Studies of a Biographer, Volume 4 (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 last of four volumes published from 1898-1902 includes "Shakespeare as a Man," "Southey's Letters," "New Lights on Milton," "Emerson," "Anthony Trollope," "Robert Louis Stevenson," and "The Cosmopolitan Spirit in Literature."