Revival: A Last Vintage (1950): Essays and Papers by George Saintsbury

The Editors of the Saintsbury Memorial Volume have been encouraged by the welcome which that book received to make a final gathering of George Saintburys writings.

From a score of different sources they have chosen essays and papers that have lain uncollected, with their themes ranging from Captain Marryat to Erasmus, from Rosetti to Xenephon, from Swinburne to Balzacs early pot boilers.

Included is an entrancing study of the literary associations of the city of Bath; and the editors have followed Saintburys own example by collecting a Scrap Book more than thirty shorter notes and jeux desprit on all kinds of subjects: wigs, sensation novelists, Drummond and Ben Jonson, George Sand, compulsory Greek at Oxford, Shakespeare and Welsh, Laurence Sterne tittle-tattle, Marcel Proust, and much else in true Saintsburian vein.