ENGLISH MEN OF LETTERSEdited by JOHN MORLEYCloth. 12mo. Price, 40 cents, each
ADDISON.By W. J. Courthope.
BACON.By R. W. Church.
BENTLEY.By Prof. Jebb.
BUNYAN.By J. A. Froude.
BURKE.By John Morley.
BURNS.By Principal Shairp.
BYRON.By Prof. Nichol.
CARLYLE.By Prof. Nichol.
CHAUCER.By Prof. A. W. Ward.
COLERIDGE.By H. D. Traill.
COWPER.By Goldwin Smith.
DEFOE.By W. Minto.
DE QUINCEY.By Prof. Masson.
DICKENS.By A. W. Ward.
DRYDEN.By G. Saintsbury.
FIELDING.By Austin Dobson.
GIBBON.By J. Cotter Morison.
GOLDSMITH.By William Black.
GRAY.By Edmund Gosse.
JOHNSON.By Leslie Stephen.
HUME.By T. H. Huxley.
KEATS.By Sidney Colvin.
LAMB.By Alfred Ainger.
LANDOR.By Sidney Colvin.
LOCKE.By Prof. Fowler.
MACAULAY.By J. Cotter Morison.
MILTON.By Mark Pattison.
POPE.By Leslie Stephen.
SCOTT.By R. H. Hutton.
SHELLEY.By J. A. Symonds.
SHERIDAN.By Mrs. Oliphant.
SIR PHILIP SIDNEY.By J. A. Symonds.
SOUTHEY.By Prof. Dowden.
SPENSER.By R. W. Church.
STERNE.By H. D. Traill.
SWIFT.By Leslie Stephen.
THACKERAY.By A. Trollope.
WORDSWORTH.By F. W. H. Myers.
NEW VOLUMESCloth. 12mo. Price, 75 cents net
GEORGE ELIOT.By Leslie Stephen.
WILLIAM HAZLITT.By Augustine Birrell.
MATTHEW ARNOLD.By Herbert W. Paul.
JOHN RUSKIN.By Frederic Harrison.
JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER.By Thomas W. Higginson.
ALFRED TENNYSON.By Alfred Lyall.
SAMUEL RICHARDSON.By Austin Dobson.
ROBERT BROWNING.By G. K. Chesterton.
CRABBE.By Alfred Ainger.
FANNY BURNEY.By Austin Dobson.
JEREMY TAYLOR.By Edmund Gosse.
ROSSETTI.By Arthur C. Benson.
MARIA EDGEWORTH.By the Hon. Emily Lawless.
HOBBES.By Leslie Stephen.
ADAM SMITH.By Francis W. Hirst.
THOMAS MOORE.By Stephen Gwynn.
SYDNEY SMITH.By George W. E. Russell.
WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT.By William A. Bradley.
WILLIAM HICKLING PRESCOTT.By Harry Thurston Peck.
ENGLISH MEN OF LETTERSEDITED BYJOHN MORLEYTHREE BIOGRAPHIES IN EACH VOLUME——Cloth. 12mo. Price, $1.00, each——
CHAUCER.By Adolphus William Ward.
SPENSER.BY R. W. Church.
DRYDEN.By George Saintsbury.
MILTON.By Mark Pattison, B.D.
GOLDSMITH.By William Black.
COWPER.By Goldwin Smith.
BYRON.By John Nichol.
SHELLEY.By John Addington Symonds.
KEATS.By Sidney Colvin, M.A.
WORDSWORTH.By F. W. H. Myers.
SOUTHEY.By Edward Dowden.
LANDOR.By Sidney Colvin, M.A.
LAMB.By Alfred Ainger.
ADDISON.By W. J. Courthope.
SWIFT.By Leslie Stephen.
SCOTT.By Richard H. Hutton.
BURNS.By Principal Shairp.
COLERIDGE.By H. D. Traill.
HUME.By T. H. Huxley, F.R.S.
LOCKE.By Thomas Fowler.
BURKE.By John Morley.
FIELDING.By Austin Dobson.
THACKERAY.By Anthony Trollope.
DICKENS.By Adolphus William Ward.
GIBBON.By J. Cotter Morison.
CARLYLE.By John Nichol.
MACAULAY.By J. Cotter Morison.
SIDNEY.By J. A. Symonds.
