The author of The New Republic recalls his Devonshire family and the rural poor around them, an indulgent private tutor, winter society at Torquay, Oxford in the days of Browning, Swinburne and Ruskin, and the great houses and political gatherings of late-Victorian London and the Scottish Highlands.
A shrewd conservative’s memoir of 1920, crowded with portraits of the Victorian great and good. Download the free EPUB.