And a noble biographer, (Bacon's Henry VII.) says, "He was a good lawgiver for the ease and solace of the common people."

And so, having the honour to be the juvenile biographer of Mr. Clive Newcome, I deem it wise to preface the story of his life with a brief account of events and persons antecedent to his birth.

If my memory serves me right it was at about this time that I, the humble biographer of Mr. Clive Newcome's life, met him again for the first time since my school days at Grey Friars.

Among Colonel Newcome's papers to which the family biographer has had access, there are a couple of letters from Clive, dated Baden this time, and full of happiness, gaiety, and affection.

He left early in 1769, and was succeeded, on John Wesley's recommendation, by Joseph Benson, afterwards so eminent in the Methodist movement, and the biographer of Fletcher.

Yesterday James Freeman Clarke, the biographer of Margaret Fuller, came into the Atheneum.

Many informations will be afforded by this book to the biographer.

but I don't look at it in that way; in fact, I hope you may become my biographer.

[Lamb's future biographer was then living at 26 Henrietta Street, Brunswick Square.

"Hush!" said I. "I am glad to find that he had one true defender here," pursued the biographer of Plooie.

Last night it occurred to me that it was in some prologue or epilogue; and my little book-room being very rich in the drama, I have looked through many hundreds of those bits of rhyme, and at last made a discovery, which, if it have no other good effect, will at least have 'emptied my head of Corsica,' as Johnson said to Boswell; for never was the great biographer more haunted by the thought of Paoli than I by that line.

Leslie's passage through the world was of that equal temper which is happiest for the man and unhappiest for the biographer.

Within two lines of this quotation, the biographer speaks of "an heroic multitude!"

The letters written by him to friends, acquaintances, political correspondents, individual men of one kind or another, have been gathered together and have been brought into print not, as is most frequently the case, under the discretion or judgment of a friendly biographer, but by a great variety of more or less sympathetic people.

The foregoing letter, though by no means confidential, must possess considerable value to any future biographer of the writer.

Table-talk of G. B. S. Conversations on things in general, between George Bernard Shaw and his biographer, by Archibald Henderson.

Notes for my biographer.

CHAPTER XVI PROFIT AND LOSS A biographer whose opinions about Washington are usually sound concludes that the General was a failure as a farmer.

Luckily the weather was fine, and did not add to their distress by rain or wind, though their confusion was greatly augmented by its being broad daylight, and the streets full of spectators, who (says her biographer) could neither refrain from looking nor laughing at such splendid and uncommon street-walkers.

'His countenance,' says the French biographer, 'was truly English; and we loved him for his melancholy air, which became him more than smiles.'

"From his boyhood," says Raoul of Caen, his servitor before becoming his biographer, "he surpassed the young by his skill in the management of arms, and the old by the strictness of his morals.

"Let none suppose," says Suger's biographer and confidant, William, monk of St. Denis, "that it was at his instance or by his counsel that the king undertook the voyage to the Holy Land.

"He consented to accept," says his biographer, "only when he was at last forced to it by Pope Eugenius, who was present at the king's departure, and whom it was neither permissible nor possible for him to resist."

Already more than ten thousand pilgrims were in arms at his call, and already he had himself chosen a warrior, of ability and renown, to command them, when he fell ill, and died at the end of four months, in 1152, aged seventy, and "thanking the Almighty," says his biographer, "for having taken him to Him, not suddenly, but little by little, in order to bring him step by step to the rest needful for the weary man."

BOSWELL AS BIOGRAPHER XII.