Title: Studies of a biographer /
Authors: Stephen, Leslie, 1832-1904.
Publisher: Duckworth and Co.],
Year: 1899
Subjects: Authors, English Biography; English literature; Biography; Authors, English; Great Britain Biography.
Contents: I. National biography. The evolution of editors. John Byrom. Johnsoniana. Gibbon's autobiography. Arthur Young. Wordsworth's youth.--II. The story of Scott's ruin. The importation of German. Matthew Arnold. Jowett's life. Oliver Wendell Holmes. Life of Tennyson. Pascal.--III. The Browning letters. John Donne. John Ruskin. William Godwin's novels. Walter Bagehot. Thomas Henry Huxley. James Anthony Froude. In praise of walking.--IV. Shakespeare as a man. Southey's letters. New lights on Milton. Emerson. Anthony Trollope. Robert Louis Stevenson. The cosmopolitan spirit in literature.