The prodigious Connop Thirlwall.(Ryan)(Biography)

Quadrant | October 1, 2003| | Copyright

THIS HAS BEEN a dull, wet, bleak and dispiriting week in Victoria. So it might seem strange that I have selected for my "fill-in-a-few-spare-moments" reading a book entitled Primitiae; or Essays and Poems on Various Subjects, Religious, Moral and Entertaining. To help "cheerfulness break through", you might have expected me rather to be re-reading--say--Groucho Marx's hilarious autobiography Hello! I Must be Going, or Leo Rosten's The Return of Hyman Kaplan.

The book on the bedside table could not be more different, though its physical aspect is full of sensuous ...

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