“Mr. Nicoll has performed his task with great tact, much literary skill, and with great critical insight. No better book could be put into the hands of one who wishes to know something of our great writers, but who has not time to read their works himself; and no better guide to the man of leisure who desires to know the best works of our best writers and to study these in a thorough manner. Mr. Nicoll’s literary estimates are judicious, wise, and just in an eminent degree.”—Edinburgh Daily Review.
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Great Movements and those who Achieved Them. By Henry J. Nicoll, Author of “Landmarks of English Literature,” etc.
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