Volume 29, Number 11 · June 24, 1982
Chosen People
By John Clive
A Liberal Descent: Victorian Historians and the English Past
by J. W. Burrow
Cambridge University Press, 308 pp., $45.00
Last summer I visited some friends in the house they were then renting in London. It turned out to be the case that their landlord's hobby was collecting pudding molds. Everywhere one looked one could see them—in shapes ranging from bunches of grapes to various birds and animals to a couple of likenesses of famous faces. Some were more beautiful than others; all still seemed redolent with promise of gelatinous bliss.
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