NOTABLE JOHNSONIAN
JOHNSONIAN AND OTHER ESSAYS AND REVIEWS, by R. W. Chapman; Oxford University Press. English price, 12/6. R. CHAPMAN, perhaps best known as the editor of Jane Austen, is also a notable Johnsonian: in this charmingly printed volume he. has collected four solid essays on the great moralist (one of them gives a most useful summary of the history of the famous Boswell Papers) and added a selection of occasional essays and reviews, mainly on the 18th
Century. Apart from studies of Goldsmith, Chesterfield and Peacock, the chief secondary interest of this collection will probably lie in a most illuminating essay on Lexicography-which takes us behind the scenes of the Oxford dictionaries, great and small-and an obituary notice of the Society for Pure English, which traces the individual contributions of the 20-odd members. One of the least publicised of these was the New Zealander, Kenneth Sisam-another official of the O.U.P. who maintained the standards of scholarship and editorial finesse that this volume worthily upholds.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 29, Issue 736, 21 August 1953, Page 14
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