Books and Things: A Collection of Stray Remarks

Original publisher's beige cloth binding with gilt lettering on the spine. 6" x 7 1/2." 247 pages, complete. Pages and covers are very clean and intact. Pages slightly foxed. A collection of essays by George S. Street (1867-1936), a British literary critic, journalist, and novelist. He is associated with the counter-Decandent group of writers. This book covers a wide range of topics from specific published works to socioeconomics and philosophy. The book divided into two parts, "Mainly of Books" and "Mainly of Other Things." The following essays are under "Mainly of Books": "The Poor Public," "The Provincial Mind," "'Don Juan,'" "A Note on Fielding," "The Murder of Mountford, the Player," "Sterne and His Critics," "Philosophy and Humanitomtity," "Mr. Thomas Creevey," "About Our Fiction," and "The Vogue of Writers." "Mainly of Other Things" contains the following essays: "Backstairs," "English Classes," "Of Political Meetings," "The Docks," "The House of Commons," "My Spectacles," "A Question of Women," and "Petitcoat Lane.".…