FEW writers can have fluctuated more in critical esteem than Horace Walpole. To his own age he was a brilliant essayist and historian (the eighteenth century in general knew nothing of his ...
1. From his writing, Virginia Woolf called Horace Walpole “the best company in the world—the most amusing, the most intriguing—the strangest mixture of ape and Cupid that ever was.” Walpole, ...
HORACE WALPOLE (215pp.)—Wilmarth Sheldon Lewis—Pantheon ($6.50). If a man is the son of a Prime Minister, he has a very fair chance of getting somewhere himself. Indeed, if he shares his father’s ...
SEYMOUR DE HICCI has this to say in his English Collectors of Books and MSS, 1530-1930: “Although the library of Horace Walpole . . . contained some very valuable books and manuscripts, the interest ...
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TEHRAN- A Persian translation of English novelist Clara Reeve’s book “The Old English Baron” has recently been published by Qoqnus Publications in Tehran.
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