Excerpt from A Quiet Corner in a Library It is perhaps worth while to mention that no portion of the book has hitherto appeared in print. Of the contents individually little needs to be said. The essay on Tom Hood is the expansion of a lecture origi nally prepared a good many years ago for audiences in California. The remaining papers. Which. As will be seen. Have many points of connection. Are concerned with certain aspects of eighteenth-century literature in which l have long been Specially interested. That on Lilla merely touches the fringe of a subject which i am treating at length and in all its bearings. Literary and social. In a volume on George Lilla and the Middle Class Drama of the Eighteenth Century. Now nearing completion. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.