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Excerpt from Life, Letters, and Diaries of Sir Stafford Northcote First Earl of Iddesleigh, Vol. 2 of 2 Taste for literature Refuge in a tree Desultory reading Favourite books The ancient classics Sir Walter Scott Dickens Dante Moliere - Chaucer - Lady North cote's contro versy with Mr Gladstone on Homer and Tasso - Lord Iddes leigh's writings - Literary diversions - His Hamlet - Plays Poems - Art - Domestic life - Sports - homefilove of Devon shire - Devonshire stories - Examples - Children - Railway acci dent - Mobs - Meeting with Mr Gladstone - Conclusion. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.