Originally published in 1937, this book presents the content of the Leslie Stephen Lecture for that year, which was delivered by Desmond MacCarthy at Cambridge University. This book will be of value to anyone with an interest in the life of Leslie Stephen and literary criticism.
Leslie Stephen was the first serious critic of the novel, and he was also editor of the great Dictionary of National Biography from its beginning in 1882 until 1891. In 1859 he was ordained a...