Newspaper cutting
The Observer
Category
Ephemera
Date
13 Jan 1929
Materials
Newspaper
Measurements
320 x 175 mm
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Summary
One of a series of newspaper cuttings. 'Famous Men 1925-1955'. Numbers 19/1 - 19/15. A single cutting. 'THE OBSERVER, SUNDAY, JANUARY 13, 1929'. 'Edmund burke, 1729-1929. AN EXTRAORDINARY LIFE. THE PUBLIC EPIC AND PRIVATE TRAGEDY. HIS GENIUS AND CHARACTER. ONE MAN AS A WORLD-POWER. (By J. L. GARVIN.) Yesterday was the two-hundredth birth- day of a man, still and forever living, whose career, character, and genius were all so extraordinary in the amplest sense of this word, that they have left an ineffaceable impression of personality as well as an im- mortal place in literature and eminence nearly equal in Parliamentary tradition. No subject has been the theme of better writing at some times or worse at others. Every student knows that the accumulated com- ment which seems exhaustive in mass re- mains inadequate in several respects and awaits its supplement. ...'.
Makers and roles
The Observer, printer and publisher