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This second installment of the author’s recollections of Swinburne—the first appeared in “In good company”—contains some hitherto unpublished letters from the poet to his cousin, the Hon. Lady Henniker Heaton. After Mr Gosse’s “Life and letters of Swinburne,” the author of the present volume considers reserve no longer necessary and has therefore written more freely than in his first volume. Contents: Letters from A. C. Swinburne to his cousin; The story of a dear deceit; “Oh, those poets!”; George Borrow in a frock-coat; “In the days of our youth”; Philip Marston’s “Hush!” story; A. C. S. and R. L. S.; The laureateship—a cartoon in the Pall Mall Gazette—and some woman poets whose work Swinburne admired; A sonnet in the Athenæum and more “dear deceit”; “Puck of Putney hill”; A paragraph in the Westminster Gazette; “All my memories of him are glad and gracious memories.”
Ath p1275 N 28 ’19 40w + Booklist 17:29 O ’20
Reviewed by R. M. Weaver
Bookm 51:569 Jl ’20 920w + Boston Transcript p11 My 15 ’20 1450w
“This little book is of considerable value as a supplement to Gosse’s ‘Life’ of the poet and the collection of ‘Letters’ edited by his biographer in collaboration with T. J. Wise.”
+ Cath World 111:831 S ’20 90w
“The fact is that his reminiscences are meager in the extreme. There is much good humor and kindliness in the book and a certain ability to exhibit the weaknesses of famous men without destroying the impression of their real greatness.”
+ − Nation 110:861 Je 26 ’20 220w