Navy cloth with gilt title. With an effusively complimentary chapter on Jane Austen, recognizing her as the best while piling on the myth that she was just casually writing between ladylike pastimes - "one of the paradoxes of literature: this gentlewoman dabbling in a seemingly amateur fashion in letters, turns out to be the alest novelist of her sex and race...". Also covers Richardson, Fielding, Scott, Thackeray, Eliot, more. Very good condition in dark blue cloth. Henry Holt & Co. 1909. Hb. USED. $15.00