Excerpt from Lives of Great English Writers: From Chaucer to Browning So much for the general purpose of this volume as Mr. Hinchman conceived it. As for details of execution, to include in one volume the Great Writers of English Literature, one must exercise a choice that will not always go unchallenged. Fielding, greatest of our novel ists, will be noted at once as an omission but Fielding concerns the student less than many an inferior writer,...