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Amongst historians we include one writer of biography, John Christopher Ruediger, who, under the name of Clarmundus, wrote a book De Vitis Clarissimorum in re Litteraria Vivorum. He discoursed pleasantly upon the fates of authors and their works, but unhappily incurred the displeasure of the powerful German family of Carpzov, which produced many learned theologians, lawyers, and philologists.
Hazlitt's Lectures on the English Poets. Dowden's Studies in Literature, and Dowden's Transcripts and Studies. Minto's Characteristics of English Poets. Matthew Arnold's Essays in Criticism. Leslie Stephen's Hours in a Library. Birrell's Obiter Dicta. Hales's Folia Litteraria. Pater's Appreciations. Pocket Classics, Golden Treasury Series, etc. Biography Dictionary of National Biography, 63 vols.
Wharton was the most accomplished of Cambridge students when he quitted the University at twenty-two to aid Cave in his 'Historia Litteraria. But the time proved too exciting for a purely literary career.
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