Literary recreations, or, Essays, criticisms and poems : chiefly written in India

Some of these articles appeared originally (1836) in the author's Literary leaves. Cf. Pref "Thomas Carlyle": p. 400-411 Apparently cut from some periodical and bound with a new title-page. Several of the articles relate to Shakespeare Boston Public Library copy has these sections of the book: Shakepeare's Sonets (pages 201-232) -- Supposed new discovery of the scheme or ground-idea of each and all of Shakespeare's drams (pages 261-270) -- Drummond's poems (pages 427-436) -- On strong writing (pages 601-628)