“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.