Tropical Diseases.'"""
""" 'Our library too was a weighty affair. Shipton had the longest novel that had been published in recent years, Warren a 2,000-page work on physiology.[...] On Good Friday [...] the rest of us lay about, played chess or read the less technical portion of our curiously assorted library. This included """"""""Gone with the Wind"""""""" (Shipton) """"""""Seventeenth Century Verse"""""""" (Oliver), """"""""Montaigne's Essays"""""""" (Warren), """"""""Don Quixote"""""""" (self), """"""""Adam Bede"""""""" (Lloyd), """"""""Martin Chuzzlewit"""""""" (Smythe), """"""""Stones of Venice"""""""" (Odell) and a few others. Warren,who rejoined us that day, besides his weighty tome on Physiology -in which there were several funny anecdotes if one took the trouble to look - had with him a yet weightier volume on the singularly inappropriate subject of Tropical Diseases.'"""
"""Our library too was a weighty affair. Shipton had the longest novel that had been published in recent years, Warren a 2,000-page work on physiology.[...] On Good Friday [...] the rest of us lay about ,played chess or read the less technical portion of our curiously assorted library. This included """"""""Gone with the Wind"""""""" (Shipton) """"""""Seventeenth Century Verse"""""""" (Oliver), """"""""Montaigne's Essays"""""""" (Warren), """"""""Don Quixote"""""""" (self), """"""""Adam Bede"""""""" (Lloyd), """"""""Martin Chuzzlewit"""""""" (Smythe), """"""""Stones of Venice"""""""" (Odell) and a few others. Warren,who rejoined us that day, besides his weighty tome on Physiology -in which there were several funny anecdotes if one took the trouble to look - had with him a yet weightier volume on the singularly inappropriate subject of Tropical Diseases.  '"""
"""Our library too was a weighty affair. Shipton had the longest novel that had been published in recent years, Warren a 2,000-page work on physiology.[...] On Good Friday [...] the rest of us lay about ,played chess or read the less technical portion of our curiously assorted library. This included """"""""Gone with the Wind"""""""" (Shipton) """"""""Seventeenth Century Verse"""""""" (Oliver), """"""""Montaigne's Essays"""""""" (Warren), """"""""Don Quixote"""""""" (self), """"""""Adam Bede"""""""" (Lloyd), """"""""Martin Chuzzlewit"""""""" (Smythe), """"""""Stones of Venice"""""""" (Odell) and a few others. Warren,who rejoined us that day, besides his weighty tome on Physiology -in which there were several funny anecdotes if one took the trouble to look - had with him a yet weightier volume on the singularly inappropriate subject of Tropical Diseases.  '"""
"""Our library too was a weighty affair. Shipton had the longest novel that had been published in recent years, Warren a 2,000-page work on physiology.[...] On Good Friday [...] the rest of us lay about, played chess or read the less technical portion of our curiously assorted library. This included """"""""Gone with the Wind"""""""" (Shipton) """"""""Seventeenth Century Verse"""""""" (Oliver), """"""""Montaigne's Essays"""""""" (Warren), """"""""Don Quixote"""""""" (self), """"""""Adam Bede"""""""" (Lloyd), """"""""Martin Chuzzlewit"""""""" (Smythe), """"""""Stones of Venice"""""""" (Odell) and a few others. Warren, who rejoined us that day, besides his weighty tome on Physiology -in which there were several funny anecdotes if one took the trouble to look - had with him a yet weightier volume on the singularly inappropriate subject of Tropical Diseases.  '"""
"""Our library too was a weighty affair. Shipton had the longest novel that had been published in recent years, Warren a 2,000-page work on physiology.[...] On Good Friday [...] the rest of us lay about, played chess or read the less technical portion of our curiously assorted library. This included """"""""Gone with the Wind"""""""" (Shipton) """"""""Seventeenth Century Verse"""""""" (Oliver), """"""""Montaigne's Essays"""""""" (Warren), """"""""Don Quixote"""""""" (self), """"""""Adam Bede"""""""" (Lloyd), """"""""Martin Chuzzlewit"""""""" (Smythe), """"""""Stones of Venice"""""""" (Odell) and a few others. Warren, who rejoined us that day, besides his weighty tome on Physiology -in which there were several funny anecdotes if one took the trouble to look - had with him a yet weightier volume on the singularly inappropriate subject of Tropical Diseases.  '"""
""" 'Our library too was a weighty affair. Shipton had the longest novel that had been published in recent years, Warren a 2,000-page work on physiology.[...] On Good Friday [...] the rest of us lay about, played chess or read the less technical portion of our curiously assorted library. This included """"""""Gone with the Wind"""""""" (Shipton) """"""""Seventeenth Century Verse"""""""" (Oliver), """"""""Montaigne's Essays"""""""" (Warren), """"""""Don Quixote"""""""" (self), """"""""Adam Bede"""""""" (Lloyd), """"""""Martin Chuzzlewit"""""""" (Smythe), """"""""Stones of Venice"""""""" (Odell) and a few others. Warren,who rejoined us that day, besides his weighty tome on Physiology -in which there were several funny anecdotes if one took the trouble to look - had with him a yet weightier volume on the singularly inappropriate subject of Tropical Diseases.'"""
"""Our library too was a weighty affair. Shipton had the longest novel that had been published in recent years, Warren a 2,000-page work on physiology.[...] On Good Friday [...] the rest of us lay about, played chess or read the less technical portion of our curiously assorted library. This included """"""""Gone with the Wind"""""""" (Shipton) """"""""Seventeenth Century Verse"""""""" (Oliver), """"""""Montaigne's Essays"""""""" (Warren), """"""""Don Quixote"""""""" (self), """"""""Adam Bede"""""""" (Lloyd), """"""""Martin Chuzzlewit"""""""" (Smythe), """"""""Stones of Venice"""""""" (Odell) and a few others. Warren, who rejoined us that day, besides his weighty tome on Physiology -in which there were several funny anecdotes if one took the trouble to look - had with him a yet weightier volume on the singularly inappropriate subject of Tropical Diseases.  '"""
"""Tuesday 15 November 1938: 'My one quiet evening since Thursday. Read Chaucer.' """
"""Down here with my mother I feel that nothing can be so preposterous, so undignified as """"""""love"""""""". I have been reading her ludicrous, pathetic, nauseating diary about herself and Oswald Norton. """"""""Cleopatra had a famous wriggle last night. Julia ull-ully"""""""". The sexual act is not indecent but almost any verbal description of it is. Interspersed with all this are prayers, recriminations, schoolgirl ravings, a kind of complacent self reproach.'"""
"""D.H. Lawrence draws so heavily on his own life - yet how often the best and freest part of his writing is his invention - like the wife in """"""""The Captain's Doll"""""""".'"""
"""[King] likes Doughty, Arabian Knights [sic], Froissart.'"""
"""[King] likes Doughty, Arabian Knights [sic], Froissart.'"""
"""[King] likes Doughty, Arabian Knights [sic], Froissart.'"""
"""Sunday, 19 June 1937, during holiday to Scotland and Border country: 'I have been reading translations of Greek verse, and thinking idly.'"""
"""""""""""This volume was being read by Sir George Trevelyan when his last illness came on him"""""""": MS note in the hand of Sir Charles Philips Trevelyan, GOT's son. """
"""Moreover, her train had arrived one-and-a-half hours before luncheon, so she had gone to the Paddington Hotel and sat in the lounge reading P.G.Wodehouse.'"""
"""[Susan] is reading [italics] Frost [end italics]. She was terrified by the story of the lost child in the cellar.'"""
"""Thursday 22 September 1938: 'I was just getting into the old, very old, rhythm of regular reading, first this book then that [...] bowls 5 to 6.30: then Madame de Sevigne; get dinner 7.30 [...] read Siegfried Sassoon; & so to bed at 11.30 or so.'"""
"""Thursday 22 September 1938: 'I was just getting into the old, very old, rhythm of regular reading, first this book then that [...] bowls 5 to 6.30: then Madame de Sevigne; get dinner 7.30 [...] read Siegfried Sassoon; & so to bed at 11.30 or so.'"""
"""Tuesday 24 May 1937: 'I'm pleased this morning because Lady Rhondda writes that she is """"""""profoundly excited & moved by 3Gs."""""""" Theo Bosanquet who has a review copy read her extracts.'"""
"""I had time yesterday to read your poem.  In fact I read it three times.  Once in the train.  Once after luncheon in the library.  And once before I went to bed.'"""
"""I had hoped to have a clear head here - to get on with German, Italian, etc. and to read some history. But I have been so heavy and tired all the time that I can only manage snatches of [italics] War and Peace [end italics] and [italics] Sherlock Holmes [end italics]. I am supposed to have done a detailed criticism of Emily's book - I have skimmed through it but that is all.'"""
"""I had hoped to have a clear head here - to get on with German, Italian, etc. and to read some history. But I have been so heavy and tired all the time that I can only manage snatches of [italics] War and Peace [end italics] and [italics] Sherlock Holmes [end italics]. I am supposed to have done a detailed criticism of Emily's book - I have skimmed through it but that is all.'"""
"""I think I am not [italics] serious [end italics] enough! Sometimes when I look through the [italics] New Statesman [end italics] ... I see all the lists of books on social, economic, ethical, historical, philosophical subjects I feel... that I am a useless frivolous creature'"""
"""I have been reading again the notes I made this time last year about Basil. Somehow more truth and less distortion gets into these notebooks than into anything else.'"""
"""Finished reading Murray's """"""""Keats and Shakespeare"""""""" again. This work to me was, and still is, a critical masterpiece: I can think of no other study - of this nature - carried through so consistently and with so keen an awareness: it is a classic of imaginative sensitivity.'"""
"""I have just begun Forster's Life of Dickens again. I did not finish it before. I think that will start me off for the autumn. I want a fact book not a fiction book. There are some wonderful things in it. When Dickens finally left the blacking factory he so much hated, he wept. """"""""With a relief so strange that it was like oppression, I went home"""""""".'"""
"""While admiring Tom's book ['The Man Below', 1939] I have great pleasure in finding its weaknesses and though I cannot help admitting there are passages in it far beyond my own powers, I feel resentful of this and that in some way such passages must be due to my influence or to Tom's having stolen them from me. Yet even in his earliest, crudest work... there are indications of such descriptive powers.'"""
"""Philippa Strachey to Virginia Woolf, 30 May 1938: 'I have read [Three Guineas] with rapture -- It is what we have panted for for years and years'."""
"""Louis Battye, the spastic child of former millworkers, was at first utterly bewildered by the Gem and Magnet, because he was being educated at home and had no school experience of any kind... """"""""But I persevered and eventually familiarised myself with the conventions of the form... I continued to read the Gem and Magnet religiously until I was fourteen or fifteen, and from them I received what might be called the Schoolboy's Code""""""""... [which] enabled him to get along with other children when he was sent to Heswall Hospital'."""
"""Louis Battye, the spastic child of former millworkers, was at first utterly bewildered by the Gem and Magnet, because he was being educated at home and had no school experience of any kind... """"""""But I persevered and eventually familiarised myself with the conventions of the form... I continued to read the Gem and Magnet religiously until I was fourteen or fifteen, and from them I received what might be called the Schoolboy's Code""""""""... [which] enabled him to get along with other children when he was sent to Heswall Hospital'."""
"""Derek Davies could not recall that his mother had ever read a book. His father, a die-caster in an automobile factory, read only local and sports papers and two novels a week - a Western or a detective thriller: """"""""Yet quite unintentionally he gave me... a love of reading... He never seemed to vary the diet, he never discussed either the books he read or newspaper items, and he never urged me to read for myself... I... was soon reading everything he read. by the age of eleven or twelve I must have read a couple of hundred of his novels..."""""""" In addition to the newspapers and his father's novels, he consumed books for younger children and travel books for adults (""""""""Tibet, I remember, was one passionate preoccupation""""""""). He jumped from the """"""""Wizard"""""""" and """"""""Hotspur"""""""", which his parents considered """"""""trash"""""""" to their twenty-two bound volumes of """"""""The Illustrated News History of the 1914-18 War"""""""". """"""""Undeterred by the fact that I had neither the space nor the money to embark on even the most modest layout, I consumed book after book on the building of model railways. Gradually, as I found out how to use the School Library and the Public Library, some degree of selection took place, but as nobody at school before the sixth form advised me what to read the selection remained distinctly erratic... At about fourteen... I read every word of T.E. Lawrence's 'Seven Pillars of Wisdom', although I had only the faintest glimmer of its real significance"""""""".'"""
"""Passages transcribed at length into E. M. Forster, Commonplace Book (1937-38) include extracts on the art and literature of different historical periods from Les Grands Textes deu Marxism, sur litterature et l'Art, anthology edited by Jean Freville; topics and authors covered include the Renaissance; comedy; poetry; Goethe; Shakespeare; Carlyle, and Disraeli. Following transcriptions, Forster notes: 'I read this anthology to find material for the Ivory Tower.'"""
"""Passages transcribed at length into E. M. Forster, Commonplace Book (1938) include Hitler's 18 July 1937 'address at Munich' (denouncing 'degenerate' art, and demanding an ideally pure and timeless national art for Germany), which Forster notes that he originally read as research for his article 'The Ivory Tower'."""
"""Passages transcribed into E. M. Forster, Commonplace Book (1938) include Ruskin's remarks on Claude and the Poussins as 'weak men' with 'no serious influence on the general mind.'"""
"""Passages transcribed into E. M. Forster, Commonplace Book (1938) include General R. T. Wilson's account of five British sailors' purchase of a woman sold at auction  by Arabs."""
"""Passages transcribed into E. M. Forster, Commonplace Book (1938) include criticisms of practices of editors of Renaissance-period texts, by William Gifford in his Memoir of Ben Jonson; Forster also notes that 'Lord Macaulay has written """"""""Very Good"""""""" in the margin of the copy at Wallington'."""
"""Passages transcribed at length into E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1938) include 'The Rev. John Newton on the Messiah' (Forster's heading) noted underneath by Forster as 'From a Sermon preached at St Mary's Woolnoth in 1784'; passage about how mortals distract themselves, by means including setting of scriptures to music, from proper awareness of God's impending judgement of them."""
"""The Bermant family arrived in Scotland when Chaim was eight: before his ninth birthday he had mastered enough English to read Beatrix Potter in the Mitchell Library. Her stories were not so alien to him as one might imagine: somehow the animal characters reminded him of the Latvian village from which he had come. Chaim soon became a fan of the Beano's Lord Snooty, an aristocrat who inexplicably consorted with a gang of working class kids: the strip fulfilled every schoolboy's fantasy of finding himself among wealthy people in a noble setting""""""""...[as] young Bermant... followed the progress of the Second World War on the Glasgow Herald and the Manchester Guardian [he felt a strong sense of British identity]. The war, the school, the boys' weeklies were all """"""""building up new obsessions to replace the old and drawing reassurance and pride from the Empire"""""""".'"""
"""He read &mdash; Sterne, Sydney Smith's letters, Canning's speeches, and two thrillers: A. E. W. Mason's Konigsmarch and Michael Innes's Lament for a Maker ...'"""
"""He read &mdash; Sterne, Sydney Smith's letters, Canning's speeches, and two thrillers: A. E. W. Mason's Konigsmarch and Michael Innes's Lament for a Maker ...'"""
"""He read &mdash; Sterne, Sydney Smith's letters, Canning's speeches, and two thrillers: A. E. W. Mason's Konigsmarch and Michael Innes's Lament for a Maker ...'"""
"""He read &mdash; Sterne, Sydney Smith's letters, Canning's speeches, and two thrillers: A. E. W. Mason's Konigsmarch and Michael Innes's Lament for a Maker ...'"""
"""He read &mdash; Sterne, Sydney Smith's letters, Canning's speeches, and two thrillers: A. E. W. Mason's Konigsmarch and Michael Innes's Lament for a Maker ...'"""
"""he swapped and shared books, especially Billy Bunter stories. (""""""""[Bunter's] roars and squeaks of anguish were constantly imitated then and for years after"""""""", says Sutton; """"""""Philip seemed to identify with Bunter up to a point."""""""")'"""
"""Sutton and Larkin grew steadily closer as they moved up through the senior school. Tiring of their childish reading, they turned to weightier matters, Larkin discovering D.H. Lawrence and Sutton """"""""retaliating with Cezanne"""""""".'"""
"""Saturday 2 December 1939: 'Began reading Freud last night; to enlarge the circumference. to give my brain a wider scope: to make it objective, to get outside. Thus defeat the shrinkage of age. Always take on new things.'"""
"""Father was well read in politics and in the nineteenth century novelists, Dickens and Trollope being his favourites. But his reading nourished the sour scepticism that possesed him [and he suggested to Glasser that reading was a waste of time]'."""
"""Father was well read in politics and in the nineteenth century novelists, Dickens and Trollope being his favourites. But his reading nourished the sour scepticism that possesed him [and he suggested to Glasser that reading was a waste of time]'."""
"""Father was well read in politics and in the nineteenth century novelists, Dickens and Trollope being his favourites. But his reading nourished the sour scepticism that possesed him [and he suggested to Glasser that reading was a waste of time]'."""
"""With her shiny black apron she cleaned her Woolworth's spectacles, thick lenses in metal frames with wire side pieces, and read the letter, screwing up her eyes'."""
"""I spent hours, days, in the great Reading Room of the Mitchell Library. Young as I was, in my ragged shorts, frayed jersey and ill-fitting jacket, incongruous among the sleek, well-nourished university students, I became so familiar to the staff that they dubbed me, in kindly fashion, """"""""the young professor"""""""". One day, perhaps as a piece of sympathetic magic, I looked up Einstein's massive entry in """"""""Who's Who"""""""" and copied it out word for word, his universities, degrees, honorary doctorates, publications. I kept that transcript pasted into an exercise book, a talisman'."""
"""Press reports from Russia had an unreal quality, suggesting that observers did not dare believe the horror thinly concealed in what they saw. Enough filtered through.'"""
"""I found the letter when I got home about seven in the evening. While I read it I bolted my teas as usual. Then I read it again, a message from a distant planet, with its strange, sonorous, processional language. """"""""Willing to come into residence"""""""": you didn't go and stay, you went into [italics] residence [end italics]!'"""
"""The music of """"""""La Boheme"""""""" having taken special hold of me, I read the libretto in the Mitchell Library, and as much as I could find about Murger and his world, and the people he knew who lived on black coffee and little else in romantic Paris, and was saddened and perplexed by the opera's alloy of sordidness and sentimentality'."""
"""The music of """"""""La Boheme"""""""" having taken special hold of me, I read the libretto in the Mitchell Library, and as much as I could find about Murger and his world, and the people he knew who lived on black coffee and little else in romantic Paris, and was saddened and perplexed by the opera's alloy of sordidness and sentimentality'."""
