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MEMORIES AND NOTES OF 

 PERSONS AND PLACES 



By SIR SIDNEY COLVIN, M.A., D.Litt., 



FORMERLY SI.ADE PROFESSOR or FINE ART IN THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBKIDGB 

 AND KEEPER OF THE PRINTS AND DRAWINGS AT THE BRITISH MUSEUM. 



With Portrait. Demy Svo. i8s. net. 



Few British readers will need to be reminded of the debt which 

 art and art criticism owe to Sir Sidney Colvin, whose forty years' 

 experience at Cambridge and at the British Museum have com- 

 bined with the rare freshness and breadth of vision of a cultured 

 and unprejudiced mind to ensure for his opinions that respect 

 which is their undoubted due. At the same time he has always 

 nursed the hope of one day becoming free to work no longer upon 

 the productions, however treasurable and fascinating, of man's 

 hands, but upon objects which have always interested him more 

 deeply still, namely, poetry and the scenes of nature and the 

 characters of men and women. 



Part of this hope found fulfilment in his " Life of Keats," pub- 

 lished a few years ago ; and the present volume is the result of a 

 purpose he has long entertained of giving us, to use his own words, 

 " a record of the most lively impressions I could definitely recall 

 as having been made upon me since boyhood, not only by persons, 

 but by scenes and places, and not only by these, but by events 

 and movements, especially those in literature and art." 



It was originally intended that the work should occupy several 

 volumes, but the effects of the war, and the claims of advancing 

 years have unfortunately prevented the author from carrying out 

 his plan on so ambitious a scale. It is, however, some consolation 

 to reflect that this one volume may perhaps be regarded as con- 

 taining the concentrated essence of the whole scheme. Its 

 exceptional interest may be gauged from mention of the headings 

 of some of the chapters. These include among others: Mr. 

 Gladstone ; Ruskin ; Burne-Jones ; Rossetti ; Robert Browning ; 

 East Suffolk as the home of Edward Fitzgerald ; George Meredith 

 and Box Hill ; The British Museum and Sir Charles Newton ; 

 Victor Hugo; and Gambetta. Among places having chapters 

 to themselves are Athens, and the Land's End of France. But 

 the widest appeal will probably be made by the long section of 

 the book dealing with Robert Louis Stevenson, whose intimate 

 friendship with the author may well make the picture here drawn 

 of him come nearer to the life than that which anyone else has 

 given us. 



