Transactions of the Royal Society of Literature of the United Kingdom, Vol. 33 (Classic Reprint)
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Excerpt from Transactions of the Royal Society of Literature of the United Kingdom, Vol. 33 Republics have ever been keen wooers of foreign Princes, and the Republic of Letters, through the medium of its Senates, the Academies, has shown itself in this respect a particularly eager wooer. But I doubt whether the Academies, as a rule, have done their wooing as all wooing should be done; I mean, not only with due discrimination and strength of purpose, but with fearlessness and dash. Their advances have often gone no further than to crave a colourless exchange of courtesies, the humble request and yet humbler acceptance of a distant patronage. True, a connection of this kind may lend something to the outward glamour of a learned or artistic corporation, and I would not deny the importance of its public bearing, especially when it can serve as a social hint to a pleasure-seeking and material generation, a generation heedless of all such intellectual activities as are not manifestly nor immediately convertible into specie or short bills. Such an honour, such a privilege, however, are unsubstantial; they contribute but little to the intrinsic worth or real effectiveness of the society that begs the favour. Nor is the prince who bestows the favour more likely to draw from it any appreciable gratification. At the most, its bestowal will wring from him the quiet, well-bred, but wholly formal, smile, which Queen Elizabeth of Roumania has crystallised for us with a playful if pathetic irony in her Thoughts of a Queen: "Strictly speaking, a prince requires nothing but eyes and ears; he does not need a mouth, except to smile." It is such aphorisms as that, or, again, as this: "A little contradiction animates conversation. This explains why Courts are so dull"; it is such aphorisms, from such a pen, which make my present task, if not an easy one, a task which is, to say the least, congenial. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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