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Gerald Moore

 

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J.W. Marriott : One Act Plays of Today

'Friday, 1st January, Completed my paper on Mazzini. Read: ?One Act Plays of today? 2nd vol. (Harrap) ?Autocrat of the Breakfast table? (O.W.Holmes).'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Gerald Moore      Print: Book

  

Rudyard Kipling : Plain Tales from the Hills

'Saturday, 2nd January, Letter from Neill at Grimsby, Ontario: no other address. Nothing for Mother. Read: ?Plain Tales from the Hills? (R.Kipling)'.

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Gerald Moore      Print: Book

  

Niccolo Machiavelli : History of Florence

'Thursday, 7th January, Offered Pat 19th January or 16th March for his friend?s lecture. Smith does not expect to leave for the Coast until about October. He expects to go with Adams. Read: ?History of Florence? ( Machiavelli)'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Gerald Moore      Print: Book

  

Belfort Bax : Essays on Socialism

'Saturday, 9th January, Mother tells me Hanley is to write a thesis on ?An Unemployed Man in January 1926?. Talking with Mother re Cambridge Economics. Advertising is not now purely a competitive weapon but is used mainly by the Monopolists to keep people reminded of their particular line of goods. Otherwise they might discover how much there is that they could very well do without. Read: ?Essays on Socialism? (Belfort Bax)'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Gerald Moore      Print: Book

  

J. Ramsay Macdonald : Socialism: Critical and Constructive

'Saturday, 16th January, Left letter at Beechcroft for Milligan re continuance of Discussion Group through the summer. Also re donation from Club and Mr. Milligan?s date on syllabus. Read ? ?Socialism: Critical and Constructive? (J.R. McDonald)'.

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Gerald Moore      Print: Book

  

Henrik Ibsen : Peer Gynt

'Wednesday, 27th January, Smith spoke of having wished to be a school master. He would like, even now, to get a bursary to Oxford or Cambridge. We talked of the difficulty which the universities are said to find in filling up these studentships. Smith ascribed it mainly to economic reasons, family demands, the insufficiency of the allowances etc? Why is it a constant of history that the older generation must fail to make provision for the changed requirements of the younger. Read - ?Peer Gynt? (Ibsen)'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Gerald Moore      Print: Book

  

Leonard Merrick : A Chair on the Boulevard

'Thursday,28th January, ?Peer Gynt? is good stuff. I hope the Beechcroft Players tackle it some time. Though I suppose it has been done too often. In any case Bensham have done it and Beechcroft must set the pace, not follow the lead. Read ? ?A chair on the Boulevard? (L. Merrick)'.

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Gerald Moore      Print: Book

  

Henrik Ibsen : Brand

'Friday, 29th January, I do not like ?Brand?. A religion that takes no account of actuality is no use to humanity. And, after all I think that religion was made for man, and not man made for religion. Christ is dead, and infinitely more use as a tradition than in life. Christ was not like Brand ? he pitied humanity. Brand is inclined, if not to sneer, at least, to treat with impatience the odd ways of man. Read - ?Brand? (Ibsen)'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Gerald Moore      Print: Book

  

unknown : [humorous poetry]

'Sunday, 31st January, Discussion group ? Readings from Humorous Poetry. A rubber of whist.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Gerald Moore      Print: Book

  

Isaac Walton : The Compleat Angler

'Wednesday, 3rd February, Reading ?The Compleat Angler? (I. Walton). This your real ?open air? book. It is so quaint and so nice in these shallow times that it is one long delight.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Gerald Moore      Print: Book

  

Robert Herrick : unknown

'Monday, 8th February, Gave the Anno Domini a miss. Tired. Reading Herrick. Also Oppenheim ?The Great Impersonation?. How efficiently this stuff is written. Exciting.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Gerald Moore      Print: Book

  

E. Phillips Oppenheim : The Great Impersonation

'Monday, 8th February, Gave the Anno Domini a miss. Tired. Reading Herrick. Also Oppenheim ?The Great Impersonation?. How efficiently this stuff is written. Exciting.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Gerald Moore      Print: Book

  

Herman Melville : Omoo

'Wednesday, 10th February, Wrote to Mr Robinson and to Mr. D. Paterson re lecture dates. Read ?Omoo? (Melville)'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Gerald Moore      Print: Book

  

Matthew Prior : Shorter Poems

'Thursday, 11th February, Spent evening at home . Edie painting poppy heads for someone. This modern idea may sound interesting in a few years ? when the fashion has passed. Elections in both Warbreck and Walton ? busy at Committee rooms. Read ? ?Shorter Poems? (Matthew Prior) I like the light epigrammatic stuff in this book, but I could not get wildly excited over it like Pat [George Eric Paterson, friend of Moore's] ? but then no one can emulate the wild abandon of Pat?s enthusiasms. In any case he certainly understands Matt. and his contemporaries better than I do.' [Matthew Prior, 1664-1721 - Poet, politician and diplomat. As ambassador to Paris negotiated the Treaty of Utrecht 1713, popularly known as 'Matt's peace'. Subsequently impeached and imprisoned. On release, his poems were published in 1717].

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Gerald Moore      Print: Book

  

Guy de Maupassant : Notre Coeur

'Saturday,13th February, Read ?Notre Coeur? (Guy de Maupassant)'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Gerald Moore      Print: Book

  

William Makepeace Thackeray : Barry Lindon

'Monday, 15th February, Thackeray?s descriptions of high life, and, more especially of army conditions, are magnificent. I would like to give a paper on this aspect of Thackeray?s writing, or, indeed, on this book. Wrote to Eric Barber re Scarborough Camp. Read - ?Barry Lindon? (W. M. Thackeray)'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Gerald Moore      Print: Book

  

Hilaire Belloc : Path to Rome

'Friday, 19th February, Last night?s meeting was a drawn battle. The ?wants? and the ?don?t wants? did an immense amount of talking, and were theatrical than they ever manage to be on stage. Milligan and Mother stuck their tongues in their cheeks and waited ? until a plan was formulated which while presenting some outward appearance of novelty will leave essentials much as they were. Read ? ?Path to Rome? (H. Belloc)'.

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Gerald Moore      Print: Book

  

Henry James : The American

'Sunday, 21st February, Discussion group ? nothing doing ? arrived late. Members busy with a game in which, with the help of a pin and a newspaper they lost or won pennies. Whisper it not in Gath ? I joined in and ? extreme of immorality ? lost ! Read ? ?The American? (Henry James)'.

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Gerald Moore      Print: Book

  

J.J. Bell : Thread o' Scarlet

'Sunday, 28th February, Discussion Group ? We read four plays from which we intend to choose our programme for the summer and next year: ? Thread o? Scarlet? (J. J. Bell) ? A night in the sun? (Dunsany) ? The Monkey?s Paw? (W. W. Jacobs) ?The rising of the moon? ( Lady Gregory) Read ? ?The Four Georges? (W. Thackeray)'.

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Gerald Moore      Print: Book

  

Dunsany : A Night in the Sun

'Sunday, 28th February, Discussion Group ? We read four plays from which we intend to choose our programme for the summer and next year: ? Thread o? Scarlet? (J. J. Bell) ? A night in the sun? (Dunsany) ? The Monkey?s Paw? (W. W. Jacobs) ?The rising of the moon? ( Lady Gregory) Read ? ?The Four Georges? (W. Thackeray)'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Gerald Moore      Print: Book

  

W.W. Jacobs : The Monkey's Paw

'Sunday, 28th February, Discussion Group ? We read four plays from which we intend to choose our programme for the summer and next year: ? Thread o? Scarlet? (J. J. Bell) ? A night in the sun? (Dunsany) ? The Monkey?s Paw? (W. W. Jacobs) ?The rising of the moon? ( Lady Gregory) Read ? ?The Four Georges? (W. Thackeray)'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Gerald Moore      Print: Book

  

Lady Gregory : The Rising of the Moon

'Sunday, 28th February, Discussion Group ? We read four plays from which we intend to choose our programme for the summer and next year: ? Thread o? Scarlet? (J. J. Bell) ? A night in the sun? (Dunsany) ? The Monkey?s Paw? (W. W. Jacobs) ?The rising of the moon? ( Lady Gregory) Read ? ?The Four Georges? (W. Thackeray)'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Gerald Moore      Print: Book

  

William Makepeace Thackeray : The Four Georges

'Sunday, 28th February, Discussion Group ? We read four plays from which we intend to choose our programme for the summer and next year: ? Thread o? Scarlet? (J. J. Bell) ? A night in the sun? (Dunsany) ? The Monkey?s Paw? (W. W. Jacobs) ?The rising of the moon? ( Lady Gregory) Read ? ?The Four Georges? (W. Thackeray)'.

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Gerald Moore      Print: Book

  

Villehardouin : Memoirs of the Crusades

'Tuesday, 2nd March, Club ? Mr Graham White?s lecture postponed. Members went into the Local History Society?s meeting, except the Committee which met to discuss entertaining activities. B. Lear and Will Evans are taking over the dramatics leaving Vin Roper and I to organise the Concert Party. Read ? ?Memories of the Crusades? (Villehardouin et Joinville)'.

