LIFE AND ANECDOTES OF THACKERAY.
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Thackeray: the Humourist and the Man of Letters. The Story of his Life and Literary Labours. With some particulars of his Early Career never before made public. By THEODORE TAYLOR, Esq., Membre de la Société des Gens de Lettres.
Illustrated with a Photographic Portrait (one of the most characteristic known to have been taken) by Ernest Edwards, B.A.; view of Mr. Thackeray’s house, built after a favourite design of the great Novelist’s; facsimile of his handwriting, long noted in London literary circles for its exquisite neatness; and a curious little sketch of his coat of arms, a pen and pencil humorously introduced as the crest, the motto “Nobilitas est sola virtus” (Virtue is the sole nobility).
Includes anecdotes of the London Literati during the past thirty years; account of the Thackeray family, showing the origin of their connexion with India; Thackeray’s school-days at the Charterhouse; his career at Cambridge; residence in Germany, and Art-studies in Paris; literary apprenticeship in London; his connexion with “Fraser” and Maginn’s staff; his marriage; partiality to Kensington as a place of residence; his publication of “Vanity Fair,” and the establishment of his fame; with many other interesting matters connected with his literary career.
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The Biglow Papers. By James Russell Lowell.
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