Life, which John Arlott called "the best written of all books on cricket". His study of Highways and Byways in Sussex continues to influence postmodern explorations of the local; while his 1932 memoirs Reading, Writing and Remembering retained their interest longer than most of his other essays. Later years Lucas had a long association with the publishing house Methuen and Co, which published his edition of Lamb. From 1908 to 1924 he was a reader for the firm; in 1924 he was appointed its chairman, a post he occupied with considerable success. Lucas received honorary degrees from the Universities of St Andrews and Oxford, and was appointed Companion of Honour in 1932. He was appointed a member of the Royal Commission on the Historical Monuments of England in 1928, and from 1933 until his death he was a member of the Crown Lands Advisory Committee. In his later years Lucas cut his domestic ties and lived alone, spending his evenings in restaurants and clubs, and developing a wide collection of pornography. He was a member of the Athenæum, Beefsteak, Buck's and the Garrick. When he was stricken with his final illness he steadfastly refused to allow his friends into his sickroom. Lucas died in a nursing home in Marylebone, London, at the age of 70. Works The Face on the Wall Sparks from a Flint: Odd Rhymes for Odd Times (1891) As "E. V. L." Songs of the Bat (1892) Bernard Barton and his friends: a record of quiet lives (1893) A Book of Verse for Children (1897) The Flamp, the Ameliorator, and the Schoolboy's Apprentice (1897) All the World Over (1898), illustrated by Edith Farmiloe The War of the Wenuses (1898) with C. L. Graves (a parody of H G Wells's The War of the Worlds) Charles Lamb and the Lloyds (1898) Willow and Leather (1898), cricket essays The Open Road (1899), anthology The Book of Shops (1899) Four And Twenty Toilers (1900), poems What Shall We Do Now? (1900) with Elizabeth Lucas, games book Domesticities: A Little Book of Household Impressions (1900) The Visit to London (1902) Wisdom While You Wait (1903) with C. L. Graves, parody encyclopedia England Day by Day (1903) with C. L. Graves Works and Letters of Charles and Mary Lamb (1903–05), editor Highways and Byways in Sussex (1904) The Life of Charles Lamb (1905), biography (revised editions 1907 and 1921) The Friendly Town