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Gerald Moore      Print: Book

  

Oliver Wendell Holmes : The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table

'Friday, 5th March, I worked late tonight which allowed me to get in a nice little talk with Pat on the value of the classic books of criticism, as apart from their literary value. It was my opinion that in nearly all cases, as the minds of readers has evolved with the changing times so the light in which the classic must be viewed has altered and therefore old criticism must, in nearly every case be superseded. At least, as regards the ?human? as distinct from the literary element in the book. I feel that we cannot ever completely reconstruct the life of a past age or enter into the minds of people who lived in other times. Pat remarked that he was constantly struck by the little progress made in thought and the things of the mind. Read ? ?The Autocrat of the breakfast table? (O. W. Holmes).'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Gerald Moore      Print: Book

  

Rupert Brooke : Poems

'Monday, 8th March, Heavy day. Discussed the famous Parkin speech on Welsh sportsmanship, and the Glamorgan president?s reply. I think that such generalisations as that Nation is unsporting are merely vulgar exhibitions of sloppy thinking. Read ? ?Poems? (Rupert Brook)'.

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Gerald Moore      Print: Book

  

Jonathan Swift : Journal to Stella

'Tuesday, 9th March, Club ? ?Currency and Unemployment? - Arthur Robinson. The finest lecture of the year. Mr. Robinson gave an introductory explanation of money and credit, and then discussed the most important of the modern schools of Financial and Economist thought. His view, and the point of the lecture, was that a managed currency could be used alleviate, and perhaps cure, the present state of affairs ? the internal trade crisis and the principle problem ? unemployment. Smith off work today. Read ? ?Journal to Stella? (Swift)'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Gerald Moore      Print: Book

  

William Shakespeare : Hamlet

'Sunday, 14th March, Discussion Group ? ?Stunt? rehearsal. Also 1st rehearsal of ?Good Friday? which will draw half our members. Reading ?Hamlet" ? the first time I have read it with any attempt at real comprehension.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Gerald Moore      Print: Book

  

Jonathan Swift : Journal to Stella

'Wednesday, 17th March, Last rehearsal. Things are in trim now I think. I prepared the programme. I think it O. K. though the humour is hardly my line ? ?De Heiny and his Piccadilly Orchestra?, for example, as the Mayor?s name ? Mr. Bill Sticker? (a hit at R. P. Fletcher). The use of the stage trap as a tunnel entrance is an idea. Read ? ?Journal to Stella? (Swift).'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Gerald Moore      Print: Book

  

Hilaire Belloc : The Eye-Witness

'Monday, 22nd March, Read ? ?The eye ? witness? (H. Belloc).'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Gerald Moore      Print: Serial / periodical

  

Joseph Conrad : Almayer's Folly

'Wednesday, 24th March, Today would have been deadly dull but for the Lincoln. Queer how so many of us get caught up in these periodical excitements. I neither know anything or care anything about horse-racing, yet I was looking for a news-boy to know the winner within five minutes of it?s being run. Power of the Press. ?King of Clubs? 100 ? 1, with Donoghue ???? Preparing this evening for Club annual meeting. Read ? ?Almayer?s Folly? (J. Conrad) - Smith?s book. A dismal soul ? Conrad.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Gerald Moore      Print: Book

  

Alphonse Daudet : Tartarin sur les Alpes

'Sunday, 28th March, Discussion Group ? annual meeting. Read ? ?Tartarin sur les Alpes? (Daudet).'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Gerald Moore      Print: Book

  

Edmond Holmes : The Tragedy of Education

'Monday, 29th March, A 21st birthday party at the Roberts?. Pleaded illness and got off. My clothes will hardly do. Bought Ira ?Far from the Madding Crowd?. Wrote Adana people re printing press. Have decided on a course for the Club next year ? ?The English Historical Novel??a study of English history, manners and institutions. A lot can be done with this if the books are carefully chosen. Read -- ?the Tragedy of Education (Edmond Holmes)'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Gerald Moore      Print: Book

  

Honore de Balzac : La Peau de Chagrin

'Tuesday, 30th March, Club ? Annual meeting. All officers re-elected except Will Evans who stood down. The Players are taking up all his time. Bal. Lear takes his place. I look forward to a record year. We have adopted the course on the ?English Historical Novel? for our programme and intend to vary this on alternate weeks with single lectures, debates etc ? Read -- ?La Peau de Chagrin? etc, (Balzac)'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Gerald Moore      Print: Book

  

Robert Southey : Life of Nelson

'Friday, 2nd April, Walking over the Walton Hall Housing Estate. The spread of the city goes on apace. I find myself hoping that someday the grass will grow again over the site of so much ugliness. Talking of ugliness, nothing adds so much to its horror as monotony. Here are embryo slums, unless trees and gardens save them. Read ? ?The life of Nelson? (Southey)'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Gerald Moore      Print: Book

  

William Shakespeare : As you Like it

'Monday, 5th April, I am cast for Amieus in ?As you like it?. I was looking over my script today. Not very much but nice. ?Under the Greenwood Tree? and ?Blow, blow thou Winter Wind? are my songs. I shall enjoy it.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Gerald Moore      Print: Book

  

Daniel Defoe : Journal of the Plague Year

'Wednesday, 7th April, Spent the evening writing. Cutting my cigarettes to one if it has any bearing on my ill-health. Read ? ?Journal of the Plague Year? (Defoe)'.

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Gerald Moore      Print: Book

  

J.B. Priestley : Figures in Modern Literature

'Saturday, 11th April, Mother is still rather poorly. Dad has been before the beaks ! Short weight. The unchanging Dad. Clean forgets to send the wagon over the weighing machine. He was stopped before he had sold anything. Hard lines on the good old family name. The joke would have been complete if mother had been on the bench. Read ? ?Figures in Modern Literature? (J. B. Priestley)'.

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Gerald Moore      Print: Book

  

William Makepeace Thackeray : English Humourists of the Eighteenth Century

'Tuesday, 13th April, Madge intending to call, decided to go to the Settlement to see Algy and his players. The rehearsal fell through however owing to the Settlement being crowded. Postponed to Friday. I walked down to the Ferry with Bal Lear, talking about the merits of the ?Observer? and Garvin?s leaders. The beautiful weather which has lasted, unbroken, for three weeks came to an end today. It looks as though summer had set in. Read ? ?English Humourists? (W. M. Thackeray)'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Gerald Moore      Print: Book

  

unknown : unknown

'Wednesday, 21st April, Re my songs - I might do worse than listen in to the Shakespeare celebrations broadcast on Friday. I might get an idea from the London highbrows. At home reading'.

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Gerald Moore      Print: Book

  

 : Manchester Guardian

'Thursday, 20th May The office has returned, for its diversion, to County Cricket and the Tests. Pat is an inexhaustible treasury of lore and anecdote on the subject. He talks of Noble, Clem Hill, Mc Claren, W.G.Lockwood? as I would talk of Holls and Tate. We all read ?Cricketer? (Neville Cardus) in the ?Manchester Guardian?.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Gerald Moore      Print: Newspaper

  

 : Manchester Guardian

'Friday 28th May The Lloyd George ? Asquith split is a few days old now and it is easy to see that Lloyd George has come out on top. The ?Guardian? ?. ?New Statesman? etc. are with him and seem to consider Asquith?s letter was prompted by personal antipathy. The trouble has arisen over George?s critical attitude towards the Government during the General Strike and his contributions to the American Press on the subject.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Gerald Moore      Print: Newspaper

  

 : New Statesman

'Friday 28th May The Lloyd George ? Asquith split is a few days old now and it is easy to see that Lloyd George has come out on top. The ?Guardian? ?. ?New Statesman? etc. are with him and seem to consider Asquith?s letter was prompted by personal antipathy. The trouble has arisen over George?s critical attitude towards the Government during the General Strike and his contributions to the American Press on the subject.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Gerald Moore      Print: Newspaper

  

Sinclair Lewis : Our Mr Wrenn

'Thursday 3rd June ?Our Mr Wrenn? (Sinclair Lewis) I feel crushed with the amount of spare time work I have on hand but life is nothing without the fight. I feel I am slipping too much into cricket, and taking life too easily. Mr Milligan has asked me again to organise a Peace Week meeting on the 19th !!!' [Sinclair Lewis, the son of a doctor, was born in Minnesota in 1885. He entered Yale University in 1903 but left three years later to join Englewood, the socialist colony founded by the writer Upton Sinclair. In 1908 Lewis moved to New York where he became a freelance writer. His first novel, Hike and the Aeroplane was published in 1912 ? He died in Rome in 1951].

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Gerald Moore      Print: Book

  

Sinclair Lewis : Martin Arrowsmith

'Friday 4th June ?Martin Arrowsmith? (Sinclair Lewis). How many of my own questionings, disillusionments and hungerings are illustrated in this book. It has given me one of the worst fits of depression I ever suffered from. With the certainty I feel of being equal to big things, my inability to fight the circumstances that prevent me studying and preparing myself, makes me ache. Economics, literature, drama, social reform are only so many words to me, and yet I know that I could, with courage, make myself both an educated man and a social teacher. Well, I will try again.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Gerald Moore      Print: Book

  

H.G. Wells : Short History of the World

'Sunday 20th June ? Short History of the World? - (H.G. Wells)'.

