Claude Joli and of the Duchess of Nemours are also important in illustration of the cardinal's extraordinary career. The three have been published together in English, London, 1775, 3 vols. 12mo. Reinhard, Francis Volkman: His Memoirs and Confessions; from the German. Boston, 1832. 12mo. Reynolds, Frederic Life and Times of; written by himself. Philadelphia, 1826. 2 vols. 8vo. Richmond, Leigh: Domestic Portraiture; or, Religious Memoirs of his three deceased Children. New-York, 1823. 12mo. 12mo. Rienzi: Life and Times of. Philadelphia, 1836. Roche-Jacquelin, Marchioness de la: Memoirs of herself. Translated from the French. Philadelphia, 1816. 8vo. Rogers, T. S.: Biographical Dictionary; or, Remembrances of the Departed Heroes, Sages, and Statesmen of America; confined exclusively to those who signalized themselves in either capacity in the Revolutionary War. Easton, 1823. 12mo. Roscoe, Henry: Life of William Roscoe, by his Son. Boston, 1833. 2 vols. 12mo. Sabin, Elijah R.: Life and Reflections of Charles Observator. Boston, 1816. 12mo. Sacred Biography; or, the History of the Patriarchs to which is added the History of Deborah, Ruth, and Hannah. Philadelphia, 1818. 4 vols. 8vo. St. John, James Augustus: Lives of Celebrated Travellers. (Family Library.) New-York, 1832. 2 vols. 18mo. St. Palaye, de la Curne: Memoirs of the Life of Sir John Froissart, &c., translated from the French by Thomas Johnes. London, 1801. 12mo. Sanderson, John: Biography of the Signers of the Declaration of Independence. Philadelphia, 1820. 9 vols. 8vo. Sargeant, John: Memoirs of Henry Martyn. Hartford, 1822. 12mo. Schiller, Frederic: his Life, comprehending an Examination of his Works. London, 1825. 8vo. There is a good succinct biography by De Barante, in his Mélanges; and another anonymous one, attributed to Carlyle. Scott, Sir Walter: Lives of the Novelists. Works, vol. 3, Polygraphs. : Life of Dryden. Same, vol. I. Life of Swift. Same, vol. II. : Biographical Memoirs. Same, vol. IV. Autobiography. Philadelphia, 1831. 12mo. This is formed chiefly out of the particulars of his life incidentally detailed in his Notes to the Waverly Novels. Hogg, James: Familiar Anecdotes of the same. New-York, 1834. 12mo. Lockhart, J. G.: Life of the same. Parts 1, 2, 3. Philadelphia, 1837. 8vo. Sedgwick, Theodore, Jr.: Memoirs of William Livingston. New York, 1833. 8vo. Segur, Philip, Count de: Memoirs and Recollections of, &c. Boston, 1825. 8vo. : History of Russia and Peter the Great. London, 1829. 8vo. Seward, Anne: Memoirs of the Life of Dr. Erasmus Darwin, chiefly during his Residence in Litchfield: with Anecdotes of his Friends and Criticisms on his Writings. Philadelphia. 8vo. Sherburne, J. H.: Life of the Chevalier John Paul Jones. Washington, 1825. 8vo. Sidney, Edwin: Memoir of Rowland Hill. New-York, 1834. 12mo. Simpson Biography of Stephen Girard, with his Will affixed, &c. Philadelphia, 1832. 12mo. Skottowe, Augustine: Life of Shakspeare; Inquiries into his Originality; with Essays on the Ancient Theatre, &c. London, 1824. 2 vols. 8vo. Of no value. The matter of Shakspeare's originality has been best treated by Dr. Farmer, in his Essay on the Learning of S., London, 1821, 8vo; by Mr. Douce, in his Illustrations of Shakspeare, London, 1807, 2 vols 8vo; and by Mrs. Charlotte Lennox's translation of the Italian and other tales which formed his plots. It is entitled Shakspeare Illustrated. London, 1753. 3 vols 12mo. Southey, Robert, Poet Laureate: Memoirs of John Wesley, and of the Rise and Progress of Methodism. New-York, 1820. 8vo. Watson, Richard: Life of the same. New-York, 1831. Southey, Robert: Life of Nelson. (Family Library.) New-York, 1830. 18mo. 12mo. Sparks, Jared Memoirs of the Life of John Ledyard, the American Traveller, comprising Selections from his Journals and Correspondence. Cambridge, Mass., 1828. 8vo. Memoirs, Correspondence, &c., of Gouverneur Morris. Boston, 1832. 3 vols. 8vo. and others: The Library of American Biography. Boston, 1834-7. 