Tag Archives: irish
SAFETY FIRST
1931 SAFETY FIRSTBy ROBERT LYND “SAFETY First,” says General Seeley in Fear, and Be Slain, “is a vile motto.” There was surely never a more undeserved attack on a piece of ordinary common sense. No one, so far as I know, has ever attempted to exalt the motto into a golden rule. Ii is a saying […]
IN DEFENSE OF A MODERATELY HIGH BROW
May 19, 1923 IN DEFENSE OF A MODERATELY HIGH BROW By ROBERT LYND It is not at all easy to defend one’s tastes against people who read the books that everybody is reading. They are offended if one refuses to read the books; they are still more deeply offended if one reads them and […]
WRITING LETTERS by robert lynd
This essay appears in his book THE GREEN MAN (1928) New Statesman – Apr 12,1919 WRITING LETTERS It was announced during the week that Mr. J. M. Hogge, M.P., answers some 2,000 letters a week. His record is said to be 807 letters in three hours. Those of us who find it difficult to answer even […]
SPIES By ROBERT LYND
SPIES (1914)By ROBERT LYND EVERYBODY spies a spy in these days. People are told that the baker is a spy; it is whispered that he is poisoning the bread. The hairdresser, the watchmaker, the man in the “delicatessen” shop—everyone, in fact, who has a German name over his door—are all suspect in the same […]
BEARDS by robert lynd
New Statesman – July 18, 1914 BEARDS A FRENCH colonel has just sounded a rally in defence of hair on the face. Observing aconstant dwindling of the area of cultivation on the countenances of his subordinates, he has not only issued an order to govern their future conduct in this matter, but has seized […]
BIRDS (1915) By Katharine Tynan
The New Witness BIRDS (1915)By Katharine Tynan The long, low eighteenth-century house is swathed thickly in green, which affords cover for the starlings. Their queer, long, courting whistle went on through February and March—no chance of sleeping late of mornings—and now they are engaged in feeding their families. I do not know any […]
WHAT’S WRONG WITH IRELAND? by Robert Lynd
New Statesman – December 6, 1919 WHAT’S WRONG WITH IRELAND? IF anybody has any doubt as to whether Ireland is a nation, he need only look round and see the number of books that are written about it. These books are not, for the most part, about beauty-spots or openings for capital. They are […]
THE ENGLISH IN IRELAND: A COMEDY / BY ROBERT LYND
in the book “Ireland a nation” as THE ENGLISH IN IRELAND : A SCENE May 17, 1919 IRELAND marched for many generations under the green flag. It became an emblem of defeat and of compromise, however, even of humiliation, for the withholding of Home Rule affected the most moderate of Irishmen like the rebuff of a […]
ONCE UPON A TIME
June 1918 ONCE UPON A TIME By ROBERT LYND ACCORDING to William of Malmesbury, the day on which the Battle of Hastings was fought was a “fatal day to England.” One does not gather, however, that when the Normans landed at Pevensey they broke in upon an earthly Paradise. The English during this part […]
LADIES IN WAR-TIME
July 1916 LADIES IN WAR-TIMEBy ROBERT LYND LORD GRANVILLE himself is something of a shadow in the two large volumes of correspondence which bear his name. It is his mother and another lady who dominate the book with the reality of heroines in fiction. His mother, the Marchioness of Stafford, was a good […]
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