Whenever a , or, for that matter, any indoor diversion, becomes too serious and scientific for the average mind it soon ceases to be fashionable. Whe… - E. B. Osborn
" "Whenever a , or, for that matter, any indoor diversion, becomes too serious and scientific for the average mind it soon ceases to be fashionable. Whenever the professional cuts in, the man-of-the-word cuts off—to seek some new diversion which does not require its votaries to study a shelf-full of text-books.
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About E. B. Osborn
(1867–1938) was a British journalist, author and editor. He is perhaps best known as the editor of , an anthology of British war poetry published in November 1917.
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Edward Bolland Osborn
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