Samuel Smiles: 'Brief Biographies.' (original) (raw)

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1860, by
TICKNOR AND FIELDS,
in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of Massachusetts.

University Press, Cambridge
Stereotyped and Printed by Welch, Bigelow, & Co.

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Ed.:―I have supplemented the few portraits that appear in Ticknor & Fields' original publication with additional illustrations, mostly of Smiles's subjects, in places where I consider they usefully enhance the text. I have also added the descriptions that appear at the head of each biographic sketch, and the footnotes that are prefixed 'Ed.'

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PREFACE.

THE author has pleasure in offering to the American public, through the medium of the Messrs. Ticknor and Fields,�at whose request the collection has been made,�the following Brief Biographies, many of which have been published by him at various times in English periodicals, in the hope that their perusal will be found not without some instruction and interest. One of the articles in the volume is from the pen of an American friend.

LONDON, July 24, 1860.

| | PAGE | | | --------------------------------------------------------------------- | ----------------------------------------------- | | JAMES WATT | 1. | | ROBERT STEPHENSON | 55. | | DR. ARNOLD (Ed.�Thomas Arnold) | 71. | | HUGH MILLER | 84. | | RICHARD COBDEN | 102. | | SIR EDWARD BULWER LYTTON | 117. | | FRANCIS JEFFREY | 137. | | EBENEZER ELLIOTT | 149. | | GEORGE BORROW | 157. | | JOHN JAMES AUDUBON | 173. | | WILLIAM MACGILLIVRAY | 198. | | LORD JOHN RUSSELL | 212. | | BENJAMIN DISRAELI | 222. | | WILLIAM EWART GLADSTONE | 240. | | NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE | 256. | | THOMAS CARLYLE | 270. | | JOHN STERLING | 286. | | LEIGH HUNT | 300. | | HARTLEY COLERIDGE | 315. | | DR. KITTO (Ed.�John Kitto) | 325. | | EDGAR ALLAN POE | 334. | | THEODORE HOOK | 346. | | DR. ANDREW COMBE | 365. | | ROBERT BROWNING | 377. | | EDWIN CHADWICK | 386. | | ROBERT NICOLL | 399. | | SAMUEL BAMFORD | 413. | | JOHN CLARE | 432. | | GERALD MASSEY | 440. | | ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING (Ed.�n�e Barrett; also Elizabeth Browning) | 449. | | FRANCES BROWN (Ed.�also Frances Browne) | 461. | | SARAH MARGARET FULLER (Ed.�Margaret Fuller Ossoli) | 470. | | SARAH MARTIN | 499. | | HARRIET MARTINEAU | 499. | | MRS. CHISHOLM (Ed.�Caroline Chisholm n�e Jones) | 511. |