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LETTERS OF 

 GEORGE BIRKBECK HILL, 



D.C.L., LL.D., Hon. Fellow of Pembroke College, Oxford. 



Arranged by his Daughter, LUCY CRUMP. 

 Demy 8vo. With Portraits. 125. 6d. net. 



Dr. Birkbeck Hill's ' Letters ' form, with a few connecting links 

 written by his daughter, an autobiography whose charm lies in its 

 intimate portrayal of a character which was, in its curious intensity, 

 at once learned, tender, and humorous. He wrote as he talked, and 

 his talk was famous for its fund of anecdote, of humour, of deep 

 poetic feeling, of vigorous literary criticism, and no less vigorous 

 political sentiment. As an Oxford undergraduate, he was one of the 

 founders, together with Mr. Swinburne, Prof. A. V. Dicey, and 

 Mr. James Bryce, of the Old Mortality Club. He was intimately 

 connected also with the Pre-Raphaelites. At college, at home, on 

 the Continent, or in America, everywhere he writes with the pen of 

 one who observes everything, and who could fit all he saw that was 

 new into his vast knowledge of the past. His editions of ' Boswell's 

 Johnson,' of ' Johnson's Letters,' and ' The Lives of the Poets ' 

 have passed into classical works. But that his writings were not 

 exclusively Johnsonian is abundantly shown by such books as the 

 Letters of Hume, Swift, General Gordon, and Rossetti, as well as 

 by his 'Life of Sir Rowland Hill,' his 'History of Harvard 

 University,' and various collections of essays. 



LETTERS TO A GODCHILD 



ON THE CATECHISM AND CONFIRMATION. 

 By ALICE GARDNER, 



ASSOCIATE AND LECTURER OF NF.WNHAM COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE ; AUTHOR "OF ' FRIENDS OF THK 

 OLDEN TIME,' ' THEODORE OF STUDIUM,' ETC. 



Foolscap Svo. as. 6d. net. 



This series of actual Letters written to an actual Godchild on the 

 subject of Confirmation is intended for parents and teachers who 

 either feel that some of the instruction to be derived from the 

 Catechism is obscured by archaism of style and thought, or who 

 desire something in the way of a supplement to the Catechism. It 

 is not intended to take the place of works of formal religious in- 

 struction. 



