BOOKS & CHARACTERS

FRENCH & ENGLISH

_By_

LYTTON STRACHEY


LONDON

First published May 1922




TO JOHN MAYNARD KEYNES




_The following papers are reprinted by kind permission of the Editors
of the Independent Review, the New Quarterly, the Athenaeum, and the
Edinburgh Review._

_The 'Dialogue' is now printed for the first time, from a manuscript,
apparently in the handwriting of Voltaire and belonging to his English
period_.