REVIEWS.
DR. JOHNSON:
HIS FRIENDS AND HIS CRITICS.
By GEORGE BIRKBECK HILL, D.C.L.[159]
OPINIONS OF THE PRESS.
"Seldom has a pleasanter commentary been written on a literary masterpiece.... What its author has aimed at has been the reproduction of the atmosphere in which Johnson lived; and he has succeeded so well that we shall look with interest for other chapters of Johnsonian literature which he promises.... Throughout the author of this pleasant volume has spared no pains to enable the present generation to realise more completely the sphere, so near and so far from this latter half of the nineteenth century, in which Johnson talked and taught."—Saturday Review, July 13th, 1878.
"Dr. Hill has written out of his ripe scholarship several interesting disquisitions, all tending to a better understanding of the man and his times, and all written with the ease and the absence of pretence which come of long familiarity with a subject and complete mastery of its facts."—The Examiner, July 27th, 1878.
"Dr. Hill has published a very interesting little book.... All the chapters are interesting in a high degree."—Westminster Review, October, 1878.