GREAT WRITERS. 
A NEW SERIES OF CRITICAL BIOGRAPHIES. 
Edited by Professor Er1c S. ROBERTSON, M.A. 
MONTHLY SHILLING YOLUMES. 
VOLUMES ALREADY ISSUED— 
LIFE OF LONGFELLOW. By Prof. Eric S. Robertson. 
“‘A most readable little work.”—Liverpool Mercury. 
LIFE OF COLERIDGE. By Hall Caine. 
‘Brief and vigorous, written throughout with spirit and great literary 
skill.”—Scotsman. 
LIFE OF DICKENS. By Frank 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 
opular novelist as being really satisfactory. The difficulty is removed 
y Mr. Marzials’s little book.” Atheneum. 
LIFE OF DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI. By J. Knight. 
“Mr. Knight’s pes of the great poet and painter is the fullest and 
best yet presented to the public.” —The Graphice. 
LIFE OF SAMUEL JOHNSON. By Colonel F. Grant. 
“Colonel Grant has performed his task with diligence, sound judgment, 
good taste, and accuracy.”—ZJilustrated London News. 
LIFE OF DARWIN. ByG. T. Bettany. 
“Mr. G. T. Bettany’s Life of Darwin is a sound and conscientious work.” 
—Saturday Review. 
LIFE OF CHARLOTTE BRONTH. By A. Birrell. 
“Those who know much of Charlotte Bronté will learn more, and those 
who know nothing about her will find all that is best worth learning in 
Mr. Birrell’s pleasant book.”—St. James’ Gazette. 
LIFH OF THOMAS CARLYLE. By R. Garnett, 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.”—Paill 
Mall Gazette. 
LIFE OF ADAM SMITH. By R. B. Haldane, M.P. 
“Written with a perspicuity seldom exemplified when dealing with 
economic science.”—Scotsman. 
LIFE OF KEATS. By W. M. Rossetti. 
“Valuable for the ample information which it contains.”—Cambridge 
Independent. 
LIFH OF SHELLEY. By William Sharp. 
“The criticisms . . . entitle this capital monograph to be ranked with 
the best biographies of Shelley.”— Westminster Review. 
LIFE OF SMOLLETT. By David Hannay. 
‘*A capable record of a writer who still remains one of the great masters 
of the English noveL”—Saturday Review. 
LIFE OF GOLDSMITH. By Austin Dobson. 
‘The story of his literary and social life in London, with all its humorous 
and pathetic vicissitudes, {s here retold, as none could tell it better.”— 
Daily News. 
