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IN MY SOLITARY LIFE, by Augustus Hare; Allen and Unwin. English price, 25/-. ‘THE second volume. of Maicolm Barnes’s heroic abridgment of a vast Victorian biography sees Augustus Hare in the latter part of the century, successful, courted, lionised for his ghost stories or his knowledge of Italian antiquities, and as garrulous and self-con-tented as ever. Where he had formerly looked up to lords, these — especially dukes-are now the commonplace of his glittering existence, and it is to royalty that he most assiduously devotes his singular social talents. Nothing here really equals the account of his own childhood in The Years with Mother, but this volume, too, is richly studded (continued on next page)
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(continued from previous page) with anecdote, uncanny stories and travellers’ tales, reminding us again that the Victorian was eminently an
age of adventure.
David
Hall
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 29, Issue 732, 24 July 1953, Page 13
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143THE PEOPLED SOLITUDE New Zealand Listener, Volume 29, Issue 732, 24 July 1953, Page 13
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