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Lost Leaders

Andrew Lang, best beloved for his series of fairy books, has collected here essays on wide ranging topics from golf and shaving to Thackeray’s Drawings and American Humour. These essays provide a glimpse into the world of this Scottish author and his world - Summary by Larry Wilson (5 hr 15 min)

Chapters

Scotch Rivers

9:54

Salmon-Fishing

10:30

Winter Sports

8:15

Human Levitation

15:08

A Chinaman’s Marriage

8:15

Sieur de Montaigne

8:56

Thackeray’s Drawings

9:37

Golf

11:17

Art of Dining

9:50

American Humour

10:24

Suspended Animation

14:54

Breaking Up

8:10

On Shaving

10:35

Street Noises

14:25

Lending of Books

14:34

Club Bores

13:41

Phiz

8:41

Theory and Practice of Proposals

10:58

Master Samuel Pepys

8:44

Involuntary Bailees

8:36

Summer Nights

10:44

On Hypochondriacs

9:43

Thackeray’s London

8:21

Torrid Summer

9:23

Western Drolls

12:12

Show Sunday

11:20

The Dry Fly

8:54

Amateur Authors

8:17

Some Rare Things for Sale

10:38

Curiosity Hunting

10:28