...Martin Kallich Lytton Strachey: A Critical Biography. Vol. I: The Unknown Years (1880-1910) . Pp. xxiii , 460 +Index; Vol. II: The Years of Achievement (1910-1932) . Pp. xii , 720 +Bibliography & Index. By Holroyd Michael . New York : Holt, Rinehart, and Winston , 1968...

... of its dangers as a reference work; you plunge in for a reference fact, and surface many pages downstream). The comparison with Michael Holroyd s Lytton Strachey seems impolite, but inevitable, for these are the most recent and ambitious biographies of Bloomsbury figures. The truth and integrity of Bell...

... sponsor, the American millionaire, Holroyd. The regime cannot seize the popular imagination, indeed is deeply resented by Costaguana s declassed majority of Indians, for it is trapped in the contradictions of a client imperial operation.36 The Ribierists cannot satisfy the needs of the poor without...

.... Not that there was a wrong thing in it: but the wrong people would run about enlarging their mouths over you. It is a pity such creatures must exist {Letters, p. 537). He also looked forward Michael Holroyd, Lytton Strachey, II (London, 1967), 646, quotes Strachey s letter of November 4, 1929, which mentions a second...