The lover of the greetest of Engbbiographics will find pleasure discovering the numerous parallel of thoug'st, phrase and anecdote be tween the essays and Boewell's master piece; or rather such a lover would find pleasure in the discovery bad not Miss Bailey, with painstaking but almost selfish thoroug'anes: anticipated him by making there in her footnotes. But more subtle and less easily indicated parallels of mood and thought occur which the reader, if sufficiently steeped in the biography, will detect for himself, Altogether Miss Bailey has done a good service to literature in retrieve ing these. long-forgotten essays. It is only fair to note, as she herself docs magnanimously, that an English scholar, Mr. A. W. Evans, on hearing of her projected edition of "The Hypochondriack," relinquished ths project of an edition which he had had in hand for a long while, "T comments Miss Bailey, "is one of the instances of magnanimous self-effacement which makes the seholarly life a high experience." It is also, it may be remarked, a case to exemplify the need for ome sort of clearing house to which scholars and publishers can. send advance information regarding projected undertakings in order to lessen the like hood of "clashes" and a. con. sequent overstocking of the limited market for books such this—3.c.0. in "C, S, Monitor."
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