Bright Old Thing
D.A.N. Jones, 23 July 1987
Letters of Conrad Russell: 1897-1947
edited by Georgiana Blakiston.
Murray, 278 pp., £16.95, May 1987,0 7195 4382 7 Show More
edited by Georgiana Blakiston.
Murray, 278 pp., £16.95, May 1987,
“... but in his youth had few other aesthetic pleasures, confessing to his sister: ‘Pictures give me no pleasure, architecture a little but practically none. Sculpture absolutely none, moreover music, poetry and singing give me no pleasure. It is a sad fact.’ He was never sent to school and could not spell. It is all too ... ”