BEYOND BOSWELL
DR. JOHNSON AND COMPANY. By Robert Lynd. Penguin Books, LTHOUGH its purpose is to present in a short space a well-proportioned picture of a man drawn from all sources, this short biography of Dr. Samuel Johnson also embraces studies of his friends, early and late. And it uses a good deal of material not treated in There is an excellent assessment of the character and attainments of that pleasant, talented, and outrageous bounder himself ("Boswell, in all his amusing love-affairs, was not only a man who kissed and told, but a man to whom telling gave a deeper and more lasting pleasure than kissing.’’) Like Boswell, Robert Lynd is not an uncritical admirer of the most successful and imposing of literary dictators; but he in some degree shares the affection of his contemporaries for this ugly mountain of a man with his wit and his melancholia, his charm and his brutality, his laziness and his learning. Robert Lynd is shrewd, observant, graceful and just, and this book makes one regret that he has for so long devoted so much of his energies to such an outmoded form as the essav.
David
Hall
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 15, Issue 390, 13 December 1946, Page 16
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194BEYOND BOSWELL New Zealand Listener, Volume 15, Issue 390, 13 December 1946, Page 16
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