Saturday Good Reads – Nov. 7, 2026

This past week, we watched the movie Pressure (2206), about the final 72 hours of the run-up to the D. Day invasion in World War II. The top three stars are Brendan Fraser as Dwight Eisenhower, Damian Lewis as a rather nasty Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery, and Andrew Scott in an incredible performance as British meteorologist James Stagg. It is Stagg who must determine if the weather allows a go or no-go for the invasion. It’s riveting. History Extra has a podcast on the true story behind the movie.  

Historians (and everybody else) will likely argue until Doomsday about the role the Christian faith played in the founding of the United States. But the U.S. Constitution was itself based on several state constitutions, which were based on various Puritan covenants, which were based on the Bible. Jerry Newcombe at the Institute for Faith, Work, & Economics explains the importance of the first English Bible printed in the United States.

 

We know that C.S. Lewis’s Anglican faith helped shape the writing of The Chronicles of Narnia. But what about J.R.R. Tolkien and The Lord of the Rings? D.J. Taylor at Literary Hub explains how it was Tolkien’s Catholic faith that shaped not only LOTR but all of his writings. 

 

More Good Reads

 

America 250

 

Hessian Origins of the Headless Horseman – Evan Portman at Emerging Revolutionary War Era.

 

Atlas of Independence now available in audio – Chris Mackowski at Emerging Revolutionary War Era.

 

How Three Powers Became Three Branches – Charles Lincoln at Journal of the American Revolution.

 

Life and Culture

 

NYC public schools deceived me into thinking my son was a straight-A math student. But he can’t do fractions, basic algebra – David Spector at the New York Post.

 

News Media

 

The Victorian Origins of Investigative Journalism – Stephen Donovan and Matthew Rubery at History Today.

 

A Daring Suggestion for Netflix – Tim Challies.

 

Writing and Literature

 

On Longsuffering – Jacob Adkins at Front Porch Republic.

 

How J.R.R. Tolkien’s Strong Catholic Faith Influenced His Writing – D.J. Taylor at Literary Hub.

 

Magic in Middle-Earth – Joseph Pearce at The Imaginative Conservative.

 

The Inconstant Reader – Jeffrey Streter at English Republic of Letters.

 

British Stuff

 

Charles Dickens’ writing chalet among UK landmarks at risk of being lost – Emily Beament at The Independent.

 

Israel

 

The End of an Era – Michael Oren at Clarity.

 

Poetry

 

“Low Tide,” poem by Sara Teasdale – Sally Thomas at Poems Ancient and Modern.

 

Love’s Fine Wit: A Reading of Shakespeare’s Sonnet 23 – K.S. Bernstein at Apple Blossoms in a Mournful Wood.

 

Duc in Altum – poem by Cody Ilardo at Power & Glory.

 

Federal Prison Spontaneous Worship Moment – Lizzie Morgan

Painting: Woman Reading, oil on canvas by  Mary Cassatt (1844-1926). 

Saturday Good Reads - Oct. 3, 2026

One of the most moving accounts I read this week was in Front Porch Republic. A writer named Jessica Birke looked at the family home where she grew up, the one that will likely be sold after her parents ae no longer there, and wonders what will happen to the place. She had me at the first line: “The land is mostly quiet now.” 

Next Wednesday, Oct. 7, Tweetspeak Poetry is hosting its Random Acts of Poetry. It’s an annual thing, in which you commit random acts of poetry in public places, including social media. (No, you don’t have to recite poetry in public; you can chalk your driveway, if that works.)  One year, and I believe it was 2015, we were in London when the day arrived. My wife thought I was crazy, and I probably was, but I left short poems on slips of paper in our hotel’s restaurant, in the café at the National Theatre, on the rube and the bus, and in a pew at St. Martin-in-the-Field Church on Trafalgar Square. (I suppose you could say I committed quiet, anonymous acts of random poetry. I almost felt like a poetic counterpart to Banksy.) Anyway, you can find the details and suggestions here. 

 

Yesterday was the anniversary of a vicious attack on the Jewish community on Manchester, England. We’ve had attacks here in the United States, but we haven’t been seeing the rise of anti-Semitism that Britain seems to be experiencing. Perhaps it’s because we’re a larger country. But you just don’t expect to see an attack on a synagogue in the Britain you’ve experienced many times and the Britain of your imagination. But it’s there, and it’s getting worse. Robert Largan at The Critic Magazine looks back in anger at what happened and what it means. 

