Sydney Smith Part 22

_TIMES_.-"The originality and suggestiveness of Mr. Chesterton's work... his sanity and virility of temper are evident and refres.h.i.+ng."

Mr. W.L. COURTNEY in the _DAILY TELEGRAPH_.--"One of the most illuminating and stimulating pieces of work which have been produced in our not wholly critical age."

_ATHENaeUM_.--"This new volume of the 'English Men of Letters' is one of the most refres.h.i.+ng in that admirable series."

_PILOT_.--"An interesting, entertaining, and even inspiring life of a great poet."

CRABBE. By ALFRED AINGER.

_TIMES_.--"Canon Ainger has given us the book we should expect from him, one full of sincerity, good taste, and good 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 epigrammatic fireworks. And Canon Ainger has been fortunate enough to be able to add a few new facts, and throw a little new light on the poet's life."

_GLOBE_.--"Unquestionably, and even obviously, this volume by Canon Ainger is the best available account of Crabbe and his works.

The treatment is careful, thorough, and, while sympathetic, shrewd."

f.a.n.n.y BURNEY. By AUSTIN DOBSON.

_TIMES_.--"A book of unfailing charm--perhaps the most charming of this admirable series."

_GLOBE_.--"Eloquent and sparkling."

_SPECTATOR_.--"The monograph 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 task ... Mr.

Dobson is too well known and esteemed a craftsman to need fresh praises, and it is enough 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 ornament to our Church should have fitting commentary in a modern series dedicated to the history of English letters, and Mr. Gosse's little book worthily and eloquently expounds his high theme."

_ACADEMY_.--"A worthy monument to one of the greatest of Anglican divines."

_MORNING POST_.--"His profound and brilliant study of Jeremy Taylor's life and writings."

ROSSETTI. By ARTHUR C. BENSON.

_TIMES_.--"A very good book, full of well-chosen, facts and of discreet sympathy with a character that needs a good deal of understanding."

_PILOT_.--"Mr. Benson displays not only a delicate sympathy, but a penetration and a sanity of judgment that enable him to put before us not merely a plausible, but a convincing portrait of a man who twenty years after his death, in spite of changing fas.h.i.+ons, exercises, as in his own day, a strange and potent spell over the imagination."

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 more than two hundred pages 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 most acceptable portrait of a delightful woman."

_GLOBE_.--"A memoir of great interest."

HOBBES. By Sir LESLIE STEPHEN, K.C.B.

_TIMES_.--"One of the most remarkable additions to the 'Men of Letters.'... The admirable judgment and remarkable knowledge of Sir Leslie Stephen have rarely been seen to more advantage than in these pages."

_GLOBE_.--"Valuable little work."

_PALL MALL GAZETTE_.--"One of the happiest examples of Sir Leslie's marvellous success in making biography unfailing in its interest."

ADAM SMITH. By FRANCIS W. HIRST.

_THE WORLD_.--"A careful and sympathetic survey of the life, work, and teaching of the famous political economist."

_TIMES_.--"Mr. Hirst's interesting sketch leaves the impression of a life singularly full, rich, and successful, lightened and warmed even, towards the close by the suns.h.i.+ne of friends.h.i.+p and affection."

English Men of Letters.

EDITED BY JOHN MORLEY.

RE-ISSUE OF THE ORIGINAL SERIES.

LIBRARY EDITION. UNIFORM WITH THE NEW SERIES.

ADDISON.

By W. J. COURTHOPE.

BACON.

By Dean CHURCH.

BENTLEY.

By Sir RICHARD JEBB.

BUNYAN.

By J. A. FROUDE.

BURKE.

By JOHN MORLEY.

BURNS.

By Princ.i.p.al SHAIRP.

BYRON.

By Professor NICHOL.

CARLYLE.

By Professor NICHOL.

CHAUCER.

By Dr. A. W. WARD.