12mo. 7 vols. published. Contains the following lives: I., of General Stark, Brown the Novelist, General Montgomery, Ethan Allen: II., Wilson the Ornithologist, Captain John Smith, the founder of Jamestown: III., Arnold the traitor: IV., General Wayne and Sir Henry Vane: V., John Elliot, the Apostle of the Indians: VI., William Pinkney, William Ellery, and Cotton Mather: VII., Sir William Phipps, General Putnam, Lucretia Maria Davidson, and Dr. Rittenhouse. Spring, Gardiner: Memoirs of the Rev. Samuel Mills, late Missionary to Africa. New-York, 1829. 8vo. Stewart, Dugald Life and Writings of William Robertson. London, 1802. 8vo. Stewart, Virgil A.: Adventures in Capturing Murrell, the Western Land Pirate. New-York, 1835. 12mo. Stockdale, Percival: Memoirs of his own Life and Writings. London, 1809. 2 vols. 8vo. A memorable example of literary vanity, founded upon very small merits. Sully, Maximilian de Bethune, Duc de: Memoirs of himself. Translated by Mrs. Lennox. Philadelphia, 1827. 5 vols. 8vo. It is not usually known that these excellent and agreeable memoirs, as received in their modern editions, have been made, by a rearrangement and other changes, to vary not a little from the form in which they came from the duke's own hand. The old French editions-as that dated Amsterdam (but printed at Trevoux), 1723, 12 vols. small 12mo-alone preserve the precise original. Swedenborg, Emanuel: His Life, with some Account of his Writings, &c. Boston, 1821. 12mo. Talleyrand, le Prince de: Life of. Philadelphia, 1834. 8vo. This is entirely without authenticity. Taylor, Thomas: Life of William Cowper. 12mo. There is a too minute life by Hayley; who, bestowing but one volume (4to, London, 1796) on the very varied and important life of Milton, could give three volumes 4to (Chichester, 1803, 4) upon the eventless existence of such a feeble and unhappy visionary as Cowper. A subsequent life has been, by Southey, prefixed to a new edition of Cowper. Taylor, John: Records of my Life. New-York, 1833. 8vo. Taylor, Isaac: Memoirs and Poetical Remains of Jane Taylor. Boston, 1826. 12mo. (Thatcher): Memoirs of George R. T. Hewes, a Surviver of the Boston Tea-affair of 1773. New-York, 1834. : The same. New-York, 1835. 18mo. 18mo. Thatcher, B. B.: Indian Biography; or, an Historical Account of those Individuals who have been Distinguished among the North American Natives as Orators, Warriors, Statesmen, and other Remarkable Characters. (Harpers' Family Library.) New-York, 1832. 2 vols. 18mo. Thicknesse, Philip: Memoirs of Philp Thicknesse, late Lieutenant Governor of Land-guard Fort; and, unfortunately, Father to George Touchit, Baron Audley. Dublin, 1790. 8vo. It pleased the eccentric author of this history of himself to preserve, in this odd title, the memory of a family dispute between him and his son; who, in right of his mother, had succeeded to the title and estates of Audley. He also published a book against his son, entitled "Queries to Lord Audley ;" and was the writer of an indifferent book of travels on the Continent, entitled "Thicknesse's Journey," as well as of several whimsical books besides. Thorburn, Grant: Forty Years' Residence in America; or, the Doctrine of a particular Providence exemplified in the Life of G. T., Seedsman, of New-York. Boston, 1834. 12mo. The life of Thorburn is well known to have furnished, also, the main incidents and the leading character of Galt's novel, "Laurie Todd." Tomline, George: Life of William Pitt. Philadelphia, 1821. 2 vols. 8vo. Tone, William T. W.: Memoirs of the Life of Theobald Wolfe Tone, founder of the United Irish Society; by his Son. Washington, 1826. 2 vols. 8vo. Townsend, Rev. John, founder of the Asylum for the Deaf and Dumb Memoirs of the Life of. Boston, 1831. 12mo. Tucker, George: Life of Thomas Jefferson: with Parts of his unpublished Correspondence; and Notices of his Opinions. Philadelphia, 1837. 2 vols. 8vo. 8vo. Tudor, William: Life of James Otis, of Massachusetts: containing also Notices of some Contemporary Characters and Events, from 1760 to 1775. Boston, 1823. Vidocq, French Police Agent: Memoirs of himself. Translated. 8vo. : The same. Philadelphia, 1834. 2 vols. 12mo. Waldo, S. Putnam: Memoirs of the Life of Commodore Stephen Decatur. 