_The Life of Richard Steele_, by George A. Aitken, 1899. This is the
latest and fullest life.
_Richard Steele_, by Austin Dobson, in the _English Worthies Series_,
1886; a brief but appreciative study.
_Biographical Essays_, by John Forster, 1860, _Steele_. This paper,
originally published in the _Quarterly Review_ for March, 1855, gave,
for the first time, that more favourable estimate of the character and
genius of Steele which is now generally accepted.
_Lectures on the English Humorists, Steele_, by W. M. Thackeray.
Thackeray's lecture, delivered first in 1851, is a most charming and
suggestive paper, but hardly just to Steele.