Holmes-Pollock Letters : The Correspondence of Mr. Justice Holmes and Sir Frederick Pollock, 1874-1932

Holmes, Justice; Pollack, Frederick

ISBN 10: 0674405501 / ISBN 13: 9780674405509

Published by Belknap Press: An Imprint of Harvard University Press, 1961

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Holmes-Pollock Letters : The Correspondence of Mr. Justice Holmes and Sir Frederick Pollock, 1874-1932
• Publisher: Belknap Press: An Imprint of Harvard University Press
• Publication Date: 1961
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0674405501
• ISBN 13: 9780674405509
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 2nd Edition
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

This fine collection is accompanied by an essay by Sir John Pollock that skillfully places the writers' ideas in the perspective of recent experience. A crucial document for lawyers, the letters are also delightful reading.

Review

It is tempting to compare the two Homers--to distinguish the finer edge and more consummate scholarship of Pollock's mind from the larger humanity and the more travelled experience of the mind of Holmes... The editing by Professor Howe is admirable; and a full and careful index makes browsing easy and profitable.--The Manchester Guardian

[Taking in] questions of philosophy, history and literature, touching--often wittily--on hundreds of famous personages and appealing, I should think, to anyone interested in the play of two first-rate minds...these volumes recall to us something forgotten these days: the charm...of scholarship when it is the easy tool of men who are more than scholars.--Clifton Fadiman "The New Yorker "