Studies of a biographer / by Leslie Stephen.

  • Stephen, Leslie, 1832-1904.
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[1910]
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Studies of a biographer / by Leslie Stephen. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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London : Duckworth & Co., [1910]

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4 volumes ; 22 cm

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Printed in Edinburgh
Vols. III-IV "2nd series"
Reprinted in part from the National review, Fortnightly review, Cornhill magazine, Nineteenth century, Quarterly review, and Monthly review

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.

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