London: Walter Scott, Limited, 24 Warwick Lane.
GREAT WRITERS.
A NEW SERIES OF CRITICAL BIOGRAPHIES.
Edited by Eric Robertson and Frank T. Marzials.
A Complete Bibliography to each Volume, by J. P. Anderson, British Museum, London.
Cloth, Uncut Edges, Gilt Top. Price 1/6.
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.
- “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 is known about the life of the great poet.”—Saturday Review.
- LIFE OF EMERSON. By Richard Garnett, LL.D.
- “No record of Emerson’s life could be more desirable.”—Saturday Review.
- LIFE OF GOETHE. By James Sime.
- “Mr. James Sime’s competence as a biographer of Goethe is beyond question.”—Manchester Guardian.
- LIFE OF CONGREVE. By Edmund Gosse.
- “Mr. Gosse has written an admirable biography.”—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.”—Athenæum.
- LIFE OF HEINE. By William Sharp.
- “An admirable monograph … more fully written up to the level of recent knowledge and criticism 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 poet’s life in a neatly rounded picture.”—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.”—Saturday Review.
- LIFE OF LESSING. By T. W. Rolleston.
- “One of the best books of the series.”—Manchester Guardian.
- LIFE OF MILTON. By Richard Garnett, LL.D.
- “Has never been more charmingly or adequately told.”—Scottish Leader.
- LIFE OF BALZAC. By Frederick Wedmore.
- “Mr. Wedmore’s monograph on the greatest of French writers of fiction, whose greatness is to be measured by comparison with his successors, is a piece of careful and critical composition, neat and nice in style.”—Daily News.
- LIFE OF GEORGE ELIOT. By Oscar Browning.
- “A book of the character of Mr Browning’s, to stand midway between the bulky work of Mr. Cross and the very slight sketch of Miss Blind, was much to be desired, and Mr. Browning has done his work with vivacity, and not without skill.”—Manchester Guardian.
- 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 Miss Austen…. His little book upon her, just published by Walter Scott, is certainly a fascinating book to those who already know her and love her well; and we have little doubt that it will prove also a fascinating book to those who have still to make her acquaintance.”—Spectator.
- 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 BYRON. By Hon. Roden Noel.
- “The Hon. Roden Noel’s volume on Byron is decidedly one of the most readable in the excellent ‘Great Writers’ series.”—Scottish Leader.
- LIFE OF HAWTHORNE. By Moncure Conway.
- “It is a delightful causerie—pleasant, genial talk about a most interesting man. Easy and conversational as the tone is throughout, no important fact is omitted, no valueless fact is recalled; and it is entirely exempt from platitude and conventionality.”—The Speaker.
- LIFE OF SCHOPENHAUER. By Professor Wallace.
- “We can speak very highly of this little book of Mr. Wallace’s. It is, perhaps, excessively lenient in dealing with the man, and it cannot be said to be at all ferociously critical in dealing with the philosophy.”—Saturday Review.
- LIFE OF SHERIDAN. By Lloyd Sanders.
- “To say that Mr. Lloyd Sanders, in this little volume, has produced the best existing memoir of Sheridan, is really to award much fainter praise than the work deserves.”—Manchester Examiner.
- LIFE OF THACKERAY. By Herman Merivale and P. T. Marzials.
- “The monograph just published is well worth reading…. and the book, with its excellent bibliography, is one which neither the student nor the general reader can well afford to miss.”—Pall Mall Gazette.
- LIFE OF CERVANTES. By H. E. Watts.
- “We can commend this book as a worthy addition to the useful series to which it belongs.”—London Daily Chronicle.
- LIFE OF VOLTAIRE. By Francis Espinasse.
- George Saintsbury, in The Illustrated London News, says:—“In this little volume the wayfaring man who has no time to devour libraries will find most things that it concerns him to know about Voltaire’s actual life and work put very clearly, sufficiently, and accurately for the most part.”
- LIFE OF LEIGH HUNT. By Cosmo Monkhouse.
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