“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 ADAM SMITH. By R. B. HALDANE, M.P.
“Written with a perspicuity seldom exemplified when dealing with economic science.”--_Scotsman._
“Valuable for the ample information which it contains.”--_Cambridge Independent._
“The criticisms ... entitle this capital monograph to be ranked with the best biographies of Shelley.”--_Westminster Review._
“A capable record of a writer who still remains one of the great masters of the English novel.”--_Saturday Review._
“The story of his literary and social life in London, with all its humorous and pathetic vicissitudes, is here retold, as none could tell it better.”--_Daily News._
“This is a most enjoyable book.”--_Aberdeen Free Press._
“The editor certainly made a hit when he persuaded Blackie to write about Burns.”--_Pall Mall Gazette._
LIFE OF VICTOR HUGO. By FRANK T. MARZIALS.
“Mr. Marzials’s volume presents to us, in a more handy form than any English or even French handbook gives, the summary of what is known about the life of the great poet.”--_Saturday Review._
LIFE OF EMERSON. By RICHARD GARNETT, LL.D.
“No record of Emerson’s life could be more desirable.”--_Saturday Review._
“Mr. James Sime’s competence as a biographer of Goethe is beyond question.”--_Manchester Guardian._
“Mr. Gosse has written an admirable biography.”--_Academy._
“A most intelligent, appreciative, and valuable memoir.”--_Scotsman._
“No English poet since Shakespeare has observed certain aspects of nature and of human life more closely.”--_Athenæum._
“An admirable monograph ... more fully written up to the level of recent knowledge and criticism than any other English work.”--_Scotsman._
“A most sympathetic and discriminating memoir.”--_Glasgow Herald._
“Presents the poet’s life in a neatly rounded picture.”--_Scotsman._
LIFE OF CAPTAIN MARRYAT. By DAVID HANNAY.
“We have nothing but praise for the manner in which Mr. Hannay has done justice to him.”--_Saturday Review._
“One of the best books of the series.”--_Manchester Guardian._
“Has never been more charmingly or adequately told.”--_Scottish Leader._
“Mr. Wedmore’s monograph on the greatest of French writers of fiction, whose greatness is to be measured by comparison with his successors, is a piece of careful and critical composition, neat and nice in style.”--_Daily News._