Studies of a Biographer, Volume 2 (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 second of four volumes published from 1898-1902 includes "The Story of Scott's Ruin," "The Importation of German," "Matthew Arnold," "Jowett's Life," "Oliver Wendell Holmes," "Life of Tennyson," and "Pascal."