The complete online text of Adventures Among Books by Andrew Lang.

More than any other British writer of the second half of the nineteenth century, Andrew Lang successfully championed the fairy tale as appropriate reading material for children. This astonishingly productive man of letters influenced children's literatur...

For more than thirty-five years, from 1875 to 1912, Andrew Lang's essays, reviews, and editorial leaders shaped the opinions and influenced the tastes of the reading public of England and the United States. He was a prolific and facile writer who was alw...

Andrew Lang was "the greatest bookman of our age, and after [Robert Louis] Stevenson, the last great man of letters of the old Scottish tradition," affirms George Gordon in The Dictionary of National Biography. A confirmed polymath and gifted polyglot, i...

This book should be required reading for every archaeologist (although it is not about archaeology), every cultural resource manager (although it is not about cultural resource management), and any one considering investing in a treasure hunt (although no significant treasure was discovered). Initially...

The Liberals: The NSW Division 1945--2000, by Ian Hancock; Federation Press, 2007, $49.95. Not the least merit of Ian Hancock s timely examination of the Liberal Party in New South Wales is his balanced treatment of the Liberal Wars--the factional battles between...