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...friend or acquaintance of virtually all the great thinkers of his day, from Sir Christopher Wren to Sir Isaac Newton. In time he lost his estates, was reduced to living on handouts. He died hoping that some "Ingeniose and publick-spirited young Man" might one day "polish and compleat what I have delivered rough hewen." Aubrey confessed that his frank sketches contained things "that would raise a Blush in a young Virgin's cheeke," and urged the sewing-on of "some Figge-leaves...
...want to be taken for a San Franciscan," advises a new San Francisco guidebook, "dress conservatively, cling to the outside of cable cars, and make bad jokes about Los Angeles." Though Guidebook Author Herb Caen does not mention it, another sure sign of the Compleat San Franciscan is his addiction to the San Francisco Examiner's Columnist Herb Caen...
...years since it was published, Izaak Walton's The Compleat Angler has occupied a sure place as one of the most popular of English classics-and earned its author a reputation as one of the most genial of men. A onetime ironmonger, Walton wrote not for money but for pleasure, hoped each reader would share that pleasure and "that (if he be an honest Angler) the East wind may never blow when he goes a Fishing." But from Princeton University last week an ill wind did blow, setting many an honest angler to wondering whether their gentle idol...
...author. But its text had a distantly familiar ring. Says Princeton Professor Gerald Eades Bentley in his introduction to the Princeton University Library's republication of the book: "It would appear to me likely that Izaak Walton had taken his idea for the general structure of The Compleat Angler from The Arte of Angling...
...Compleat Handyman. In his home workshop, the compleat handyman usually starts out buying a little $25 utility drill to act as a portable sander, buffer and saw. If he wants to make furniture, he discovers he needs a bigger, stationary tool for ripsawing heavy pieces of wood, buys himself an arbor saw for $150. Next he wants a jointer for cutting precise corners, which costs him $130. Then he wants something to drill deep, accurate holes, and so buys a drill press for $100. As he graduates to fancier work, and starts putting intricate filigrees in his woodwork, he needs...