Essays by my favourite historian. I found a 1931 first edition, signed by The Author. He writes briefly and very well about people like Voltaire and Boswell, and Historians such as Hume and Gibbon. Lovely stuff. It’s because he is gossipy and campy without being cutting or queenly and yet his judgment is unfailingly fair and accurate. He sympathizes with humanity.

And I also read this short biography of Cromwell on my iPad. I love being able to browse and then order up a book. And the iPad is so much easier to read than the Sony Reader.