'First published in elegant facsimile to celebrate the centenary, of his birth, the Commonplace Book now appears, equally well produced, in a transcription by Phillp Gardner ... Innumerable details, pungent aper?us fill the book; taken together, they present an autobiographical record that has a place beside Furbank's Life and the Letters.' Christopher Hawtree, London Magazine
Hermann Hesse, Thomas Hardy, E. M. Forster, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Alexandre Dumas, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Charles Dickens, Wilkie Collins, G. K. Chesterton, Jane Austen, Louisa May Alcott, Arthur Conan Doyle, Jules Verne, Mark Twain, Lewis Carroll