DE QUINCEY.By David Masson.
SHERIDAN.By Mrs. Oliphant.
POPE.By Leslie Stephen.
JOHNSON.By Leslie Stephen.
GRAY.By Edmund Gosse.
BACON.By R. W. Church.
BUNYAN.By J. A. Froude.
BENTLEY.By R. C. Jebb.
PUBLISHED BYTHE MACMILLAN COMPANY66 FIFTH AVENUE, NEW YORK
FOOTNOTES:[1]Quoted by Jameson:Historical Writing in America, p. 72, Boston, 1891.[2]This house was long ago demolished. Its site is now occupied by Plummer Hall, containing a public library.[3]A very interesting appreciation of President Kirkland is given by Dr. A. P. Peabody in hisHarvard Reminiscences(Boston, 1888).[4]John Quincy Adams was titularly Professor of Rhetoric, but he had been absent for several years on a diplomatic mission in Europe.[5]The first number appeared in February, 1820; the last in July of the same year.[6]Her mother had been Miss Hannah Linzee, whose father, Captain Linzee, of the British sloop-of-warFalcon, had tried by heavy cannonading to dislodge Colonel William Prescott from the redoubt at Bunker Hill. The swords of the two had been handed down in their respective families, and now found a peaceful resting-place in young Prescott's "den," where they hung crossed upon the wall above his books.[7]Professor Jameson mentions two other contemporary instances,—Karl Szaynocha and Prescott's Florentine correspondent, the Marquis Gino Capponi.[8]Prescott owned two noctographs, but did nearly all of his writing with one, keeping the other in reserve in case the first should suffer accident. One of these two implements is preserved in the Massachusetts Historical Society.[9]Seech. vii.[10]Life of Irving, 111. p. 133 (New York, 1863).[11]Lembke was a German, the author of a work on early Spanish history, and a member of the Spanish Historical Academy. Prescott mentions him in his letter to Irving. "This learned Theban happens to be in Madrid for the nonce, pursuing some investigations of his own, and he has taken charge of mine, like a true German, inspecting everything and selecting just what has reference to my subject. In this way he has been employed with four copyists since July, and has amassed a quantity of unpublished documents. He has already sent off two boxes to Cadiz."[12]Hale,Memories of a Hundred Years, ii. pp. 71, 72 (New York, 1902).[13]In place of Navarrete, deceased. Prescott received eighteen ballots out of the twenty that were cast.[14]Wilson,Thackeray in America, i. pp. 16, 17 (New York, 1904).[15]Meaning, of course, that he took more wine than was good for his eye.[16]Seep. 116.[17]For an interesting account of Simancas and the archives, see a paper by Dr. W. R. Shepherd, in theReports of the American Historical Association for 1903(Washington, 1905).[18]The father of Mr. James Lawrence, who afterward married Prescott's daughter Elizabeth. Seep. 97.[19]Alluding to the fact that he always shed tears at the opera.[20]The English title of this book wasCritical and Historical Essays. It contained twelve papers and also the life of Charles Brockden Brown already mentioned (p. 65). The American edition bore the titleBiographical and Critical Miscellanies. It has been several times reprinted, the last issue appearing in Philadelphia in 1882.[21]Infra, p. 134.[22]November 1, 1838.[23]Nearly seven thousand copies of this book had been taken up before the end of the following three years.[24]p. 268.[25]p. 285.[26]Supra, p. 65.[27]iii. pp. 199-204.[28]In theBritish Quarterly Review, lxiv (1839).[29]Don Pascual de Gayangos.[30]i. pp. 364-369. Ed. by Kirk (Philadelphia, 1873).[31]For a revision of Prescott's narrative here in its light of later research, see Bandelier,The Gilded Man, pp. 258-281 (New York, 1893).[32]ii. p. 20.[33]ii. pp. 379-380.[34]Everett, Memorial Address, delivered before the Massachusetts Historical Society (1859).[35]ii. p. 157.[36]Mujer entremetida y desembuelta(Diaz).[37]i. p. 294.[38]Mœurs des Sauvages Américains Comparées aux Mœurs des Premiers Temps(Paris, 1723). Lafitau had lived as a missionary among the Iroquois for five years, after which he returned to France and spent the rest of his life in teaching and writing.[39]The History of the American Indians(London, 1775).[40]Historia Natural y Moral de las Indias(Seville, 1590).[41]Philadelphia, 1859.