about her will find all that is best
worth learning in Mr. Birrell's pleasant book."--_St. James's
Gazette._

=Life of Browning. By William Sharp.=

"This little volume is a model of excellent English, and in
every respect it seems to us what a biography should
be."--_Public Opinion._

=Life of Bunyan. By Canon Venables.=

"A most intelligent, appreciative, and valuable
memoir."--_Scotsman._

=Life of Burns. By Professor Blackie.=

"The editor certainly made a hit when he persuaded Blackie to
write about Burns."--_Pall Mall Gazette._

=Life of Byron. By Hon. Roden Noel.=

"He [Mr. Noel] has at any rate given to the world the most
credible and comprehensible portrait of the poet ever drawn
with pen and ink."--_Manchester Examiner._

=Life of Thomas Carlyle. By R. Garnett, LL.D.=

"This is an admirable book. Nothing could be more felicitous
and fairer than the way in which he takes us through Carlyle's
life and works."--_Pall Mall Gazette._

=Life of Cervantes. By H.E. Watts.=

"Let us rather say that no volume of this series, nor, so far
as we can recollect, of any of the other numerous similar
series, presents the facts of the subject in a more
workmanlike style, or with more exhaustive
knowledge."--_Manchester Guardian._

=Life of Coleridge. By Hall Caine.=

"Brief and vigorous, written throughout with spirit and great
literary skill."--_Scotsman._

=Life of Congreve. By Edmund Gosse.=

"Mr. Gosse has written an admirable and most interesting
biography of a man of letters who is of particular interest to
other men of letters."--_The Academy._

=Life of Crabbe. By T.E. Kebbel.=

"No English poet since Shakespeare has observed certain
aspects of nature and of human life more closely; and in the
qualities of manliness and of sincerity he is surpassed by
none.... Mr. Kebbel's monograph is worthy of the
subject."--_Athenaeum._

=Life of Darwin. By G.T. Bettany.=

"Mr. G.T. Bettany's _Life of Darwin_ is a sound and
conscientious work."--_Saturday Review._

=Life of Dickens. By Frank T. Marzials.=

"Notwithstanding the mass of matter that has been printed
relating to Dickens and his works, ... we should, until we
came across this volume, have been at a loss to recommend any
popular life of England's most popular novelist as being
really satisfacto