THE COMIC ENGLISHMAN
“A continental friend of-., mine, describing a rather unufipal jppetijig of. men of soul in, some out-of-the-way cafe in an out-of-the-way town, remarked while enumerating .‘ those present : ‘and of course there was the usual comic Englishman,’ Potentially every Englishman, whatever his class or profession, is that comic one; and we may be just as well proud of him as a little anologetic He turns up in the most unlikely places, he astonishes the nations with his unawareness of his incongruity, he looks on at the most improbable scenes with the least possible emotion, and he seems to understand so little of what is going on.: Yet, years afterwards, or it may only be weeks, it will he revealed that, in his diary, or in a letter, or a book, or an article, that the comic Englishman—Crabb Robinson, Borrow, Samuel Butler and many others have lent him their names—will have given a penetrating account of the function which he seemed so little to understand, with a ‘desinvolture’ of which none of his continental friends would have been capable.”—Mr Orlo -"Williams in the “Cornhill Magazine.”
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Hokitika Guardian, 29 May 1930, Page 2
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186THE COMIC ENGLISHMAN Hokitika Guardian, 29 May 1930, Page 2
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