The general reader and the busy man who can spare but little time to devote to books will find in these carefully chosen volumes of extracts useful Introductions to Authors of perennial interest. Both the selections and the Introduction have been entrusted to writers who can speak with the authority of full knowledge on their subjects.

JOHNSON

By Alice Meynell. With Introduction by G. K. Chesterton

LEIGH HUNT

By Edward Storer

RICHARDSON

By Sheila Kaye-Smith

WORDSWORTH

By E. Hallam Moorhouse

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