Fowler gathered more than a thousand facts that he thought every educated person ought to know, and explained them in the plainest English he could manage. The entries range from the mottoes of the Seven Sages of Greece and the wonders of the ancient and medieval worlds to common abbreviations and everyday science, all of it a snapshot of general knowledge in the early twentieth century.
A browser’s book of curiosities that shows what an American reader of 1913 was expected to know. Download the free EPUB.