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You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: A Brief Handbook of English Authors + +Author: Oscar Fay Adams + +Release Date: August 14, 2011 [EBook #37072] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK BRIEF HANDBOOK OF ENGLISH AUTHORS *** + + + + +Produced by Barbara Tozier, Bill Tozier, Matthew Wheaton +and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at +https://www.pgdp.net + + + + + + + + + + A BRIEF HANDBOOK OF ENGLISH AUTHORS + + + BY OSCAR FAY ADAMS + + BOSTON + HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN AND COMPANY + New York: 11 East Seventeenth Street + The Riverside Press, Cambridge + 1884 + + Copyright, 1883, + By OSCAR FAY ADAMS. + + _All rights reserved._ + + _The Riverside Press, Cambridge_: + Electrotyped and Printed by H. O. Houghton & Co. + + + + +PREFACE. + + + This brief handbook is intended simply for every-day use, when + reference to larger works of the kind may not be convenient. + Experience has proved that the small book which can be readily + taken up is consulted far more frequently than the ponderous + volume that requires great muscular exertion to lift. + + In the world of letters as in the world of society + conventionality plays no unimportant part, as every student of + literature knows. That there is such a thing as "conventional + immortality" every biographical dictionary yields abundant + evidence. Even so small a work as this must necessarily contain + many names that have achieved this conventional immortality + through the accident of circumstance. Some literary fames are + among the legacies left by preceding centuries to the present + one to account for and explain. And when all is said, "the + iniquity of oblivion blindly scattereth her poppy and dealeth + with the memory of men without distinction to merit of + perpetuity." + OSCAR FAY ADAMS. + ERIE, PA., _October 28, 1883_. + + + + +PUBLISHERS REFERRED TO IN THIS VOLUME. + + + _Apl._ Appleton, D., & Co. New York City. + _Arm._ Armstrong, A. C., & Son " " " + _A. T. S._ American Tract Society " " " + _A. U. A._ American Unitarian Association Boston, Mass. + _Bi._ Bickers & Son London, England. + _Ca._ Carter, Robert, & Brothers New York City. + _Cas._ Cassell, Petter, Galpin & Co New York, + London, + and Paris. + _Cath._ Catholic Publication Soc. Co. New York City. + _Clx._ Claxton, E., & Co. Philadelphia, Pa. + _Di._ Dick & Fitzgerald New York City. + _Do._ Dodd, Mead & Co.. " " " + _Dra._ Draper, Warren F. Andover, Mass. + _Dut._ Dutton, E. P., & Co. New York City. + _El._ Ellis, George H. Boston, Mass. + _Est._ Estes & Lauriat " " + _Fu._ Funk, I. K., & Co. 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" " " + _Rob._ Roberts Brothers Boston, Mass. + _Rou._ Routledge, George, & Sons New York and London. + _Sad._ Sadlier D. &. J., & Co. New York City. + _Scr._ Scribner's, Charles, Sons " " " + _Sh._ Sheldon & Co. " " " + _Th._ Thomas, F. H. St. Louis, Mo. + _Wid._ Widdleton, W. J. New York City. + _Wiley_ Wiley, John, & Son " " " + _Wor._ Worthington, R. " " " + + + + +HANDBOOK OF ENGLISH AUTHORS. + + +=Abbott, Edwin A.= 183 Shakespearean scholar. Author of a +Shakespearean Grammar, a Handbook of Elizabethan English, etc. _Pub. +Mac. Rob._ + +=A'Becket, Gilbert Abbot.= 1811-1856. Humorist. Author Comic Hist. of +England, Comic Hist. of Rome, Comic Blackstone, etc. _Pub. Apl. Lip._ + +=Adams, Mrs. Sarah [Flower].= 1805-1848. Known chiefly by her hymn, +"Nearer, my God, to Thee." + +=Adams, Wm.= 1814-1848. Religious writer. Author of Sacred Allegories, +etc. _See Edition of 1869, with Life._ _Pub. Lip._ + +=Addison, Joseph.= 1672-1719. Essayist and poet. His tragedy of Cato +is now little read, but his Hymns still continue deservedly popular. +As a prose writer A. has exercised an influence upon the manners, +morals, and general culture of his time not easily overestimated. His +style is graceful, gentle, and persuasive. With Steele he created the +Periodical Essay, and was the chief contributor to the Tatler, +Spectator, and Guardian. _See Thackeray's Eng. Humorists_, _Aikin's +Memorials of Addison._ _Pub. Har. Lip._ + +=Aguilar [ä-ge-lar´], Grace.= 1816-1847. Novelist. Home Influence, +Woman's Friendship, and Days of Bruce are her chief works. _Pub. Apl. +Har._ + +=Aikin [[=a]´kin], John.= 1747-1822. Biographer and miscellaneous +writer. One of the authors of Evenings at Home. _Pub. Har._ + +=Aikin, Lucy.= 1781-1864. Dau. to J. A. Historian and poet. Author +Memoirs of the Courts of Elizabeth, James I., Charles I., Memorials of +Addison, etc. + +=Ainsworth, Robert.= 1660-1743. Classical lexicographer. + +=Ainsworth, Wm. Francis.= 180 Geologist and traveller. Author +Travels in Asia Minor, Researches in Assyria, Babylonia, and Chaldea, +etc. + +=Ainsworth, Wm. Harrison.= 1805-1882. Cousin to W. F. A. Novelist. His +historical novels are numerous, but Jack Sheppard is his most famous +work, and has been 8 times dramatized. His popularity has been very +great, many of his works having been translated into most European +languages, yet their literary merit is not high, and the influence of +Jack Sheppard, in particular, is pernicious. _Pub. Har. Rou. Pet._ + +=Airy, George Biddell.= 180 Astronomer. Author Essays on the +Invasion of Britain by Julius Cæsar, and numerous scientific papers of +value. + +=Akenside, Mark.= 1721-1770. Poet and physician. Author of a +philosophical poem in blank verse on The Pleasures of the Imagination. +_Pub. Hou._ + +=Alcuin [[)a]l´-kwin].= c. 735-804. Abp. York. Writer of Latin +commentaries, dogmatic treatises, and numerous Latin poems. + +=Aldhelm.= 656-709. Anglo-Latin poet. His principal theme is the +praise of virginity, on which he has written in both prose and verse. + +=Alexander, Adam.= 1741-1809. Scotch grammarian. Author of Classical +Biog. etc. + +=Alexander, Mrs. Cecil Frances.= 18-- ----. Poet. Best known by her +famous poem, The Burial of Moses. _Pub. Dut. Mac._ + +=Alexander, Mrs.= Novelist. See Hector, Mrs. Annie Alexander. + +=Alexander, Wm.= c. 1580-1640. Scotch poet. Author Recreations with +the Muses, Doomsday, etc. Style didactic and heavy. _See Ward's Eng. +Poets, vol. 2._ + +=Alford [awl'ford], Henry.= 1810-1871. Dean of Canterbury. Author of +Poems, a valuable edition of the Greek Testament, a much criticised +Plea for the Queen's English, etc. _See Life, Journals, and Letters. +See Moon's The Dean's English._ _Pub. Har. Ran. Rou._ + +=Alfred the Great.= 848-901. The Father of English Prose. An untiring +scholar whose labors gave form and dignity to the English tongue. His +translations from the Latin are numerous and valuable, among them +being Bæda's Ecclesiastical History and Boethius's Consolations of +Philosophy. _See Green's Making of England._ + +=Alfric.= ---- 1006. Abp. Canterbury. A noted theologian and +grammarian. His 80 Homilies his chief work. He translated the books of +Moses and wrote many theological works. + +=Alison, Archibald.= 1757-1839. Scotch theological writer. Essays on +Taste, etc. _Pub. Har._ + +=Alison, Sir Archibald.= 1792-1867. Son to preceding. Historian. +Author of a Hist. of Europe in 18 vols. and a Life of Marlborough. +_Pub. Har._ + +=Allein [[)a]l'l[)e]n], Joseph.= 1633-1668. Theologian. Author of +Alarm to the Unconverted. + +=Allen, Chas. Grant.= 184 Author of Physiological Æsthetics, +Color and Sense, Force and Energy, etc. _Pub. Apl._ + +=Allingham, Wm.= 182 Irish poet. Author Day and Night Songs, +Songs, Ballads and Stories, etc. _Pub. Mac._ + +=A. L. O. E.= See Tucker, Charlotte. + +=Andrews, Lancelot.= 1555-1626. Bp. Winchester. The most eminent +preacher of his time, and a High Church theologian of great rigor and +learning. He was one of the translators of the Bible and author of 4 +vols. of Sermons and a Manual of Private Devotions. Style involved and +artificial. _Pub. Dut._ + +=Anster, John.= 1798-1867. Irish poet. Author of a much admired +translation of Faust. + +=Anstey, Christopher.= 1724-1805. Poet. The New Bath Guide (pub. 1766) +is his chief work and was the most popular book of its day. It is a +lively, versified description of life and manners of Bath. _See his +Works, pub. 1808, with Life, by his son._ + +=Arbuthnot [är´b[)u]th-not], John.= 1675-1735. Humorist. Author Hist. +John Bull, Art of Political Lying, Memoirs of P. P. Clark of this +Parish, and supposed author of the greater part of the famous satire +upon the abuses of learning, the Memoirs of Martinus Scriblerus. + +=Armstrong, John.= 1709-1779. Scotch poet and physician. Author of the +Art of Preserving Health, a poem of much originality of style. + +=Arnold, Edwin.= 183 Poet and journalist. His chief work, The +Light of Asia, gives him a high rank among modern poets. The subject +is the life of Buddha. He has translated much from the Sanskrit, and +is the author of Griselda, Lyrical and Dramatic Poems, The Indian Song +of Songs, Pearls of the Faith, etc. Style elevated and versification +musical. _Pub. Rob._ + +=Arnold, Matthew.= 182 Son to succeeding. Poet and essayist. His +poetry is pervaded by a vein of doubt and mistrust, although elevated +in character and of great merit. Tristram and Iseult, and Thyrsis, an +elegy on the poet Clough, are among his best poems. His prose works +are numerous and important. Literature and Dogma, and Essays in +Criticism are among the best known. The phrase "sweetness and light" +was made familiar by him. _See Hutton's Essays, Swinburne's Essays and +Studies, Stedman's Victorian Poets, Edinburgh Rev. April, 1869._ _Pub. +Har. Mac. Ho. Ste._ + +=Arnold, Thomas.= 1795-1842. Head Master of Rugby. Author Hist. Rome +and Lect. on Modern Hist. He exercised a great and beneficial +influence upon the minds of the young Englishmen of his time. _See +Life and Correspondence of Arnold, by A. P. Stanley, and Hughes' +School Days at Rugby._ _Pub. Apl._ + +=Arnold, Thos. Kerchever.= 1800-1853. Author of classical text-books. +_Pub. Apl._ + +=Arnold, Wm. Delafield.= 1828-1859. Son to T. A. Writer of historical +sketches and lectures. + +=Arnott, Neil.= 1788-1874. Scotch scientist. Author Elements of +Physics, etc. _Pub. Apl._ + +=Ascham [[)a]s´kam], Roger.= 1515-1568. Tutor of Lady Jane Grey and Q. +Elizabeth. Author of Toxophilus, a treatise on the bow, and The +Schoolmaster. A. possessed a clear, correct style. + +=Ashe, Thomas.= 183 Poet. Author of The Sorrows of Hypsipyle, +etc. + +=Ashmole, Elias.= 1617-1692. Antiquary. Author of Laws of the Order of +the Garter, etc. + +=Atterbury, Francis.= 1662-1732. Bp. Rochester. Theologian. Author +Sermons and numerous controversial writings. + +=Aubrey, John.= 1626-1697. Antiquary. A. published a collection of +popular superstitions. + +=Austen, Jane.= 1775-1817. Novelist. Author of Pride and Prejudice, +Sense and Sensibility, Northanger Abbey, Mansfield Park, Persuasion, +Emma, The Watsons, and Lady Susan. These novels are examples of the +finest literary art, and have delighted cultured minds for almost +three generations. Her character-drawing is strong and realistic. _See +Atlantic Monthly, Feb. 1863. See Jane Austen and her Works by Sarah +Tytler (pub. 1881)._ _Pub. Har. Por. Lit. Rou._ + +=Austin, Alfred.