Books by the Hon. Stephen Coleridge
Reading edition
VIVISECTION: A HEARTLESS SCIENCE
Crown 8vo, 5s. net.
SOME PRESS OPINIONS.
Times.—“Mr. Coleridge is a leading champion of the anti-vivisection cause, and he here presents a reasoned indictment of the practice. He is a very able advocate, who generally gets the better of his opponent in a dialectical bout, and this book is written with great skill and force.”
Western Mail.—“One cannot fail to be interested and impressed by the forensic power and ability in this book and by the humane spirit which has led to its compilation. Mr. Coleridge brings all his power of wit, irony, and sarcasm to the aid of his scientific knowledge.”
Harrogate Times.—“The book is an epitome of reasons why ‘all humane and thoughtful people’ should disapprove of vivisection, and the sinister effects of the existence of this practice in our midst. The statements are cogent, and will find a response in the heart of a wide constituency.”
JOHN LANE, THE BODLEY HEAD.
SONGS TO DESIDERIA
Crown 8vo. 3s. 6d. net.
Daily News.—“These songs and poems are intensely and sincerely felt . . . they have the fine, careful, literary coldness of some of the lyrics of Landor or of the more serious work of Peacock. It is the poetry of a refined and knightly nature . . . and it deserves to be studied and remembered . . . its mood is austere and its temper noble.”
Globe.—“Excellent verses, easy, melodious, and charming.”
Tribune.—“All lovers of poetry will be grateful for Mr. Stephen Coleridge’s volume. Dainty and finished in execution, and instinct with a genuine human sympathy, these lyrics betray the hand of a craftsman in verse. . . . Verses of this quality should secure for ‘Songs to Desideria’ a sincere welcome.”
Glasgow Herald.—“The Hon. Stephen Coleridge has already established his position among the more tuneful writers of true lyric verse, and into all that he writes the poet puts delicacy and true emotion, the former never becomes mere phrase, the latter never degenerates into wordy passion.”
South Wales Daily News.—“There is sometimes a depth of feeling in his passages for which one usually looks only in the great masters of English literature.”
JOHN LANE, THE BODLEY HEAD.
MEMORIES
With Twelve Illustrations. Demy 8vo. 7s. 6d. net.
Observer.—“Mr. Coleridge has furnished ‘The Dictionary of National Biography’ (or the Victorian part of it) with a supplement of wit and conversation. And one hardly knows at which to marvel most, the number of celebrities he hauls up in his net, of the number of laughs he gets out of them. His book is rich in fresh anecdote and the best light elements of personality.”
Mr. James Douglas in the Star.—“The best book of reminiscences I have read for a long time. It teems with good stories about famous and familiar names.”
Morning Post.—“Genuinely a record of the doings of others, and full of anecdote and incident. Mr. Coleridge has written a delightful book, and has told many interesting things of many famous men.”
Daily Chronicle.—“Now this is the right sort of memories to put into print; memories that are fresh and bright, piquant, and yet never ill-natured, crowded with personal lights and anecdotes; in fine, a volume of which one says: ‘I would have liked to meet all those people and write about them as Mr. Coleridge has done.’”
JOHN LANE, THE BODLEY HEAD.
AN EVENING IN MY LIBRARY AMONG THE ENGLISH POETS
Crown 8vo. 3s. 6d. net.
Guardian.—“A charmingly desultory set of essays, generous in appreciation, and not afraid to explore comparatively unbeaten tracks.”
Quarterly Review.—“Every moment is one of pure literature. He quotes his favourite poets freely, giving us not a line or two but often a whole poem. . . . There is many a racy criticism, and the humanitarian peeps out from not a few of them. It is a volume full of lovely verse, and one that will not only give unalloyed pleasure, but will cultivate a taste for the sweetest and purest poetry.”
Daily Mail.—“Mr. Coleridge has written a very pleasant and readable ramble among the poets. It is an anthology with a skilled writer leading one on from gem to gem with delightful comment.”
JOHN LANE, THE BODLEY HEAD.