R,CHARD MONCKTON MILNES was born in the year - OUDL Home

Andrew Lang in the 'Seventies 95to suggest to this kind of abuser or accuser that he probablyconfined himself to the two because he did not wanta third, and to the one because he did not want a second.Yet I venture to imagine that explanations of this kind,lodged with the Recording Angel, would not be rejected;though that weary official might perhaps suggest thatthey were quite unnecessary. Meanwhile if Lang is(more's the pity!) gone, and some of his work gone withhim or recoverable only with infinite labour and pains,there is a great body of it accessible, and the old ' Take itand Read it' may be said with unusual confidence toanybody hesitating about the matter. 'Selections', ofcourse, suggest themselves and have been suggested. Itis possible to conceive not merely one but more than onewhich would supply reading of the most refreshing kind.But it would be an extraordinarily difficult job; and whileselections often fail to satisfy their readers, this selectionwould be so unlikely to satisfy the selector that he wouldprobably never get it finished. So the Tolle, lege, hadbetter be completed with the most elegant Latin availablefor whatever of Lang's you come across. It is ten to oneyou will not go wrong.