Written in the form of intimate letters, this 1915 collection covers a wide range of literary subjects, including Edgar Allan Poe, John Milton, the legend of Faust, Nietzsche, J. M. Barrie, Swinburne, Kipling, John Galsworthy, George Meredith, Anatole France, journalism, satire, mystics and pessimists, “A Publisher’s Book Trade Dinner, ” and “On the Wisdom of Doing Nothing.”
About the author
William Leonard Courtney (1850-1928) was an English author, born at Poona, India, and educated at Oxford. Headmaster of Somersetshire College, Bath, and editor of the Fortnightly Review, his works include Studies on Philosophy (1882), Constructive Ethics (1886), Studies New and Old (1888), The Life of John Stuart Mill (1889), The Idea of Tragedy (1900), and The Development of Maeterlinck (1904).
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