In The Death of Yesterday (Bean, 85. 6d.) have been
collected all Mr. Stephen Graham's literary essays. They are, however, something more than literary essays, for to each subject that he touches in the world of letters he brings all the experience of men and things gathered in a life of travel in many countries. By it they are judged, and the sense of it pervades the whole book. Yet Mr. Graham is perhaps happiest on subjects which lead him to talk of his own country. The essay on Mr. Cunnirighame Graham. is one of the best in the book. Another is that on Sark, the island of Hugo and Swinburne. But it is impossible to pick out the individual excellences. Those who know Mr. Stephen Graham's work will find it here at its best, and those who do not will be introduced to a connoisseur of life and books whose taste in both is wide and discriminating.
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