Quote of the day
There are no countries in the world less known by the British than these selfsame British Islands, or where more strange things are every day occurring.
John William Mackail

Born: August 26, 1859
Died: December 13, 1945 (aged 86)
Bio: John William Mackail was a Scottish man of letters and socialist, now best remembered as a Virgil scholar. He was also a poet, literary historian and biographer.
Known for:
- Select Epigrams from the Greek Anthology
- The Life of William Morris (1899)
- Biblia Innocentium (1892)
- Latin Literature (1895)
- Lectures on Poetry (1911)