By-ways in Book-land

By-ways in Book-land

William Henry Davenport Adams, English writer and journalist (1828-1891)


This ebook presents «By-ways in Book-land», from William Henry Davenport Adams. A dynamic table of contents enables to jump directly to the chapter selected.


Table of Contents

- About This Book

- Paper-knife Pleasures

- Ruskin As Poet

- Elections In Literature

- Familiar Verse

- Shakespeare's England

- Heredity In Song

- Stings For The Stingy

- Dialogues Of The Dead

- Sermons In Flowers

- Don Quixote In England

- Bedside Books

- Their Much Speaking

- Peers And Poetry

- The Praise Of Thames

- English Epigraphs

- The Season In Song

- The Recess In Rhyme

- Jaques In Love

- Mocking At Matrimony

- Parson Poets

- The Outsides Of Books

- Nonsense Verses

- Single-speech Hamiltons

- Dramatic Nomenclature

- Puns And Patronymics

- Yours Truly

- Postscripts