Studies of a Biographer, Volume 3 (Barnes & Noble Digital Library)

The prolific biographer, first editor of the 26 volumes of the Dictionary of National Biography, and father of Virginia Woolf, shares secrets of the trade in this wide-ranging collection of essays. This third of four volumes published from 1898-1902 includes "The Browning Letters," "John Donne," "John Ruskin," "William Godwin's Novels," "Walter Bagehot," "Thomas Henry Huxley," "James Anthony Froude," and "In Praise of Walking."