E. A. Falk — Handwritten Notebook

None, None, 1896. Vellum. A very scarce notebook, with many handwritten entries of poetry, and speeches, in English, Greek, and Latin. The notebook of E. A. Falk of Kings College, dated by himself as July 16th 1896.This notebook contains writing to eighty-five leaves, the rest of the volume being blank, containing a variety of writings, copyings from poems and speeches, and schoolwork, in Greek, Latin, and English/Including a quotation from Edmund Burke's speech at the Guildhall in Bristol, on his parliamentary conduct, in 1780: "Look, gentlemen, to the whole tenor of your member"s conduct. Try whether his ambition or his avarice have jostled him out of the straight line of duty; or whether that grand foe of the offices of active life, that master-vice in men of business, a degenerate and inglorious sloth, has made him flag and languish in his course? This is the object of our inquiry. If our member"s conduct can bear this touch, mark it for sterling. He may have fallen into errors; he must have faults; but our error is greater, and our fault is radically ruinous to ourselves, if we do not bear, if we do not even applaud, the whole compound and mixed mass of such a character. Not to act thus is folly; I had almost said it is impiety. He censures God, who quarrels with the imperfections of man. Gentlemen, we must not be peevish with those who serve the people. For none will serve us whilst there is a court to serve, but". Also including: the final two stanzas' of Tennyson's 'Oenone', beginning with "O mother, hear me yet before I die"; Sonnet 9, 'Sleep Silence Child' by William Drummond; 'The True Beauty' by Thomas Carew; 'The Retort to Walpole' by William Pitt; a letter written by Sydney Smith to John Murray on the 21st November 1832, and more. In a half vellum binding with cloth to the boards. Externally, generally smart. Vellum is a little age-toned with some spots, as is usual. Rubbing to the spine. A few light marks to the boards. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean. Very Good . Ill.: None. Very Good .