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 last of four volumes published from 1898-1902 includes "Shakespeare as a Man," "Southey's Letters," "New Lights on Milton," "Emerson," "Anthony Trollope," "Robert Louis Stevenson," and "The Cosmopolitan Spirit in Literature."