Magazine
All the Issues
Each Issue is a choice of articles from the Clay Lane collection, with a brief editorial offering some additional background. Read short extracts by the writers of the past — from fiction, poetry and biography to politics, social commentary, and eyewitness history — and try your hand at solving little problems of grammar like those NL Clay gave to his pupils.
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Elbert Green Hubbard tells us about Richard Cobden’s early life, and how it shaped his values; Sydney Smith gives us his definition of marriage; mild-mannered clergyman George Herbert get his hands (and much else besides) dirty in helping labourer dumped in the road by his overloaded horse; and a Victorian commuter arrives home carrying more than his briefcase.