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Sir--The recent letters on Mr. Arthur Bryant’s historical accuracy are interesting. Mr. Bryant’s judgments. are sometimes hasty and_ superficial and sometimes wrong. For example, he calls Fox "the irresponsible. Fox,’ without qualification, William Cobbett was a master of English prose, but to. Mr. Bryant it is
"the radical yeoman’s angry jargon." John Wilkes is the "disreputable John Wilkes . . . that tried champion of the populace’s right to do as it pleased." This of the man who, disreputable or not, was the very apostle of the liberty of the Press and of the freedom of the individual against a tyrannous executive. Mr. Bryant does not once refer to his notable achievements in establishing these liberties. Mr. Bryant’s works have some outstanding merits, but he is dangerous to swallow whole-a _ sort of modern Macaulay. An example is Chapter 3 of his Years of Endurance, 1793-1802, a lot of which is pure cant.
F. J.
FOOT
(Wellington).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 30, Issue 757, 22 January 1954, Page 15
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154"LILLIBURLERO" New Zealand Listener, Volume 30, Issue 757, 22 January 1954, Page 15
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