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."