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This noble exit from history's stage was written by Shakespeare for Thomas Cardinal Wolsey, one of the great Englishmen of his time. This biography, the first appropriate to the scope and splendor of Wolsey's career, makes excellent reading on three counts: it evokes the vast historic tide that submerged the Middle Ages in the frothy waters of the Renaissance; it tells a whodunit about who would rule England's roost; and it is a success story of a butcher's son who rose to highest honors in his country and his church only...
...Englishmen of his generation have sired so many eminent sons as the Right Honorable Isaac Foot, 77, onetime leader of Britain's Liberal Party. Son Dingle, 52, former chairman of the trust that runs the London Observer, was for 14 years a Liberal M.P., is now a prominent Laborite and an ornament of the British bar. Son Michael, 44, a former Labor M.P.. edits the Bevanite left-wing weekly Tribune. But most prominent of all the Foot sons at the moment is 50-year-old Sir Hugh, who, as Governor of Cyprus, has been energetically working to bring...
Coates is one of the gems in this glittering, endearing ensemble of eccentric Englishmen. Dame Edith Sitwell collected her eccentrics nearly 30 years ago, when she and her brothers Osbert and Sacheverell were daring moderns, and their father, Sir George Sitwell-not included in this book -was setting one of the most glorious examples of eccentricity in English history (he was an aristocrat with an almost Renaissance-like variety of interests, including the invention of a musical tooth-brush). English Eccentrics, now revised and expanded, is still as fresh, invigorating and delightful as on the day it was written...
...hills (opposite), and of old Rip's return after a 20-year sleep of enchantment to find his house silent and deserted (see overleaf), are as classic as the story. They have nothing in common with the works of the great French illustrator Gustave Dore, or with the Englishmen Cruikshank and Tenniel, except genius. In the U.S., no other illustrator ever achieved such a poignant mingling of psychological truth and natural mystery. Perhaps even more than Washington Irving's tale the pictures tell the weird swiftness of human life...
...monarchy embodies what might be called the residual stability of the national community, those values which are enduring beyond changes of politicians at 10 Downing Street or Westminster. Queen Elizabeth is a personification of the unspoken social contract Englishmen have made with each other over the centuries, the contract that preserves the continuity of the community and order despite political or economic or social differences. In the atavistic recesses of virtually every Briton's mind is the real, if irrational, sense that the Queen as a person is there, alert and ready with a cool, restraining hand, to protect...