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The Life of Charles Dickens (1872)
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    Charles Dickens, Genius (3 Reviews)
    J. Ranken Towse
    The Life of Charles Dickens, by John Forster
    1. The Life of Charles Dickens by John Forster
    2. Charles Dickens: A Biography from New Sources by Ralph Straus
    3. This Side Idolatry by C.E. Bechhofer Roberts
    The Saturday Review, October 20, 1928, pp. 265-266
  2. Reviews of Books
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    The Legend of Charles Dickens (3 Reviews)
    Robert Morss Lovett
    The Life of Charles Dickens, by John Forster
    1. The Life of Charles Dickens by John Forster
    2. Charles Dickens: A Biography from New Sources by Ralph Straus
    3. This Side Idolatry by C.E. Bechhofer Roberts
    The New Republic, October 17, 1928, p. 252
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    A Shelf of Recent Books (3 Reviews)
    Robert M. Gay
    The Man Dickens
    1. The Life of Charles Dickens by John Forster
    2. Charles Dickens: A Biography from New Sources by Ralph Straus
    3. This Side Idolatry by C.E. Bechhofer Roberts
    The Bookman, December 1928, p. 483
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    Recent Literature (3 Reviews)
    The Life of Charles Dickens, by John Forster
    1. The Life of Charles Dickens by John Forster
    2. Liza: A Nest of Nobles by Ivan Turgenev
    3. Myths and Myth Makers by John Fiske
    The Atlantic Monthly, February 1873, pp. 237-241
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    Recent Literature (6 Reviews)
    The Last Tournament, by Alfred Tennyson
    1. The Last Tournament by Alfred Tennyson
    2. The Divine Tragedy by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    3. The Life of Charles Dickens by John Forster
    4. History of English Literature by H.A. Taine
    5. Art in Greece by Hippolyte Taine
    6. History of Florida by George R. Fairbanks
    The Atlantic Monthly, February 1872, pp. 236-241
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    Who Was Charles Dickens? (6 Reviews)
    Robert Gottlieb
    Charles Dickens: His Tragedy and Triumph, by Edgar Johnson
    1. Charles Dickens: His Tragedy and Triumph by Edgar Johnson
    2. Dickens and Women by Michael Slater
    3. Dickens: A Biography by Fred Kaplan
    4. Dickens by Peter Ackroyd
    5. The Invisible Woman by Claire Tomalin
    6. The Life of Charles Dickens by John Forster
    The New York Review of Books, June 10, 2010, pp. 46-48
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    Recent Literature (12 Reviews)
    The Parisians, by Edward Bulwer Lytton
    1. The Parisians by Edward Bulwer Lytton
    2. Phineas Redux by Anthony Trollope
    3. The Wooing o't
    4. Diamond Cut Diamond by T. Adolphus Trollope
    5. Life and Correspondence of Samuel Johnson, D.D. by E. Edwards Beardsley and Samuel Johnson
    6. The Life of Charles Dickens by John Forster
    7. The Life of Edwin Forrest by James Rees
    8. The New Chemistry by Josiah Parsons Cooke, Jr.
    9. The Borderland of Science by Richard A. Proctor
    10. Diamonds and Precious Stones by Louis Dieulafait
    11. The Ancient City by Numa Denis Fustel De Coulanges
    12. A Tour Through the Pyrenees by Hippolyte Taine
    The Atlantic Monthly, May 1874, pp. 616-625
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    Check List of New Books (12 Reviews)
    Reprints
    1. Cooperative Democracy by James Peter Warbasse
    2. The Novels of Jane Austen by R.W. Chapman and Jane Austen
    3. The Poems of Charles Kingsley by Ernest Rhys and Charles Kingsley
    4. The Life of Charles Dickens by John Forster
    5. Avowals by George Moore
    6. Distributive Justice by John A. Ryan
    7. The Dialogues of Plato by William Chase Greene and Plato
    8. The Complete Works of Francois Villon by J.U. Nicolson and Francois Villon
    9. Il Pentamerone by Giovanni B. Basile
    10. Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne
    11. The Physiology of Taste by Jean-Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
    12. Down Stream by J.K. Huysmans
    The American Mercury, September 1927
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    The New Books (26 Reviews)
    Franz Liszt, by James Huneker
    1. Franz Liszt by James Huneker