= 183 Poet and novelist. Author of An Artist's +Proof, Interludes, The Human Tragedy, etc. _Pub. Mac._ + +=Austin, Mrs. Sarah.= 1793-1867. Author Characteristics of Goethe, and +of numerous translations from the German. + +=Ayton [[=a]´tun], Sir Robert.= 1570-1638. Scotch poet. Remembered for +his lyric, "I do confess thou'rt smooth and fair." + +=Aytoun [a´tun], Wm. Edmondstoune.= 1813-1865. Scotch poet. Author +Lays of the Scottish Cavaliers, Bothwell, Edinburgh after Flodden, and +with T. Martin, of the Bon Gaultier Ballads. _See Memoir by Theodore +Martin._ _Pub. Arm. Hou._ + + + + +=Babbage, Chas.= 1790-1871. Mathematician and philosopher. Author of +The Economy of Manufactures and Machinery, A Ninth Bridgewater +Treatise, etc. + +=Bacon, Francis.= Viscount St. Albans and Baron Verulam. 1561-1626. +Philosopher. The Founder of Inductive Philosophy. He wrote, in both +Eng. and Latin, The advancement of Learning, Novum Organum and +Historia Naturalis et Experimentalis from the Instauratio Magna, +which embodies his system of philosophy. His Essays are his most +important English work. A man of great genius and wonderful +intellectual activity whose writings cover a wide range. He awakened +the scientific spirit in England and gave it form. The best edition of +B. is that by James Spedding. _See Life and Letters of Bacon, by James +Spedding (1870), also W. H. Dixon's Personal History of Lord Bacon._ +_Pub. Hou._ + +=Bacon, Roger= (Friar.) 1214-1292. Philosopher. The great light of the +thirteenth century. In his Opus Major he anticipated many inventions +of later times, and displayed a familiarity with all branches of study +of his day. + +=Bage, Robert.= 1728-1801. Novelist. Author of Man as he Is, The Fair +Syrian, etc. _See Life, by Walter Scott._ + +=Bagehot [b[=a]j´ut], Walter.= 1826-1877. Essayist and journalist. +Author of Lombard Street, Physics and Politics, The Eng. Constitution, +and Essays on Silver. _See Living Age, April 19, 1879._ _Pub. Apl. +Lit. Scr._ + +=Bailey, Philip James.= 181 Poet. Author of Festus, The Angel +World, The Mystic, The Age, etc. Festus, which had a brief popularity, +is a work of unequal merit, but contains a few brilliant passages. + +=Baillie, Joanna.= 1764-1851. Scotch dramatist. Has been called "the +female Shakespeare." Author of Plays on the Passions, etc. Her tragedy +of De Montfort is her finest effort. _See complete Works in one vol. +with Life (1853). See Ward's Eng. Poets, vol. 4._ + +=Baker, Sir Samuel White.= 182 Traveller. Author of the Albert +Nyanza, The Nile Tributaries of Abyssinia, Ismaïlia, etc. _Pub. Har. +Lip. Mac._ + +=Balfour, Francis Maitland.= 1851-1882. Biologist. Author Elements of +Comparative Embryology. Development of the Elasmobranch Fishes, etc. +Style acute and original. _See Fortnightly Rev. Nov. 1882._ _Pub. +Mac._ + +=Banim [b[=a]´nim], John.= 1798-1842. Irish novelist. His novels deal +almost exclusively with the tragic side of Irish peasant life. _See +Life, by P. J. Murray, 1857._ + +=Banks, Sir Joseph.= 1743-1820. Naturalist. _See Cuvier, Elegy on Sir +J. Banks, 1821._ + +=Barbauld [bar´bawld or bar-b[=o]´], Mrs. Anna Lætitia.= 1743-1825. +Miscellaneous writer. Author of Hymns in Prose, Miscellaneous Poems, +etc. Among her best efforts is the exquisite little poem, Life. Some +of her religious poetry is deservedly popular. Style easy and +graceful. _See edition with Memoir, by L. Aikin, 1827._ + +=Barbour, John.= 1316-1396. Archdeacon of Aberdeen. Scotch poet. His +Bruce, a metrical hist. in 13,000 octosyllabic lines, is a chronicle +of the life of King Robert I., and has historical value as well as +literary merit. _See Craik's Eng. Lit. vol. I._ + +=Barclay, Robert.= 1648-1690. Scotch writer. His Apology for the +Quakers was first pub. in Latin. + +=Barham [b[)a]r´am], Richard Harris.= 1788-1845. Humorous poet. Author +of the Ingoldsby Legends, a witty volume of facile rhymes. _Pub. Por. +Wid._ + +=Baring-Gould, Sabine.= 183 Author Curious Myths of the Middle +Ages, Lives of the Saints, etc. _See Lit. World, Jan. 13, 1883._ _Pub. +Apl. Lip. Rob._ + +=Barnard, Lady Anne.= 1750-1825. Scotch poet. Author of Auld Robin +Gray. + +=Barnfield, Richard.= 1574-c. 1605. Poet. His ode "As it fell upon a +day" was once ascribed to Shakespeare. _See Warton's Eng. Poetry._ + +=Barrow, Isaac.= 1630-1677. Theologian and mathematician. Author of +Sermons and Mathematical works of almost equal renown. _See Selections +from, pub. 1866._ _Pub. Mac._ + +=Barton, Bernard.= 1784-1849. A Friend of Lamb's. "The Quaker Poet." +Author of Poetic Vigils, Devotional Verses, etc., the literary merit +of which is but slight. + +=Baxter, Richard.= 1615-1691. Theologian. A voluminous writer, but now +best known by his Saints' Rest, and Call to the Unconverted. _See +edition of 1850 in 23 vols. with Life._ _Pub. Clx._ + +=Bayley, Thos. Haynes.= 1797-1839. Song writer. Author of I'd be a +Butterfly, She wore a Wreath of Roses, We met, 't was in a Crowd, etc. + +=Bayne, Peter.= 183 Essayist and biographer. Author of Christian +Life, Essays in Biographical Criticism, Life of Hugh Miller, etc. +_Pub. Har. Rou._ + +=Beale, Lionel Smith.= 182 Scientific writer of note. Author of +How to Work with the Microscope, Protoplasm, The Mystery of Life, etc. + +=Beattie [bee´t[)i] or b[=a]´t[)i]], James.= 1735-1803. Scotch poet. +Author of The Minstrel, a long, prosy poem in Spenserian stanza, and a +prose Essay on Truth. _See Ward's Eng. Poets, vol. 3._ _Pub. Hou._ + +=Beaumont, Francis.= 1586-1615. Dramatist. Colleague of John Fletcher. +Their collected plays amount to 52, of which 14 were in part the work +of B., but his separate authorship is not easy to trace. B. and F. in +their day were more popular than Shakespeare, but none of their plays +now keep the stage. Their blank verse is melodious and their wit and +humor sparkling, but their plays reflect the full coarseness of the +time. Among plays written by them jointly are Philaster, Thierry and +Theodoret, A King and No King, and the comedy of The Knight of the +Burning Pestle. See Fletcher, John. _See Schlegel's Dramatic Lit., +Hazlitt's Dramatic Lit. and Hallam's Lit. of Europe._ _Pub. Apl._ + +=Beaumont, Sir John.= 1582-1628. Bro. to F. B. Author Bosworth Field, +a poem in heroic verse. + +=Beckford, Wm.= 1760-1844. Author of Vathek, an Oriental romance. +Style luxuriant. _See Chambers' Cyc. Eng. Lit._ + +=Beddoes, Thos. Lovell.= 1803-1849. Poet. Author The Bride's Tragedy, +Death's Jest-Book, etc. _See Ward's Eng. Poets, vol. 4._ + +=Bede, Cuthbert.= See Bradley, Edward. + +=Bede, Beda, or Bæda, The Venerable.= 673-735. "First among Eng. +scholars, first among Eng. theologians, first among Eng. historians." +His whole life was passed in the monastery of Yarrow, where he +composed more than 40 Latin works, the greatest of which is the Eccl. +Hist. of the Eng. Nation. On the day of his death was finished his +translation of St. John's Gospel into Eng., being the earliest example +of Eng. prose. _See edition of Bede by Dr. Giles, 6 vols. 1843-4. See +Green's Short Hist. of the Eng. People, also Green's Making of +England._ _Pub. Dut._ + +=Behn= [b[)e]n], =Mrs. Aphra.= 1642-1689. Novelist and dramatist. +Known in her day as Astræa. Author of The Forced Marriage, Oronooko, +etc. A lively, immoral writer. _See edition of 1871. See Miss +Kavanagh's Eng. Women of Letters, and Ward's Eng. Poets, vol. 2._ + +=Bellenden, Wm.= fl. c. 1615. Scotch classical writer. Author De +Statu. + +=Bentham, Jeremy.= 1748-1832. Philosopher and political economist. +Founder of the Utilitarian school of thought, and a valued authority +upon jurisprudence. Many reforms in Eng. jurisprudence are traceable +to his influence. _See edition of 1843 in 11 vols. See Edinburgh Rev. +Oct. 1843._ + +=Bentley, Richard.= 1662-1742. Classical writer. Author Dissertations +on the Epistles of Phalaris, works provoked by his famous controversy +with Boyle, and which rank as masterpieces of argument. They display +great learning, a rapid, concise style, and a sarcastic wit. _See +Bentley, by R. C. Jebb, in Eng. Men of Letters._ + +=Berkeley, George.= 1684-1753. Bp. Cloyne. Irish metaphysician. An +eccentric but pure-minded thinker, in whose Principles of Human +Knowledge is denied the existence of matter. Other works of B. are +Alciphron or the Minute Philosopher, Theory of Vision, Siris, etc. +Also the poem in which occurs the famous line, "Westward the course of +empire takes its way." _See edition of Berkeley, by Fraser, 4 vols. +Oxford, 1871._ + +=Berners, Lord.= 1469-1532. Translator of Froissart's Chronicle. The +translation is faithful and is a masterpiece of picturesque and +spirited English. + +=Berners, Juliana.= c. 1388-c. 1461. Author of the Bokys of Hunting +and Hawking. _See Warton's Hist. Eng. Poetry._ + +=Besant, Walter.= 183 Novelist. Colleague of James Rice, and +with him author of The Seamy Side, Ready Money Mortiboy, the Chaplain +of the Fleet, Shepherds All and Maidens Fair, etc. Sole author of The +Revolt of Man, Life of E. H. Palmer, etc. See Rice, James. _Pub. Har. +Rob. Dut._ + +=Beveridge, Wm.= 1638-1708. Bp. St. Asaph. Theologian. Thesaurus +Theologicus, Expositions of the Catechism and 39 Articles, and Private +Thoughts are some of his chief works. + +=Bickerstaff, Isaac.= 1735-c. 1788. Dramatist. Author of Maid of the +Mill, Love in a Village, etc. _See Hazlitt's Essays on the Comic +Writers._ + +=Bickersteth, Edward.= 1786-1850. Religious writer. Author of The +Scripture Help, etc. _See edition of his Works in 17 vols. 1853. See +Memoir of, by T. R. Birks, 1851._ + +=Bickersteth, Edward Henry.= 182 Son to E. B. Religious Poet. +Author of Yesterday, To-Day and Forever, The Two Brothers, etc. _Pub. +Ca. Dut._ + +=Bickersteth, Rob't.= 181 Bp. Ripon. Religious writer. Author of +Lent Lectures, Bible Landmarks, etc. + +=Birch, Thomas.= 1705-1766. Historian and biographer. Author of a +General Dictionary, Historical and Critical. + +=Black, Wm.= 184 Novelist. A prolific writer, the best of whose +works are A Daughter of Heth, Princess of Thule, Strange Adventures of +a Phaeton, and Macleod of Dare. They evince rare powers of description +and much constructive skill. _See Harper's Mag. Dec. 1882._ _Pub. +Har._ + +=Blackie, John Stuart.= 180 Scotch poet and scholar. For 30 +years Greek Professor at Edinburgh Univ. His numerous works include +Greek, Latin, and German translations, several vols. of poems, and a +famous work on Self-Culture which has been translated into every +European language. _Pub. Scr._ + +=Blackmore, Sir Richard.= 1650-1729. Poet. Author of the epics The +Creation, and Prince Arthur. + +=Blackmore, Richard Doddridge.= 182 Novelist. Author Lorna +Doone, Maid of Sker, Alice Lorraine, Erema, Mary Anerly, Christowell, +etc. A vigorous and original writer. Lorna Doone is his finest work. +_Pub. Har. Lip._ + +=Blackstone, Sir Wm.= 1723-1780. Jurist. Author of Commentaries on the +Laws of England, an authoritative work. _See Campbell's Lives of the +Chief Justices._ _Pub. Har. Lip._ + +=Blair, Hugh.