[42]Atlantic Monthly, iii, pp. 518-525 and pp. 633-645.[43]New York, 1851.[44]North American Review, cxxii, pp. 265-308 (1876).[45]The Romantic School of American Archæology.A paper read before the New York Historical Society, February 3, 1885 (New York, 1885).[46]Bandelier,op. cit., p. 8.[47]ii. p. 125.[48]"Though remarkably fair and judicious in the main, Mr. Prescott's partiality for a certain class of his material is evident. To the copies from the Spanish archives, most of which have been since published with hundreds of others equally or more valuable, he seemed to attach an importance proportionate to their cost. Thus, throughout his entire work, these papers are paraded to the exclusion of the more reliable, but more accessible standard authorities."—H. H. Bancroft,History of Mexico, i. p. 7,Note.[49]i. pp. 222, 224.[50]Brinton,Myths of the New World, p. 52 (Philadelphia, 1868).[51]See the section by Markham on "The Inca Civilisation in Peru," in Winsor,A Narrative and Critical History of America, vol. i. (Boston, 1889); and an interesting summary of the results of eleven years researches by Bandelier in a paper entitled "The Truth about Inca Civilisation," published in Harper's Magazinefor March, 1905.[52]Motley,History of the United Netherlands, i. p. 54.[53]Quoted by Ogden,Prescott, p. 32.[54]Cited by R. C. Winthrop, address before the Massachusetts Historical Society, June 14, 1877.[55]Letter of January 18, 1839.[56]Historical Writing in America, pp. 97-98.[57]Dr. C. K. Adams.
[1]Quoted by Jameson:Historical Writing in America, p. 72, Boston, 1891.
[1]Quoted by Jameson:Historical Writing in America, p. 72, Boston, 1891.
[2]This house was long ago demolished. Its site is now occupied by Plummer Hall, containing a public library.
[2]This house was long ago demolished. Its site is now occupied by Plummer Hall, containing a public library.
[3]A very interesting appreciation of President Kirkland is given by Dr. A. P. Peabody in hisHarvard Reminiscences(Boston, 1888).
[3]A very interesting appreciation of President Kirkland is given by Dr. A. P. Peabody in hisHarvard Reminiscences(Boston, 1888).
[4]John Quincy Adams was titularly Professor of Rhetoric, but he had been absent for several years on a diplomatic mission in Europe.
[4]John Quincy Adams was titularly Professor of Rhetoric, but he had been absent for several years on a diplomatic mission in Europe.
[5]The first number appeared in February, 1820; the last in July of the same year.
[5]The first number appeared in February, 1820; the last in July of the same year.
[6]Her mother had been Miss Hannah Linzee, whose father, Captain Linzee, of the British sloop-of-warFalcon, had tried by heavy cannonading to dislodge Colonel William Prescott from the redoubt at Bunker Hill. The swords of the two had been handed down in their respective families, and now found a peaceful resting-place in young Prescott's "den," where they hung crossed upon the wall above his books.
[6]Her mother had been Miss Hannah Linzee, whose father, Captain Linzee, of the British sloop-of-warFalcon, had tried by heavy cannonading to dislodge Colonel William Prescott from the redoubt at Bunker Hill. The swords of the two had been handed down in their respective families, and now found a peaceful resting-place in young Prescott's "den," where they hung crossed upon the wall above his books.
[7]Professor Jameson mentions two other contemporary instances,—Karl Szaynocha and Prescott's Florentine correspondent, the Marquis Gino Capponi.
[7]Professor Jameson mentions two other contemporary instances,—Karl Szaynocha and Prescott's Florentine correspondent, the Marquis Gino Capponi.
[8]Prescott owned two noctographs, but did nearly all of his writing with one, keeping the other in reserve in case the first should suffer accident. One of these two implements is preserved in the Massachusetts Historical Society.
[8]Prescott owned two noctographs, but did nearly all of his writing with one, keeping the other in reserve in case the first should suffer accident. One of these two implements is preserved in the Massachusetts Historical Society.
[9]Seech. vii.
[9]Seech. vii.
[10]Life of Irving, 111. p. 133 (New York, 1863).
[10]Life of Irving, 111. p. 133 (New York, 1863).
