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Insight and Charm

Fay, Sidney B. | January 15, 1930 issue

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The article critically appraises the book "Lord Lansdowne: A Biography," by Lord Newton. Newton's charming biography of diplomat Lord Lansdowne is a joy to the casual reader no less than to the serious scholar. Any intelligent person will delight in the skill, the humor, and the sympathetic but independent attitude with which one British aristocrat has drawn the portrait of another great personality. The serious student of history and politics will admire Lord Newton's perfect acquaintance with the vast mass of documents now available on pre-war diplomacy.

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BOOKS & reading; LORD Lansdowne: A Biography (Book); NEWTON, Lord; BIOGRAPHY; DIPLOMACY; PERSONALITY
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