GREAT WRITERS. 



A NEW SERIES OF CRITICAL BIOGRAPHIES. 



EditeJ byProfessjr Eric S. Robertson, M.A. 



LIBRARY EDITION. —Printed on Ivrge paper of extra quality, in handsome 

 binding, Demy 8vo, price $1.00 each. 



VOLUMES ALREADY ISSUED. 



Balzac. 



'* A finished study, a concentrated summary, a succinct analysis of 

 Balzac's successes and failures, and the causes of these successes and 

 failures, and of the^^scope of his genius." — Scottish Leader. 



Bronte, Charlotte. By Augustine Birrell. 



" Those who know much of Charlotte Bronte 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. 



Bunyan. By Canon Venables. 



" A most intelligent, appreciative, and valuable memoir." — Scotsman. 



Burns. By Professor Blackie. 



" The editor certainly made a hit when he persuaded Blackie to write 

 about Burns." — Fall Mall Gazette. 



Carlyle, Thomas. By Richard 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.'" 



— Fall Mall Gazette. 



Coleridge. By Hall Caine. 



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

 skill." — Scotsj7ian, 



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. 



Crabbe. By T. E. Kebbel. 



" No English poet since Shakespeare has observed certain aspects of 

 nature and of human life more closely. . , . Mr. Kebble's monograph is 

 worthy of the subject." — Athencetim. 



Darwin. By G. T. Bettany. 



" Mr. G. T. Bettany's Life of Dai-^viii is a sound and conscientious 

 work." — Saturday Revieiv. 



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 

 popular novelist as being really satisfactory. The difficulty is removed by 

 Mr. Marzials's little book." — Athenaiim. 



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 Revieiv, 



