By Ira Bruce Nadel (auth.)
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31 Translated, the motto means 'criticism for me (as for Monsieur Joubert) is the pleasure of appreciating not of governing opinion'. Morley did not adopt it, nor did he succeed in convincing Eliot to participate, despite his offer of an increased fee. Nonetheless, Eliot praised the first three volumes in the series which she read in August 1878, although she refused a second invitation to participate. The series, however, continued and between 1878 and 1892 thirty-nine volumes appeared, including Trollope's Thackeray (1879), James's Hawthorne ( 1879), Huxley's Hume (1879) and Saintsbury's Dryden (1881).
The prevalence of this form made the appearance of the biographical series easier and more acceptable by the public. Smiles did not spawn the biographical series but his success with this form demonstrated its wide appeal. It satisfied a demand for biographies with an accessible format and instructive character. Continuing this tradition in nineteenth-century biography is the English Men of Letters series. According to Harold Nicolson, among the few positive contri- Biography as Institution 31 butions ofVictorian biography was what he labelled 'biography for students'.
20 Biography: Fiction, Fact and Form Worthies of England (3 vols) appeared in 1840, while J. H. Newman's edition of Lives of the English Saints began in 1844. By 1862, and following, Men of the Time started, the forerunner of Who's Who which continued the popularity of biographical dictionaries originating in the eighteenth century with the awesome but incomplete Biographia Britannica which only reached the letter F. Spin-offs such as G. L. Smyth's The Worthies of England ( 1850), an imitation of Fuller, or the 1872 edition of Lives of the Saints edited by S.