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Bookends

Bookends: Umpty, umpty, umpty…

11 August 2012

4:00 PM

11 August 2012

4:00 PM

According to Ogden Nash, the reason the British aristocracy wrote so much is because they could never understand what they were saying to one another. Much of the advice proffered in Gentlemen’s Pursuits (Simon & Schuster, £12.99) from the pages of Country Life, seems aimed at people who can neither write nor talk.

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