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Although Chestertonian paradoxes are less frequent in his Autobiography than in the famed Father Brown stories, or The Man Who Was Thursday, they abound in his portraits of his contemporaries: Shaw, Wells, Belloc, Cunninghame Graham, Max Beerbohm, Sir James Barrie. Alternately scolding and admiring, he says that Shaw is no...
J. Henry Schroder & Co. is one of the "Big Three" of British private banking, sharing the title with Baring Bros, and N. M. Rothschild & Sons. Founded in 1804, Schroder always has Schroders as partners, now boasts the third and fourth generations of the family in Baron Bruno Schroder and his...
Professor C.H. Baring, Master's Residence: Wednesday, Thursday 5-6 o'clock.
DARBY AND JOAN - Maurice Baring - Knopf ($2). Superficially serene tale of an aristocratic Englishwoman, by the aristocratically serene English novelist.
(2 of 2) at this point. He studies Rousseau's influence on modern concepts of beauty, on modern ideals of human love, modern political theories, eventually concludes: "Rousseau stood, in opposition to our artificial and inharmonious civilisation, for the worth of life as a whole, the simple undivided rights...