NEW BOOKS
IMPORTED BY
CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS,
NEW YORK CITY.
GREAT WRITERS.
A NEW SERIES OF CRITICAL BIOGRAPHIES OF FAMOUS
WRITERS OF EUROPE AND AMERICA.
LIBRARY EDITION.
Printed on large paper of extra quality, in handsome binding,
Demy 8vo, price $1.00 each.
ALPHABETICAL LIST.
PRESS NOTICES.
Life of Jane Austen. By Goldwin Smith.
"Mr. Goldwin Smith has added another to the not inconsiderable roll of eminent men who have found their delight in Jane Austen. Certainly a fascinating book."—Spectator.
Life of Balzac. By Frederick Wedmore.
"A finished study, a concentrated summary, a succinct analysis of Balzac's successes and failures, and the causes of these successes and failures, and of the scope of his genius."—Scottish Leader.
Life of Charlotte Brontë. By A. Birrell.
"Those who know much of Charlotte Brontë will learn more, and those who know nothing about her will find all that is best worth learning in Mr. Birrell's pleasant book."—St. James's Gazette.
Life of Browning. By William Sharp.
"This little volume is a model of excellent English, and in every respect it seems to us what a biography should be."—Public Opinion.
Life of Bunyan. By Canon Venables.
"A most intelligent, appreciative, and valuable memoir."—Scotsman.
Life of Burns. By Professor Blackie.
"The editor certainly made a hit when he persuaded Blackie to write about Burns."—Pall Mall Gazette.
Life of Byron. By Hon. Roden Noel.
"He [Mr. Noel] has at any rate given to the world the most credible and comprehensible portrait of the poet ever drawn with pen and ink."—Manchester Examiner.
Life of Thomas Carlyle. By R. Garnett, LL.D.
"This is an admirable book. Nothing could be more felicitous and fairer than the way in which he takes us through Carlyle's life and works."—Pall Mall Gazette.
Life of Cervantes. By H.E. Watts.
"Let us rather say that no volume of this series, nor, so far as we can recollect, of any of the other numerous similar series, presents the facts of the subject in a more workmanlike style, or with more exhaustive knowledge."—Manchester Guardian.
Life of Coleridge. By Hall Caine.
"Brief and vigorous, written throughout with spirit and great literary skill."—Scotsman.
Life of Congreve. By Edmund Gosse.
"Mr. Gosse has written an admirable and most interesting biography of a man of letters who is of particular interest to other men of letters."—The Academy.
Life of Crabbe. By T.E. Kebbel.
"No English poet since Shakespeare has observed certain aspects of nature and of human life more closely; and in the qualities of manliness and of sincerity he is surpassed by none.... Mr. Kebbel's monograph is worthy of the subject."—Athenæum.
Life of Darwin. By G.T. Bettany.
"Mr. G.T. Bettany's Life of Darwin is a sound and conscientious work."—Saturday Review.
Life of Dickens. By Frank T. Marzials.
"Notwithstanding the mass of matter that has been printed relating to Dickens and his works, ... we should, until we came across this volume, have been at a loss to recommend any popular life of England's most popular novelist as being really satisfactory. The difficulty is removed by Mr. Marzials' little book."—Athenæum.
Life of George Eliot. By Oscar Browning.
"We are thankful for this interesting addition to our knowledge of the great novelist."—Literary World.
Life of Emerson. By Richard Garnett, LL.D.
"As to the larger section of the public, to whom the series of Great Writers is addressed, no record of Emerson's life and work could be more desirable, both in breadth of treatment and lucidity of style, than Dr. Garnett's."—Saturday Review.
Life of Goethe. By James Sime.
"Mr. James Sime's competence as a biographer of Goethe, both in respect of knowledge of his special subject, and of German literature generally, is beyond question."—Manchester Guardian.
Life of Goldsmith. By Austin Dobson.
"The story of his literary and social life in London, with all its humorous and pathetic vicissitudes, is here retold as none could tell it better."—Daily News.
Life of Nathaniel Hawthorne. By Moncure Conway.
"Easy and conversational as the tone is throughout, no important fact is omitted, no useless fact is recalled."—Speaker.
Life of Heine. By William Sharp.
"This is an admirable monograph, ... more fully written up to the level of recent knowledge and criticism of its theme than any other English work."—Scotsman.
Life of Victor Hugo. By Frank T. Marzials.
"Mr. Marzials' volume presents to us, in a more handy form than any English, or even French, handbook gives, the summary of what, up to the moment in which we write, is known or conjectured about the life of the great poet."—Saturday Review.
Life of Hunt. By Cosmo Monkhouse.
"Mr. Monkhouse has brought together and skilfully set in order much widely scattered material."—Athenæum.
Life of Samuel Johnson. By Colonel F. Grant.
