DESCRIPTIVE BIBLIOGRAPHY 



THE best account of Huxley's life and varied activities 

 is The Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley, by 

 his son, Leonard Huxley, in two volumes (London, 

 1900). The American edition is published by D. Apple- 

 ton and Company, New York. This is one of the most 

 interesting and stimulating of modern biographies. The 

 whole modern scientific movement is reflected in it. A 

 good book, made of gleanings from The Life and Letters, 

 is Thomas Henry Huxley, by Edward Clodd, to whom 

 some of the Huxley letters were written. This /olume 

 is number eight in the Modern English Writers Series 

 (Dodd, Mead and Company, New York, 1902). Clodd 

 discusses Huxley in successive chapters as Man (the best 

 chapter), Discoverer, Interpreter, Controversialist, and 

 Constructor, there being no chapter on Huxley the 

 Writer. Chalmers Mitchell's Thomas Henry Huxley: 

 A Sketch of His Life and Work, and George Smalley's 

 Mr. Huxley (published in Scribner's Magazine, October, 

 1895) are interesting presentations from different points 

 of view, but they are less significant since the appearance 

 of The Life and Letters. Fiske's Reminiscences of Hux- 

 ley (in The Atlantic Monthly, February, 1901) is an 

 eminently readable sketch of Huxley the man. The best 

 sketch of Huxley, as a scientist, is Thomas H. Huxley, 

 by J. R. Ainsworth Davis (London and New York, 

 1907). A complete list of obituary notices and personal 

 reminiscences will be found in Poole's Index to Periodical 



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