These are Lang’s leading articles from the Daily News, chosen by the novelist W. Pett Ridge. In a few pages each he writes of Scottish rivers in September, salmon-fishing, golf and winter sports, the art of dining and the art of shaving, human levitation, Thackeray’s drawings, American humour, Montaigne and the sins of people who borrow books.
Light, learned and quietly funny short essays from one of the most versatile Victorian men of letters. Download the free EPUB.