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n 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._ LIFE OF KEATS. By W. M. Rossetti. "Valuable for the ample information which it contains."--_Cambridge Independent._ LIFE OF SHELLEY. By William Sharp. "The criticisms ... entitle this capital monograph to be ranked with the best biographies of Shelley."--_Westminster Review._ LIFE OF SMOLLETT. By David Hannay. "A capable record of a writer who still remains one of the great masters of the English novel."--_Saturday Review._ 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 SCOTT. By Professor Yonge. "For readers and lovers of the poems and novels of Sir Walter Scott, this is a most enjoyable book."--_Aberdeen Free Press._ 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 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, up to the moment in which we write, is known or conjectured about the life of the great poet."--_Saturday Review._ LIFE OF EMERSON. By Richard Garnett, LL.D. "As to the larger section of the public,... 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 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 BUNYAN. By Canon Venables. "A most intelligent, appreciative, and valuable me
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