This is a great book: crisp, trenchant, profound, and important to all who find the leisure to read it. Ambiguous, therefore, that this copy was deaccessioned from the House of Commons Library... https://t.co/OPN7TsfRmj

Leisure, it must be clearly understood, is a mental and spiritual attitude—it is not simply the result of external factors, it is not the inevitable result of spare time, a holiday, a weekend or a vacation. It is, in the first place, an attitude of mind, a condition of the soul, and as such utterly contrary to the ideal of “worker” in each and... See more