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Gerald Moore      Print: Book

  

Bret Harte : Jack Hamlin's Mediation

'Tuesday 22nd June ?Jack Hamlin?s Mediation?etc.. (Bret Harte) Wednesday 23rd June A quiet day today and then last thing, neurotic attack. Went and joined the Library today. They are hopelessly deficient in good stuff, either old or new, but still they carry lots of books otherwise inaccessible to me.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Gerald Moore      Print: Book

  

R.H. Mottram : The Spanish Farm

'Thursday 24th June. ?The Spanish Farm? ? (R.H. Mottram). Our ?Robin Hood? Pageant tonight (250 present). I see the ?Daily Post? criticism on poor casting. Quite right too.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Gerald Moore      Print: Book

  

 : Daily Post

'Thursday 24th June ?The Spanish Farm? ? (R.H. Mottram) Our ?Robin Hood? Pageant tonight (250 present). I see the ?Daily Post? criticism on poor casting. Quite right too.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Gerald Moore      Print: Newspaper

  

Percy Wyndham Lewis : At the Sign of the Black Moon

'Saturday 26th June ?At the Sign of the Black Moon? ? (Wyndham-Lewis)'.

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Gerald Moore      Print: Book

  

Rose Macaulay : Orphan Island

'Wednesday 30th June. ?Orphan Island? ? (Rose Macaulay). Looked after the infants today while Teddie went to work. Then a walk in the evening and bringing my arrears of writing up to date. We must look Dad up tomorrow, he will be lonely and depressed.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Gerald Moore      Print: Book

  

Rose Macaulay : Orphan Island

'Thursday 1st July This has been one of those demoralising days when a late rising leaves one unable to make any use of the shortened day. We should have gone to see Dad but left it too late. However, I have finished ?Orphan Island? and so added a rich recollection to my sum of experience. It is a great book. Really Great. The whole idea is inimitably that of the author of ?Told by an Idiot?. Rose Macauley?s chief charm is the delightful sustained humour of her prose. Every word is charmingly quiet and sweet, and yet how devastating the satire and the irony. What a pity. I have to admit to being so hopelessly ?orphan? since she finds so little in them but noise and sentiment.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Gerald Moore      Print: Book

  

Arnold Bennett : Mr Prohack

'Friday 2nd July Teddie and I have managed to get up this morning. Here it is 10.30 and we have tidied up washed the supper dishes and I am waiting for breakfast reading Bennett?s ? Mr Prohack?. We got over to see Dad. He was not in but he left a note for me and we found him at the big Gilmore house cutting down the timber. There being no coal he has managed to purchase some of the timber in the garden as the house has been bought by the corporation as a housing site. He has to cut his wood down roots and all ? haul it to the yard, saw it and load it before it is ready for sale.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Gerald Moore      Print: Book

  

Arnold Bennett : Mr Prohack

'Monday 5th July I finished ?Mr Prohack? last night. A fine book but I did not take to Mrs P. nor even to Mr Bennett?s views on the feminine. I do not quarrel with them. I am not qualified to do so, knowing little of women, but if his representations are correct ? well, I hate the thought, it makes me a gloomy pessimist. Therefore I don?t think them correct.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Gerald Moore      Print: Book

  

May Sinclair : Mr Waddington of Wyck

'Tuesday 6th July. ?Mr Waddington of Wyck? ? (May Sinclair). Back to the office today and find that young Reid has done pretty well. Kept my work fairly up-to-date. He has also kept quiet re-meeting my family last week. Smith is back too, after a quiet fortnight and he recommends Louis Golding to me. He (Smith) is reading ?Sicilian Noon?. I must try also that thing I have heard so much about ?Lolly Willowes? by Sylvia Townsend Warner. '

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Gerald Moore      Print: Book

  

J.B. Priestley : The English Comic Character

'Wednesday 7th July. ?The English Comic Character? - (J.B.Priestley)'.

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Gerald Moore      Print: Book

  

St Francis of Assissi : Little Flowers of St Francis

'Thursday 8th July I am enjoying ? between books - the ?Everyman? ?Little Flowers of St. Francis?, and find it very lovely if at times a little amusing. Cannot however stomach the bodily uncleanness of the ?out and out? Franciscans. It does not read well. The miracles are often very beautiful and often rather funny.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Gerald Moore      Print: Book

  

William Shakespeare : Henry IV

'Saturday 10th July ?Henry IV? ? (Shakespeare ? bought it yesterday, Temple 2 vols)'.

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Gerald Moore      Print: Book

  

Sylvia Townsend Warner : Lolly Willowes

'Tuesday 12th July. I do not like ?Lolly Willowes?. [...] I do not like these fantastic things which suggest that they have something to tell which one is too stupid to discover. I am not stupid, and if a writer deliberately sets out either to obscure or to deliberately draw red-herrings across the track of analysis, then it is the author?s fault if the reader?s ideas do not coincide with the writer?s intentions. I do not know what ?Lolly Willowes? ?means?. If it is about witchcraft or the witch temperament or a peculiar eccentricity of outlook which may be termed the witch mind, well and good, But the fantastic flickering style of the prose, whilst delightful to read as poetic word sequences, annoys me when I desire to know how far the author desires to be taken simply and literally, and know the reader is expected to gather the point of the book or to exercise his own fancy on it. I can however understand the queer blurred effect of the world as seen by the reader through the heroine?s eyes. I have felt the world about me in similarly usual fashion, but what has this to do with witchcraft: Indigestion possibly.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Gerald Moore      Print: Book

  

William Pett Ridge : Story Teller in London

'Monday 19th July ?Story teller in London? ? (Pett Ridge) This book is of the type that I enjoy when easy reading is the mood. To make almost personal acquaintance with famous personages, bohemians, politicians, writers, bon viveurs through the medium of the pen of an acquaintance. I like Ridge. I think he is undoubtedly the great Cockney of his generation and his description of office and suburban life are what I myself dream of as the pinnacle of literary perfection, which I would like to rise to. It appears he is quite a public man in South London and a Philanthropist.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Gerald Moore      Print: Book

  

Reg Berkeley : Unparliamentary papers

'Thursday 22nd July. ?Unparliamentary Papers? (Reg Berkeley). I am on my own in the luncheon hours now and find it difficult to escape boredom. I am as fond of conversation, provided it is not merely aimless, that to have to confine myself solely to reading and lonely observation is rather tiresome. I have had a rather jolly trip round the book-stalls today, though, and had I been other than broke, might have picked up one or two bargains.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Gerald Moore      Print: Book

  

Rebecca West : Return of the Soldier

'Sunday 25th July. ?Return of the Soldier? - (Rebecca West). A very sad book. The hero is rather imbecile as interpreted by the woman character who tells the story.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Gerald Moore      Print: Book

  

Benjamin Disraeli : Sybil

'Thursday 29th July ?Sybil? ? (Disraeli) [...] I went to see Mother tonight and completed the preliminary draft for my syllabus on the Historical novel.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Gerald Moore      Print: Book

  

unknown : [Economics textbook]

'Friday 30th July. Had luncheon in the office today and stayed in reading my Economics. I am doing it more systematically this time. I hope I shall be able to keep it up as I know I shall find it interesting once I break through the crust of introductory chapters. When I have done a little of this groundwork it will make me able to understand and appreciate more exactly the work modern economists ? Keynes, Marshall, Webb, etc? This is an old ambition of mine. I hope to stagger through Marx some day.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Gerald Moore      Print: Book

  

Charles Dickens : Nicholas Nickleby

'Saturday 31st July. ?Nicholas Nickleby? - (Charles Dickens)'.

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Gerald Moore      Print: Book

  

Walter Jerrold : A Book of Famous Wits

'Sunday 1 August. ?A Book of Famous Wits? ? (Walter Jerrold). To see Smith with Monica. He comes home this weekend and seems quite normal and comfortable. I took some books with me and recommended the ?Stickit Minister? to him.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Gerald Moore      Print: Book

  

unknown : unknown

'Monday 2nd August. We did not go out today, it being Bank Holiday. We stayed in, had a nice quiet day with some music, some reading, talk and smokes. Very satisfactory. There is a story in the book I am reading at present which I found interesting as seeming to point to Waterloo Bridge having been, before, a subject of just such controversy as rages round it at present. Story goes as follows ? It being remarked that some people were opposed to the building of Waterloo Bridge because it would spoil the river. Luttrell (a social figure of the late XVIIIth century) exclaimed, ?By Gad Sir, if a few very sensible people had been attended to, we should still be champing acorns. What amuses me is that people are now opposing the alteration and enlargement of the present structure on the grounds that its destruction will spoil the river!'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Gerald Moore      Print: Book

  

Hilaire Belloc : Pongo and the Bull

'Tuesday 3rd August. ?Pongo and the Bull? ? ( Belloc)'.

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Gerald Moore      Print: Book

  

George Moore : The Untilled Field

'Saturday 7th August ?The Untilled Field? ? (George Moore)'.

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Gerald Moore      Print: Book

  

H.W. Nevinson : Between the Acts

'Monday 9th August. ?Between the Acts? ? (H.W. Nevinson). Pat is away now and we are feeling the pinch already. I have got a batch of my syllabus correspondence away, thank goodness. I still cannot find a good book dealing with the period of the VII and VIII Henries. It is curious since it was a period of great change and development, much active and intellectual life and considerable alteration in the manner of life of our people. No good novelist seems to have treated of it, however.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Gerald Moore      Print: Book

  

J.H. Shorthouse : John Inglesant

'Monday 16th August ?John Inglesant? ? (J.H. Shorthouse). I finished Sybil and think it certainly is a fine book for our syllabus purposes.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Gerald Moore      Print: Book

  

Benjamin Disraeli : Sybil

'Monday 16th August ?John Inglesant? ? (J.H. Shorthouse). I finished Sybil and think it certainly is a fine book for our syllabus purposes.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Gerald Moore      Print: Book

  

Walter Besant : For Faith and Freedom

'Thursday 19th August ?For faith and Freedom? ? (Walter Besant)'.

