I was born, the third of seven children, in Medford, Massachusetts, so near to Boston that even as a small boy kicking along side streets to the Washington School, I could see the pencil stub of the ...

Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Co. 1920. 8vo, xiv+385 pp. Illustrated. $6.00. DR. HOLMES’S familiar parable of the Three Johns may be applied with great aptness to the whole art of biography.

Dickens began his autobiography in 1847, when he was only 35, but abandoned it and, overcome with memories of his deprivations, a few years later was inspired to write the autobiographical David ...