The complete online text of Shakespeare, Bacon, and the Great Unknown 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...

We will soon learn whether the economy operates by the textbook. As the stock market falters, Washington is making the standard anti- recessionary moves. Just yesterday, the Federal Reserve cut interest rates for the third time this year, reducing the federal funds rate to...

The problem with new books is that they keep us from reading old ones. Every serious reader has a list of neglected writers. And perhaps it's proper that writers be in a sense kept down: that they stay hungry, remain outsiders. There's quite a...