= 1718-1800. Author of the once famous Lectures on +Rhetoric. _Pub. Por._ + +=Blair, Robert.= 1699-1747. Poet. Author of The Grave, a dull, +didactic, but once popular poem. _See Ward's Eng. Poets, vol. 3._ + +=Blake, Wm.= 1757-1827. Artist and poet. Author of Poetical Sketches, +Songs of Innocence and Experience, etc. A writer of rare simplicity +and beauty. An Elizabethan poet of the 19th cent. _See editions of his +poems by Shepherd and Rossetti, and Life by Gilchrist, 1863 and 1881, +also Swinburne's Study of Blake, 1863._ _Pub. Rob._ + +=Blamire, Susanna.= 1747-1794. Poet. Author of the fine lyrics, The +Siller Crown, What Ails this Heart o' Mine, etc. + +=Blanchard, Edward Laman.= 182 Dramatist and novelist. + +=Blanchard, Laman.= 1803-1845. Littérateur. _See Bulwer's Memoir of, +with Blanchard's Essays and Sketches, 1849._ + +=Blessington, Marguerite, Countess of.= 1789-1849. Society novelist. +_See Life and Correspondence edited by D. R. Madden._ + +=Bloomfield, Robert.= 1766-1823. Pastoral poet. Author of The Farmer's +Boy, Rural Tales, The Horkey, etc. _Pub Por. Rou._ + +=Blunt, John Henry.= 182 Theologian. Author Hist. Reformation in +Ch. of England and editor Dict. Sects and Heresies, etc. _Pub. Dut._ + +=Blunt, John James.= 1794-1855. Ecclesiologist. Author Hist. Christian +Ch. in the first three centuries, etc. _Pub. Ca._ + +=Bolingbroke, Lord.= See St. John, Henry. + +=Bonar, Horatius.= 180 Scotch poet. Author Hymns of Faith and +Hope, etc. _Pub. Ca._ + +=Borrow, George.= 1803-1881. Author of Gipsies of Spain, Bible in +Spain, Lavengro, The Romany Rye, Romany Word Book, etc. _See +Autobiography, 1851._ _Pub. Ca. Har._ + +=Boswell [boz´well], Alexander.= 1775-1822. Poet. Son to J. B. His +song, Jenny Dang the Weaver, is his best known production. + +=Boswell, James.= 1740-1795. Biographer. His Life of Dr. Samuel +Johnson is an incomparable work. _Pub. Ho. Lit. Rou._ + +=Boswell, James.= 1779-1822. Son to preceding. Shakespearean scholar. + +=Boucicault [boo-se-ko´], Dion.= 182 Dramatist. Among his very +numerous popular plays, London Assurance, Rip Van Winkle, The Corsican +Brothers, Led Astray, and the Shaughran are perhaps the best. _See +Johnson's Cyc._ + +=Bowles, Wm. Lisle.= 1762-1850. Poet. Author Fourteen Sonnets, Village +Verse Book, etc. A graceful writer, to whom Wordsworth and Coleridge +attributed their own poetic inspiration. + +=Bowring [bour´ing], Sir John.= 1792-1872. Philologist and poet. Best +known as a writer of hymns of great beauty, among others, the familiar +Watchman, Tell us of the Night. _See Autobiographical Recollections, +1877._ _Pub. Dut._ + +=Boyd, Andrew Kennedy Hutchinson.= 182 Scotch essayist. Author +of Essays by a Country Parson, Graver Thoughts, Autumn Holidays, etc. +He signed his essays with his initials A. K. H. B. + +=Boyle, Chas.= 1676-1731. Famous for his controversy with Bentley +concerning the Epistles of Phalaris. See Bentley, Richard. + +=Boyle, Robert.= 1626-1691. Philosopher. A voluminous writer upon +metaphysics and natural sciences. + +=Braddon, Miss.= See Maxwell, Mrs. Mary E. + +=Bradley, Edward.= "Cuthbert Bede." 182 Humorist. Author +Adventures of Verdant Green, etc. + +=Bradley, James.= 1692-1762. Astronomical writer. + +=Brady, Nicholas.= 1659-1726. Chiefly known for his share in the +version of the Psalms prepared by him with Nahum Tate. + +=Bray, Mrs. Anna Eliza.= 1790-1883. Miscellaneous writer of note. _See +Lit. World, Feb. 24, 1883._ + +=Brewer, E. Cobham.= 181 Author Reader's Handbook, Dict. Phrase +and Fable, Guide to Science, etc. Well edited and valuable books of +reference. _Pub. Clx. Lip._ + +=Brewster, Sir David.= 1781-1868. Scientist. Author Natural Magic, +More Worlds than One, Lives of Newton, Kepler, etc. _See Life, by his +daughter, 1869._ _Pub. Har._ + +=Brontë [br[=o]n´te], Anne.= 1820-1849. Novelist. Sister to C. B. +Author of Tenant of Wildfell Hall and Agnes Gray. _Pub. Har._ + +=Brontë, Charlotte.= 1816-1855. Sister to A. B. and E. B. Novelist. +Author of The Professor, Jane Eyre, Shirley, and Villette. A writer of +great power and originality, whose Jane Eyre marks an era in the +history of fiction. _See Charlotte Brontë by T. W. Reid, 1877; Life of +by Mrs. Gaskell, and H. Martineau's Biographical Sketches._ _Pub. +Har._ + +=Brontë, Emily.= 1819-1848. Sister to C. B. Novelist. Her Wuthering +Heights shows in places greater power than either of her sisters +possessed, but as a whole is strained and unnatural. _See Ward's Eng. +Poets, vol. 4. Emily Brontë, by A. Mary F. Robinson, and London +Athænum, June 16, 1883._ _Pub. Har._ + +=Brooke, Arthur.= ---- c. 1563. Poet. Wrote the Tragical Hist. of Romeo +and Juliet, a paraphrase of Bandello's novel, the source of +Shakespeare's drama. + +=Brooke, Charlotte.= ---- 1793. Daughter to H. B. Author of Reliques of +Irish Poetry translated into Eng. verse, etc. + +=Brooke, Mrs. Frances Moore.= 1745-1789. Author of several novels, the +opera Rosina, and a periodical called The Old Maid. + +=Brooke, Henry.= 1706-1783. Author of plays, poems, and a once famous +novel called The Fool of Quality. _Pub. Mac._ + +=Brooke, Lord.= See Greville Fulk. + +=Brooke, Stopford.= 183 Religious writer. Author Life of F. W. +Robertson, Freedom in the Ch. of England, Christ in Modern Life, +Theology in the Eng. Poets, Primer of Eng. Lit., Sermons, etc. Style +clear, thoughtful, and strong. _Pub. Apl. Mac._ + +=Brooks, Chas. Shirley.= 1815-1874. Dramatist and Novelist. Author +Poems of Wit and Humor, The Gordian Knot, etc. _Pub. Har._ + +=Broome, Richard.= ---- 1562. Dramatist. Wrote in conjunction with +others. + +=Brougham [broo´am or broo´m], Henry, Lord.= 1779-1868. Statesman and +orator. A man of strong intellect, whose speeches are among the ablest +of his time. A versatile writer, among whose numerous works are +Eloquence of the Ancients and Lives of Men of Letters. _See +Autobiography pub. 1871; Edinburgh Rev. April, 1858, and Life by Lord +Campbell. His works in 10 vols., pub. 1857._ + +=Broughton, Rhoda.= 18-- ----. Novelist. Author of Red as a Rose is +She, Nancy, Belinda, etc. Style spirited, but wanting in refinement of +expression. _Pub. Lit._ + +=Brown, John.= 1810-1882. Scotch essayist and physician. Best known by +his exquisite story of Rab and his Friends. _Pub. Hou._ + +=Brown, Thomas.= 1778-1820. Scotch philosophical writer. + +=Brown, Tom.= 1663-1704. Humorous and immoral poet and miscellaneous +writer. + +=Browne, Edward Harold.= 181 Bp. Winchester. Theologian. Author +of The Pentateuch and Elohistic Psalms, Sermons on the Atonement, etc. +_Pub. Dut._ + +=Browne, Isaac Hawkins.= 1706-1760. Poet. Author of A Pipe of Tobacco, +etc. + +=Browne, Sir Thos.= 1605-1682. Author of a treatise on Christian +Morals, Religio Medici, Hydriotaphia or Urn-Burial, etc. A writer of +striking genius whose works will always attract thoughtful readers. +Style meditative and imaginative, but frequently obscure. _See +complete edition in Bohn's Antiquarian Library._ _Pub. Mac. Rob._ + +=Browne, Wm.= 1590-1645. Poet. Wrote Britannia's Pastorals, Shepherd's +Pipe, etc. His style is easy and harmonious, and some of his lyrics +are yet read. + +=Browning, Mrs. Elizabeth Barrett.= 1809-1861. Poet. By many critics +given the highest place among poets of her sex, but her verse, in the +main, appeals to a limited class of readers. It has a masculine +strength, a passionate vehemence of expression, and it is often +pathetic and tender, but its frequent obscurity is a grave defect. +Aurora Leigh, Casa Guidi Windows, and Sonnets from the Portuguese, are +among her chief works. _See Letters of, edited by R. H. Hone, 1877, +Contemporary Rev. 1873, and Stedman's Victorian Poets._ _Pub. Mil._ + +=Browning, Robert.= 181 Poet. Husband to E. B. B. Author of a +long series of poems, some of them obscure and enigmatical to the last +degree, but all bearing the marks of great genius. Paracelsus, +Sordello, Pippa Passes, The King and The Book, Fifine at the Fair, and +Jocoseria are some of them. His circle of sincere admirers is small, +but shorter poems of his, like Hervé Riel, and the Pied Piper of +Hamelin, are widely known and read. _See Lit. World, March 11, 1882, +Century Mag. December, 1881, and Stedman's Victorian Poets._ _Pub. +Hou._ + +=Brunton, Mrs. Mary Balfour.= 1778-1818. Scotch novelist. Author Self +Control and Discipline. _Pub. Har._ + +=Bryant, Jacob.= 1715-1804. Classical and mythological writer. + +=Bryce, James.= 181 Historian. Author Native Education in India, +and The Holy Roman Empire. _Pub. Har. Mac._ + +=Brydges, Sir Sam'l Egerton.= 1762-1837. A prolific writer in verse +and prose. Style often fantastic and eccentric. + +=Buchanan, George.= 1506-1582. Scotch poet and historian. Wrote a +Latin version of the Psalms, and a Latin Hist. of Scotland. _See +Hallam's Lit. of Europe._ + +=Buchanan, Robert.= 184 Scotch poet. Author Idyls and Legends, +London Poems, Balder the Beautiful, etc. A writer of some power, but +one whose verse is marred by frequent affectations. _See Stedman's +Victorian Poets, and Contemporary Rev. November, 1873._ _Pub. Har. +Hou. Rou._ + +=Buckhurst, Lord.= See Sackville, Thos. + +=Buckingham, Duke of.= See Villiers, George. + +=Buckinghamshire, Duke of.= See Sheffield, John. + +=Buckland, Francis Trevelyan.= 1826-1880. Naturalist. Son to W. B. +Author Curiosities of Nat. Hist., Familiar Hist. British Fishes, etc. + +=Buckland, Wm.= 1784-1856. Geological writer of note. + +=Buckle, Henry Thos.= 1822-1862. Historian. His great work, The Hist. +of Civilization, was left unfinished. His style is easy and flowing, +but his inferences and conclusions are frequently controverted. _See +Atlantic Monthly, Jan. and April, 1863._ _Pub. Apl._ + +=Budgell, Eustace.= 1685-1736. Essayist. Author of all the papers in +the Spectator signed X. + +=Bull, George.= 1634-1710. Bp. St. David's. Theologian. An opponent of +Calvinism, against which his Latin treatise, Harmonia Apostolica, is +aimed. + +=Bulwer-Lytton, Sir Edward Geo.= 1805-1873. Novelist and Poet. Several +of his 25 novels, like The Caxtons, My Novel, Harold, and Kenelm +Chillingly, are masterpieces of their kind. Others as well known are +Pelham, Zanoni, Last Days of Pompeii, Rienzi, etc. Richelieu, Money, +and Lady of Lyons are his most popular dramas. King Arthur and The +New Timon are two of his longer poems. _See Memoir, by Lord Lytton, +Quarterly Rev., Jan. 1865, Blackwood's Mag. Mar., 1873, and Tennyson's +poem The New Timon._ _Pub. Har._ + +=Bulwer-Lytton, Edward Robert.= "Owen Meredith." 183 Poet. Son +to preceding. Author of Lucile, Fables in Verse, The Ring of Amasis, +etc. His verse has melody and strength, but Lucile, his chief poem, a +novel in verse, is asserted to be a plagiarism. _See Stedman's +Victorian Poets._ + +=Bunyan, John.= 1628-1688. Allegorist. Author Pilgrim's Progress, Holy +War, etc. The first named is the most famous allegory in the world. +The product of a strong, vivid imagination, it holds the attention of +cultured and uncultured minds alike. _See Biographies of, by Southey, +and Macaulay, and Bunyan, by J. A. Froude in Eng. Men of Letters._ + +=Burke, Edmund.