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LONDON:  WALTER SCOTT, 24 Warwick Lane, Paternoster Row.

GREAT WRITERS.

A NEW SERIES OF CRITICAL BIOGRAPHIES.

Edited by Professor ERIC S. ROBERTSON, M.A.

MONTHLY SHILLING VOLUMES.

VOLUMES ALREADY ISSUED—­

LIFE OF LONGFELLOW.  By Prof.  Eric S. Robertson. 
“A most readable little work.”—­Liverpool Mercury.

LIFE OF COLERIDGE.  By Hall Caine. 
“Brief and vigorous, written throughout with spirit and great literary
skill.”—­Scotsman.

LIFE OF DICKENS.  By Frank T. Marzials.  “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.”—­Athenaeum.

LIFE OF DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI By J. Knight.  “Mr. Knight’s picture of the great poet and painter is the fullest and best yet presented to the public.”—­The Graphic.

LIFE OF SAMUEL JOHNSON.  By Colonel F. Grant.  “Colonel Grant has performed his task with diligence, sound judgment good taste, and accuracy.”—­Illustrated London News.

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

LIFE OF CHARLOTTE BRONTE.  By A. Birrell. 
“Those who know much of Charlotte Bronte 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.

LIFE OF THOMAS CARLYLE.  By R. Garnett, LL.D.  “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.

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 boot.”—­Aberdeen Free Press.