Excerpt from Conan Doyle You and I have disagreed about most things under the sun, and as you come from somewhere in North Britain I have been compelled to argue with you about every thing under the sun. But on one point at any rate we have always agreed: the immense superiority of the Sher lock Holmes saga Over all other detective fiction. And although you are quite capable of disputing it, I think you agree with me that the Brigadier Gerard Stories are the best Short adventure-yarns ever written. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Conan Doyle

PEARSON, Hesketh

Biographies & Memoirs

HarperCollins, Publishers

Gilbert and Sullivan

Literature & Fiction

Penguin

Considered the greatest playwright the world has ever known, William Shakespeare's widely studied works continue to be performed and enjoyed by audiences the world over.

A Life of Shakespeare

Dramas & Plays

Hamish Hamilton

Johnson and Boswell: The Story of Their Lives

United States

Cassell

Charles Dickens led a life as fascination as that of any character in his novels and in this book his story is told by a master of English biography

Dickens

Sterling*+ Publishing Company

MacDonald and Janes

Bernard Shaw: A biography

Community & Culture

TBS The Book Service Ltd

The remarkable and tragic story of Oscar Wilde, legendary wit and conversationalist, author of perhaps the most perfect comedy in the English language, yet seemingly doomed by his own flawed temperament.

The life of Oscar Wilde: A biography

British & Irish

Macdonald and Jane's

Smith of Smiths

Essays & Correspondence

Scholarly Pr

Queen Victoria was amused! It may seem unlikely but the preface to this famous biography is given over to quotes from his contemporaries. Not all the quotes are favourable but the roll-call is dazzling: Byron, Macaulay, Walter Scott, George III and IV, Disraeli, Sheridan, Dickens etc. Queen Victoria herself is not actually quoted but 'from various sources' Hesketh Pearson records,' Queen Victoria used to go into fits of laughter at the sayings of Sydney Smith, which were repeated to her by Lord Melbourne.' From the same section we also learn, somewhat surprisingly, that Abraham Lincoln was an admirer, too, and that when Sarah Siddons,'who never jeopardized her deportment in society as a tragedy queen by lapsing into laughter' first met Sydney Smith she 'developed convulsions, and had to be helped from the table.' Richard Ingrams has written, 'that of all his (Hesketh Pearson's) subjects Sydney Smith came closest to his own in character, and for that reason the book is probably his masterpiece.' There is no reason to dissent from that, especially when one remembers writers of the calibre of Graham Greene, Max Beerbohm and P. G. Wodehouse were such enthusiasts for it. And the title? Wishing to pay him the ultimate compliment, it was Macaulay who dubbed Sydney Smith, 'The Smith of Smiths'.

The Smith of Smiths: Being the Life, Wit and Humour of Sydney Smith

Faber and Faber

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