These letters from the Harry Elkins Widener Collection in the Harvard College Library are now, with the permission of Sir Henry F. Dickens, published for the first time. They prove that, despite the assertions of Lever’s biographers, there was a very cordial and affectionate friendship between Lever and Dickens; and they furthermore correct the impression that might be gained from the omission of Lever's name in the Letters published by Georgina Hogarth and Mamie Dickens and from the fact that in Forster’s Life Lever’s name is mentioned only in discussing the failure of his story in All the Year Round.

This volume is a continuation of Mrs. Livingston’s authoritative Kipling bibliography published in 1927. It includes the works of Kipling published since 1926, the numbering being consecutive with the early volume; corrections and additions to the earlier volume; a list of over one hundred and thirty pirated pamphlets issued in London between 1924 and 1937; a list of translations in thirty different languages; a list of portraits, paintings, and photographs, and portraits and caricatures in magazines and newspapers; a list of entire books about Kipling, and some of the more important books containing chapters or portions of chapters about him. Kipling collectors will be especially grateful for the list of pirated pamphlets issued in London between 1924 and 1937. When these first appeared in the auction room, they were catalogued as having been printed in India at the time the material appeared in the Indian newspapers, and some of them were sold in New York at exorbitant prices. As for the articles in newspapers and magazines, there are so many that they would fill many volumes; Mrs. Livingston has therefore listed only the outstanding ones that are remarkable for their critical acumen or as real contributions to biography and bibliography. To collectors, librarians, dealers, and students of English literature, the volume will be as essential as the earlier one, which was received with much approval.