Studies of a Biographer (1898)
by Leslie Stephen
1261299Studies of a Biographer1898Leslie Stephen



(volume 1)

STUDIES OF
A BIOGRAPHER

By LESLIE STEPHEN


DESORMAIS


VOL. I


LONDON
DUCKWORTH and CO.

3 HENRIETTA STREET, W.C.
1898



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


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)



(volume 3, 1902)


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, 1902)


This work was published before January 1, 1929, and is in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago.

Public domainPublic domainfalsefalse