Word: ryecroft
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...result is one of those leisurely English personal accounts that can fairly be set beside such classics as Naturalist Gilbert White's The Natural History of Selborne and Novelist George Gissing's The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft. Nan Fairbrother does not so much write as compose, in model sentences and paragraphs. She describes the natural world about her in fresh images, e.g., "The fir trees, seen from above, are as neat and composed as cats sitting by the fire in the circle of their tails." The change that has come over old rural England is made plain...
...being likened to James Joyce, they wondered how much of his doubly-translated book had come through the wash. To old-fashioned readers who could remember George Gissing, A Fugitive Crosses His Tracks seemed to have much less in common with Ulysses than with The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft...
...necessity for cut-and-dried drilling. Dr. Fuess believes that only an enthusiastic instructor can have an enthusiastic class; this, to be sure, is best proved by his own career as a teacher. His is the old idea of a scholar and a gentleman, a sort of Henry Ryecroft with an almost tender love and understanding of his books...
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