Amenities of Literature

<p>Isaac D'Israeli's <i>Amenities of Literature</i> was published in 1841 when the author was seventy-five years old. The title was adopted to connect it with two preceding volumes <i>Curiosities of Literature</i> and <i>Miscellanies of Literature</i>. As the author writes in the preface this book was intended to form a portion of a much larger work that was never completed. A history of our vernacular literature has occupied my studies for many years. It was my design not to furnish an ari