= 1730-1797. Orator and statesman. As a political +writer he has few equals. Among his best efforts are Letters on a +Regicide Peace, Letters to a Noble Lord, and Orations on the +Impeachment of Warren Hastings. Style polished and cultured. _See +Morley's Life of, 1867. See select works edited by E. J. Payne, 1874._ + +=Burnand, Francis Cowley.= 183 Author Happy Thoughts, The New +History of Sanford and Merton, etc. _Pub. Rob._ + +=Burnet, Gilbert.= 1643-1715. Bp. Salisbury. Historian. Author Hist. +Reformation, Hist. My Own Times, etc. A vivacious, diffuse narrator. +_See Macaulay's Hist. of England._ _Pub. Dut. Mac._ + +=Burnet, James.= Lord Monboddo. 1714-1799. An eccentric writer, noted +for his theory that mankind once had tails, which the habit of +sitting on had worn away. + +=Burnet, Thos.= 1635-1715. Author Telluris Sacra Theoria, a fantastic +system of Geology, written in an eloquent and majestic style. + +=Burney, Charles.= 1726-1814. Author Gen. Hist. of Music, Life of +Metastasio, etc. _See Life, by his daughter, Madame D'Arblay._ + +=Burney, Frances.= See D'Arblay, Madame. + +=Burns, Robert.= 1759-1796. Scotch poet. A singer of love songs. His +verse shows a gentle, tender spirit, and a sympathy for all created +things, new to the poetry of his day. Tam O'Shanter, Twa Dogs, and The +Jolly Beggars, show the humorous side of his nature. The Cotter's +Saturday Night, Auld Lang Syne, A Man's a Man for a' That, are +universally known, and some of his lyrics will last as long as the +language. _See Carlyle's Misc. Essays; Craik's Eng. Lit. vol. 2; also +Burns, by Shairp, in Eng. Men of Letters._ _Pub. Apl. Har. Hou. Por._ + +=Burton, John Hill.= 1809-1881. Scotch historian. Author Life and +Correspondence of David Hume, Hist. Reign of Q. Anne, Hist. Scotland, +etc. + +=Burton, Robert.= 1576-1640. Author of Anatomy of Melancholy. Style +fantastic, original, and diffuse. _Pub. Apl. Clx. Dut._ + +=Butler, Alban.= 1710-1773. Author Lives of the Fathers, Saints, etc., +Letters on the Hist. of the Popes, etc. _See edition of the Lives, +1812, with Life of A. Butler by Chas. Butler._ + +=Butler, Charles.= 1750-1832. Neph. to A. B. Author Horæ Biblicæ, +continuation of the Lives of the Saints, etc. _See Alibone's Dict._ + +=Butler, Joseph.= 1692-1752. Bp. Bristol. Theologian. His great work, +Analogy between Natural and Revealed Religion, is much studied and +admired. _See edition of his works, 1867._ _Pub. Har._ + +=Butler, Samuel.= 1612-1680. Satirical poet. His Hudibras, written in +ridicule of the Puritans, is witty and spirited, but too long for the +taste of modern readers. _See edition of his works by Gilfillan, +1854._ _Pub. Apl._ + +=Butler, Wm. Archer.= 1814-1848. Author Lect. on Hist. of Ancient +Philosophy, etc. _See Woodward's Life of._ _Pub. Ca. Mac._ + +=Byrd, Wm.= 1540-1623. Poet. Author of the famous lines beginning, "My +mind to me a kingdom is." + +=Byrom, John.= 1691-1763. Pastoral poet. + +=Byron, Henry James.= 183 Dramatist. Author Babes in the Wood, +Our Boys, Not such a Fool as he Looks, Good News, etc. + +=Byron, Lord.= See Gordon, George. + + + + +=Cædmon [k[=a]d´m[o)]n].= ---- c. 680. Anglo-Saxon poet. A monk of +Whitby, who wrote about 670 a metrical paraphrase of the Scriptures. +It is accented and alliterative, like all Anglo-Saxon poetry, and +marks the beginning of Eng. poetry. _See Thorpe's edition of, London, +1832._ + +=Calamy, Edmund.= 1600-1666. Theological writer. + +=Calamy, Edmund.= 1671-1732. Grandson to preceding. Author of the +Nonconformists' Memorial, Defence of Moderate Nonconformity, etc. _See +his history of his Life and Times, edited by Rutt, 1829._ + +=Calverley, Chas. Stuart.= 183 Poet. Author of Fly-Leaves, +translation of Theocritus, etc. _Pub. Ho._ + +=Camden, Wm.= 1551-1623. Antiquary. Author of Britannia, a Latin +description of Britain, etc. + +=Campbell, George.= 1709-1796. Scotch theologian. Author Dissertations +on Miracles, Philosophy of Rhetoric, Lect. on Eccl. Hist., etc. _Pub. +Har._ + +=Campbell, John.= 1708-1775. Historical and political writer. + +=Campbell, John,= _Lord Chancellor_. 1779-1861. Biographer. Author +Lives of the Lord Chancellors, and Lives of the Chief Justices. _See +Edinburgh Rev. Oct. 1857; and see H. Martineau's Biographical +Sketches._ _Pub. Apl. Lit._ + +=Campbell, Thomas.= 1774-1844. Scotch poet. Author Pleasures of Hope, +Gertrude of Wyoming, etc., poems artificial in cast. His lyrics, like +Hohenlinden, Ye Mariners of England, etc., are fine specimens of lyric +verse. _See Life of by Dr. Beattie, 1849. See W. M. Rossetti's edition +of his poems with critical introduction._ + +=Canning, George.= 1770-1827. Writer of witty parodies. Needy +Knife-Grinder, etc. + +=Carew, Lady Elizabeth.= Fl. c. 1613. Author of the tragedy of Marian. + +=Carew, Thomas.= 1589-1639. Poet. His poems are brief and mainly +amatory in character. _See complete edition by W. Carew Hazlitt. See +Ward's Eng. Poets, vol. 2._ + +=Carey, Henry.= 1663-1743. Dramatist and poet. Author +Chrononhotonthologos, The Dragon of Wantley, the ballad of Sally in +our Alley, and God Save the King. + +=Carleton, Wm.= 1798-1869. Irish novelist. Style vigorous and +picturesque. _Pub. Rou._ + +=Carlyle, Thomas.= 1795-1881. Essayist and historian. Author of +Essays, Chartism, Heroes and Hero-Worship, Sartor Resartus, Past and +Present, Latter-Day Pamphlets, Life of Sterling, History French +Revolution, Life of Frederick the Great, etc. A vigorous, opinionated +writer, with a style which is vivid and picturesque, but often wordy +and obscure. A man of great but wayward intellectual powers. _See +Eclectic Mag. 1881. Reminiscences by Carlyle; Letters of Jane Welsh +Carlyle, and Emerson and Carlyle._ _Pub. Hon. Har. Lip._ + +=Carpenter, Lant.= 1780-1840. Theological writer. + +=Carpenter, Wm. Benj.= 181 Physiologist of note. Son to L. C. +Author of Principles of Human Physiology, Zoölogy, and the Instinct of +Animals, The Microscope, etc. _Pub. Apl._ + +=Carr, J. Comyns.= 184 Art Critic and Editor. Author of Drawing +by the Italian Masters, St. Albans, Essays, etc. + +=Carte, Thos.= 1686-1754. Historian. Author Hist. England to 1654. + +=Carter, Elizabeth.= 1717-1806. Classical writer. Author of a +translation of Epictetus and original poems. The most learned woman of +her time. + +=Cartwright, Wm.= 1611-1643. Poet. He enjoyed a great reputation in +his day. + +=Carey, Henry Francis.= 1772-1844. Poet. Author of a much admired +blank verse translation of Dante. _See Memoirs of, by his son, 1847._ + +=Caxton, Wm.= 1412-1492. The first Eng. printer. Was author and +translator of some 60 books. + +=Cayley, Arthur.= 182 Mathematical writer. + +=Cecil [s[)e]s´il or sis´il], Wm.= 1520-1598. Statesman. Author of +Precepts addressed to his son. + +=Centlivre [sent-l[)i]v´er], Mrs. Susanna.= 1680-1723. Dramatist. Her +best comedies are The Busybody and The Wonder, the last of which still +keeps the stage. _See Atlantic Monthly, June, 1882._ + +=Challoner, Bp. Richard.= 1691-1781. Author of an Eng. version of the +Bible, Grounds of the Catholic Doctrine, etc. + +=Chalmers [chaw´merz], George.= 1742-1825. Scotch historian. + +=Chalmers, Thomas.= 1780-1847. Scotch theologian. The most powerful +preacher of his time. Author of Natural Theology, Christian Evidences, +etc. _See Memoirs of, by Wm. Hanna; do. by F. Wayland; also, Spare +Hours, 1st series, by Dr. John Brown._ _Pub. Har._ + +=Chamberlayne, Wm.= 1619-1689. Poet. Author Love's Victory and +Pharonidia. + +=Chambers, Robert.= 1802-1871. Scotch publisher. Author of the noted +Vestiges of the Nat. Hist. of Creation, etc. _See Memoirs of, by W. +Chambers._ + +=Chambers, Wm.= 1800-1883. Scotch publisher. Bro. to R. C. Author +Memoirs of Rob't Chambers, Wintering at Mentone, etc. The brothers +were joint editors of many popular works: Information for the People, +Encyclopædia, Book of Days, Miscellany, etc. _Pub. Lip._ + +=Chapman, George.= 1557-1634. Dramatist. Chiefly noted for a fine +translation of Homer in 14-syllable verse. _See his Homer, 4 vols., +London, 1858_; _Dramatic Works, 1873_; _George Chapman, by Swinburne._ + +=Chapone [sh[)a]-p[=o]n´], Mrs. Hester.= 1727-1801. Author of +treatises on Morals and Philosophy. + +=Charles, Mrs. Elizabeth Rundle.= 182 Author of the noted +Schönberg-Cotta Family, and other excellent semi-religious stories. +_Pub. Do._ + +=Charlesworth, Maria Louisa.= 1830-1880. Author of much religious +fiction, of which Ministering Children is the best example. _Pub. Apl. +Ca._ + +=Chatham, Lord.= See Pitt, Wm. + +=Chatterton, Thomas.= 1752-1770. Poet. Author of imitations of old +Eng. poetry, which for a short time deceived the scholars of that day, +and as the work of a boy of 17 were very remarkable. _See Chatterton, +a Biographical Study, by Daniel Wilson, London, 1870._ _Pub. Hou._ + +=Chaucer, Geoffrey.= 1340-1400. Poet. Author of numerous lesser poems, +but The Canterbury Tales is his greatest work. He is rightly called +the Father of Eng. Song, since it is with him that Eng. poetry really +begins. He gave form to the language, and blended the French and Eng. +influences into a harmonious whole. His verse, in the main, is easy +and musical, and shows a love of nature. _See publications of the +Chaucer Society._ _Chaucer, by A. W. Ward._ _See Gilman's edition of +Chaucer in 3 vols., 1879._ _Pub. Hou._ + +=Chesterfield, Earl of.= See Stanhope, Philip. + +=Chettle, Henry. Fl.= c. 1600. Dramatist. Prolific, but valueless. + +=Chillingworth, Wm.= 1602-1644. Theologian. Author of Religion of +Protestants a Safe Way to Salvation, a celebrated work. _See Oxford +edition, 3 vols., 8vo, 1838._ + +=Chitty, Joseph.= 1776-1841. Jurist. Author of Practical Treatise on +Criminal Law, Synopsis of Practice, and other invaluable legal +text-books. _Pub. Lip._ + +=Chorley, Henry Fothergill.= 1808-1872. Musical critic. Author Thirty +Years' Musical Recollections, Criticisms on Modern German Music, etc., +and of numerous songs and opera librettos. _See Autobiography, Memoirs +and Letters, 2 vols., London, 1873._ _Pub. Ho._ + +=Christmas, Henry.= See Noel-Fearn. + +=Church, Alfred John.= 182 Stories from Homer, Stories from +Virgil, Poems, etc. Of the poems, Unseen is one of the best. _Pub. +Har._ + +=Church, Richard Wm.= 181 Author Life of Anselm, University +Sermons, Civilization before and after Christianity, Sacred Poetry of +Early Religions, Spenser in Eng. Men of Letters, etc. _Pub. Har. Mac._ + +=Churchill, Charles.= 1731-1764. Satirical poet. The Rosciad is his +chief work. Was at one time an extremely popular poet. _See Essay on, +by Macaulay._ + +=Cibber [s[)i]b´ber], Colley.= 1671-1757. Dramatist. Author of The +Careless Husband, She Would and She Would Not, and some 20 other +plays. _See his Apology for his Life._ + +=Clare, John.= 1793-1864. Pastoral poet. Author Poems of Rural Life +and Scenery, etc. Some of his verse has great beauty. _See J. L. +Cherry's Life of, London, 1873._ + +=Clarendon, Earl of.= See Hyde, Edward. + +=Clarke, Adam.