Books Written or Edited by Bertram Dobell
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SIDELIGHTS ON CHARLES LAMB
With a Facsimile of Lamb's Handwriting
This volume contains much hitherto unknown matter relating to "Elia" and his Friends, and a considerable number of Essays by Lamb, now first identified and reprinted.
"The least circumstance connected with Elia is of such interest to all his readers that Mr. Dobell's book should have a large public: and no editor or biographer of Lamb can afford to be without it."—E. V. Lucas, in The Bookman.
"Mr. Bertram Dobell, in compiling the book which he fittingly calls 'Sidelights on Charles Lamb, has done good service to lovers of the most loveable of English essayists. . . . With or without its blemishes we are grateful to Mr. Dobell for the work he has here accomplished."—Morning Post.
"Mr. Dobell is nothing if not a devoted Elian, and in pronouncing these articles and fragments to have come from the pen of the great essayist he relies upon intuition. . . . Mr. Dobell has dressed them in handsome form, and we think his book will rank in standard 'Eliana' as the most important contribution since the appearance of Mr. Babson's volume forty years ago."—Pall Mall Gazette.
"No indulgence is required for Mr. Dobell's 'Sidelights on Charles Lamb,' which is by no means a bad book, but a quite agreeable book, a collector's book, a book of genial hobbies and loving research."—The Times.
THE POETICAL WORKS OF THOMAS TRAHERNE
Now first published from the original Manuscripts
*** The first edition of these Poems is now nearly out of print.
"Let all lovers of good poetry rejoice with Mr. Dobell, for he has rescued a poet out of the dust and advanced him to a deserved seat beside two such men as Herbert and Vaughan."
"This handsome book is one for which all lovers of good literature will be very grateful to Mr. Dobell. His sagacity and perseverance solved the problem of authorship; he has enriched the volume with an admirable introduction: and— last but not least—he has produced it in a style which makes it a pleasure to handle and to read."—The Week's Survey.
"A new poet is always wonderful, but a poet lost these two hundred and fifty years, now re-discovered and found to have spoken words vivid and warm with meaning for our generation—this is more wonderful still. Yet this is what has been given us to behold in the stately and artfully antique-appearing volume in which Mr. Bertram Dobell has set forth the poetical works of Thomas Traherne. To the short list of mid-seventeenth century lyrists—Vaughan, Herbert, Crashaw—must now be added the name of this other poet of the gentle life. . . . I have not done justice to Mr. Dobell's literary skill in identifying Traherne's work, nor can I overpraise his enthusiastic analysis of the poet's merits. . . . Mr. Dobell has undoubtedly done us a real service."— Mr. W. D. MacClintock, in The Dial, a Literary Review (Chicago).
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THE POETICAL WORKS OF JAMES THOMSON ("B.V.")
With a Memoir of the Author, and two portraits
"Mr. Bertram Dobell has earned the gratitude of all lovers of good literature by his excellent edition of the Poetical Works of James Thomson. It is prefaced with a short memoir, which may be regarded as a sufficiently complete account of the marred and broken career of that unfortunate man of genius, and is characterised alike by sympathy and candour. The greater portion of the stock of Thomson's Works was, as is well known, destroyed by fire, so that this collection of his writings in verse is timely and welcome. Thomson's reputation (as his editor observes) is of the kind whose steady, if slow, growth makes for permanent endurance. Here we may find 'Vane's Story,' 'Weddah and Om-el-Bonain,' the famous 'City of Dreadful Night,' and many another outcome of his powerful but gloomy intellect. The translations from Heine take high rank among the attempts, so seldom successfully made, to supply English readers with a rendering of the quaint and delicate fancies of one whose alternations of mood were akin to those of Thomson himself"—National Observer.
16mo, cloth, 3s. 6d., or in parchment binding, 5s.
THE CITY OF DREADFUL NIGHT
AND OTHER POEMS (Selected)
By James Thomson (" B.V.")
This volume contains biographical and critical studies of the lives and works of Rabelais, Ben Jonson, William Blake, Shelley, Garth Wilkinson, John Wilson, James Hogg, Robert Browning, and others.
Now first reprinted from the unique original, with an Introduction and Notes by Bertram Dobell.
Books Published by Bertram Dobell
8vo, pp. 324, cloth extra, 3s. 6d.
GLUCK AND THE OPERA:
A STUDY IN THE HISTORY OF MUSIC
"This book is an admirable study, not only of the great musical reformer's career and artistic work, but of the philosophy of musical drama, with more especial reference to its earlier manifestations . . . The book is one of those rare achievements in musical literature that are likely to gain a certain amount of recognition from literary people, as well as from musicians. It well deserves it, for a more thorough, temperate, and right-minded piece of work has not lately been seen in England.—The Times.
8vo, pp. 420, cloth extra, 6s.
A STUDY OF WAGNER
By Ernest Newman
"Mr. Newman has written a very interesting volume on Wagner's greatnesses and weaknesses, and his study is especially to be welcomed, since it is the work of a critic and not merely that of a worshipper. . . . It is this note of reaction against Wagner-worship, in a book written however by a great admirer of Wagner's music, which gives it its distinction and interest. . . . Altogether this is a book which by the vigour of its style and the outspokenness of its views will make a stir in the Wagnerite and anti-Wagnerite world."
MUNBY (Arthur J.) Poems, as under:
VULGAR VERSES, BY "JONES BROWN." Small 4to, 2s. 6d.
SUSAN: A POEM OF DEGREES. Small 4to, 2s,
ANN MORGAN'S LOVE: A PEDESTRIAN POEM. Crown 8vo, 1s.
8vo, pp. 382, 7s. 6d. net
IAMBLICHUS ON THE MYSTERIES OF THE EGYPTIANS, CHALDEANS, AND ASSYRIANS
Translated from the original Greek by Thomas Taylor
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THE MYSTICAL HYMNS OF ORPHEUS
Translated from the Greek by Thomas Taylor