Maurice Baring: LettersMaurice Baring is one of those writers of whom it is periodically said that he is unjustly forgotten and ripe for reappraisal. In his own lifetime, he was a prolific and popular author: a uniform edition of his work published by Heinemann in 1925 lists over 50 works - novels, plays, anthologies, poetry, memoirs and reportage - most of which are now out of print. Jocelyn Hillgarth and Julian Jeffs, the editors of this fascinating collection of Baring's letters, include a long and serious one from Baring about the strengths and deficiencies of the Royal Flying Corps in which he served as adjutant to the commander, Lord Trenchard. He was a member of the Barings Bank family, served as a diplomat in the 1900's and covered the Russo-Japanese War for the Morning Post. |
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
Army Arnold August beautiful Beerbohm believe Benckendorff British Embassy Catholic Catholicism Cecil Charteris Church Command Cornish Countess critic D. S. Mirsky DAME ETHEL SMYTH Danton's dear Mrs Cornish dear Vernon DESMOND MACCARTHY EDMUND GOSSE EDWARD MARSH engines England English Eton fact feel fighting Flying Corps France French friends G. K. Chesterton German Gray's Inn Greek happen heard Henry Hilaire Belloc Hildesheim kind language lived London looked Lord M.B. wrote machines Maurice Baring Max Beerbohm Morning Post never night novelist novels Oeufs Paris parties Petersburg pilots play poems poet poetry portrait priest published Puppet Show Rome Rottingdean Royal Flying Corps Russian Sarah Sarah Bernhardt Shakespeare Show of Memory soldier song Sosnofka story Swinburne talk tell things thought tinned trees Trenchard VERNON LEE Warre Cornish whole wonderful Woolf words write