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Studies of a biographer

4 volumes ; 22 cm · 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 · 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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