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Gerald Moore      Print: Book

  

Edna Lyall : To Right the Wrong

'Monday 23rd August I was more than usually disgusted with the ?Mail? for blatantly howling of our ?recovery of the Ashes? on a poster. On the street of one poor game out of five! A result due to our refusal to play them out. ?To Right the Wrong? ( Edna Lyall)' .

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Gerald Moore      Print: Book

  

 : Daily Mail

'Monday 23rd August I was more than usually disgusted with the ?Mail? for blatantly howling of our ?recovery of the Ashes? on a poster. On the street of one poor game out of five! A result due to our refusal to play them out. ?To Right the Wrong? ( Edna Lyall)' .

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Gerald Moore      Print: Newspaper

  

 : Courier

'Tuesday 24 August The ?Courier? poster today says ?World mourns Rudolph Valentino? ! It makes me glad he is dead, since he has become a tool whereby the press can reduce such a bulk of the public into maundering, talk-fed imbeciles.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Gerald Moore      Print: Poster

  

Alexander Pope : The Dunciad

'Thursday 26th August Pope?s ?Dunciad? This is a week of work. Real graft. Diaries, even of small sketchy nature as this must remain to some extent neglected. One easily fills the spaces of course. But there is not the energy for choosing the peculiarity of the day?s happenings on thought, that will make the entry worth while.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Gerald Moore      Print: Book

  

William Makepeace Thackeray : Esmond

'Friday 27th August I bought ?Esmond? and ?Westward Ho!? today and started to read the former. Why is Thackeray suffering from a decline? He is the best of them, easily. What novelist is there to rival him in the nineteenth century? Dickens, perhaps, in greatness, but there is no comparison between their writings, they are so completely different from each other. There is no standard, and no need for one. I picked up for 6 cent. a little ?Selected works of Pope. With the ?Dunciad? ?The Rape of the Lock?, ?Essay on Critism?? Fine!'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Gerald Moore      Print: Book

  

Walter Scott : The Fortunes of Nigel

'Thursday 2nd September ?Fortunes of Nigel? (Walter Scott)'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Gerald Moore      Print: Book

  

Thomas de Quincey : Confessions of an English Opium Eater

'Tuesday 7th September ?English Opium Eater? (De Quincey)'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Gerald Moore      Print: Book

  

Charles Kingsley : The Heroes

'Friday 10th September Today my friend Pat bought Kingsley?s ?Heroes? for Monica. I am reading it myself and then it goes away, to be out on her shelf, which I am planning with some thought, and, I hope, taste for childish requirements. It would make a nice subject for an essay. Teddie and I already have following for our childrens? bookshelf ? Kinsgley?s ?Heroes?, ?Alice in Wonderland? and ?Through the Looking Glass?. A complete ?Hans Andersen? also a selection, beautifully illustrated by Dulac Lamb?s ?Tales from Shakespeare? and Hope-Moncrieff?s ?Classic Myth and Legend?. It is a fairly good beginning.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Gerald Moore      Print: Book

  

James Branch Cabell : Jurgen

'Sunday 12th September ?Jurgen? (James Branch Cabell)'.

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Gerald Moore      Print: Book

  

C.E.M. Joad : Thrasymachus

'Monday 13th September ?Thrasymachus? (C.E.M. Joad)'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Gerald Moore      Print: Book

  

Xenophon/Plato : Socratic Discourses

'Saturday 18th September ?Socratic Discourses? Plato & Xenophon (Everyman) I have had the companion ?Five Dialogues on Poetic Inspiration? for a long time and was glad to spot this'.

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Gerald Moore      Print: Book

  

Ashley Thorndike (ed.) : Minor Elizabethan Drama

'Monday 20th September ?Minor Elizabethan Drama? (Everyman)'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Gerald Moore      Print: Book

  

"Bartimeus" : The Long Trick

Sunday 26th September ?The Long Trick?, - ?Bartimeus? A delightfully quiet day at home. Reading and writing. Had an hour or two at the piano and showed form. I like ?Bartimeus? ? in the mood. He is delightfully humorous in a somewhat lugubrious manner.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Gerald Moore      Print: Book

  

Walter Scott : Ivanhoe

'Thursday 30th September ?Ivanhoe? (Walter Scott) Late work still the order of the ? night. All is still confusion and chaos. My life at present is a tale of mugging away at my desk. I read a book on my way down town. Have a little brisk conversation with Smith in the luncheon hour ? if he is in town, or a walk round the book shops if he is not. Another little talk with Pat over our evening coffee. A few laughs during the day at Blowers? profanity or Lauson?s buffoonery. Then home to a meal, a short read, a little writing and bed. I seldom see the children except on Sundays.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Gerald Moore      Print: Book

  

unknown : The Golden Glory

'Monday 4th October ?The Golden Glory? ( ? ) A great yarn this.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Gerald Moore      Print: Book

  

Charles Kingsley : Westward Ho!

'Monday 11th October ?Westward Ho!? (Charles Kingsley)'.

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Gerald Moore      Print: Book

  

Tobias Smollett : Roderick Random

'Thursday 14th October ?Roderick Random? (T. Smolett)'.

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Gerald Moore      Print: Book

  

H.G. Wells : The New Machiavelli

'Friday 15th October. Bought ?The Picture of Dorian Grey? in the Paris edition and the ?New Machiavelli? Benn?s new uniform edition of Wells. The latter are easily the most beautiful cheap editions I have seen and I intend to get the pick of them. ?Kipps? next and ?Mr Polly?. Monday 18th October. ?The New Machiavelli? (H.G. Wells).'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Gerald Moore      Print: Book

  

H.G. Wells : The New Machiavelli

'Wednesday 20th October. Rehearsal ? ?Brothers B.?. Did not go to rehearsal but went home to have a quiet evening and read ?Machiavelli?. Some day I must put my thoughts on this book on to paper. I feel at present as though it might help me very materially in some respects, on my own path in life. I think in the sex problem the hero is somewhat similar in make-up to myself. Whilst his intellectual activities are but my own magnified. This, I will qualify and explain to myself when I finish the book.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Gerald Moore      Print: Book

  

Henry N. Brailsford : War of Steel and Gold

'Wednesday 3rd November. ?War of Steel and Gold? ? (Henry. N. Brailsford).'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Gerald Moore      Print: Book

  

May Sinclair : The Tree of Heaven

'Saturday 6th November. ?The Tree of Heaven? - (May Sinclair). Bad day on the Round, but Dad has done well. Mother is ill and expect to have to go to hospital. We yarned about the Aldermania elections. If the Labour Party in Birkenhead watch their step they will have a majority after the Alderman elections.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Gerald Moore      Print: Book

  

J. Maynard Keynes : The End of Laissez Faire

Monday 6th November. ?The End of Laissez-Faire? - J. M. Keynes. Busy today as usual. My latest book,[Keynes] is very interesting; it is quite a declaration of belief and gives some typically tentative and nervous signs of Keynes position. I think he realises that his attitude requires considerable modification. He has found and knows the truth, but is afraid to realise it. He tries to cover it up from himself by ineffectual qualifications.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Gerald Moore      Print: Book

  

Thomas de Quincey : Confessions of an English Opium Eater

'Thursday 11th November. ?Opium-eater? again.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Gerald Moore      Print: Book

  

 : New Leader

'Saturday 20th November. I do not care much for the new form of the ?New Leader?. It is the useless hopeless propagandist rag. It is a shame, when under Brailsford it was one of the finest political reviews in the country.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Gerald Moore      Print: Serial / periodical

  

Edward Gibbon : Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

'Sunday 28th November ?Decline and fall? (Edward Gibbon).'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Gerald Moore      Print: Book

  

Edward Gibbon : Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

'Tuesday 7th December. "Decline and Fall? ? Vol. 2'.

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Gerald Moore      Print: Book

  

W.W. Jacob : The Castaways

'Thursday 9th December. ?The Castaways? ? (W.W. Jacob)'.

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Gerald Moore      Print: Book

  

Victor MacClure : The Boost of the Golden Snail: A Fantasy of London

'Monday 13th December ?The Boost of the Golden Snail? ? (Macclure)'.

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Gerald Moore      Print: Book

  

Sabine Baring-Gould : Cheap Jack Zita

'Tuesday 14th December. ?Cheap Jack Zita? (Baring Gould)'.

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Gerald Moore      Print: Book

  

Eugene Labiche : Le Voyage de M. P?rrichon

'Friday 17th December. French Class again tonight. I don?t know whether they liked me last time. Took Mother?s class. Only 3 present. Rather jolly. I think I could teach French if I did a little preliminary grinding at grammar. They are doing Themoin?s method and reading ?Le Voyage de M. P?rrichon?. I?d like to do this on the stage. I don?t know of anything quite so funny in English drama.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Gerald Moore      Print: Book

  

Charles John Cutcliffe Wright Hyne : The Rev. Captain Kettle

'Saturday 18th December. ?Rev. Captain Kettle? ? (Hyne)'.

