Unmuscular Legs
E.S. Turner, 22 August 1996
The Dictionary of National Biography 1986-1990
edited by C.S. Nicholls.
Oxford, 607 pp., £50, June 1996,0 19 865212 7 Show More
edited by C.S. Nicholls.
Oxford, 607 pp., £50, June 1996,
“... urologist, after retirement, had to be given ‘very firm encouragement’ to stop operating). As Leslie Stephen, first editor, once said, much of the value of the DNB lies in the light it sheds on the lives of the second-rate, meaning second-rank, about whom it is not easy to find information elsewhere. If we do not need it for Lord Blake’s long piece ... ”