Library of the world's best literature, ancient and modern . ensation of unusually satisfyingcharm and freshness. It was a tour de forcelike the a journey fullof new sights over the most staled and beaten of tracks. Thetriumph was all the authors own. Two years later came another volume as a < Second Series,^ of thesame general character but superior to the first. Among the sub-jects of its eleven papers were Milton, Pope, Johnson, Burke, Lambagain, and Emerson; with some general essays, including that on given below. In 1892 appeared really a third volume of thesame series, and perhaps eve
Library of the world's best literature, ancient and modern . ensation of unusually satisfyingcharm and freshness. It was a tour de forcelike the a journey fullof new sights over the most staled and beaten of tracks. Thetriumph was all the authors own. Two years later came another volume as a < Second Series,^ of thesame general character but superior to the first. Among the sub-jects of its eleven papers were Milton, Pope, Johnson, Burke, Lambagain, and Emerson; with some general essays, including that on given below. In 1892 appeared really a third volume of thesame series, and perhaps even richer in matter and more acute andoriginal in thought. Its first two articles, prepared as lectures onSamuel Richardson and Edward Gibbon, are indeed his high-watermark in both substance and style. Cowper, George Borrow, Newmanagain. Lamb a third time (and fresh as ever), Hazlitt, Matthew Arnold,and Sainte-Beuve are brought in, and some excellent literary Augustine Birrell AUGUSTINE BIRRELL 1899 A companion volume called < Men, Women, and Books is dis-appointing because composed wholly of short newspaper articles:Mr. Birrells special quality needs space to make itself felt. Heneeds a little time to get up steam, a little room to unpack hiswares; he is no pastel writer, who can say his say in a paragraphand runs dry in two. Hence these snippy editorials do him nojustice: he is obliged to stop every time just as he is getting readyto say something worth while. They are his, and therefore readableand judicious; but they give no idea of his best powers. He has also written a life of Charlotte Bronte. But he holds hisplace in the front rank of recent essayists by the three < ObiterDicta and < Res Judicatae * volumes of manly, luminous, penetratingessays, full of racy humor and sudden wit; of a generous appre-ciativeness that seeks always for the vital principle which gave thewriter his hold on men; still more, of a warm humanity an
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