 

More Good Reads

 

America 250

 

Closing the Ring: George Washington’s War in the North 1778-1781 – review by Sam Short at Journal of the American Revolution. 

 

The Battle of Cowpens: Correcting a Historical Error – Dennis Amos at Journal of the American Revolution.

 

The American Frontier, Native War and Diplomacy – Keli Holt at Just Enough History.

 

Art

 

Curator Q&A: Simon Kelly discusses “Women Impressionists and the Land” – St. Louis Art Museum.

 

British Stuff

 

Hitler ordered my father’s death – but an SS general spared his life – David Lascelles at History Extra.

 

If these stones could talk – Conor McKee at The New Criterion on Stories of the Stones by Paul Robichaud.

 

Poetry

 

“On the Mississippi,” poem by Hamlin Garland – Joseph Bottum at Poems Ancient and Modern.

 

The House Was Quiet and the World Was Calm – poem by Wallace Stevens.

 

Outsourcing the Sun – poem by Kimberly Joyce Williams at Mere Orthodoxy.

 

Israel

 

Israel is Winning – Douglas Murray at The Free Press (article unlocked).

 

Faith

 

Invade or Retreat from Politics? – Greg Koukl at Stand to Reason.

 

American Stuff

 

Author Q&A: Theodore Savas and The Indispensable Man – Civil War Books and authors.

 

Bill Nighy explores The Courtauld Gallery

Painting: Old Man Reading a Book, oil on canvas (1889) by Joaquín Agrasot y Juan (1836-1919).

“Avi Lanir: A Short Life Story” by Yael Yannay

Born in 1940 in what was then the British Mandate and what would become the state of Israel, Avi Lanir enjoyed only a short life. He died in 1973, tortured to death by the Syrians after he was captured during the Yom Kippur War. (“The Geneva Convention is for Europe, not here”). And yet he’s remembered as one of Israel’s most famous fighter pilots.

 

Author Yal Yannay had published a full biography of the man. But Avi Lanir – A Short Life Story: The Courage and Capture of an Israeli Fighter Pilot is not only a biography; it is also a history of Israel through 1973. And that’s because Lanir lived that history from his birth in 19340 to his death in 1973. Yannay also writes the story in the present tense, which places the reader right there in the midst of the narrative. 

She weaves a complex story. You move through the 1940s, when Lanir had family members and relatives involved in both fighting for the British and working in groups like the Irgun against the British. As a teen, Lanir’s father is given a diplomatic post in the United States, and his son’s experience was very different from peers in Israel. (When the family returned to Israel, Avi was the only one of his friends who had a driver’s license, for example.) 

 

Avi Lanir

Avi joined the military and specifically the Israeli air force. He not only loved his job; he was outstanding at it. He gradually became a squadron leader. He fought through the Six Day War in 1967, the three-year War of Attrition that followed, and then the Yom Kippur War in 1973. What becomes clear as you read is that Israel is never really not at war. Not during the lifetime of Avi Lanir, and not now.

 

Yannay, an author, writer, editor, and lexicographer, has done extensive research on Avi’s life. That includes ancestors, in-depth descriptions of military procedures and operations, and interviews with family members, including his widow, son, and daughter. What emerges is a complex man with both nerve and courage. 

 

After his capture, some were concerned that the Syrians would realize just how much the pilot knew; it could have materially harmed Israel’s military defense. But those who knew him weren’t worried; they knew that Avi was one man who wouldn’t break. And they were right, no matter what torture methods were employed. The state of his body when it was returned showed just how horrific the torture was.

 

Avi Lanir – A Short Life Story is a remarkable account of a courageous man, and a story of how a country can always be at war.

 

Some Monday Readings

 

The Exhibition of Industrial Power and London Archaeology – A London Inheritance. 

“The Good Riddle,” poem by G.K. Chesterton – Malcolm Guite. 

Saturday Good Reads – Nov. 8, 2025

At the end of the French and Indian War, known as the Seven Years War in Europe, Britain had triumphed. But it had two problems – the war had been hideously expensive, and the politicians (and royalty) running Britain at the time were not known for even-handedness. And those two factors, says George Goodwin at History Today, led to the American Revolution. 

