Hilaire Belloc is currently not held in high regard. I don’t propose going into the reasons for this, but no man who wrote Cautionary Tales for Children can be all bad.
And, added to this streak of comic genius, he penned these lovely lines:
Pursuits
WELSH WONDERS On a recent cold and blowy afternoon, I spent a few hours in a series of greenhouses, sniffing exotic scents and marvelling at the sheer abundance of flowering bulbous plants. I was just a mile from the National Botanic Garden of Wales