Once felt, never without. The practise of law seems less important than once it did to Arthur Train. The number of cases that really are interesting—are they growing fewer? There is something about private practise ... duller than the old court work, less stimulating....
He has “an infinite capacity for taking pains.” It has been proven. There, I think, our case rests.
Books by Arthur Train
1905 McAllister and His Double
1906 The Prisoner at the Bar
1908 True Stories of Crime
1909 The Butler’s Story
1909 Mortmain
1909 Confessions of Artemas Quibble
1910 C. Q., or In the Wireless House
1911 Courts, Criminals and the Camorra
1914 The “Goldfish.” This book, published
anonymously, caused a sensation by its
satirisation of American social life
1915 The Man Who Rocked the Earth (with
Robert Williams Wood)
1917 The World and Thomas Kelly
1918 The Earthquake
1920 Tutt and Mr. Tutt
1921 By Advice of Counsel
1921 The Hermit of Turkey Hollow
1923 His Children’s Children
1923 Tut, Tut! Mr. Tutt
6. The Lady of a Tradition,
Miss Sackville-West
i
THERE are two sides from which you may first profitably look at the house. One is from the park, the north side. From here the pile shows best the vastness of its size; it looks like a mediæval village. It is heaped with no attempt at symmetry; it is sombre and frowning; the grey towers rise; the battlements cut out their square regularity against the sky; the buttresses of the old twelfth-century tithe-barn give a rough impression of fortifications. There is a line of trees in one of the inner courtyards, and their green heads show above the roofs of the old breweries; but although they are actually trees of a considerable size they are dwarfed and unnoticeable against the mass of the buildings blocked behind them. The whole pile soars to a peak which is the clock-tower with its pointed roof; it might be the spire of the church on the summit of the hill crowning the mediæval village. At sunset I have seen the silhouette of the great building stand dead black on a red sky; on moonlight nights it stands black and silent, with glinting windows, like an enchanted castle. On misty autumn nights I have seen it emerging partially from the trails of vapour, and heard the lonely roar of the red deer roaming under the walls.”
V. SACKVILLE-WEST
Such is the opening page of V. Sackville-West’s volume, Knole and the Sackvilles, a handsomely printed and illustrated account of the seat of the Earls and Dukes of Dorset. Authentic record of the family goes not beyond that Herbrand de Sackville who came to England with William the Conqueror. Knole, bought by Archbishop Bourchier in 1456, and held by Cardinal Morton, Cranmer, Henry VIII., Edward VI., Queen Mary and Elizabeth, was granted, in 1586 by Elizabeth, to Thomas Sackville, Lord Buckhurst, first Earl of Dorset. The name “West” enters with the marriage of Lady Elizabeth Sackville, sister of the fourth Duke, to John West, Earl de la Warr.