A Boswell of Baghdad - and other essays - PDF (1929) by E. V. Lucas

A Boswell of Baghdad - and other essays - PDF (1929) by E. V. Lucas

A Boswell of Baghdad, with diversions (1929) by E. V. Lucas essays : A Boswell of Baghdad The Dark Secret. The Scholar and the Pirate A Set of Three — A Revel in Gambogia The Misfire A Letter A Manor in the Air Rivalry A First Communion in the War Zone. The Ace of Diamonds The Reward of our Brother the Poilu . Except: Ibn Khallikan's Dictionary is as interesting as it is, not because its author had any remarkable instinct as a biographer or any gift of selection, but because if a man sets out to take account of everything, much human nature and a little excellence are bound to creep in. Curious and very entertaining work lies before me, or, to be more accurate, ramparts me, for it is in four ponderous volumes, capable, each, even in less powerful hands than those of the Great Lexicographer, of felling a bookseller. At these volumes, I have been sipping, beelike, at odd times for some years, and I now propose to yield some of the honey the season having become timely since the great majority …

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