erous editions in all the chief languages.
The following are the most important:--T. Fowler, _Novum Organum_ (Oxford,
1878; ed. 1889), with notes, full introduction on Bacon's philosophy in all
its relations, and a most valuable bibliography. This superseded the
edition of G. W. Kitchin (Oxford, 1855). The _Essays_ have been edited more
than twenty times since 1870; the following editions may be
mentioned:--Archbishop Whately (6th ed., 1864); W. Aldis Wright (Lond.,
1862); F. Storr and Gibson (Lond., 1886); E. A. Abbott (Lond., 1879); John
Buchan (Lond., 1879); A. S. West (Cambridge, 1897); W. Evans (Edinburgh,
1897). A facsimile reprint of the 1st edition was published in New York
(1904). _Advancement of Learning_:--W. Aldis [v.03 p.0152] Wright (Camb.,
1866; 5th ed., 1900); F. G. Selby (1892-1895); H. Morley (1905); and, with
the _New Atlantis_, in the "World's Classics" series (introduction by Prof.
T. Case, Lond., 1906). _Wisdom of the Ancients and New Atlantis_, in
"Cassell's National Library" (1886 and 1903). G. C. M. Smith, _New
Atlantis_ (1900). J. Fuerstenhagen, _Kleinere Schriften_ (Leipzig, 1884).
_Biography._--J. Spedding, _The Life and Letters of Lord Bacon_ (1861),
_Life and Times of Francis Bacon_ (1878); also Dr Rawley's _Life_ in the
Ellis-Spedding editions, and J. M. Robertson's reprint (above); W. Hepworth
Dixon, _Personal History of Lord Bacon_ (Lond., 1861), and _Story of Lord
Bacon's Life_ (ib. 1862); John Campbell, _Lives of the Chancellors_ (Lond.,
1845), ii. 51; P. Woodward, _Early Life of Lord Bacon_ (1902); T. Fowler,
_Francis Bacon_ in "English Philos." series (Lond., 1881); R. W. Church's
_Bacon_, in "Men of Letters" series (1884).
_Philosophy._--Beside the introductions in the Ellis-Spedding and T. Fowler
editions, and general histories of philosophy, see:--Kuno Fischer, _Fr.
Bacon_ (1856, 2nd ed., 1875, Eng. trans. by John Oxenford, Lond., 1857);
Ch. de Remusat, _Bacon, sa vie ... et son influence_ (1857, ed. 1858 and
1877); G. L. Craik, _Lord Bacon, his Writings and his Philosophy_ (3 vols.,
1846-1847, ed. 1860); A. Dorner, _De Baconis Philosophia_ (Berlin, 1867;
London, 1886); J. v. Liebig, _Ueber F. B. v. Verulam_ (Mannheim, 1863); Ad.
Lasson, _Ueber B. v. Verulam's wissenschaftliche Principien_ (Berl., 1860);
E. H. Boehmer, _Ueber F. B. v. Verulam_ (Erlangen, 1864); Ch. Adam,
_Philos. de Francis Bacon_ (Paris, 1890); Barthelemy St Hilaire, _Etude sur
Francis Bacon_ (Paris, 1890); R. W
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