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Gerald Moore      Print: Book

  

Romain Rolland : Au dessus de la m?l

'Monday 20th December ?Au dessus de la m?l?e? ? (Romain Rolland). This is the first time I have managed to get hold of this book. Mother was very friendly with Madeleine Rolland, the author?s sister, during our stay in Paris, during the war. I find it interesting, but only as a good sketch of fine pacifist thought, but even more as a vivid reproduction of that almost forgotten period ? the war ? and the extraordinary chaos in which mind and intellect were swallowed up over three quarters of Europe.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Gerald Moore      Print: Book

  

Romain Rolland : Au dessus de la m?l

'Wednesday 22 December. I have just finished ?Au dessus de la M?l?e?. It revives all my anger at the treacherous laziness of those who experienced the war, in failing to preach the gospel of ?never? again. Why, why do we let the governments go on? Secret diplomacy, concession hunting, financial wrangling. Calculated ?inspiring? of the press. It is horrible. I used to believe the Press to be sincere, if misguided. But I have been reading the ?Mail? lately, and the easily recognizable note of sincerity is absolutely lacking.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Gerald Moore      Print: Book

  

Edward Whymper : Scrambles among the Alps

'Saturday 25th December. ?Scrambles among the Alps? (Whymper) Trying to get the proper atmosphere in a snow-less Christmas. Certainly, if any book could give it, it is this one. Today has been rather a bore. The usual heavyweight dinner made everybody too somnolent to allow of any attempt at enjoyment. So we slept and read and ate and ? finally ? slept.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Gerald Moore      Print: Book

  

Mary Johnston : By Order of the Company

'Monday 27th December. ?By Order of the Company? (Johnston)'.

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Gerald Moore      Print: Book

  

Rudyard Kipling : Plain Tales from the Hills

[List of books read in 1926] '"Autocrat of the Breakfast Table" (Holmes), "Plain Tales from the Hills" (Kipling), "History of Florence" (Machiavelli), "Essays in Socialism" (Belfort Bax), "Socialism: Critical and Constructive" (J.R. Macdonald), "Trimblerigg" (L. Houseman), "Peer Gynt" (Ibsen), "A Chair on the Boulevard" (L. Merrick), "Brand" (Ibsen), "The Long Roll" (M. Johnston), "Compleat Angler" (I. Walton), "Omoo" (H. Melville), "Shorter Poems" (M. Prior), "Notre Coeur" (G. de Maupassant), "Barry Lindon" (Thackeray), "Path to Rome" (Belloc), "The Americans" (Henry James), "Four Georges" (Thackeray), "Memoirs of the Crusades" (Villehardouin & de Joinville), "Journal to Stella" (Swift), "Hamlet" (Temple Shakespeare), "The Eye Witness" (Belloc), "Almayer's Folly" (Conrad), "Tartarin sur les Alpes" (Daudet), "The Tragedy of Education" (Edmond Holmes), "La Peur de Chagrin" etc (Balzac), "Life of Nelson" (Southey), "Les Fr?quentations de Maurice" (Sidney Place), "Journal of the Plague Year" (Defoe), "Figures in Modern Literature" (J.B. Priestley), "English Humourists" (Thackeray), "Frank Mildmay" (Marryat), "Polar Exploration" (Buck), "Cricket and Cricketers" (Philip [illegible]), "The Sowers" ([illegible]), "Our Mr Wrenn" (Sinclair Lewis), "Martin Arrowsmith" (ditto), "Short History of the World" (H.G. Wells), "Jack Hamlin's Mediation" etc (Bret Harte), "At the Sign of the Blue Boar" (Wyndham Lewis), "Orphan Island" (Rose Macaulay), "The Spanish Farm" (R.H. Mottram), "Mr Prohack" (Arnold Bennett), "Told by an Idiot" (Rose Macaulay), "Mr Waddington of Wyck" (May Sinclair), "English Comic Characters" (J.B. Priestley), "Henry IV" (Temple Shakespeare), "Lolly Willowes" ( ? ) [Sylvia Townsend Warner]'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Gerald Moore      Print: Book

  

H.G. Wells : A Modern Utopia

'1st January- Saturday I have made no New Year resolutions, and so have none to keep. This might, thus, be an exemplary year for me, from my contrarily carrying-out all the resolutions I have not formed. ?A modern utopia? ( H.G. Wells ).'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Gerald Moore      Print: Book

  

Harold Brighouse : Captain Shapely

'4th January ? Tuesday. ?Captain Shapely? Harold Brighouse. A well- written yarn this. Very, very entertaining, and in a style I like. No superfluous verbiage.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Gerald Moore      Print: Book

  

Gerald Moore : [list of books read in 1926]

'5th January ? Wednesday. I have taken out a list of the books I read last year; they total 83. Not so bad, considering that I always read the books I start on.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Gerald Moore      Print: Book

  

J.H. Shorthouse : John Inglesant

'11th January, Tuesday. ?John Inglesant? ? (J. H. Shorthouse). I notice a report of a speech by Dr. Norwood in this morning?s Liverpool Post. I am amazed to note how he seems to take war in China for granted, as merely inevitable and spends his time appealing to the Powers ?not to gather in a spirit of spoliation?, after the conflict! Already! And this, from a leading Pacifist, and League of Nations speaker. How can it be thought surprising, that the ordinary people, spending too much time earning their bread and butter to allow of deep thought, should succumb easily to waves of jingoism, when the prophet and leaders themselves, the most steady of the press, the most earnest of clerics are already braying compromise, within ten years of the World War.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Gerald Moore      Print: Book

  

 : Liverpool Post

'11th January, Tuesday. ?John Inglesant? ? (J. H. Shorthouse). I notice a report of a speech by Dr. Norwood in this morning?s Liverpool Post. I am amazed to note how he seems to take war in China for granted, as merely inevitable and spends his time appealing to the Powers ?not to gather in a spirit of spoliation?, after the conflict! Already! And this, from a leading Pacifist, and League of Nations speaker. How can it be thought surprising, that the ordinary people, spending too much time earning their bread and butter to allow of deep thought, should succumb easily to waves of jingoism, when the prophet and leaders themselves, the most steady of the press, the most earnest of clerics are already braying compromise, within ten years of the World War.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Gerald Moore      Print: Newspaper

  

J.H. Shorthouse : John Inglesant

'13th January, Thursday. ?John Inglesant? ( J.H.Shorthouse). I am re-reading this, not only because it is one of the most wonderful books I have come across, but because the wonderful earnestness of it, and the vision of life it gives me, inspire me in my own small concerns. I wonder if I myself, am doing a measurable good in my activities?'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Gerald Moore      Print: Book

  

Sidney and Beatrice Webb : The Decay of Capitalist Civilisation

'18th January, Tuesday. ?The Decay of Capitalist Civilisation? (S & B Webb) I was up till late last night finishing my paper for Wednesday.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Gerald Moore      Print: Book

  

George Eric Paterson : poems [unspecified]

'20th January, Thursday. Pat has given me a number of his poems for the ?Two Houses?. [a magazine of which Gerald Moore was the editor] I had to smile at finding again the classic influence which inspires his every thought. He writes in the style of a man whose reading lies in the works of Shakespeare, Milton and the Golden Age.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Gerald Moore      Manuscript: Sheet

  

H.G. Wells : The Dream

'30th January, Sunday. I had to stay at home today to do my washing for the forthcoming week, and to put the rooms to rights. ?The Dream? (H.G. Wells).'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Gerald Moore      Print: Book

  

Israel Zangwill : King of the Schnorres

'2nd February, Wednesday. I have been reading Zangwills, ?King of the Schnorres? and some other yarns of his. He is a most ingenious, and a most humorous writer. He is another of those authors who make me wonder why the ordinary reader wastes time on cheap rubbish. Here is a book, one of hundreds, which is as entertaining, as quick moving, and dramatic as any one can desire, and yet I doubt if it can hold place with B.M. Bower, Ethel M. Dell, Elinor Glyn, Zane Grey and the other tripe-mongers.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Gerald Moore      Print: Book

  

 : Roll of Honour of soldiers killed in the First World War

'6th February, Sunday. We paid a visit to the church. As usual, it being a familiar object to me, I have taken little notice of it, and never been inside it. It is of course a very old foundation, but the present fabric is quite modern. Considering its appearance of size from the outside, mainly due I think to the very tall, square tower, it is a remarkably small church. Extremely simple, in fact quite plain, apart from some carved woodwork. The one feature which we found noteworthy was the two rolls of honour, commemorative of those who fell in the great war. The one, an ornate brass reserved for commissioned officers, the other of plain wood badly carved with the names of privates and non-coms. Oh, the Lessons of the Great War!'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Gerald Moore      Print: Book, Plaque

  

 : Advertisements in French

'18th February, Thursday. The packet steamed into the harbour backwards. Another rush across the quay and through the Customs Shed ? pas d?emb?tements ? and, having found and bagged our sets, we had a twenty minutes stroll on the platform. And oh, the fun of it! Listening to the talking and shouting in French, reading the notices and advertisements, noticing again the queer lowness of the platforms and the two or three steps up to the train. Then away to Paris through the flats of the Pas de Calais.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Gerald Moore      Print: Advertisement

  

 : menu in French

'19th February, Saturday. The Governor having gone off at one for a tour round the sights with Mr Leclerege, I had the afternoon to myself. I luncheoned with Uhlig and Frorup at the restaurant Marre, rue d?Hauteville, and began my re-education in menu reading. Took to ?vin rouge? again very naturally!'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Gerald Moore      Print: menu

  

H.G. Wells : The Invisible Man

'23rd February, Wednesday. This evening after dinner, I flitted from the splendour of the ?Grand? to the hospital-coldness of the little Hotel Cronstadt in the Quartier Convention. Wrote to Teddie and Mother. In bed I read a French translation of Well?s ?Invisible Men?. Which is about all the literature Muggridge possesses, and then went to sleep very willingly, being horribly homesick. I am so alone in this vast city.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Gerald Moore      Print: Book

  

 : Le Sourire

'26th February, Saturday. Finally, succumbing to a morbid desire to get away from people I went off ?home? and read till dinner time. Muggridge having lent me a few numbers of ?Le Sourire?, I went steadily through the lot, with, I?m sure, typically British enjoyment of Gallic humour. I suppose I shall shake off this feeling of ?surreptitiousness? of ?shamefacedness?. I hope so, it?s so damnably idiotic and smug'.

