The complete online text of Samuel Johnson by Leslie Stephen.

The English historian, critic, and editor Sir Leslie Stephen (1832-1904) was one of the great popularizers of Victorian thought and literature. Leslie Stephen was born in London on Nov. 28, 1832, the son of Sir James Stephen, a leading Evangelical and di...

Alpine climber and essayist, editor of the Cornhill Magazine and the Dictionary of National Biography, literary critic and historian, biographer, militant agnostic, historian of ideas, eminent pedestrian, Leslie Stephen has been called the next most impo...

Leslie Stephen was born five months after British Parliament passed the First Reform Bill extending the male franchise-an auspicious birth year for one of the eminent reform writers of the Victorian period. During his lifetime Stephen was a noted man of...

While no one critic can begin to define Shakespeare, the most authoritative writings on the Bard remain those of Samuel Johnson. As part of the New Penguin Shakespeare Library, H. R. Woudhuysen has compiled "Samuel Johnson on Shakespeare" ($8.95), which gathers not just the...

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Remarriage is the triumph of hope over experience, wrote Samuel Johnson, the famous 18th century English essayist. People show the same optimism today."Still, a little advance planning can help you avoid problems," said attorney Marty Shenkman of Teaneck, N.J. Among the items to consider:Prenuptial agreement....

Table XII is on the ground floor of the Lombardy Hotel, which was once a house owned by the newspaper baron William Randolph Hearst. It’s one of the most opulent Beaux-Arts dining rooms in the city, with a marble fireplace, gilded ceilings, chandeliers, elaborately carved...