= 1760-1832. Irish bibliographer. Author Commentary on +the Bible, Bibliographical Dict., Succession of Sacred Lit., etc. An +industrious, careful writer. _Pub. Phi._ + +=Clarke, Charles Cowden.= 1787-1877. Author of Shakespeare Characters, +Molière Characters, Riches of Chaucer, etc. _Pub. Scr._ + +=Clarke, Mrs. Mary Cowden.= 180 Wife to C. C. C. Shakespearean +scholar. Author of the noted Concordance of Shakespeare, World-Noted +Women, and several vols. of verse. With her husband was editor of an +annotated edition of Shakespeare, 1869. _Pub. Cas. Lit._ + +=Clarke, Samuel.= 1675-1729. Metaphysician. Author of numerous +metaphysical works written in a simple yet vigorous and eloquent +style. + +=Cleveland, John.= 1613-1658. Poet. A famous Cavalier writer. His +verse is satirical and amatory in character. + +=Clifford, Wm. Kingdon.= 1845-1879. Scientist. Author Lect. and +Essays, Elements of Dynamics, Seeing and Thinking, and Mathematical +Papers. _See biographical introduction to Lect. and Essays, by F. +Pollock._ _Pub. Mac._ + +=Clive, Mrs. Archer.= 180 Novelist. Author Paul Ferrol, Why Paul +Ferrol Killed his Wife, etc. + +=Clough [kluf], Arthur Hugh.= 1819-1861. Author of The Bothie of +Tober-na Vuolich, Amours de Voyage, both hexameter poems, Dipsychus, +and minor poems. His verse shows a mastery of metre and a thoughtful, +earnest spirit. _See Atlantic Monthly, April, 1862_; _Hutton's Essays; +Matthew Arnold's Essays in Criticism_; _Ward's Eng. Poets, vol. 4._ +_Pub. Ho. Mac._ + +=Cobbe, Frances Power.= 182 Philosophical writer. Author of +Intuitive Morals, Religious Duty, Darwinism in Morals, The Peak in +Darien, Duties of Women, etc. A clear, able, and vigorous writer. +_Pub. El._ + +=Cobbett, Wm.= 1762-1835. Political writer. Style idiomatic and +rancorous. _See Robert Walker's How to Get on in the World, as +Demonstrated by the Life and Language of William Cobbett._ + +=Cobden, Richard.= 1804-1865. Statesman. _See Political Writings of +London, 1867_; _Speeches, etc., in London, 1870_; _Gilchrist's Life +of, 1865_; _and Recollections of, by Ashworth_. _Pub. Apl._ + +=Cockburn [k[=o]´burn], Henry Thos., Lord.= 1779-1854. Jurist. Author +Life and Correspondence of Lord Jeffrey, and Memorials of his Times. + +=Coke, Sir Edward.= c. 1549-1634. Jurist. Best known by his famous +Coke upon Littleton, or the First Institute. + +=Colenso, John Wm.= 1814-1883. Bp. Natal. Theologian. Author of The +Pentateuch and Joshua Critically Examined, Lect. on the Pentateuch and +Moabite Stone, etc. An able and vigorous writer. + +=Coleridge [k[=o]l´r[)i]j], Hartley.= 1796-1849. Poet. Son to S. T. C. +Author of Poems, Essays, Life of Massinger, etc. Style in both prose +and verse clear and beautiful. _See Ward's Eng. Poets, vol. 4._ + +=Coleridge, Henry Nelson.= 1800-1843. Neph. to S. T. C. Essayist. +Style able and scholarly. + +=Coleridge, John Taylor.= 1790-1876. Neph. to S. T. C. Author of an +annotated Blackstone, Memoir of John Keble, etc. + +=Coleridge, Samuel Taylor.= 1772-1834. Poet and philosopher. Author of +The Ancient Mariner, Christabel, Kubla Khan, etc., in verse; Lect. on +Shakespeare, Table-Talk, The Friend, Biographia Literaria, etc., in +prose. A man of great genius, who accomplished little commensurate +with it. His best, however, is unsurpassable. _See 9 vol. edition, N. +Y., 1853-4._ _See Gilman's Life of_; _Personal Recollections of Joseph +Cottle_. + +=Coleridge, Sara.= 1803-1852. Dau. to S. T. C. and wife to H. N. C. +Editor of her father's works, and author of the exquisite romance +Phantasmion. A writer of much critical ability. _See Memoir of._ _Pub. +Har. 1873._ + +=Collier, Jeremy.= 1650-1726. Theologian. His famous pamphlet against +the immorality of the stage greatly helped to purify Eng. literature. + +=Collier, John Payne.= 1789-1883. Shakespearean scholar. Best known in +connection with the famous Collier MSS. of Notes and Emendations to +the text of Shakespeare. _See Atlantic Monthly, Oct., 1859, and Sept., +1861._ _Pub. Scr._ + +=Collins, Mortimer.= 1827-1876. Novelist. Author Sweet Anne Page, +Marquis and Merchant, etc. _Pub. Apl. Har._ + +=Collins, Wm.= 1720-1756. Poet. Famous for his musical odes, as The +Passions, Evening, and the poem How Sleep the Brave. C. occupies a +high place among minor poets. _See Johnson's Lives of the Poets._ + +=Collins, Wm. Wilkie.= 182 Novelist. Excels all other novelists +in the construction of plots. The Woman in White is his most famous +story. _Pub. Har._ + +=Colman, George.= 1733-1794. Dramatist. Composed nearly 30 comedies, +of which The Jealous Wife is one of the best. + +=Colman, George.= The Younger. 1762-1836. Dramatist. Son to preceding. +A writer of spirited comedies, such as The Heir-at-Law, Poor +Gentleman, John Bull, The Iron Chest, etc. + +=Combe [koom], Andrew.= 1797-1847. Scotch physiological writer. _Pub. +Har._ + +=Combe, George.= 1788-1858. Scotch phrenologist. Bro. to A. C. Author +Constitution of Man, etc. _See H. Martineau's Biographical Sketches +and Capen's Reminiscences of G. Combe._ _Pub. Har._ + +=Congreve [k[)o]ng´gr[=e]v], Wm.= 1670-1729. Dramatist. Author of the +tragedy of The Mourning Bride, and of The Double Dealer, Old Bachelor, +Love for Love, and other coarse but brilliant comedies. _See edition +by Leigh Hunt, London, 1849._ + +=Conybeare [k[)u]n´[)i]-b[)e]r], John.= 1692-1755. Theologian of note. + +=Conybeare, John Josias.= 1779-1824. Grandson to J. C. Antiquary. +Author of Illustrations of Anglo-Saxon Poetry, a work of much value. + +=Conybeare, Wm. Daniel.= 1787-1857. Geological writer of note. + +=Conybeare, Wm. John.= ---- 1857. Theologian. Author with Dean Howson +of The Life and Epistles of St. Paul. _Pub. Ran. Scr._ + +=Cook, Eliza.= 181 Poet. Author of The Old Arm Chair, etc. Style +simple and tender. + +=Coombe [koom], Wm.= 1741-1823. A voluminous satirical and humorous +writer, best known by his poem Dr. Syntax. _Pub. Rou._ + +=Cooper, Anthony Ashley.= 3d Earl of Shaftesbury. 1671-1713. Ethical +writer. Author of Characteristics of Men, etc. + +=Copleston [kop´[e^]l-st[o^]n], Edward.= 1776-1849. Bp. Llandaff. +Theological writer. + +=Corbet, Richard.= 1562-1635. Bp. Norwich. Poet of indifferent merit. + +=Cornwall, Barry=. See Procter, B. W. + +=Coryat, Thomas.= 1577-1617. Writer of travels. Best known by Coryat's +Crudities, entertaining, but full of affectations. + +=Costello, Dudley.= 1803-1865. Novelist. Author Stories from a Screen, +Faint Heart Never Won Fair Lady, The Millionaire, etc. + +=Costello, Louisa Stuart.= 1815-1870. Novelist and writer of travels. +Sister to D. C. Author of The Queen Mother, the Rose Garden of Persia, +etc. + +=Cottle, Joseph.= 1770-1853. Poet. Best known, however, by his +Reminiscences of Coleridge and Southey. + +=Cotton, Charles.= 1630-1687. Poet and translator of Montaigne. + +=Cotton, Nathaniel.= 1721-1788. Poet. Author Visions in Verse, +Miscellanies. + +=Cotton, Sir Robert.= 1570-1631. Antiquary and historical collector. + +=Coverdale, Miles.= 1487-1568. Bp. Exeter. Translator, with Tyndale, +of the Bible. The first translation of the whole Bible was by C., and +appeared in 1635. + +=Cowley, Abraham.= 1618-1667. Poet and essayist. His popularity, once +great, is now slight. His verse is ingenious, but contains little +poetic feeling. His most pretentious poem is The Davideis. _See +Aikin's edition, 3 vols., 1802._ + +=Cowper [koo´per or kow´per], Wm.= 1731-1800. Poet. His verse is +mainly religious or didactic, but his humorous ballad of John Gilpin +is widely famous. He was the author of many beautiful and well-known +hymns, of a long poem, The Task, and the exquisite Lines on My +Mother's Picture. Style quiet and meditative. _The best edition of C. +is that by Southey, with biography, 1838._ _See Cowper, by Goldwin +Smith, in Eng. Men of Letters._ + +=Cox, Sir George W.= 182 Historian. Author Hist. of Greece, +Mythology of the Aryan Nations, Tales of Ancient Greece, etc. _Pub. +Apl. Har. Ho._ + +=Coxe, Wm.= 1744-1828. Historian. Author Hist. House of Austria, Kings +of Spain, Memoirs of Duke of Marlborough, etc. A standard writer. +_Pub. Apl._ + +=Crabbe, George.= 1754-1832. Poet. Writer of realistic, matter-of-fact +narrative poems: The Village, The Parish Register, etc. _See complete +edition of 1834, 8 vols., with Life._ _See Atlantic Monthly, May, +1880, "A Neglected Poet."_ + +=Crabbe, George.= 1778-1834. Philologist. Author of Hist. Eng. Law and +a noted work on Eng. Synonyms. _Pub. Har._ + +=Craig-Knox, Mrs. Isa.= 183 Scotch poet. Author Ode to Burns, +Duchess Agnes, etc. _Pub. Cas._ + +=Craik, Mrs. Dinah Maria Mulock.= 182 Novelist and poet. Author +of quiet, helpful, earnest stories, among which John Halifax, +Gentleman, is the most noted. Others are, A Brave Lady, A Noble Life, +A Woman's Kingdom, Mistress and Maid, etc. Philip My King and Douglas +are two of her finest poems. _Pub. Har. Hou. Mac._ + +=Craik, George Lillie.= 1799-1866. Historian. Author of a valuable +Hist. Eng. Lit., The English of Shakespeare, Bacon and his Philosophy, +etc. _See Rolfe's Craik's English of Shakespeare._ _Pub. Scr._ + +=Cranmer, Thos.= 1489-1555. Abp. Canterbury. Theologian. _See +Archdeacon Todd's Life of, 1831._ + +=Crashaw [cr[)a]sh´aw], Richard.= c. 1620-1650. Poet. Author of Steps +to the Temple, etc. His verse is fanciful and mystical, but always +melodious. _See Turnbull's complete edition of London, 1858._ _See G. +MacDonald's England's Antiphon and Cornhill Mag., April, 1883._ + +=Creasy, Sir Edward Shepherd.= 1812-1878. Historian. Author Fifteen +Decisive Battles of the World, Hist. Ottoman Turks, Hist. of England. +_Pub. Ho. Har._ + +=Croker, John Wilson.= 1780-1857. Essayist and historical writer. +Style caustic and vigorous. _See H. Martineau's Biographical +Sketches._ + +=Croker, Thos. Crofton.= 1798-1854. Irish novelist. Author of romances +and fairy tales, the latter of great beauty. + +=Croly, George.= 1780-1860. Irish poet. Author Angel of the World, +Catiline, etc. His verse has a showy, tinsel brilliancy. _Pub. Har. +Rou._ + +=Cruden [kroo´den], Alexander.= 1701-1770. Scotch theologian. Famous +as the author of the well-known Concordance to the Bible. _Pub. Lip. +Ran. Wh._ + +=Cudlip, Mrs. Annie Pender=, "Annie Thomas." 18-- ----. Novelist. +Author Denis Donne, A Passion in Tatters, Playing for High Stakes, +etc. _Pub. Har._ + +=Cudworth, Ralph.= 1617-1688. Philosopher. His True Intellectual +System ranks among Eng. prose classics. _See edition 1845, 3 vols._ + +=Cumberland, Richard.= 1632-1718. Bp. Peterborough. Philosophical +writer. + +=Cumberland, Richard.= 1732-1811. Great-grandson to preceding. Poet +and dramatist. Wrote The West Indian, Wheel of Fortune, and other +rather sentimental comedies. _See edition of his dramas, by Jansen, +1813._ + +=Cumming, John.= 1810-1881. Scotch theologian and popular London +preacher. Author Apocalyptic Sketches, Fall of Babylon Foreshadowed, +etc. + +=Cunningham, Allan=. 1785-1842. Scotch poet and critic. C. wrote many +spirited songs, among which A Wet Sheet and a Flowing Sea is best +known. Author Hist. British Painters, Life of Wilkie, etc. _See Poems +and Songs of, edited by Peter Cunningham, 1847._ _Pub. Har._ + +=Cunningham, John.