Chapter 1. Biographical
_ CHAPTER I. BIOGRAPHICAL
In the foregoing volumes of this series of _English Men of Letters_, and in other works of a similar nature which have appeared lately as to the _Ancient Classics_ and _Foreign Classics_, biography has naturally been, if not the leading, at any rate a considerable element. The desire is common to all readers to know not only what a great writer has written, but also of what nature has been the man who has produced such great work. As to all the authors taken in hand before, there has been extant some written record of the man‘s life. Biographical details have been more or less known to the world, so that, whether of a Cicero, or of a Goethe, or of our own Johnson, there has been a story to tell. Of Thackeray no life has been written； and though they who knew him,--and possibly many who did not,--are conversant with anecdotes of the man, who was one so well known in society as to have created many anecdotes, yet there has been no

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