Studies of a biographer
By: by Leslie Stephen ...
Publisher: G.P. Putnam's Sons; Duckworth & Co.
Published: 1898
Place of publication: New York; London
Language: eng
Subjects: Biography; Authors, English -- Biography; Great Britain -- Biography
Notes: Printed in Edinburgh.
Vols. III-IV "2d series."
Reprinted in part from the National review, Fortnightly review, Cornhill magazine, Nineteenth century, Quarterly review, and Monthly review.
Table of contents: title: I. National biography. The evolution of editors. John Byrom.  Johnsoniana. Gibbon's autobiography. Arthur Young. Wordsworth's youth.; title: II. The story of Scott's ruin. The importation of German. Matthew Arnold. Jowett's life. Oliver Wendell Holmes. Life of Tennyson. Pascal.; title: III. The Browning letters. John Donne. John Ruskin. William Godwin's novels. Walter Bagehot. Thomas Henry Huxley. James Anthony Froude. In praise of walking.; title: IV. Shakespeare as a man. Southey's letters. New lights on Milton. Emerson. Anthony Trollope. Robert Louis Stevenson. The cosmopolitan spirit in literature.