the experience of reading in Britain, from 1450 to 1945...

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Josephine Mary Ward : Horace Blake

‘Our work and routine is still the same as ever. We are like the fielder who is put at long leg when a good batsman is at the wicket: not because the batsman will ever hit the ball there, but because, if the fielder in question were to be removed, he would. I have finished Horace Blake. It is a great pity that the authoress did not spend more time on it, for except in one or two chapters … the style is hardly equal to the theme. I found the book intensely interesting …Thanks also for the books. There are now enough to keep our Company Mess going for some time, as time for reading is nearly as limited as time for writing—but by no means quite as much so, because one is often free from duty but in a state in which output is an effort but absorption easy and delightful.’

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Hamilton Sorley      Print: Book

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