THE STANDARD.—This is a very pleasant volume of gossipy talk of the literary celebrities with whom Mr. Payn has, in the course of a long career as author and editor, come in contact, and the only fault there is to found with it is its brevity.... Few readers will lay down the volume without a feeling of regret that its author has kept it within such comparatively narrow dimensions.’
THE GRAPHIC.—‘There is not a dull page in the book. Anecdotes, jests, epigrams, and odd bits of character and personal experience abound. It is safe to predict for these entertaining pages one of the successes of the publishing season which has just opened.’
THE WORLD.—‘One would have to be in a very melancholy mood indeed not to like these “Recollections,” so full they are of good stories, good spirits, and good sense; and even in such a mood it could not be but cheering and refreshing to read with what generous admiration Mr. Payn speaks of his great contemporaries, Dickens, Thackeray, Trollope, and the rest.’
VANITY FAIR.—‘Mr. Payn has been steadily writing for more than thirty years, but his later work is fresher and more full of fun and elasticity than that which he did in his youth.... The book is a most wise and charming one; not a page is without a good story or a piece of delightfully funny writing. Then the kindness and tenderness of every chapter puts the reader in good humour. Mr. Payn is a man of the world, but he has never become cynical, and to read his graceful Memories gives all the effect of a chat with a pleasant and wholesome companion.’
MISS THACKERY’S WORKS.
Uniform edition: each Volume Illustrated with a Vignette Title-page
drawn by Arthur Hughes, and Engraved by J. Cooper.
Large crown 8vo. 6s.
1. OLD KENSINGTON.
2. THE VILLAGE ON THE CLIFF.
3. FIVE OLD FRIENDS AND A YOUNG PRINCE.
4. TO ESTHER: and other Sketches.
5. BLUEBEARD’S KEYS; and other Stories.
6. THE STORY OF ELIZABETH; TWO HOURS; FROM AN ISLAND.
7. TOILERS AND SPINSTERS; and other Essays.
8. MISS ANGEL; FULHAM LAWN.
9. MISS WILLIAMSON’S DIVAGATIONS.