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...TIME, July 20, p. 55, col. 1, "Hatter's Castle," is the locution "independent as a hog...
...raised on a farm in a cold climate would use such a simile. Far from being independent, a hog "on ice" is the most helpless of creatures...
...hog TIME had in mind was dead...
Only old England could have produced him. In no other country could Sir Edmund William Gosse (1849-1928) have been at the same time so respectable and so successful. And few men even in England have added knighthood** to their grey hairs by pursuing to the end such a hog-calling as a literary critic's. Evan Charteris's biography, which lets Gosse's own letters do most of the work, gives a fair picture of this peripatetic, ponderous but proficient policeman of Parnassus...