Flirting
P.N. Furbank, 18 November 1982
The English World: History, Character and People
edited by Robert Blake.
Thames and Hudson, 268 pp., £14.95, September 1982,0 500 25083 9 Show More
edited by Robert Blake.
Thames and Hudson, 268 pp., £14.95, September 1982,
The English Gentleman: The Rise and Fall of an Ideal
by Philip Mason.
Deutsch, 240 pp., £9.95, September 1982,9780233974897 Show More
by Philip Mason.
Deutsch, 240 pp., £9.95, September 1982,
“... of Shelley and Byron, the inability to think logically of John Stuart Mill and Cardinal Newman and Lewis Carroll? No, it won’t do, and Orwell, for once, was talking through his hat – perhaps relaxing in what he considered an ‘English’ manner. It really seems, then, not quite proper that distinguished experts should have contributed to a volume entitled ... ”