Novel
The Barbarous Britishers—A Tip-Top Novel
- by H. D. Traill
- (John Lane, Bodley Head, 1896)
Henry Duff Traill, biographer and satirist of Grant Allen’s The British Barbarians, was a worthy forebear of Monty Python. —Michael Main
It was a case of the angels tumbling to the daughters of men. He saw at the first sight that she was a woman to be desired, a soul high-throned, very calm and dignified, yet scrumptious withal. Like the angels, he tumbled to her, and, falling from so great a height, was instantly mashed.
