Gathered from fourteen years of journalism, these short critical pieces by the poet and editor W. E. Henley range over Dickens and Thackeray, Fielding and Richardson, Balzac, Byron, Borrow, George Eliot, Matthew Arnold, the Arabian Nights and many others, each judged with vigour and strong opinion.
Pungent, quotable criticism from one of the liveliest literary editors of the 1880s. Download the free EPUB.