W Robertson Nicoll: 2 books

Hand-picked from several hundred letters from readers to Nicoll’s beloved British Weekly, and published under the pen-name Claudius Clear, this collection offers “Memories of Meredith,” “The Six Best Biographies,” “The Secret of Emerson,” “Was Thackeray a Cynic?,” “The Conversation...

He was not content to dwell in a world where the lines are drawn clear, where the sheep are separated from the goats. He would have a foot in both worlds, content to dwell neither wholly with the sheep nor wholly with the goats. No doubt his ruling interest was in ethical problems, and he could be...