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This work was evidently read with great care by Southey and Coleridge, since they both made numerous marginal comments in criticism and elucidation of the author's statements. Those by Coleridge are especially long and throw a good deal of light on his own literary and critical development.
According to Mr. Walter T. Spence, one of the best known of London dealers in rare books and whose "Forty Years in My Bookshop" was recently published by Houghton Mifflin Company, the forgery of autobiography is not so common a pursuit for the indigent and unscrupulous intelligensia as it was...
tives and adverbs that the high point does not break through sharply. John Finley Jr. writes interestingly in the "Memoirs of Captain Wottlebottle" about a land where the people regard as religion just what we regard as despicable baseness, yet where they fail so generally to live up to their...
Sometime toward the end of the Elizabethen Age, Anthony Munday presented a play for the approval of the National Board of Review, a position then held by Sir Edmund Tilney. Good Sir Edmund--whether from sheer spite or momentary indisposition, reporters were unable to ascertain--grasped his blue pencil with...
In these days of faddist collectors, it is common to find catalogues listing the current selling-prices of famous signatures. An actress of the '90s brings 35 cents, a recent baseball player perhaps a dollar. No doubt the philosopher would not rank with these today, but the twelve letters of...