FAMOUS TOMS

Otautau Standard and Wallace County Chronicle, Volume XI, Issue 541, 28 September 1915, Page 2

FAMOUS TOMS

Mr Clement Shorter, in the ' Sphere ' calls attention to an article in the ' Chicago Dial ' on famous Thomasos. The following list is suggestive : —

Thomas Occleve— 'The Regement of Princes.' Sir Thomas Malory— ' Morte d'Arthur.' Thomas More — 'Utopia.' Thomas Nash—' Plays.' Thomas Campion — Songs. Sir Thomas Browne — 'Religio Medici.' Thomas Hobbes — ' Leviathan.' Thomas Parnell— ' Contentment.' Thomas Percy — ' Reliques.' Thomas Gray — 'Elegy.' Thomas Chatterton— ' RoAvley Ballads,' and a fleeting glimpse of the most startling geniius ever known. Tom Moore— Songs. Tom Hood — Poems, and courage. Thomas de Quincey— \Suspiria de Profundis.'

Thomas Babington Macaulay— Essays, and that cursed boon, the balanced sentence. Thomas Carlyle—* Sartor Resartus,' the greatest spiritual dynamic of his century. Thomas Henry Huxley — Essays, and honesty. Thomas Hardy— The finest novels in English.

There is no doubt but that the Apostle Thomas should be included, also St. Thomas a'Becket (after whom St. Thomas's Hospital was named), Thomas Aquinas, Thomas a'Kempis. Why not Thomas Sayers the boxer ?