<DIV><P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">Published under the pseudonym "Elia," Charles Lamb's book, by turns witty, insightful, self-deprecating, and philosophical, offers an unusually warm, human glimpse of life in a circle that included such luminaries as Coleridge, Wordsworth, and William Hazlitt. Published in <I>The London Magazine</I> in the early 1820s, these often nostalgic essays are important documents in the development of autobiographical writing which gained him a devoted following among 19th-century readers.</p></DIV>