Maurice Baring. A Postscript By Laura Lovat. With Some Letters and Verse

Hardback. First Edition. Maurice Baring. Foxing to end inside covers. Wear and tear to D/J. Small piece of D/J. missing from top of spine. Browning to spine. Laura Lady Lovat, who was a close friend of Maurice Baring during the latter part of his life, has written an appreciation of his character and a description of his gaiety and courage during the long illness leading up to his death at her home in Scotland. Writing with great charm and sincerity she manages to convey to the reader the simple and lovable humanity of a man whose literary and linguistic genius made of him an embodiment of all that is finest in the culture of modern Christendom. The author has also collected from maurice Baring's friends some hitherto unpublished lettersin, including letters to Hilaire Belloc, Andre Maurois, 'Vernon Lee', Dame Ethel Smyth, Sir Ronald Storrs, some fine examples of his poetry and translations from the Russian, French and German Masters. In addition Monsignor Ronald Knox has written an essay on the influence of the classics upon Maurice Baring's mind, and Princess Marthe Bibesco has contributed her personal impressions of the man and his work. Frontispiece. 116 pp. (We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions, Reference books ,and all types of Academic Literature.).…