continental Europe and became a British subject in 1913. He divided his time between Chelsea, where he was a close friend of Desmond MacCarthy and Rose Macaulay, and a Tudor farmhouse at Warsash near the Solent, called Big Chilling. Gathorne-Hardy described Smith as "a largish man with a stoop that disguised his height". Kenneth Clark further wrote "His tall frame, hunched up, with head thrust forward like a bird, was balanced unsteadily on vestigial legs". Politically he was a socialist, having been converted by Graham Wallas, a founder of the Fabian Society. His portrait, made in 1932 by Ethel Sands, is at the National Portrait Gallery, London. Works 1895. The Youth of Parnassus, and other stories 1902. Trivia 1907. The Life and Letters of Sir Henry Wotton. Biography 1909. Songs and Sonnets 1912. The English Language 1919. A Treasury of English Prose 1920. Little Essays Drawn From The Writings Of George Santayana 1920 (ed.). Donne's Sermons: Selected Passages with an Essay 1920. Stories from the Old Testament retold. Hogarth Press 1921. More Trivia 1923. English Idioms 1925. Words and Idioms 1927. The Prospects of Literature. Hogarth Press 1930 (ed.) The Golden Grove: Selected Passages From The Sermons and Writings of Jeremy Taylor 1931. Afterthoughts 1933. All Trivia. Collection 1933. Last Words 1933. On Reading Shakespeare 1936. Fine Writing 1936. Reperusals & Recollections 1938. Unforgotten Years 1938. Death in Iceland. Privately printed in Reading with Iceland: A Poem by Robert Gathorne-Hardy. 1940. Milton and His Modern Critics 1943. A Treasury Of English Aphorisms 1949 (ed.). A Religious Rebel: The Letters of "H.W.S." (Mrs. Pearsall Smith). Published in the USA as Philadelphia Quaker, The Letters of Hannah Whitall Smith 1949. (ed.). The Golden Shakespeare 1972. Four Words. Romantic, Originality, Creative, Genius 1982. Saved from the Salvage. With a Memoir of the Author by Cyril Connolly 1989. (Edward Burman, ed.) Logan Pearsall Smith. Anthology. Notes References Robert Gathorne-Hardy (1949) Recollections of Logan Pearsall Smith John Russell, ed. (1950) A Portrait of Logan Pearsall Smith drawn from His letters and Diaries Robert Allerton Parker (1959), "The Transatlantic Smiths" Barbara Strachey (1980) Remarkable Relations: The Story of the Pearsall Smith Family Edwin Tribble, ed. (1984) A Chime of Words: The Letters of Logan Pearsall Smith Hugh Trevor-Roper (2012) The Wartime Journals, ed. R. Davenport-Hines, London : I.B. Tauris External links Biographical source Quote source "'Four romantic words" 1865 births 1946 deaths American essayists British essayists