SULTAN STORK,

And other Stories and Sketches by William Makepeace Thackeray (1829-44), now first collected, to which is added the Bibliography of Thackeray, revised and considerably enlarged.

The Athenæum says:—“Admirers of Thackeray may be grateful for a reprint of ‘Sultan Stork.’”

“The remains of Thackeray are now in the hands of the resurrectionists. Writers in the Athenæum have been gloating over them, and Mr. George Redway, a London publisher of peculiar and quaint literature, has issued a handsome volume of Thackerayan fragments.”—Glasgow Herald.

“Thackeray collectors, however, have only to be told that none of the pieces now printed appear in the two volumes recently issued by Messrs. Smith, Elder, and Co., in order to make them desire their possession. They will also welcome the revision of the Bibliography, since it now presents a complete list, arranged in chronological order, of Thackeray’s published writings in prose and verse, and also of his sketches and drawings.”—Daily Chronicle.

“‘Sultan Stork’ ... which purports to be told by Scheherazade on the thousand and second of the ‘Arabian Nights,’ is undoubtedly the work of Mr. Thackeray, and is quite pretty and funny enough to have found a place in his collected miscellanies. ‘Dickens in France’ is as good in its way as Mr. Thackeray’s analysis of Alexander Dumas’ ‘Kean’ in the ‘Paris Sketch-Book.’... There are other slight sketches in this volume which are evidently by Mr. Thackeray, and several of his obiter dicta in them are worth preserving.... We do not assume to fix Mr. Thackeray’s rank or to appraise his merits as an art critic. We only know that, in our opinion, few of his minor writings are so pleasant to read as his shrewd and genial comments on modern painters and paintings.”—Saturday Review.

In large crown 8vo., price 3s. 6d.