This collection of saunters through the literary world includes the following essays: “Travelling Companions, ” “The Classics in Daily Life, ” “A Ramble in Pliny’s Letters, ” “The Art of Editing, ” “Poets as Critics, ” “A Short Study in Words, ” “Single-Poem Poets, ” “The Charm of the Greek Anthology, ” and a conversational preface on the pleasurable writing of each piece. The Bookman said the work “fittingly rounded off the life’s work of a man full in the sense of Bacon’s aphorism, and a gifted and ready writer.”
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Sir Edward Tyas Cook (1857–1919) was an English journalist, biographer, and man of letters. He founded the Westminster Gazette and edited several newspapers; he also edited the definitive collection of John Ruskin’s writings. Cook wrote biographies as well as handbooks to the National Gallery, the Tate Gallery, and to the Greek and Roman antiquities in the British Museum.
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