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...Newspapers," wrote Charles Lamb, "always excite curiosity. No one ever lays one down without a feeling of disappointment." Here is a book that will satisfy that curiosity and give the reader an explanation of his disappointment in laying down a modern newspaper...
...prosperity it is easy to forget. More than a hundred years ago Charles Lamb wrote a humorous essay under the rather ambiguous title of "Poor Relations," in which he described the poor relation as casting a shadow on the threshold, in the high noon of prosperity.--In prosperity men do their best to forget such shadows. But in poverty and in wartime it is different. There is suffering, and, in thinking of a loss such as Sir Harry Lauder's, there comes to most men the question whether the subject is not worth more thought, and more interest, and more...
...said, "the book came from a house close to where Lamb used to live at Edmonton...
...said, "Well, considering that Lamb died in 1834, five years before this book was published, how do you account for that...
...answered: "Well, I dunno, guv'nor; perhaps it was another Charles Lamb." He was not in the least perturbed about...