"""Tuesday 11 April 1939: 'I am reading Dickens; by way of a refresher. how he lives; not writes: both a virtue & a fault. Like seeing something emerge; without containing mind. Yet the accuracy & even sometimes the penetration [...] Also I'm reading Rochefoucauld.'"""
"""Tuesday 11 April 1939: 'I am reading Dickens; by way of a refresher. how he lives; not writes: both a virtue & a fault. Like seeing something emerge; without containing mind. Yet the accuracy & even sometimes the penetration [...] Also I'm reading Rochefoucauld.'"""
"""Monday 11 September 1939: 'I have just read 3 or 4 Characters of Theophrastus, stumbling from Greek to English, & may as well make a note of it. Trying to anchor my mind on Greek. Rather successful.'"""
"""Thursday 13 April 1939: 'I read about 100 pages of Dickens yesterday, & see something vague about the drama & fiction: how the emphasis, the caricature of these innumerable scenes, forever formng character, descend from the stage.'"""
"""In the """"""""Sunday Times"""""""" for September 12th, a letter of protest from Dame Marie Tempest had coincided with another from G., who described the contrasting practice of the Spaniards in the Civil War.'"""
"""In the """"""""Sunday Times"""""""" for September 12th, a letter of protest from Dame Marie Tempest had coincided with another from G., who described the contrasting practice of the Spaniards in the Civil War.'"""
"""I have been struck by finding the same thought within a few days in two very different places - in George Eliot and in an American magazine. That is the idea of a person's horror at a crime coming not from the crime but from the fact that [italics] they [end italics] have committed it.'"""
"""I have been struck by finding the same thought within a few days in two very different places - in George Eliot and in an American magazine. That is the idea of a person's horror at a crime coming not from the crime but from the fact that [italics] they [end italics] have committed it.'"""
"""Thursday 13 July 1939: 'A bad morning [...] 2 hours at M[ecklenburgh]S[quare].[...] A grim thought struck me: wh. of these rooms shall I die in? Which is going to be the scene of some -- oh no, I wont write out the tragedy that has to be acted there [...] So I read Pascal & Pater & wrote letters & cooked dinner & did my embroidery. But couldnt sleep sound.'"""
"""Thursday 13 July 1939: 'A bad morning [...] 2 hours at M[ecklenburgh]S[quare].[...] A grim thought struck me: wh. of these rooms shall I die in? Which is going to be the scene of some -- oh no, I wont write out the tragedy that has to be acted there [...] So I read Pascal & Pater & wrote letters & cooked dinner & did my embroidery. But couldnt sleep sound.'"""
"""Sunday 17 December 1939: 'We ate too much hare pie last night; & I read Freud on Groups [...] I'm reading Ricketts diary -- all about the war the last war; & the Herbert diaries & ... yes, Dadie's Shakespeare, & notes overflow into my 2 books.'"""
"""Tuesday 17 January 1939: 'Yesterday I went to the London Library [...] read Tom [Eliot]'s swan song in the Criterion [...] home & read Delacroix journals; about whiich I could write: I mean the idea is that its among the painters not the writers one finds stability, consolation. This refers to a sentence of his about the profundity of the painter's meaning; & how a writer always superficialises.'"""
"""Thursday 16 March 1939: 'Yesterday in Bond Street where I finally did lay out £10 on clothes, I saw a crowd round a car, & on the back seat was a Cheetah with a chain round his loins. I also found a presentation copy of Tom's Family Reunion; & sucked no pleasure from the first pages.'"""
"""Such a shocked surprise came to me the pther day on opening T.F. Henderson's book on """"""""Scottish Vernacular Literature"""""""" to find out what he had to say by way of comment on Hume's """"""""The Day Estivall"""""""". I had just been reading this poem again - a poem to which I am often persuaded to return when prompted by a lovely day - and, having its freshness so vividly in my mind, it was all the more astonishing to be confronted by Henderson's contemptuous aside: """"""""...'The Day Estivall', if absurdly prosaic, is occasionally picturesque.""""""""'"""
"""Such a shocked surprise came to me the pther day on opening T.F. Henderson's book on """"""""Scottish Vernacular Literature"""""""" to find out what he had to say by way of comment on Hume's """"""""The Day Estivall"""""""". I had just been reading this poem again - a poem to which I am often persuaded to return when prompted by a lovely day - and, having its freshness so vividly in my mind, it was all the more astonishing to be confronted by Henderson's contemptuous aside: """"""""...'The Day Estivall', if absurdly prosaic, is occasionally picturesque.""""""""'"""
"""Sunday 17 December 1939: 'We ate too much hare pie last night; & I read Freud on Groups [...] I'm reading Ricketts diary -- all about the war the last war; & the Herbert diaries & ... yes, Dadie's Shakespeare, & notes overflow into my 2 books.'"""
"""Sunday 17 December 1939: 'We ate too much hare pie last night; & I read Freud on Groups [...] I'm reading Ricketts diary -- all about the war the last war; & the Herbert diaries & ... yes, Dadie's Shakespeare, & notes overflow into my 2 books.'"""
"""Sunday 17 December 1939: 'We ate too much hare pie last night; & I read Freud on Groups [...] I'm reading Ricketts diary -- all about the war the last war; & the Herbert diaries & ... yes, Dadie's Shakespeare, & notes overflow into my 2 books.'"""
"""In the fog the safest guide is a blind man. This is a [italics] sortes [end italics] from Julien Green to whose journal I turn for some light' [she hopes Green's methods will aid her in her writer's block]"""
"""Sunday 3 September 1939: 'This is I suppose certainly the last hour of peace. The time limit is out at 11. P[rime]M[inister] to broadcast at 11.15 [makes various brief observations] [...] I believe little exact notes are more interesting than reflections -- the only reflection is that this is bosh & stuffing compared with the reality of reading say Tawney [...] One's too tired, emotionally, to read a page. I tried Tawney last night -- cd'nt concentrate [...] Its now about 10.33.'"""
"""Wednesday 22 March 1939: 'Tom sent me his play, Family Reunion. No, it don't do. I read it over the week end. It starts theories. But no... You see the experiment with stylised chatter isnt successful. he's a lyric not a dramatic. But here theres no free lyricism. is caught back by the character [...] A clever beginning, & some ideas; but they spin out: & nothing grips: all mist -- a failure: a proof hes not a dramatist. A monologist.' """
"""I was idly looking at [italics] Jacob's Room [end italics] tonight. It exasperated yet charmed me. Here was an attempt to relate day and night. She [Virginia Woolf] lays her little strands side by side instead of working them into a patern. But perhaps it is because there is no solid structure underneath that it leaves me with this curious empty and dissatisfied feeling. In the last book it is beaten out so thin that it is threadbare.'"""
"""Wednesday 22 March 1939: 'Reading Eddie Marsh.'"""
"""Wednesday 25 October 1939: 'As a journalist I'm in demand [...] To relax I read Little Dorrit [...] Gerald Heard's book spun me to distraction last night. So good & suggestive & firm for 200 pages: then a mere bleat bitter repetition contorsion [sic] & inversion [...] he's nothing to offer, once he's done his historical accounting.'"""
"""Wednesday 25 October 1939: 'As a journalist I'm in demand [...] To relax I read Little Dorrit [...] Gerald Heard's book spun me to distraction last night. So good & suggestive & firm for 200 pages: then a mere bleat bitter repetition contorsion [sic] & inversion [...] he's nothing to offer, once he's done his historical accounting.'"""
"""Reading George Sand's and Flaubert's letters. Her warmth, geniality, tolerance compared to his anxiety, narrowness, fear of life. They really cared for each other. She is like the man, he like the woman'."""
"""Saturday 29 April 1939: 'Yesterday I went out [...] to walk in London [makes various observations] [...] So into Cannon St. Bought a paper with Hitler's speech. Read it on top of Bus. Inconclusive -- cut up in Stop Press. Everyone reading it -- even newspaper sellers, a great proof of interest [...] Read Chaucer. Enjoyed it.'"""
"""Saturday 29 April 1939: 'Yesterday I went out [...] to walk in London [makes various observations] [...] So into Cannon St. Bought a paper with Hitler's speech. Read it on top of Bus. Inconclusive -- cut up in Stop Press. Everyone reading it -- even newspaper sellers, a great proof of interest [...] Read Chaucer. Enjoyed it.'"""
"""Tuesday 28 February 1939: 'I have just read [Shelley's] Mont Blanc, but cant make it """"""""compose"""""""": clouds perpetually over lapping [sic]. If a new poem, what should I say? I think a great idea somewhere; but the language so nebulous, or rather words overlapping, like ripples, each effacing the other, partly: & a general confusion results.'"""
"""Friday 28 July 1939: 'Reading Gide's diaries, recommended by poor death mask Eddie [Sackville-West]. An interesting knotted book. Its queer that diaries now pullulate. No one can settle to a work of art. Comment only.'"""
"""girls' school stories came in for heavy and sustained attack, and at one stage in my life I painfully hankered after them. There was one in particular, 'Ursula's Last Term', which was in the school library and which I ordered almost every week on my library list and read in secret. It was an addiction..."""
"""Growing up in a family that read newspapers only for sport and scandal, Vernon Scannell knew all the great prize fighters by age thirteen, """"""""but I could not have named the Prime Minister of the day..."""""""" The history and geography he was taught at school were never related to contemporary events. Remarkably, Scannell had read widely about the last war: the poetry of Siegfried Sassoon and Wilfred Owen, Edmund Blunden's """"""""Undertones of War"""""""", and Robert Graves's """"""""Goodbye to All That"""""""". The Penguin edition of """"""""A Farewell to Arms"""""""" so overwhelmed him that he tried to write his own Great War novel in a Hemingway style. But none of this translated into any awareness that another war might be on the way'."""
"""Growing up in a family that read newspapers only for sport and scandal, Vernon Scannell knew all the great prize fighters by age thirteen, """"""""but I could not have named the Prime Minister of the day..."""""""" The history and geography he was taught at school were never related to contemporary events. Remarkably, Scannell had read widely about the last war: the poetry of Siegfried Sassoon and Wilfred Owen, Edmund Blunden's """"""""Undertones of War"""""""", and Robert Graves's """"""""Goodbye to All That"""""""". The Penguin edition of """"""""A Farewell to Arms"""""""" so overwhelmed him that he tried to write his own Great War novel in a Hemingway style. But none of this translated into any awareness that another war might be on the way'."""
"""Growing up in a family that read newspapers only for sport and scandal, Vernon Scannell knew all the great prize fighters by age thirteen, """"""""but I could not have named the Prime Minister of the day..."""""""" The history and geography he was taught at school were never related to contemporary events. Remarkably, Scannell had read widely about the last war: the poetry of Siegfried Sassoon and Wilfred Owen, Edmund Blunden's """"""""Undertones of War"""""""", and Robert Graves's """"""""Goodbye to All That"""""""". The Penguin edition of """"""""A Farewell to Arms"""""""" so overwhelmed him that he tried to write his own Great War novel in a Hemingway style. But none of this translated into any awareness that another war might be on the way'."""
"""Growing up in a family that read newspapers only for sport and scandal, Vernon Scannell knew all the great prize fighters by age thirteen, """"""""but I could not have named the Prime Minister of the day..."""""""" The history and geography he was taught at school were never related to contemporary events. Remarkably, Scannell had read widely about the last war: the poetry of Siegfried Sassoon and Wilfred Owen, Edmund Blunden's """"""""Undertones of War"""""""", and Robert Graves's """"""""Goodbye to All That"""""""". The Penguin edition of """"""""A Farewell to Arms"""""""" so overwhelmed him that he tried to write his own Great War novel in a Hemingway style. But none of this translated into any awareness that another war might be on the way'."""
"""Growing up in a family that read newspapers only for sport and scandal, Vernon Scannell knew all the great prize fighters by age thirteen, """"""""but I could not have named the Prime Minister of the day..."""""""" The history and geography he was taught at school were never related to contemporary events. Remarkably, Scannell had read widely about the last war: the poetry of Siegfried Sassoon and Wilfred Owen, Edmund Blunden's """"""""Undertones of War"""""""", and Robert Graves's """"""""Goodbye to All That"""""""". The Penguin edition of """"""""A Farewell to Arms"""""""" so overwhelmed him that he tried to write his own Great War novel in a Hemingway style. But none of this translated into any awareness that another war might be on the way'."""
"""Growing up in Clapton during the Depression, Michael Stapleton needed a signature from his father (an Irish navvy) for a public library card, """"""""but I asked him on the wrong evening and he merely shouted at me... So I... started examining every book in the house, ransacking forgotten cupboards and the hole under the stairs. I read everything I could understand, and begged twopenny bloods quite shamelessly from the boys at school who were fortunate enough to enjoy such things. I absorbed an immense amount of useless information, but occasionally a treasure came my way and I would strain my eyes under the twenty-watt bulb which lighted our kitchen. A month-old copy of the 'Wizard' would be succeeded by a handbook for vegetarians, and this in turn would be followed by 'Jane Eyre'. 'Tarzan and the Jewels of Ophir' was no sooner finished than I was deep in volumes three and four of a history of 'The Conquest of Peru' (the rest of the set was missing). I would go from that to 'Rip van Winkle' and straight on to a tattered copy of the Hotspur"""""""".'"""
"""Growing up in Clapton during the Depression, Michael Stapleton needed a signature from his father (an Irish navvy) for a public library card, """"""""but I asked him on the wrong evening and he merely shouted at me... So I... started examining every book in the house, ransacking forgotten cupboards and the hole under the stairs. I read everything I could understand, and begged twopenny bloods quite shamelessly from the boys at school who were fortunate enough to enjoy such things. I absorbed an immense amount of useless information, but occasionally a treasure came my way and I would strain my eyes under the twenty-watt bulb which lighted our kitchen. A month-old copy of the 'Wizard' would be succeeded by a handbook for vegetarians, and this in turn would be followed by 'Jane Eyre'. 'Tarzan and the Jewels of Ophir' was no sooner finished than I was deep in volumes three and four of a history of 'The Conquest of Peru' (the rest of the set was missing). I would go from that to 'Rip van Winkle' and straight on to a tattered copy of the Hotspur"""""""".'"""
"""Growing up in Clapton during the Depression, Michael Stapleton needed a signature from his father (an Irish navvy) for a public library card, """"""""but I asked him on the wrong evening and he merely shouted at me... So I... started examining every book in the house, ransacking forgotten cupboards and the hole under the stairs. I read everything I could understand, and begged twopenny bloods quite shamelessly from the boys at school who were fortunate enough to enjoy such things. I absorbed an immense amount of useless information, but occasionally a treasure came my way and I would strain my eyes under the twenty-watt bulb which lighted our kitchen. A month-old copy of the 'Wizard' would be succeeded by a handbook for vegetarians, and this in turn would be followed by 'Jane Eyre'. 'Tarzan and the Jewels of Ophir' was no sooner finished than I was deep in volumes three and four of a history of 'The Conquest of Peru' (the rest of the set was missing). I would go from that to 'Rip van Winkle' and straight on to a tattered copy of the Hotspur"""""""".'"""
"""Growing up in Clapton during the Depression, Michael Stapleton needed a signature from his father (an Irish navvy) for a public library card, """"""""but I asked him on the wrong evening and he merely shouted at me... So I... started examining every book in the house, ransacking forgotten cupboards and the hole under the stairs. I read everything I could understand, and begged twopenny bloods quite shamelessly from the boys at school who were fortunate enough to enjoy such things. I absorbed an immense amount of useless information, but occasionally a treasure came my way and I would strain my eyes under the twenty-watt bulb which lighted our kitchen. A month-old copy of the 'Wizard' would be succeeded by a handbook for vegetarians, and this in turn would be followed by 'Jane Eyre'. 'Tarzan and the Jewels of Ophir' was no sooner finished than I was deep in volumes three and four of a history of 'The Conquest of Peru' (the rest of the set was missing). I would go from that to 'Rip van Winkle' and straight on to a tattered copy of the Hotspur"""""""".'"""
"""Growing up in Clapton during the Depression, Michael Stapleton needed a signature from his father (an Irish navvy) for a public library card, """"""""but I asked him on the wrong evening and he merely shouted at me... So I... started examining every book in the house, ransacking forgotten cupboards and the hole under the stairs. I read everything I could understand, and begged twopenny bloods quite shamelessly from the boys at school who were fortunate enough to enjoy such things. I absorbed an immense amount of useless information, but occasionally a treasure came my way and I would strain my eyes under the twenty-watt bulb which lighted our kitchen. A month-old copy of the 'Wizard' would be succeeded by a handbook for vegetarians, and this in turn would be followed by 'Jane Eyre'. 'Tarzan and the Jewels of Ophir' was no sooner finished than I was deep in volumes three and four of a history of 'The Conquest of Peru' (the rest of the set was missing). I would go from that to 'Rip van Winkle' and straight on to a tattered copy of the Hotspur"""""""".'"""
"""Growing up in Clapton during the Depression, Michael Stapleton needed a signature from his father (an Irish navvy) for a public library card, """"""""but I asked him on the wrong evening and he merely shouted at me... So I... started examining every book in the house, ransacking forgotten cupboards and the hole under the stairs. I read everything I could understand, and begged twopenny bloods quite shamelessly from the boys at school who were fortunate enough to enjoy such things. I absorbed an immense amount of useless information, but occasionally a treasure came my way and I would strain my eyes under the twenty-watt bulb which lighted our kitchen. A month-old copy of the 'Wizard' would be succeeded by a handbook for vegetarians, and this in turn would be followed by 'Jane Eyre'. 'Tarzan and the Jewels of Ophir' was no sooner finished than I was deep in volumes three and four of a history of 'The Conquest of Peru' (the rest of the set was missing). I would go from that to 'Rip van Winkle' and straight on to a tattered copy of the Hotspur"""""""".'"""
"""Growing up in Clapton during the Depression, Michael Stapleton needed a signature from his father (an Irish navvy) for a public library card, """"""""but I asked him on the wrong evening and he merely shouted at me... So I... started examining every book in the house, ransacking forgotten cupboards and the hole under the stairs. I read everything I could understand, and begged twopenny bloods quite shamelessly from the boys at school who were fortunate enough to enjoy such things. I absorbed an immense amount of useless information, but occasionally a treasure came my way and I would strain my eyes under the twenty-watt bulb which lighted our kitchen. A month-old copy of the 'Wizard' would be succeeded by a handbook for vegetarians, and this in turn would be followed by 'Jane Eyre'. 'Tarzan and the Jewels of Ophir' was no sooner finished than I was deep in volumes three and four of a history of 'The Conquest of Peru' (the rest of the set was missing). I would go from that to 'Rip van Winkle' and straight on to a tattered copy of the Hotspur"""""""".'"""
