Word: aubrey
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...essay on "John Aubrey," the ale-and-gossip-loving antiquary of the seventeenth century, is written in that discriminative but easy style which has heretofore characterized Mr. Duffield's work of a corresponding nature. Copious extracts from Aubrey's papers and books are proportionately intermingled with choice bits of narrative and with original observations in such a manner as to make the reading of it a profitable pleasure...