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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...PRIVATE MEMOIRS AND CONFESSIONS OF A JUSTIFIED SINNER (230 pp.)-James Hogg-Chanficleer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Un-Christicm Soldier | 9/26/1949 | See Source »

...James Hogg (1770-1835), who was otherwise known in early Victorian times for his biography of Sir Walter Scott and two collections of Scottish ballads...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Un-Christicm Soldier | 9/26/1949 | See Source »

...literature; people forget it is there until some literary busybody begins nosing around, gets a staggering whiff, and cries for everybody to come see what he has dug up. This printing is only the second in more than a century, and the first ever made in the U.S. Yet Hogg's story is no mean satire; it might serve today as a text on the disease of pride; and above all it is one of the few horror stories in the language that really reaches the bottom of the well of evil...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Un-Christicm Soldier | 9/26/1949 | See Source »

...Admiralty flag. It grieves me to see the present dingy object every morning." And, as a final touch to the whole figure, there is the Churchill whose mind remembers Virgil when a bomb strikes London's Carlton Club, rendezvous of generations of Conservative politicians. Writes Churchill: "Mr. Quentin Hogg . . . carried his father, a former Lord Chancellor, on his shoulders from the wreck, as Aeneas had borne Pater Anchises from the ruins of Troy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Web & the Weaver | 4/25/1949 | See Source »

Amiable Arthur Greenwood, Labor's deputy leader, rose to defend the guillotine as "a new experiment resting on the authority of this House." Pink-cheeked Tory Quintin Hogg, looking like a bad-tempered baby, cried out: "Call it the Reichstag and be done with it." Greenwood thrust back: "I think all the potential Führers are on the other side...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: One Should Not Peel an Orange | 3/17/1947 | See Source »

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