Patrick ShawStewart Author:Ronald Arbuthnott Knox General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1920 Original Publisher: W. Collins Description: Chiefly a compilation by Knox of letters written by Patrick Shaw-Stewart to his family and friends. Subjects: World War, 1914-1918 Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there ma... more »y be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: Chapter Four Of the next few years of Patrick's life I am far less competent to write, or even to select the extracts from his correspondence that will be the most characteristic or the most informing. I saw him, as a rule, when he came up to Oxford and stayed at All Souls', but the centre of his life now lay in London, which is farther removed from Oxford than an hour's journey on the Great Western would seem to indicate; and, tenacious as he was of old friendships, it was not possible but that his ever- widening ripple of acquaintance should attach new significance to it, which carried him beyond, without making him disloyal to older associations. It was not that the financial world into which his employment under Baring Brothers led him altered his outlook in any substantial way. It fascinated him, certainly, but chiefly as a toy fascinates a child; it pleased him, he said, to be in a place where you referred to eight thousands of pounds simply as ' eight.' But he was still adapting means to ends; finance was only a golden bridge to something, he was not quite sure what. His intellectual interests were, I think, stimulated by the feeling that the world of intellect was no longer composed of a series of examinations. He hated work, and the Classics lost the stigma of ' work' when Greats lay behind ham. But other influences were forminghim, more personal and less easy to calculate in the widening of his social horizon. It will ...« less