Horace E. Scudder: _James Russell Lowell: A Biography_. 2 vols. The
standard biography.
Ferris Greenslet: _James Russell Lowell: His Life and Work_. The
latest biography (1905) and very satisfactory.
Francis H. Underwood: _James Russell Lowell: A Biographical Sketch and
Lowell the Poet and the Man_. Interesting recollections of a personal
friend and editorial associate.
Edward Everett Hale: _Lowell and His Friends_.
Edward Everett Hale, Jr.: _James Russell Lowell_. (Beacon
Biographies.)
Charles Eliot Norton: _Letters of James Russell Lowell_. 2 vols.
Invaluable and delightful.
Edmund Clarence Stedman: _Poets of America_.
W.C. Brownell: _James Russell Lowell_. (Scribner's Magazine, February,
1907.) The most recent critical estimate.
George William Curtis: _James Russell Lowell: An Address_.
John Churton Collins. _Studies in Poetry and Criticism_, "Poetry and
Poets of America." Excellent as an English estimate.
Barrett Wendell: _Literary History of America_ and _Stelligeri_, "Mr.
Lowell as a Teacher."
Henry James: _Essays in London and Library of the World's Best
Literature_.
George E. Woodberry: _Makers of Literature_.
William Watson: _Excursions in Criticism_.
W.D. Howells: _Literary Friends and Acquaintance_.
Charles E. Richardson: _American Literature_.
M.A. DeWolfe Howe: _American Bookmen_.
Thomas Wentworth Higginson: _Old Cambridge_.
Frank Preston Stearns: _Cambridge Sketches_. 1905.
Richard Burton: _Literary Leaders of America_. 1904.
John White Chadwick: Chambers's _Cyclopedia of English Literature_.
Hamilton Wright Mabie: _My Study Fire_. Second Series, "Lowell's
Letters."
Margaret Fuller: _Art, Literature and the Drama_. 1859.
Richard Henry Stoddard: _Recollections, Personal and Literary_, "At
Lowell's Fireside."
Edwin P. Whipple: _Outlooks on Society, Literature and Politics_,
"Lowell as a Prose Writer."
H.R. Haweis: _American Humorists_.
Bayard Taylor: _Essays and Notes_.
G.W. Smalley: _London Letters_, Vol. 1., "Mr. Lowell, why the English
liked him."