"The sloven style, the trivial matter, of so many of the Reminiscences which every publishing season pours forth makes all the more welcome by contrast a book of memories that is both rich in interest and itself a piece of literature. Such is Sir Sidney Colvin's 'Memories and Notes.' It is a pleasure to read from beginning to end, if only for the exact and vivid phrasing, the sustained felicity of cadence, at times touching emotion and imagination at once with just that kind of beauty of sound in the words which is proper to fine prose."--Mr. LAURENCE BINYON in the _Bookman_. "The man who enormously increased the regard of the public for Landor, who indefatigably forwarded the interests of R. L. Stevenson, and who is unmatched for his scholarly exposition of Keats, would, of course, write a book of literary gossip with distinction and taste. But Sir Sidney Colvin has done more than that. This book is a model of what such books should be; it is well bred, balanced, informing, and yet it is light and readable all through."--_Spectator_. "After all the reminiscences by women of no conceivable importance, and all the gossip of chatterboxes in the purlieus of Fleet Street, it is pleasant to meet a narrator who comes under the old-fashioned comfortable rubric of 'a scholar and a gentleman.' Oh! how comely it is and how reviving To the spirits of just men long opprest by fusty anecdotes about third-class politicians to breathe the atmosphere of intellectual good breeding."--Mr. EDMUND GOSSE in _The Sunday Times_. "The high vitality of the 'seventies and 'eighties, both in England and France, is made to pulse again. The book is indispensable where it was bound to excel, as in the personal study of Robert Louis Stevenson. But, also, it is singularly close and graphic in ways for which we were not prepared."--_Observer_. "Full of inimitable pictures."--_Nation and Athenæum_. "The leading literary and artistic figures of 60 years flit through the pages with a fascination which will amply repay those who have awaited publication of the book for its real worth. The whole of the fifty pages of Stevensonia give a more faithful picture of R. L. S. on the human side than anyone has hitherto been able to do."--_Daily News_. ADRIENNE TONER. By ANNE DOUGLAS SEDGWICK (MRS. BASIL DE SELINCOURT), AUTHOR OF "TANTE," "THE ENCOUNTER," "VALERIE UPTON," ETC. Third Impression. Crown 8vo. 7s. 6d. net. "Exquisite is the word that swims, not 'darkly' but with a sense of utter satisfaction, through the brain in summing up Miss Anne Douglas Sedgwick's new novel, Adrienne Toner. Its quality is extraordinarily even. It is a fine book, with flashes of humour and a strong and clear reading of human life, and withal of a quality of which it can only be said at last, as at first, that it is exquisite."--_Country Life_. "I loved 'Adrienne Toner.' A wonderful book, I thought. It's well worth reading."--From "The Letters of Evelyn" in the _Tatler_.