= 1729-1773. Irish lyrical poet. + +=Cunningham, John Wm.= 1780-1861. Poet. + +=Cunningham, Peter.= 1816-1869. Son to A. C. Antiquary. Author +Handbook of London, Modern London, Memoir of J. M. W. Turner, etc. + + + + +=Dalrymple, Sir David.= 1726-1792. Scotch historian. Author Annals of +Scotland, etc. + +=Dalrymple, John Hamilton.= 1726-1810. Scotch historian. Author +Memoirs of Great Britain. + +=Daniel, Samuel.= 1562-1619. Poet and historian. D. wrote a Hist. of +the Civil Wars in 8-line stanzas, also a prose Hist. of England. _See +Campbell's Specimens of Eng. Poets._ + +=D'Arblay, Madame,= _née_ =Frances Burney.= 1752-1840. Novelist. +Author Evelina, Cecilia, Camilla, etc. _See her Diary, pub. 1846; also +Contemporary Rev., Dec., 1882._ _Pub. Har. Rob._ + +=Darwin, Chas. Robert.= 1809-1882. Naturalist. The most notable +scientist of the age, and the originator of the Evolution Theory. He +had a clear, well-balanced mind, and his statements are based on +careful observation and reflection. Origin of Species, Variation under +Domestication, Expression of Emotion in Man and Animals, Descent of +Man, Insectivorous Plants, and Movements in Plants are his chief +works. _See Atlantic Monthly, June, 1882; Century Mag., Jan., 1883._ +_Pub. Apl._ + +=Darwin, Erasmus.= 1731-1802. Grandfather to C. D. Poet and physician. +Author of The Botanic Garden, a hard, metallic poem of a scientific +cast, polished and elaborated to excess. _See Miss Seward's Memoirs +of; Craik's Eng. Lit., vol. 2; Krause's Life of._ + +=Davenant, Sir Wm.= 1605-1688. Dramatist. D. wrote 25 comedies and +tragedies, and the long and feeble heroic poem Gondibert. _See Ward's +Eng. Poets, vol. 2._ + +=Davies, Sir John.= 1570-1626. Poet. Author of Nosce Teipsum, a poem +on the immortality of the soul, of great power and beauty, and a +poetical treatise on dancing, entitled Orchestra. _See Grosart's +complete edition, 1876._ _See Ward's Eng. Poets, vol. 1._ + +=Davy, Sir Humphrey.= 1778-1829. Chemist. Author Researches Chemical +and Philosophical, Elements of Chemical Philosophy, Consolations of +Travel, etc. _See Life and Works of, by John Davy, 9 vols., London, +1840._ _Pub. Rob._ + +=Day, Thomas.= 1748-1789. Author of the famous juvenile tale Sandford +and Merton. _Pub. Har. Hou. Rob._ + +=Defoe, Daniel.= 1661-1731. Political writer and novelist. His stories +form the link connecting the tales and romances of the 17th cent. with +the novel of the 18th. Moll Flanders, Capt. Singleton, and Robinson +Crusoe are among his chief works. Style lively, rapid, and realistic. +_See Oxford edition, 20 vols., 1840._ _See Life, by Lee, 3 vols.; +also, Defoe, by Wm. Minto, in Eng. Men of Letters._ + +=Dekker, Thomas.= c. 1570-1641. Dramatist. Author Satiriomastix, etc. +D. wrote mainly with other dramatists, but so far as his separate work +can be traced, it shows tenderness and pathos. _See Eng. edition of +Dekker, 1873._ _See Ward's Eng. Poets, vol. 2._ + +=De la Rame [deh-lä-rä-m[=a]´], Louisa=, "Ouida." 184 Novelist. +Author of Strathmore, Moths, Bebée, Wanda, etc. An entertaining, +sprightly writer, of much genius, whose works are of a doubtful moral +tendency. _Pub. Lip._ + +=De Morgan, Augustus.= 1806-1871. Mathematician. Author Essays on +Probabilities, Formal Logic, Paradoxes and Problems, etc. + +=Denham, Sir John.= 1615-1668. Poet. His poem Cooper's Hill shows fine +descriptive powers. _See Ward's Eng. Poets, vol. 2._ + +=Dennis, John.= 1657-1734. Dramatist and critic. Author of A Plot and +No Plot, Appius and Virginia, The Usefulness of the Stage, The +Grounds of Criticism, etc. + +=De Quincey, Thomas.= 1785-1859. Critic and essayist. A great master +of Eng. prose. He possessed great acuteness and fine descriptive +powers, but lacked creative ability. Confessions of an Opium-Eater and +Murder Considered as one of the Fine Arts are two of the best examples +of his style. _See Page's Life of, 1877; Biographical Sketches by H. +Martineau._ _Pub. Hou._ + +=Derby, Earl of.= See Stanley, Edward G. S. + +=De Redcliffe, Lord Stratford.= 1788-1880. Poet and theologian. + +=De Vere, Sir Aubrey.= 1788-1846. Irish poet. Author Julian the +Apostate, etc. + +=De Vere, Aubrey Thos.= 181 Irish poet. Son to preceding. Author +May Carols, Irish Odes, The Sisters, etc. His verse is pleasing, and +possesses merit. + +=De Vere, Edward.= Earl of Oxford. 1545-1604. Poet. + +=Dibdin, Charles.= 1745-1814. Poet and miscellaneous writer. Author of +a complete Hist. of the Eng. Stage, but best known by his naval songs, +over 1200 in number. _For the latter, see Hogarth's edition, 1843._ + +=Dibdin, Thos.= 1771-1841. Son to C. D. A prolific song-writer and +playwright. Author of a Metrical Hist. of England, etc. + +=Dibdin, Thos. Frognall.= 1776-1847. Bibliographer. Neph. to C. D. +Author Bibliomania, Typographical Antiquities of Gt. Britain, +Bibliographical Decameron, etc. + +=Dicey, Edward Stephen.= 183 Journalist. Author Memoir of +Cavour, Rome in 1860, The Schleswig-Holstein War, etc. + +=Dick, Thomas.= 1772-1857. Scotch writer. The Christian Philosopher is +his best known work. _Pub. Har. Clx. Phi._ + +=Dickens, Charles.= 1812-1870. Novelist. Author of some 30 novels and +tales, all bearing marks of genius and originality. He is widely read +and admired, and his novels delight readers of all ages. His principal +faults consist in elaborating and dwelling on the grotesque and +unattractive side of humanity, and in overstraining the pathetic +portions of his novels. Pickwick Papers, Nicholas Nickleby, Tale of +Two Cities, David Copperfield, Oliver Twist, and the Christmas Carol +are among the best of his works. _See Fields's Yesterdays with +Authors, and Lives by Forster and Mackenzie._ _Pub. Apt. Est. Har. +Hou. Le. Lip. Lit. Pet. Por. Rou. Os._ + +=Digby, Sir Kenelm.= 1603-1665. Philosophical writer. + +=Digby, Kenelm Henry.= 180 Archæologist. Author Mores Catholici, +The Broad Stone of Honor, etc. An industrious and careful writer. + +=Dilke, Chas. Wentworth.= 1789-1864. Critical writer of note. + +=Dilke, Sir Chas. Wentworth.= 184 Grandson to preceding. +Traveler and political writer. Author Greater Britain, The Fall of +Prince Florestan of Monaco, etc. _Pub. Har. Lip. Mac._ + +=Dillon, Wentworth.= Earl of Roscommon. 1633-1684. Poet. Essay on +Translated Verse is his chief work. Style elegant and cold. + +=Disraeli [diz-r[=a]´el-ee], Benj.= 1805-1881. Novelist and statesman. +Son to I. D. A talented and successful writer, possessed of great +energy and strength of will. In his novels the leading people of his +time are satirized. Vivian Gray, his first novel, and Endymion, his +last, appeared fifty-five years apart. Others are Contarini Fleming, +Henrietta Temple, Coningsby, Venetia, Tancred, and Lothair, all +brilliant and showy productions. _Pub. Apl. Har._ + +=Disraeli, Isaac.= 1766-1848. An industrious writer of miscellaneous +works, the best known being Curiosities of Lit., Calamities of +Authors, Quarrels of Authors, etc. _See edition of, by his son, 1850._ +_Pub. Arm. Har. Rou._ + +=Dixon, Wm. Hepworth.= 1821-1879. Historian and biographer. Author +Personal Hist. of Lord Bacon, New America, Hist. of Two Queens, Her +Majesty's Tower, etc. _Pub. Har. Lip._ + +=Dobell [d[)o]-bell´], Sydney.= 1824-1874. Poet. A writer who has an +honorable place among modern minor poets. Author of The Roman, Balder, +etc. _See Stedman's Victorian Poets; Ward's Eng. Poets, vol. 4._ _See +complete English edition, 1875; also, Life and Letters of, London, +1879._ + +=Dobson, Austin.= 184 Poet and critic. Author Vignettes in +Rhyme, Proverbs in Porcelain, etc. An exceedingly graceful writer, +whose poems all show a cultivated imagination and much tenderness of +expression. Among the best are After Sedan, The Dead Letter, and The +Young Musician. Fielding, in Eng. Men of Letters, is his chief prose +work. _Pub. Ho._ + +=Doddridge, Philip.= 1702-1751. Moralist. Author Rise and Progress of +Religion in the Soul, Family Expositor, Hymns, etc. Style plain and +simple. _See edition of, Leeds, 1802, 10 vols.; also, Life and +Correspondence, 5 vols., London, 1831, and Life, by D. A. Harsha._ + +=Dodsley, Robert.= 1703-1764. Poet and publisher. Author Economy of +Human Life, etc. Best known by his Collection of Old Plays. _See +edition by W. Carew Hazlitt, 1875._ + +=Donne [d[)o]n], John.= 1573-1631. Poet and theologian. His +versification is rugged, and his style obscure and fantastic, but his +poems, both religious and amatory, contain much beauty of thought. His +seven Satires are vigorous efforts. _See Ward's Eng. Poets, vol. 1._ +_See Dean Alford's 6 vol. edition, 8vo, London, 1838._ _Pub. Hou._ + +=Doran, John.= 1807-1878. Biographer. Author Lives of Queens of the +House of Hanover, Monarchs Retired from Business, Hist. Court Fools, +New Pictures and Old Panels, etc. _Pub. Arm._ + +=Dorset, 6th Earl of.= See Sackville, Geo. + +=Dorset, 1st Earl of.= See Sackville, Thos. See Buckhurst, Lord. + +=Douglas, Gawain.= 1474-1522. Bp. Dunkeld. Scotch poet. D. was the +first metrical translator of Virgil in Gt. Britain. _See Ward's Eng. +Poets, vol. 1._ _See complete Eng. edition by J. Small, 1874._ + +=Dowden, Edward.= 184 Poet and Shakespearean scholar. Author +Shakespeare's Mind and Art, Southey, in Eng. Men of Letters, Poems, +etc. _Pub. Har._ + +=Drayton, Michael.= 1563-1631. Poet. His chief work is the Polyolbion, +a poetical description of Britain in 100,000 lines. A far better work +is the Nymphidia, an exquisitely graceful, mock heroic fairy poem. +_See Ward's Eng. Poets, vol. 1._ + +=Drummond, William= [of Hawthornden]. 1585-1649. Scotch poet. His +Sonnets are his best production. _See Memoirs by Masson, 1863._ +_Ward's Eng. Poets, vol. 1._ + +=Dryden, John.= 1631-1700. Poet and dramatist. His verse takes a wide +range: in satire we have Absalom and Achitophel, MacFlecknoe, etc.; in +theology, Religio Laici, Hind and Panther, etc.; in drama, some thirty +plays; in translation, his Virgil; and in lyric poetry, his +magnificent Ode for St. Cecilia's Day. D. had great genius, not always +worthily employed. His dramas, when not stilted, are licentious, and +as a satirist he is bitter, personal, and coarse. _See Masson's +Essays, and Lowell's Among My Books; also, Dryden, by Saintsbury, in +Eng. Men of Letters._ _Pub. Hou. Har. Rou._ + +=Dugdale, Sir Wm.= 1605-1685. Antiquary. Author Antiquities of +Warwickshire, and other valuable antiquarian works. + +=Dunbar, Wm.= 1465-1530. Scotch poet. D. wrote The Thistle and Rose, +The Golden Terge, etc. His witty, striking, and original genius is +closely akin to that of Burns. _See Ward's Eng. Poets, vol. 1._ + +=D'Urfey, Thos.= 1650-1723. Dramatist. Witty, but coarse and immoral. + +=Dutt, Toru.= 1856-1877. Hindu poetess. A writer of much genius. +Ballads of Hindustan, and Sheafs Gleaned from French Fields, a vol. of +fine Eng. translations, are her chief works. _See Lit. World, June 17, +1882._ + +=Dyce, Alexander.= 1798-1869. Scotch Shakespearean scholar of note. +_See his edition of Shakespeare, with Glossary, 1867._ + +=Dyer, George.