tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32570460.post341386754667015435..comments2024-03-13T07:34:24.149+00:00Comments on The Age of Uncertainty: The Age of the GentlemanSteerforthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07627936539372313828noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32570460.post-64047053077625616572009-08-02T15:47:03.671+00:002009-08-02T15:47:03.671+00:00Evelyn Waugh may have been insufferable and occasi...Evelyn Waugh may have been insufferable and occasionally cruel (the famous banana story doesn't show him in a good light), but 'A Handful of Dust' is one of the most compassionate and humane novels I've ever read.Steerforthhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07627936539372313828noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32570460.post-56855328073184101092009-07-25T04:02:01.804+00:002009-07-25T04:02:01.804+00:00Unremunerative though Keyes and de la Roche may be...Unremunerative though Keyes and de la Roche may be, they still have readers. They escape our fiction weeding at the library year after year. Keyes I can understand, as we are in the same Deep South here. I'm surprised that you find so many of her books in the UK. But how does de la Roche's Jalna series survive?<br /><br />I own a copy of Alec Waugh's "Hot Countries". It has fine woodcuts by Lynd Ward. Until I checked Wikipedia, I had no idea of his enormous output. Wikipedia tags him as a lesser Maugham, but I actually like him better than his insufferably snooty brother.Bretthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09389916070547430075noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32570460.post-33397210879280861852009-07-24T08:38:14.558+00:002009-07-24T08:38:14.558+00:00I love the stripey slippers!
I'd treat my cha...I love the stripey slippers!<br /><br />I'd treat my chauffer to some rather good gloves and a bodywarmer personally.<br /><br />You are right that life probably wasn't all that unless you happened to be of lucky birth like the gentlemen portrayed.<br /><br />The demise of a department store is always so sad though. Even watching 'Are You Being Served?' is unbearably sad in that it's about the obvious slow death of a once-thriving Edwardian department store who does not have the first clue how to move with the times and scares scores more customers away than it attracts.The Poet Laura-eatehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07779308486569849157noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32570460.post-66136904470587523652009-07-24T08:03:18.885+00:002009-07-24T08:03:18.885+00:00Thank you for this. Yes I had the full ten volumes...Thank you for this. Yes I had the full ten volumes in a dedicated book trough. I look forward to seeing what hatches from your giant chrysalis. Could it be a Swallowtail butterfly perhaps? Did you see my Jersey Tiger Moth? (Quite proud of it).Lucillehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14414527658216916537noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32570460.post-87805953895558076862009-07-23T21:42:35.287+00:002009-07-23T21:42:35.287+00:00Annabel, I will sell it. I'm just briefly savo...Annabel, I will sell it. I'm just briefly savouring its luxurious wares.<br /><br />James, ripped jeans are back in fashion (but not around the genital area, yet).<br /><br />Lucille, I was intereted to read this, from Wikipaedia:<br /><br />Arthur Mee 'was born on July 21, 1875, at Stapleford near Nottingham, England, to a modest family. As a boy he earned money from reading the reports of Parliament to a local blind man. He left school at 14 to join a local newspaper, where he became an editor by age 20. He contributed many non-fiction articles to magazines and joined the staff of The Daily Mail in 1898. He was made literary editor five years later.<br /><br />After publishing several books, in 1908 he began work on The Children's Encyclopaedia, which came out as a fortnightly magazine. The series was published and bound in eight volumes soon afterwards, and later expanded to ten volumes. After the success of the Encyclopædia, he started the Self-Educator, and then the first newspaper published for children, the weekly The Children's Newspaper, which was published until 1965.<br /><br />Although he made money from these works, he did not receive a fair share.[1] He had a large house built overlooking the hills near Eynsford in Kent. Its development from design to the final building was depicted in later editions of The Children's Encyclopedia.<br /><br />Mee had one child, but, despite his work, declared that he had no particular affinity with children. His works for them suggest that his interest was in trying to encourage the raising of a generation of patriotic and moral citizens. He came from a Baptist upbringing, and supported the temperance movement.'Steerforthhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07627936539372313828noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32570460.post-85398403853979746952009-07-23T19:26:55.125+00:002009-07-23T19:26:55.125+00:00I had a set of Arthur Mee's Children's Enc...I had a set of Arthur Mee's Children's Encyclopedias as my constant companion to help to while away the tedious hours of a childhood with only two TV channels (and really one of those was verboten). I had no idea he wrote anything else. Luckily. Thank God for The Bobbesy Twins. They knew how to live.Lucillehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14414527658216916537noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32570460.post-14114553173271808412009-07-23T02:03:33.655+00:002009-07-23T02:03:33.655+00:00Another wonderful post. As for the often rather gr...Another wonderful post. As for the often rather groovy clothes you've shown, you can't help suspecting a lot of them, if looked after, would still be in good shape today, as opposed to the shitty mass-produced stuff I'm currently wearing (says he who split open a pair of pants at work last week while trying to knee a door handle hard enough to open the door, instead of just putting down the boxes I was holding and doing it properly--I also found that electrical tape does not hold denim together very well).JRSMhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04430775461763521797noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32570460.post-12563560000260453202009-07-22T08:19:55.555+00:002009-07-22T08:19:55.555+00:00So what did you do with the catalogue? Surely it ...So what did you do with the catalogue? Surely it must have some value ...<br /><br />Mazo de la Roche - that name brings back memories of a long shelf of pink dust-jacketed novels that rarely seemed to move in the library I worked in as for my Saturday job in the late 1970s.Annabel Gaskellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12210341270502698508noreply@blogger.com