Studies of a biographer
By: by Leslie Stephen
Publisher: Duckworth and Co.
Published: 1910
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Subjects: Biography; English Authors
Notes: Published 1898; reissued 1910.

Printed in Edinburgh.

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.