"""Growing up in Clapton during the Depression, Michael Stapleton needed a signature from his father (an Irish navvy) for a public library card, """"""""but I asked him on the wrong evening and he merely shouted at me... So I... started examining every book in the house, ransacking forgotten cupboards and the hole under the stairs. I read everything I could understand, and begged twopenny bloods quite shamelessly from the boys at school who were fortunate enough to enjoy such things. I absorbed an immense amount of useless information, but occasionally a treasure came my way and I would strain my eyes under the twenty-watt bulb which lighted our kitchen. A month-old copy of the 'Wizard' would be succeeded by a handbook for vegetarians, and this in turn would be followed by 'Jane Eyre'. 'Tarzan and the Jewels of Ophir' was no sooner finished than I was deep in volumes three and four of a history of 'The Conquest of Peru' (the rest of the set was missing). I would go from that to 'Rip van Winkle' and straight on to a tattered copy of the Hotspur"""""""".'"""
"""In a lecture at Friends' House he spoke of a new Blitzkrieg timed to start on May 1st, and designed to overthrow England in Polish fashion by the end of the summer.  His series of """"""""Daily Telegraph"""""""" articles, subsequently republished as a small book called """"""""Inside Germany"""""""", caused a sensation by supplying chapter and verse for this prophecy.'"""
"""Sydney shaped Larkin's taste skilfully, leading him away from J.C. Powys and towards Llewelyn and T.F., towards James Joyce with no expectation that he would enjoy him, and towards poets who would remain favourites all his life: Hardy, Christina Rossetti and A.E. Housman. In late 1939, when Larkin discovered T.S. Eliot, W.H. Auden, Edward Upward and Christopher Isherwood, Sydney also encouraged him - continuing, as he had always done, to make reading seem an independent activity, only tenuously linked to schoolwork.'"""
"""Sydney shaped Larkin's taste skilfully, leading him away from J.C. Powys and towards Llewelyn and T.F., towards James Joyce with no expectation that he would enjoy him, and towards poets who would remain favourites all his life: Hardy, Christina Rossetti and A.E. Housman. In late 1939, when Larkin discovered T.S. Eliot, W.H. Auden, Edward Upward and Christopher Isherwood, Sydney also encouraged him - continuing, as he had always done, to make reading seem an independent activity, only tenuously linked to schoolwork.'"""
"""Sydney shaped Larkin's taste skilfully, leading him away from J.C. Powys and towards Llewelyn and T.F., towards James Joyce with no expectation that he would enjoy him, and towards poets who would remain favourites all his life: Hardy, Christina Rossetti and A.E. Housman. In late 1939, when Larkin discovered T.S. Eliot, W.H. Auden, Edward Upward and Christopher Isherwood, Sydney also encouraged him - continuing, as he had always done, to make reading seem an independent activity, only tenuously linked to schoolwork.'"""
"""Sydney shaped Larkin's taste skilfully, leading him away from J.C. Powys and towards Llewelyn and T.F., towards James Joyce with no expectation that he would enjoy him, and towards poets who would remain favourites all his life: Hardy, Christina Rossetti and A.E. Housman. In late 1939, when Larkin discovered T.S. Eliot, W.H. Auden, Edward Upward and Christopher Isherwood, Sydney also encouraged him - continuing, as he had always done, to make reading seem an independent activity, only tenuously linked to schoolwork.'"""
"""Sydney shaped Larkin's taste skilfully, leading him away from J.C. Powys and towards Llewelyn and T.F., towards James Joyce with no expectation that he would enjoy him, and towards poets who would remain favourites all his life: Hardy, Christina Rossetti and A.E. Housman. In late 1939, when Larkin discovered T.S. Eliot, W.H. Auden, Edward Upward and Christopher Isherwood, Sydney also encouraged him - continuing, as he had always done, to make reading seem an independent activity, only tenuously linked to schoolwork.'"""
"""Sydney shaped Larkin's taste skilfully, leading him away from J.C. Powys and towards Llewelyn and T.F., towards James Joyce with no expectation that he would enjoy him, and towards poets who would remain favourites all his life: Hardy, Christina Rossetti and A.E. Housman. In late 1939, when Larkin discovered T.S. Eliot, W.H. Auden, Edward Upward and Christopher Isherwood, Sydney also encouraged him - continuing, as he had always done, to make reading seem an independent activity, only tenuously linked to schoolwork.'"""
"""Sydney shaped Larkin's taste skilfully, leading him away from J.C. Powys and towards Llewelyn and T.F., towards James Joyce with no expectation that he would enjoy him, and towards poets who would remain favourites all his life: Hardy, Christina Rossetti and A.E. Housman. In late 1939, when Larkin discovered T.S. Eliot, W.H. Auden, Edward Upward and Christopher Isherwood, Sydney also encouraged him - continuing, as he had always done, to make reading seem an independent activity, only tenuously linked to schoolwork.'"""
"""Sydney shaped Larkin's taste skilfully, leading him away from J.C. Powys and towards Llewelyn and T.F., towards James Joyce with no expectation that he would enjoy him, and towards poets who would remain favourites all his life: Hardy, Christina Rossetti and A.E. Housman. In late 1939, when Larkin discovered T.S. Eliot, W.H. Auden, Edward Upward and Christopher Isherwood, Sydney also encouraged him - continuing, as he had always done, to make reading seem an independent activity, only tenuously linked to schoolwork.'"""
"""Sydney shaped Larkin's taste skilfully, leading him away from J.C. Powys and towards Llewelyn and T.F., towards James Joyce with no expectation that he would enjoy him, and towards poets who would remain favourites all his life: Hardy, Christina Rossetti and A.E. Housman. In late 1939, when Larkin discovered T.S. Eliot, W.H. Auden, Edward Upward and Christopher Isherwood, Sydney also encouraged him - continuing, as he had always done, to make reading seem an independent activity, only tenuously linked to schoolwork.'"""
"""Sydney shaped Larkin's taste skilfully, leading him away from J.C. Powys and towards Llewelyn and T.F., towards James Joyce with no expectation that he would enjoy him, and towards poets who would remain favourites all his life: Hardy, Christina Rossetti and A.E. Housman. In late 1939, when Larkin discovered T.S. Eliot, W.H. Auden, Edward Upward and Christopher Isherwood, Sydney also encouraged him - continuing, as he had always done, to make reading seem an independent activity, only tenuously linked to schoolwork.'"""
"""Throughout 1939 his reports speak of """"""""improvements"""""""", and even though he still did """"""""not much like"""""""" his English teacher he worked hard, widening his reading to include Verlaine and Lamartine as well as Auden and Eliot'"""
"""Throughout 1939 his reports speak of """"""""improvements"""""""", and even though he still did """"""""not much like"""""""" his English teacher he worked hard, widening his reading to include Verlaine and Lamartine as well as Auden and Eliot'"""
"""At a P.E.N. dinner I sat beside him, and questioned him about the """"""""lighted door"""""""" in his novel """"""""Guy and Pauline"""""""".'"""
"""I am loving your book [The March of Literature]: in fact I'm enjoying it even more than Great Trade Route. I do hope it's doing as well as it deserves'."""
"""Friday 6 October 1939: 'I compose articles on Lewis Carroll & read a great variety of books -- Flaubert's life, R[oger Fry].'s lectures, out at last, a life of Erasmus & Jacques Blanche.'"""
"""Friday 6 October 1939: 'I compose articles on Lewis Carroll & read a great variety of books -- Flaubert's life, R[oger Fry].'s lectures, out at last, a life of Erasmus & Jacques Blanche.'"""
"""Friday 6 October 1939: 'I compose articles on Lewis Carroll & read a great variety of books -- Flaubert's life, R[oger Fry].'s lectures, out at last, a life of Erasmus & Jacques Blanche.'"""
"""Friday 6 October 1939: 'I compose articles on Lewis Carroll & read a great variety of books -- Flaubert's life, R[oger Fry].'s lectures, out at last, a life of Erasmus & Jacques Blanche.'"""
"""Friday 8 December 1939: 'Shopping -- tempted to buy jerseys & so on. I dislike this excitement. yet enjoy it. Ambivalence as Freud calls it. (I'm gulping up Freud).'"""
"""It was an exhilarating coincidence that my re-reading of H.T.'s """"""""As It Was"""""""" should follow just after I had made my diary entry on the """"""""spiritual"""""""" type of women suggested by Mrs X.'"""
"""Thursday 9 February 1939: 'Looking at my old Greek diary I was led to speculate [...] I won't budge from the scheme there (1932) laid down for treating decline of fame. To accept; then ignore; & always venture further.' """
"""His reading in 1938 and 1939 had been mainly of memoirs and autobiographies: Boswell, Greville, Logan Pearsall Smith's Unforgotten Years, Siegfried Sassoon's The Old Century, Somerset Maugham's The Summing-Up (""""""""a very honest confession of faith"""""""").'"""
"""His reading in 1938 and 1939 had been mainly of memoirs and biographies: Boswell, Greville, Logan Pearsall Smith's Unforgotten Years, Siegfried Sassoon's The Old Century, Somerset Maugham's The Summing-Up ('a very honest confession of faith').'"""
"""His reading in 1938 and 1939 had been mainly of memoirs and biographies: Boswell, Greville, Logan Pearsall Smith's Unforgotten Years, Siegfried Sassoon's The Old Century, Somerset Maugham's The Summing-Up (""""""""a very honest confession of faith"""""""").'"""
"""His reading in 1938 and 1939 had been mainly of memoirs and biographies: Boswell, Greville, Logan Pearsall Smith's Unforgotten Years, Siegfried Sassoon's The Old Century, Somerset Maugham's The Summing-Up (""""""""a very honest confession of faith"""""""").'"""
"""His reading in 1938 and 1939 had been mainly of memoirs and biographies: Boswell, Greville, Logan Pearsall Smith's Unforgotten Years, Siegfried Sassoon's The Old Century, Somerset Maugham's The Summing-Up (""""""""a very honest confession of faith"""""""").'"""
"""For most of my first term I rose at [5 a.m.] and bathed and shaved and dressed, and read till breakfast time - until neighbours compained about the noise I made in the echoing ablutions, when I ran a bath or flushed the toilet and sometimes, forgetfully, strolled about whistling'."""
"""Friday 1 November 1940: 'My Times book this week is E. F. Benson's last autobigraphy [...] I learn there the perils of glibness.'"""
"""That night three calls from newspaper offices were put through to my bedroom; next morning the front page of """"""""Il Secolo"""""""" carried an account of my arrival.  I also read a description of my fellow train-traveller, Eve Curie, a handsome woman in her thirties whose biography of her mother had been a recent best seller.'"""
"""Finished reading """"""""The Scots Literary Tradition"""""""" by John Spiers - a capable little study within its limits, and comes near enough the truth in its analysis of the frustration which contemporary Scottish poets inherit.'"""
"""Thursday 13 June 1940: '[Lord] Haw-Haw, objectively announcing defeat -- victory on his side of the line, that is -- again & again, left us about as down as we've yet been. We sat silent in the 9 o'clock dusk; & L. could only with difficulty read Austen Chamberlain. I found the Wordsworth letters my only drug.'"""
"""Saturday 14 September 1940: 'I am reading Sevigne: how recuperative last week [during heavy air raids]; gone stale a little with that mannered & sterile Bussy now. Even through the centuries his acid dandified somehow supercilious well what? -- cant find the word -- this manner of his, this character penetrates; & moreover reminds me of someone I dislike [...] Theres a ceremony in him that reminds me of Tom [ie T. S. Eliot]. Theres a parched artificial cruelty'."""
"""Saturday 14 September 1940: 'I am reading Sevigne: how recuperative last week [during heavy air raids]; gone stale a little with that mannered & sterile Bussy now [...] I'm reading Henry Williamson. Again I dislike him.'"""
"""Friday 15 November 1940: 'I had a gaping raw wound too reading my essay in N.W. Why did I? Why come to the top when I suffer so in that light?'"""
"""Friday 15 November 1940: 'I am reading Read's Aut[obiograph]y: a tight packed unsympathetic mind, all good cabinet making.'"""
"""Monday 16 September 1940: 'Have been dallying with Mr Williamson's Confessions, appalled by his ego centricity [...] He cant move an inch from the glare of his own personality -- his fame. And I've never read one of those immortal works.' """
"""Tuesday 17 September 1940: 'Yesterday in the Public Library I took down a book of Peter Lucas's criticism [...] London Library atmosphere effused. Turned me against all lit crit [...] Is all lit. crit. that kind of exhausted air? -- book dust, London Library, air. Or is it only that F.L.L[ucas] is a second hand, frozen fingered, university specialist, don trying to be creative, don all stuffed with books, writer? Would one say the same of the Common Reader [by Woolf]?  I dipped for 5 minutes & put the book back depressed.'"""
"""Monday 18 November 1940: 'These queer little sand castles, I was thinking; I was finishing Herbert Read's autobiography this morning at breakfast. Little boys making sand castles. This refers to H. Read; Tom Eliot; Santayana; Wells. Each is weathertight, & gives shelter to the occupant. I think I can follow Read's building; so far as one can follow what one cannot build. But I am the sea which demolishes these castles [...] meaning that owing to Read's article on Roger [Fry, or Woolf's biography of Fry], his self that built the castle is to me destructive of its architecture [comments further] [...] I am carrying on, while I read, the idea of women discovering, like the 19th century rationalists, agnostics, that man is no longer God. My position, ceasing to accept the religion, is quite unlike Read's, Wells', Tom's, or Santayana's. It is essential to remain outside; & realise my own beliefs: or rather not to accept theirs.'"""
"""In the afternoon I finished """"""""Dialectical Materialism"""""""", by David Guest - a promising young philosopher killed in the Spanish War. I find that my own conception of the relationship between love and necessity has much in common with Marx's philosophy, and I hope to be able to resolve them both. As a contrast to Guest's book I read, in the latter part of the day, T.S. Eliot's essat """"""""The Idea of Christian Society"""""""". Eliot has an aristocratic clarity of style, but dry in the mouth, and if it keeps the mind alert it rarely warms the heart; the quality is fine but lacks fullness; and we savour him in sips, never in a mouthful.'"""
"""In the afternoon I finished """"""""Dialectical Materialism"""""""", by David Guest - a promising young philosopher killed in the Spanish War. I find that my own conception of the relationship between love and necessity has much in common with Marx's philosophy, and I hope to be able to resolve them both. As a contrast to Guest's book I read, in the latter part of the day, T.S. Eliot's essat """"""""The Idea of Christian Society"""""""". Eliot has an aristocratic clarity of style, but dry in the mouth, and if it keeps the mind alert it rarely warms the heart; the quality is fine but lacks fullness; and we savour him in sips, never in a mouthful.'"""
"""[During the Great Depression] """"""""Thousands used the Public Library for the first time"""""""", recalled itinerant labourer John Brown, who read Shaw, Marx, Engels, and classic literature until he exhausted his South Shields library.'"""
"""[During the Great Depression] """"""""Thousands used the Public Library for the first time"""""""", recalled itinerant labourer John Brown, who read Shaw, Marx, Engels, and classic literature until he exhausted his South Shields library.'"""
"""[During the Great Depression] """"""""Thousands used the Public Library for the first time"""""""", recalled itinerant labourer John Brown, who read Shaw, Marx, Engels, and classic literature until he exhausted his South Shields library.'"""
"""Thursday 22 March 1940: 'I read Tolstoy at Breakfast -- Goldenweiser, that I translated with Kot in 1923 & have almost forgotten. Always the same reality -- like touching an exposed electric wire. Even so imperfectly conveyed -- his rugged short cut mind -- to me the most, not sympathetic, but inspiring, rousing, genius in the raw [...] I remember that was my feeling about W. & Peace, read in bed at Twickenham. Old [Sir George] Savage [doctor] picked it up. """"""""Splendid stuff!"""""""" & Jean [Thomas, owner of nursing home] tried to admire what was a revelation to me. Its directness, its reality. Yet he's against photographic realism.'"""
"""Saturday 21 September 1940: 'I have forced myself to overcome my rage at being beaten at Bowls & my fulminations against Nessa [for issuing invitation to Igor and Helen Anrep] by reading Michelet'."""
"""Saturday 22 June 1940: 'On the down at Bugdean I found some green glass tubes [...] And I read my Shelley at night. How delicate & pure & musical & uncorrupt he & Coleridge read, after the left wing group [...] how they compact; & fuse, & deepen.'"""
"""Saturday 26 October 1940: '""""""""The complete Insider"""""""" -- I have just coined this title to express my feeling towards George Trevelyan; who has just been made Master of Trinity: whose history of England I began after tea (throwing aside Michelet vol.15) with a glorious sense of my own free & easiness in writing now) [...] I like outsiders better. Insiders write a colourless English. They are turned out by the University machine.'"""
"""Saturday 26 October 1940: '""""""""The complete Insider"""""""" -- I have just coined this title to express my feeling towards George Trevelyan; who has just been made Master of Trinity: whose history of England I began after tea (throwing aside Michelet vol.15) with a glorious sense of my own free & easiness in writing now) [...] I like outsiders better. Insiders write a colourless English. They are turned out by the University machine.'"""
"""Wednesday 28 August 1940: 'I should say, to placate V[irginia].W[oolf]. when she wishes to know what was happening in Aug. 1940 -- that the air raids are now at their prelude. Invasion, if it comes, must come within 3 weeks [...] We've not had our raid yet, we say. Two in London. One caught me in the L[ondon]. Library. There I sat reading in Scrutiny that Mrs W[oolf]. after all was better than the young. At this I was pleased.'"""
"""Tom Scott came in, bringing a typed copy of his lengthy poem, """"""""On my 21st Birthday"""""""". Much of this modern verse is unintelligible to me - and, naturally, much of this particular sample of it is too intimate in incident for general understanding. Scott also brought a couple of poems by his pal George Fraser. There is a ninetyish quality about the verse of these young moderns - but with a difference; the self-conscious daring is not in the carnality but in the technique: this gives their poetry a hardness which cuts through sentimentality but also shears away something of humankindness.'"""
"""Tom Scott came in, bringing a typed copy of his lengthy poem, """"""""On my 21st Birthday"""""""". Much of this modern verse is unintelligible to me - and, naturally, much of this particular sample of it is too intimate in incident for general understanding. Scott also brought a couple of poems by his pal George Fraser. There is a ninetyish quality about the verse of these young moderns - but with a difference; the self-conscious daring is not in the carnality but in the technique: this gives their poetry a hardness which cuts through sentimentality but also shears away something of humankindness.'"""
"""Wednesday 29 May 1940: 'Reading masses of Coleridge & Wordsworth letters of a night -- curiously untwisting & burrowing into that plaited nest [...] Reading Thomas A'Quinas [sic] [1933] by Chesterton. His skittish over ingenious mind makes one shy (like a horse). Not straightforward, but has a good engine in his head.' """
"""Wednesday 29 May 1940: 'Reading masses of Coleridge & Wordsworth letters of a night -- curiously untwisting & burrowing into that plaited nest [...] Reading Thomas A'Quinas [sic] [1933] by Chesterton. His skittish over ingenious mind makes one shy (like a horse). Not straightforward, but has a good engine in his head.' """
"""Wednesday 29 May 1940: 'Reading masses of Coleridge & Wordsworth letters of a night -- curiously untwisting & burrowing into that plaited nest [...] Reading Thomas A'Quinas [sic] [1933] by Chesterton. His skittish over ingenious mind makes one shy (like a horse). Not straightforward, but has a good engine in his head.' """
"""Wednesday 3 January 1940: 'I have just put down Mill's autobiography, after copying certain sentences in the volume I call, deceptively, the Albatross.'"""
