Book Description

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."