human
A most readable little work.
gpt
Brief and vigorous, written throughout with spirit and great literary skill.
human
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.
gpt
Mr. Knight's picture of the great poet and painter is the fullest and best yet presented to the public.
human
Colonel Grant has performed his task with diligence, sound judgment good taste, and accuracy.
gpt
Mr. G.T. Bettany's _Life of Darwin_ is a sound and conscientious work.
human
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.
gpt
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.
human
Written with a perspicuity seldom exemplified when dealing with economic science.
gpt
Valuable for the ample information which it contains.
human
The criticisms ... entitle this capital monograph to be ranked with the best biographies of Shelley.
gpt
A capable record of a writer who still remains one of the great masters of the English novel
human
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.
gpt
For readers and lovers of the poems and novels of Sir Walter Scott, this is a most enjoyable boot.
human
The editor certainly made a hit when he persuaded Blackie to write about Burns.
gpt
Mr. Marzials's volume presents to us, in a more handy form than any English, or even French handbook gives, the summary of what, up to the moment in which we write, is known or conjectured about the life of the great poet.
human
As to the larger section of the public, ... no record of Emerson's life and work could be more desirable, both in breadth of treatment and lucidity of style, than Dr. Garnett's.
gpt
Mr. James Sime's competence as a biographer of Goethe, both in respect of knowledge of his special subject, and of German literature generally, is beyond question.
human
Mr. Gosse has written an admirable and most interesting biography of a man of letters who is of particular interest to other men of letters.
gpt
A most intelligent, appreciative, and valuable memoir.
human
No English poet since Shakespeare has observed certain aspects of nature and of human life more closely; ... Mr. Kebbel's monograph is worthy of the subject.
gpt
This is an admirable monograph ... more fully written up to the level of recent knowledge and criticism of its theme than any other English work.
human
A most sympathetic and discriminating memoir.
gpt
Presents the leading facts of the poet's life in a neatly rounded picture, and gives an adequate critical estimate of each of Schiller's separate works and the effect of the whole upon literature.
human
We have nothing but praise for the manner in which Mr. Hannay has done justice to him whom he well calls 'one of the most brilliant and the least fairly recognised of English novelists.'