If you’re intimidated by attempting to read The Iliad by Homer, Katie Hartsock at New Verse Review has a suggestion: Try Glimpses of The Iliad first.

 

The Old Testament of the Bible contains a lot of strange things, One of the strangest is the reference to the Nephilim, cited in Genesis 6:1-4. Brian Aucker at By Faith takes a stab at explaining what these creatures might have been.

 

More Good Reads

 

America 250

 

“Voice of Common Sense” George Washington and Guy Fawkes Day – Rob Orrison at Emerging Revolutionary War Era.

 

West Point’s Critical Role in the American Revolution – Christopher Klein at History.

 

Early Preservation at Fort Ticonderoga – Evan Portman at Emerging Revolutionary War Era.

 

Brickett’s Brigade: Less Infantry and More Cavalry at  Saratoga – Sherman Lohnes at Journal of the American Revolution.

 

Israel

 

30 Years – Michael Oren at Clarity on Yitzhak Rabin. 

 

Faith

 

Stay Put and Make Disciples – David Mathis at Desiring God.

 

4 Prerequisites for Ministry No One Talks About – Justin Jackson at The Gospel Coalition.

 

Poetry

 

“Crossing the Bar,” poem by Alfred, Lord Tennyson – Anthony Esolen at Word & Song.

 

“No!,” poem by Thomas Hood – Sally Thomas at Poems Ancient and Modern.

 

“Reunion,” poem by Sally Thomas and “Growing Old,” poem by Matthew Arnold – Joseph Bottum at Poems Ancient and Modern.

 

Writing and Literature

 

All There Is to Know, More or Less – Joel Miller at Miller’s Book Review on Simon Garfield’s All the Knowledge in the World.

 

Aquinas and the Limits of Forgiveness: A Case Study in Anna Karenina – Anna Moreland at Church Life Journal. 

 

Horror and the Sacred – Bruce Frohnen at The Imaginative Conservative.

 

American Stuff

 

Finding Clara Barton at her Washington, D.C. Home – Margaret Feierstein t Emerging Civil War.

 

Steady Hand – Lightbeholder

 Painting: Woman Reading a Letter, oil on canvas by James Carroll Beckwith (1852-1917). 

Saturday Good Reads - Oct. 25, 2025

It was a mystery. A New Orleans couple discovered an 1,800-yearold Roman tombstone in their backyard. No, it wasn’t evidence that the Roman Empire had spread farther westward than previously known. The explanation turned out to be not unexpected. And the tombstone eventually found its way to where it belonged. 

The worldwide Anglican Church has been moving in this direction for some time, but the appointment of the new Archbishop of Canterbury brought the fracture. The new archbishop will not be installed until March, but the appointment itself was sufficient. The Anglican churches of Asia, Africa, South America, and even some in North America have “declared a reset of the Anglican Communion,” and the Anglican Church in England is not invited (presumably along with the Anglican churches in Canada and Australia and the Episcopal Church in the United States). 

 

Robert Frost kept a small one in his pocket. Gerard Manly Hopkins toted one as well. I’m not in their league, but I carry one with me almost everywhere I go. “It” is the notebook, and T.M. Moore at Front Porch Republic extols its virtues. 

 

More Good Reads

 

America 250

 

William Billings: Patriot, composer, leather-tanner – David Stowe at Emerging Revolutionary War Era.

 

Cornwallis Yields: The Yorktown Surrender – Jason Clark at This is the Day.

 

An Englishman’s Journal of the Revolutionary War: The Journals of Nicholas Cresswell 1774-1777 – Kenneth Bancroft at Emerging Revolutionary War Era.

 

Arthur Lee’s Warning – Bob Ruppert at Journal of the American Revolution.

 

In January 1776, Virginia’s Port City of Norfolk Was Set Ablaze, Galvanizing the Revolution. But Who Really Lit the Match? – Andrew Lawler at Smithsonian Magazine.

 

Book Review: War Without Mercy: Liberty or Death in the American Revolution – Eric Sterner at Emerging Revolutionary War Era.

 

British Stuff

 

Can London never change? – Samuel Weiss at The Critic Magazine.

 

Israel

 

A Time to Say Thank You – Michael Oren at Clarity.

