Punch.—"His fund of good stories is inexhaustible, and his urbanity never fails. On the whole, this book is one of the very best examples of literature on literature and life."
ROBERT BROWNING: Essays and Thoughts. By J.T. Nettleship. With Portrait. Crown 8vo. 5s. 6d. net. (Third Edition.)
A LATER PEPYS. The Correspondence of Sir William Weller Pepys, Bart., Master in Chancery, 1758-1825, with Mrs. Chapone, Mrs. Hartley, Mrs. Montague, Hannah More, William Franks, Sir James Macdonald, Major Rennell, Sir Nathaniel Wraxall, and others. Edited, with an Introduction and Notes, by Alice C.C. Gaussen. With numerous Illustrations. Demy 8vo. In Two Volumes. 32s. net.
Douglas Sladen in the Queen.—"This is indisputably a most valuable contribution to the literature of the eighteenth century. It is a veritable storehouse of society gossip, the art criticism, and the mots of famous people."
Academy and Literature.—"The effect consists in no particular passages, but in the total impression, the sense of atmosphere, and the general feeling that we are being introduced into the very society in which the writer moved."
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World.—"Sir William Pepys's correspondence is admirable."
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON, AN ELEGY; AND OTHER POEMS, MAINLY PERSONAL. By Richard Le Gallienne. Crown 8vo. 4s. 6d. net.
Daily Chronicle.—"Few, indeed, could be more fit to sing the dirge of that 'Virgil of Prose' than the poet whose curiosa felicitas is so close akin to Stevenson's own charm."
Globe.—"The opening Elegy on R.L. Stevenson includes some tender and touching passages, and has throughout the merits of sincerity and clearness."