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SELECTED LETTERS OF SYDNEY SMITH; Oxford University Press (World's Classics), English price 6/-. (CANON SYDNEY SMITH (17711845) has had few equals as a controversial writer. He allied a keen sense of absurdity and fun with great sincerity, clear judgment and impatience of entrenched injustice; qualities which probably prevented him from becoming a bishop under George IV. He espoused with ticular zeal and great effect movements to end the penal laws against Catholics, the oppression in Ireland, and the slave trade. He was a friend of most of the leading personalities of his day in England, and it is due to him as much as to anybody that the word "liberal" has a different significance in British countries than it has on the Continent. A new edition of selected letters in pocket form is welcome and a good investment.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 37, Issue 947, 4 October 1957, Page 17
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142TRUE LIBERAL New Zealand Listener, Volume 37, Issue 947, 4 October 1957, Page 17
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