'I have spent the day mostly in reading
Wellington's Army, by Oman, one of the most
interesting books I have read. I am awfully bucked
with it. The day has passed uneventfully, and there
is no news ...'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Dunlop Smith Print: Book
'No change, every bit as bad as yesterday, nothing
but rain and mist ... I wrote the rest of the
morning in my tent, and in the afternoon continued
reading Wellington's Army, and after tea I
had a talk with Sabira Magre ... Later I again
visited the kitchen, to learn how to make scones
... The evening has been spent in reading
Wellington's Army and various things in the
Oxford Book of Verse. I should have said
that either Kipling or Newbolt would have made a
better National Poet than Bridges, for, though
doubtless his verse is more faultless than theirs,
and is not the doggerel that much of their is, yet
it seems to lack life and spontaneity, and the
true spirit of a poet.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Dunlop Smith Print: Book