"""I read the Keats letters coming up in a belated and dawdling train.  His letter to [Charles Armitage] Brown from Naples is one of the most terrifying things that I have ever read.'"""
"""Into my mind flashed the """"""""New York Times"""""""" headlines which I had read over breakfast that morning.'"""
"""I have just read Gabouis ?Perfide Albion ? Entente Cordial?, quite good and informative ? this in English from the local library, and in French ?Les Anges Noirs? de Mauriac.   Also Alexander Werth?s ?Before Munich? and a collection of the speeches of Daladier 1934 ? 1940, (these in English).    At the moment I have ?Rond Point des Champs Elys?es? de Paul Maraud, and ?The French at Home? of Philip Carr.'"""
"""I have just read Gabouis ?Perfide Albion ? Entente Cordial?, quite good and informative ? this in English from the local library, and in French ?Les Anges Noirs? de Mauriac.   Also Alexander Werth?s ?Before Munich? and a collection of the speeches of Daladier 1934 ? 1940, (these in English).    At the moment I have ?Rond Point des Champs Elys?es? de Paul Maraud, and ?The French at Home? of Philip Carr.'"""
"""I have just read Gabouis ?Perfide Albion ? Entente Cordial?, quite good and informative ? this in English from the local library, and in French ?Les Anges Noirs? de Mauriac.   Also Alexander Werth?s ?Before Munich? and a collection of the speeches of Daladier 1934 ? 1940, (these in English).    At the moment I have ?Rond Point des Champs Elys?es? de Paul Maraud, and ?The French at Home? of Philip Carr.'"""
"""I have just read Gabouis ?Perfide Albion ? Entente Cordial?, quite good and informative ? this in English from the local library, and in French ?Les Anges Noirs? de Mauriac.   Also Alexander Werth?s ?Before Munich? and a collection of the speeches of Daladier 1934 ? 1940, (these in English).    At the moment I have ?Rond Point des Champs Elys?es? de Paul Maraud, and ?The French at Home? of Philip Carr.'"""
"""I have just read Gabouis ?Perfide Albion ? Entente Cordial?, quite good and informative ? this in English from the local library, and in French ?Les Anges Noirs? de Mauriac.   Also Alexander Werth?s ?Before Munich? and a collection of the speeches of Daladier 1934 ? 1940, (these in English).    At the moment I have ?Rond Point des Champs Elys?es? de Paul Maraud, and ?The French at Home? of Philip Carr.'"""
"""I have just read Gabouis ?Perfide Albion ? Entente Cordial?, quite good and informative ? this in English from the local library, and in French ?Les Anges Noirs? de Mauriac.   Also Alexander Werth?s ?Before Munich? and a collection of the speeches of Daladier 1934 ? 1940, (these in English).    At the moment I have ?Rond Point des Champs Elys?es? de Paul Maraud, and ?The French at Home? of Philip Carr.'"""
"""With autodidact diligence [Leslie Paul] closed in on the avant-garde. He read """"""""Prufrock"""""""" and """"""""The Waste Land"""""""", though not until the 1930s. He smuggled """"""""Ulysses"""""""" and """"""""Lady Chatterley's Lover"""""""" past customs. In """"""""John O'London's"""""""" and """"""""The Nation"""""""", in William MacDougall's Home University Library volume on """"""""Psychology"""""""" and F.A. Servante's """"""""Psychology of the Boy"""""""", he read up on Freud. In a few years he knew enough to ghost-write BBC lectures on modern psychology'."""
"""With autodidact diligence [Leslie Paul] closed in on the avant-garde. He read """"""""Prufrock"""""""" and """"""""The Waste Land"""""""", though not until the 1930s. He smuggled """"""""Ulysses"""""""" and """"""""Lady Chatterley's Lover"""""""" past customs. In """"""""John O'London's"""""""" and """"""""The Nation"""""""", in William MacDougall's Home University Library volume on """"""""Psychology"""""""" and F.A. Servante's """"""""Psychology of the Boy"""""""", he read up on Freud. In a few years he knew enough to ghost-write BBC lectures on modern psychology'."""
"""With autodidact diligence [Leslie Paul] closed in on the avant-garde. He read """"""""Prufrock"""""""" and """"""""The Waste Land"""""""", though not until the 1930s. He smuggled """"""""Ulysses"""""""" and """"""""Lady Chatterley's Lover"""""""" past customs. In """"""""John O'London's"""""""" and """"""""The Nation"""""""", in William MacDougall's Home University Library volume on """"""""Psychology"""""""" and F.A. Servante's """"""""Psychology of the Boy"""""""", he read up on Freud. In a few years he knew enough to ghost-write BBC lectures on modern psychology'."""
"""I collected my thoughts.  My ideas about prison came from American films, and I envisaged cells of which one side would be made of iron bars, all giving on to a landing, like a zoo [...] I tried to read the book I had brought with me, a pocket edition of Lytton Strachey's """"""""Elizabeth and Essex"""""""".  It was not an ideal choice but I had snatched it up as I left my room.'"""
"""There was one [thought like a hornet] zooming in The Times this morning - a woman's voice saying, """"""""Women have not a word to say in politics"""""""".'"""
"""Main page reviews in the """"""""Observer"""""""", """"""""Reynolds News"""""""" and the """"""""Sunday Chronicle"""""""", and a warm tribute in the """"""""Yorkshire Post"""""""" to both Winifred and the book on publication day, counteracted a colder douche from the """"""""Times Literary Supplement"""""""".'"""
"""Sunday 31 March 1940: 'S[ense]. & S[ensibility]. all scenes. very sharp. Surprises. masterly [...] Very dramatic. Plot from the 18th Century. Mistressly in her winding up. No flagging [...] And the love so intense, so poignant [makes few further comments, in same note form] Elinor I suppose Cassandra: Marianne Jane, edited.'"""
"""Friday 31 May 1940: 'Began Balzac, Vautrin.'"""
"""Finished reading """"""""Anarcho-Syndicalism"""""""" by Rudolph Roeber. This is my introduction to Anarchism, and I find that there is something in its basic recognition of the living struggle of the people which essentially appeals to me. It has an element of humanness which seems lacking in Marx-Leninism, but at present I am not qualified to compare and contrast the two.'"""
"""Friday 5 July 1940: 'Why should I be bothering myself with Coleridge I wonder -- Biog. Lit. & then with father's essay on Coleridge, this fine evening, when the flies are printing their little cold feet on my hands? It was in order to give up thinking about economy'."""
"""Friday 5 July 1940: 'Why should I be bothering myself with Coleridge I wonder -- Biog. Lit. & then with father's essay on Coleridge, this fine evening, when the flies are printing their little cold feet on my hands? It was in order to give up thinking about economy'."""
"""Thursday 7 March 1940: 'A fortnight -- well on Saturday it will be a fortnight -- with influenza [...] before getting into bed that bitter [previous Saturday] afternoon I read my epitaph -- Mrs W. died so soon, in the N.S. & was pleased to support that dismissal very tolerably [...] And read all Havelock Ellis, a cautious cumulative, teased & tired book; too pressed down with that very common woman, Edith [Lees, Ellis's wife]: so I judged her, but she was life to him [...] He's honest & clear but thick [illegible] & too like the slow graceful Kangaroo with its cautious soft leaps. But thats much due to influenza.' """
"""Thursday 7 March 1940: 'A fortnight -- well on Saturday it will be a fortnight -- with influenza [...] before getting into bed that bitter [previous Saturday] afternoon I read my epitaph -- Mrs W. died so soon, in the N.S. & was pleased to support that dismissal very tolerably [...] And read all Havelock Ellis, a cautious cumulative, teased & tired book; too pressed down with that very common woman, Edith [Lees, Ellis's wife]: so I judged her, but she was life to him [...] He's honest & clear but thick [illegible] & too like the slow graceful Kangaroo with its cautious soft leaps. But thats much due to influenza.' """
"""Friday 9 February 1940: 'For some reason hope has revived. Now what served as bait? [...] I think it was largely reading Stephen [Spender]'s autobiography [published Spring 1940 by Woolf's Hogarth Press] [...] its odd -- reading that & South Riding both mint new, give me a fillip after all the evenings I grind at Burke & Mill. A good thing to read one's contemporaries, even rapid twinkling slice of life novels like poor W.H.'s.'"""
"""Friday 9 February 1940: 'For some reason hope has revived. Now what served as bait? [...] I think it was largely reading Stephen [Spender]'s autobiography [published Spring 1940 by Woolf's Hogarth Press] [...] its odd -- reading that & South Riding both mint new, give me a fillip after all the evenings I grind at Burke & Mill. A good thing to read one's contemporaries, even rapid twinkling slice of life novels like poor W.H.'s.'"""
"""During these days he was reading two books with enjoyment: Lionel Trilling's Matthew Arnold and Werner Jaeger's Paideia, The Ideals of Greek Culture, which had just arrived from Blackwell's ...'"""
"""During these days he was reading two books with enjoyment: Lionel Trilling's Matthew Arnold and Werner Jaeger's Paideia, The Ideals of Greek Culture, which had just arrived from Blackwell's, a stiff book, but to Alastair [Buchan's son] it seemed that his father was becoming more intellectual in his interests, less concerned with current affairs.'"""
"""So after dinner they settled down by the fire with The Northern Muse, Betty van Dusen and Tweedsmuir reading poems alternately; rather, she read from the book, but when it was his turn he barely needed to give it a glance. The poems were safe in his memory.'"""
"""[Lengthy, uncomplimentary quote from H. E. Bates on D. H. Lawrence] 'Perhaps you would like to know who is writing this? H. E. Ballocks. I mean H. E. Bastard. That is, H. E. Bates: [Quotes H. E. Bates comparing Lawrence unfavourably to Rilke]... No, I can't go on. When will these sodding loudmouthed cunting shitstuffed pisswashed sons of poxed-up bitches learn that there is something greater than literature? A bastard who can bastard well write bastard shit like that bastard well ought to be bastard well stuffed with broken glass, the bastard.'"""
"""These last two nights have been the most fearful of the war.  The Battle of Britain is raging round us.  Tonight continuous bombing and gunfire have shaken the house.  A huge fire has lit up Aldershot and Farnham to the east; whilst gunfire and flares light up Bordon and the south coast.  Mrs Grant is cowering downstairs in the kitchen; I find Sidney reading but glad to have a cup of tea.  Neither he nor I are perturbed...'"""
"""Katherine Mansfield is a cunt, but I share a hell of a lot of common characteristics with her. I should like to read her letters again. The trouble with her seems to be that she luxuriated in emotion far too much. Admittedly the head is an evil thing & I'm a tied-up bugger, but anyone who can spew out their dearest and closest thoughts, hopes, and loves to J. M. Murry must be a bit of an anus.' """
"""By the way! 'Jimmy & the Desperate Woman' is fucking good! 'After he had given his lecture (it was on Men in Books and Men in Life: naturally men in books came first)...' Lawrence so good I daren't really read him.'"""
"""There is a peculiar flavour about Catholic writings which I still find repellent. [George] Tyrell is the only modern one with whom I feel in sympathy and he was condemned by the Church.'"""
"""There is a peculiar flavour about Catholic writings which I still find repellent. [George] Tyrell is the only modern one with whom I feel in sympathy and he was condemned by the Church.'"""
"""Passages transcribed in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1940-41) under heading 'Eighteenth Centuriana' include reported last words of Sir Robert Walpole and Sir Thomas Mann, from R. W. Ketton-Cremer's Horace Walpole: A Biography."""
"""[under heading Voltaire's Zaide] 'The warmth of feeling between Z. and Orasmane, the easiness of the action (except in the frigid double-recognition scene) suprised me, and as I cannot appreciate the badness of the French as Lytton [?Strachey] could; I enjoyed the play and should like to see it acted.'"""
"""Passages transcribed into E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1941) include remarks on bigotry (opening 'Bigotry is an odd thing') from chapter 13 of Ernest Hemingway, For Whom the Bell Tolls (1941)."""
"""Passages transcribed in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1941) include stanza 7 of Malherbe, 'Consolation a Monsieur du Perier, sur la Mort de sa Fille' (1607, followed by remark: 'If I admire this, do I like French poetry? I do admire it. And, mythology lost, what will become of poetry? Mythology gave a stiffening to the fabric.'"""
"""Passages transcribed in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1941) include stanza 32 of Malherbe, 'Pour le Roi, allant chatier la Rebellion des Rochelois' (1628), followed by remark: 'If I admire this, do I like French poetry? I do admire it. And, mythology lost, what will become of poetry? Mythology gave a stiffening to the fabric.'"""
"""Sylvia's Lovers 1863, though I have not finished it, has been an eye-opener after the twitterings of Cranford. The sensuousness of the sailor, the characterisation, without fuss, of S's parents, the amusing deterioration of S's friends after marriage. And the wisdom in this account of old-fashioned country mentality: [quotes passage from chapter 7 of text, opening 'Taken as a general rule, it may be said that few knew what manner of men they were,' before commenting further on text]'."""
"""Whatever little agues beset [Hugh] Walpole, there was always a cure in Scott: a cold would send him to bed, where he would happily read the Abbotsford Correspondence or Scott's Journal (1890) ...'"""
"""I am very busy with small things ? but am hoping to keep more to my books in future.   I am making a really exhaustive study of France ? something fundamental I mean.   At present I am going through a life of Turgot ? the latest, and a book on ?French Civilisation; Foundations to end of Middle Ages? by Albert Guerard.'"""
"""I am very busy with small things ? but am hoping to keep more to my books in future.   I am making a really exhaustive study of France ? something fundamental I mean.   At present I am going through a life of Turgot ? the latest, and a book on ?French Civilisation; Foundations to end of Middle Ages? by Albert Guerard.'"""
"""For relief I have had a life of Orage ? by someone who evidently had a great admiration for him, but only knew him personally during the last phase ? the ?New English Weekly? time.   But it was competent and pleased me well, because it left out all the chit-chat about women etc, which was always superfluous when Orage was in question.  He seemed to me a man, one of the few, (your father was really another) who could quite well have dispensed with women altogether, except in the most obvious way, and of course women like me, like men of that type, as we also can stand alone (yes, really, I can ? but I am not the better for it ? it arouses in me my old sense of arrogant detachment which I am inclined to think is sinful).'"""
"""To return to my reading at the moment ? I have another book of Ford Madox Ford?s ? oh ! a lovely one, called ?Provence?.   He died this year ? how sad he must have been in poor old London.   But all you loved best in Provence comes out in that book ? and in the end the author says we must come back to it, learn to plant our cabbages ? and to cook them ? or we are doomed.   How I regret that I could not send you that book ? but alas !!   By the way I sent a ?Pied Piper? for Shirley. I hope it arrives.'"""
"""Stanley sent me a wonderful book of Gollanzc ?The Musical Companion? edited by Bacharach.   Did you meet Bacharach ever?  Perhaps not.   He was one of the ?New Age? crowd I met in the wonderful Easter Week of 1917 ? just before we went to France.   He is at the London Schl of Econ: now, but then he seemed to be just doing journalism and a bit of W.E.A. work.   This book is jolly for me.   Its just a straightforward manual of music ? and fills in all the gaps of one?s knowledge that get in the way when trying to listen intelligently.'"""
"""Now about my reading, -- I have L?on Daudet?s ?Clemenceau?.   The book is more interesting to me for the light it throws on L?on Daudet than on its subject ? a person (Clemenceau) that I find thoroughly repugnant.   I suppose I ought to read Ren? Benjamin?s ?life?, as I heard him lecture on it at Bordeaux, but certainly I do not find the ?Tiger? a pleasant person in any way at all.    But I find Daudet rather attractive, and indeed surprisingly reasonable in his criticism of people whose politics must have been the opposite of his own.    The exception is Briand, but I cannot imagine any human being so disgusting as the person described by Daudet under that name ? it is impossible.    Malvy and Caillaux also get it hot.    But there are descriptions of the Goncourt group which I liked very much, and altogether I enjoyed the ?Frenchness? of the writer.' """
"""I have just completed Havelock Ellis? ?From Rousseau to Proust?, a kind of psychological survey of the ?subjective? writers of the period between the two named.    It was excellent ? you know I am a classic ? so I naturally admire a critic who makes all the ?back to nature? people abnormals, and their genius merely Peter Parishness to the nth:   I think you have heard me say that many times in one form or another.   The best thing in the book however, was an appreciation of ?The Grand Meaulnes?. The essay appeared originally as an introduction to the English translation of the book, and really is a fine bit of work.   I am going to try and find the book if possible.   It is called ?The Wanderer?.'"""
"""Of course I read a great deal.   I still continue my studies of French historical development.   I have the best new book there is; ?The Development of Modern France? (1870 ? 1939) by D W Brogan, Fellow of Peterhouse and professor of Political Science in the University of Cambridge.   It is a great book, and I am learning about many people who were formerly just streets to me.    Remember rue Albert de Mun, I now find Albert to have been quite a sizeable person.   You remember I expressed in my last letter my dislike of Clemenceau as biographed by L?on Daudet.   Such mention as I find of him in this book up to the moment, (?L?Affaire?) still seem to make him pretty dingy, as Harold would say I shall have to read it several times, (the book I mean).    For light relief I have Edna Ferber?s autobiography ?A Peculiar Treasure?.    It is specially worth while, a plain straight record of a real hard worker, thrilled with her job, and wanting nothing else.   She  has written the book stressing always that she is a Jew and this gives of course, an added interest to the work.   If it comes your way, its worth reading.'"""
"""Of course I read a great deal.   I still continue my studies of French historical development.   I have the best new book there is; ?The Development of Modern France? (1870 ? 1939) by D W Brogan, Fellow of Peterhouse and professor of Political Science in the University of Cambridge.   It is a great book, and I am learning about many people who were formerly just streets to me.    Remember rue Albert de Mun, I now find Albert to have been quite a sizeable person.   You remember I expressed in my last letter my dislike of Clemenceau as biographed by L?on Daudet.   Such mention as I find of him in this book up to the moment, (?L?Affaire?) still seem to make him pretty dingy, as Harold would say I shall have to read it several times, (the book I mean).    For light relief I have Edna Ferber?s autobiography ?A Peculiar Treasure?.    It is specially worth while, a plain straight record of a real hard worker, thrilled with her job, and wanting nothing else.   She  has written the book stressing always that she is a Jew and this gives of course, an added interest to the work.   If it comes your way, its worth reading.'"""
"""[Hugh] Walpole's last reading of Scott was in the month before his death, when he was endeavouring to finish Katherine Christian (1941).'"""
