October the First Is Too Late

… Fin. M. Trente has furnished a signal service to the scholarly world with his éclairage of one of our unsung research bodies, worthy of Block or Ginsberg. Far from the common eye, for the thanks of posterity, scholars labor in citadels of knowledge— the Labyrinth Sodality & Iberian Sundial Society , the Rekord-Club Gründerzeit , the forthcoming Museum of Tri-Jurassic Technology , the Pith Rivers Museum , & especially the Anti-Gravity Research Foundation , have all at some point received their due; and now another has come due. One fears it will grace more catalogues than shelves, reviewed more than read, yet any reader of even modest cultivation will at once perceive that Trente’s inquiry eclipses those earlier curiosities in both scope and intellectual élan, and would prove an inestimable ornament to any library. For Trente’s Chestertonian thesis is a micro-historical vindication of the English verity that no things are uninteresting—only people. …M. Trente conducts us to a quai ... Read full article.