Goethe. By James Sime. 



" Mr. James Sime's competence as a biographer of Goethe, both in 

 respect of knowledge of his special subject, and of German literature 

 generally, is beyond question." — Manchester Guardian. 



Goldsmith. By Austin Dobson. 



*' The story of his literary and social life in London, with all its 

 humorous and pathetic vicissitudes, is here retold, as none could tell it 

 better." — Daily News. 



Heine. By William Sharp. 



" This is an admirable monograph . . . more fully written up to the 

 level of recent knowledge and criticism of its theme than any other English 

 work. " — Scotsman. 



Hugo, Victor. By F. T. Marzials. 



** Mr. Marzials's volume presents to us, in a more handy form than any 

 English, or even French handbook gives, the summary of what, up to the 

 moment in which we write, is known or conjectured about the life of the 

 great poet." — Saturday Review. 



Johnson, Samuel. By Colonel F. Grant. 



•* Colonel Grant has performed his task with diligence, sound judgment, 

 good taste, and accuracy." — Illustrated London News. 



Keats. By W. M. Rossetti. 



** Valuable for the ample information which it contains."— C«w^r/^<? 

 Independent. 



Lessing. By T. W. Rolleston. 



" Mr. Rolleston has written on Lessing one of the best books of the 

 series in which his treatise appears." — Manchester Guardian. 



Longfellow. By Professor Eric S. Robertson. 



"A most readable little work." — Liverpool Mercury. 



Marryat. By David Hannay. 



*' We have nothing but praise for the manner in which Mr. Hannay has 

 done justice to him whom he well calls * one of the most brilliant and the 

 least fairly recognised of English novelists.' " — Saturday Review. 



Milton. By Richard Garnett, LL.D. 



" Within equal compass the life-story of the great poet of Puritanism has 

 never been more charmingly or adequately told." — Scottish Leader. 



Mill. By W. L. Courtney. 



" A most sympathetic and discriminating memoir." — Glasi^ow Herald. 



Rossetti, Dante Gabriel. By Joseph Knight. 



"Mr. Knight's picture of the great poet and painter is the fullest and 

 best yet presented to the public." — The Graphic. 



Schiller. By Henry W. Nevinson. 



•' Presents the leading facts of the poet's life in a neatly rounded picture, 

 and gives an adequate critical estimate of each of Schiller's separate works, 

 and the effect of the whole upon literature." — Scots7nan. 



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