uncensored celebrities
- Author: e t raymond
- Genre: Biographies
Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: MR. ASQUITH There are certain things that England does very well, and Mr. Asquith is one of them. One may quarrel with the stuff and the fashion; but given material and mode of treatment, malice itself cannot deny that the product in its own way is very perfect. If one had to express this eminent man in terms of chemistry, the chief symbols would stand for his native Yorkshire town and for Balliol and its famous master, that rather cynical instructor of budding statesmen, Dr. Jowett. Mr. Asquith may be called the Jowettate of Middleclassdom. The base of the compound is of course his own sterling English intelligence, weighty and acute, but rather prosaic; but its character has been profoundly modified by the culture of Oxford. Herbert Henry Asquith was born in 1852 at Morley, and almost his earliest recollection is of walking as a Sunday-school child in a local procession to celebrate the Crimean peace. Morley is one of those smaller towns of the West Riding which, while closely connected with the great seats of the staple industries, remain free from the cosmopolitan atmosphere of Leeds and Bradford, and conserve a strongly developed local consciousness. A town of little gra- ciousness of aspect, rather overweighted architecturally with Nonconformist chapels, it is hardly a spot to which the weary man of the world, qui mores hominum multorum vidit et urbes, returns lovingly in his old age. But there are many worse places a clever and ambitious youth of the middling class might choose to be born in. The village and the country town tend to stagnation; in great centres youth is apt to be stunned by the vastness of everything : the seeming futility of a duel between the immature individual and his environment has no doubt crushed many a young Londoner of good natural par...
all and sundry
- Author: e t raymond
- Genre: General
Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: PRESIDENT WILSON Every reader of romance knows that discouraging part of the story when the Unknown Knight is liquidated as a mystery, and not yet re-established as a going concern of human interest. We seem to have arrived at something like the same stage in the history of that very able and powerful personage w.ho is for the moment head of the singular form of monarchy known as the United States of America. President Wilson has not changed, but he seems changed, not so much because we see him from a different angle, as because we see him in a different atmosphere. Prospero is Prospero still, but his "so potent art" is no longer exerted to shake "the strong-based promontory," and "by the spurs pluck up the pine and cedar"; Prospero instead is busied in the practical politics of Milan and Napleson the whole, rather a descent for Prospero. Up to the Armistice President Wilson was a sort of Jupiter in his remote Olympus. He was not "careless of mankind"; mankind has never had a more conscientious guardian. But he did seem to survey mankind from a height, and contrived to let mankind know it. In going to Paris,however, Mr. Wilson came flat-footed to earth, and thereafter rather resembled Jupiter when he condescended to engage in the contentions of mortals; tripping up one hero, seizing the heel of another, shielding a third with his buckler, or invoking a general fog to cover the retreat of a fourth. It is inevitable that in such a rough-and-tumble, Jupiter must lose some morsel of his majesty. Olympus has no doubt its points as a place of residence, but it has one conspicuous disadvantage: one cannot go away for a change without people talking. A single week-end at the seaside will compromise your reputation as a divinity. It is, however, merely an inverted compliment to s... --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.
mr balfour a biography
- Author: e t raymond
- Genre: England
Originally published in 1920. This volume from the Cornell University Library's print collections was scanned on an APT BookScan and converted to JPG 2000 format by Kirtas Technologies. All titles scanned cover to cover and pages may include marks notations and other marginalia present in the original volume.
portraits of the nineties
- Author: e t raymond
- Genre: Essays
Originally published in 1921. This volume from the Cornell University Library's print collections was scanned on an APT BookScan and converted to JPG 2000 format by Kirtas Technologies. All titles scanned cover to cover and pages may include marks notations and other marginalia present in the original volume.
all sundry
- Author: e t raymond
- Genre: General
Originally published in 1919. This volume from the Cornell University Library's print collections was scanned on an APT BookScan and converted to JPG 2000 format by Kirtas Technologies. All titles scanned cover to cover and pages may include marks notations and other marginalia present in the original volume.
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