Life of Byron. By Hon. Roden Noel. 



"He (Mr. Noel) has at any rate given to the world the most credible 

 and comprehensible portrait of the poet ever drawn with pen and ink." 

 Manchester Examiner. 

 Life of Bunyan. By Canon Venables. 



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

 Life of Burns. By Professor Blackie. 



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

 about Burns." Pall Mall Gazette. 

 Life 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." 

 Pall Mall Gazette. 

 Life of Coleridge. By Hall Caine. 



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

 skill. " Scotsman. 

 Life of 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. 

 Life of Crabbe. By T. E. Kebbel. 



" No English poet since Shakespeare has observed certain aspects of 

 nature and of human life more closely ; and in the qualities of manliness 

 and of sincerity he is surpassed by none. . . . Mr. Kebbel's monograph 

 is worthy of the subject." Athenaum. 

 Life of Darwin. By G. T. Bettany. 



" Mr. G. T. Bettany's Life of Darwin is a sound and conscientious 

 work." Saturday Review. 

 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 

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

 Mr. Marzials's little book." Athenaum. 

 Life of George Eliot. By Oscar Browning. 



"We are thankful for this interesting addition to our knowledge of the 

 great novelist." Literary World. 

 Life of Emerson. By Richard Garnett, LL.D. 



"As to the larger section of the public, to whom the series of Great 

 Writers is addressed, 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 Review. 

 Life of 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. 

 Life of 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. 



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