12mo. Wallace, Sir William: Life of. Constable's Miscellany, vols. 53, 4, Polygraphs. Walton, Izaak: Lives of Donne, Walton, Hooker, Herbert, and Sanderson with some Account of the Author and his Writings. Boston, 1832. 2 vols. Waterman, Elijah: Memoir of the Life and Writings of John Calvin, with a Selection of his Letters, and Biographical Notices of some of his Contemporaries. Hartford, 1813. 8vo. There are two other lives of Calvin by his contemporaries; and a third by J. Mackenzie. Edinburgh, 1809. 8vo. The Latin life by Beza saw the light soon after Calvin's death. It was speedily followed by another by Bolsec, a former pupil of Calvin; who, however, gave an account of him anything but panegyrical. The same author composed a Life of Beza, equally little encomiastic. Of both the Latin lives of Calvin there are translations into French, and repeated ones of Beza's into English. Some remarkable particulars of the part which Calvin bore in the death of Servetus may be found in the great French Biographie Universelle, at the title SERVETUS. Weems, M. L.: Life of General Francis Marion. Philadelphia, 1818. 12mo. : The same. New-York, 1835. 12mo. There is another life by Judge James, who served under Marion. Westcote, Charles: Memoirs of the Life of. London, 1807. 12mo. Wheaton, Henry: Life, Writings, and Speeches of William Pinkney. New-York, 1826. 8vo. White, G. S.: Memoirs of Samuel Slater. See TECHNICAL ARTS. Wilcox, Rev. Charles: Remains and Memoirs of. Hartford, 1828. 8vo. Willett, William M.: A Narrative of the Military Actions of Colonel Marinus Willet, taken chiefly from his own MS. By his Son. New-York, 1831. 8vo. Wilson, Henry: Wonderful Characters; comprising Memoirs and Anecdotes of the most Remarkable Persons in Every Age and Wilson, Thomas: Biography of the Principal American Naval and Wirt, William: Life of Patrick Henry. New-York, 1831. 8vo. --: The same. Philadelphia, 1836. 8vo. Wraxall, Sir N. W.: Historical Memoirs of my own Times, from 1772 to 1784. Philadelphia, 1837. 8vo. 1836. Posthumous Memoirs of his own Time. Philadelphia, 8vo. For this work, Sir N. Wraxall was prosecuted and fined. Both this book and its sequel (the next) have been taxed, in the Edinburgh Quarterly and other Reviews, as full of calumnies; and the charge appears, indeed, to be often fully made out. Xenophon: Memorabilia Socratis. Works, Polygraphs. See, in Polygraphs, the lives of the several authors, usually prefixed to their works. Also, the several encyclopædias, in Arts and Sciences. Of the ancients, the following are biographers: Plutarch, Hesychius, Diogenes Laertius, Eunapius Sardianus, Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Herodian, Suetonius, Cornelius Nepos, Spartianus, Ammianus Marcellinus, the Historia Augustæ Scriptores. Atticus wrote a series that has perished. Xenophon, Tacitus, Philostratus, Marinus, Anna Comnena, and Herodotus-if the life of Homer be his-wrote single biographies. Among the moderns, the portraits of Paulus Jovius were followed by the great works of Moreri, Freher, Hofman, and Joecher. The former is of the superior repute, and has been oftenest continued: see Collier and General Dictionary. Bayle's continuation of him was again continued by Chaufpié. Joecher has been continued by Adelung and others. Of English dictionaries, the Biographia Britannica is the only good one. Chalmers, Gorton, Aikin, and Lempriere are bad compilations. Wood's Athena (by Bliss), Fuller's Worthies, and Coleridge's Northern Worthies have a merit chiefly local. The best of modern collections of biography, the amplest and most faithfully done as a whole, is the French Biographie Universelle, Paris, 1811-28, 52 vols. 8vo. Its articles are composed by the leading French Sçavants of the day. CHAPTER LXXVI. History of Letters. Adelung Historical Sketch of Sanscrit Literature, with Notices of Translations. Oxford, 1832. 8vo. This is extracted from his Mithridates, oder allgemeine Sprachenkunde. Berlin, 1806-17. 5 vols. 8vo; a work on the languages of the world of the highest merit. Austin: Goëthe and his Contemporaries; from the German of Falk, |