"""Transcript of interview: 'I don’t think there was anything that I wasn’t allowed to read. It was only when I went to school to boarding school and all my friends were reading Gone with the Wind, and my mother decided she would rather I didn’t read Gone with the Wind because of a very racy chapter where Melanie gives birth to a baby and she didn’t think that was suitable for me. I was thirteen or fourteen and I didn’t read it but I did read Vicky Baum’s Hotel Berlin which had a much worse scene where a woman gave birth in a rowing boat… I can’t think of anything that was actually banned at all. I read lots and lots of my father’s books and this was a book that I loved - Palgrave’s Golden Treasury [shows book]. My mother gave me this [shows book]. This is the one I learned to read on. This is the Water Babies. I remember sitting up in bed reading Mrs Be Done By As You Did and shouting out “I can read, I can read”! I was six.  I didn’t learn to read until quite late.'"""
"""Thursday 9 January 1941: 'Desmond's book has come. Dipping I find it small beer. Too Irish, too confidential, too sloppy & depending upon the charm of the Irish voice. Yet I've only dipped, I say to quiet my critical conscience, which wont let me define things so easily.'"""
"""""""""""The Syonan Times"""""""" advertises a movie in the Capitol, now disguised as Kyo-El-Gekizyo: """"""""Love Finds Andy Hardy"""""""".'"""
"""In the """"""""Evening Standard"""""""", Major-General Fuller commented acidly that the gigantic forces being raised in America suggested preparation for the next war rather than this.'"""
"""""""""""The Syonan Times"""""""" carries a report about Miss Estrop, a Eurasian from Kuala Lumpar.'"""
"""""""""""The Syonan Times"""""""" says that the Raffles statue is being moved to a museum.'"""
"""""""""""The Syonan Times"""""""" says Java surrendered unconditionally on Monday [9 Mar]'"""
"""A quotation from a book I am reading says: """"""""The only way to waste time is not to enjoy it."""""""" How one realises that as an internee!'"""
"""[in this entry, lists extracts from """"""""The Syonan Times"""""""" of 10 Sept]"""
"""""""""""The Syonan Times"""""""" refers to the """"""""miserable hordes of distressed humanity who were barely able to eke out an existence on the borderline of starvation in British times"""""""" and who are now on top of the world! ... You can get a lot from reading between the lines. Sometimes we wonder is this is done purposely by the pro-British on the newspaper staff.'"""
"""Aha! The transformed newspaper is an accomplished fact. The issue of December 12th carries its new name of """"""""Syonan Sinbun"""""""" (=newspaper) but this is number five. Where are one, two, three and four? There is not a scrap of news in it. It's full of banquets and mutual admiration society meetings of the Axis partners.'"""
"""""""""""The Syonan Times"""""""" also gives a list of Nipponese taking positions as Advisers in various States of Malaya except Pahang'"""
"""""""""""The Syonan Times"""""""" says there is to be a public holiday today for the half-anniversary of the New Birth of Malaya.'"""
"""There is unconscious humour in """"""""The Syonan Times"""""""". Two headlines state: """"""""New Order Simplifies Chinese Funerals"""""""" and """"""""Nipponese Culture - Why Does the West Fail to Understand It?"""""""".'"""
"""Notice over the bakery - """"""""Wedding Cakes A Speciality""""""""'"""
"""A statement about the position as regards the exchange of internees is given by """"""""The Changi Guardian"""""""" (the prisoners' bulletin): no steps have been taken yet and can only be initiated by the government concerned'"""
"""And now for the best jest so far in Changi: the editors of """"""""The Changi Guardian"""""""" suddenly have their cells turned inside out this morning. They are sent for. We all wonder what the offence is. It is in Saturday's [14th] """"""""Changi Guardian"""""""": """"""""Sad Demise of the Sabbath Paper"""""""" - """"""""With mixed feelings, we announce that, owing to shortage of newsprint, publication of the 'Changi Chimes' ceased on Staurday last ... From all parts of the world we have received messages of sympathy and codolence and, from these, we append the following extracts: 'your ... little journal' ('The Feathered World'); 'The orginality of the contents never failed to surprise us' ('The Dredgemaster's Weekly')"""""""" ... The Japanese open the proceedings by asking how we got these papers into the camp. (They were looking for them, hence the ransacking of the cells.) And, after the most painstaking explanations, the editors are reluctantly released.' """
"""""""""""The Syonan Times"""""""" has the speech of welcome given by the Mayor to Nipponese internees who have arrived on the Tatuta Maru from India and Great Britain.'"""
"""""""""""The Syonan Times"""""""" reports there is no resistance in Northern Sumatra. In the newspaper, there is a remarkable similarity in the wording of the various official notices, eg. """"""""Those who do not comply will be severely punished"""""""". Thus falls the British tyranny' """
"""""""""""The Syonan Times"""""""" says the evil influences of the British education system are to be swept away completely and replaced by an education in which the mainspring in faith is universal brotherhood.'"""
"""Helen Ball's letter from South Africa to James is like a breath of fresh spring air in this lousy gaol' [describes letter at length and copies extracts; Tom's son Brian under care of Helen]"""
"""""""""""The Syonan Times"""""""" reports that Eden, the Foreign Secretary, has spoken of the prisoners in Hong Kong and of their """"""""wonderful treatment"""""""" by the Japanese. There is no mention of Singapore ... According to the """"""""Syonan Times"""""""" our and the Allies' naval losses are astronomical and the Nipponese microscopic' """
"""""""""""The Syonan Times"""""""" leader says: """"""""today, hundreds of thousands of people in Malaya are suffering severely from insufficient food, not because there is a shortage of food, but because they have no money"""""""".'"""
"""""""""""The Syonan Sinbun"""""""" publish a long interview given by the Bishop of Singapore a few days ago, which is entirely fictitious!'"""
"""""""""""The Syonan Times"""""""" says very naively that the essay competition on Nipponese culture was very disappointing. There were only 45 entries: no first and second prizes will be awarded. The population of Syonan don't seem to have realised that Nipponese culture is the finest in the world, especially in science and engineering. This is proved by the fact that her inventions have been adopted all over the world.'"""
"""""""""""The Syonan Times"""""""" says that 11 ships have been sunk off Colombo, Rangoon and the Indian coast; also the Queen Mary with 10,000 troops in the South Atlantic. The newspaper also warns the Asiatic population that the way to happiness etc. will be hard, but they must tread it for the sake of their children! The arrogant British then come in for more castigation'"""
"""""""""""The Syonan Times"""""""" of September 17th contains an account by a Chinese nurse who, I think, must have been on Nora's ship'"""
"""""""""""The Syonan Times"""""""" reports that 200 mixed British and Dutch refugees have been rounded up in Northern Sumatra. They had fled there.'"""
"""I have Brian's letter. The opening words are: """"""""Dear Mum and Dad, I hope you are all right"""""""". This fills me with gloom. It can only mean that they have heard nothing of Nora.'"""
"""I get a library book, """"""""Dandelion Days"""""""". Written on the back cover is an extraordinary message deated 15.1.42 at the General Hopsital, thus: """"""""23.25 - what the hell has the night sister done to me? Injection refused but given some other awful stuff - made to feel like a drunk in five minutes - didn't ask for anything - or injection - God, she's a bitch. Evacuated from Penang and now a thorough defeatist - anti-everything. I feel stewed except the pain in my leg has not gone."""""""" Signature illegible.'"""
"""""""""""The Syonan Times"""""""" is running heavy propaganda for the people to learn Japanese. They say people evidently don't like it.'"""
"""I finish """"""""Accident"""""""" by Arnold Bennett, write up my diary, and so to bed.'"""
"""I read """"""""North to the Orient"""""""" by Anne Lindbergh. I imagined they had flown over the top of the world! But actually it was via North Canada, Alaska, Kanchatka, and the Kurile Islands to Tokyo and Hunkow. The Nipponese were kindness itself. I don't think they met the Nipponese High Command.'"""
"""""""""""The Syonan Sinbun"""""""" headline on December 18th: """"""""Tokyo Wins War of Radio Waves"""""""". The newspaper lauds the superiority of Japanese broadcasts over those of the Allies.'"""
"""After a long time, I felt impelled to read through this book again in the hopes of finding some clues.' [AW has fallen for a young man, after a long time feeling 'immune' to sex]"""
"""It's the old thing which came up so clearly in analysis as I see reading through these notes - the [italics] keeping something inside '[end italics].'"""
"""From Axel Munthe's """"""""San Michele"""""""": """"""""Imprisoned monkeys, so long as they are in company, live on the whole a supportable life. They are so busy finding out all that is going on inside and outside their cage, so full of intrigue and gossip, that they hardly have time to be unhappy"""""""".'"""
"""""""""""The Syonan Times announces with a flourish the resumption of the delivery of letters.'"""
"""In """"""""The Syonan Times"""""""" there is a very anti-British speech by S.C. Goho - the Indians are not supporting the Indian Independence League.'"""
"""""""""""The Syonan Times"""""""" says the Nipponese have given Hong Kong internees money and cigarettes and they allow canteens where they can buy anything ... """"""""The Syonan Times"""""""" has announced that, by order, the first Nipponese public holiday is to be April 29th, the Emperor's birthday'"""
"""A notice appears on the board: """"""""The Indian policemen on duty are Japanese subjects and you must obey them as you do the Japanese sentries. If internees do not bow to Indian policemen sentries, they will be severely punished"""""""". Bow-wow."""""""""""
"""Finished reading A.C. Bradley's """"""""Shakespearean Tragedy"""""""", which has lain unread for 20 years: a work of profound penetration. Not only has it taught me much about Shakespeare; but its analysis of those values which underlie Shakespeare's tragic conception has in some measure confirmed my own convictions embodied in """"""""But the Earth Abideth"""""""".'"""
"""""""""""The Jap Times and Advertiser"""""""" held a slogan competition.'"""
"""""""""""The Syonan Times"""""""" says the Tatuta Maru brought parcels for the prisoners of war """"""""direct from their kith and kin""""""""'"""
"""I finish reading """"""""The Vicar of Wakefield"""""""". The world has changed more in the last 30 years than in the previous 150'"""
"""Finished reading Amiel's """"""""Journal Intime"""""""" today. How easy for a critic to lapse into a patronising attitude towards this most sensitive man who was so critical of himself. But it is Amiel who reveals the world's malformities in the undistorted mirror of his self-revelation'"""
"""""""""""The Syonan Times"""""""" has more about the wonderful conditions of prisoners-of-war and internees in Hong Kong and Shanghi, but nothing about us!'"""
"""""""""""The Syonan Times reports that Mrs Arbenz, wife of the Swiss Consul, has been killed in a motor accident. Joan knew the daughters well. """"""""The Syonan Times"""""""" leader complains bitterly that the population of Syonan-To are just waiting. They don't learn Nippon-Go, they don't take off their coats and work'"""
"""A paragraph has been cut out of """"""""The Syonan Times""""""""; internees are not allowed to see it, but, with the usual efficiency, enough of the tops of the letters in the headline are left to enable one to read it: """"""""Allied Airmen Bomb Civilians"""""""".'"""
"""I am amused by a purchase I make today: it is toilet paper and on the wrapper it says in large letters, obviously as a guarantee of excellence: """"""""British Product. Made in Syonan-To"""""""".'"""
"""The B-Block strip of grass between the high wall and the passage is now open. It is to be a haven of peace for readers and others. There is to be no talking. So there is a notice: """"""""B-Sanctuary. Do not pluck the flowers or disturb the wildlife. You may sleep, but do not snore. Keep your B-trap shut. Silence is golden. Gather riches here"""""""".'"""
"""""""""""The Syonan Times"""""""" has a headline: """"""""European War Decided in Two Months"""""""", but I cannot get near enough to see which way! As usual, the paper vanishes in the night. Some swine does it systematically.'"""
"""""""""""The Syonan Times"""""""" reports that """"""""owing to unavoidable circumstances, the Malayan-Chinese Goodwill Mission's visit to Japan is postponed.'"""
"""""""""""The Syonan Times"""""""" says the scorched earth policy in Malaya was a failure - the rubber and tin are still there!'"""
"""""""""""The Syonan Times"""""""" says that, in spite of the """"""""evil scorched-earth policy"""""""" of the British, the hydro-electric installations are now in working order, also 70% of the tin mines.'"""
"""I read """"""""My Greatest Adventure"""""""" by Malcolm Campbell. While treasure hunting on the Cocos, he mentions as typical of the hardships they had to endure the fact that he had to eat a boiled egg without a spoon. This makes us laugh like drains.'"""
"""A notice in """"""""The Syonan Times"""""""" asks the public to cooperate in measures for the suppression of mosquitoes'"""
"""""""""""The Syonan Times"""""""" is again full of articles putting the blame for the war on the Allies'"""
"""""""""""The Syonan Times"""""""" reports that a week's holiday starts in Japan and elsewhere on December 5th at the end of a year's successful warfare.'"""
"""""""""""The Syonan Times"""""""" gives full details for an exchange of diplomats and others from the US, Canada and South America and the names of the ships involved'"""
"""I take the chance of a leisurely read of """"""""The Syonan Times"""""""" of May 18th. The headlines include: """"""""Decline of the British Empire Inevitable"""""""" (how true!); and """"""""Shaping of Future Destiny of World in Nipponese Hands"""""""".'"""
"""A comparison with other internees culled from """"""""The Syonan Times"""""""": Manila, S. Thomas University - 3,200 internees in 64 acres, Changi - 2,800 in less than 11 acres. In Hong Kong, they are in villas. In Peking, they are in their own houses.'"""
"""There is not so much bombast in the latest """"""""Syonan Times"""""""" report on the war: """"""""Our nation remains determined ... to achieve ultimate victory"""""""".'"""
"""There is an article in """"""""The Syonan Times"""""""" by Charles Nell about Malayan Shylocks.'"""
"""""""""""The Changi Guardian"""""""" reports: """"""""The Changi Cricket League, long expected, is now in being, thanks to the untiring energy of Mr Tom Kitching"""""""".'"""
"""""""""""The Syonan Times"""""""" informs us that one Nipponese is worth at least six white soldiers because he fights for ideals and love of country, but whites are materialistic and fight only under the influence of rum and drugs.'"""
"""""""""""The Syonan Times"""""""" announces the resumption of the retail sale of sugar. And they are to re-open the schools soon'"""
"""""""""""The Syonan Times"""""""" has an amusing erros in its leader today.'"""
"""Dreamy and compulsive lately: cram myself with reading, put off all activities'."""
"""Passages transcribed into E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1928) include reflections on lovers' perceptions from Francois Mauriac, Le Desert de l'Amour (1925), and one line, 'La nuit etait vouee au vent et a la lune,' from Mauriac's La Pharisienne, added by Forster in 1942."""
"""Passages transcribed in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1942) include remarks by H. A. L. Fisher beginning: 'Men wiser and more learned than I have discerned in history a plot, a rhythm, a predetermined pattern.' """
"""Passages transcribed in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1942) include Ruskin's remark, from a Slade Lecture (with five commas omitted from original): 'Every mutiny every danger every terror and every crime occurring under or paralysing our Indian legislation, arises directly out of our national desire to live out of the loot of India.'"""
"""Passages transcribed in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1942) include remark by Courier, opening 'Les gendarmes sont multiplies en France bien plus encore que les violons quoique moins necessaires pour la danse.' """
"""Passages transcribed in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1942) include remark by Paul Valery opening 'L'Histoire est le produit le plus dangereux que la chimie de l'intellect ait elabore.'"""
"""[Following heading 'St Augustine'] 'Some questions raised rather than solved in Figges' [sic] """"""""Political Aspects of the City of God"""""""" [goes on to transcribe extracts and add own notes and queries].'"""
"""Forster's material on the Sophists and others is drawn from part II (""""""""Byzantium A.D. 313-565"""""""") of F. A. Wright's A History of Later Greek Literature from the Death of Alexandria in 323 B.C. to the Death of Justinian in 565 A.D. (Routledge, 1932).'"""
"""[following heading Sophocles of Constantinople] 'I have run through his Ecclesiastical History with amusement and without contempt [...] Bk V ch. 18 on the purity campaign of Theodosius is very funny. There was a machine which lowered visitors to a brothel into a bakehouse, where they worked for the rest of their lives [....] Funny too is the bishop who trod on another bishop's foot, with the result that it festered and had to be amputated. Bk VI ch 19.'"""
"""[following heading 'Bakunin (1814-1876)] 'Reading Carr's pitiless and ungenerous account of him, I am often carried outside it to contemplate the endless senseless torturing of Europe; the same places occur in the 18th cent, as in the 5th, and people are still being killed and thwarted, and beautiful and useful objects being destroyed. [makes further notes on text]'   """
"""In """"""""Guns and Butter"""""""" by Bruce-Lockhart (written October 1938), he says: """"""""To anyone who knows the East, it was already clear that, whoever won the war between Japan and China, the white races have already lost it'. It is probably true in the long run, but, now that the East has seen, the time may be postponed.'"""
"""Passages transcribed (and translated) in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1942) include remarks on conquerors' impositions of their languages upon new subject peoples in De Civitate Dei."""
"""I inspect """"""""The Syonan Times"""""""" from May 23rd to 28th: the usual unadulterated propaganda - in such mass and so blatant you would expect it to stultify itself completely. The highlight is: """"""""Our treatment of the prisoners-of-war is such as to win the admiration of the world and the chivalry of our army is a by-word"""""""". Headlines include: """"""""Day of Reckoning At Hand for Britain""""""""; """"""""Spectre of Revolution and Famine Stalks Through the Land""""""""; """"""""Britain and US Reduced to Third-Rate Naval Powers"""""""" (by the """"""""smashing victory"""""""" in the Coral Sea)'"""
"""Here I read the three-year-old newspapers which described the unusual murder trial, and studied a """"""""background"""""""" book, """"""""The Neuroses in War"""""""", published by the Tavistock Clinic, for the psychology of my chief character.'"""
"""According to """"""""The Syonan Times"""""""", the Government of Malaya says that the Nipponese will educate the youth of Malaya properly. We only did it intellectually.'"""
"""I start making star charts and revising my geographical knowledge generally with the aid of a very good atlas - the Oxford Advanced - borrowed from Bayley'"""
"""""""""""The Syonan Times"""""""" says the lack of food grown in Malaya is due to the deliberate policy of the British government, who thought of nothing but wealth for their merchant princes. And there are fewer motor accidents in Singapore now. This is due to the imposition of a 30mph limit and the superior driving of the Nipponese'"""
"""""""""""The Changi Guardian"""""""", in its cricket report, says: """"""""Kitching fought the vigorous attack amid rising excitement and, when the final two came just before time, there was wild cheering"""""""".'"""
"""I see Seabridge's letter from South Africa; it is very interesting. There are details about many people who escaped and about the casualties. [quotes from letter]'"""
"""""""""""The Syonan Times"""""""" gives it away: """"""""The English who formerly lived like kings are now sighing in Changi Prison"""""""".'"""
