Studies of a biographer
By: by Leslie Stephen.
Publisher: Duckworth and co.
Published: 1898
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Subjects: Authors, English -- Biography.; English literature -- History and criticism.; Biography as a literary form.; Great Britain -- Biography.
Notes: Second series (v. 3-4): Printed in Edinburgh.
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.