Some Further Letters to an Elector and Some Political Fables

Title

en_US Some Further Letters to an Elector and Some Political Fables

Description

J.H. Balfour Browne

Creator

en_US Browne, J.H. Balfour See all items with this value

Date

2022-11-07T16:12:51Z

2022-06

en_US 1910

Date Available

2022-11-07T16:12:51Z

Date Issued

en_US 1910

Abstract

en_US Speaking of letters written to an Elector and published, a preface describes that "it has been thought worth while to collect them and the political fables from the newspapers, and to give them the slightly longer life which the pamphlet form confers up on them." 54 pages. 5½" x 8½". Pages 37 to 54 offer some fourteen "Political Fables." These are sharp sarcastic political critiques of the welfare state, collectivism, and modern life generally. "An Organized Commonwealth" is a replay of BM, only this time it is the head and particularly the brain that is accused of doing nothing. There is joy and bounty when the head is cut off, but soon the whole body languishes. "Nemesis" is a true fable: the bigger factory that drives two happy competitors out of business soon faces a foreign factory that drives it out of business. I give the author high grades for cleverness. T of C at the beginning.

Identifier

en_US 13124 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/139298

Language

en_US eng

Publisher

en_US Longmans, Green, and Co.

en_US London

Subject

J.H. Balfour Browne See all items with this value