Life of Nathaniel Hawthorne. By Moncure Conway. 



" Easy and conversational as the tone is throughout, no important fad 

 is omitted, no useless fact is recalled." — Speaker. 



Life of 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. 



Life of Victor Hugo. By Frank 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. 

 Life of Samuel Johnson. By Colonel F. Grant. 



" Colonel Grant has performed his task with diligence, sound judgment, 

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



Life of Keats. By W. M. Rossetti. 



"Valuable for the ample information which it contains." — Cambridge 

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 Life of Lessing. By T. W. Rolleston. 



" A picture of Lessing which is vivid and truthful, and has enough of 

 detail for all ordinary purposes. "^^a/«o» (New York). 

 Life of Longfellow. By Prof. Eric S. Robertson. 

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

 Life of Marryat By David Hannay. 



" What Mr. Hannay had to do — give a craftsman-like account of a 

 great craftsman who has been almost incomprehensibly undervalued^ 

 could hardly have been done better than in this little volume." — Man- 

 chester Guardian. 

 Life of Mill. By W. L. Courtney. 



" A most sympathetic and discriminating memoir." — Glasgow Herald. 



Life of 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. 



Life of Dante Gabriel Rossetti. By J. Knight. 



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



Life of Scott. By Professor Yonge. 



" For readers and lovers of the poems and novelsof Sir Walter Scott, 

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Life of Arthur Schopenhauer. By William Wallace. 



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 of Moral Philosophy at Oxford has written for it on the attractive and 

 still (in England) little 'known subject of Schopenhauer." — Manchester 

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 Life of Shelley. By William Sharp. 



" The criticisms . . . entitle this capital monograph to be ranked with 

 the best biographies of Shelley. " — Westminster Review. 



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