hough it may be supplemented
by the translation of Duntzer's _Life of Goethe_, 2 volumes, Macmillan,
and Bielschowsky's _Life of Goethe_, Vols. I and II (Putnams).

{280a} _The Life of Lessing_, by James Sime, is not a great biography,
but it is an interesting and most profitable study of a noble man.
Lessing will be an inspiration greater almost than any other of the
moderns for those who are brought in contact with his fine personality.
The book is in 2 volumes, published by the Trubners.

{280b} You can read Benjamin Franklin's _Autobiography_ in 1 volume
(Dent), or in his Collected Works--_Memoirs of the Life and Writings of
Benjamin Franklin_, edited by his grandson, William Temple Franklin, 6
volumes (Colburn), 1819. There have been at least two expensive reprints
of his _Works_ of late years.

{280c} _The Greville Memoirs_ were published in large octavo form in the
first place. Much scandal was omitted from the second edition. They are
now obtainable in 8 volumes of Longmans' Silver Library. They form an
interesting glimpse into the Court life of the later Guelphs.

{280d} It has been complained of John Forster's _Life of Charles
Dickens_ that there is too much Forster and not enough Dickens. Yet it
is the only guide to the life-story of the greatest of the Victorian
novelists. Is most pleasant to read in the 2 volumes of the Gadshill
Edition, published by Chapman & Hall.

{280e} _The Early Diary of Frances Burney_, afterwards Madame D'Arblay,
edited by Annie Raine Ellis, has just been reprinted in two volumes of
Bohn's Library (Bell). We owe also to Mr. Austen Dobson a fine reprint
of the later and more important _Diaries_, which he has edited in 6
volumes for the Macmillans.

{281a} The _Apologia pro Vita Sua_ of John Henry Newman is one of the
volumes of Cardinal Newman's _Collected Works_ issued by the Longmans. It
is the most interesting, and is perhaps the most destined to survive, of
all the books of theological controversy of the nineteenth century.

{281b} There is practically but one edition of the _Paston Letters_,
that edited by James Gairdner, of the Public Record Office, and published
by the firm of Archibald Constable. The luxurious Library Edition issued
by Chatto & Windus in 6 volumes should be acquired if possible.

{281c} _The Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini_ is best known in the
translation of Thomas Roscoe in Bohn's Library. Mr. J. Addington
Symonds, however, made