_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 originals in_ '_London_'--_a print still remembered with affection by those concerned in it_; _those on Labiche_, _Champfleury_, _Richardson_, _Fielding_, _Byron_, _Gay_, _Congreve_, _Boswell_, '_Essays and Essayists_,' _Jefferies_, _Hood_, _Matthew Arnold_, _Lever_, _Thackeray_, _Dickens_, _M. Theodore de Banville_, _Mr. Austi…
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