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Experiences By Arnold J. Toynbee

Oxford, $8.95 Before getting too deeply bogged down in this review let it be duly noted, by the initiated and uninitiated alike, that Arnold J. Toynbee, author of such weighty and pretentious tomes as the twelve volume A Study of History, War and Civilization, and America and the World Revolution—to give only a partial bibliography—is a crashing bore. I say this not out of any sense of maliciousness, but only to clear the air before discussing this nice old liberal gentleman’s most recent publication, an appallingly repetitious mélange of autobiographical ruminations, personal opinions, and Greek and Latin poetry entitled Experiences.

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Experiences By Arnold J. Toynbee

Oxford, $8.95 Before getting too deeply bogged down in this review let it be duly noted, by the initiated and uninitiated alike, that Arnold J. Toynbee, author of such weighty and pretentious tomes as the twelve volume A Study of History, War and Civilization, and America and the World Revolution—to give only a partial bibliography—is a crashing bore. I say this not out of any sense of maliciousness, but only to clear the air before discussing this nice old liberal gentleman’s most recent publication, an appallingly repetitious mélange of autobiographical ruminations, personal opinions, and Greek and Latin poetry entitled Experiences.