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ESSAYS ABOUT
MEN, WOMEN, AND BOOKS
MEN, WOMEN, AND
BOOKS
BY
AUGUSTINE BIRRELL
AUTHOR OF ‘OBITER DICTA,’ ETC.
LONDON: ELLIOT STOCK
62, PATERNOSTER ROW, E.C.
1910
CONTENTS
| PAGE | |
| DEAN SWIFT | 1 |
| LORD BOLINGBROKE | 16 |
| STERNE | 28 |
| DR. JOHNSON | 38 |
| RICHARD CUMBERLAND | 47 |
| ALEXANDER KNOX AND THOMAS DE QUINCEY | 58 |
| HANNAH MORE | 70 |
| MARIE BASHKIRTSEFF | 81 |
| SIR JOHN VANBRUGH | 96 |
| JOHN GAY | 109 |
| ROGER NORTH’S AUTOBIOGRAPHY | 121 |
| BOOKS OLD AND NEW | 134 |
| BOOK-BINDING | 147 |
| POETS LAUREATE | 157 |
| PARLIAMENTARY CANDIDATES | 167 |
| THE BONÂ-FIDE TRAVELLER | 176 |
| ‘HOURS IN A LIBRARY’ | 189 |
| AMERICANISMS AND BRITICISMS | 199 |
| AUTHORS AND CRITICS | 210 |
DEAN SWIFT.
Of writing books about Dean Swift there is no end. I make no complaint,because I find no fault; I express no wonder, for I feel none. Thesubject is, and must always remain, one of strange fascination. Wehave no author like the Dean of St. Patrick’s. It has been said ofWordsworth that good-luck usually atte
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