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...likeable figure in his circle seemed to be his sister Dorothy . . . So, recently, I at last got hold of Professor de Selincourt's fine edition of her Journals. They led me to his life of Dorothy Wordsworth, to Margoliouth's Wordsworth and Coleridge, back with a new eye to Hazlitt's My First Acquaintance with Poets, to De Quincey . . . The advantage of reading of this kind is that it takes you through life continually opening up new vistas of old country, slowly filling in a pattern of memories and emotions and associations such as no strictly formalized...
...LETTERS OF WILLIAM AND DOROTHY WORDSWORTH, 1806-1820. Two vols. -Edited by Ernest de Selincourt-Oxford University Press ($14). Second installment (first published in 1935) of what will be, when completed, the most comprehensive collection of Wordsworth letters...
Died. Anne Douglas Sedgwick (Mrs. Basil de Selincourt), 62, U. S.-born British novelist (Adrienne Toner, The Little French Girl): in Hampstead, England...
Fortunately, neither one of these books is a Ludwigogram, so it is quite possible to read either with some profit Professor Herford, true to the traditions of scholarship, bases his work chiefly on Professor de Selincourt's edition of "The Prelude". His criticism of Wordsworth as a poet rests on the changes that the poet made at various times on his text. He willingly admits that the efforts of Professors Harper and Legouis in exposing Wordsworth's relations with Annette make it necessary for a new "explanation." Keenly aware of the sensational tendencies of his own century, Professor Herford makes...
Born in the U. S., educated in France, living in England, Author Sedgwick has a fine sense of the best elements in all three countries. In private life she is Mme. Basil de Selincourt, lives in England, tends her roses, sings Brahms and Haydn oratorios in the village choral society which her husband conducts...