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Sir EDMUND GOSSE, reading from ' Father

on 5XX Daventry

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and Son '
NO less an authority than Mr. Belloc recently
-L' declared that there were only two writers keeping alive in current journalism the standards of classical and scholarly prose-one, Dean Inge find the other. Sir Edmund Gosse , who is to broadcast tonight. His first book was published half-a-century ago, and since then his many volumes on literary subjects (amongst the most recent. are ' Books on the Table ' and ' Silhouettes ') and his weekly articles in The Sunday Times have established him amongst the most distinguished living critics of literature. But his masterpiece is undoubtedly ' Father and Son.' a delicate autobiography published in 1907, and crowned by the French Academy in 1913.

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