Personalities; a selection from the writings of A.A. Baumann.
Title:
Personalities; a selection from the writings of A.A. Baumann.
Author:
Baumann, Arthur Anthony, 1856-1936.
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Publication Information:
London : Macmillan, 1936.
Physical Description:
xvi, 271 pages ; 19 cm
General Note:
"Foreword" signed: Humbert Wolfe.
Language:
English
Contents:
The Victorian tradition.--Private personalities: Portrait of a college friend [Armine Kent] Benjamin Jowett. Mr. "Jim" Lowther.--Political personalities: Lord Randolph Churchill. Lord Curzon. Sir Henry Fowler. Sir John Gorst. Henry Labouchere. Mr. Speaker Peel. The Marquis of Salisbury.--Literary personalities: Lord Chesterfield. An Irish triumvirate [Goldsmith, Burke and Sheridan] Anthony Trollope. Frank Harris.--Political impersonalities: Queen Victoria's middle years. Disraeli's meridian.--Tail-piece: Burke: the founder of conservatism.
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Book