Views and Reviews - Essays in appreciation

Views and Reviews, by William Ernest Henley
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Title: Views and Reviews Essays in appreciation Author: William Ernest Henley
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Transcribed from the 1892 David Nutt edition by David Price, email ccx074@pglaf.org
VIEWS AND REVIEWS
ESSAYS IN APPRECIATION By W. E. HENLEY LITERATURE LONDON Published by DAVID NUTT in the Strand 1892 ***** FIRST EDITION Printing begun 28th October 1889, ended 13th May 1890 ORDINARY ISSUE— 1000 copies Finest Japanese— 20 copies SECOND EDITION Printing begun May 25th, ended June 18, 1892 1000 copies
Edinburgh: T. & A. CONSTABLE , Printers to Her Majesty
TO THE MEN OF ‘THE SCOTS OBSERVER’
p. v
PREFATORY
Suggested by one friend and selected and compiled by another , this volume is less a book than a mosaic of scraps and shreds recovered from the shot rubbish of some fourteen years of journalism. Thus, the notes on Longfellow, Balzac, Sidney, Tourneur, ‘Arabian Nights Entertainments,’ Borrow, George Eliot, and Mr. Frederick Locker are extracted from ...