June 17 + 

Prof. Geo. Saintsbury’s book on Elizabethan literature amuses me. George, there can be no doubt, is a very refined, cultivated fellow. I bet he don’t eat periwinkles with a pin or bite his nails⁠—and you should hear him refer to folk who can’t read Homer in the original or who haven’t been to Oxford⁠—to Merton above all. He also says non so che for je ne sais quoi. + 