Excerpt from Phil May's Illustrated Winter Annual, 1893 Daily telegraph. It is not often that a publication intended for popular holiday reading musters such an array of literary talent as that brought to bear on Phil May's Illustrated Summer Annual.' The Annual contains 126 pages of matter, and may be fairly pronounced one of the most attractive publications of its kind ever issued. St. Jam es's gazette - 5 We know of no more attractive shillingsworth than Phil May's Illustrated Summer Annual.' There is a good deal of variety in the 'artistic merit, ' of course; but at least everything is interesting. Most attractive of all to many readers will be Mr. Sala's gossip about Dickens at home at Gads Hill. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.