The Bookman Volume 11 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1900 Excerpt: ...in the town of Huntington, where for many years he enjoyed much tranquil happiness. His more important literary work dates from 1781, when he was fifty years of age. It was in this year that he produced in the course of a single night the poem of John Gilpin--that delightful bit of humour, which will probably outlive by many years all his more pretentious wrorks. H We reproduce herewith a photograph of Miss Elizabeth Godfrey, whose novel, The Harp of Life, is reviewed elsewhere in the present number of The Bookmax. H The widening of Fleet Street in London will force Punch out of the home it has occupied so long, and the famous periodical which has been, in its particular field, as much an institution of the British empire as the Times has been in its own, is going to have a new office in Bouverie Street. It is very appropriate that the MISS ELIZABETH GODFREY. ually grew to thirty thousand. When one looks at the first" numbers he is surprised to find that it lived at all. Mark Lemon was no doubt a very clever man, but there was something about his humour peculiarly bitter and ungenial. He was a thorough Bohemian, and Mr. Spielmann, wisely enough, perhaps, does not tell us much about this. Bitter in his writing, he was genial on the whole in his manner, and he loved his work and was very proud of it; but as a contributor he did comparatively little. By far the most helpful of his allies in those early days was Douglas Jerrold, some of whose contributions, like "The Story of a Feather," and especially "Mrs. Caudle's Curtain Lectures," were amazingly popular. Jerrold, although now little read, was a man of real genius, far above Lemon in every respect, though not so successful as an editor. There was something about Jerrold that jarred....