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An update! So, this past summer, S. and I stayed for a few days at a very posh Soho hotel. Among its many fine features was the fact that each room contained an assortment of old books. Ours included a few winners that struck me in retrospect as the sort of popular but not remembered book that gives a nice snapshot of what reading only the classics leaves out. But I had been too stupid to actually make a note of any titles or authors. What a missed opportunity!, I lamented.
But then I remembered that a sufficiently fancy hotel is so nice as to continue to provide lovely service and indulge your obnoxious rich-person (as one assumes their guests are primarily rich people) quirks! So I emailed to ask nicely if there were any way I could find out the names of the books, and lo and behold I received the promptest and nicest reply, with all the information. So here it is (it turns out that at least one of them was not such a forgotten flash-in-the pan, but a couple were real wonders):
The Old Lollipopshop, by Ethel Nokes
East Lynne, by Mrs Henry Wood
Bond Manfree, by John Oxenham
Experience, by Catherine Cotton
Many thanks to the very kind Harriet, who went and looked.
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