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Gerald Moore      Print: Serial / periodical

  

Claude Farr?re : Les Civilis

'17th March, Thursday. The books in my room are an interesting lot, and I will be able to resume reading. I have almost given it up since I came to France. Now, to bed. I will start with ?Les Civilis?s? by Claude Farr?re, it looks light and bright enough to start on.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Gerald Moore      Print: Book

  

Anatole France : Jocaste et le Chat Maigre

'19th March, Saturday. Spent the afternoon reading and lounging. [...] ?Jocaste? and ?Le Chat Maigre? A. France.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Gerald Moore      Print: Book

  

V. Marguerite : La Gar?onne

'29th March, Tuesday. ?La Gar?onne? V. Marguerite. 30th March, Wednesday. These last few days I have been reading Marguerite?s ?La Gar?onne?. I am disappointed. Instead of an exciting chronicle of debauchery, full of hints on sex-relationship, I find it simply a rather vigorous, but incurably sentimental treatise on Malthusianism. One or two of its scenes are realistic in the strictest sense, but for the rest, his heroine is a most romantic young lad who finishes up by falling in love properly and setting up in matrimony. But then I have always found the French sentimental.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Gerald Moore      Print: Book

  

Emile Zola : Une Page d'Amour

'15th September 1928. Reading Zola today (Une Page D?Amour). A book surprisingly different from, and somehow weaker than ?La Terre?, but also one of the Rougon Macquard series. It seems to be only a sort of sketched-in incident, a bit of relief to the greater volumes. A great book, none the less, and a little less strained in the stressing of the hastily obvious. Zola is too inclined to describe to his readers certain habits of mankind, which they know quite as well as he. He does not seem to understand that it is just this fact that causes the less ?realist? author to leave them out.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Gerald Moore      Print: Book

  

Cecil Chesterton : History of the United States

'16th September 1928 I am now re-reading Chesterton?s ?History of the United States?. I have never been able to acquire the habit of taking notes when reading a book, even such a student?s book as this really is, but I think I will try and do so for once. The book is, of course, to a great extent the expression of a personal view, but much of the thought it contains as I think extremely true and valuable. I like it generally speaking.' I find it agrees with my own conception of American racial temperament and American institutions, while the descriptive history is vivid and exciting. A very jolly book. I do not think Cecil Chesterton a great writer, but he is a hard and coherent thinker, and has a flair for infusing movement and life into his book.

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Gerald Moore      Print: Book

  

 : Le Journal

'17th September 1928. The Geneva conference between the six powers has ended in the happy decision that the Rhineland evacuation question may now be discussed. Good God. What have they been doing all these years? The session of the league has been so overshadowed by this vicious and farcical conference that it has hardly appeared in the press, and not at all in the paper I have been buying the last few days ? ?Le Journal?. The end is not far off. I suppose the League will exist until the next war breaks it, but its power is ebbing fast. In fact, from a diplomatic viewpoint it is dead. What a chance has been lost, and how culpable are those statesmen who by this attitude and their actions have willed it so.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Gerald Moore      Print: Newspaper

  

W.W. Jacobs : The Castaways

'17th September 1928. [...] The new piece by Maurice Rostand is getting a very favourable press and I would like to see it. It is entitled ?Napoleon IV? and is about Prince Louis-Napol?on who was killed in the Zulu war. I always remember him as the very fat man in one of mother?s picture books. When I was very young he afforded me much amusement. I have been reading Jacobs between chapters of American history. ?Deep Waters? and ?The Castaways? ?.. (W. W. Jacobs)'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Gerald Moore      Print: Book

  

W.W. Jacobs : Deep Waters

'17th September 1928. [...] The new piece by Maurice Rostand is getting a very favourable press and I would like to see it. It is entitled ?Napoleon IV? and is about Prince Louis-Napol?on who was killed in the Zulu war. I always remember him as the very fat man in one of mother?s picture books. When I was very young he afforded me much amusement. I have been reading Jacobs between chapters of American history. ?Deep Waters? and ?The Castaways? ?.. (W. W. Jacobs)'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Gerald Moore      Print: Book

  

Cecil Chesterton : The History of the United States

'17th September 1928. [...] The new piece by Maurice Rostand is getting a very favourable press and I would like to see it. It is entitled ?Napoleon IV? and is about Prince Louis-Napol?on who was killed in the Zulu war. I always remember him as the very fat man in one of mother?s picture books. When I was very young he afforded me much amusement. I have been reading Jacobs between chapters of American history. ?Deep Waters? and ?The Castaways? ?.. (W. W. Jacobs)'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Gerald Moore      Print: Book

  

Fyodor Dostoevsky : Crime and Punishment

'19th September 1928 (Wednesday) I have got nearly all my books home from the office now. It is a lengthy job, bringing them in two?s and threes, but I have had enough of lugging suitcases full of books. Nothing in the papers today except ?last words? on the ?6? power conference. ?Le Crime et le Chatiment? - (Dostoivesky); translated Victor D?r?ly'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Gerald Moore      Print: Book

  

 : Le Journal

'20th September 1928 (Thursday). I note that one of the Swiss Cantons has passed a law enforcing the sterilisation of ?mentals?, this brings a long discussed question on to the tapis (carpet), and perhaps we shall now have a proper expression of opinion from the experts as to the practicality of such a measure. An article by a doctor in the ?Journal? states that the medical opinion is ?against? it being a doctor?s duty not to accept the defeat that such a measure implies but to work for a destruction of the evil by purely curative means. And meantime, humanity?'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Gerald Moore      Print: Newspaper

  

Rudyard Kipling : Letters of Travel

'22nd September 1928 (Saturday). I have started to read Kipling?s ?Letters of travel? again. I am very fond of this book although the slabs of jaunty, impatient, imperialism become rather monotonous. Still, the splendid descriptive power that the book betokens, make it excellent reading. The ?sentiments? are too well known, and too familiar to jar now to any appreciable degree. It is a curious contrast that in a book very slight in itself, with little thread or cohesion, the phrasing should be so powerful. I suppose Kipling?s long experience in ballad-mongering stands him in good stead.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Gerald Moore      Print: Book

  

 : The New York American

'22nd September 1928 (Saturday). The cat is out of the bag over the Anglo-French naval pact. One of the Hearst papers, ?The New York American? has got hold of a letter from the Quai d?Orsay to the Embassies in which it appears quite clearly that the pact is merely an agreement between France and England to terms regarding limitation, ruling out further discussion of the different view point held by the States. Naturally, the States regard this as a hostile move, particularly in view of the stupid secrecy of it. Their cruiser programme suspended a year ago at the beginning of the discussion is now to be proceeded with, and the ?Big Navy Group? will be crowing.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Gerald Moore      Print: Newspaper

  

Thomas Vladesco : [article on Henrik Ibsen]

'28th September 1928 (Friday). I have been reading an article on Ibsen by Thomas Vladesco in the ?Mercure de France?. The writer sets out to prove Ibsen a bon bourgeois, a person with a wholesome respect for human institutions who merely created ?characters? and balanced individualisms. Whilst to my mind, thus denuding Ibsen of all the greatness, which the world has attributed to him, the writer claims rather to be clearing him of false and foul charges of anarchism, so heightening his renown by a purification of his ideas and intentions. The article is a rank failure. The writer proves nothing, ?clears? Ibsen of all sorts of ?charges? which no thinking reader makes against him, and gives him a philosophy, small, and shallow, which a most superficial acquaintance with his work would show to be untrue of the dramatist. Even the oft repeated claim that he belauds individualism is unsound. What Ibsen does do is to show in ?Peer Gynt? and in ?Brand? that both by individualistic and by self-effacing methods of life man fails to attain the goal. Man?s end is failure (though perhaps a great failure). He sets the question and there leaves it. Ibsen is a questioner. In that, Shaw goes beyond him, for Shaw has always an answer though it is Shaw?s answer.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Gerald Moore      Print: Newspaper

  

Romain Rolland : Jean Christophe

'30th September 1928 (Sunday) We saw the Clichy party to their tram, then [illegible] Henry and I had a coffee at the Express du Havre and finally parted for home at 11.45. A good day. I brought away the 1st book of Romain Rolland?s ?Jean Christophe? and devoured half of it before going to sleep.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Gerald Moore      Print: Book

  

Romain Rolland : Jean Christophe

'1st October 1928 (Monday). Dug further into ?Jean Christophe? in the Luncheon hour. Am thoroughly enjoying this great book. I hope the other volumes are as good as ?L?Aube? though Mme. Bisseux thinks not. ?Jean Christophe? (1st ?L?Aube?) Romain Rolland'.

