Category: Biographies
_Mr. Brimley Johnson’s publications include the “Novels of Jane Austen”--Hampshire Edition, with an entirely novel method of illustration; the dainty “York Library”--selections from Lamb, Southey, and Spencer; Lady Duff Gordon’s “Letters from Egypt”--with an Introduction by Ge...
As a reader, too, Dickens stood pre-eminent. It has lately transpired that his very first public reading took place, early in the fifties, at Chatham, in aid of the Rochester an...
2. Part 2The asseveration that “Dickens” is “a name to conjure with” seems almost a truism. The innumerable editions of his works so constantly pouring from the press abundantly testify...
1. Part 1_Mr. Brimley Johnson’s publications include the “Novels of Jane Austen”--Hampshire Edition, with an entirely novel method of illustration; the dainty “York Library”--selections...