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NEW BOOKS IMPORTED BY CHARLES SCRIBNERS SONS,

NEW YORK CITY.

GREAT WRITERS.

A NEW SERIES OF CRITICAL BIOGRAPHIES OF FAMOUS WRITERS OF EUROPE AND AMERICA.

LIBRARY EDITION.

Printed on large paper of extra quality, in handsome binding,

Demy 8vo, price $1.00 each.

Life of Jane Austen. By Goldwin Smith.

"Mr. Goldwin Smith has added another to the not inconsiderable roll of eminent men who have found their delight in Jane Austen. Certainly a fascinating book." - Spectator.

Life of Balzac. By Frederick Wed more.

"A finished study, a concentrated summary, a succinct analysis of Balzac's successes and failures, and the causes of these successes and failures, and of the scope of his genius." - Scottish Leader.

Life of Charlotte Bronte. By A. Birrell.

"Those who know much of Charlotte Bronte will learn more, and those who know nothing about her will find all that is best worth learning in Mr. Birrell's pleasant book." - St. Jameses Gazette.

Life of Browning. By William Sharp.

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

a splendid Bibliography.

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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. Garnet*, 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." - Athenaum.

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 satisfactory. The difficulty is removed by Mr. Marzials' little book." - Athenaum.

Life of George Eliot. By Oscar Browning.

"We are thankful for this interesting addition to our knowledge of the great novelist." - Literary World.

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Life of Emerson. By Richard Garnett, LL.D.

"As to the larger section of the public, to whom the series of Great Writers is addressed, no record of Emerson's life and work could be more desirable, both in breadth of treatment and lucidity of style, than Dr. Garnett's." - Saturday Review.

Life of Goethe. By James Sime.

"Mr. James Sime's competence as a biographer of Goethe, both in respect of knowledge of his special subject, and of German literature generally, is beyond question." - Manchester Guardian.

Life of Goldsmith. By Austin Dobson.

"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.

Life of Nathaniel Hawthorne. By Moncure Conway.

" Easy and conversational as the tone is throughout, no important fact is omitted, no useless fact is recalled." - Speaker,

Life of Heine. By William Sharp.

"This is an admirable monograph, . . . more fully written up to the level of recent knowledge and criticism of its theme than any other English work." - Scotsman.

Life of Victor Hugo. By Frank T. Marzials.

"Mr. Marzials' volume presents to us, in a more handy form than any English, or even French, handbook gives, the summary of what, up to the moment in which we write, is known or conjectured about the life of the great poet." - Saturday Review.

Life of Hunt. By Cosmo Monkhouse.

"Mr. Monkhouse has brought together and skilfully set in order much widely scattered material." - Athenaum.

Life of Samuel Johnson. By Colonel F. Grant.

"Colonel Grant has performed his task with diligence, sound judgment, good taste, and accuracy." - Illustrated London News.

Life of Keats. By W. M. Rossetti.

"Valuable for the ample information which it contains." - Cambridge Independent.

Life of Lessing. By T. W. Rolleston.

"A picture of Lessing which is vivid and truthful, and has enough of detail for all ordinary purposes." - Nation (New York).

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Life of Longfellow. By Prof. Eric S. Robertson.

"A most readable little book." - Liverpool Mercury.

Life of Marryat. By David Hannay.

"What Mr. Hannay had to do - give a craftsman-like account of a great craftsman who has been almost incomprehensibly undervalued - could hardly have been done better than in this little volume." - Manchester Guardian.