Crossword-Solution: ELIA 4 letters, 892 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 4

His secluded room I could picture to myself with a sense of certainty--the couch (a sofa by day), the cupboard, the writing-table with its student lamp, the litter of pamphlets and old quartos and octavos in tattered bindings, among which were scarce reprints of his beloved Charles Lamb, and perhaps--nay, surely--an _editio princeps_ of the “Essays.” The gentle Elia never had a gentler follower or a more loving disciple than Tom Folio.

One could wish he had written more prose like his admirable “Recollections of Elia.” Barry Cornwall seldom sounds a natural note, but when he does it is extremely sweet.

With money it would be possible even for Elia to destroy the whole of Europe and to take Judas Petunikoff for his valet.

Elia, whose humour delighted in floating a galleon paradox and wafting it as far as it would go, bewails the extinction of our artificial Comedy, like a poet sighing over the vanished splendour of Cleopatra's Nile-barge; and the sedateness of his plea for a cause condemned even in his time to the penitentiary, is a novel effect of the ludicrous.

THE SHAPE OF FEAR AND OTHER GHOSTLY TALES By Elia Wilkinson Peattie Original Transcriber's Note: I have omitted signature indicators and italicization of the running heads.