Studies of a Biographer

Studies of a Biographer  (1898)  by Leslie Stephen

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by the editor of the Dictionary of National Biography.

STUDIES OF
A BIOGRAPHER

By LESLIE STEPHEN

VOL. I

LONDON
DUCKWORTH and CO.

3 HENRIETTA STREET, W.C.
1898

Edinburgh: T. and A. Constable, Printers to Her Majesty

(volume 1)

I have to acknowledge with many thanks the permission of the proprietors of the National Review (in which most of the following articles appeared), of the Fortnightly Review, and of the Cornhill Magazine, to republish these studies. Leslie Stephen.  June 1898. CONTENTS   page National Biography 1 The Evolution of Editors 37 John Byrom 74 Johnsoniana 105 Gibbon's Autobiography 147 Arthur Young 188 Wordsworth's Youth 227

(volume 2)

CONTENTS
 

	page
The Story of Scott's Ruin	1
The Importation of German	38
Matthew Arnold	76
Jowett's Life	123
Oliver Wendell Holmes	160
Life of Tennyson	196
Pascal	241

(volume 3)

The following chapters are reprinted from articles which, with three exceptions, appeared in the National Review. The chapter upon 'Huxley' appeared in the Nineteenth Century; that upon 'Milton' in the Quarterly Review; and the chapter 'In Praise of Walking' in the Monthly Review. I have to thank the proprietors of these periodicals for permission to republish them. Leslie Stephen  September 1902. CONTENTS   page The Browning Letters 1 John Donne 36 John Ruskin 83 William Godwin's Novels 119 Walter Bagehot 155 Thomas Henry Huxley 188 James Anthony Froude 220 In Praise of Walking 254

(volume 4)

CONTENTS
 

	page
Shakespeare as a Man	1
Southey's Letters	45
New Lights on Milton	86
Emerson	130
Anthony Trollope	168
Robert Louis Stevenson	206
The Cosmopolitan Spirit in Literature	247

This work published before January 1, 1923 is in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago.