Andrew Lang 
Adventures Among Books 

Here we have Mr. Lang at his best. . . . The recollections, perhaps, are the best things in the book – of Stevenson, Dr. John Brown, and Oliver Wendell Holmes, all sympathetic, delicate, and perceptive in criticism, reticent to the point of shyness. But the lighter literary essays have that elusive humour of which we have spoken, even in a greater degree than the recollections, and in the ‘ The Boy ‘ Mr. Lang is almost rollicking – for Mr. Lang.

This book is annotated with a rare extensive biographical sketch of the author, Andrew Lang, written by Sir Edmund Gosse, CB, a contemporary poet and writer.

Contents:

Preface
Chapter I: Adventures Among Books
Chapter Ii: Recollections Of Robert Louis Stevenson
Chapter Iii: Rab’s Friend
Chapter Iv: Oliver Wendell Holmes
Chapter V: Mr. Morris’s Poems
Chapter Vi: Mrs. Radcliffe’s Novels
Chapter Vii: A Scottish Romanticist Of 1830
Chapter Viii: The Confessions Of Saint Augustine
Chapter Ix: Smollett
Chapter X: Nathaniel Hawthorne
Chapter Xi: The Paradise Of Poets
Chapter Xii: Paris And Helen
Chapter Xiii: Enchanted Cigarettes
Chapter Xiv: Stories And Story-Telling (From Strath Naver)
Chapter Xv: The Supernatural In Fiction
Chapter Xvi: An Old Scottish Psychical Researcher
Chapter Xvii: The Boy
Footnotes