The Notebooks of Samuel Butler
By: edited by Henry Festing Jones; new introduction by P.N. Furbank
Contributors: Jones, Henry Festing.
Series: Lives & letters
Publisher: Hogarth
Published: 1985
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 454
Copyright date: 1985, Introduction, P.N. Furbank
Subjects: Butler, Samuel, -- 1835-1902 -- Biography.; Savage, Eliza Mary Ann.
Description: MARRIAGE
In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved.

AN APOLOGY FOR THE DEVIL
It must be remembered that we have only heard one side of the case. God has written all the books.

One of our most original writers and thinkers, Samuel Butler always carried a small black notebook in his waistcoat pocket in which he jotted down such eternal epigrams, questions, anecdotes, oddities, fables — incisive asides on everything from God to Grapes, Wisdom to Window Cleaning.

Writers as different as Virginia Woolf and George Bernard Shaw were among those influenced by Butler's 'fresh and future-piercing suggestions' and the _Notebooks_ have long been regarded as containing his most hilarious and pungent writing. But, despite the temptation, be warned against reading them in a dentist's waiting room, a hushed library, or anywhere else where the sudden guffaw raises a steely glare.

Samuel Butler (1835 — 1902), painter; composer, writer, sometime New Zealand sheep farmer, notable eccentric, is best known for his satirical _Erewhon_ and the blistering autobiographical novel _The Way of All Flesh_. The _Notebooks_, edited by his good friend, H. Festing Jones, were an instant success when first published in 1912. As pertinent and entertaining as ever, they are now reissued to celebrate Butler's 150th anniversary.
Notes: Facsim of, ed. published, London , A.C. Fifield, 1912.

Includes index.
Table of contents: pagenum: 1
title: Biographical Statement; pagenum: 9
title: Lord, What is Man?
label: I; pagenum: 24
title: Elementary Morality
label: II; pagenum: 39
title: The Germs of _Erewhon_ and of _Life and Habit_
label: III; pagenum: 56
title: Memory and Design
label: IV; pagenum: 66
title: Vibrations
label: V; pagenum: 74
title: Mind and Matter
label: VI; pagenum: 93
title: On the Making of Music, Pictures and Books
label: VII; pagenum: 110
title: Handel and Music
label: VIII; pagenum: 135
title: A Painter's Views on Painting
label: IX; pagenum: 155
title: The Position of a Homo Unius Libri
label: X; pagenum: 168
title: Cash and Credit
label: XI; pagenum: 183
title: The Enfant Terrible of Literature
label: XII; pagenum: 200
title: Unprofessional Sermons
label: XIII; pagenum: 215
title: Higgledy-Piggledy
label: XIV; pagenum: 229
title: Titles and Subjects
label: XV; pagenum: 237
title: Written Sketches
label: XVI; pagenum: 259
title: Material for a Projected Sequel to _Alps and Sanctuaries_
label: XVII; pagenum: 288
title: Material for _Erewhon Revisited_
label: XVIII; pagenum: 297
title: Truth and Convenience
label: XIX; pagenum: 309
title: First Principles
label: XX; pagenum: 332
title: Rebelliousness
label: XXI; pagenum: 346
title: Reconciliation
label: XXII; pagenum: 353
title: Death
label: XXIII; pagenum: 360
title: The Life of the World to Come
label: XXIV; pagenum: 379
title: Poems
label: XXV; pagenum: 399
title: Index