Books: A Country Doctor’s Commonplace Book: Wonders and Absurdities: Not so Commonplace

摘要

Evans Philip Rhys Slightly Foxed , 2018 , HB, 112 pp, ￡ 12 , 978-1910898147Commonplace books, which are essentially scrapbooks containing written items of all kinds including quotations, letters, poems, proverbs, and prayers, have a long history. John Milton’s commonplace book consisted largely of proverbs and wise statements, and in 1706 John Locke produced a guide to making commonplace books, describing techniques for entering proverbs, quotations, ideas, and speeches, including arranging them by subject categories, such as love, politics, and religion. Francis Bacon and EM Forster also kept commonplace books, and WH Auden published his in 1970 as A Certain World …