literary biography to the literary contexts of paintings to London panoramas to sensational murders. Among these, The Shows of London (1978), a study of public entertainments from 1600 to 1862, stands out as a major feat of research. The slender book, Victorian People and Ideas (1980), remains one of the best introductions to the period for undergraduates and general readers. Writers, Readers, and Occasions (1989) brought together essays he had published in various journals over the years. The concluding essay in that volume, "'Tis Forty Years Since," offers a retrospective on the evolution of scholarly interest in the Victorians in the twentieth century, from the perspective of a "scholar adventurer" who had played a major role in fostering that interest. In retirement, Altick continued to indulge what he called his "incurable itch to set pen to paper" with personal reminiscences as well as major books on the literary uses of paintings, the journalistic contexts of Victorian novels, the Victorian origins of "sensational" crime stories, and the first ten years of Punch, the British magazine. Works Professor Koeppen: The Adventures of a Danish Scholar in Athens and America (1938) with H. M. J. Klein Richard Owen Cambridge, Belated Augustan: A Dissertation in English (1941) A Literary History of England: IV The Nineteenth Century and After (1948) with Samuel Chew The Cowden Clarkes (1948) The Scholar Adventurers (1950) The English Common Reader: A Social History of the Mass Reading Public 1800–1900 (1957) Guide to Doctoral Dissertations in Victorian Literature 1886-1958 (1960) with William R. Matthews A Selective Bibliography for the Study of English and American Literature (1960) with Andrew Wright The Art of Literary Research (1963) Diction And Style in Writing (1967) Browning's Roman Murder Story: A Reading of The Ring & The Book (1968) with James Loucks A Preface to Critical Reading (1946) Lives and Letters. A History of Literary Biography in England & America (1969) To Be in England: An American Literary Man's Personal View (1969) Victorian Studies in Scarlet: Murders and Manners in the Age of Victoria (1970) Librarianship and the Pursuit of Truth (1972) The Shows of London: A Panoramic History of Exhibitions, 1699–1862 (1978) Victorian People And Ideas: A Companion for the Modern Reader of Victorian Literature (1980) Paintings from Books. Art and Literature in Britain 1760–1900 (1985) Deadly Encounters: Two Victorian Sensations (1986) also as Evil Encounters (UK)Writers, Readers and Occasions: Selected Essays on Victorian Literature