A useful sketch of recent biographies is to be found in The Edinburgh Review (July 1906).

In English there are biographies by A.

he wrote the article Drama, and biographies of Ben Jonson and other dramatists; and he became an important contributor to the present work.

457, and in Ralf's Naval Biographies, i.

John's other known work was a series of Biographies of Eastern Saints, compiled about 569.