Published after Lord Redesdale’s death with an introduction by Edmund Gosse, this sequel to his popular Memories gathers the diplomat-scholar’s later pieces. He writes on a Buddhist retreat, on Buddha and St Francis, on the Paris Commune, on the legends of trees, on Queen Victoria and Maria Theresa, on the Wallace Collection and on the study of Russian.
Wide-ranging, cultivated essays from the man who wrote Tales of Old Japan. Download the free EPUB.