MY ENGLAND EDWARD SHANKS Illustrated Jengage avec mon lecteur une conversation farmherej je lui soumets des idees et je le force a penser a son tour, pour me cornger et pour me completer GEORGES SOREL, La Rome du Mon-l Antique. FUNK WAGNALLS COMPANY NEW YORK AND LONDON 1938 COPYRIGHT, 1938, BY FUNK WAGNALLS COMPANY Printed in the United States of America First published April, 1938 Copyright Under the Articles of the Copyright Convent of the Pan-American Republics and the United State Contents CHAPTER TAGE PROLOGUE ...
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MY ENGLAND EDWARD SHANKS Illustrated Jengage avec mon lecteur une conversation farmherej je lui soumets des idees et je le force a penser a son tour, pour me cornger et pour me completer GEORGES SOREL, La Rome du Mon-l Antique. FUNK WAGNALLS COMPANY NEW YORK AND LONDON 1938 COPYRIGHT, 1938, BY FUNK WAGNALLS COMPANY Printed in the United States of America First published April, 1938 Copyright Under the Articles of the Copyright Convent of the Pan-American Republics and the United State Contents CHAPTER TAGE PROLOGUE EXPLANATORY, AUTOBIO GRAPHICAL AND APOLOGETIC . I I. THE MAKING OF A COUNTRY ... 8 II. ENGLAND OF THE POETS . . . . 38 III THE ENGLISH SCENE . . . . 6 1 IV. OUR INSTITUTIONS 82 V. LAW, ORDER, RELIGION, AND MORALITY . 130 VI. PRIVATE LIVES 173 VII. PLAYING FIELDS 215 VIII LONDON AND THE PROVINCES . . 242 IX. NEIGHBORS, FOREIGNERS, AND COUSINS 260 X. OMISSIONS AND PREDICTIONS . . .293 Illustrations The Houses of Parliament Frontispiece Figure from the Roman Villa at Bignor 24 Glastonbury Tor . 25 High and Over, Amersham .... 64 Dovers House, Campden ... 65 House of Commons Smoking Room . . 88 Stone Walls . . 89 Whitehall, London . . . no Lord Brampton . . . . 1 1 1 Robert Hernck . . .158 The Border . 159 W. G. Grace, Noted Cricketer . . .224 Center Court, Wimbledon .... 225 An English Sea, . . .288 The Long Mynd 289 MY ENGLAND PROLOGUE Explanatory, Autobiographical and Apologetic JL AM a typical Irishman, Mr. Shaw once said, my family comes from Hampshire. I am a typi cal Englishman my grandfather was a Lowland Scot He came to London, married a London woman and begot my father. My father married a woman whose blood was partly Cheshire and partly Westmorland and begot me. I wasborn in London and this is not typical of Englishmen today lived in the house in which I was born until my twenty-third year. I did not visit my grandfathers native country until I was thirty seven, when I found that I liked it a great deal better than I had expected to do. In the foregoing paragraph the word I oc curs nine times only once belonging to Mr. Shaw. But the insistence on the I is not made without deliberation. This book is called My England, and, if the reader is to make any sense of it, he must know from what point of view it is writ ten. I begin as I mean to go on. The word I will recur a good many times in the succeeding pages. But you must understand it as being used by an Englishman who happens to be an individ
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B & W Photographs, Maps and Illustrations. Very Good. Hard Cover. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Text block clean and tight; Book cover some faded and edge worn, spine faded and inside back cover is slightly torn from spine. In the prologue, the author states: "What follows I should like to be allowed to describe as an impersonal autobiography. I mean an autobiography in which as much emphasis as possible is placed on things seen and a little as possible on the person who has seen them." Thus, an overview of England by and Englander from a much gentler time in the world; Lacks dust jacket; 307pages, no index.
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Very Good. First edition. Very good Book yellowed on spine and on cover. Please Note: This book has been transferred to Between the Covers from another database and might not be described to our usual standards. Please inquire for more detailed condition information.
