All the Sad Sages
Ferdinand Mount: Bagehot, 6 February 2014
Memoirs of Walter Bagehot
by Frank Prochaska.
Yale, 207 pp., £18.99, August 2013,978 0 300 19554 5 Show More
by Frank Prochaska.
Yale, 207 pp., £18.99, August 2013,
“... few stray bons mots about the monarchy, some connection with the Economist (which keeps his memory green in the pseudonym of a regular columnist) – that is as much as most of us can dredge up. What precisely was he great as: essayist, critic, economist, political analyst? Well, not really any of them under a rigorous definition of those trades, but a bit of ... ”