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“... grounding in logic, epistemology and cosmology. Thrasybulus, one of the two texts in P.N. Singer’s new translation of Galen’s writings on health, is a speech given at a formal debate between a doctor and a gym trainer. In style if not in content, it’s a standard piece of ancient rhetoric. Many debates took the form of bracing dichotomies ...”

“... His is a poignant story. Born in 1885 in Birmingham, the son of a prosperous butcher, he became a singer, dancer and light comedian, specialising in the role of the elegant young man-about-town. Very good-looking, in a lustrous-eyed, crinkly-haired ‘period’ way, and stylish in his footwork and stage presence, he had, in the years just before the First ...”

“... other man he had ever met who walked like Swinburne’. The remark reminds one that, in ‘A Singer Asleep’, Hardy was inspired to a subtle pastiche of Swinburne. There was a good deal of the aesthete, not to mention the Fin-de-Siècle, in Hardy. Tennant was really a Restoration-style aristocratic fop, but, this being Britain and the 20th century, his ...”