Hand-picked from several hundred letters from readers to Nicoll’s beloved British Weekly, and published under the pen-name Claudius Clear, this collection offers “Memories of Meredith,” “The Six Best Biographies,” “The Secret of Emerson,” “Was Thackeray a Cynic?,” “The Conversation of Edmund Burke,” “Jane Austen,” “Gravy,” “The Pleasures and Advantages of Reading,” among many others.