 

Life and Culture

 

Heather Cox Richardson’s Revisionist History – Blake Dodge and Katherine Dee at The Free Press.

 

Possibilities – Brian Miller at Notes from an East Tennessee Farmer.

 

The Dawn of the Postliterate Society – James Marriott at The Free Press.

 

Education in a Different Story – Nina Tarpley at Front Porch Republic.

 

Faith

 

How to Stay Human: C.S. Lewis on the Doctrine of Man – Louis Markos at Desiring God.

 

What Do Miniature Codices Tell Us About Early Christianity? #2 – Michael Kruger at Canon Fodder.

 

The Plight of the Christian Scholar – John Ahern at Mere Orthodoxy.

 

Writing and Literature

 

Big Lessons from Small Things – Andrew Roycroft at New Grub Street.

 

Poetry

 

Sonnet 14: “If thou dost love me, let it be for nought” by Elizabeth Barrett Browning – Anthony Esolen at Word & Song.

 

My little Poem: howl – Megan Willome as inspired by Vachel Lindsay.

 

Art, Life, and the Sonnet – Angela Alaimo O’Donnell at New Verse Review.

 

“High Barbary,” poem by J. Howard Stables – Joseph Bottum at Poems Ancient and Modern.

 

On Being Haunted by Milton’s Paradise Lost – Matthew Smith at Mere Orthodoxy.

 

“The Death of Autumn,” poem by Edna St. Vincent Millay – Sally Thomas at Poems Ancient and Modern.

 

Ruminant – poem by Megan Willome.

 

Aodhán King – Time – Lauren Daigle

 Painting: A Breton Infants School, watercolor over pencil on paper (1882), by Jean-Baptiste Jules Trayer (1824-1909). 

Saturday Good Reads - Oct. 18, 2025

For years, intense attention has been focused on the decline of young people attending church. Recently, it’s been discovered that younger people, especially young men, are coming back. What hasn’t been considered is another attendance issue – older people. Thom Rainer at Religion Unplugged loos at the departure of older church members. 

Much, much has been written about all of the influences on the founders of the American republic, but a new one (for me, at least) was Jonathan Swift. It turns out that several of our Founding Fathers were fans of Gulliver’s Travels. 

 

Justin Kaplan (1925-2014) was the general editor of Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations. He also wrote (back in 1966) what is considered to be one of the best if not the best biography of Mark Twain, which won both a National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize for biography. He also write a biography of Lincoln Steffens, and his biography of Walt Whitman won his second National Book Award. Kaplan’s daughter Hester has now written a biography of her father, wand went looking at Mark Twain’s home to find her dad.

 

More Good Reads

 

America 250

 

An October 1775 Birthday for the Continental Navy – Eric Sterner at Emerging Revolutionary War Era.

 

How Two Presidents Saved the Declaration of Independence – Janice Rogers Brown at Coolidge Review.

 

Colonel William Prescott: Heroic Commander of the Battle of Bunker Hill by Donald Ryan – book review by Sam Short at the Journal of the American Revolution.

 

The Revolution Could Have Started Here – Bob Thompson at American Heritage.

 

Israel

 

The Hostages Return Home and the Lies Fall Apart – Eli Lake at The Free Press.

 

How Real Estate-Ism Got the Deal Done in Gaza – Niall Ferguson at The Free Press.

 

Faith

 

How Do We Define the Church? – Eric Watkins at Ligonier.

 

“Jerusalem the Golden,” hymn by Bernard of Cluny – Anthony Esolen at Word & Song.

 

What Do Miniature Codices Tell Us About Early Christianity? #1 – Michael Kruger at Canon Fodder.

 

I Thought I Didn’t Need God. I Was Wrong – Charles Murray at The Free Press.

 

Presbyterian Formation vs Digital Formation – Jake Meador at Mere Orthodoxy.

 

Writing and Literature

 

What I Learned from Reading Peter Pan to My Children – Henry Oliver at The Common Reader.

 

Willa Cather’s prescription for modern life – Charlotte Stroud at Engelsberg Ideas. 

 

Poetry

 

“What Are You Doing Here, Heart?”, poem by Fr. Girolamo Savonarola – translated by Cody Ilardo at Power & Glory.

 

“Church Monuments,” poem by George Herbert – Sally Thomas at Poems Ancient and Modern.

