MEMOIRS, BIOGRAPHIES, Etc. 15 

 WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY. A 



Biography by Lewis Melville. With z Photogravures and 

 numerous other Illustrations. Demy 8vo (9 x 5^ inches). 

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*^* In co7itpiling this biography of Thackeray Mr. Lewis Melville, "who is admittedly 

 the authority on the subject, has been assisted by nu7nerous Tliackeray experts. Mr. 

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 years Mr. Melville has devoted himself to the collection of »iaterial relating to the life and 

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 come to hand since the publication of " The Life of Thackeray." Now that everything 

 about the novelist is known, it seems that an apj)7-opriate moment has arrived for a neiu 

 biography. Mr. Melville has also compiled a bibliography of Thackeray that runs to 

 upwards 1.300 items, by tnany hundj-eds 7iiore than contained in any hitherto issued. 

 This section will be invaluable to the collector. Thackeray's speeches, including sei.>eral 

 never before republished, have also been collected. There is a list of portraits of the 

 novelist, and a separate index to the Bibliography, 



A LATER PEPYS. The Correspondence of Sir 



William Waller Pepys, Bart., Master in Chancery, 1 758-1 825, 

 with Mrs. Chapone, Mrs. Hartley, Mrs. Montague, Hannah More, 

 William Franks, Sir James Macdonald, Major Rennell, Sir 

 Nathaniel Wraxall, and others. Edited, with an Introduction and 

 Notes, by Alice C. C. Gaussen. With numerous Illustrations. 

 Demy 8vo. In Two Volumes. 32/. net. 



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ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON, AN ELEGY; 

 AND OTHER POEMS, MAINLY PERSONAL. By 

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RUDYARD KIPLING : a Criticism. By Richard 



Le Gallienne. With a Bibliography by John Lane. Crown 

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APOLOGIA DIFFIDENTIS. By W. Compton 



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*»* The book, which is largely autobiographical, describes the effect of diffidence upon 

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