Great Testimony Part 5

NOTE

From this great cloud of witnesses I have omitted all those leaders of thought and morals, "friends of the wise and teachers of the good"

supporters of this great cause who are living. I followed a like reserve in my "Memories," making in them none but pa.s.sing allusions to famous persons still alive. I do not share the modern journalistic habit of uninvited public intrusion upon living people who may very well be unwilling at the moment to be dragged into controversy or exposed to insult; and every one knows that the vivisectors and their friends have no manners, and flout all the Hague conventions of debate.

Books by the Hon. Stephen Coleridge

VIVISECTION: A HEARTLESS SCIENCE

_Crown_ 8_vo_, 5_s._ _net_.

SOME PRESS OPINIONS.

_Times_.--"Mr. Coleridge is a leading champion of the anti-vivisection cause, and he here presents a reasoned indictment of the practice. He is a very able advocate, who generally gets the better of his opponent in a dialectical bout, and this book is written with great skill and force."

_Western Mail_.--"One cannot fail to be interested and impressed by the forensic power and ability in this book and by the humane spirit which has led to its compilation. Mr. Coleridge brings all his power of wit, irony, and sarcasm to the aid of his scientific knowledge."

_Harrogate Times_.--"The book is an epitome of reasons why 'all humane and thoughtful people' should disapprove of vivisection, and the sinister effects of the existence of this practice in our midst. The statements are cogent, and will find a response in the heart of a wide const.i.tuency."

JOHN LANE, THE BODLEY HEAD.

SONGS TO DESIDERIA

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_Daily News_.--"These songs and poems are intensely and sincerely felt .

. . they have the fine, careful, literary coldness of some of the lyrics of Landor or of the more serious work of Peac.o.c.k. It is the poetry of a refined and knightly nature . . . and it deserves to be studied and remembered . . . its mood is austere and its temper n.o.ble."

_Globe_.--"Excellent verses, easy, melodious, and charming."

_Tribune_.--"All lovers of poetry will be grateful for Mr. Stephen Coleridge's volume. Dainty and finished in execution, and instinct with a genuine human sympathy, these lyrics betray the hand of a craftsman in verse. . . . Verses of this quality should secure for 'Songs to Desideria' a sincere welcome."

_Glasgow Herald_.--"The Hon. Stephen Coleridge has already established his position among the more tuneful writers of true lyric verse, and into all that he writes the poet puts delicacy and true emotion, the former never becomes mere phrase, the latter never degenerates into wordy pa.s.sion."

_South Wales Daily News_.--"There is sometimes a depth of feeling in his pa.s.sages for which one usually looks only in the great masters of English literature."

JOHN LANE, THE BODLEY HEAD.

MEMORIES

_With Twelve Ill.u.s.trations_. _Demy_ 8_vo._ 7_s._ 6_d._ _net_.

_Observer_.--"Mr. Coleridge has furnished 'The Dictionary of National Biography' (or the Victorian part of it) with a supplement of wit and conversation. And one hardly knows at which to marvel most, the number of celebrities he hauls up in his net, of the number of laughs he gets out of them. His book is rich in fresh anecdote and the best light elements of personality."

MR. JAMES DOUGLAS in the _Star_.--"The best book of reminiscences I have read for a long time. It teems with good stories about famous and familiar names."

_Morning Post_.--"Genuinely a record of the doings of others, and full of anecdote and incident. Mr. Coleridge has written a delightful book, and has told many interesting things of many famous men."

_Daily Chronicle_.--"Now this is the right sort of memories to put into print; memories that are fresh and bright, piquant, and yet never ill-natured, crowded with personal lights and anecdotes; in fine, a volume of which one says: 'I would have liked to meet all those people and write about them as Mr. Coleridge has done.'"

JOHN LANE, THE BODLEY HEAD.

AN EVENING IN MY LIBRARY AMONG THE ENGLISH POETS

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_Guardian_.--"A charmingly desultory set of essays, generous in appreciation, and not afraid to explore comparatively unbeaten tracks."

_Quarterly Review_.--"Every moment is one of pure literature. He quotes his favourite poets freely, giving us not a line or two but often a whole poem. . . . There is many a racy criticism, and the humanitarian peeps out from not a few of them. It is a volume full of lovely verse, and one that will not only give unalloyed pleasure, but will cultivate a taste for the sweetest and purest poetry."

_Daily Mail_.--"Mr. Coleridge has written a very pleasant and readable ramble among the poets. It is an anthology with a skilled writer leading one on from gem to gem with delightful comment."

JOHN LANE, THE BODLEY HEAD.

Footnotes:

{16} My "Memories," p. 63

{40} The book had "Leicester" but this was crossed out and "Lichfield"

hand-printed in the margin.--DP.