bines a very pleasant appreciation of humour with a gift, nacer than should be, of apposite quotation. Our only general complaint against the essays is that Mr. Priestley is a Little too apt to judge his authors" merits without Tefereneo to the work of authors who either influenced them, o are comparable to them, "Thus it is surprising to rend! 0 judicious an appreciation of My. Bennett without coming once heros the name of Gissing; and we should Ihave Qiked to sce a discussion of what an author Like Mr. Jacobs owes, in technique and in style, to those neglected little masterpieces, the early hart tories of ""Q" This complaint is, perhaps, only atx other way of saying that none of Mr. Priestley's, authors are quite significant enough to boar such severely separate treatment as he sives them; they would be better iseussed in a volume considering the tendencies of modern literature a whole—The "Observer."
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