Men, women, and books : a selection of sketches, essays, and critical memoirs, from his uncollected prose writings
Leigh Hunt (Author), Smith, Elder, and Co (Publisher), Stewart and Murray (Firm) (Printer)
Print Book, English, 1847
Smith, Elder and Co., 65, Cornhill, London, 1847
essays
2 volumes (324, 358 pages) : portrait ; 20 cm
6497754
v. 1. Fiction and matter of fact. Inside of an omnibus. Day of the disasters of Carlington Blundell. Visit to the zoological gardens. A man introduced to his ancestors. Novel party. Beds and bedrooms. World of books. Jack Abbott's breakfast. On seeing a pigeon make love. Month of May. The Giuli tre. Few remarks on the cure vice called lying. Criticism on female beauty. Of deceased statesmen who have written verses. Female sovereigns of England
v. 2. Social morality. Pope. Garth, physicians, and love-letters. Cowley and Thomson. Bookstalls and "Galateo". Bookbinding and "Heliodorus". Ververt, or, The parrot of the nuns. Specimens of British poetesses. Duchess of St. Albans, and marriages from the state. Lady Mary Wortley Montagu. Life and African visit of Pepys. Life and letters of Madame de Sévigné