DOING THINGS WELL.
Mr. Hugh Dent, who was in New Zealand, has written a life of his father, the late Mr. J. M. Dent, founder of Everyman's Library. In it _he repeats what Mr. Dent said of his visit to Professor Saintsbury to discuss a complete translation of Balzac's "Comcdie Humainc." Mr. Dent said: When dinner arrived the Professor was distressed when I told him I took no wine. He had prepared a deliciously choice meal, and had arranged a selection of wine to take with it, and after it, aiid it was a grave disappointment to him that he bad to keep it up by himself. When dinner was finished he asked mournfully if I smoked, and was more happy when he knew that I did. He went to his divan and chose with great care a cigar for mo, but was horrified when I produced a wnx lucifer to light it with. He stopped me in time, found a piece of wood and lit it for me, saying that the stench of a wax match was ruin to the enjoyment of a cigar, and that all his life he bad striven to find the very best in everything, both material and spiritual, and I believe he had. .
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Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 56, 9 March 1929, Page 21
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