"Colonel Grant has performed his task with diligence, sound judgment, good taste, and accuracy."—Illustrated London News.
Life of Keats. By W.M. Rossetti.
"Valuable for the ample information which it contains."—Cambridge Independent.
Life of Lessing. By T.W. Rolleston.
"A picture of Lessing which is vivid and truthful, and has enough of detail for all ordinary purposes."—Nation (New York).
Life of Longfellow. By Prof. Eric S. Robertson.
"A most readable little book."—Liverpool Mercury.
Life of Marryat. By David Hannay.
"What Mr. Hannay had to do—give a craftsman-like account of a great craftsman who has been almost incomprehensibly undervalued—could hardly have been done better than in this little volume."—Manchester Guardian.
Life of Mill. By W.L. Courtney.
"A most sympathetic and discriminating memoir."—Glasgow Herald.
Life of Milton. By Richard Garnett, LL.D.
"Within equal compass the life-story of the great poet of Puritanism has never been more charmingly or adequately told."—Scottish Leader.
Life of Renan. By Francis Espinasse.
"Sufficiently full in details to give us a living picture of the great scholar, ... and never tiresome or dull."—Westminster Review.
Life of Dante Gabriel Rossetti. By J. Knight.
"Mr. Knight's picture of the great poet and painter is the fullest and best yet presented to the public."—The Graphic.
Life of Schiller. By Henry W. Nevinson.
"This is a well-written little volume, which presents the leading facts of the poet's life in a neatly rounded picture."—Scotsman.
"Mr. Nevinson has added much to the charm of his book by his spirited translations, which give excellently both the ring and sense of the original."—Manchester Guardian.
Life of Arthur Schopenhauer. By William Wallace.
"The series of Great Writers has hardly had a contribution of more marked and peculiar excellence than the book which the Whyte Professor of Moral Philosophy at Oxford has written for it on the attractive and still (in England) little-known subject of Schopenhauer."—Manchester Guardian.
Life of Scott. By Professor Yonge.
"For readers and lovers of the poems and novels of Sir Walter Scott this is a most enjoyable book."—Aberdeen Free Press.
Life of Shelley. By William Sharp.
"The criticisms ... entitle this capital monograph to be ranked with the best biographies of Shelley."—Westminster Review.
Life of Sheridan. By Lloyd Sanders.
"To say that Mr. Lloyd Sanders, in this volume, has produced the best existing memoir of Sheridan is really to award much fainter praise than the book deserves."—Manchester Guardian.
"Rapid and workmanlike in style, the author has evidently a good practical knowledge of the stage of Sheridan's day."—Saturday Review.
Life of Adam Smith. By R.B. Haldane, M.P.
"Written with a perspicuity seldom exemplified when dealing with economic science."—Scotsman.
"Mr. Haldane's handling of his subject impresses us as that of a man who well understands his theme, and who knows how to elucidate it."-Scottish Leader.
"A beginner in political economy might easily do worse than take Mr. Haldane's book as his first text-book."—Graphic.
Life of Smollett. By David Hannay.
"A capital record of a writer who still remains one of the great masters of the English novel."—Saturday Review.
"Mr. Hannay is excellently equipped for writing the life of Smollett. As a specialist on the history of the eighteenth century navy, he is at a great advantage in handling works so full of the sea and sailors as Smollett's three principal novels. Moreover, he has a complete acquaintance with the Spanish romancers, from whom Smollet drew so much of his inspiration. His criticism is generally acute and discriminating; and his narrative is well arranged, compact, and accurate."—St. James's Gazette.
Life of Thackeray. By Herman Merivale and Frank T. Marzials.
"The book, with its excellent bibliography, is one which neither the student nor the general reader can well afford to miss."—Pall Mall Gazette.
"The last book published by Messrs. Merivale and Marzials is full of very real and true things."—Mrs. Anne Thackeray Ritchie on "Thackeray and his Biographers," in Illustrated London News.
Life of Thoreau. By H.S. Salt.
"Mr. Salt's volume ought to do much towards widening the knowledge and appreciation in England of one of the most original men ever produced by the United States."—Illustrated London News.
Life of Voltaire. By Francis Espinasse.
"Up to date, accurate, impartial, and bright without any trace of affectation."—Academy.
Life of Whittier. By W.J. Linton.
"Mr. Linton is a sympathetic and yet judicious critic of Whittier."—World.
Complete Bibliography to each volume, by J.P. Anderson, British Museum, London.
"An excellent series."—Telegraph.
"Excellently translated, beautifully bound, and elegantly printed."—Liverpool Mercury.
"Notable for the high standard of taste and excellent judgment that characterise their editing, as well as for the brilliancy of the literature that they contain."—Boston Gazette, U.S.A.