Augustine Birrell, a barrister who later became a cabinet minister, writes light, epigrammatic essays on literature: the place of Carlyle, the alleged obscurity of Browning’s poetry, the hunting of truth, the art of actors, a rogue’s memoirs, the comfortable middle way and the immortal Falstaff.
Urbane, gently ironic essays that made Birrell’s name as a man of letters. Download the free EPUB.