ROBERT CARR BOSANQUET : LETTERS AND LIGHT VERSE Edited by
Ellen S. Bosanquet
R. C. Bosanquet, who died three years ago at the age of 64, was well known as an archaeologist whose digging in Melos and Eastern Crete was specially fruitful. His widow's skilful selection from his letters (Gloucester : John Bellows, 7s. 6d.) will delight Bosanquet's many friends ; it reveals also to those who only knew Bosanquet by his work the alert and kindly man whose abounding humour was not quenched by prolonged study of prehistoric tombs and pots. Mrs. Bosanquet has wisely allotted most of her space to the letters that her husband wrote from the Greek islands thirty years ago, describing the excavations, the scenery and the light-hearted people who worked for him. It was an' exciting era, when Sir Arthur Evans was beginning to uncover Knossos' and .the. Minoan age, and Bosanquet at the British School at Athens had a full share in the discoveries then' made. Later he had a Chair at Liverpool till the War took him out once more to the Aegean and Adriatic as agent to the Serbian Relief Fund. A few vivid letters recall the plight of the refugees whom he assisted and the background of the Salonika campaign. Bosanquet's Eton and Cambridge days are reflected in the specimens of his light verse and his limericks which the editor appends to this pleasant volume.
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