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Walter Bagehot
August 6, 1914 issue

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This article focuses on the book "The Life of Walter Bagehot." The writing of English biography has fallen so predominantly into the hands of amateurs, addicted to padding and platitudes, that a proper norm of comparison scarcely exists. Judged thus, by comparison with the stream of amateur essays called biography, this work is excellent. But by any stricter norm of criticism it would have to be condemned pretty severely for its mass of irrelevant matter and its futile circumlocutions. The first six chapters are very long-drawn-out. There is an abrupt change for the better with the visit of journalist and economist Walter Bagehot to Paris in 1851.

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LIFE of Walter Bagehot, The (Book); BIOGRAPHY; BAGEHOT, Walter, 1826-1877; JOURNALISTS; BOOKS; ECONOMISTS
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