English. 828 76574 ESSAYS, RECOLLECTIONS, AND CAUSERIES BY THE HON. LIONEL A. TOLLEMACHE. Demy 8vo, pp. xxiv., 430, cloth, 5s. SAFE STUDIES. HISTORICAL PREDICTION. Contents: LITERARY EGOTISM. Sir G. C. LEWIS and LONGEVITY. RECOLLECTIONS of Mr. GROTE and Mr. BABBAGE. PHYSICAL and MORAL COURAGE. THE UPPER ENGADINE. NOTES and RECOLLECTIONS of Sir CHARLES WHEATSTONE, DEAN STANLEY, and CANON KINGSLEY. RECOLLECTIONS OF PATTISON.* Mr. ROMANES'S CATECHISM. NEOCHRISTIANITY and NEOCATHOLICISM: a Sequel. "The essays are mainly biographical, and are full of wit and humour. They abound in good stories of all kinds. Every page shows the classical humanist, the man of taste and scholarly refinement; but, like the essays of Montaigne, of whom Mr. Tollemache is almost an English counterpart, there is a richer vein of thought and of philosophy running through all this lighter matter."-ANGLICAN CHURCH MAGAZINE. "Mr. Tollemache's essays seem to us to possess literary merit of a rare and high order. He is not only pleasantly anecdotic; he is eminently sympathetic, ingenious, thoughtful, and appreciative, and many of these qualities are also exhibited in his more speculative and less personal papers. His recollections of Grote, Charles Austin, and LONDON: WILLIAM RICE, 86 FLEET STREET, E.C. [Sold also by BRENTANO, 17 Avenue de l'Opéra, Paris, and 5 Union Square, New York; TITTMANN, Dresden; VIEUSSEUX, Florence; PITHOEVER, Rome; and all Booksellers.] Pattison are full of interesting anecdote and suggestive comment, while those of Babbage, Sir Charles Wheatstone, Dean Stanley, and Canon Kingsley, belong to the same order. We can best enforce our favourable judgment of these remarkable volumes by quoting a passage from a letter received from Pattison, to whom he had sent the privately printed edition, which of course did not contain the paper on Pattison himself:-'I should say that the papers on the whole show a union, which is very uncommon, of two opposite qualities-viz., a dominant interest in speculation of a wide and human character, with vast resources, in the memory, of single facts, incidents, or mots of famous men. How, with your eyesight, you ever compassed such a range of reading as is here brought to bear at all points of your argument must be a matter of wonder. It seems as if you could draw at pleasure upon all literature, from the classics down to Robert Montgomery and Swinburne.' In this judgment we cordially concur.-It should be added that the larger volume, entitled 'Safe Studies,' contains a series of graceful poems by Mrs. Tollemache. . . . The Recollections of Pattison' are very charming."-THE TIMES. Altogether, we can give very hearty praise to the book, and that is something in the case of matter which has not the charm of novelty to the reviewer, and with a good deal of which he disagrees in opinion. Mr. Tollemache can tell an excellent story (such as that of the young lady who, having spoken enthusiastically about a clergyman, and being asked if she referred to any sermon of his, said, “No; oh! no. But he hates mayonnaise, and so do I.'). He manages, though he himself is very frequently in presence, and the subject of discussion, never to be unpleasantly egotistic. His work has the literary flavour throughout, without being merely bookish, and he can argue a thesis like a craftsman and a master of his craft.”—SATURDAY REVIEW. "Mr. Tollemache is one of a fortunate few with whom a certain kind of memory may be said, as Rosetti said of beauty, to be a genius itself. . . . Even the anecdotes, good as they are, have scarcely the same literary value as his rare power of making men and women live before us with all their human charm and weakness, the charm the more real for the supplementary weakness, and the weakness itself winning our attachment in the light of the charm.. His truly marvellous memory for details of speech and character may yet keep for us many a little trait, or passing word, which will hereafter be precious.”— SPEAKER. · "The Safe Studies' are those to which it is impossible for any human creature to raise the smallest objection on any ground whatever, and they are about four times as long as the 'Stones of Stumbling.' These stumbling-blocks may possibly at some period or other have given scandal to a part of the population by no means likely to read LONDON: WILLIAM RICE, 86 FLEET STREET, E.C. [Sold also by BRENTANO, 17 Avenue de l'Opéra, Paris, and 5 Union Square, New York; TITTMANN, Dresden; VIEUSSEUX, Florence; PITHOEVER, Rome; and all Booksellers.] them; but in these days the public has swallowed so many camels that we do not think Mr. Tollemache's gnats would even make any considerable portion of them cough. . . . We propose to make some observations on the most important of these charming essays. They are all singularly well worth reading, and may be described as the works of a most ingenious, accomplished, and cultivated man of leisure, who writes in order to fix recollections and systematize speculations which interest him, and not for the purpose of advocating particular views in the spirit of a partisan or propagandist."