“eustace m tillyard”

Malcolm Gladwell is the master of playful yet profound insight. His ability to see underneath the surface of the seemingly mundane taps into a fundamental human impulse: curiosity. From criminology to ketchup, job interviews to dog training, Gladwell takes everyday subjects and shows us surprising n... More

This small book has come out of an attempt to write a larger one on Shakespeare's Histories.... More

This is a perceptive and illuminating account of the background to, and range of, Shakespeare's comedy, fosucing principally upon the early plays. First published in 1965, it is written with Dr Tillyard's usual ranging curiosity, independence and brisk incisiveness. Dr Tillyard is primarily concerne... More

SIR THOMAS WYATT AN ELIZABETHAN GALLERY A series of notable Elizabethan books notably edited, with intro duction and notes both critical and textual. The better editions are on hand-made paper, excellently bound, numbered and signed. No. i COMPLAINTS. By EDMUND SPENSER. Edited by Professor W. L. REN... More

The object of this book is to show that there are many kinds of bodily quickness corresponding to mental quickness - that all are good; all needed alike by the body and the mind today more than ever; all tending to less ugliness, to less failure and depression everywhere; all to be acquired by pract... More

One of the main reasons which led Mr. Miles to write this book was that so many of his health pupils asked him how they could improve their powers of concentration and memory. He then collected various notes on the subject and has almost completed a book. The more he studied, the more he came to see... More

There is no universal panacea, no single and only avenue to complete health, though the past century has heard many a treatment called the universal and only avenue by various fanatical individuals or classes. "Fast," "Take no breakfast," "Eat slowly," "Breathe deeply," "Do strengthening exercises,"... More

Mr. Miles' object in this book is to suggest what he considers to be, for himself and therefore perhaps for many others, simpler and cheaper foods for health, brain work and exercise. He was led to publish his experiences because of the astonishing ignorance about everything to do with food on the p... More

The author hopes that this little book will lead many readers to observe and prove for themselves how accurate and undeviating are the workings of the spiritual world; and, further, he hopes that it will lead them to reflect and to realize that such a strictly mathematical world is the only one that... More

When so many people are pessimists, having little trust in man or God; when so many drift along lazily, or rush along madly hunting after a success of small importance (which, when achieved, proves to be failure), or yielding to the desire of a theory which shall offer us reasons for trust in God & ... More