A series of biographies of distinguished American authors, having all the special interest of biography, and the larger interest and value of illustrating the different phases of American literature, the social, political, and moral influences which have moulded these authors and the generations to which they belonged. _Washington Irving._ By CHARLES DUDLEY WARNER. _Noah Webster._ By HORACE E. SCUDDER. _Henry D. Thoreau._ By FRANK B. SANBORN. _George Ripley._ By OCTAVIUS BROOKS FROTHINGHAM. _J. Fenimore Cooper._ By THOMAS R. LOUNSBURY. _Margaret Fuller Ossoli._ By T. W. HIGGINSON. _Ralph Waldo Emerson._ By OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES. _Edgar Allan Poe._ By GEORGE E. WOODBERRY. _Nathaniel Parker Willis._ By HENRY A. BEERS. _Benjamin Franklin._ By JOHN BACH MCMASTER. _IN PREPARATION._ _Nathaniel Hawthorne._ By JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL. _William Cullen Bryant._ By JOHN BIGELOW. Others to be announced hereafter. Each volume, with Portrait, 16mo, gilt top, $1.25; cloth, uncut edges, paper label, $1.50; half morocco, $2.50. “WASHINGTON IRVING.” Mr. Warner has not only written with sympathy, minute knowledge of his subject, fine literary taste, and that easy, fascinating style which always puts him on such good terms with his readers, but he has shown a tact, critical sagacity, and sense of proportion full of promise for the rest of the series which is to pass under his supervision.--_New York Tribune._ It is a very charming piece of literary work, and presents the reader with an excellent picture of Irving as a man and of his methods as an author, together with an accurate and discriminating characterization of his works.--_Boston Journal._ It would hardly be possible to produce a fairer or more candid book of its kind.--_Literary World_ (London). “NOAH WEBSTER.” Mr. Scudder’s biography of Webster is alike honorable to himself and its subject. Finely discriminating in all that relates to personal and intellectual character, scholarly and just in its literary criticisms, analyses, and estimates, it is besides so kindly and manly in its tone, its narrative is so spirited and enthralling, its descriptions are so quaintly graphic, so varied and cheerful in their coloring, and its pictures so teem with the bustle, the movement, and the activities of the real life of a by-gone but most interesting age, that the attention of the reader is never tempted to wander, and he lays down the book with a sigh of regret for its brevity.--_Harper’s Monthly Magazine._ It fills completely its place in the purpose of this series of volumes.--_The Critic_ (New York). “HENRY D. THOREAU.”