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 MEMOIRS, BIOGRAPHIES, ETC. 13 THE LIFE AND LETTERS OF ROBERT STEPHEN HAWKER, sometime Vicar of Morwenstow in Cornwall. By C. E. BYLES. With numerous Illustrations by J. LEY PETHYBRIDGE and others. Demy 8vo. js. 6d. net. (Popular Edition.) Daily Telegraph. " ... As soon as the volume is opened one finds oneself in the presence of a real original, a man of ability, genius and eccentricity, of whom one cannot know too much . . . No one will read this fascinating and charmingly produced book without thanks to Mr. Bytes and a desire to visit or revisit Morwenstow." Pall Mall Gazette. "There is scarcely a page of this book that does not tingle with the ruddy and exuberant vitality of one of the most living men of his day. Those who want the portrait of Hawker the man, not the poet merely, or the eccentric, or the ' theologian ' (if he can be said to have had a theology), must in future come to Mr. Byles's work. ... It is Hawker the poet, in his life more poetic than in his writings, that will live long in the memory of Cornwall and of England." THE LIFE OF WILLIAM BLAKE. By ALEXANDER GILCHRIST. Edited with an Introduction by W.GRAHAM ROBERTSON. Numerous Reproductions from Blake's most characteristic and remarkable designs. Demy 8vo. ics. 6d. net. New Edition. Birmingham Post. "Nothing seems at all likely ever to supplant the Gilchrist biography. Mr. Swinburne praised it magnificently in his own eloquent essay on Blake, and there should be no need now to point out its entire sanity, understanding keenness of critical insight, and masterly literary style. Dealing with one of the most difficult of subjects, it ranks among the finest things of its kind that we possess." Daily Mail. "It would be difficult to name a more fascinating, artistic biography in the language." Western Morning News. " This handsome volume should direct attention anew to a man whose work merits remembrance." Public Opinion. " . . . The form in which this Life is now published calls for the warmest praise." MEMOIRS OF A ROYAL CHAPLAIN, 1729-63. The correspondence of Edmund Pyle, D.D., Domestic Chaplain to George II, with Samuel Kerrich, D.D., Vicar of Dersingham, and Rector of Wolferton and West Newton. Edited and Annotated by ALBERT HARTSHORNE. With Portrait. Demy 8vo. i6j.net. Truth. " It is undoubtedly the most important book of the kind that has been published in recent years, and is certain to disturb many readers whose minds have not travelled with the time." Westminster Gazette. "How the world went when George II was king, and what the Church made of it, are matters revealed with a good deal of light in this entertaining volume, edited and annotated by Mr. Hartshorne." Great Thoughts. " The Pyle letters, though not so well known as other similar correspon- dence of a public nature, are well worth the vast amount of labour and care bestowed upon their publication." GEORGE MEREDITH : Some Characteristics. By RICHARD LE GALLIENNE. With a Bibliography (much en- larged) by JOHN LANE. Portrait, etc. Crown 8vo. 5^. net. Fifth Edition. Revised. Punch. "All Meredithians must possess 'George Meredith; Some Characteristics,' by Richard Le Gallienne. This book is a complete and excellent guide to the novelist and the novels, a sort of Meredithian Bradshaw, with pictures of the traffic superintendent and the head office at Boxhill. Even Philistines may be won over by the blandishments of Mr. Le Gallienne."