Sir Paul Harvey

T PREFACE ¦^HIS volume will serve its purpose if it proves a useful companion to ordinary everyday readers of English literature. It is necessarily a work of compilation and selection, because the range of the possible subject-matter is so great. English literature has a continuous history of...

PREFACE TO THE FOURTH EDITION The main work in preparing this new edition has been to bring the entries for the twentieth century up to date. Many new writers have become established since Harvey first wrote, and a few who were accorded only brief entries then are now recognized as major figures....