    2. The Individualization of Punishment by Raymond Saleilles
    3. Problems in Railway Regulation by Henry S. Haines
    4. Their Majesties as I Knew Them by Xavier Paoli
    5. Peggy Stewart by Gabrielle E. Jackson
    6. The Brownings: Their Life and Art by Lilian Whiting
    7. Recollections Grave and Gay by Mrs. Burton Harrison
    8. The Third Miss Wenderby by Mabel Barnes-Grundy
    9. The Story of Coventry by Mary Dormer Harris
    10. The Life of Charles Dickens by John Forster
    11. The Danger Zone of Europe by H. Charles Woods
    12. Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
    13. George Inness: The Man and His Art by Elliott Daingerfield
    14. Garibaldi and the Making of Italy by George Macaulay Trevelyan
    15. Making Both Ends Meet by Sue Ainslie Clark and Edith Wyatt
    16. The Leading Facts of New Mexican History by Ralph Emerson Twitchell
    17. Upon the Inheritance of Acquired Characters by Eugenio Rignano
    18. The Land We Live In by Overton W. Price
    19. The First Book of World Law by Raymond L. Bridgman
    20. Spiritism and Psychology by Theodore Flournoy
    21. Panama: The Canal, the Country and the People by Albert Edwards
    22. The Germans by I.A.R. Wylie
    23. The New Italy by Federico Garlanda
    24. Modern Thought and Traditional Faith by George Preston Mains
    25. The Greek Commonwealth by Alfred E. Zimmern
    26. Hellenistic Athens by William Scott Ferguson
    The Outlook, December 9, 1911, pp. 877-883
  10. Reviews of New Books
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    Fifty of the Year's Best Books for Holiday Gifts (43 Reviews)
    Romantic Story of the Mayflower Pilgrims, by Albert C. Addison
    1. Romantic Story of the Mayflower Pilgrims by Albert C. Addison
    2. Italian Castles and Country Seats by Tryphosa Bates Batcheller
    3. Recollections of an Officer of Napoleon's Army by Captain Elzear Blaze
    4. In the Heel of Italy by Martin S. Briggs
    5. Sir William Butler: An Autobiography by William Francis Butler
    6. The Romaunt of the Rose by Geoffrey Chaucer
    7. The Poets' New England by Helen Archibald Clarke
    8. South America To-Day by Georges Clemenceau
    9. The Cathedral Cities of Italy by W.W. Collins
    10. The Life of John Ruskin, 1819-1860 by E.T. Cook
    11. Fifty Years of Public Service by Shelby M. Cullom
    12. The Life and Works of Winslow Homer by William Howe Downes
    13. Diary of an Idle Woman in Italy by Frances Minto D. Elliot
    14. The Life of Charles Dickens by John Forster
    15. Eighteen Capitals of China by William Edgar Geil
    16. As I Remember by Marian C. Gouverneur
    17. The Romance of the Oxford Colleges by Francis H. Gribble
    18. Autobiographic Memoirs by Frederic Harrison
    19. Recollections Grave and Gay by Mrs. Burton Harrison
    20. Blucher and the Uprising of Prussia Against Napoleon, 1806-1815 by Ernest F. Henderson
    21. Portraits of Dante, from Giotto to Raffael by Richard Thayer Holbrook
    22. The Belgians at Home by Clive Holland
    23. History of Art in France by Louis Hourticq
    24. From Constantinople to the Home of Omar Khayyam by A.V. Williams Jackson
    25. Broadway by J.B. Kerfoot
    26. Highways and Byways of the Great Lakes by Clifton Johnson
    27. The Transfiguration of Miss Philura by Florence Morse Kingsley
    28. The Comedy and Tragedy of the Second Empire by Edward Legge
    29. The Empresses of Rome by Joseph McCabe
    30. Martin Luther: The Man and His Work by Arthur Cushman McGiffert
    31. The Life of Bret Harte by Henry Childs Merwin
    32. Following the Conquistadores Along the Andes and Down the Amazon by H.J. Mozans
    33. A Search for the Apex of America by Annie S. Peck
    34. The Land We Live In by Overton W. Price
    35. Siegfried and the Twilight of the Gods by Arthur Rackham
    36. Wordsworth and the English Lake Country by Eric S. Robertson
    37. The Changing Chinese by Edward Alsworth Ross
    38. Frank Brangwyn and His Work by Walter Shaw-Sparrow
    39. The British Museum: Its History and Treasures by Henry C. Shelley
    40. Chosen Days in Scotland by Josephine Helena Short
    41. The Spell of Holland by Burton Egbert Stevenson
    42. Garibaldi and the Making of Italy by George Macaulay Trevelyan
    43. The Wife of General Bonaparte by Joseph Turquan
    The Literary Digest, December 9, 1911, pp. 1103-1105