[11]Lembke was a German, the author of a work on early Spanish history, and a member of the Spanish Historical Academy. Prescott mentions him in his letter to Irving. "This learned Theban happens to be in Madrid for the nonce, pursuing some investigations of his own, and he has taken charge of mine, like a true German, inspecting everything and selecting just what has reference to my subject. In this way he has been employed with four copyists since July, and has amassed a quantity of unpublished documents. He has already sent off two boxes to Cadiz."
[11]Lembke was a German, the author of a work on early Spanish history, and a member of the Spanish Historical Academy. Prescott mentions him in his letter to Irving. "This learned Theban happens to be in Madrid for the nonce, pursuing some investigations of his own, and he has taken charge of mine, like a true German, inspecting everything and selecting just what has reference to my subject. In this way he has been employed with four copyists since July, and has amassed a quantity of unpublished documents. He has already sent off two boxes to Cadiz."
[12]Hale,Memories of a Hundred Years, ii. pp. 71, 72 (New York, 1902).
[12]Hale,Memories of a Hundred Years, ii. pp. 71, 72 (New York, 1902).
[13]In place of Navarrete, deceased. Prescott received eighteen ballots out of the twenty that were cast.
[13]In place of Navarrete, deceased. Prescott received eighteen ballots out of the twenty that were cast.
[14]Wilson,Thackeray in America, i. pp. 16, 17 (New York, 1904).
[14]Wilson,Thackeray in America, i. pp. 16, 17 (New York, 1904).
[15]Meaning, of course, that he took more wine than was good for his eye.
[15]Meaning, of course, that he took more wine than was good for his eye.
[16]Seep. 116.
[16]Seep. 116.
[17]For an interesting account of Simancas and the archives, see a paper by Dr. W. R. Shepherd, in theReports of the American Historical Association for 1903(Washington, 1905).
[17]For an interesting account of Simancas and the archives, see a paper by Dr. W. R. Shepherd, in theReports of the American Historical Association for 1903(Washington, 1905).
[18]The father of Mr. James Lawrence, who afterward married Prescott's daughter Elizabeth. Seep. 97.
[18]The father of Mr. James Lawrence, who afterward married Prescott's daughter Elizabeth. Seep. 97.
[19]Alluding to the fact that he always shed tears at the opera.
[19]Alluding to the fact that he always shed tears at the opera.
[20]The English title of this book wasCritical and Historical Essays. It contained twelve papers and also the life of Charles Brockden Brown already mentioned (p. 65). The American edition bore the titleBiographical and Critical Miscellanies. It has been several times reprinted, the last issue appearing in Philadelphia in 1882.
[20]The English title of this book wasCritical and Historical Essays. It contained twelve papers and also the life of Charles Brockden Brown already mentioned (p. 65). The American edition bore the titleBiographical and Critical Miscellanies. It has been several times reprinted, the last issue appearing in Philadelphia in 1882.
[21]Infra, p. 134.
[21]Infra, p. 134.
[22]November 1, 1838.
[22]November 1, 1838.
[23]Nearly seven thousand copies of this book had been taken up before the end of the following three years.
[23]Nearly seven thousand copies of this book had been taken up before the end of the following three years.
[24]p. 268.
[24]p. 268.
[25]p. 285.
[25]p. 285.
[26]Supra, p. 65.
[26]Supra, p. 65.
[27]iii. pp. 199-204.
[27]iii. pp. 199-204.
[28]In theBritish Quarterly Review, lxiv (1839).
[28]In theBritish Quarterly Review, lxiv (1839).
[29]Don Pascual de Gayangos.
[29]Don Pascual de Gayangos.
[30]i. pp. 364-369. Ed. by Kirk (Philadelphia, 1873).
[30]i. pp. 364-369. Ed. by Kirk (Philadelphia, 1873).
[31]For a revision of Prescott's narrative here in its light of later research, see Bandelier,The Gilded Man, pp. 258-281 (New York, 1893).
[31]For a revision of Prescott's narrative here in its light of later research, see Bandelier,The Gilded Man, pp. 258-281 (New York, 1893).
[32]ii. p. 20.
[32]ii. p. 20.
[33]ii. pp. 379-380.
[33]ii. pp. 379-380.
[34]Everett, Memorial Address, delivered before the Massachusetts Historical Society (1859).
