Gold out of Straw
Peter Mandler: Samuel Smiles, 19 February 2004
Self-Help: With Illustrations of Character, Conduct and Perseverance
by Samuel Smiles, edited by Peter Sinnema.
Oxford, 387 pp., £7.99, October 2002,0 19 280176 7 Show More
by Samuel Smiles, edited by Peter Sinnema.
Oxford, 387 pp., £7.99, October 2002,
“... of Böttgher and Palissy make clear, Smiles’s heroes are not all Englishmen (though they are, as Peter Sinnema says, almost all male and European). Napoleon I does not always come out poorly from the frequent comparisons with the Duke of Wellington, and Smiles pointedly praises la carrière ouverte aux talents characteristic of the French but not of the ... ”
