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...world where sins are apt to be ugly, a horse-race is so beautiful that if one loves beauty he can practise an aesthetic virtue by sinning in that sort. So I made myself a pretence of profit as well as pleasure, and in going to Doncaster I feigned the wish chiefly to compare its high event with that of Saratoga. I had no association with the place save horse-racing, and...

...World War. [Figure 1] Figure 1 Siegfried Sassoon's medical case sheet, dated 23 July 1917, from Craiglockhart War Hospital; note the handwritten alterations – for example, the change from ‘refused’ to ‘failed to attend’ on the second page. (Sassoon Papers, Department of Documents, Imperial War Museum) At the end of the war he published his diaries and a...

...world something of the inner life of a famous man; and Lewis Carroll was so wonderful a personality, and so good a man, that if my pen dragged ever so slowly, I feel that I can at least tell something of his life which is worthy the telling. Writing with the sense of his loss still heavy upon me, I must of necessity colour my account with sadness. I am not in the ordinary...