GREAT WRITERS.
A NEW SERIES OF CRITICAL BIOGRAPHIES
Edited by Professor Eric S. Robertson, M.A.
MONTHLY SHILLING VOLUMES.
VOLUMES ALREADY ISSUED—
LIFE OF LONGFELLOW. By Prof. Eric S. Robertson.
“A most readable little work.”—Liverpool Mercury.
LIFE OF COLERIDGE. By Hall Caine.
“Brief and vigorous, written throughout with spirit and great literary skill.”—Scotsman.
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’s little book.”—Athenæum.
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 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 DARWIN. By G. T. Bettany.
“Mr. G. T. Bettany’s Life of Darwin is a sound and conscientious work.”—Saturday Review.
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’ Gazette.
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 ADAM SMITH. By R. B. Haldane, M.P.
“Written with a perspicuity seldom exemplified when dealing with economic science.”—Scotsman.
LIFE OF KEATS. By W. M. Rossetti.
“Valuable for the ample information which it contains.”—Cambridge Independent.
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 SMOLLETT. By David Hannay.
“A capable record of a writer who still remains one of the great masters of the English novel.”—Saturday Review.
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 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 BURNS. By Professor Blackie.
“The editor certainly made a hit when he persuaded Blackie to write about Burns.”—Pall Mall Gazette.
LIFE OF VICTOR HUGO. By Frank T. Marzials.
“Mr. Marzials’s 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 EMERSON. By Richard Garnett, LL.D.
“As to the larger section of the public,... 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 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 BUNYAN. By Canon Venables.
“A most intelligent, appreciative, and valuable memoir.”—Scotsman.
LIFE OF CRABBE. By T. E. Kebbel.
“No English poet since Shakespeare has observed certain aspects of nature and of human life more closely;... Mr. Kebbel’s monograph is worthy of the subject.”—Athenæum.
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 MILL. By W. L. Courtney.
“A most sympathetic and discriminating memoir.”—Glasgow Herald.
LIFE OF SCHILLER. By Henry W. Nevinson.
“Presents the leading facts of the poet’s life in a neatly rounded picture, and gives an adequate critical estimate of each of Schiller’s separate works and the effect of the whole upon literature.”—Scotsman.
LIFE OF CAPTAIN MARRYAT. By David Hannay.
“We have nothing but praise for the manner in which Mr. Hannay has done justice to him whom he well calls ‘one of the most brilliant and the least fairly recognised of English novelists.’”—Saturday Review.
Complete Bibliography to each volume, by J. P. Anderson, British Museum.
Volumes are in preparation by Goldwin Smith, Frederick Wedmore, Oscar Browning, Arthur Symons, W. E. Henley, Hermann Merivale, H. E. Watts, T. W. Rolleston, Cosmo Monkhouse, Dr. Garnett, Frank T. Marzials, W. H. Pollock, John Addington Symonds, Stepniak, etc., etc.
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