By-ways in Book-land: Short Essays on Literary Subjects

by W. H. Davenport Adams

BY-WAYS IN BOOK-LAND.

BY-WAYS IN BOOK-LAND

Short Essays on Literary Subjects

BY

Wm. Davenport Adams

AUTHOR OF ‘DICTIONARY OF ENGLISH LITERATURE,’ ETC.

‘Excursusque breves tentat.’
‘Georgics,’ iv. 194.

LONDON
ELLIOT STOCK, 62, PATERNOSTER ROW
1888

TO MY FATHER,
W. H. DAVENPORT ADAMS,
THIS LITTLE VOLUME
Is Affectionately Inscribed.

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In the following pages, the writer for the most part deals with small subjects in an unelaborate manner. He leaves the highways of literature, and strays into the fields and lanes, picking here a flower and there a leaf, and not going far at any time. There is no endeavour to explore with system, or to extend any excursion beyond a modest ramble. The author wanders at haphazard into paths which have attracted him, and along which, he hopes, the reader may be willing to bear him company.

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