“I HATE YOU, MR. MUDIE”

Literature at nurse is a handsome, compact little volume containing a wealth of material on a landmark in English literary history. The reprint of George Moore's pamphlet occupies a third of the book, the other two thirds consisting firstly of Professor Coustillas's lucid context‐setting commentary, secondly of Moore's original diatribe against the circulating libraries published in December 1884 in The Pall Mall gazette, and the consequent correspondence in that paper. In Literature at nurse, published in 1885 by Henry Vizetelly, Moore elaborated his points into a readable and entertaining argument.