Dancing Senator
Pat Rogers, 7 November 1985
Memoirs of King George II: Vols I, II and III
by Horace Walpole, edited by John Brooke.
Yale, 248 pp., £65, June 1985,0 300 03197 1 Show More
by Horace Walpole, edited by John Brooke.
Yale, 248 pp., £65, June 1985,
“... With the irrelevant tidiness of an obsessive, Horace Walpole started his main series of memoirs in January 1751 – by one reckoning, the exact mid-point of the century. Actually he had already made one abortive stab with Memoirs from the Declaration of the War with Spain’, begun in 1746, now first published by John Brooke as an appendix to his edition ... ”