-ST. JAMES'S GAZETTE. "He [the_author] possesses in a high degree the first requisite of a biographer, the admiratio Boswelliana, and he combines with the exact memory of Mr. Hayward some of the sympathetic appreciativeness of Lord Houghton. . . . This (Stones of Stumbling) includes the 'Recollections of [Mark] Pattison,' which attracted so much attention on their first appearance in the Journal of Education. Together with the notice of Charles Austin (in Safe Studies), it must also possess a permanent value, as an unrivalled example of Boswellian portraiture—with the added interest that, in recording the traits of his friends, the author is half-unconsciously revealing some of his own.”—ACADEMY. "Since the death of Hayward, we know no English littérateur who has, in the same degree as Mr. Tollemache, the happy knack of recollecting or collecting the characteristic sayings and doings of a distinguished man, and piecing them together in a finished mosaic." -DAILY CHRONICLE. "Mr. Tollemache has at last overcome his dislike to publicity, and has given the world at large a series of delightful studies which might otherwise have been well-nigh lost in the sombre and dissipated retirement of a bound periodical. . . . An atmosphere of soft melancholy envelops his treatment; and this melancholy is perhaps the cause of yet another charm. His studies are not only full of unfamiliar quotations from familiar authors,' but abound in pleasant and witty digressions."-NATIONAL OBserver. "The Hon. Lionel Tollemache abounds in witty sentences, and excels in the art of stringing together good things."—WHITEHALL REVIEW. "The books as a whole, give in an agreeable form an outline or suggestion of all that has been most prominent and characteristic for the past twenty or thirty years in the leading currents of speculative thought in England. Though they deal with thorny problems, and sometimes argue closely enough to be hard reading, the essays have the charm which the judicious use of a wide learning gives, and the book is attractive as well as thoughtful and suggestive.”—SCOTSMAN. "That Mr. Tollemache has an inexhaustible fund of anecdotes is not saying much; but what is remarkable is the skill, the aptness, the LONDON WILLIAM RICE, 86 FLEET STREET, E.C. (Sold also by BRENTANO, 17 Avenue de l'Opéra, Paris, and 5 Union Square, New York; TITTMANN, Dresden; VIEUSSEUX, Florence; PITHOEVER, Rome; and all Booksellers.] felicity with which he applies them. . . . Mrs. Tollemache's poems are penetrated with a love of nature truly Wordsworthian. . . . It has been long since we read anything so interesting, amusing, and delightfu) as 'Safe Studies.""-GALIGNANI'S MESSENGER. "The essays include 'Mr. Tennyson's Social Philosophy,' 'Charles Austin,'' Physical and Moral Courage,' 'Recollections of Dean Stanley,' and other papers, making one of the most interesting of books. Even more interesting, if possible, are the 'Recollections of [Mark] Pattison,' which form part of the companion volume. . . . There are enough good stories in Mr. Tollemache's Recollections to fill half-a-dozen columns." -STAR. ‘The volumes are witty and interesting, and besprinkled throughout with the dew of wide and unusual reading. Particularly in his resort to apt classical quotation does Mr. Tollemache preserve an honourable literary tradition in a way which now seems a little old-fashioned, though agreeable from its very quaintness as well as its frequent pungency.. The 'Recollections of Pattison' are thoroughly delightful. Based upon a long friendship, and upon a certain affinity, they are altogether charming in their mingled analysis and reminiscence, narrative and anecdote. . . . We take pleasure in commending these books for their biographical interest, which in parts is of the greatest, as well as for the refinement and learning that pervade them throughout.”—THE NATION (New York). "These books contain biographical papers that, in form and importance, rank with the best work of their class in the English language. The author has the rare gift of being able to paint portraits instead of making photographs, and he has cultivated this now almost lost art until it has reached perfection. . . . The vein of deep philosophy that runs through these essays is made most attractive by the wit that sparkles in every line."-BOOK CHAT (New York). "The special quality in these essays which makes them worthy of preservation and continuance is the quality which Mr. Matthew Arnold used to call 'sweet reasonableness.' Here is an Englishman without insularity, a writer on theological topics without prejudices, a gentleman without undue exclusiveness, a classicist without over-punctiliousness. . . . The most abiding impression that one receives from the reading of all these delightful personal sketches is that of the personality of the author himself. He has made his characters live before us, and his own figure is among them-long to be remembered."-THE OUTLOOK, or CHRISTIAN UNION (New York). “I find your article [Fortnightly Review, July, 1892] charming, and your Whiggism mild. Neither epithet is, I think, exaggerated."Letter from Mr. GLADSTONE. LONDON WILLIAM RICE, 86 FLEET STREET, E.C. (Sold also by BRENTANO, 17 Avenue de l'Opéra, Paris, and 5 Union Square, New York; TITTMANN, Dresden; VIEUSSEUX, Florence; PITHOEVER, Rome; and all Booksellers.] SAFE STUDIES. 47498 BY THE HON. MR. AND MRS. LIONEL A. TOLLEMACHE. "Il est une région supérieure des âmes élevées dans laquelle se ren- LONDON: WILLIAM RICE, 86 FLEET STREET, E.C. 1893. |