Dithery, depressed but dashing, Boswell was sent to study law at Utretch amongst those dreary Dutch, how staid, how boring even those in high society at the Hague. Having lost his journal before publication, this account relies on his personal memoranda, offering a glimpse of life among the upper classes during the Enlightenment before the French Revolution when so many were highly cultured as a matter of course. Very entertaining and very human.
(Kathie Somerwil Ayrton - bwl 75 Winter 2015 ) |