 

British Stuff

 

London Falling: How the Birthplace of Free Speech Became a Censor’s Paradise – Eli Lake at The Free Press.

 

Margaret Thatcher: late bloomer – Henry Oliver at The Common Reader.

 

Art

 

Marie Lenclos in Columbia Rd. – Spitalfields Life.

 

Poetry – Taylor Leonhardt

 Painting: A Young Man Seated Reading a Book, oil on canvas by Henri-Joseph Harpignies (1819-1916). 

Saturday Good Reads - Oct. 11, 2025

It appears that peace is coming to Gaza, the hostages are being returned to Israel, and Hamas is disarming. The Free Press, with its paywall down for this week, has a whole series of stories about the Legacy of Oct. 7. Charles Lipson at The Spectator asks, has Israel won? Michael Oren at Clarity calls this dealmaking process an astonishing moment in diplomacy. 

And there’s the Nobel Peace Prize Committee, learning its decision to honor a Venezuelan democracy activist (instead of the obvious but politically incorrect choice) has a final twist – the winner dedicated her prize to the people of Venezuela and to President Trump for his support of their cause. Trump himself couldn’t have trolled that one any better.

 

This past week was the 186^th anniversary of the death of one of America’s most distinctive writing voices – Edgar Allan Poe. Jason Clark at This is the Day considers the mysterious nature of Poe’s death, which almost sounds like one of his short stories. Ed Simon at Literary Hub discusses elements of Americanism (or its opposite) that can be found in Poe’s works. 

 

Speaking of Americanism, Mark Malvasi at The Imaginative Conservative looks at The Blithedale Romance by Nathaniel Hawthorne, arguing that the story represents a darkening of the American vision.

 

More Good Reads

 

America 250

 

A Revolution Both Radical and Conservative – Yuval Levin at The Coolidge Review.

 

Jean Thurel: Ninety Years a Private Soldier – Norman Desmarais at Journal of the American Revolution.

 

British Stuff

 

Why can’t the Church of England stand up for Jews? – The Critic Magazine.

 

Life and Culture

 

In the ruins of Rome – D.C.R. Austen at Sacramentality.

 

Character in Absurd Times – Joshua Heavin at Mere Orthodoxy.

 

The Right Way to Fight Anti-Semitism – Christopher Rufo.

 

News Media

 

The Future of the Free Press – Bari Weiss.

 

Bari Weiss faces a ‘snake pit’ as she eyes overhaul of left-leaning CBS News: insiders – Alexandra Steigrad at the New York Post.

 

Writing and Literature

 

Shirley Jackson and the Eerie Omniscient Narrator – Lincoln Michel at Counter Craft. 

 

Why Writers Get Lost in Research (And How to Find Your Way Back) – Ann Kroeker, Writing Coach.

 

Macbeth’s brief candle – Henry Oliver at The Common Reader.

 

Writing is Thinking – Spencer Klavan at Rejoice Evermore.

 

Poetry

 

The Many Lives of Milton’s Paradise Lost – Stephen Schuler at Front Porch Republic.

 

“Tales of a Wayside Inn (opening),” by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow – Anthony Esolen at Word & Song.

 

“I Come Singing,” poem by Joseph Auslander – Poems Ancient and Modern.

 

“Everness,” poem by Jorge Luis Borges – Andrew Roycroft at New Grub Street.

 

Faith

 

How Islam and the Bible are fueling France’s ‘baptism boom’ – Luke Coppen at The Spectator.

 

Why Is John’s Gospel So Different from the Others? – Denny Burk.

 

Somewhere (from West Side Story) – Cormac Thompson

 Painting: Girl Reading, oil on canvas (1901) by Mary McEvoy (1870-1941).

Saturday Good Reads - Sept. 6, 2025

 

We’ve visited Britain seven times since 2012, and that doesn’t count the trip in 1983 for our 10^th anniversary. We stayed at the same hotel in London for the last six trips, and we’ve noticed the physical changes that have gone on in the neighborhood – new buildings, renovations, businesses changing hands – as well as what has stayed the same – Westminster Chapel, the St. James tube station, protests at Parliament Square, and Buckingham Palace two blocks down the street. 