= 1755-1841. Author Hist. University of Cambridge, etc. + +=Dyer, John.= 1698-1758. Welsh poet. Author Grongar Hill, The Fleece, +and Ruins of Rome. His verse is natural and unaffected. _See Ward's +Eng. Poets, vol. 3._ + +=Dyer, Thos. Henry.= 180 Historian. Author Hist. Modern Europe, +Ancient Athens, Hist. Kings of Rome, Hist. City of Rome, and Life of +Calvin. _Pub. Lit._ + + + + +=Eadmer [[)e]d´mer].= ---- 1124. Bp. St. Andrews. Wrote a Latin Hist. +of his Own Time. + +=Earle, John.= 1601-1655. Bp. Worcester. The reputed author of the +Micosmography, a remarkable vol. of studies of character. + +=Eastlake, Sir Chas.= 1793-1865. Artist. Author Hist. Gothic Revival, +Materials for a Hist. Oil Painting, etc. _See Lady Eastlake's +Biography of, 1870._ + +=Eden [[=e]´den], Sir Fred'k Morton.= 1766-1809. Author of a valuable +Hist. of the Laboring Classes of England, etc. + +=Edgeworth, Maria.= 1767-1849. Novelist. Author Rosamond, Castle +Rackrent, Belinda, Helen, etc. Style didactic, but entertaining. Her +juvenile tales are numerous and popular. _See Study of Miss Edgeworth, +by Mrs. Oliver, 1882._ _Pub. Har. Lip. Rou._ + +=Edwards, Amelia Blandford.= 183 Novelist and Egyptologist. +Author Barbara's History, Lord Brackenbury, etc. A writer of much +talent, whose rank among Eng. novelists is a high one. _See Lit. +World, June 4, 1881._ _Pub. Har. Por. Rou._ + +=Edwards, Mrs. Annie.= 18-- ----. Novelist. Susan Fielding, Ought We to +Visit Her? and Archie Lovell are among the best of her excellent +novels. _Pub. Sh._ + +=Edwards, Matilda Betham.= 183 Novelist. Cousin to A. B. E. +Author Doctor Jacob, Kitty, etc. Style clear and picturesque. _Pub. +Har. Lip. Rob._ + +=Edwards, Richard.= 1523-1566. Poet. Principal author of the famous +poetical collection of his day, The Paradise of Dainty Devices. + +=Eliot, George.= See Evans, Marian. + +=Ellicott, Chas. John.= 181 Bp. Gloucester and Bristol. +Theologian. Author The New Testament Commentary, Historical Lect. on +the Life of Christ, etc. _Pub. Arm. Dra. Dut._ + +=Elliott, Ebenezer.= 1781-1849. Poet. Known as the Corn-Law Rhymer. +His verse is earnest and ardent, and shows much feeling. _See Life of, +by Searle._ _See Eng. edition, 1876._ + +=Ellis, George.= 1745-1815. Antiquarian of note. Best known by his +valuable work, Specimens of Early Eng. Poets. + +=Ellis, Sir Henry.= 1777-1869. Antiquarian writer. + +=Ellis, Mrs. Sarah [Stickney].= 1812-1872. Author Women of England, +Daughters of England, Wives of England, Mothers of England, etc. + +=Ellwood, Thos.= 1639-1713. Poet. Author of a dull poem entitled The +Davideis. + +=Elphinstone [[)e]l´fin-st[o^]n], James.= 1721-1809. Scotch +grammarian. + +=Elphinstone, Mountstuart.= 1779-1859. Historical writer. Author Hist. +of India, etc. + +=Elyot [[)e]l´[)i]-[o^]t], Sir Thos.= c. 1495-1546. Moralist. Author +Defence of Good Women, etc. + +=Emerson-Tennent, Sir James.= 1804-1869. Historical writer. + +=Erskine, Thos.= 1750-1823. Jurist. _See Select Speeches, with Memoir +by Walford, 2 vols., 8vo, London, 1870._ + +=Etheridge, Sir George.= 1636-1694. Comic dramatist. Author of The +Comical Revenge, She Would if She Could, etc. Style sprightly and +witty. _See Living Age, Apr. 30, 1881._ + +=Evans, Marian=, "George Eliot." 1820-1880. Novelist and poet. A +complete list of her works comprises translations of Strauss's Life of +Jesus and Feuerbach's Essence of Christianity; the novels, Scenes of +Clerical Life, Adam Bede, Mill on the Floss, Silas Marner, Romola, +Felix Holt, Middlemarch, and Daniel Deronda; the long poems, Spanish +Gypsy, Agatha, Legend of Jubal, and How Lisa Loved the King, with a +few short ones; and a vol. of essays, entitled Impressions of +Theophrastus Such. The strength of her novels lies in their wonderful +delineations of character, their subtle analysis of motive as acted on +by circumstance, and the lofty wisdom that infuses the whole. They +awaken the best impulses of humanity, and appeal to all the finer +sympathies. Her style is strongly marked, often picturesque, and her +descriptions clear and distinct. Her poems, though containing many +beautiful passages, do not, with one or two exceptions, take a high +rank. The best one is probably the famous O May I Join the Choir +Invisible. _See George Eliot, by Mathilde Blind; Hutton's Essays; +Cent. Mag., Nov., 1881; Eclectic Mag., April, 1881; Lit. World, Feb. +24, 1883; and Galaxy Mag., June, 1869._ + +=Evelyn, John.= 1620-1706. Agricultural writer. Author of Sylva Terra +and a famous Diary, which accurately reflects the manners of his time. +_See Diary and Letters of, edited by John Forster, 1857._ _See London +edition, 1875._ + + + + +=Faber Frederick William.= 1815-1863. Religious poet. Author of a +number of beautiful and popular Hymns. _Pub. Dut. Mur. Wh. Rou._ + +=Faber, George Stanley.= 1773-1854. Theologian. Author of The Sacred +Calendar of Prophecy, etc. Style clear and exact. + +=Fabyan, Robert,= c. 1456-1512. Chronicler. Wrote a Concordance of +Histories, which begins with Brutus and ends with his own time. + +=Fairfax, Edward.= ---- 1632. Poet. Author of a fine translation of +Tasso. _See Am. edition, 1855, 12mo._ + +=Falconer [fawk´ner], Wm.= 1730-1769. Scotch poet. Author of The +Shipwreck, a poem of considerable beauty, and a Marine Dict. _See +Campbell's Specimens of the Eng. Poets._ _Pub. Hou._ + +=Fanshawe, Sir Richard.= 1608-1666. Poet. Translator of Camoens's +Lusiad, and author of some graceful poems. + +=Faraday, Michael.= 1791-1867. Chemist. Author of numerous scientific +works, The Chemistry of a Candle, Physical Forces, etc. _See Life and +Letters of, 1870, by J. Bruce Jones, Tyndall's Faraday as a +Discoverer, and Life, by J. H. Gladstone._ _Pub. Har. Rou._ + +=Farjeon, Benjamin Leopold.= 183 Novelist. Joshua Marvel, Grif, +Blade-o'-Grass, London's Heart, and Bells of Penraven are among his +best works. Style akin to that of Dickens. _Pub. Har._ + +=Farmer, Richard.= 1735-1797. Shakespearean scholar. Author Essay on +the Learning of Shakespeare. + +=Farquhar [far´kwar or far´kär], George.= 1678-1707. Irish dramatist. +A writer of brilliant, sparkling comedies, full of good feeling. The +Beaux' Stratagem and The Recruiting Officer are the best. _See his +comedies edited by Leigh Hunt._ _See Atlantic Monthly, March, 1882._ + +=Farrar, Frederic Wm.= 183 Theologian. Author Life of Christ, +Eternal Hope, Life and Epistles of St. Paul, Seekers after God, etc. +Of several stories by him, St. Winifred's is perhaps the best. _Pub. +Cas. Dut. Fu. Lip. Mac._ + +=Fawcett, Henry.= 183 Writer on Political Economy. Author Free +Trade and Protection, Pauperism--its Causes and Remedies, Manual of +Political Economy, etc. _Pub. Mac._ + +=Fawcett, Millicent Garrett.= 184 Wife to H. F. Author Tales in +Political Economy, Political Economy for Beginners, etc. _Pub. Mac._ + +=Feltham, Owen.= c. 1608-1677. Essayist. Author Divine and Moral +Resolves. Style pointed and sententious. + +=Fenton, Elijah.= 1683-1730. Poet. Assisted Pope in translating the +Odyssey. His original verse is not unmusical. + +=Ferguson, Adam.= 1724-1816. Scotch historian and philosopher. Author +Hist. of Civil Society, Hist. Progress and Termination of Roman +Empire, etc. Style clear and scholarly. + +=Ferguson, James.= 1710-1776. Scotch philosophical and mathematical +writer. + +=Fergusson, James.= 180 Scotch architectural writer of note. +Author Hist. of Architecture. _Pub. Lit._ + +=Fergusson, Robert.= 1750-1774. Scotch poet. Author of The Farmer's +Ingle, etc. _See Ward's Eng. Poets, vol. 3._ + +=Ferrar, Nicholas.= 1592-1637. Religious writer. _See Atlantic +Monthly, Aug. 1871._ + +=Ferrier, James.= 1808-1864. Scotch metaphysician. His Institutes of +Metaphysics is a work of much learning and acuteness. + +=Ferrier, Susan Edmonstone.= 1782-1854. Scotch novelist. Aunt to J. +F. Author of Marriage, The Inheritance, and Destiny. Her works show +much humor and are piquant in style. _See Eng. edition 1841._ _See +Temple Bar, Nov., 1878, and London Lit. World, March 31, 1882._ _Pub. +Har. Rou._ + +=Fielding, Henry.= 1707-1754. Novelist. With Richardson he founded a +new school of fiction, distinguished by a careful study of character +and a more truthful drawing of human nature than what had preceded. +Joseph Andrews, Amelia, and Tom Jones, though stamped with the +coarseness of his age, will continue to be read for their originality, +wit, and acute reflections. _See Thackeray's Eng. Humorists, Masson's +Novelists and their Styles, and Dobson's Fielding in Eng. Men of +Letters._ _Pub. Har. Lit. Rou._ + +=Finlay, George.= 1800-1875. Scotch historian. Author Hist. Greece +under the Romans, Hist. Byzantine and Greek Empires, Hist. Greece +under Ottoman and Venetian Dominion, and Hist. of the Greek +Revolution. A standard authority. _Pub. Mac._ + +=Fisher, Edward.= 1620-1660. Welsh theologian. Author of a noted +controversial work called The Marrow of Modern Divinity. + +=Fitzgerald, Edward.= 1808-1883. Translator of note. Author of +scholarly translations of Omar Khayyam, Calderon, and Æschylus. + +=Fitzgerald, Percy.= 183 Novelist and littérateur. Author +Romance of the English Stage, etc. + +=Fitzgerald, Wm.= 181 Bp. Killaloe. Theologian. Author Holy +Scripture, The Ultimate Rule of Faith, Life of Butler, etc. + +=Flamsteed, John.= 1646-1719. Astronomical writer. + +=Fletcher, Sir Andrew= [of Saltoun]. 1663-1716. Political writer. _See +Erskine's Life of, 1792._ + +=Fletcher, Giles.= 1588-1623. Poet. Bro. to P. F. and cousin to J. F. +Author Christ's Victory and Triumph, a long poem in 8-line stanzas. +_See Works edited by Grosart, 1876._ _See Ward's Eng. Poets, vol. 2._ + +=Fletcher, John.= 1576-1625. Dramatist. Colleague of Beaumont. Among +plays attributed solely to F. are Rule a Wife and Have a Wife, +Beggar's Bush, and the exquisite pastoral drama The Faithful +Shepherdess. He wrote, also, portions of Shakespeare's Two Noble +Kinsmen and Henry VIII., perhaps his finest effort being the famous +Wolsey Soliloquy in the latter. See Beaumont, F. _See Dyce's edition, +1843._ _See Lamb's Specimens of the Dramatic Poets, Schlegel's +Dramatic Lit., and Ward's Eng. Poets, vol. 2._ + +=Fletcher, Mrs. Maria Jane.= [Jewsbury.] 1800-1833. Poet. + +=Fletcher, Phineas.= 1584-1650. Poet. Bro. to G. F. and cousin to J. +F. F. wrote a long and curious allegorical and anatomical poem, The +Purple Island. The subject, fantastically and minutely treated, is the +human body. _See Southey's Early Eng. Poets._ + +=Florio, John.= 1545-1625. Grammarian. + +=Fonblanque [f[)o]n-bl[)a]nk´], Albany.= 1797-1872. Journalist. Author +England under Seven Administrations. _See Life and Labors of, 1874._ + +=Foote, Samuel.= 1721-1777. Comic dramatist. The Liar and one or two +other farces of his still keep the stage. _See Fosters Essays and Life +by Coke, 1805._ + +=Forbes, Alexander Penrose.= 1817-1875. Bp. Brechin. Theologian. +Author Explanation of the Thirty-Nine Articles, etc. _See Memoir, +1876._ _Pub. Dut._ + +=Forbes, Archibald.= 183 Scotch journalist. Author Soldiering +and Scribbling, Glimpses through the Cannon Smoke, etc. _Pub. Osg. +Rou._ + +=Forbes, James David.