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Gerald Moore      Print: Book

  

Romain Rolland : Jean Christophe

'2nd September 1928 (Tuesday) Sunday?s ?Observer? suggests a clean break with the line of diplomatic action brought to light by the revelations regarding the Anglo-French naval pact. Even the old ?Observer? admits that England has only just missed dealing the foulest blow at the cause of international peace since the war. America is wholly on the qui vive now especially as the Presidential elections are in full swing and the pact is getting the fullest possible publicity. It is curious that their note on the subject should be so restrained. Either they are in earnest in their pacifist pretensions or they are so sure of the failure of any negotiation that they are willing to risk a big bluff. England has not come off very well out of either the League session or the Pact fiasco so let?s hope that Chamberlain?s diplomacy has suffered a final setback. [...] Finished Rolland?s book.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Gerald Moore      Print: Book

  

 : The Observer

'2nd September 1928 (Tuesday) Sunday?s ?Observer? suggests a clean break with the line of diplomatic action brought to light by the revelations regarding the Anglo-French naval pact. Even the old ?Observer? admits that England has only just missed dealing the foulest blow at the cause of international peace since the war. America is wholly on the qui vive now especially as the Presidential elections are in full swing and the pact is getting the fullest possible publicity. It is curious that their note on the subject should be so restrained. Either they are in earnest in their pacifist pretensions or they are so sure of the failure of any negotiation that they are willing to risk a big bluff. England has not come off very well out of either the League session or the Pact fiasco so let?s hope that Chamberlain?s diplomacy has suffered a final setback. [...] Finished Rolland?s book.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Gerald Moore      Print: Newspaper

  

Rudyard Kipling : Letters of Travel

'3rd October 1928 (Wednesday). Late to work, naturally. Although tired, put in a good day?s work and returned home hungry as a hunter. Finished ?Letters of Travel? which has been hanging fire. To bed early.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Gerald Moore      Print: Book

  

Nikolay Vasilevich Gogol : Taras Boulba

'6th October 1928 (Saturday). So I finish my day, after an abundant dinner reading ?Taras Boulba? (Gogol) - translated by A. Potogky- Stchekotikhina. Scripta Manent Edition.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Gerald Moore      Print: Book

  

Leo Tolstoy : unknown

'Saturday 13th October 1928. After dinner went with Mme. and George to Romainville to hear Georges Pioch on Tolsto?. [...] Queerly enough, though Pioch himself is a Tolstoyan and though his speech showed the bias, it seemed to strengthen the instinctive dislike, which I feel for Tolstoy the man. I can admire and be troubled by his theories. I can find his works wonderful, and yet I dislike Tolstoy. His personal arrogance, his obvious sense of superiority to all the individuals with whom he comes in contact does not square with his humility in face of that which are abstractions ? the People. Again, he is too much the propagandist. He squares the circle too perfectly. He seems drunk with logic in his propagandist books. These things always make me suspicious. I do not believe that life can be simplified like that, that it can be governed by half a dozen rules of conduct. I believe that life is essentially a thing of endless complication, endless contradiction, a machinery of compromises, a picture composed of endlessly varied halftones. It is probable that I do not properly appreciate the Tolstoyan argument, but so far as my comprehension permits and my own knowledge, I am no Tolstoyan.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Gerald Moore      Print: Book

  

Romain Rolland : Vie de Tolstoy

'Monday, 15th October 1928 ?Vie de Tolstoy? (Romain Rolland)'.

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Gerald Moore      Print: Book

  

H. Barbusse : La Clart

'24th October 1928. Late to work. Hurried letter from mother asking me to obtain for her 10 copies of ?la Vie Litt?raire? (Cours Moyen). The publishers are Alcyde Picard, and mother gave me his address as 18, rue Soufflot. On my going there, however, I found that his address is actually rue Hautefeuille. [...] I got the books and posted them off although the money was only sufficient for seven and I could not supplement it being ?a sec?. ?La Clart?? (H. Barbusse)'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Gerald Moore      Print: Serial / periodical

  

Claude Anet : La Rive d?Asie

'27th October 1928 (Saturday) ?La Rive d?Asie? (Claude Anet)'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Gerald Moore      Print: Book

  

 : Birkenhead Advertiser

'30th October 1928. I received my first parcel of papers from Mother today. The ?Birkenhead Advertiser?, the ?New Leader?. How funny the Advertiser seems to me reading it in the atmosphere of this great city. These columns of local gossip, and the accounts of football matches between such teams as the Cement Works and the Municipal employees. How do we manage to take ourselves so seriously.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Gerald Moore      Print: Newspaper

  

 : New Leader

'30th October 1928. I received my first parcel of papers from Mother today. The ?Birkenhead Advertiser?, the ?New Leader?. How funny the Advertiser seems to me reading it in the atmosphere of this great city. These columns of local gossip, and the accounts of football matches between such teams as the Cement Works and the Municipal employees. How do we manage to take ourselves so seriously.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Gerald Moore      Print: Newspaper

  

George Bernard Shaw : Back to Methuselah

'1st January 1929 (Tuesday) In the eveningthe usual German sing-song. I to bed early. Re-reading ?Back to Methuselah?. ?Back to Methuselah? (George Bernard Shaw)'.

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Gerald Moore      Print: Book

  

George Bernard Shaw : Back to Methuselah

'4th January 1929. ?Back to Methuselah?. G. B. Shaw'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Gerald Moore      Print: Book

  

W.J. Locke : [?] The Usurper

'6th January 1929. After tea Mrs Webster started knitting a jumper and we ?boys? read. My literature was a book by W. J. Locke, the title of which slips my mind (a fair index to the books worth), but I think it was ?The outcast?.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Gerald Moore      Print: Book

  

John Galsworthy : Beyond

'7th January 1929 Monday. This evening reading a book bought from Raincy, and writing to Teddie. ?Beyond? Galsworthy.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Gerald Moore      Print: Book

  

John Galsworthy : Beyond

'8th January 1929 ?Beyond? is a charming book. Sad both in its story and in the writer?s outlook, it is yet most delightful reading, and a most beautiful argument. It is a story of love and marriage, that has but few bright spots in the actual events of the narrative, and yet would make anyone long to love in the heroic, ?int?grale? manner of its heroine. To be either the subject or the object of such a passion would make a full life, with reference to the years of its duration.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Gerald Moore      Print: Book

  

Henry Bordeaux : Robe de Laine

'12th January 1929. During the afternoon I read Bordeaux?s ?Robe de laine?, but not with much enjoyment. I do not care for Bordeaux though I do not know why.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Gerald Moore      Print: Book

  

 : Excelsior

'13th February 1929 I note from ?Excelsior? that the ?Kings? or their representatives, the princes and princesses allied to the French Royal house have arrived at the Palais d?Orl?ans in Palermo for the marriage of the Princesse Fran?oise. What a game. It must be far more amusing to be a wealthy exile than a crowned king. This is the one-time home of Louis ? Philippe. Much in the papers today about the agreement between Mussolini and the Pope. The ?Era Nouvelle? sees in it a recognition by the Pope of Fascism. A deadly alliance. '

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Gerald Moore      Print: Newspaper

  

Arthur W. Pollitt : The Enjoyment of Music

'16th February 1929. ?Appreciation of music? (Pollitt)'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Gerald Moore      Print: Book

  

Romain Rolland : Les Amis

'17th February 1929 (Sunday). After a long and very cosy dinner I started for home. I missed the train owing to my having to climb the great gate as B. had forgotten his key. Stayed in a little caf? until 11.35, and then home very tired. I brought away (Jean Christophe)? ?Les Amis?. This is the second of this series which I have read.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Gerald Moore      Print: Book

  

Romain Rolland : Les Amis

'24th February 1929 (Sunday) Finished reading ?Les Amis? before luncheon. Rolland is the most ?beautiful? writer I know and this book is as good as his best. I would like to have all his works and to read the whole of this ?Jean Christophe? series. After luncheon I read ?Dorian Gray? for a while, then a light tea, and off to Levallois. Stopped at Gare St. Lazare for my papers, ?Le Temps?, ?Observer? and ?Monde?.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Gerald Moore      Print: Book

  

Oscar Wilde : The Portrait of Dorian Gray

'24th February 1929 (Sunday) Finished reading ?Les Amis? before luncheon. Rolland is the most ?beautiful? writer I know and this book is as good as his best. I would like to have all his works and to read the whole of this ?Jean Christophe? series. After luncheon I read ?Dorian Gray? for a while, then a light tea, and off to Levallois. Stopped at Gare St. Lazare for my papers, ?Le Temps?, ?Observer? and ?Monde?.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Gerald Moore      Print: Book

  

