BIOGRAPHY.
The defects of bad biographies are due to a tendency to look down to or up at the figures of the past, said Mr Philip Guedalla in .a recent address. They should he viewed with level eyes, and it is an error to, patronise the past like a petrol advertisement with its “gasoline giggles.” The duty of the biographer is to he more interested in his subject than in himself, which accounts for the modesty of biographers as a class.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 58, Issue 89, 25 January 1938, Page 4
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