Mr. W.L.  COURTNEY in the DAILY TELEGRAPH.—­“One of the most
    illuminating and stimulating pieces of work which have been produced
    in our not wholly critical age.”

    ATHENAEUM.—­“This new volume of the ‘English Men of Letters’ is
    one of the most refreshing in that admirable series.”

    PILOT.—­“An interesting, entertaining, and even inspiring life
    of a great poet.”

CRABBE.  By ALFRED AINGER.

TIMES.—­“Canon Ainger has given us the book we should expect from him, one full of sincerity, good taste, and good sense.  The story of the poet’s uneventful life is admirably retold, with the quiet distinction of a style which is intent on its own business and too sure of producing its effect to care about forcing attention by rhetorical or epigrammatic fireworks.  And Canon Ainger has been fortunate enough to be able to add a few new facts, and throw a little new light on the poet’s life.”

    GLOBE.—­“Unquestionably, and even obviously, this volume by
    Canon Ainger is the best available account of Crabbe and his works. 
    The treatment is careful, thorough, and, while sympathetic, shrewd.”

FANNY BURNEY.  By AUSTIN DOBSON.

    TIMES.—­“A book of unfailing charm—­perhaps the most charming
    of this admirable series.”

    GLOBE.—­“Eloquent and sparkling.”

    SPECTATOR.—­“The monograph is in all respects worthy of the
    admirable series in which it appears.”

PILOT.—­“In asking Mr. Dobson to undertake the book, the publishers have certainly found the best man for the task ...  Mr. Dobson is too well known and esteemed a craftsman to need fresh praises, and it is enough to say that here is another book of his as good as the rest.”

JEREMY TAYLOR.  By EDMUND GOSSE.

DAILY TELEGRAPH.—­“It is right that so great an ornament to our Church should have fitting commentary in a modern series dedicated to the history of English letters, and Mr. Gosse’s little book worthily and eloquently expounds his high theme.”

    ACADEMY.—­“A worthy monument to one of the greatest of Anglican
    divines.”

    MORNING POST.—­“His profound and brilliant study of Jeremy
    Taylor’s life and writings.”

ROSSETTI.  By ARTHUR C. BENSON.

    TIMES.—­“A very good book, full of well-chosen, facts and of
    discreet sympathy with a character that needs a good deal of
    understanding.”

PILOT.—­“Mr. Benson displays not only a delicate sympathy, but a penetration and a sanity of judgment that enable him to put before us not merely a plausible, but a convincing portrait of a man who twenty years after his death, in spite of changing fashions, exercises, as in his own day, a strange and potent spell over the imagination.”

MARIA EDGEWORTH.  By the Hon. EMILY LAWLESS.