Note 7 — BOOKS BY EDWARD CARPENTER

“The charge of fickleness in friendship, so often brought against Shelley, is disproved by the simple fact that to the last day of his life he remained true to those who called him friend Leigh Hunt, Peacock, Hogg, Medwin, Williams, Trelawny” (Percy Shelley, Poet and Pioneer, by H.S. Salt, p. 62, footnote).

After the quantity of somewhat trashy stuff that has been poured out concerning Shelley, it is, indeed, a joy to come upon a book so keen and clear, and withal so well-based on the fundamental facts and principles of social life, as Mr. Salt’s Shelley as Poet and Pioneer (George Allen & Unwin).