Literary Opinion for May (Methuen and Co.) is a pleasing
mélange of personal estimates, reviews, original poetry, notes, and Literary Opinion for May (Methuen and Co.) is a pleasing mélange of personal estimates, reviews, original poetry, notes, and gossip,—which last, however, is not at all malicious. Mrs. Elizabeth Robins Pennell gives some interesting but rather discursive "Reminiscences of Walt Whitman ;" and Mr. St. Loe Strachey, a delicately thoughtful study of the late Mr. E. A. Freeman, from which one is pleased to learn that "to me, at least, he was always the most delightful of companions. He did not save himself for his books, but spent the rich stores of his mind freely in conver- sation. He had not a trace of jealousy or of priggishness, and was as willing to listen to a young man and a learner as to the most erudite of historians."
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