The Times on the American War: And Other Essays

ISBN-13: 9781108047623 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 146 str.

Leslie Stephen

Opis

The biographer and writer on philosophy, ethics and literature Leslie Stephen (1832 1904) was educated at Eton, King's College, London, and then Trinity College, Cambridge, where he remained as a fellow and a tutor for his entire career. He served as the first editor (1885 91) of the Dictionary of National Biography and in 1871 he became editor of the Cornhill Magazine. In this short piece, published in 1865, Stephen takes issue with the portrayal of the American Civil War (1861 5) by The Times. Having travelled to the United States himself in 1863, Stephen argues that the newspaper's depiction of the events in America is inaccurate, and both misinforms the public in Britain and damages Britain's reputation abroad. Also included in this reissue is a short article on the poet John Byrom (1692 1763), and an obituary of Henry Sidgwick (1838 1900), Stephen's personal friend."