<p>Biography yields to no other species of composition, in interest and instruction. More especially is this true, when the subjects of which it treats are the struggles and vicissitudes of a life devoted to the pursuits of literature. There is a pleasure of the purest kind in observing the gradual development of thought and re?nement of expression in one, who, smitten with a love of the good and the beautiful, and desirous to leave something beh...