The Series is intended to give the means of nourishing this curiosity, to an extent that shall be copious enough to be profitable for knowledge and life, and yet be brief enough to serve those whose leisure is scanty_.
_The following are arranged for_:-- _SPENSER_ _The Dean of St.Paul's._ _HUME_ _Professor Huxley._ _In the Press._ _BUNYAN_ _James Anthony Froude._ _JOHNSON_ _Leslie Stephen._ [_Ready._ _GOLDSMITH_ _William Black._ [_In the Press._ _MILTON_ _Mark Pattison._ _WORDSWORTH_ _Goldwin Smith._ _SWIFT_ _John Morley._ _BURNS_ _Principal Shairp._ _SCOTT_ _Richard H.Hutton._ [_Ready._ _SHELLEY_ _J.

A.Symonds._ [_Ready._ _GIBBON_ _J.

C.Morison._ [_Ready._ _BYRON_ _Professor Nichol._ _DEFOE_ _W.

Minto._ _GRAY_ _John Morley._ [_OTHERS WILL BE ANNOUNCED_] * * * * * OPINIONS OF THE PRESS.
"The new series opens well with Mr.Leslie Stephen's sketch of Dr.Johnson.It could hardly have been done better; and it will convey to the readers for whom it is intended a juster estimate of Johnson than either of the two essays of Lord Macaulay."-- _Pall Mall Gazette_.
"We have come across few writers who have had a clearer insight into Johnson's character, or who have brought to the study of it a better knowledge of the time in which Johnson lived and the men whom he knew."-- _Saturday Review_.
"It must be admitted that Mr.Stephen has succeeded admirably in his task.

No writer could be more competent to supply what is wanted in Boswell, a comprehensive sketch of his hero's position in the literature of the eighteenth century, and he has also shown great judgment and dexterity in his illustration of Johnson's personal oddities and his power as a talker....