Note-Books

I was comforted when I read this confession in Samuel Butler's Note-Books: "I was nearly forty before I felt how stupid it was to pretend to know things that I did not know and I still often catch myself doing so."

Gretchen Rubin: How To Ask For Help 2009

New Zealand; so much of the letter as concerns the growth of his theory is given in ‘The Note-Books of Samuel Butler’

Samuel Butler: A Sketch 2003

The idea of this particular one is found in the following entry in "American Note-Books": "A phantom of the old royal governors, or some such showy shadowy pageant, on the night of the evacuation of Boston by the British."

The Short-story William Patterson Atkinson

That penetrating man, Samuel Butler, reflecting in his "Note-Books" on "What Audience to Write For," says: "People between the ages of twenty and thirty read a good deal, after thirty their reading drops off and by forty is confined to each person's special subject, newspapers and magazines."

Walking-Stick Papers Robert Cortes Holliday

Thoughts of Leonardo da Vinci, as recorded in his Note-Books.

Women of the Country Gertrude Bone

And I have known some, of no mean Parts, that have professed to make use of their _Note-Books_, when they have risen from his _Table_.

Characters from 17th Century Histories and Chronicles Various

UNDER the heading, ‘The Return of the Jews to Palestine’, Samuel Butler records in his Note-Books:

As I Please 1946

I HAVE just found my copy of Samuel Butler’s Note-Books, the full edition of the first series, published by Jonathan Cape in 1921.

As I Please 1944

The first of these (The MS. Note-Books) begins with a sense of suppressed, half-articulate power in the language of a novel ecstasy.

The Adventure of Living Strachey, John St Loe 1922

His interesting account of Walt Whitman's Manuscript Note-Books is preceded by the following statement:

The Adventure of Living Strachey, John St Loe 1922