Weekly Review Volume 5; Devoted to the Consideration of Politics, of Social and Economic Tendencies, of History, Literature, and the Arts. Fabian Franklin
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Author: Fabian Franklin
Number of Pages: 252 pages
Published Date: 01 Mar 2012
Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com
Publication Country: Miami Fl, United States
Language: English
ISBN: 9781130443967
File size: 45 Mb
File Name: Weekly.Review.Volume.5;.Devoted.to.the.Consideration.of.Politics,.of.Social.and.Economic.Tendencies,.of.History,.Literature,.and.the.Arts.pdf
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Author: Fabian Franklin
Number of Pages: 252 pages
Published Date: 01 Mar 2012
Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com
Publication Country: Miami Fl, United States
Language: English
ISBN: 9781130443967
File size: 45 Mb
File Name: Weekly.Review.Volume.5;.Devoted.to.the.Consideration.of.Politics,.of.Social.and.Economic.Tendencies,.of.History,.Literature,.and.the.Arts.pdf
Download Link: Weekly Review Volume 5; Devoted to the Consideration of Politics, of Social and Economic Tendencies, of History, Literature, and the Arts
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1921 Excerpt: ...has, as a rule, been "officially" transmitted, but this author has none of the fetters of officialdom. He re-draws the lineaments of the traditional picture, that he may bring it nearer to what he judges the unvarnished truth, making it here and there just a little different, and--though each alteration taken by itself may be slight--the total effect is profoundly transformed. A turn has been given to the kaleidoscope, and the pattern rearranges itself, so that we seem to be looking at a different scene. We wonder what has been taken out, and what has been added, though sometimes the only change is in perspective. As Rabindranath Tagore says about Memory painting pictures upon a canvas, "it makes many a big thing small and many a small thing big." This somewhat arbitrary picking and choosing was beyond reproach in those short studies which Mr. Strachey collected in his earlier book, for these were avowedly essays. It is more open to objection when he gives us what looks like a systematic biography. But even here we are very much his debtors. We have one man's view of Queen Victoria and of some chief advisers of her long reign, a view based on thorough investigation, and developed with remarkable power in the sifting of documents. The lucidity with which the whole is presented, the clear-cut personalities of Queen, Prince, and Ministers, which seem to look out upon us from the page in unforgettable sharpness of outline; the persuasiveness with which the facts are marshaled to support the writer's interpretations of what happened; the epigrammatic terse ness which makes the reader catch his breath and turn over some sentence again and again in his mind, only to discover much more in it than at first met the eye--these and many other tokens...
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