Richard Lung: 19 books

A gentle and generous soul, with a quiet and sunny disposition, well liked by many, and more radical than most, a deeply serious human being, with an over-worked conscience, who I once told was a monster of honesty.This was Dorothy, the solace of the friendless, the maker, who made a maker out of...

I have drawn on my experience of life and books, in discussing the following works.The physicist, John Davidson under-took an epic investigation into the mystic meaning of Jesuses teachings, as for our other-worldly salvation, supplemented by a revelation in non-canonic texts of the gnostics.The...

A short history shows the sheer difficulty of genuine electoral reform. The defeat of democracy is also a defeat for science. Freedom and knowledge depend on each other. Therein is the remedy. I base voting method on a widely accepted logic of measurement, to be found in the sciences. This is supported...

The Work of Mother Teresa, to fulfill her mission of love, this play follows. Only the strongest devotion could endure such sustained hardships and manage such achievements for the care of the poor and neglected.Here was a saint, in the making, to attract the attention of the more astute investigative...

Dates and Dorothy Since coming of age I wanted to change the world, when, in middle age, the world returned the compliment by changing me. That is when I met my guide and mentor Dorothy Cowlin. The first half of this book explores the life of the poet and novelist. (Most of this review...

Before the Great War, on both open doors of the family store, like a Chinese divination, is the name of the skeptical Austro-Hungarian philosopher, who put sense experience before language, in an ironic endorsement of this Foto Companion, to my biography, War From War, which puts (some seventy) pictures...

The good dog (who first appeared in book 1 of this series) is among a tridogy of six turns of verse by Dafty Tailchaser.The first three sections are of children, animals and acting, following the WC Fields principle of not putting them together.Section four continues with satires on those actors,...

"It will be particularly interesting to watch the ingenuities of the politicians in the new Parliament in producing schemes that will look like electoral reform and yet leave the profession still active for mischief. They will fight desperately against large constituencies with numerous members....

This is a book of books or illustrated reviews spanning fiction, faction and non-fiction.It goes some way to substantiate the belief of Benedetto Croce that history is the history of liberty.I only wrote of books that I appreciated, so that I could pass on that appreciation to others. It must be admitted...

Single-stroke English or Single stroke English is the English alfabet simplified to single strokes. This may be shortened, for convenience of speech, to "Single English" given the abbreviation: SE.Single-stroke English (SE) is based on a rational system of one speech sound, one letter. This greatly...

A happy childhood in the Paradise of the Banat. A coming of age, thrown out of the services company, to fight in the Hell of the Russian Front. Purgatory in a foreign land. For, war does not end when the immediate fighting is over and everyone still (more or less) alive has left the battle-field....

Starting from an infants point of view, this story in verse sees the Valesman and his farm, the animals and birds and beauty spots and seaside holidays of former Yorkshire days. The book cover drawing, of going with his father to meet grandad, comes from the five-year old at village school. Narrative verse follows the growing boys tricks. Something here for all ages.

The unstable one-sided development of mankind is shown by comparing Mill the natural philosopher to Mill the political philosopher. For, A System Of Logic is like a work of antiquity, but Representative Government, after a century and a half, is still in advance of current thought. As John Stuart...

In conservative youth, this spelling reformer attempted fruitlessly to make English spelling regular. In middle age, I tried to invent radical new alphabets, also to no avail. In old-age, radicalism and conservatism combined, to produce, after a good few years trial and error, Single-stroke English...