Edited by LESLIE STEPHEN and SIDNEY LEE.
Volume I. was published on January 1, 1885, and a volume has been issued every three months since that date.
A further Volume will be published on January 1, April 1, July 1, and October 1 of each year until the completion of the work.
NOTE.—A Full Prospectus of 'The Dictionary of National Biography,' with Specimen Pages, may be had upon application.
EXTRACTS FROM A FEW PRESS NOTICES OF THE WORK.
Truth.—'I am glad you share my admiration for Mr. Stephen's magnum opus—THE MAGNUM OPUS OF OUR GENERATION—"The Dictionary of National Biography." A dictionary of the kind had been attempted so often before by the strongest men—publishers and editors—of the day that I hardly expected it to succeed. No one expected such a success as it has so far achieved.'
The Athenæum.—'The latest volumes of Mr. Stephen's Dictionary are FULL OF IMPORTANT AND INTERESTING ARTICLES.... Altogether the volumes are good reading. What is more important, the articles, whether they are on small or great personages, are nearly all up to the high standard which has been set in the earlier portions of the work, and occasionally above it.'
Saturday Review.—'From the names we have cited it will be seen that great pains have been taken with that portion of the Dictionary which relates to modern times, and this has been rightly done: for often nothing is more difficult than to find a concise record of the life of a man who belonged to our own times or to those just preceding them. Consistently enough, the Editor has been careful to keep the work reasonably up to date.'