Books and reading; Children's literature -- Bibliography
The subtitle defines this interesting book: “The journeys, adventures,
and imprisonments of an Englishman in an attempt to circulate the
Scriptures in the peninsula.” Readers of Borrow (see page 75 of this
Guide) will be interested in his “Life and Letters,” edited by William
I. Knapp.
ROBERT BROWNING. _Life and Letters_, by Alexandra Leighton Orr.
JAMES BRYCE. _Studies in Contemporary Biography._
EDMUND BURKE. _Life_, by John Morley.
In _English Men of Letters_.
ROBERT BURNS. _Life_, by John Gibson Lockhart.
JULIUS CÆSAR. _Life_, by James Anthony Froude. _Commentaries on the
Gallic and Civil Wars._
THOMAS CARLYLE AND MRS. CARLYLE. _Life and Letters_, by James Anthony
Froude.
THOMAS DE QUINCEY. _Autobiographic Sketches._ _Confessions of an
English Opium-Eater._ _Reminiscences of the Lake Poets._
CHARLES DICKENS. _Life_, by John Forster.
In the edition abridged and revised by the English novelist, the late
George Gissing.
GEORGE ELIOT. _Letters and Journals_, edited by John Walter Cross.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON. _Life_, by Oliver Wendell Holmes.
In _American Men of Letters_. See also Emerson’s letters to Carlyle and
John Sterling.
FRANCIS OF ASSISI. _Life_, by Paul Sabatier.
In the English translation.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN. _Autobiography._
WILLIAM EWART GLADSTONE. _Life_, by John Morley.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE. _Autobiography._
Translated in _Bohn’s Library_.
OLIVER GOLDSMITH. _Life_, by Austin Dobson. See also the biographies
by John Forster and Washington Irving.
ULYSSES SIMPSON GRANT. _Personal Memoirs._ _Life_, by Owen Wister (in
the _Beacon Biographies_).
THOMAS GRAY. _Letters_, edited with a biographical sketch by Henry
Milnor Rideout.
ALEXANDER HAMILTON. _Life_, by Henry Cabot Lodge.
In _American Statesmen_.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE. _Hawthorne and His Circle_, by Julian Hawthorne.
_Life_, by George Edward Woodberry (in _American Men of Letters_).
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES. _Life and Letters_, edited by John Torrey
Morse, Jr.
THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY. _Life and Letters_, edited by Leonard Huxley.
WASHINGTON IRVING. _Life and Letters_, edited by Pierre Munroe Irving.
_Life_, by Charles Dudley Warner (in _American Men of Letters_).
JEANNE D’ARC. _Life_, by Francis Cabot Lowell. _Life_, by Andrew
Lang. _Condemnation and Rehabilitation of Jeanne d’Arc_, by J. E. J.
Quicherat (in the English translation).
SAMUEL JOHNSON. _Lives of the Poets_, selected by Matthew Arnold.
_Life of Johnson_, by James Boswell (in two volumes in _Everyman’s
Library_).
JOHN KEATS. _Life_, by Sidney Colvin.
In _English Men of Letters_.
CHARLES LAMB. _Letters_, edited by Alfred Ainger.
ROBERT EDWARD LEE. _Life_, by Philip Alexander Bruce. _Life and
Letters_, by John William Jones. _Recollections and Letters_, by R. E.
Lee, Jr. _Life_, by Thomas Nelson Page.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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