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Binding: Hardcover
Oxford University Press
First Edition
1937
Pages: 408
Ex Library
Item Condition: This book includes the dust jacket. The dust jacket has a protective cover. The dust jacket has wear. The top inch of the spine of the dust jacket has been torn out. There are brown stains from tape inside and outside front and back cover of the book. Minimal pages have small spots. There are no torn pages. This book was a library book and has cardholder, stamp, and reference sticker.
"'A book of mental travel,' the testament of a man usually of action who has spent a long life not only on writing and study but on digging, editing, carpentry, cooking, small holding, fighting both literally and metaphorically and in every kind of intrigue that could advance what he considers to be the cause of good letters -- and particularly on running round the part of the world here treated and observing with disillusioned eyes politicians and public men of every type and shade. He deals with a certain erudition of most of the things that make for happiness of mankind -- cooking, reading, farming, fighting, the Fine Arts, the Stage -- how they all -- and particularly politicians -- should be handled if the civilization of the Mediterranean is to have any chance of continuing. It is, in short, a book of advice from a man of wide experience and a remarkable memory, who is without any illusions and no irons in any fire, to men of reason, good will and common sense who desire that the present tumults which overfill the world should be suppressed so that they can get on with their jobs in peace. There are passages of equal enthusiasm for the Greek Anthology, the Maison Carree, as for the sea foods of New Orleans or Marseilles, the paintings of Clouet, the military genius of Stonewall Jackson, the intensive cultural possibilities of the Tidewater and Piedmont districts of the Old Dominion and the climates of te countires that run round the world along the 40th North parallel."
