Roger Scruton's review of Griswold's book on forgiveness ends with this paragraph:"In this book, the Cambridge University Press has placed the footnotes at the bottom of the page, and not gathered them up, as so many publishers incomprehensibly do, as endnotes. This is a great relief, for Griswold has a sharp nose for intellectual quarry. When interesting ideas start up from the thickets of his argument, he chases them to the bottom of the page and corners them like a pointer quivering at a fallen bird. Some people might find this irritating. But the high quality of argument and observation in the text is sustained equally in the footnotes, so that I set aside all resentment and forgave the author on the understanding, however, that he will do better next time. As for his persistent, sometimes confusing and never truly comfortable use of the feminine pronoun well, that can be forgiven too. "