Letters of George Birkbeck Hill, D. C. L., LL. D

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Excerpt from Letters of George Birkbeck Hill, D. C. L., LL. D: Hon. Fellow of Pembroke College, Oxford "Blessings on those who publish Letters and Biographies, but a tenfold blessing on the writers of Autobiographies. They surely shall escape Purgatory and have the choicest valley in Paradise all to themselves, where they shall find Boswells that have no end and no lack of interest." Birkbeck Hill wrote these words one day as he laid down Motley's Letters, but the blessing, in one form or another, was one which always rose to his lips after reading any faithful piece of biographical work. Of all reading he best loved that which admitted him to the intimacy of a fellow-man, where, a silent and unsuspected observer, he could study the growth of character and follow the development of thought through the pages of Letters or Autobiographies. It mattered little to him whether the writer of the letters, the subject of the biography, were a man of action or a man of thought so long as the portrayal of character were intimate and genuine. Of such reading he never tired. He himself needs no detailed biography, for his life was all too uneventful to be closely recorded, nor did he, even to gain the choicest valley in Paradise, ever knowingly compose an Autobiography. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.