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Excerpt from Appraisements and Asperities: As to Some Contemporary Writers
Of 'adventures and Enthusiasms, ' by E. V. Lucas. So wrote A. Edward Newton to a num ber of his friends before his recent departure to London, Johnson hunting - Dr. Samuel, dear reader, immersed in contemporary politics, not Hiram - and Mr. Newton added: It is one of the most charming volumes of essays I have read in a long time. Even those of us who have a less perfect discernment for these delicate niceties of style and sentiment must appreciate the justice of this verdict of the pundit and add our less authoritative praise when Mr. Lucas has once made us his; and some of us have been such long since, from the time of our reading in his edition of the Works and Letters of Charles and Mary Lamb, and from other pleasing vol umes of his essays and collections in which good taste combines with scholarly judgment to bid the reader to the feast.
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