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.