Here we have Mr. Lang at his best. . . . The recollections, perhaps, are the best things in the book - of Stevenson, Dr. John Brown, and Oliver Wendell Holmes, all sympathetic, delicate, and perceptive in criticism, reticent to the point of shyness. But the lighter literary essays have that elusive humour of which we have spoken, even in a greater degree than the recollections, and in the " The Boy " Mr. Lang is almost rollicking - for Mr. Lang.

This book is annotated with a rare extensive biographical sketch of the author, Andrew Lang, written by Sir Edmund Gosse, CB, a contemporary poet and writer.

Contents:

Preface

Chapter I: Adventures Among Books

Chapter Ii: Recollections Of Robert Louis Stevenson

Chapter Iii: Rab's Friend

Chapter Iv: Oliver Wendell Holmes

Chapter V: Mr. Morris's Poems

Chapter Vi: Mrs. Radcliffe's Novels

Chapter Vii: A Scottish Romanticist Of 1830

Chapter Viii: The Confessions Of Saint Augustine

Chapter Ix: Smollett

Chapter X: Nathaniel Hawthorne

Chapter Xi: The Paradise Of Poets

Chapter Xii: Paris And Helen

Chapter Xiii: Enchanted Cigarettes

Chapter Xiv: Stories And Story-Telling (From Strath Naver)

Chapter Xv: The Supernatural In Fiction

Chapter Xvi: An Old Scottish Psychical Researcher

Chapter Xvii: The Boy

Footnotes