OCTOBER 1902
October 1902
THE COMPLETE WORKS OF CHARLES LAMB. Editedby E. V. Lucas. With numerous Illustrations. In Seven Volumes.Demy 8vo. 7s. 6d. each.
This new edition of the works of Charles and Mary Lamb, in five volumes (to befollowed by two volumes containing the Letters), will be found to contain alarge quantity of new matter both in prose and verse—several thousand words inall. Mr. E. V. Lucas, the editor, has attempted in the notes, not only to relateLamb’s writings to his life, but to account for all his quotations and allusions—anideal of thoroughness far superior to any that previous editors have set beforethemselves. A Life of Lamb by Mr. Lucas will follow next year.
THE LIFE AND LETTERS OF OLIVER CROMWELL.By Thomas Carlyle. With an Introduction by C. H. Firth,M.A., and Notes and Appendices by Mrs. S. C. Lomas. ThreeVolumes. 6s. each.
...[Methuen’s Standard Library.
This edition is brought up to the standard of modern scholarship by the addition ofnumerous new letters of Cromwell, and by the correction of many errors whichrecent research has discovered.