I fear that the article must be enormously long,--seventy pages perhaps;--but you know that I do not run into unnecessary lengths.
I may perhaps try my hand on Miss Austen's novels.

That is a subject on which I shall require no assistance from books.
Whatever volumes you may send me ought to be half bound; or the white ants will devour them before they have been three days on shore.

Besides the books which may be necessary for the Review, I should like to have any work of very striking merit which may appear during my absence.

The particular department of literature which interests me most is history; above all, English history.

Any valuable book on that subject I should wish to possess.