"""I get """"""""Lorna Doone"""""""". It is a good book so far.'"""
"""""""""""The Changi Guardian"""""""" says in the """"""""Do You Know?"""""""" pages: """"""""That each dawn is now broken by the patter of running feet - two enthusiasts, etc!"""""""" The editors must have been a long time waking up, as this is our 50th successive day running round the exercise yard in the morning'"""
"""[Tom quotes the """"""""Syonan Times"""""""" on] '""""""""British Maltreatment of Nipponese Internees"""""""" and on how the local people """"""""fail to appreciate the realities of freedom, happiness and prosperity they now enjoy!' """
"""""""""""The Syonan Times"""""""" says that M. Egle, the Red Cross representative, entertained to dinner by the Nipponese in Shanghi, said, """"""""Your kindness (to the prisoners-of-war) has been just wonderful"""""""".'"""
"""To quote """"""""The Syonan Times"""""""", """"""""All houses will hoist the Rising Sun Flag"""""""".'"""
"""""""""""The Syonan Times"""""""" of August 7th says: """"""""Grow more food. It is essential. It is to be planted on enemy-owned rubber plantations. The shortage is the result of bad administration by the British, but the Malayans must take their share of the blame, as there is responsibility both as government and governed."""""""" It sounds OK, but the soil won't respond.'"""
"""Read a little book of verse entitled """"""""Cage Without Grievance"""""""", by a """"""""modern Scot"""""""", W.S. Graham. Montgomerie's gift; and inscribed on it by him is Marston's line: """"""""I feare Gods onely know what Poets meane"""""""" - certainly applies to Graham's stuff.'"""
"""There is a letter from Joan, Barn Close, Milford, Godalming. It is dated 14.7.42 and addressed to both of us, of course. It is an excellent letter, with the limitations of censorship considered: """"""""I am well and truly started on my career at last and enjoying it hugely"""""""".'"""
"""I see a quotation in """"""""Jesting Pilate"""""""" by M. Arlen who just passed through Japan. He says: """"""""It is as though there was some inherent vice in Japanese art which made the genuine seem false and the expensive shoddy"""""""".'"""
"""I finish reading """"""""The Escaping Club"""""""" by A.J. Evans; it is very interesting, but what a contrast to our lot and treatment. He got so many food parcels from home, plus what he could buy (his pay from the Germans was 100 marks a month), that he never touched the German rations. And when they got dried fish they threw it away.'"""
"""It is very difficult to assess the poetry of De la Mare. Compared with Davies and Housman (for example), he is the most comprehensive poet of the three, and has definitely created a world of imagination; but Davies and Housman have a reality in their poems which is often absent from De la Mare, and in the optimism of the one and the fatalism of the other we are ever conscious of listening to human utterance, the warmth of the flesh is in the words.'"""
"""""""""""The Syonan Sinbun"""""""" announces that there are 18 large mailbags in Tokyo with letters from Great Britain for war prisoners in the Southern Region - that's us.'"""
"""Larkin later admitted that he spent most of his time straying from the path Bone [his tutor] intended him to follow. """"""""I was on a great [George] Moore kick at that time"""""""", he said; """"""""probably he was at the bottom of my style, then"""""""".'"""
"""This """"""""new direction"""""""" [in literature], Larkin was beginning to realize, would depend on subtlety as well as candour - the sort of approach he was learning to associate with other writers he now re-read, or read for the first time. With Henry Green and Virginia Woolf (he admired """"""""The Waves""""""""); with Julian Hall, whose novel of public school life """"""""The Senior Commoner"""""""" he approved for its """"""""general atmosphere of not shoing one's feelings in public""""""""; and with Katherine Mansfield. """"""""I do admire her a great deal"""""""", he told Sutton, """"""""and feel very close to her in some things"""""""".'"""
"""This 'new direction' [in literature], Larkin was beginning to realize, would depend on subtlety as well as candour - the sort of approach he was learning to associate with other writers he now re-read, or read for the first time. With Henry Green and Virginia Woolf (he admired """"""""The Waves""""""""); with Julian Hall, whose novel of public school life """"""""The Senior Commoner"""""""" he approved for its """"""""general atmosphere of not shoing one's feelings in public""""""""; and with Katherine Mansfield. """"""""I do admire her a great deal"""""""", he told Sutton, """"""""and feel very close to her in some things"""""""".'"""
"""This """"""""new direction"""""""" [in literature], Larkin was beginning to realize, would depend on subtlety as well as candour - the sort of approach he was learning to associate with other writers he now re-read, or read for the first time. With Henry Green and Virginia Woolf (he admired """"""""The Waves""""""""); with Julian Hall, whose novel of public school life """"""""The Senior Commoner"""""""" he approved for its """"""""general atmosphere of not shoing one's feelings in public""""""""; and with Katherine Mansfield. """"""""I do admire her a great deal"""""""", he told Sutton, """"""""and feel very close to her in some things"""""""".'"""
"""This """"""""new direction"""""""" [in literature], Larkin was beginning to realize, would depend on subtlety as well as candour - the sort of approach he was learning to associate with other writers he now re-read, or read for the first time. With Henry Green and Virginia Woolf (he admired """"""""The Waves""""""""); with Julian Hall, whose novel of public school life """"""""The Senior Commoner"""""""" he approved for its """"""""general atmosphere of not shoing one's feelings in public""""""""; and with Katherine Mansfield. """"""""I do admire her a great deal"""""""", he told Sutton, """"""""and feel very close to her in some things"""""""".'"""
"""I get my letter; it is from Pip [Tom's sister, Phyllis] and is dated June 21st, 1942. She says Colin looks absolutely splendid and is fighting fit; he is proud of us. And Joan is well too. [war news]'"""
"""AT LAST! A letter from Brenda [Tom's sister] dated July 27th, 1942, with some news of Nora: 'I expect Joan has told you of the letter she had from Mrs Noble giving an account of Nora's adventures - it upsets us very much ...'"""
"""At half past one Tom Scott strode in, having come home from West Africa: very little change in him after his two years in the tropics. Brought some poems for me to look over with a critical eye. Much experimentation in his verse in English; his solitary poem in Scots, and his first, exhibited the chief fault of all the younger school: many of the words haven't passed through the blood and imagination; they remain counters and are often set into the wrong context.'"""
"""I discover a new Nipponese word in a newspaper report: """"""""Three of our planes committed jibaku"""""""" ie. deliberately dived into objectives'"""
"""I receive another letter from Joan, dated June 30th. She had just started the massage course for which the fee was 142 guineas. And she hoped that, when the course was finished, we would have no objection to her marrying John M!'"""
"""I finished reading a """"""""Book of Scottish Verse"""""""" yesterday - edited by George Burnett. What a number of minor Scottish poets there are of the latter part of last century and the beginning of this who are remembered in the one or two poems. How circumscribed the themes; how limited the vocabulary; yet within their narrow field they were assured of the usage of their speech' """
"""The Ordeal of Mark Twain by a bothered and bothering American of the psychoanalysing 20s has succeeded in bothering me a bit [discusses text further, drawing comparisons between Twain's, and own, experiences of ageing and senses of failure].'"""
"""""""""""The Syonan Sinbun"""""""" reports that Yamashita, the conqueror of Malaya, has been promoted to General.'"""
"""The newspaper reports that the so-clever Nipponese scientists are not only going to eradicate venereal disease, but also discover its causes.'"""
"""I am reading """"""""Haworth Parsonage"""""""" by Isabel C. Clarke. I have never read a book on the Brontes before, although I have often passed Cowan Bridge, the notorious school, which caused the deaths of Maria and Elizabeth.'"""
"""There is a letter to both of us from Joan dated July 28th, 1942. She is enjoying her work """"""""hugely"""""""".'"""
"""A young hopeful from the Women's camp, aged five, asked what he was going to do when he grew up, said, """"""""Go over to the Men's Camp"""""""". Comment of """"""""Pow-Wow"""""""", the ladies periodical is: """"""""WE can't even look forward to that.""""""""'"""
"""""""""""The Syonan Sinbun"""""""" says the Axis have won the first round in Sicily, but doesn't explain how they let the Allies get there.'"""
"""I receive another letter from Joan, dated October 13th, 1942, and numbered two. She is full of enthusiasm for her work...'"""
"""An article in """"""""The Syonan Sinbun"""""""" headed """"""""Red Cross Says Syonan Prisoners Well-Treated"""""""" reports that the International Red Cross representative in Tokyo has told Geneva: """"""""The representative of the International Red Cross in Syonan is satisfactorily carrying on HIS ASSIGNED DUTIES"""""""" - which is quite true, but they do not include an inspection report!'"""
"""The Saturday newspaper has part of a column cut out. As there is no war news from Europe elsewhere, you can put omission and exclusion together and make Tunis.'"""
"""Am reading """"""""Jane Eyre"""""""" and adore it.'"""
"""I receive two letters from Brenda. One dated July 22nd, 1942, says she was just moving to London and was going to do all she could for Colin and Joan.'"""
"""""""""""The Syonan Sinbun"""""""" for Tuesday and Wednesday surpasses itself.'"""
"""The newspaper praises it [loaf made of maize flour and rice]: """"""""Bread reappears in Syonan. The doctors are enthusiastic about it; it is more palatable and equally nourishing"""""""" (compared with that of the effete and non-prosperous days of British rule!)'"""
"""""""""""The Syonan Sinbun"""""""" reports that the Nipponese Government has decided not to consider Indians and the other peoples of the Philippines, Hong Kong, Malaya, Borneo and the Dutch East Indies as enemy nations any longer.'"""
"""""""""""The Syonan Sinbun"""""""" says goods supplied by the Nipponese will be distributed today; the goods include crockery, glassware, earthenware, vases, beer mugs, cutlery, buckets, needles, lunch boxes, toys, stationery and trays.'"""
"""""""""""The Syonan Sinbun"""""""" reports a spokesman of the Nipponese Army Board of Information as saying Britain has sent warships to the Indian Ocean from the Mediterranean. This is good news, as it means that we can spare them.'"""
"""Re-read MacDiarmid's """"""""Scot's Unbound"""""""" - some fine lyrics; but the """"""""thoct"""""""" in the lengthy poems confounds the poetry; why must Grieve so often use his verse as a shop-window for displaying curiosities of erudition?'"""
"""I finish reading """"""""Walking in the Grampians"""""""". If Nora's alive, I swear we will do some of them WHEN this bloody war is over.'"""
"""I read """"""""The Man in Grey"""""""" which is simply glorious.  I must ry and get it.'"""
"""My talk on """"""""The Development of Malayan Surveys"""""""" is read by Sworder. It goes very well. Many people come and congratulate me on it.'"""
"""An advertisement for the Japanese film of the fall of Singapore, """"""""On to Singapore"""""""" announces """"""""Syonan - City of Peace, Plenty and Prosperity"""""""".'"""
"""I finish reading """"""""Gone With the Wind"""""""" by Margaret Mitchell - A most remarkable book. I enjoyed it very much, but what a little bitch Scarlet O'Hara is! Vic's invariable comment is: """"""""What a wonderful book for a WOMAN to have written!""""""""'"""
"""All the letters have been distributed; they have been here only two months. I get my six, two-and-a-half from Joan, two-and-a-half from Brenda and one from Pip, with dates from 2.11.42 to 29.1.43. A """"""""Post Early for Christmas"""""""" postmark on a letter of 1.12.42 strinkes and ironic note when I receive it on 23.12.43! The gist of the news in the letters is: there is no news of Nora or me.'"""
"""""""""""The Syonan Sinbun"""""""" advertises a slogan competition for the anniversary of the fall of Singapore: """"""""Slogans should clearly show the invulnerable position of Nippon for the successful consummation of a protracted war"""""""". Difficult, one thinks.'"""
"""I spent the morning in the Public Library and am reading some lovely books.  I read all afternoon and tried to think up games for our next Xmas party.  It's as well to be ready for it! There are lots of books of games in the library and I'm going to read them all!'"""
"""I read """"""""Peril at End House"""""""" by Agatha Christie; it is excellent.'"""
"""[in the sick bay with measles, after a week not allowed to read] 'I was very bored, and started reading """"""""Diary of a District Officer"""""""".  Matron says that I must not read more than two hours a day!'"""
"""I read """"""""Golden Horn"""""""" by F. Yeats Brown. He was a prisoner in Turkish hands for two-and-a-half years. As in all these prisoners biographies, they had much more latitude compared with us: they had money, luxuries (eg. drinks and good smokes), individual purchases of food and other commodities, opportunities of escape, and a reasonable rapport with their captors.'"""
"""La Silence de la Mer by """"""""Vercors"""""""" (Schlumberger?) was given me by Raymond Mortimer yesterday and read without much admiration though with plenty of sympathy: published secretly under the Nazis in France. Read also too slow a story by Giono of the coming of Pan: it quickens at the end where human beings and animals dance together, with regrettable results [...] Read too in Illusions Perdues [...] and in Gide's Journal [...] Gide aroused my envy by reading, reading, but if I kept a journal I too should appear to have read, read a lot.'"""
"""I am reading a very thick fiction book, although we have to give them in by Monday.  Dangerous!... We had a super day doing nothing! I read the whole time """"""""My Brother Jonathon""""""""'."""
"""""""""""The Syonan Sinbun"""""""" announces that Nipponese is to be the future lingua franca of Malaya, but do not be perturbed - English will be permitted as a medium of expression for some time yet. How magnaminous is this.'"""
"""I receive a letter from Brenda, dated September 18th, 1942. She writes: """"""""We are hoping it won't be long now before we have news of your safety""""""""'"""
"""A very exciting book called """"""""The Secret Battle"""""""" by APH.  It is about the last war, and is rather pathetic in parts.  I really oughtn't to be reading fiction these days but I really can't start revising yet'."""
"""""""""""Nippon knows no class or racial distinctions which were so hateful under the British"""""""", says a leader in """"""""The Syonan Sinbun"""""""". Yet a railway notice in the paper says, """"""""Owing to current exigencies, first-class tickets will only be issued to certain specified people"""""""". Well, well! We never descended to that.'"""
"""""""""""The Syonan Sinbun"""""""" leader is quite amusing; it tells the people how changed things are for them compared with a year ago and adds in brackets """"""""for the better"""""""" - in case there should be some misapprehension!'"""
"""""""""""The Syonan Sinbun"""""""" reports that the museum authorities in Singapore are busy translating all the thousands of explanatory data from English to Nippon-go. English is to be done away with!'"""
"""""""""""The Syonan Sinbun"""""""" says a cable from Lisbon on July 22nd reported the arrival in London of 20,000 postcards and letters from the Pacific Theatre. I hope ours are amongst them.'"""
"""Forbes has three postcards; one marked """"""""Try Singapore, then Batavia"""""""". This shows there must be internees in Batavia and gives me some hope that Nora may be there, although I don't think much of the chance.'"""
"""Before the meeting, Larkin had no detailed knowledge of Watkins's work - what he had read, including the newly published """"""""Ballad of the Mari Lwyd"""""""", seemed to him too full of symbols, too arty, too removed from the recognizably modern world described by Auden.'"""
"""Very neatly put is this from """"""""The Syonan Sinbun"""""""": """"""""With the return of warm weather, the submarine threat has become a burning question.""""""""'"""
"""Am reading """"""""The house in Dormer Forest"""""""" by Mary Webb; it has such a lovely cover that I must try and get it, but I think it's the only one of Mary W's books I'll like, as I tried """"""""Precious Bane"""""""" and hated it after the 2nd page.'"""
"""Am reading """"""""The house in Dormer Forest"""""""" by Mary Webb; it has such a lovely cover that I must try and get it, but I think it's the only one of Mary W's books I'll like, as I tried """"""""Precious Bane"""""""" and hated it after the 2nd page.'"""
"""Read most of day.  I am reading """"""""Dandelion Days"""""""", and love it.  I must get some more of the Henry Williamson books.'"""
"""""""""""The Syonan Sinbun"""""""", under the heading """"""""No Room for Criminals"""""""", reports on the new regime's effective campaign against crime.'"""
"""I am reading """"""""Peter Abelard"""""""" ...[it's] a wonderful book and not at all hard to read.  I have nearly finished it now.  Wish I hadn't!'"""
"""[alone in the sick bay] 'Read """"""""Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde"""""""", as I always do when in the sick room.'"""
"""A notice in """"""""The Syonan Sinbun"""""""" again calls upon all owners of short-wave wireless sets to hand them over for conversion to medium wave only, """"""""failing which punishment shall be meted out accordingly"""""""".'"""
"""During the interval of waiting, my mind dwelt on the evidences of his mental development during recent months; the many drawings and poems which he had sent us; his enthusiasm for Blake's """"""""Book of Urizen"""""""", my latest Christmas gift; and finally a letter written at Easter telling me how much he wanted to come home.'"""
"""Both Tuesday and Wednesday editions of """"""""The Syonan Sinbun"""""""" have bits cut out - one-and-a-half columns then one column.'"""
"""Sunday 3 October. I am reading """"""""A Room of One's Own"""""""". Most delightful and profound - if I had the time I would write an essay about life in the WRNS'"""
"""I am reading with intense interest the government blue book of documents prior to the outbreak of war on September 3rd, 1939 - four years ago. And the most pessimistic prognostications as to the world scope of the war and the wholesale destruction have been fulfilled. But it is strongly heartening to read this book.'"""
"""I receive two letters - one (undated) from Nellie [Tom's eldest sister] in Australia and the other from Amy Hallom in Lancaster, dated 19.7.1942. Both think Nora is here with me. [summarises content of letters]'"""
"""[alone in the sick bay] 'Read """"""""Old Man's Birthday""""""""."""
"""Texts from which passages transcribed at length in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1942-1943) include Marcel Proust, Le Temps Retrouve."""
"""Passages transcribed in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1943) include reflections on Australia from Charles Darwin's Voyage of the Beagle."""
"""Passages transcribed in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1943) include anecdote about Boer prisoners and their guards being found asleep together, with Allenby's remark 'that will do more to end this stupid war than anything else,' from A. P. Wavell, Allenby: Soldier and Statesman."""
"""La Silence de la Mer by """"""""Vercors"""""""" (Schlumberger?) was given me by Raymond Mortimer yesterday and read without much admiration though with plenty of sympathy: published secretly under the Nazis in France. Read also too slow a story by Giono of the coming of Pan: it quickens at the end where human beings and animals dance together, with regrettable results [...] Read too in Illusions Perdues [...] and in Gide's Journal [...] Gide aroused my envy by reading, reading, but if I kept a journal I too should appear to have read, read a lot.'"""
"""La Silence de la Mer by """"""""Vercors"""""""" (Schlumberger?) was given me by Raymond Mortimer yesterday and read without much admiration though with plenty of sympathy: published secretly under the Nazis in France. Read also too slow a story by Giono of the coming of Pan: it quickens at the end where human beings and animals dance together, with regrettable results [...] Read too in Illusions Perdues [...] and in Gide's Journal [...] Gide aroused my envy by reading, reading, but if I kept a journal I too should appear to have read, read a lot.'"""