 : Le Temps

'25th February 1929 (Monday). Still at home, but hope to return to work tomorrow. A quiet day, reading the papers, and writing a little. The ?Temps? has an editorial on the ?expos?? of Bulgarian foreign policy made by Mr Burcof to the Sobrani?. The main text is, of course, the Serbo-Bulgar rapprochement. It is amusing to note how the ?Temps? applauds the movement for Balkan solidarity as a check on the dividing intrigues of certain foreign influence. Said influences probably Italy, Germany and perhaps Russia. No mention of France?s intensive campaign to establish a preponderating ?influence? in furtherance of her encirclement policy against Germany, and the creation of a counter-balance to the growing force of Italy.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Gerald Moore      Print: Newspaper

  

 : Le Journal

'26th February 1929. No paper today owing to state of finances. From Friday?s ?Journal? I note that the historic Tacna and Arica dispute has been settled. Peru takes Tacna and Chili Arica. Why couldn?t they have thought of that in 1883? Each wanted all, presumably, and hang on in hopes of getting it. Alsace Loraine, Schlewig, Upper Silesia ? all the same old story.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Gerald Moore      Print: Newspaper

  

 : Le Matin

'27th February 1929. Paris is having a gay old time following the dispute between the luck of the press and M. Coty. Yesterday, Coty came out with a four column poster the size of a house triumphing over a verdict in the courts. Today the ?Matin? replies in kind. I love this French poster warfare. The ?Matin?s? claim that Coty must subsidise his paper in order to sell at 10c sounds rather more than reasonable, but for the ?Matin? to complain about subsidised newspapers is rather cheek if certain generally accepted rumours are to be believed. Still he has a neck to demand that the rest of the press come down to his price. Every one has not a huge private fund from which to stand the losses of a big newspaper. The ?Matin? says that the English National Citizens Union have passed a resolution asking the Government to legislate for the sterilisation of ?mentals? and incurables. So it has got as far as popular politics. Something will be done yet.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Gerald Moore      Print: Newspaper

  

 : [Road sign]

'3rd March 1929. At Montmartre. I promised to conduct the latest pensionnaires over Montmartre when they first arrived. Foreigners are always in a hurry to see Montmartre. So today we went up to the Place Pigalle and examined the boulevard exteriors from the ?Abbaie? to Weppler?s. Afterwards up the rue Lepic, where I related what I know of the street?s gruesome past, by the Moulin de la Galette to the Place du Tertre. From the front of the Sacr? Coeur we endeavoured to see something of the famous view but there was too much mist. We laughed at the notice to motorists ?Ralentissez; attention aux Petits Poulbots?. (Slow down, watch out for the Petit Poulbots). [Francisque Poulbot is one of the most famous French illustrators, especially illustrators of children. Poulbot is particularly known for his drawings of Paris street urchins. Poulbot loved to draw these children as shameless, and often malicious jokesters. Most of his work was published in the 1900s-30s]

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Gerald Moore      Print: Road sign

  

Pierre Benoit : Atlandide

'5th March 1929. Papers from mother, with an account of the opening of the new girls? Secondary school. A very fine building. Photo of mother as one of the council notables. Finished ?Atlandide? (Pierre B?noit). It is a good story, excellently told, and an immense improvement on Rider Haggard.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Gerald Moore      Print: Book

  

Maxime  : La M?re

'7th March 1929. Reading ?La M?re? (Gorki).'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Gerald Moore      Print: Book

  

 : [newspapers]

'12th March 1929 Wrote to mother; read my week?s papers and extracted cuttings.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Gerald Moore      Print: Newspaper

  

Maxime Gorki : La M?re

'14th March 1929 ?They have used God Himself to cheer us! They have clothed him in lies and calumny to kill our souls?. (Gorki ? ?La M?re?) Just what have our Woodbine Willis meant in the face of this? [...] Gorki?s book would make most wonderful propaganda. Its simple beauty, idealistic appeal, and homely actuality would make it another ?Pilgrims Progress? or ?Uncle Tom?s Cabin? with the worker in England. Why not a cheap library of such books run by the I.L.P. [Independent Labour Party]? A Socialist Everyman? ?Pelagn?e knew people who had freed themselves from hate and rapacity; she understood that if the number of these people increased, the black and terrible face of life would become more kindly and simple, finer and brighter?.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Gerald Moore      Print: Book

  

Walt Whitman : Song of the Open Road

'14th March 1929. I had the ?Open Road? in my pocket, and we [G.M. and a friend, Miss Mundel] read bits together, and talked of ?Wander-thirst?, of Stevenson, of gardens, of tobacco, and (with E.V.L. in our minds) of ?Punch?. I recommended some of the glorious days I have passed in the country beyond St. Cloud with this book for company, and recited Stevenson?s ?Requiem? which Miss M?ndel liked and copied. The Websters gave me three numbers of ?Punch? for my week-end reading.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Gerald Moore      Print: Book

  

Brooks : unknown

'15th March 1929 Miss M?ndel and I inspect my little library. We read some Brooks, Kipling, Holmes, Artemus Ward, de Quincey -- in short, a browse. We looked at ?Phiz? illustrations to ?Sketches by Boz? and she talked of Wilhelm Busch as the greatest of German pencil artists.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Gerald Moore      Print: Book

  

Rudyard Kipling : unknown

'15th March 1929 Miss M?ndel and I inspect my little library. We read some Brooks, Kipling, Holmes, Artemus Ward, de Quincey -- in short, a browse. We looked at ?Phiz? illustrations to ?Sketches by Boz? and she talked of Wilhelm Busch as the greatest of German pencil artists.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Gerald Moore      Print: Book

  

Oliver Wendell Holmes : unknown

'15th March 1929 Miss M?ndel and I inspect my little library. We read some Brooks, Kipling, Holmes, Artemus Ward, de Quincey -- in short, a browse. We looked at ?Phiz? illustrations to ?Sketches by Boz? and she talked of Wilhelm Busch as the greatest of German pencil artists.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Gerald Moore      Print: Book

  

Artemus Ward : unknown

'15th March 1929 Miss M?ndel and I inspect my little library. We read some Brooks, Kipling, Holmes, Artemus Ward, de Quincey -- in short, a browse. We looked at ?Phiz? illustrations to ?Sketches by Boz? and she talked of Wilhelm Busch as the greatest of German pencil artists.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Gerald Moore      Print: Book

  

Thomas de Quincey : Confessions of an English Opium Eater

'15th March 1929 Miss M?ndel and I inspect my little library. We read some Brooks, Kipling, Holmes, Artemus Ward, de Quincey -- in short, a browse. We looked at ?Phiz? illustrations to ?Sketches by Boz? and she talked of Wilhelm Busch as the greatest of German pencil artists.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Gerald Moore      Print: Book

  

Charles Dickens : Sketches by Boz

'15th March 1929 Miss M?ndel and I inspect my little library. We read some Brooks, Kipling, Holmes, Artemus Ward, de Quincey -- in short, a browse. We looked at ?Phiz? illustrations to ?Sketches by Boz? and she talked of Wilhelm Busch as the greatest of German pencil artists.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Gerald Moore      Print: Book

  

 : [newspapers]

'17th March 1929 (Sunday). Slept until 12 ! In the afternoon read my papers and ?Punch?. Everyone out, drawn by the splendid weather.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Gerald Moore      Print: Newspaper

  

 : Punch, or the London Charivari

'17th March 1929 (Sunday). Slept until 12 ! In the afternoon read my papers and ?Punch?. Everyone out, drawn by the splendid weather.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Gerald Moore      Print: Serial / periodical

  

Maxime Gorki : La M?re

'20th March 1929. Finished ?La M?re? (Gorki)'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Gerald Moore      Print: Book

  

Anatole France : Le Petit Pierre

'21st March 1929. ?Le Petit Pierre? (Anatole France).'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Gerald Moore      Print: Book

  

Edmond Goncourt : La Faustin

'23rd March 1929 (Saturday). Bought a ?Monde?, a ?Canard Enchain??, and Goncourt?s ?La Faustin? then spent the afternoon reading. ? La Faustin? (Edmond Goncourt)'.

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Gerald Moore      Print: Book

  

 : [newspapers]

'24th March 1929 (Sunday). Delicious morning. We breakfasted in the garden, and after, while the Th?ologues retire upstairs to study the Epistle to the Romans. Melle M?ndel and I stayed outside, she reading ?La Faustin?, and I studying the week?s papers. I have had no English papers for two weeks, nor any news of mother.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Gerald Moore      Print: Newspaper

  

Sinclair Lewis : Dodsworth

'I am well into ?Dodsworth? and am liking it. It is very interesting though I find that Lewis has rather a ?green?, a youthful way of talking about Europe which makes the book read rather like a first novel. The American touch, of course. It is rather painful to read, though. Fran is altogether too infuriating, too cold-bloodedly dishonoured. For she doesn?t believe her own talk however Lewis may be eager at odd moments to think her rather a poor little thing. It is great reading, though. Why does he not put in a little more about the contrasting women, the real, honest, dignified, courageous person that some women do manage to be ? ???.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Gerald Moore      Print: Book

  

Sinclair Lewis : Dodsworth

'I still like ?Dodsworth?, and now am a little sorry for Mrs. She certainly does seem to lose herself and he is something of a dunderhead though he is so honest and well meaning. If she were more honest with herself, and had more of his normal sort of simplicity she would do better for herself and perhaps get more out of him. She has him scared stiff.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Gerald Moore      Print: Book

 

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