Part 22 (1/2)

_TIMES_-”The originality and suggestiveness of Mr Chesterton's work his sanity and virility of te”

Mr WL COURTNEY in the _DAILY TELEGRAPH_--”One of thepieces of hich have been produced in our not wholly critical age”

_ATHENaeUM_--”This new volulish Men of Letters' is one of thein that ad, and even inspiring life of a great poet”

CRABBE By ALFRED AINGER

_TIMES_--”Canon Ainger has given us the book we should expect froood sense The story of the poet's uneventful life is admirably retold, with the quiet distinction of a style which is intent on its own business and too sure of producing its effect to care about forcing attention by rhetorical or epigrah to be able to add a fe facts, and throw a little new light on the poet's life”

_GLOBE_--”Unquestionably, and even obviously, this voluer is the best available account of Crabbe and his works

The treath, and, while sympathetic, shrewd”

fanny BURNEY By AUSTIN DOBSON

_TIMES_--”A book of unfailing char of this ad”

_SPECTATOR_--”The raph is in all respects worthy of the admirable series in which it appears”

_PILOT_--”In asking Mr Dobson to undertake the book, the publishers have certainly found the best man for the taskMr

Dobson is too well known and esteeh to say that here is another book of his as good as the rest”

JEREMY TAYLOR By EDMUND GOSSE

_DAILY TELEGRAPH_--”It is right that so great an orna colish letters, and Mr Gosse's little book worthily and eloquently expounds his high thereatest of Anglican divines”

_MORNING POST_--”His profound and brilliant study of Jeres”

ROSSETTI By ARTHUR C BENSON

_TIMES_--”A very good book, full of well-chosen, facts and of discreet syood deal of understanding”

_PILOT_--”Mr Benson displays not only a delicate syment that enable hi portrait of afashi+ons, exercises, as in his own day, a strange and potent spell over the iination”

MARIA EDGEWORTH By the Hon EMILY LAWLESS

_GUARDIAN_--”Miss Lawless is to be congratulated upon having produced what is very nearly the ideal life of Maria Edgeworth Within little es she has included all necessary facts, and has achieved a living presentment of a most estimable and lovable character”

_STANDARD_--”Miss Lawless has drawn a htful woreat interest”

HOBBES By Sir LESLIE STEPHEN, KCB

_TIMES_--”One of the most remarkable additions to the 'Men of Letters' The ade of Sir Leslie Stephen have rarely been seen to es”

_GLOBE_--”Valuable little work”

_PALL MALL GAZETTE_--”One of the happiest exaraphy unfailing in its interest”