One hundred years ago last fortnight was born an English writer who modestly proposed to restore to strength and purity the English language, which he held had been debased by all English writers since Edmund Spenser. In his own monumental writing Charles Montagu Doughty succeeded. But grateful readers and writers of the English tongue did not crowd around to give Restorer Doughty thanks. Few of them have even read his most famed book, Travels in Arabia Deserta.
Said the London Times last fortnight in its Literary Supplement: "A book so real, austere, singular,...
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