And other Stories and Sketches by WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY
(1829-44), now first collected, to which is added the Bibliography of
THACKERAY, revised and considerably enlarged.
The _Athenæum_ says:--“Admirers of Thackeray may be grateful for a
reprint of ‘Sultan Stork.’”
“The remains of Thackeray are now in the hands of the
resurrectionists. Writers in the _Athenæum_ have been gloating
over them, and Mr. George Redway, a London publisher of peculiar
and quaint literature, has issued a handsome volume of Thackerayan
fragments.”--_Glasgow Herald._
“Thackeray collectors, however, have only to be told that none of
the pieces now printed appear in the two volumes recently issued by
Messrs. Smith, Elder, and Co., in order to make them desire their
possession. They will also welcome the revision of the Bibliography,
since it now presents a complete list, arranged in chronological
order, of Thackeray’s published writings in prose and verse, and also
of his sketches and drawings.”--_Daily Chronicle._
“‘Sultan Stork’ ... which purports to be told by Scheherazade on the
thousand and second of the ‘Arabian Nights,’ is undoubtedly the work
of Mr. Thackeray, and is quite pretty and funny enough to have found
a place in his collected miscellanies. ‘Dickens in France’ is as good
in its way as Mr. Thackeray’s analysis of Alexander Dumas’ ‘Kean’
in the ‘Paris Sketch-Book.’... There are other slight sketches in
this volume which are evidently by Mr. Thackeray, and several of his
_obiter dicta_ in them are worth preserving.... We do not assume to
fix Mr. Thackeray’s rank or to appraise his merits as an art critic.
We only know that, in our opinion, few of his minor writings are so
pleasant to read as his shrewd and genial comments on modern painters
and paintings.”--_Saturday Review._
_In large crown 8vo., price 3s. 6d._