Bøger af Bernard Darwin

Although Bernard Darwin twice reached the semi-finals of the British Amateur Championships, he achieved far greater notoriety with his pen than with his club. This volume gathers a collection of Darwin's essays, and is a celebration of a life devoted to a love of the game of golf.

1930. From the Prefatory Note: The object of this book is to reproduce some of the more entertaining advertisements that appeared in various of Dickens's novels, as they were published in their original monthly parts. The notion was not my own but that of a friend whose sense of humour was fired by a casual glance at some of those precious green numbers. Contents: The Advertisers of the Dickensian Era; Ancient and Modern; Pickwick; The Young Person; Literature; Smoking; For the Head; Mr. Moses; Dress; The Pill; and Old Friends.

This is a new release of the original 1930 edition.

Some dozen or fifteen years ago the historian of the London golf courses would have had a comparatively easy task. He would have said that there were a few courses upon public commons, instancing, as he still would to-day, Blackheath and Wimbledon. He might have dismissed in a line or two a course that a few mad barristers were trying to carve by main force out of a swamp thickly covered with gorse and heather near Woking. All the other courses would have been lumped together under some such description as that they consisted of fields interspersed by trees and artificial ramparts, the latter mostly built by Tom Dunn; that they were villainously muddy in winter, of an impossible and adamantine hardness in summer, and just endurable in spring and autumn; finally, that the muddiest and hardest and most distinguished of them all was Tooting Bec. All this is changed now, and the change is best exemplified by the fact that although the club has removed to new quarters, poor Tooting itself is now as Tadmor in the wilderness. I passed by the spot the other day, and should never have recognized it had not an old member pointed it out to me in a voice husky with emotion.

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