In a fresh and untrammeled manner the author deals with the craftsmanship as well as the content of letters. The scope of the volume is indicated by the appended chapter titles: “The Practice of Writing,” “On the Difference between Verse and Prose,” “Interlude,” “On Jargon,” “On the Special Difficulty of Prose,” “On the Lineage of English Literature,” “English Literature in our Universities.”
G. P. Putnam’s Sons
New York London
Studies in Literature
Second Series
By
Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch
A new collection of essays which demonstrates the author’s peculiar ability to say something original about even the most threadbare subject. J. C. Squire in The Observer (London) says: “The man is rare who, with Sir Arthur’s combination of sense and sensibility, learning and levity, love of the exquisite and sympathy with the normal, can range over the whole field of ancient and modern literature and vitalize whatever he touches.” This volume includes essays on Byron, Shelley, Milton, Chaucer, Shakespeare, and “The Victorian Age.”
G. P. Putnam’s Sons
New York London