"Has never been more charmingly or adequately told."--_Scottish Leader_. LIFE OF BALZAC. By FREDERICK WEDMORE. "Mr. Wedmore's monograph on the greatest of French writers of fiction, whose greatness is to be measured by comparison with his successors, is a piece of careful and critical composition, neat and nice in style."--_Daily News_. LIFE OF GEORGE ELIOT. By OSCAR BROWNING. "A book of the character of Mr Browning's, to stand midway between the bulky work of Mr. Cross and the very slight sketch of Miss Blind, was much to be desired, and Mr. Browning has done his work with vivacity, and not without skill."--_Manchester Guardian_. LIFE OF JANE AUSTEN. By GOLDWIN SMITH. "Mr. Goldwin Smith has added another to the not inconsiderable roll of eminent men who have found their delight in Miss Austen.... His little book upon her, just published by Walter Scott, is certainly a fascinating book to those who already know her and love her well; and we have little doubt that it will prove also a fascinating book to those who have still to make her acquaintance."--_Spectator_. LIFE OF BROWNING. By WILLIAM SHARP. "This little volume is a model of excellent English, and in every respect it seems to us what a biography should be."--_Public Opinion_. LIFE OF BYRON. By HON. RODEN NOEL. "The Hon. Roden Noel's volume on Byron is decidedly one of the most readable in the excellent 'Great Writers' series."--_Scottish Leader_. LIFE OF HAWTHORNE. By MONCURE CONWAY. "It is a delightful causerie--pleasant, genial talk about a most interesting man. Easy and conversational as the tone is throughout, no important fact is omitted, no valueless fact is recalled; and it is entirely exempt from platitude and conventionality."--_The Speaker_. LIFE OF SCHOPENHAUER. By PROFESSOR WALLACE. "We can speak very highly of this little book of Mr. Wallace's. It is, perhaps, excessively lenient in dealing with the man, and it cannot be said to be at all ferociously critical in dealing with the philosophy."--_Saturday Review_. LIFE OF SHERIDAN. By LLOYD SANDERS. "To say that Mr. Lloyd Sanders, in this little volume, has produced the best existing memoir of Sheridan, is really to award much fainter praise than the work deserves."--_Manchester Examiner_. LIFE OF THACKERAY. By HERMAN MERIVALE and P. T. MARZIALS. "The monograph just published is well worth reading.... and the book, with its excellent bibliography, is one which neither the student nor the general reader can well afford to miss."--_Pall Mall Gazette_. LIFE OF CERVANTES. By H. E. WATTS. "We can commend this book as a worthy addition to the useful series to which it belongs."--_London Daily Chronicle_. LIFE OF VOLTAIRE. By FRANCIS ESPINASSE.