We also noticed changes in the culture and population, as well as a change to how the city “feels,” which is an accumulation of the makeup of people riding the tube and buses, attitudes in restaurants and shops, the number of homeless, and other factors. We’ve never been victimized by a crime; we’ve rarely felt threatened. We’ve had one interaction with London police about a missing friend; the police were more than helpful, and the friend, who has memory issues, was eventually found. It is disconcerting to make our way through a crowd protesting some visitor staying at our hotel (the Dalai Lama once, the prime minister of Bangladesh another time). But with London, protests are a fact of life, including protests disrupting traffic.

 

What has been most disconcerting of all has been the sense of restrictions on people’s personal freedom. And that blew wide open this past week, when the Irish writer and comedian Graham Lineham was arrested when he traveled on an American Airlines flight to Heathrow Airport. His crime: three tweets making fun of transgender people. He was met by five armed policemen, detained (jet lagged) for 16 hours, and only let go when they had to rush him to the hospital for his blood pressure skyrocketing.

 

With all the protests going on over immigration and a host of government policies (including policing social media), you might think the police would be more circumspect. The Lineham arrest blew up on both sides of the Atlantic. The Critic Magazine called the arrest stupid and sinister. The Spectator said that free speech is in its death throes in Britain, and an American Anglophile wrote that he can no longer defend a country he loves. Greg Collard at Racket News says the U.K. has earned its status as a censorship state. Brendan O’Neill at The Free Press looks broadly at Britain’s working-class uprising. And The Wall Street Journal explains how it all happened – the U.K. thought it was controlling immigration, and it wound up with an unprecedented wave.

 

We love Britain and London. I’ve published five novels centered there. We’ve had some great visits and experiences; We’ve walked through great art exhibitions and massive amounts of history. We have friends there. And it feels like we’re watching a slow-motion catastrophe speed up.

 

I’ve heard Brits say that Americans care more about this than the British people do. They may be right. We’re watching it from afar, and so everything is telescoped. But we also know we sailed close to starting our own anti-free speech regime here in the United States, and just about the only thing that stopped it was Elon Musk’s purchase of Twitter.

 

More Good Reads

 

America 250

 

Culper Spy Austin Roe…the Joiner? – Mark Sternberg at Journal of the American Revolution.

 

The Coming of War in Culpepper, Virginia 1775 – James Bish at Emerging Revolutionary War Era.

 

“It is Incredible How Much They Dread a Rifle”: Col. William Woodford’s 1775 James River Crossing – Patrick Hannum at Journal of the American Revolution.

 

Life and Culture

 

To Stop School Shootings, We Must Reject Three Liberal Premises – John Horvat at The Imaginative Conservative.

 

The War on Humanity – Matt Taibbi at Racket News.

 

 Farmer’s Kitchen – Brian Miller at Notes from an East Tennessee Farmer.

 

In Defense of Inequality --- Carlos Carvalho at The Free Press.

 

What is the Bigger Threat to Free Speech, Europe or Donald Trump’s America? – Matt Taibbi at Racket News.

 

Faith

 

China’s Divided Church Under Pope Francis – Paul Mariani at Church Journal.

 

The Global Church Needs More than American Worship Songs – Trevin Wax at The Gospel Coalition.

 

Pencil, Ink, and Blood – Keith Drury at Think Theology.

 

Writing and Literature

 

I Taught My 3-Year-Old to Read The Hobbit – Tyler Cowen at The Free Press.

 

When ad hominem attacks are justified – Henry Oliver at The Common Reader on Jonathan Swift.

 

British Stuff

 

Pastoral Reality Under a Supermajority – Matthew Hosier at Think Theology.

 

News Media

 

 A new chapter for the AJC – Andrew Morse at The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. 

 

Another Reason Not to Trust the ‘Experts’ – editorial by The Free Press.

 

What is Blueskyism? – Nate Silver at The Silver Bulletin.

 

A Dark Money Group Is Secretly Funding High-Profile Democratic Influencers – Taylor Lorenz at Wired Magazine.

 

Israel

 

Israel Is Not Committing Genocide: Exposing the Distortion of Law and Truth – John Spencer and Arsen Ostrovsky at Urban Warfare.

 

700 Days and Three Years – Michael Oren at Clarity.

 

Every Which Way – The Quebe Sisters

 Painting: Woman Reading, oil on canvas by Georges d’Espagnat (1870-1959), Manchester City Galleries, U.K.