SOURCE: "Edward Verrall Lucas," in The Charles Lamb Bulletin, No. 8, October, 1974, pp. 157-62.

In the following essay, Prance presents an overview of Lucas's work as a writer and editor.

On E V Lucas as a man I cannot comment because we never met, but as a writer he seems to have been an old friend for almost as long as I can remember. We have so many interests in common: old Brighton, Sussex, London, cricket, Charles Lamb and England, to say nothing of painters and picture galleries.

After a day of difficulty and stress, or even after reading a book which requires more than usual concentration, it is a relief and a relaxation to turn to one of Lucas's many volumes of delightful essays which require no particular effort to enjoy their full flavour, or even to divert the mind with one of his stories—they are not...