Mr. Sanborn’s book is thoroughly American and truly fascinating. Its literary skill is exceptionally good, and there is a racy flavor in its pages and an amount of exact knowledge of interesting people that one seldom meets with in current literature. Mr. Sanborn has done Thoreau’s genius an imperishable service.--_American Church Review_ (New York). Mr. Sanborn has written a careful book about a curious man, whom he has studied as impartially as possible; whom he admires warmly but with discretion; and the story of whose life he has told with commendable frankness and simplicity.--_New York Mail and Express._ It is undoubtedly the best life of Thoreau extant.--_Christian Advocate_ (New York). “GEORGE RIPLEY.” Mr. Frothingham’s memoir is a calm and thoughtful and tender tribute. It is marked by rare discrimination, and good taste and simplicity. The biographer keeps himself in the background, and lets his subject speak. And the result is one of the best examples of personal portraiture that we have met with in a long time.--_The Churchman_ (New York). He has fulfilled his responsible task with admirable fidelity, frank earnestness, justice, fine feeling, balanced moderation, delicate taste, and finished literary skill. It is a beautiful tribute to the high-bred scholar and generous-hearted man, whose friend he has so worthily portrayed.--_Rev. William H. Channing_ (London). “JAMES FENIMORE COOPER.” We have here a model biography. The book is charmingly written, with a felicity and vigor of diction that are notable, and with a humor sparkling, racy, and never obtrusive. The story of the life will have something of the fascination of one of the author’s own romances.--_New York Tribune._ Prof. Lounsbury’s book is an admirable specimen of literary biography.… We can recall no recent addition to American biography in any department which is superior to it. It gives the reader not merely a full account of Cooper’s literary career, but there is mingled with this a sufficient account of the man himself apart from his books, and of the period in which he lived, to keep alive the interest from the first word to the last.--_New York Evening Post._ “MARGARET FULLER OSSOLI.” Here at last we have a biography of one of the noblest and the most intellectual of American women, which does full justice to its subject. The author has had ample material for his work,--all the material now available, perhaps,--and has shown the skill of a master in his use of it.… It is a fresh view of the subject, and adds important information to that already given to the public.--REV. DR. F. H. HEDGE, in _Boston Advertiser_. He has filled a gap in our literary history with excellent taste, with sound judgment, and with that literary skill which is preëminently his own.--_Christian Union_ (New York). Mr. Higginson writes with both enthusiasm and sympathy, and makes a volume of surpassing interest.--_Commercial Advertiser_ (New York). “RALPH WALDO EMERSON.”