“Mr. Ainger’s work has been most intelligently and satisfactorily performed. The edition is one which may be safely recommended for accuracy and completeness.”—Boston Courier.
“This volume will give endless pleasure to thousands—making Lamb no longer a mere name, but a friend. Those readers who know Lamb as a poet only by his verses, few in number, but of exquisite beauty, will be surprised at discovering the range of his poetic power. The prose Essays in this volume abound in delightful humor.”—Providence Journal.
The London Academy says: “Last year we had the incomparable Elia’—here we get all of Lamb’s miscellaneous writings that he had himself selected for preservation in a permanent shape. None will ever want a more satisfactory edition than this. For the benefit of the curious we must add that Mr. Ainger here prints for the first time a copy of Album Verses, written for Mrs. De Morgan, and a letter to Dodwell, Lamb’s old fellow clerk in the India House.”
A NEW EDITION OF (From New Plates)
LAMB’S ESSAYS OF ELIA.
With 50 Pages of Introduction and Notes by ALFRED AINGER. 12mo, cloth gilt top. 550 pages. $1.50.
N. Y. Christian Union says: “The value of this edition is very much increased by Mr. Ainger’s notes, which form by far the best commentary on Lamb that has been given to the world. Mr. Ainger is a thorough master of all information relating to Lamb and to his work; he has studied all the questions involved, looked up all manner of obscure and out-of-the-way facts, and gives the essays in some parts a much fresher meaning.”
THIS NEW EDITION includes Mr. Ainger’s Notes, of which “The Nation” says: “Are admirable. They fill nearly fifty pages, and CONTAIN A MASS OF INTERESTING INFORMATION ABOUT LAMB AND HIS WRITINGS AND HIS FRIENDS. Bibliographical details are given as to the first publication of the Essays in Magazines here and there. Many obscurities and allusions are explained, and many of Lamb’s mystifications are unveiled. Mr. Ainger has had the use of a key (in Lamb’s handwriting) to the various first series of the Essays.”