Of men and manners: the Englishman and his world; essays /

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Author / Creator:Feldberg, Katherine, 1897-1976, editor.
Uniform title:Wie der Engländer sich und die Welt sieht. English
Imprint:Coral Gables, Fla., University of Miami Press [©1970]
Description:xv, 240 pages illustrations 23 cm
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/3743081
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ISBN:0870241222
9780870241222
Notes:English essays, originally published as a collection, in German translation, under title: Wie der Engländer sich und die Welt sieht.
Includes bibliographical references.
Table of Contents:
  • England and the English.
  • The Gulf Stream and the Channel / Dorothy Sayers
  • The rhythm of English history / A.L. Rowse
  • On liberty / John Alfred Spender
  • Paying for patriotism / G.K. Chesterton
  • Fortitude / Hilaire Belloc
  • Refuge from nightmare / Gerald Gould
  • At home / Graham Greene
  • Humane education / George Sampson
  • Newspaper ideals / Charles Prestwich Scott
  • From Moses to Churchill.
  • Moses, the leader of a people / Winston Churchill
  • Confucius / Eden Phillpotts
  • A civilised man / Leonard Woolf
  • John Woolman, the Quaker / G.M. Trevelyan
  • A sidelight on Frederick the Great / Lytton Strachey
  • Terror and virtue / Anonymous
  • Bismarck's legacy / G.P. Gooch
  • Winston S. Churchill / Richard Church.
  • Literature and art.
  • The lost childhood / Graham Greene
  • Hamlet / T.S. Eliot
  • King Lear / Hilaire Belloc
  • Robinson Crusoe / Robert Lynd
  • The novels of Turgenev / Virginia Woolf
  • The Grand Inquisitor / D.H. Lawrence
  • The life of the Prodical Son / John Lehmann
  • The apotheosis of John Galsworthy / Ford Madox Ford
  • Thomas Mann / Cyril Connolly
  • The legacy of Germany in music and literature / Edward Charles Sackville-West
  • Orchestras tuning up / J.B. Priestley
  • Mozart, the unparalleled / Neville Cardus
  • Beethoven's centenary / George Bernard Shaw
  • Popular music / Aldous Huxley
  • The closed mind / Neville Cardus
  • Epilogue, from The sign of the fish / Peter Quennell
  • The best picture / Aldous Huxley
  • Kaleidoscope.
  • The enduring Italy / Charles Morgan
  • Flowery Tuscany / D.H. Lawrence
  • The solitary place / E.M. Forster
  • The pagan gown / Freya Stark
  • Burning leaves / John Galsworthy
  • The first fall of snow / Llewelyn Powys
  • Three peach stones / Ronald Duncan
  • A preface to A handbook of cookery, by Jessie Conrad / Joseph Conrad
  • Love and marriage / A.A. Milne
  • The blessings of Adam / C.E. Montague
  • The foot / Alice Meynell
  • The fragment / W. Somerset Maugham
  • Youth in disguise / J.B. Priestley
  • Flower shop in the night / Rose Macaulay.