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'I have omitted, of late, to set down the titles of - for want of a better name I must call them - books, that I have been reading these past months; chiefly because they are of such utter offal that there is no use in remembering so much as their names. Madame Pichler's "Siege of Vienna" (Sobieski's Siege - a grand page of history spun out into many hundred pages of pitiful romance, and interwoven with a love-story); a life of Walter Scott, by one Allen, advocate...'