TOPICS OF THE DAY.
FAMOUS TOMS. Mr Clement Shorter in "The Sphere" call's attention to an article in the " Chicago Dial" on famous Thomases. The following list is suggestive : Thomas Occleve--" The Regemeni of Princes." Sir Thomas Maloy "Morte d* Arthur." Thomas More—" Utopia." Thomaß Nash—Plays. Th6mas Campion—Songs. Sir Thomas Browne "Rehgio Medici." * . . „ Thomas Hobbes—" Leviathan." Thomas Parnoil—" Contentment," Thomas Percy—" Reliques." Thomas Gray— ' Elegy." Thomas Chatterton-—" Rowley Ballads," and a fleeting glimpse of the most startling genius ever known. Tom Moore—Songs. Tom Hood —Poems, and courage. Thomas de Quincey—" Suspiria de Profundis." Thomas Babington Macauiay—Essays, and that cursed boon, the balancrd sentence. Thomas Carlyle—" Sartor Resartus," the greatest spiritual dynaraio of his century. Thomas Henry Huxley—Essays, and honesty. Thomas Arnold—Rugbjf, Thomas Hardy—The finest novels in English. There is no doubt but that the Apostle TJ-omns should be included, nIEO St Thomas a Becket (after whom St Thomas's Hospital was named), Thomas Aquinas, Thomas a Kempis. Why not Thomas Sayers, the boxer?
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 11505, 29 September 1915, Page 4
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