SOURCES ON E. V. LUCAS
“Unless my judgment is much at fault, there has written in English, since the death of R. L. Stevenson, no one so proficient in the pure art of the essayist as Mr. E. V. Lucas,” says Edmund Gosse at the beginning of his “The Essays of Mr. Lucas,” in his volume, Books on the Table. This essay on an essayist should be consulted either in Mr. Gosse’s own volume (page 105) or in F. H. Pritchard’s Essays of To-Day: An Anthology, in which it is included (page 249). No more authoritative or more charmingly stated estimate of Mr. Lucas as an essayist is known to me.
In addition to the sources referred to in the text of the chapter or in footnotes, the reader should consult the Reader’s Guide To Periodical Literature for the years since 1913 and the files of The Bookman (London) for the years since 1908.