A captain about town
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,1638782,00.html
The reminiscences of a 19th-century dandy are surprisingly relevant to
the modern world
David McKie
Thursday November 10, 2005
The Guardian
In a second-hand bookshop in Tunbridge Wells I discovered a book that
is often alluded to but which I had never previously seen. It's a
modern abridgment of three books of reminiscences which a man called
Captain Gronow wrote in the 1860s, at the end of his life. I thought
the captain would give me a flavour of 19th-century England, and he
does. I had not expected him to cast any light on the problems of
21st-century Paris as seen on our screens this week, but oddly enough,
he does that too.
David McKie
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