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DICTIOMRYof NATIONAL BIOGRAPHY. 



Edited by LESLIE STEPHEN and SIDNEY LEE. 



Volume I. was published on January I, 1885, and a volume has been issued 

 every three months since that date. 



A further Volume will be published on January I, April i,July 1, and 

 October I of each year tint il the completion of the work. 



EXTRACTS FROM A FEW PRESS NOTICES OF THE WORK. 



Truth.— ' I am glad you share my ad- 

 miration for Mr. Stephen's magnum opus — 



THE MAGNUM OPUS OF OUR GENERATION — 



"The Dictionary of National Biography." 

 A dictionary of the kind had been attempted 

 so often before by the strongest men pub- 

 lishers and editors— of the day that I hardly 

 expected it to succeed. No one expected 

 such a success as it has so far achieved.' 



The Athen/eum. — 'The latest volumes 

 of Mr. Stephen's Dictionary are full of 



IMPORTANT AND INTERESTING ARTICLES. 



Great names strike the eye constantly as we 

 turn the pages. . . . Altogether the volumes 

 are good reading. What is more important, 

 the articles, whether they are on small or 

 great personages, are nearly all up to the 

 high standard which has been set in the 

 earlier portions of the work, and occasion- 

 ally above it.' 



Saturday Review. — 'From the name 

 we have cited it will be seen that great pain 

 have been taken with that portion of the 

 Dictionary which relates to modern times, 

 and this has been rightly done ; for often 

 nothing is more difficult than to rind a concise 

 record of the life of a man who belonged to 

 our own times or to those just preceding 

 them. Consistently enough, the Editor has 

 been careful to keep the work reasonably up 

 to date.' 



The Manchester Examiner and 

 Times.— 'This magnificent work of reference 

 has now left the tentative stage of its existence 

 far behind, and Mr. Leslie Stephen and his 

 contributors are well under weu;h. ... We 

 extend a hearty welcome to the latest instal- 

 ment of a most magnificent work, in which 

 both the editing and the writing appear still 

 to improve.' 



The Quarterly Review.— ' A "Dic- 

 tionary of National Biography,' or 



WHICH THE COUNTRY MAY BE JUSTLY 



proud, which, though it may need correct- 

 ing and supplementing, will probably never 

 be superseded, and which, in unity of con- 

 ception and aim, in the number of the 

 names inserted, in fulness and accuracy of 

 details, in the care and precision with which 

 the authorities are cited, and in the biblio- 

 graphical information given, will not only be 

 immeasurably superior to any work of the 

 kind which has been produced in Great 

 Britain, but will as far surpass the German 

 and Belgian biographical dictionaries now 

 in progress, as these two important under- 

 takings are in advance of the two great 

 French collections, which until lately reigned 

 supreme in the department of Biography.' 



The Spectator. — 'As each volume of 

 the Dictionary appears, its merits become 

 more conspicuous. . . . The book ought to 

 commend itself to as wide a circle of buyers 

 as the " Encyclopaedia Britannica." ' 



The Lancet. — 'Its contents show no 

 falling off in accuracy and completeness, so 

 far as by a critical examination we have been 

 able to discover, from those of the previous 

 volumes, of which we have on all occasions 

 spoken with praise. When completed, the 

 Dictionary will be well nigh invalu- 

 able. 



Tm-. Pall Mall Gazette.— 'As to the 

 general execution, we can only repeat the 

 high praise which it has been our pleasing 

 duty to bestow on former volumes. To find 

 a name omitted that should have been inserted 

 is well-nigh impossible.' 



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