Tennyson, Hallam, 2d baron. Alfred, Lord Tennyson: a memoir by his son. [**]$4. Macmillan.
A new edition which includes in a single volume “all the material in the original issue. There are extracts from a number of unpublished letters and poems; some FitzGerald letters, others to Aubrey de Vere, Rawnsley, and other persons.... The book contains for the most part the account of Lord Tennyson’s life, gleaned either from his letters and poems or from the writings of his friends.... The impressions and general recollections of T. Watts-Dunton, F. W. H. Myers, F. T. Palgrave, the Duke of Argyll, and others, have been put in an appendix, which also contains some notes ... and a very full index besides these, the volume also has a chronology of the books and poems by the poet-laureate.” (N. Y. Times.)
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“The entire get-up is free from any suggestion of cheapening.”
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Thackeray, William Makepeace. Works. Cornhill ed.; ed. with biography, bibliography, and special introd. by W. P. Trent, and J. Bell Henneman. $37.50. Crowell.
The “Cornhill” Thackeray has achieved a well merited distinction above all recent issues of the great novelist’s works in that it includes material heretofore unclaimed for the author, but conclusively identified as his during recent months of research. There are two thousand pages thruout the various volumes which have never appeared in any set before. The editorial work in charge of Prof. Trent of Columbia college, and Dr. Henneman of the University of the South, includes special introductions to every volume, notes and critical comments of exceptionally high character, a complete bibliography based on the chronology of Thackeray’s life, and a full topical index to the entire set. Aside from the better known novels, are the essays, burlesques, Christmas stories, criticisms of letters and art, quips in Punch, drawings, poems and a new collection of typical personal letters. Among the three hundred and more illustrations are a series of photogravure portraits of the author, and many of Thackeray’s own quaint and whimsical drawings. The books with their substantial bindings, heavy paper and good type, deserve a prominent place among the great book achievements of the day.
“The edition is highly satisfactory, both for completeness and inexpensiveness.”
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“By far the most satisfactory edition of Thackeray we have seen in recent years.”