As an experienced biographer, Hermione Lee knows a hungry audience. “Readers of biography are greedy readers, with an insatiable appetite for detail and story,” writes the British scholar, a professor ...

Mark Bailey begins “Nine Irish Lives: The Fighters, Thinkers & Artists Who Helped Build America” — a collection of biographical essays — with his own introduction explaining his inspiration for the ...

Selected Essays. By Prof. C. D. Broad. (International Library of Psychology, Philosophy and Scientific Method.) Pp. xiii + 274. (London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, Ltd ...

LADY PRESTWICH, who survived her husband, Sir Joseph Prestwich, but little more than three years, died in 1899 at the age of sixty-six. They were married in 1870, and settled at Shoreham, near ...