Messrs Duckworth & Co.'s New Books. 



* STEPHEN, LESLIE. 



STUDIES OF A BIOGRAPHER, by Leslie Stephen. 

 Two vols. large crown 8vo. Buckram, gilt top, 125. 



Times. " No living man is more at home than he in the literature of the eighteenth 

 century, and few, if any, have a better right to speak about the literary performances 

 and influences of the nineteenth." 



Athenaeum. "Those who are prepared to learn rather than be amused or excited 

 cannot do better than study his ' Studies.' He is one of the soundest of our critics. His 

 cool shrewd judgment is often refreshing as a contrast to the tall talk which has been 

 only too common with modern biographers." 



Morning Post. " He is as lucid as Macaulay without sacrificing accuracy to 

 effect." 



Daily Chronicle. " Learning, sense, human urbanity and critical insight, these are 

 only a few of the qualities Mr Stephen displays. He always writes with ease and 

 felicity, and is as incapable of vulgarism as of an affectation. It is only when we pause 

 to reflect at the end of a paragraph or essay that we recognise how smoothly and 

 delightfully we have been carried along." 



Globe." His ' Studies of a Biographer ' will be received cordially and gratefully, 

 and ranged side by side with his ' Hours in a Library,' with which they are more than 

 worthy to be associated." 



Arthur Symons in the Saturday Review." Who is there, at the present day, 

 now writing in English, who is capable of such acute, learned, unacademic, serious, 

 witty, responsible criticism as that contained in these two volumes ? Mr Leslie Stephen 

 is not only a critic, he is a philosophic thinker, and, since the death of Coventry 

 Patmore, I do not know any other writer of criticism whom it would be possible to call 

 by that name." 



Truth. "Will maintain Mr Leslie Stephen's reputation as indisputably the first of 

 living English critics." 



OutlOOk. " Every serious student must really go to the book itself. There is no 

 better example of fair, instructed, well-balanced, and judiciously expressed criticism in 

 the English literature of the present day." 



The titles of the"' Studies " are as follows : 



VOL. I. VOL. II. 



NATIONAL BIOGRAPHY. THE STORY OF SCOTT'S RUIN. 



THE EVOLUTION OF EDITORS THE IMPORTATION OF GERMAN. 



JOHN BYROM. MATTHEW ARNOLD. 



JOHNSONIANA. JOWETT's LIFE. 



GIBBON'S AUTOBIOGRAPHY. OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES. 



ARTHUR YOUNG. LIFE OF TENNYSON. 



WORDSWORTH'S YOUTH. PASCAL. 



