The various pieces are gathered from more-or-less scientific treatises and begin, as did Peter Corodimas’ “In Trout Country” (Little, Brown, 1971), with Dame Juliana Berners, that amiable fisheress of the fifteenth century, and come right down to articles in contemporary periodicals.

Titled Citizen Clem in Britain (Oxford University Press published it here as Clement Attlee: The Man Who Made Modern Britain), it is a study in actual radical accomplishment with minimal radical afflatus—a story of how real social change can be achieved, providing previously unimaginable benefits to working people, entirely within an embrace of parliamentary principles as absolute and as heroic as any in the annals of democracy.

Well, now, just read this and then go and ponderize over it.

John Foxe believed that special prodigies had heralded the Reformation.