8vo, 320pp., only 1,000 copies printed, gilt lettering and decoration to top board, spine darkened, light foxing to endpapers, previous owner's signature on front endpaper, otherwise clean tight copy. Topics include London, James Russell Lowell, Frances Anne Kemble, Gustave Flaubert, Pierre Loti, Brothers de Goncourt, Browning in Westminster Abbey, Henrik Ibsen, Mrs Humphrey Ward and others.