_Daily Telegraph._—“. . . As soon as the volume is opened one finds
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and eccentricity, of whom one cannot know too much . . . No one will
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most characteristic and remarkable designs. Demy 8vo. 10_s._ 6_d._ net.
New Edition.
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masterly literary style. Dealing with one of the most difficult of
subjects, it ranks among the finest things of its kind that we
possess.”
MEMOIRS OF A ROYAL CHAPLAIN, 1729-63. The correspondence of Edmund Pyle,
D.D., Domestic Chaplain to George II, with Samuel Kerrich, D.D., Vicar of
Dersingham, and Rector of Wolferton and West Newton. Edited and Annotated
by Albert Hartshorne. With Portrait. Demy 8vo. 16_s._ net.
_Truth._—“It is undoubtedly the most important book of the kind that
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GEORGE MEREDITH: Some Characteristics. By Richard Le Gallienne. With a
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H. Craig, M.A. Numerous Illustrations. Demy 8vo. 12_s._ 6_d._ net.
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sterling qualities which Chesterfield was at too much pains in
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contemporaries, except Walpole at one end of his life, and Chatham at
the other.”
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