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CHARLES DARWIN. By Grant Allen.
MARLBOROUGH. By George Saintsbury.
SHAFTESBURY (the First Earl). By H. D. Traill.
ADMIRAL BLAKE. By David Hannay.
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| STEELE | By Austin Dobson. |
| SIR T. MORE | By J. Cotter Morison. |
| WELLINGTON | By R. Louis Stevenson. |
| LORD PETERBOROUGH | By Walter Besant. |
| CLAVERHOUSE | By Mowbray Morris. |
| LATIMER | By Canon Creighton. |
| DRAKE | By W. H. Pollock. |
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| CANNING | By Frank H. Hill. |
London: LONGMANS, GREEN, & CO.
Edited by ANDREW LANG
CLARK LECTURER IN ENGLISH LITERATURE AT TRINITY COLLEGECAMBRIDGE
LONDON
LONGMANS, GREEN, AND CO.
1886
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The existing Lives of Raleigh are very numerous.To this day the most interesting of these, as a literaryproduction, is that published in 1736 by William Oldys,afterwards Norroy King at Arms. This book was amarvel of research, as well as of biographical skill, atthe time of its appearance, but can no longer competewith later lives as an authority. By a curious chance,two writers who were each ignorant of the other simultaneouslycollected information regarding Raleigh, andproduced two laborious and copious Lives of him, atthe same moment, in 1868. Each of these collections,respectively by Mr. Edward Edwards, whose death isannounced as these words are leaving the printers, andby the late Mr. James Augustus St. John, added verylargely to our knowledge of Raleigh; but, of course,each of these writers was precluded from using the discoveriesof the other. The present Life is the first inwhich the fresh matter brought forward by Mr. Edwardsand by Mr. St. John has been collated; Mr. Edwards,moreover, deserved well of all Raleigh students byediting for the first time, in 1868, the correspon