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PORTRAITS, by Sir Joshua Reynolds; prepared for the press by Frederick W. Hilles; ' Heinemann. English price, ‘21/-. ‘THE third volume in the Yale editions of James Boswell’s private papers is a very thin harvest. Its material comes from papers by, or related to, Sir Joshua Reynolds, most of which were discovered at Malahide Castle in 1940. There are character sketches of Goldsmith and Garrick, "an ironical discourse" for students, a "fragmentary essay" on Shakespeare, two letters from Reynolds to Boswell, and some notes and memoranda, These pieces cannot fill more than about 50 pages of large type, and to eke out the collection the editor has reprinted Reynolds’s character sketch of Johnson and two dialogues. The text of the character sketch has been corrected by reference to the manuscript. Perhaps the most interesting part of the book is the work of the editor, who has drawn the fragments skilfully together, and whose introductory and incidental essays help to bring alive the
Johnsonian circle. The volume carries a Book Society recommendation, but it falls sharply in interest from the Boswell
collections which preceded it.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 28, Issue 714, 20 March 1953, Page 14
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187MORE FROM MALAHIDE New Zealand Listener, Volume 28, Issue 714, 20 March 1953, Page 14
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