Reviews

“Teems with information both useful and curious, both indispensable and irresistible, satisfying any student’s needs, stimulating the general reader’s curiosity and widening every reader’s horizon.”—Louis Kronenberger, New York Times

“We can only be glad to have these intimate documents so carefully edited in the first volume of what promises to be a magnificently comprehensive edition.”—The Spectator

“This sets the format for all the volumes which are to follow, and a more beautiful, dignified, and appealing one it would be hard to find. . . . The editors have done everything they can to make it an indispensable companion for all true Johnsonians. Certainly everyone involved in the preparation of the volume should be felicitated.”—Johnsonian News Letter