Keynes had a great economics mind, but little talent explaing it. The book is very hard to read due to convulated, odd grammer and very long, complicated sentences Keynes uses. The challange is understanding the language, rather than the ideas.

A typical sentence/paragraph from the book:

"The fact that two incommensurable collections of miscellaneous objects cannot in themselves provide the material for a quantitive analysis need not, of course, prevent us from making approximate statistical comparisons, depending on some broad element of judgement rather than strict calculation, which may posses significance and validty within certain limits.

Sure.

This is the first book in years I gave up reading in the middle.
Until someone rewrites the book for humans - avoid!

Keynes, for better or worse, must be counted the most important economist of the 20th century. This is his most influential work, and no person who desires a basic education in economics should be unaware of its contents. Unfortunately, it is at times almost incomprehensible. Particularly maddening is Keynes' penchant for merely dismissing competing theories with which he disagrees without discussing why he disagrees. I found this suspicious since Keynes was brilliant - it couldn't possibly be because he didn't understand those other theories. I suspect he understood them all too well and recognized their threat to his own work.

Plowing through this book will pay off, but you may not enjoy it. The reader should be advised, however, that according to Keynes' good friend (and opposing theorist) Frederich Hayek, shortly before his death Keynes told Hayek he disavowed this book in general. Hayek's account can be read in "Hayek on Hayek."

Undoubtedly, Lord Keynes's this book is very influential, not only to economics thought, but to the world economy. A genius's work is always tough because too many ideas and concepts are filled in only a few sentences, and there is no expeption with Lord Keynes's this book (Economist Paul Samuelson also called this book a genius's work).
Lord Keynes is a member of Cambrige School of Classical School in the early twentith century. Professor A. C. Pigou, Alfred Marshall were his teachers, and William Jevons, Francis Edgeworth, J. Robinson and Frank Ramsey were his colleague and friends. Surrounded with so good an academic environment and endowed with his own talent (Also heavily influenced by philosopher Moore), Keynes is the most important and influential economist in the 20 century. In his thought, economist should not only sit there and work out mathematical problems, but go outside and do something. Economist should not only just observe the "Storm" appear and pass by but find solutions to overcome the economic problems for the nation and people. Some people disagree so much with Keynes's economic thought that they thought Keynes was a criminal of the concept of "Gonvernment inteferes people". I think they miss something and I'm sure that the miss will be reduced if they know exactly what kind of person Lord Keynes was and exactly what the core concept of his economic thought is.
Anyway, this book is just like what Paul Samuelson ever expressed, you'll get something (maybe very many things) from this classic. If you read it carefully, maybe you will get something different from the macroeconomics textbook and those chapters which are about Keynesian thoery in that textbook. You will be stunned with Keynes's mind, his way of watching things, his thinking, etc.. This book requires very good logic and a mind of willing to think.
"In the long run we are all dead." True, go read this book and seize the concepts of the most important economist in the twentieth century.

I would like to know more about this book. Miniatures is too general. Is it about Doll houses or Military /Fantasy lead Figures.?

The book is an introduction to painting miniatures (portraits, landscapes, animals, still life scenes) in oils, watercolours and gouache. I found it very useful in discovering the techniques used and being able to follow examples given by a number of expert British miniaturists.

that's all I want to say