"Sir Walter Besant's work--his novels, records of fact, and, not least, the keen business instinct which led to the in…"

"Many a young fellow has found himself in a similar predicament, but I doubt whether anyone ever became so desperately…"

"This work fascinates me more than anything else I have ever done. I've been walking about London for the last thirty …"

"Some of us can remember how under the old system at Cambridge the Senior Fellows remained in college all their lives,…"

"I lay it down as one of the distinctive characteristics of a good story that it pleases--or rather, seizes--every per…"

"The procession from Newgate to Tyburn used to pass along Broad Street, and halt at the great gate of the hospital, in…"

"Great and Little Wild Streets are called respectively Old and New Weld Streets by Strype. Weld House stood on the sit…"

"Sir Walter Besant was a short, stout, thick-set man. His hair was iron-gray, he wore a full beard and had a ruddy fac…"

"It is clear that there are as many different languages as peoples in this island. The Scots, however, and the Welsh, …"

"In the days of my early acquaintance with Henley, some fourteen or fifteen years ago, I could never look at him witho…"