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...Conversations with Eckermann" is a Boswellian work in which the true personality of Goethe is presented by means of an assiduous recording of his conversations and actions on the part of the humble Eckermann. As in Boswell Eckermann consciously plays the fool at times in order to set off the admirable qualities of his subject. However he rarely intrudes his own personality into the work and the reader is left with a feeling of intimate acquaintance with the man Goethe. The republication of a long inaccessible volume on a man of such a rich and varied character as that...
...could look forward to the attentions which would be given to all the first-women-this-or-that. And she was no fool...
...British bulldog was waiting for us 'round the corner. How kind of them to let us know of the trap in time and what a fool of a governor to give the show away! When Von Spee was informed he laughed heartily, and we steamed off full speed in the opposite direction...
...Author. Henry Baerlein was born in Manchester, England, on April Fool's Day 55 years ago. A traveler by inclination, he knows especially well the Near East, Mexico, Spain, the republics of Central Europe. Credited with knowing more about Czechoslovakia than any other living Englishman, he has written several other books about it. Baerlein's travels have been largely "calm and peaceful," except in Mexico (where he collided with Yucatan authorities), Albania (where his linguistic excellence got him suspected as a Yugoslav spy, and where a man in Durazzo is still waiting to kill him). Other books...
...late Major William Austin Wadsworth, Master of the Genesee Valley Hounds. One of the best bits is from Major Wadsworth's A Bible: "Although you may be convinced that it improves wheat to ride over it, the opinion is not diffused or popular, and the fact that some fool has gone ahead is no excuse whatever. . . . Don't gallop after the fox by yourself. If you caught him alone he might bite you. Don't 'give tongue on a woodchuck. It will cause you humiliation. There is a difference in the tails...