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' 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 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. Austin Dobson_, _and Mr. George Meredith from articles contributed to_ '_The Athenaeum_'; _those on Dumas_, _Count Tolstoi's novels_, _and the verse of Dr. Hake from_ '_The Saturday Review_'; _those on Walton_, _Landor_, _and Heine from_ '_The Scots Observer_,' '_The Academy_,' _and_ '_Vanity Fair_' _respectively_; _while the_ '_Disraeli_' _has been pieced together from_ '_London_,' '_Vanity Fair_,' _and_ '_The Athenaeum_'; _the_ '_Berlioz_' _from_ '_The Scots Observer_' _and_ '_The Saturday Review_'; _the_ '_Tennyson_' _from_ '_The Scots Observer_' _and_ '_The Magazine of Art_'; _the_ '_Homer and Theocritus_' _from_ '_Vanity Fair_' _and the defunct_ '_Teacher_'; _the_ '_Hugo_' _from_ '_The Athenaeum_,' '_The Magazine of Art_,' _and an unpublished fragment written for_ '_The Scottish Church_.' _In all cases permission to reprint is hereby gratefully acknowledged_; _but the reprinted matter has been subjected to such a process of revision and reconstitution that much of it is practically new_, _while little or none remains as it was_. _I venture_, _then_, _to hope that the result_, _for all its scrappiness_, _will be found to have that unity which comes of method and an honest regard for letters_. W. E. H. _Edinr._ 8_th_ _May_ 1890 DICKENS A 'Frightful Minus'