“ Although this book has been attacked, as any book is likely to be if it deals with a like vast number of independent facts, it remain in the opinion of all good judges by far the best edition of the immortal "Life," and is not likely to be superseded for a long time to come. ”

“ He followed it up by many more volumes, of which the two called "Johnsonian Miscellanies" (1897) are the most important. Besides these, Dr. Hill edited some unpublished letters of Dean Swift (1899) , and venturing into a field where his talent scarcely found its true scope, the "Letters of D. G. Rossetti" (1897) . Dr. Hill spent several of these years at Oxford, where he was well liked by many of the most distinguished men, including that devoted Johnsonian, the late Professor Jowett. ”