[34]Everett, Memorial Address, delivered before the Massachusetts Historical Society (1859).
[35]ii. p. 157.
[35]ii. p. 157.
[36]Mujer entremetida y desembuelta(Diaz).
[36]Mujer entremetida y desembuelta(Diaz).
[37]i. p. 294.
[37]i. p. 294.
[38]Mœurs des Sauvages Américains Comparées aux Mœurs des Premiers Temps(Paris, 1723). Lafitau had lived as a missionary among the Iroquois for five years, after which he returned to France and spent the rest of his life in teaching and writing.
[38]Mœurs des Sauvages Américains Comparées aux Mœurs des Premiers Temps(Paris, 1723). Lafitau had lived as a missionary among the Iroquois for five years, after which he returned to France and spent the rest of his life in teaching and writing.
[39]The History of the American Indians(London, 1775).
[39]The History of the American Indians(London, 1775).
[40]Historia Natural y Moral de las Indias(Seville, 1590).
[40]Historia Natural y Moral de las Indias(Seville, 1590).
[41]Philadelphia, 1859.
[41]Philadelphia, 1859.
[42]Atlantic Monthly, iii, pp. 518-525 and pp. 633-645.
[42]Atlantic Monthly, iii, pp. 518-525 and pp. 633-645.
[43]New York, 1851.
[43]New York, 1851.
[44]North American Review, cxxii, pp. 265-308 (1876).
[44]North American Review, cxxii, pp. 265-308 (1876).
[45]The Romantic School of American Archæology.A paper read before the New York Historical Society, February 3, 1885 (New York, 1885).
[45]The Romantic School of American Archæology.A paper read before the New York Historical Society, February 3, 1885 (New York, 1885).
[46]Bandelier,op. cit., p. 8.
[46]Bandelier,op. cit., p. 8.
[47]ii. p. 125.
[47]ii. p. 125.
[48]"Though remarkably fair and judicious in the main, Mr. Prescott's partiality for a certain class of his material is evident. To the copies from the Spanish archives, most of which have been since published with hundreds of others equally or more valuable, he seemed to attach an importance proportionate to their cost. Thus, throughout his entire work, these papers are paraded to the exclusion of the more reliable, but more accessible standard authorities."—H. H. Bancroft,History of Mexico, i. p. 7,Note.
[48]"Though remarkably fair and judicious in the main, Mr. Prescott's partiality for a certain class of his material is evident. To the copies from the Spanish archives, most of which have been since published with hundreds of others equally or more valuable, he seemed to attach an importance proportionate to their cost. Thus, throughout his entire work, these papers are paraded to the exclusion of the more reliable, but more accessible standard authorities."—H. H. Bancroft,History of Mexico, i. p. 7,Note.
[49]i. pp. 222, 224.
[49]i. pp. 222, 224.
[50]Brinton,Myths of the New World, p. 52 (Philadelphia, 1868).
[50]Brinton,Myths of the New World, p. 52 (Philadelphia, 1868).
[51]See the section by Markham on "The Inca Civilisation in Peru," in Winsor,A Narrative and Critical History of America, vol. i. (Boston, 1889); and an interesting summary of the results of eleven years researches by Bandelier in a paper entitled "The Truth about Inca Civilisation," published in Harper's Magazinefor March, 1905.
[51]See the section by Markham on "The Inca Civilisation in Peru," in Winsor,A Narrative and Critical History of America, vol. i. (Boston, 1889); and an interesting summary of the results of eleven years researches by Bandelier in a paper entitled "The Truth about Inca Civilisation," published in Harper's Magazinefor March, 1905.
[52]Motley,History of the United Netherlands, i. p. 54.
[52]Motley,History of the United Netherlands, i. p. 54.
[53]Quoted by Ogden,Prescott, p. 32.
[53]Quoted by Ogden,Prescott, p. 32.
[54]Cited by R. C. Winthrop, address before the Massachusetts Historical Society, June 14, 1877.
[54]Cited by R. C. Winthrop, address before the Massachusetts Historical Society, June 14, 1877.
[55]Letter of January 18, 1839.
[55]Letter of January 18, 1839.
[56]Historical Writing in America, pp. 97-98.
[56]Historical Writing in America, pp. 97-98.
[57]Dr. C. K. Adams.
[57]Dr. C. K. Adams.