Memories of familiar books.
By: William B. Reed, LL. D. With a memoir of the author, ed. by Manton Marble.
Contributors: Marble, Manton, 1835-1917, ed.
Publisher: E.J. Hale & Son
Published: 1876
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 270
Subjects: English literature -- History and criticism
Notes: "The first collected edition of these essays by the late William B. Reed, was published anonymously some five years ago, under the title, 'Among my books.' They had been written from week to week ... for the literary columns of the New York world."--p. [v]
Table of contents: title: Swift.; title: Bolingbroke.; title: Clarendon.; title: Junius.; title: Quotation books.; title: Books of travel.; title: Memories of the East.; title: The prayer book.; title: Autographs.; title: William Cobbett.; title: Blackstone.; title: Sermons; title: Barrow to Manning.; title: The Napiers.; title: The Stuart books.; title: The theatre.; title: Novels; title: Defoe to Thackeray.; title: Thackeray.; title: Walter Scott.; title: Lord Palmerston.; title: American history.; title: Henry Reed.