This volume contains the entirety of David Cecil's two seminal biographies of Lord Melbourne - The Young Melbourne and Lord M - in one definitive book. “A superb work of art” – Harold Nicholson “A historian of the heart” – L. P. ...

This volume contains the text of the Leslie Stephen Lecture for 1935, delivered by Lord David Cecil at the University of Cambridge.

Max Beerbohm well known as a personality as he is an artist. This biography provides an intimate portrait of an odd, brilliant and most lovable human being, who was also a deeper and more considerable character than his facade betrayed.

A selection of passages and excerpts, in prose and verse, from books particularly appealing to Cecil, with comments indicating their special interest and significance.