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.