eview articles may be mentioned George
Eliot in WESTMINSTER REVIEW, volume 57; John Burroughs in
ATLANTIC MONTHLY, volume 51; Emerson in SCRIBNER'S MAGAZINE,
volume 22; Froude in NINETEENTH CENTURY, volume 10, and Leslie
Stephen in CORNHILL, volume 44.
DE QUINCEY
It is a curious fact that the first complete edition of De
Quincey's works was issued in Boston in twenty volumes
(1850-1855) by Ticknor & Fields. Much of the material was
gathered from English periodicals, as De Quincey was the
greatest magazine writer of his age. This was followed by the
Riverside edition in twelve volumes (Boston, 1877). The
standard English edition is _The Collected Writings of Thomas
De Quincey_, fourteen volumes, edited by David Masson
(1889-1890). A.H. Japp wrote the standard English _Life of De
Quincey_ (London, two volumes, 1879). The best short life is
Masson's in the English Men of Letters series. George
Saintsbury gives a good sketch of De Quincey in _Essays in
English Literature_. Other estimates may be found in the
following works: Leslie Stephen, _Hours in a Library_; H.A.
Page, _De Quincey, His Life and Writings_ and in Mrs.
Oliphant's _Literary History of England_.
LAMB
Reprints of the _Essays of Elia_ have been very numerous. One
of the best editions of Lamb's complete works was edited by
E.V. Lucas in seven volumes, to which he added in 1905 _The
Life of Charles Lamb_ in two volumes. Another is _Complete
Works and Correspondence_, edited by Canon Ainger (London, six
volumes). Ainger also wrote an excellent short life of Lamb
for the English Men of Letters series. Hazlitt and Percy
Fitzgerald have revised Thomas Noon Talfourd's standard
_Letters of Charles Lamb, With a Sketch of His Life_. Among
sketches of the life of Charles and Mary Lamb may be noted
Barry Cornwall's _Charles Lamb--A Memoir_; Fitzgerald,
_Charles Lamb: His Friends, His Haunts and His Books_; Walter
Pater, _Appreciations_; R.H. Stoddard, _Personal
Recollections_; Augustine Birrell, _Res Judicatae_; Nicoll,
_Landmarks of English Literature_; Talfourd, _Final Memorials
of Charles Lamb_; Hutton, _Literary Landmarks of London_.
DICKENS
The first collective edition of Dickens' works was issued in
1847. The standard edition is that of Chapman & Hall, London,
who were the original publishe
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