I thank the Style Editor profusely for her consistent posting this last month. Traveling about western New York and New Hampshire, I did not have easy access to a computer.

Check out this scathing review, complete with charges of plagiarism, of the latest Abe Lincoln book. Seems our departed President was not the homosexual some had hoped. Then again, as I said in detail a couple of years ago, neither was his illustrious and oft' abused predecessor.

Anglican Archbishop of Canterbury William Laud was beheaded on this day in 1645. I am sure the Society of King Charles the Martyr will be having a service somewhere.

Also on this day in 1776, Thomas Paine's screed Common Sense was first published, one of the more ironic titles of a book.

Happy Birthday Lord Acton, born on this day in 1834.