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IT seems now to be rather in fashion to write lives of persons still in existence. In some cases, such as the present, there is little to be said against this practice; in others, it may be open to very serious objections. But when the biography of a living person is given to us by an intimate personal acquaintance, we have, at any rate, one advantage: it may be assumed that the narrative has been more or less supervised by the person to whom it relates, and that the facts and incidents stated are generally correct. Such, we know, is not always the case with biographies of departed heroes.
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The Life of Joseph Wolf1. Nature 53, 559–561 (1896). https://doi.org/10.1038/053559a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/053559a0