"""La Silence de la Mer by """"""""Vercors"""""""" (Schlumberger?) was given me by Raymond Mortimer yesterday and read without much admiration though with plenty of sympathy: published secretly under the Nazis in France. Read also too slow a story by Giono of the coming of Pan: it quickens at the end where human beings and animals dance together, with regrettable results [...] Read too in Illusions Perdues [...] and in Gide's Journal [...] Gide aroused my envy by reading, reading, but if I kept a journal I too should appear to have read, read a lot.'"""
"""In 1943, soon after Britain adopted """"""""obliteration"""""""" as a policy, an article in the """"""""Times"""""""" reported that """"""""the German home front morale had grown stronger""""""""; bombing """"""""united"""""""" and """"""""stiffened"""""""" the German people just as the Nazi Blitzkrieg in 1940 had united and stiffened the British.'"""
"""In the dimness I had missed - how could I have done! - a few lines of crabbed writing at the very top of the paper, separated from those below by a blank space and a thick black line. Under a heading """"""""The following were judged worthy of Distinction"""""""", were three names; mine was there.'"""
"""I am reading a lovely book """"""""And so to Bath"""""""" by Cecil Roberts.  I must try to get it at home next hols.'"""
"""There is an appeal in """"""""The Syonan Sinbun"""""""" to stop the black-marketeering in drugs. Quinine is available at five cents per tablet - """"""""a price well within reach of the poor"""""""". In the bad old days of British rule, the said poor got it for nothing.'"""
"""At the end of October, a paragraph by the """"""""Daily Mail"""""""" Correspondent in Lisbon """"""""revealed"""""""" the peril which she and her fellow evacuees were fortunate to survive.'"""
"""That autumn a friend sent me a booklet entitled """"""""The Bases of Civilisation"""""""", by Dr. G. S. Spinks, one-time editor of the """"""""Hibbert Journal"""""""".  Reading it I found some sentences which, in the Quaker phrase, """"""""spoke to my condition"""""""".'"""
"""[alone in the sick bay] 'Read """"""""Ego 5"""""""", which is super.'"""
"""I finish reading the 1942 diary of R.J.H.S. (another internee). It is an intensely personal document totally unlike mine, though we live under precisely similar conditions and environments.' """
"""[symptoms of depression include] 'Outward signs: maniacal reading, either pure escapism or... the search for the magic word.'"""
"""One is driven back to the Gospels and one does not know how to interpret them' [writing of her desire to understand the nature of Catholicism]"""
"""With nothing else to do, the library queue has grown beyond all bounds. It took me an hour yesterday to get """"""""The Silk Stocking Murders"""""""" by A. Berkeley - quite a good detective yarn.'"""
"""[alone in the sick bay] 'Read """"""""Kidnapped"""""""".  Not up to much... Dr came and said I couldn't go down [into lessons] until Monday.  Damn.  Felt miserable. Read """"""""Trail of the Sandhill Stag"""""""" and tidied out the book cupboard.'"""
"""[alone in the sick bay] 'Read """"""""Kidnapped"""""""".  Not up to much... Dr came and said I couldn't go down [into lessons] until Monday.  Damn.  Felt miserable. Read """"""""Trail of the Sandhill Stag"""""""" and tidied out the book cupboard.'"""
"""Transcript of interview: 'And another one that I loved was when I had mumps and was in the san which had a very small library and I read Still She Wished for Company which was a ghost story. And I had a soft spot for Harrison Ainsworth, who wrote historical novels about the plague, and the fire of London and so forth. I had a strong sense of the macabre.  I loved Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights which I read when I was 15/16 and I was very interested in books on medical discoveries, medical research and so on.' """
"""Transcript of interview: 'And another one that I loved was when I had mumps and was in the san which had a very small library and I read Still She Wished for Company which was a ghost story. And I had a soft spot for Harrison Ainsworth, who wrote historical novels about the plague, and the fire of London and so forth. I had a strong sense of the macabre.  I loved Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights which I read when I was 15/16 and I was very interested in books on medical discoveries, medical research and so on.' """
"""I tried to finish """"""""The Three Saplings"""""""" [sic] by Mazo de la Roche but couldn't'."""
"""A note from Nic says that, if I send a coconut weekly, she will send sago pudding - very nice of her.'"""
"""I am reading volume four of """"""""Wonderful Britain"""""""". It is attractively illustrated, particularly to an interned exile. What attracts me specifically, apart from the pictures, are articles on things to see around London, Manchester and Sheffield - Wansdyke and Offa's dyke, the magic of the fens.'"""
"""""""""""The Syonan Sinbun"""""""" says: 'What were considered ridiculous prices a few months after the fall of Singapore are as nothing, compared to the prices obtaining today."""""""" What a confession! And we are told there is no inflation.'"""
"""A few letters are released today. I get my fifth and last - it is from Amy addressed to Nora at 24, Mount Rosie Road and dated July 19th. It contains no new news.'"""
"""Read and read """"""""Fame is the Spur"""""""" which is gorgeous.'"""
"""Another lovely book called """"""""The Story of San Michele"""""""".'"""
"""There is more censorship of the newspaper. It is cut about all over the place.'"""
"""Read """"""""Lorna Doone"""""""" and loved it.  Must try to get it next hols.'"""
"""Just before tea, I read the ballad """"""""Edward""""""""; of its kind, it is as great a poem as """"""""The Wife of Usher's Well""""""""; there is the imprint of a fine artist upon this ballad, as the form of the verses in itself reveals.'"""
"""I read a lot of """"""""Farewell Victoria""""""""'."""
"""I have almost finished """"""""The Surgeon's Log"""""""".  The first fiction book of this term!'"""
"""""""""""The Syonan Sinbun"""""""" reports a speech made by Colonel Okabo to a meeting of Mohammedan delegates. He tells them to warn the population against the lying and malicious propaganda of the British and Americans about retaking this part of the world.'"""
"""""""""""The Syonan Sinbun"""""""" reports Tokyo as saying that """"""""the maltreatment and petty annoyances to which Nipponese internees are subjected in Great Britain and the USA are in sharp contrast to the warm, sympathetic treatment extended by the Nipponese to enemy nationals and prisoners of war."""""""" Why put this sort of rubbish in the local paper, when the inhabitants know quite well how WE have been treated?'"""
"""Read all afternoon and evening, to parent's [sic] disgust but my delight.  Pub. Lib. books.'"""
"""I finished The Hotel in Brooks's — not a good novel, although Eddy recommends it.'"""
"""I finished The Hotel in Brooks's &mdash; not a good novel, although Eddy recommends it."""
"""I am reading """"""""Tom's Brown's Schooldays"""""""", which is awfully nice.' """
"""Reading """"""""Forbidden Journey"""""""" written by Ella Maillart in 1936, I am interest in her remarks about our friend, the enemy: """"""""Once again, I saw the military supreme, not only over civilians of their own country who often have different ideas, but also over the natives who are full of hatred for their brutal masters...""""""""'"""
"""Revised all day and was really sick of it.  Got very stale & ended up by reading """"""""Alice in Wonderland""""""""! Much more refreshing than O.T.'"""
"""Am reading """"""""King's Nurse, Beggar's Nurse"""""""", which is really glorious.'"""
"""Read lovely book: """"""""Cold Comfort Farm""""""""'."""
"""Spent morning shopping and in Pub. Library.  Got 2 lovely books and read """"""""Lottie Dundass"""""""" all afternoon and """"""""Provincial Lady in America"""""""" in evening.'"""
"""Spent morning shopping and in Pub. Library.  Got 2 lovely books and read """"""""Lottie Dundass"""""""" all afternoon and """"""""Provincial Lady in America"""""""" in evening.'"""
"""Today I finished """"""""Wuthering Heights"""""""" and began """"""""Villette"""""""".  I must try and get a set of the Bronte books as soon as I can - they are most refreshing and not a bit old fashioned as they ought to be.'"""
"""Today I finished """"""""Wuthering Heights"""""""" and began """"""""Villette"""""""".  I must try and get a set of the Bronte books as soon as I can - they are most refreshing and not a bit old fashioned as they ought to be.'"""
"""English at the moment is super - we are doing the history of drama, and Hazlitt, both most interesting.'"""
"""Of course I was much in love with you then, in a very young and (also) uninformed way; it was young and fresh like Greek poetry, (I have just been reading some translations from the Greek  Anthology), but it was like a spring then, like the mountain springs we used to drink from in Persia; but now it is like a deep deep lake which can never dry up.'"""
"""Am reading, at long last, """"""""Early Stages"""""""" by John Gielgud.'"""
"""[Muir] wrote to Stephen Spender in the summer of 1944 that Bowra's book had made him realise that he had been writing symbolist poetry himself for years without realising it. He added: """"""""He inspired me to write one deliberately, which I enclose"""""""".'"""
"""Pouring wet day, so I read the Chartreuse de Parme, and revelled in it.'"""
"""As I read the """"""""New Yorker"""""""" article (getting more and more indignant) I thought, """"""""This man, although he is saying some exceedingly foolish things, is a man of intelligence who also writes very well."""""""" '"""
"""Am reading """"""""Uncle Tom's Cabin"""""""", which is glorious, but very sad.  I cried buckets and buckets!"""""""""""
"""Finished """"""""Villette"""""""", and went fast asleep on couch.'"""
"""Read """"""""Have His Carcase"""""""".  Will be the last fiction I'll read at weekends till after exams, worse luck.  Am beginning revision to-morrow.'"""
"""Didn't do much work as was reading """"""""The Killer and the Slain"""""""", which I don't like much as it's very sordid and morbid.'"""
"""Read Shaw, which is wonderful, but I'm sure I don't understand half of it.'"""
"""All day I read and finished Rosamond Lehmann's novel, The Ballad and the Source, which Logan P.-S. thinks the best novel since Henry James. I daresay he is right and I am immensly impressed. My only criticisms are that the story is told in dialogue, and I do not think that a child of 10 to 14 should be the channel through which a terrible drama is unfolded. Nevertheless, what a story!'"""
"""Finished reading Mansfield Park, which more than ever convinces me that Jane Austen is trivial, facetious and commonplace.'"""
"""During the second week of the battle, a Letter reader sent me from that day's Evening News a clipping which contained only two headlines:  CHILDREN SEE GERMANS DIE.  """"""""C'est bon,"""""""" they say.  """"""""C'est bon.""""""""'"""
"""Passages in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1944) include description of domestic life from Charles Waterton, Wanderings in South America, accompanied by comment 'His stupid obscene cruelty to the reptiles out there displeases me.'"""
"""Passages in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1944-45) include account of Ancient Egyptian burial customs, as discovered by later explorers, from Samuel Henley's Appendix to Edward Daniel Clarke, 'The Tomb of Alexander' (1805). Underneath, Forster notes: 'This is the first entry I have made since the death of my mother, today three months in her grave.'"""
"""The """"""""New Statesman"""""""" described the exponents of this policy as """"""""Bitterenders""""""""; their high priest was Lord Vansittart, whose propaganda seemed guaranteed to defeat the struggling German Resistance movement.'"""
"""It is equally possible for the same reader to adopt different frames for the same story, relishing it on one level while seeing through the claptrap on another. In his youth Aneurin Bevan enjoyed the Magnet and Gem surreptitiously (his father forbade them) and devoured H. Rider Haggard at the Tredegar Workmen's Institute Library. But during the 'Phoney War' he lambasted the government's stupidly optimistic predictions in precisely the same terms: """"""""Immediately on the outbreak of war, England was given over to the mental level of the Boys' Own Paper and the Magnet..."""""""" In 1944 Bevan freely admitted that """"""""William le Queux, John Buchan and Phillips Oppenheim have always been favourites of ours in our off-moments. Part of their charm lies in their juvenile attitude"""""""".'"""
"""It is equally possible for the same reader to adopt different frames for the same story, relishing it on one level while seeing through the claptrap on another. In his youth Aneurin Bevan enjoyed the Magnet and Gem surreptitiously (his father forbade them) and devoured H. Rider Haggard at the Tredegar Workmen's Institute Library. But during the 'Phoney War' he lambasted the government's stupidly optimistic predictions in precisely the same terms: """"""""Immediately on the outbreak of war, England was given over to the mental level of the Boys' Own Paper and the Magnet..."""""""" In 1944 Bevan freely admitted that """"""""William le Queux, John Buchan and Phillips Oppenheim have always been favourites of ours in our off-moments. Part of their charm lies in their juvenile attitude"""""""".'"""
"""It is equally possible for the same reader to adopt different frames for the same story, relishing it on one level while seeing through the claptrap on another. In his youth Aneurin Bevan enjoyed the Magnet and Gem surreptitiously (his father forbade them) and devoured H. Rider Haggard at the Tredegar Workmen's Institute Library. But during the 'Phoney War' he lambasted the government's stupidly optimistic predictions in precisely the same terms: """"""""Immediately on the outbreak of war, England was given over to the mental level of the Boys' Own Paper and the Magnet..."""""""" In 1944 Bevan freely admitted that """"""""William le Queux, John Buchan and Phillips Oppenheim have always been favourites of ours in our off-moments. Part of their charm lies in their juvenile attitude"""""""".'"""
"""In the """"""""Left News"""""""" for July, 1944, Victor had also published a document from Underground France on the future of Germany.'"""
"""In the """"""""Left News"""""""" for July, 1944, Victor had also published a document from Underground France on the future of Germany.'"""
"""The more I read of theology, Church History, apologetics, philosophy, scripture interpretation, the more hopelessly at sea I find myself. I feel on firm ground with Walter H[ylton] and Dame Julian [of Norwich] and in the prayers of the Church.'"""
"""The more I read of theology, Church History, apologetics, philosophy, scripture interpretation, the more hopelessly at sea I find myself. I feel on firm ground with Walter H[ylton] and Dame Julian [of Norwich] and in the prayers of the Church.'"""
"""The more I read of theology, Church History, apologetics, philosophy, scripture interpretation, the more hopelessly at sea I find myself. I feel on firm ground with Walter H[ylton] and Dame Julian [of Norwich] and in the prayers of the Church.'"""
"""Gratifying letter from John Fossett: """"""""Very many thanks for two instalments of diary.  Joan and I derived hours of pleasure from reading it aloud to each other.  How we laughted about the Mulberry Tree. We passed it over to the RAF and how they enjoyed it. It seemed like being at home again as we lived through your experiences.'"""
"""Read """"""""Two Survived"""""""", the most amazing book, which is most exciting.'"""
"""Whole afternoon and evening of prep in which I (most regrettably) finished """"""""Roper's Row"""""""".'"""
"""Coming up to London on the morning of September 8th, I read with the same happiness as my neighbours a """"""""Daily Express"""""""" article by Duncan Sandys, M.P., the chairman of the War Cabinet committee on operational counter-measures against the flying bomb.'"""
"""Took the morning training from Euston to Carlisle, arriving at 4.30. Read Phineas Redeux all the way.'"""
"""Spent the day reading Lamb [for Higher School Certificate Eng. Lit].  Have decided that if I read an author each fortnight I might manage to finish (by February) """"""""The Age of Wordsworth""""""""'."""
"""Got up late for breakfast but felt so awful that Mary took my temperature which was over 100 and sent me straight back to bed, where I remained, dozing and reading — Trevelyan's Social History, just out, Fynes Moryson's Itinerary, Harrison's Elizabethan Times, and Sir John Reresby's Memoirs.'  """
"""""""""""Jeremy would always have fond memories of the Grange during the war years - throwing wet mud at cloth-caped gardener Tom Houghton; sneaking into the kitchen to spirit away cook Lily Knight's pies; bouncing on the trampoline in the circus tent set up on nearby Balsall Common and listening to bedtime stories from his much-loved nanny, Ellen Clifford, who was to be with the family for 53 years."""""""""""
"""Headmistress takes Evensong in school because the church could not be blacked out.  Instead of a sermon she read from books with a religious theme, e.g. """"""""The Other Wise Man"""""""", """"""""Who Moved the Stone?"""""""" and """"""""In the Steps of the Master"""""""", which we all enjoyed.'"""
"""Headmistress takes Evensong in school because the church could not be blacked out.  Instead of a sermon she read from books with a religious theme, e.g. """"""""The Other Wise Man"""""""", """"""""Who Moved the Stone?"""""""" and """"""""In the Steps of the Master"""""""", which we all enjoyed.'"""
"""Headmistress takes Evensong in school because the church could not be blacked out.  Instead of a sermon she read from books with a religious theme, e.g. """"""""The Other Wise Man"""""""", """"""""Who Moved the Stone?"""""""" and """"""""In the Steps of the Master"""""""", which we all enjoyed.'"""
"""Within the next few days I read a new Gollancz pamphlet, """"""""What Buchenwald Really Means"""""""".  """
"""[Three days after V.E. day] 'I finished the """"""""Antiquary"""""""" at last.  It's pretty awful, though quite exciting in patches.'"""
"""[In bed recovering from gastro-enteritis] 'I read """"""""Crowthers"""""""" all day, and loved it.'"""
"""I did """"""""The Knightes Tale"""""""" all my prep. time and like it'."""
"""Read """"""""Letters of People in Love"""""""".  Quite good.'"""
"""Finished """"""""The Knightes Tale"""""""" and am now embarking on """"""""Luria"""""""" - it's pretty awful."""""""""""
"""Finished """"""""The Knightes Tale"""""""" and am now embarking on """"""""Luria"""""""" - it's pretty awful."""""""""""
"""In the train I read the life of Matthew Bolton and James's indifferent little book on the Houses of Parliament. Very poor illustrations and it costs 15/-.'"""
"""As it was very hot I decided to pretend I had finished HSC [Higher School Certificate], and read Joad's book on Post War World, while drying my hair in the garden.'"""
"""I read """"""""Nine Tailors"""""""" all pm although I'd promised myself I'd work at night.  But it was a lovely evening and I lay in a secluded corner of the garden on my rug and although there was a high wind in the trees I was beautifully sheltered and warm.  No doubt I shall regret not working.'"""
"""Spent a very sleepy afternoon nodding over """"""""Midas""""""""'."""
"""Have become exceedingly interested in ants and bees, after today's Zoo lesson, and am reading up about them.  They are really amazing things.'"""
"""I read """"""""Hangman's Holiday"""""""" with great enjoyment.'"""
"""Today I spent ages trying to find a poem for Elocution [Grade 6 exam] in my special choice part.  At last I chose """"""""The Old Ships"""""""" by Flecker, which I think is one of the most beautiful poems I have ever read.'"""
"""Read """"""""Henry Brocken"""""""" all evening, as had finished prep.  It's enchanting.'"""
"""""""""""Nine Tailors"""""""" all evening.'"""
"""I read """"""""Strong Poison"""""""" all day and enjoyed it thoroughly.'"""
