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William Stephen Raikes Hodson : Twelve Years of a Soldier's Life in India: Being Extracts from the Letters of the Late Major W.S.R. Hodson

One can say of the more reticent British that, as you come to know them, some are discovered and some are found out. My father was of those who are discovered. 'The Times' came to him regularly, and he had a small shelf of books which he read over and over, admitting a newcomer now and then, after much deliberation. The whole of George Borrow and of Charles Darwin, Hodson of Hodson's Horse, Buckle's 'History of Civilization', White's 'Selborne', Benvenuto Cellini, and Sismondi's Italian Republics are what I remember.

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Stark      Print: Book

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