Studies of a Biographer

by Leslie Stephen

STUDIES OF
A BIOGRAPHER

By LESLIE STEPHEN

VOL. I

LONDON
DUCKWORTH and CO.

3 HENRIETTA STREET, W.C.
1898

Edinburgh: T. and A. Constable, Printers to Her Majesty

I have to acknowledge with many thanks the permission of the proprietors of the National Review (in which most of the following articles appeared), of the Fortnightly Review, and of the Cornhill Magazine, to republish these studies.

Leslie Stephen.

June 1898.

CONTENTS
 

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National Biography	1
The Evolution of Editors	37
John Byrom	74
Johnsoniana	105
Gibbon's Autobiography	147
Arthur Young	188
Wordsworth's Youth	227

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The Story of Scott's Ruin	1
The Importation of German	38
Matthew Arnold	76
Jowett's Life	123
Oliver Wendell Holmes	160
Life of Tennyson	196
Pascal	241

The following chapters are reprinted from articles which, with three exceptions, appeared in the National Review. The chapter upon 'Huxley' appeared in the Nineteenth Century; that upon 'Milton' in the Quarterly Review; and the chapter 'In Praise of Walking' in the Monthly Review. I have to thank the proprietors of these periodicals for permission to republish them.

Leslie Stephen

September 1902.

CONTENTS
 

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The Browning Letters	1
John Donne	36
John Ruskin	83
William Godwin's Novels	119
Walter Bagehot	155
Thomas Henry Huxley	188
James Anthony Froude	220
In Praise of Walking	254

CONTENTS
 

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Shakespeare as a Man	1
Southey's Letters	45
New Lights on Milton	86
Emerson	130
Anthony Trollope	168
Robert Louis Stevenson	206
The Cosmopolitan Spirit in Literature	247