"""Slept all morning, then read quite a lot of """"""""Utopia"""""""" in afternoon, & really it is very interesting (once you get over the spelling), & he had some very advanced ideas.'"""
"""I have been reading Tennyson's """"""""Summer Evening"""""""", which is a lovely poem, full of pictures.'"""
"""Settled down to 3 hours solid slogging at """"""""Utopia"""""""", & got it read & notes begun.  Spent evening finishing """"""""England their England"""""""", which I loved - it's most clever & interesting.'"""
"""Settled down to 3 hours solid slogging at """"""""Utopia"""""""", & got it read & notes begun.  Spent evening finishing """"""""England their England"""""""", which I loved - it's most clever & interesting.'"""
"""I read Bradley on """"""""Hamlet"""""""" all day, and am in a greater muddle over it than I am over """"""""Antony and Cleo"""""""", if that is possible!'"""
"""Spent evening dancing, and reading Maeterlinck's """"""""Life of the Bee"""""""".'"""
"""[Sunday, on a bike picnic] 'It began to pour down just as B [unidentified] and I reached a barn... so we stayed there to eat, and curled up on rugs on mouldy straw, and I read """"""""Jerusalem under the High Priests""""""""!  Arrived in at 6:30 totally soaked! Maccy [later the cookery writer Jane Grigson] has a tiny book of Shakespeare's Sonnets which I must try and get - they are most lovely and very interesting and soothing.'"""
"""[Sunday, on a bike picnic] 'It began to pour down just as B [unidentified] and I reached a barn... so we stayed there to eat, and curled up on rugs on mouldy straw, and I read """"""""Jerusalem under the High Priests""""""""!  Arrived in at 6:30 totally soaked! Maccy [later the cookery writer Jane Grigson] has a tiny book of Shakespeare's Sonnets which I must try and get - they are most lovely and very interesting and soothing.'"""
"""I recalled Ruskin's words in the Preface to """"""""Sesame and Lilies"""""""": """"""""Let heart-sickness pass beyond a certain point and the heart loses its life for ever.""""""""'"""
"""[while in the sickroom with a bug] Today I felt heaps better, no temp, no aches, & felt less jellyish.  I read a lot, but only silly school stories, except one book, """"""""The House of Prayer"""""""", which was very good & well-written.'"""
"""[while in the sickroom with a bug] Today I felt heaps better, no temp, no aches, & felt less jellyish.  I read a lot, but only silly school stories, except one book, """"""""The House of Prayer"""""""", which was very good & well-written.'"""
"""Spent afternoon reading """"""""Twelfth Night""""""""... read more of """"""""England their England"""""""" which is a scream.'"""
"""Spent afternoon reading """"""""Twelfth Night""""""""... read more of """"""""England their England"""""""" which is a scream.'"""
"""I read quite a lot of the """"""""Antiquary"""""""" and felt quite virtuous.'"""
"""I'm reading Quiller Couch's """"""""Art of Writing"""""""", & am more & more convinced that he should be read by everyone compulsorily.  He hits the nail on the head.  Also """"""""Screwtape Letters"""""""", which should also be widely read, as are most revealing.  Feel less like working seriously this term, than reading widely.  Can't decide whether this is good or not, but shall not yield to impulses too greatly.'"""
"""I'm reading Quiller Couch's """"""""Art of Writing"""""""", & am more & more convinced that he should be read by everyone compulsorily.  He hits the nail on the head.  Also """"""""Screwtape Letters"""""""", which should also be widely read, as are most revealing.  Feel less like working seriously this term, than reading widely.  Can't decide whether this is good or not, but shall not yield to impulses too greatly.'"""
"""I read """"""""The Sun is My Undoing"""""""" - fast and very meaty. Intensely interesting - till 12 pm'."""
"""I finished """"""""The Conquered"""""""", and wrote to Uncle John, who sent me a really wizard book - 10/ - called """"""""People and Places""""""""'."""
"""I finished """"""""The Conquered"""""""", and wrote to Uncle John, who sent me a really wizard book - 10/ - called """"""""People and Places""""""""'."""
"""We read """"""""Paradise Lost"""""""" in Gen. English & I tried to look enthusiastic, but I really can't appreciate Milton.  He's so unreal and unalive.  I must try to read a lot of him and get over this.'"""
"""I read Flecker most of evening and am more and more convinced that his poetry is wonderful'."""
"""I finished reading """"""""The Rivals"""""""", and have embarked on Bradley's """"""""Shakespearean Tragedy""""""""'."""
"""I finished reading """"""""The Rivals"""""""", and have embarked on Bradley's """"""""Shakespearean Tragedy""""""""'."""
"""Spent most of the morning in bed reading Ibsen's """"""""Ghosts"""""""", which is a masterpiece, I think.'"""
"""Have begun """"""""Peter Abelard"""""""" again. I do love it, & can never leave it once I've begun.'"""
"""Read """"""""Dog Beneath the Skin"""""""", a most peculiar play.'"""
"""I started doing some easy Ovid and loved it.  He writes beautiful poety - [underline] when [end underline] I can understand it!'"""
"""Am reading """"""""By Greta Bridge"""""""" instead of the Milton I ought to be reading! But it is lovely, & very cleverly written & interesting.'"""
"""They could all, I thought, have been summed up by the glum description of barbarism in the book called """"""""Leviathan"""""""" by the seventeenth-century philosopher, Thomas Hobbes.'"""
"""I stayed up late reading """"""""The Gay Galliard"""""""" by Margaret Irwin, which is a lovely book.'"""
"""Reading """"""""The Jew of Malta"""""""", which in spite of critics is the most interesting of the plays I've read.'"""
"""The Bermant family arrived in Scotland when Chaim was eight: before his ninth birthday he had mastered enough English to read Beatrix Potter in the Mitchell Library. Her stories were not so alien to him as one might imagine: somehow the animal characters reminded him of the Latvian village from which he had come. Chaim soon became a fan of the Beano's Lord Snooty, an aristocrat who inexplicably consorted with a gang of working class kids: the strip fulfilled every schoolboy's fantasy of finding himself among wealthy people in a noble setting""""""""...[as] young Bermant... followed the progress of the Second World War on the Glasgow Herald and the Manchester Guardian [he felt a strong sense of British identity]. The war, the school, the boys' weeklies were all """"""""building up new obsessions to replace the old and drawing reassurance and pride from the Empire"""""""".'"""
"""The Bermant family arrived in Scotland when Chaim was eight: before his ninth birthday he had mastered enough English to read Beatrix Potter in the Mitchell Library. Her stories were not so alien to him as one might imagine: somehow the animal characters reminded him of the Latvian village from which he had come. Chaim soon became a fan of the Beano's Lord Snooty, an aristocrat who inexplicably consorted with a gang of working class kids: the strip fulfilled every schoolboy's fantasy of finding himself among wealthy people in a noble setting""""""""...[as] young Bermant... followed the progress of the Second World War on the Glasgow Herald and the Manchester Guardian [he felt a strong sense of British identity]. The war, the school, the boys' weeklies were all """"""""building up new obsessions to replace the old and drawing reassurance and pride from the Empire"""""""".'"""
"""The Bermant family arrived in Scotland when Chaim was eight: before his ninth birthday he had mastered enough English to read Beatrix Potter in the Mitchell Library. Her stories were not so alien to him as one might imagine: somehow the animal characters reminded him of the Latvian village from which he had come. Chaim soon became a fan of the Beano's Lord Snooty, an aristocrat who inexplicably consorted with a gang of working class kids: the strip fulfilled every schoolboy's fantasy of finding himself among wealthy people in a noble setting""""""""...[as] young Bermant... followed the progress of the Second World War on the Glasgow Herald and the Manchester Guardian [he felt a strong sense of British identity]. The war, the school, the boys' weeklies were all """"""""building up new obsessions to replace the old and drawing reassurance and pride from the Empire"""""""".'"""
"""After Stalingrad, [Bernard Kops] immersed himself in Russian literature. A GI dating his sister introduced him to Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson'."""
"""After Stalingrad, [Bernard Kops] immersed himself in Russian literature. A GI dating his sister introduced him to Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson'."""
"""After Stalingrad, [Bernard Kops] immersed himself in Russian literature. A GI dating his sister introduced him to Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson'."""
"""I read about one book per day.'"""
"""Passages in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1945) include extracts (on transience of pleasure in nature) from Ruskin's introduction to his notes on Turner drawings owned by him, and exhibited in 1878 at the Fine Art Society's London galleries."""
"""A letter in the """"""""Jewish Chronicle"""""""" subsequently assailed Victor for publishing and commending """"""""Above All Nations"""""""".'"""
"""More stimulating was the reading of Somerset Maugham's short novel, """"""""A Christmas Holiday"""""""".'"""
"""Several Norwegians spoke critically to me of John Steinbeck's recent novel, """"""""The Moon is Down"""""""".'"""
"""London hatter Frederick Willis asserted that [Frank Richards's stories in the Gem and Magnet] taught him to be """"""""very loyal"""""""" to the headmaster and teachers at his old Board school: """"""""We were great readers of school stories, from which we learnt that boys of the higher class boarding schools were courageous, honourable, and chivalrous, and steeped in the traditions of the school and loyalty to the country. We tried to mould our lives according to this formula. Needless to say, we fell very short... Nevertheless, the constant effort did us a lot of good"""""""".'"""
"""London hatter Frederick Willis asserted that [Frank Richards' stories in the Gem and Magnet] 'taught him to be """"""""very loyal"""""""" to the headmaster and teachers at his old Board school: """"""""We were great readers of school stories, from which we learnt that boys of the higher class boarding schools were courageous, honourable, and chivalrous, and steeped in the traditions of the school and loyalty to the country. We tried to mould our lives according to this formula. Needless to say, we fell very short... Nevertheless, the constant effort did us a lot of good"""""""".'"""
"""Transcript of interview: 'I don’t think there was anything that I wasn’t allowed to read. It was only when I went to school to boarding school and all my friends were reading Gone with the Wind, and my mother decided she would rather I didn’t read Gone with the Wind because of a very racy chapter where Melanie gives birth to a baby and she didn’t think that was suitable for me. I was thirteen or fourteen and I didn’t read it but I did read Vicky Baum’s Hotel Berlin which had a much worse scene where a woman gave birth in a rowing boat… I can’t think of anything that was actually banned at all. I read lots and lots of my father’s books and this was a book that I loved - Palgrave’s Golden Treasury [shows book]. My mother gave me this [shows book]. This is the one I learned to read on. This is the Water Babies. I remember sitting up in bed reading Mrs Be Done By As You Did and shouting out “I can read, I can read”! I was six.  I didn’t learn to read until quite late.'"""
"""Transcript of interview: 'He [her father] gave me a copy of Lou Wallis's Ben Hur in a slip case and I put in my diary which you’ll find there [points to MS diary] that I was very much enjoying it but that was completely untrue – I only read the first few pages and just couldn’t get into it  and it was still in its slip case when I think I gave it to a charity shop not very long ago!' """
"""Transcript of interview: 'The one [book] that I was given was Bernard Shaw. We went into a bookshop and my father said you can have any book you like which was very unwise because I plumped for the most expensive book in the shop which was 3 guineas, which was terrifically expensive when you think that someone got 2 pounds 3 shillings a week wage.'"""
"""Transcript of interview: 'The school library had a reasonably wide selection – we could take out one fiction and one non-fiction a week but the English teacher would vet them to see what we were taking out. There was a book called Anthony Adverse that fell open at a specific page because it had what we thought was a scene of terrifically kinky sex – I think actually that it was probably really very mild – just the woman was on top and we were very intrigued by it. I’m sure the English teacher had never read that.' """
"""Transcript of interview: 'We [Hilary and schoolfellows] used to recommend things to each other a lot, and we had crazes – Georgette Heyer, D.K. Broster, Cronin, Axel Munter, Hugh Walpole. And then there were F Brett Young and my own particular favourite Helen Waddell, Peter Abelard – I read that when I was about 15 and I read it almost every year for about 6 years afterwards. I loved it.'"""
"""Transcript of interview: 'We [Hilary and schoolfellows] used to recommend things to each other a lot, and we had crazes – Georgette Heyer, D.K. Broster, Cronin, Axel Munter, Hugh Walpole. And then there were F Brett Young and my own particular favourite Helen Waddell, Peter Abelard – I read that when I was about 15 and I read it almost every year for about 6 years afterwards. I loved it.'"""
"""Transcript of interview: 'We [Hilary and schoolfellows] used to recommend things to each other a lot, and we had crazes – Georgette Heyer, D.K. Broster, Cronin, Axel Munter, Hugh Walpole. And then there were F Brett Young and my own particular favourite Helen Waddell, Peter Abelard – I read that when I was about 15 and I read it almost every year for about 6 years afterwards. I loved it.'"""
"""Transcript of interview: 'We [Hilary and schoolfellows] used to recommend things to each other a lot, and we had crazes – Georgette Heyer, D.K. Broster, Cronin, Axel Munter, Hugh Walpole. And then there were F Brett Young and my own particular favourite Helen Waddell, Peter Abelard – I read that when I was about 15 and I read it almost every year for about 6 years afterwards. I loved it.'"""
"""Transcript of interview: 'We [Hilary and schoolfellows] used to recommend things to each other a lot, and we had crazes – Georgette Heyer, D.K. Broster, Cronin, Axel Munter, Hugh Walpole. And then there were F Brett Young and my own particular favourite Helen Waddell, Peter Abelard – I read that when I was about 15 and I read it almost every year for about 6 years afterwards. I loved it.'"""
"""Transcript of interview: 'We [Hilary and schoolfellows] used to recommend things to each other a lot, and we had crazes – Georgette Heyer, D.K. Broster, Cronin, Axel Munter, Hugh Walpole. And then there were F Brett Young and my own particular favourite Helen Waddell, Peter Abelard – I read that when I was about 15 and I read it almost every year for about 6 years afterwards. I loved it.'"""
"""Transcript of interview: 'We [Hilary and schoolfellows] used to recommend things to each other a lot, and we had crazes – Georgette Heyer, D.K. Broster, Cronin, Axel Munter, Hugh Walpole. And then there were F Brett Young and my own particular favourite Helen Waddell, Peter Abelard – I read that when I was about 15 and I read it almost every year for about 6 years afterwards. I loved it.'"""
"""Transcript of interview: 'And another one that I loved was when I had mumps and was in the san which had a very small library and I read Still She Wished for Company which was a ghost story. And I had a soft spot for Harrison Ainsworth, who wrote historical novels about the plague, and the fire of London and so forth. I had a strong sense of the macabre.  I loved Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights which I read when I was 15/16 and I was very interested in books on medical discoveries, medical research and so on.' """
"""Transcript of interview: 'And another one that I loved was when I had mumps and was in the san which had a very small library and I read Still She Wished for Company which was a ghost story. And I had a soft spot for Harrison Ainsworth, who wrote historical novels about the plague, and the fire of London and so forth. I had a strong sense of the macabre.  I loved Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights which I read when I was 15/16 and I was very interested in books on medical discoveries, medical research and so on.' """
"""Transcript of interview: 'And another one that I loved was when I had mumps and was in the san which had a very small library and I read Still She Wished for Company which was a ghost story. And I had a soft spot for Harrison Ainsworth, who wrote historical novels about the plague, and the fire of London and so forth. I had a strong sense of the macabre.  I loved Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights which I read when I was 15/16 and I was very interested in books on medical discoveries, medical research and so on.' """
"""Transcript of interview: 'My father introduced me to the Forsyte Saga and I read all of that.  Hunting Tower was the first John Buchan I read. John Dickson Carr – I loved his books.' """
"""Transcript of interview: 'My father introduced me to the Forsyte Saga and I read all of that.  Hunting Tower was the first John Buchan I read. John Dickson Carr – I loved his books.' """
"""Transcript of interview: 'My father introduced me to the Forsyte Saga and I read all of that.  Hunting Tower was the first John Buchan I read. John Dickson Carr – I loved his books.' """
"""Transcript of interview: 'They [parents] subscribed to magazines which I read. Picture Post was one. And the Illustrated London News and the Tatler and I used to chop them up when my parents had finished with them and cut out all the pictures of John Gielgud. The Women’s Journal was my mother’s favourite and I used to read the stories in that.'  """
"""Transcript of interview: 'They [parents] subscribed to magazines which I read. Picture Post was one. And the Illustrated London News and the Tatler and I used to chop them up when my parents had finished with them and cut out all the pictures of John Gielgud. The Women’s Journal was my mother’s favourite and I used to read the stories in that.'  """
"""Transcript of interview: 'They [parents] subscribed to magazines which I read. Picture Post was one. And the Illustrated London News and the Tatler and I used to chop them up when my parents had finished with them and cut out all the pictures of John Gielgud. The Women’s Journal was my mother’s favourite and I used to read the stories in that.'  """
"""Transcript of interview: 'They [parents] subscribed to magazines which I read. Picture Post was one. And the Illustrated London News and the Tatler and I used to chop them up when my parents had finished with them and cut out all the pictures of John Gielgud. The Women’s Journal was my mother’s favourite and I used to read the stories in that.'  """
"""Transcript of interview: 'There’s a bit in my diary about Forever Amber which was notorious. My mother surprisingly read it first and let me read it. But my great friend Jean’s mother dropped it in the incinerator.  Anyway, we all read Forever Amber which circulated round.'"""
"""Transcript of interview: 'What we did have in the common room was the Daily Telegraph, which I never read, except the racing results.' """
"""I revised """"""""Pericles"""""""" [for Elocution exam] and wrote notes on it.  It's a horrid play, completely unlikely but quite fast moving.'"""
"""Transcript of interview: 'She [mother] introduced me to Dornford Yates, and I devoured him when I was about 16.'"""
"""This morning I sat in the back garden roasting myself in the sun and reading Fiske Kimball's Rococo book.'"""
"""I did a lot of """"""""The Rivals"""""""", which I don't like a bit.  It has momentary flashes of wit, but otherwise it's awful.'"""
"""[on bike, visiting friends] 'Learnt """"""""Jabberwocky"""""""" on the way! Passers by must have thought me mad, book in one hand, bike handle in other, sailing down hill saying in loud voice """"""""Beware the Jabberwock, my son""""""""!'"""
"""Spent half an hour reading Flecker - he's wonderful'."""
"""Oh - a propos of that, I've been absolutely engaged by a book about Knole, in which Eddy is described as """"""""author and musician"""""""" and I am described as """"""""the wife of the Hon. Harold Nicolson C.M.G."""""""" '"""
"""Finished all my prep so indulged in a little fiction reading - """"""""The Headmistress"""""""" - very light & witty.'"""
"""Today I again indulged in reading & finished """"""""the H.M"""""""" & """"""""People's Gov"""""""".'"""
"""Today I again indulged in reading & finished """"""""the H.M"""""""" & """"""""People's Gov"""""""".'"""
"""I felt incapable of doing any Zoo [zoology preparation for mid-school exams] so read Flecker's poetry all night! Felt immensely cheered up by it, but very wicked!'"""