Truffles for Potatoes
Ferdinand Mount: Little Rosebery, 22 September 2005
Rosebery: Statesman in Turmoil
by Leo McKinstry.
Murray, 626 pp., £25, May 2005,0 7195 5879 4 Show More
by Leo McKinstry.
Murray, 626 pp., £25, May 2005,
“... The schoolmaster William Johnson is remembered for three things, although not under that name. He wrote the most famous of all translations from Greek lyric verse, ‘They told me, Heraclitus, they told me you were dead’; he wrote the words of the ‘Eton Boating Song’; and in a letter to Francis Warre-Cornish, another Eton schoolmaster, he wrote of his pupil, the future Lord Rosebery: ‘I would give you a piece of plate if you would get that lad to work; he is one of those who like the palm without the dust ... ”