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." — PcUl 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. Qarnett, 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 know- 

 ledge. " — Manchester Guardian. 



Life of Coleridge. By Hall Caine. 



" Brief and vigorous, written throughout with spirit and great literary 

 skill. " — Scotsman. 



Life of Congreve. By Edmund Gosse. 



" Mr. Gosse has written an admirable and most interesting biography 

 of a man of letters who is of particular interest to other men of letters." 

 — The Academy. 



Life of Crabbe. By T. E. Kebbel. 



"No English poet since Shakespeare has observed certain aspects of 

 nature and of human life more closely; and in the qualities of manliness 

 and of sincerity he is surpassed by none. . . . Mr. Kebbel's monograph 

 is worthy of the subject." — Athenceum. 



Life of Darwin. By Q. T. Bettany. 



" Mr. G. T. Bettany's Life of Darwin is a sound and conscientious 

 work." — Saturday Review. 



Life of Dickens. By Prank 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' little book." — Athenaum. 



Life of Qeorge Eliot. By Oscar Browning. 



" We are thankful for this interesting addition to our knowledge of the 

 great novelist." — Literary World. 



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