“A most readable little work.”—Liverpool Mercury.

“Brief and vigorous, written throughout with spirit and great literary skill.”—Scotsman.

“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’s little book.”—AthenÆum.

“Mr. Knight’s picture of the great poet and painter is the fullest and best yet presented to the public.”—The Graphic.

“Colonel Grant has performed his task with diligence, sound judgment, good taste, and accuracy.”—Illustrated London News.

“Mr. G. T. Bettany’s Life of Darwin is a sound and conscientious work.”—Saturday Review.

“Those who know much of Charlotte BrontË 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. James’ Gazette.

“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.

“Written with a perspicuity seldom exemplified when dealing with economic science.”—Scotsman.

“Valuable for the ample information which it contains.”—Cambridge Independent.

“The criticisms ... entitle this capital monograph to be ranked with the best biographies of Shelley.”—Westminster Review.

“A capable record of a writer who still remains one of the great masters of the English novel.”—Saturday Review.

“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.

“This is a most enjoyable book.”—Aberdeen Free Press.

“The editor certainly made a hit when he persuaded Blackie to write about Burns.”—Pall Mall Gazette.

“Mr. Marzials’s volume presents to us, in a more handy form than any English or even French handbook gives, the summary of what is known about the life of the great poet.”—Saturday Review.

“No record of Emerson’s life could be more desirable.”—Saturday Review.

“Mr. James Sime’s competence as a biographer of Goethe is beyond question.”—Manchester Guardian.

“Mr. Gosse has written an admirable biography.”—Academy.

“A most intelligent, appreciative, and valuable memoir.”—Scotsman.

“No English poet since Shakespeare has observed certain aspects of nature and of human life more closely.”—AthenÆum.

“An admirable monograph ... more fully written up to the level of recent knowledge and criticism than any other English work.”—Scotsman.

“A most sympathetic and discriminating memoir.”—Glasgow Herald.

“Presents the poet’s life in a neatly rounded picture.”—Scotsman.

“We have nothing but praise for the manner in which Mr. Hannay has done justice to him.”—Saturday Review.

“One of the best books of the series.”—Manchester Guardian.

“Has never been more charmingly or adequately told.”—Scottish Leader.

“Mr. Wedmore’s monograph on the greatest of French writers of fiction, whose greatness is to be measured by comparison with his successors, is a piece of careful and critical composition, neat and nice in style.”—Daily News.

“A book of the character of Mr. Browning’s, to stand midway between the bulky work of Mr. Cross and the very slight sketch of Miss Blind, was much to be desired, and Mr. Browning has done his work with vivacity, and not without skill.”—Manchester Guardian.

“Mr. Goldwin Smith has added another to the not inconsiderable roll of eminent men who have found their delight in Miss Austen.... His little book upon her, just published by Walter Scott, is certainly a fascinating book to those who already know her and love her well; and we have little doubt that it will prove also a fascinating book to those who have still to make her acquaintance.”—Spectator.

“This little volume is a model of excellent English, and in every respect it seems to us what a biography should be.”—Public Opinion.

“The Hon. Roden Noel’s volume on Byron is decidedly one of the most readable in the excellent ‘Great Writers’ series.”—Scottish Leader.

“It is a delightful causerie—pleasant, genial talk about a most interesting man. Easy and conversational as the tone is throughout, no important fact is omitted, no valueless fact is recalled; and it is entirely exempt from platitude and conventionality.”—The Speaker.

“We can speak very highly of this little book of Mr. Wallace’s. It is, perhaps, excessively lenient in dealing with the man, and it cannot be said to be at all ferociously critical in dealing with the philosophy.”—Saturday Review.

“To say that Mr. Lloyd Sanders, in this little volume, has produced the best existing memoir of Sheridan, is really to award much fainter praise than the work deserves.”—Manchester Examiner.

“The monograph just published is well worth reading, ... and the book, with its excellent bibliography, is one which neither the student nor the general reader can well afford to miss.”—Pall Mall Gazette.

“We can commend this book as a worthy addition to the useful series to which it belongs.”—London Daily Chronicle.