Volume 31, Number 20 · December 20, 1984
Grand Chutzpah
By Simon Schama
The English Rothschilds
by Richard Davis
University of North Carolina Press, 272 pp., $17.95
Dear Lord Rothschild: Birds, Butterflies and History
by Miriam Rothschild
Balaban, 421 pp., $29.95
A Jewish landed aristocracy seems about as improbable as Bertie Wooster breakfasting on lox and bagels. But the Rothschilds, at their grandest, have been impeccable in breakfasts as in everything else. A famous piece of Rothschild lore has a butler asking a house guest whether he would prefer to take his morning tea with milk from the Jersey or the Guernsey herd.
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