= 1809-1868. Scientist. Author Theory of +Glaciers, etc. _See Life and Letters of by John C. Shairp, 1873._ + +=Ford, John.= 1586-1639. Dramatist. His plays all deal with unhappy +love, but are powerful though morbid. The Broken Heart, his best work, +is a masterpiece of pathos. His style possesses great beauty. _See +Moxon's edition Old Eng. Dramatists, and Swinburne's Essays and +Studies._ + +=Forrester, Mrs.= 18-- ----. Novelist. Author Dolores, Diana Carew, +Mignon, etc. _Pub. Lip._ + +=Forster, John.= 1812-1876. Essayist and biographer. Author lives of +Dickens, Goldsmith, Landor, Swift, Statesmen of the Commonwealth of +Eng., etc. _Pub. Apl. Har. Lip._ + +=Fortescue, Sir John.= c. 1395-1485. Legal writer. De Laudibus Legum +Angliæ. + +=Foster, John.= 1770-1843. Essayist. His style has both vigor and +beauty. _Pub. Ca._ + +=Fothergill, Jessie.= 18-- ----. Novelist. Author The First Violin, +Kith and Kin, One of Three, etc. _Pub. Ho._ + +=Fox, Chas. James.= 1749-1806. Orator and historian. _See edition of +his Speeches, 6 vols., London, 1815, and Life, by Geo. O. Trevelyan._ + +=Fox, George.= 1624-1690. Theological writer. Founder of the Society +of Friends. _See Life, by S. M. Janney._ + +=Fox, John.= 1517-1587. Martyrologist. Author of the famous Book of +Martyrs. _Pub. Cas. Clx._ + +=Francillon, R. E.= 184 Novelist. Author Under Slieve Ban, Rare +Good Luck, Queen Cophetua, etc. _Pub. Apl. Ho._ + +=Francis, Sir Philip.= 1740-1818. Political writer. Supposed author of +the famous Junius Letters, a series of powerful political tracts. _See +Junius, Johnson's Cyc._ _Pub. Rou._ + +=Fraser, James Baillie.= 1783-1856. Novelist and traveller. Author of +The Kuzzilbash, Hist. Persia, etc. _See Chambers Cyc. Eng. Lit., vol. +2._ + +=Freeman, Edward Augustus.= 182 Historian. Author Hist. Norman +Conquest, Wm. Rufus and Henry First, Hist. Architecture, Unity of +Hist., etc. An eminently thorough, accurate writer, whose Norman +Conquest is one of the most important of English histories. Style +animated and scholarly. _Pub. Ho. Mac._ + +=Fremantle, Wm. Henry.= 183 Theologian. Author The Gospel of the +Secular Life, Bampton Lect. 1883, etc. _Pub. Scr._ + +=Freer, Martha Walker.= 182 Historian. Author Life of Marguerite +of Navarre, Life of Henry III. of France, etc. + +=Frere [freer], John Hookham.= 1769-1846. Poet. A writer of merit in +translation and in original verse. _See Eng. edition of, 2 vols., +London, 1872._ + +=Friswell, James Hain.= 1827-1878. Essayist. Author Familiar Words, +The Gentle Life, Francis Spira and other Poems, etc. _Pub. Por._ + +=Froude [frood], James Anthony.= 181 Historian and essayist. +Author Hist. of England, The English in Ireland, Short Studies on +Great Subjects, The Nemesis of Faith, etc. His historical portraits +are brilliant and his historical grouping dramatic, but his judgments +of men and motives are open to criticism. All his works show great +labor and research. _Pub. Har. Scr._ + +=Froude, Richard Hurrel.= 1803-1836. Bro. to J. A. F. Religious +writer. _See Remains of, 4 vols., London, 1838._ + +=Fuller, Thomas.= 1608-1661. Historian and biographer. Author Ch. +Hist., Hist. of Worthies of England, Sermons, Holy State, etc. A +quaint, humorous, original writer of great eminence in his own day and +still read with pleasure. _See Life, by Russell, 1844._ _Pub. Dut. +Mac._ + +=Fullerton, Lady Georgiana.= 181 Novelist. Grantley Manor, +Constance Sherwood, Too Strange Not to be True, and Lady Bird, are +some of her works. _Pub. Apl. Cath. Pi._ + +=Furnivall, Fred'k James.= 182 Shakespearean scholar. Editor of +the Leopold Shakespeare. + +=Fyffe, Chas. Alan.= 184 Historian. Author Modern Europe, Hist. +Greece in Appleton's Hist. Primers, etc. _Pub. Apl. Ho._ + + + + +=Gale, Theophilus.= 1628-1678. Theologian. Author of The Court of the +Gentiles. + +=Galt, John.= 1779-1839. Scotch novelist. Author Annals of a Parish, +Ayrshire Legatees, Life Lord Byron, etc. A prolific writer who has +carefully drawn Scotch provincial and peasant life. _See +Autobiography, 1834._ _Pub. Har._ + +=Gardiner, Sam'l Rawson.= 182 Historian. Author of The 30 Years' +War, 1618-1648. Eng. Hist. for Students, etc. _Pub. Ho._ + +=Garrett, Edward.= See Mayo, Mrs. Isabella. + +=Garrick, David.= 1716-1779. Dramatist. Author Lying Valet, Miss In +her Teens, etc. _See Life, by Percy Fitzgerald, 1872._ + +=Garth, Samuel.= 1672-1719. Poet and physician. His mock epic, The +Dispensary, is a feeble work. _See Ward's English Poets, vol. 3._ + +=Gascoigne, Mrs. Caroline Leigh.= 181 Novelist and poet. Author +Doctor Harold, etc. + +=Gascoigne, George.= 1530-1577. Poet. The Steel Glass his chief work. +_See Ward's Eng. Poets, vol. 1._ + +=Gaskell, Mrs. Elizabeth Cleghorn.= 1810-1865. Novelist and +biographer. Author of Ruth, Sylvia's Lovers, Wives and Daughters, Mary +Barton, etc. Her books are earnest and well written; Cranford, in +fact, is almost a classic work, and her Life of Charlotte Brontë is a +much-admired biography. _See Lit. World, July 1, 1882._ _Pub. Apl. +Har._ + +=Gast, John.= 1715-1788. Irish historian. + +=Gatty, Alfred.= 181 Author The Vicar and His Duties, Study of +In Memoriam, etc. + +=Gatty, Mrs. Margaret.= 1809-1873. Wife to A. G. Author Parables from +Nature, The Fairy Godmother, Proverbs Illustrated, Aunt Judy's Tales, +etc. _Pub. Ca. Put._ + +=Gauden, John.= 1605-1664. Bp. Worcester. His Ik[=o]n Basilik[=e] +professed to be the work of Charles I., of whose sufferings it was an +account, and its true authorship has occasioned much controversy. + +=Gay, John.= 1688-1732. Poet and dramatist. G. wrote The Beggar's +Opera, a famous musical drama, and numerous other works. _See edition +of his Poems, London, 1806._ _See Ward's Eng. Poets, vol. 3, and Gay's +Fables edited by Austin Dobson._ _Pub. Apl._ + +=Gell [j[)e]l], Sir Wm.= 1777-1836. Archæologist. Author Topography of +Rome, etc. + +=Geoffrey [j[)e]f´r[)i]] of Dunstable.= ---- 1146. Author of a miracle +play of St. Catherine [1110], usually considered the first dramatic +work in any modern language. + +=Geoffrey of Monmouth.= c. 1100-1154. Bp. St. Asaph, Anglo-Saxon +Chronicler. + +=Gibbon, Edward.= 1737-1794. Historian. Author of the Decline and Fall +of the Roman Empire; a masterly work, artistically conceived and +carried out, with great research and careful detail. See Milman's +edition, 1845. _See Autobiography edited by Milman, 1839._ _Pub. Har. +Por._ + +=Gifford, Wm.= 1757-1826. Critic and reviewer. G. wrote the Baviad and +Mæviad, two sharp literary satires, and as editor of the Quarterly +Review was author of many bitter, satirical reviews. _See Hazlitt's +Spirit of the Age._ + +=Gilbert, Wm.= 1540-1603. Philosophical writer. Author De Magnete. + +=Gilbert, Wm.= 18-- ----. Novelist. Author De Profundis, etc. + +=Gilbert, Wm. Schevenck.= 183 Dramatist and humorous poet; son +to preceding. Author of The Bab Ballads, Original Plays, and of the +librettos of Pinafore, Pirates of Penzance, The Sorcerer, Patience, +Iolanthe, etc. _See Scribner's Mag., Sept. 1879._ _Pub. Por. Rou. +Scr._ + +=Gilchrist, Alexander.= 1827-1861. Biographer and art writer. Author +lives of Blake and Etty. + +=Gildas.= fl. c. 510. Anglo-Latin Chronicler. _See Stevenson's +edition, London, 1838._ + +=Gilfillan, George.= 1813-1878. Scotch miscellaneous writer. Author +Gallery of Literary Portraits, Life of Walter Scott, Bards of the +Bible, etc. _Pub. Har._ + +=Gilfillan, Robert.= c. 1798-1850. Scotch poet. + +=Gillies, John.= 1747-1836. Scotch historian. Author Hist. Ancient +Greece, etc. + +=Gilpin, John.= 1724-1804. Critic and biographer. Author Life of +Bernard Gilpin, etc. + +=Giraldus, Cambrensis.= 1147-1216. Welsh historian and poet. + +=Girdlestone, Chas.= 1797-1881. Religious writer. Author Concordance +to the Prayer-Book, etc. + +=Gladstone, Wm. Ewart.= 180 Statesman and essayist. Author of +Juventus Mundi, Homeric Studies, The Vatican Decrees, etc. Style +polished and able. _See Sketch of, by H. W. Lucy, Short Life of, by C. +H. Jones, and Life, by Geo. Barnett Smith._ _Also Harper's Mag., +April, 1882._ _Pub. Apl. Har. Scr._ + +=Gloucester [gl[)o]s-ter], Robert of.= fl. c. 1280. Rhyming +chronicler. + +=Glover, Richard.= 1712-1785. Poet. Author of Leonidas, an epic, +Hosier's Ghost, etc. _See Ward's Eng. Poets, vol. 3._ + +=Godwin, Mrs. Mary Wollstonecraft.= 1759-1797. Wife to W. G. Author +Vindication of the Rights of Women, etc. Style bold and able. _See +Atlantic Monthly, Dec. 1880._ + +=Godwin, Wm.= 1756-1836. Philosopher and novelist. Author Caleb +Williams, St. Leon, Cloudesly, Answer to Malthus, Political Justice, +etc. _See Life, by Kegan Paul, 1876, and Leslie Stephen's Hours in a +Library._ _Pub. Har._ + +=Goldsmith, Oliver.= 1728-1774. Irish poet and novelist. A writer of +great delicacy and purity of sentiment, possessing a simple, +delightful style. His poems, The Deserted Village and The Traveller, +are charming pieces of description; his comedies, The Good-Natured Man +and She Stoops to Conquer, are bright and sparkling, the latter being +perennially fresh; and his novel, The Vicar of Wakefield, is an Eng. +classic. _See Lives, by Prior, Forster, W. Irving, and Goldsmith by +Wm. Black in Eng. Men of Letters._ _See Select Poems of, edited by +W.J. Rolfe._ _Pub. Clx. Har._ + +=Good, John Mason.= 1764-1827. Physician and miscellaneous writer. +Author Study of Medicine, The Book of Nature, Medical Technology, etc. +_Pub. Har._ + +=Gordon, George, Lord Byron.= 1788-1824. Childe Harold, Prisoner of +Chillon, and Don Juan are his finest poems. A writer of great power +and strong personality, whose talent was warped by license and +self-will. Don Juan, his most brilliant poem, sins deeply against +morality. Manfred, The Giaour, and Lara are striking poems. _See Lives +by Galt, Moore, E. Brydges, Lake, and Elze; also, Byron, by Nichols, +in Eng. Men of Letters, and the Real Lord Byron by J. C. Jeaffreson._ +_See Quarterly Rev., July, 1868, and prefaces to respective editions +by Wm. Rossetti and A. C. Swinburne._ + +=Gore, Mrs. Catherine Grace.= 1799-1861. Novelist. A prolific writer +of society tales. Author of The Cabinet Minister, The Royal Favorite, +etc. _Pub. Har._ + +=Gosse, Edmund W.= 184 Poet and critic. Son to P. H. G. Author +of Viol and Flute, King Erik, New Poems, Grey in Eng. Men of Letters, +etc. A lyrist of much merit. _See Harper's Mag. May, 1882, "Some +London Poets."_ _Pub. Har. Ho._ + +=Gosse, Philip Henry.= 181 Zoölogist. Author Romance of Natural +Hist., Marine Zoölogy, Evenings with the Microscope, etc. _Pub. Apl. +A. T. S. Lip._ + +=Goulbourn, Edward Meyrick.= 181 Religious writer. Author +Thoughts on Personal Religion, The Holy Catholic Ch., Pursuit of +Holiness, etc. _Pub. Apl._ + +=Gould, Baring.= See Baring-Gould. + +=Gower, John.= 1350-1402. Poet. G. wrote the Speculum Meditantis, in +French, Vox Clamantis, in Latin, and Confessio Amantis in Eng. _See +edition, 3 vols. 8vo, London, 1857._ _See Ward's Eng. Poets, vol. 1; +also Rolfe's edition of Pericles._ + +=Græme [gr[=a]m], John.= 1748-1772. Scotch poet. + +=Graham, Ennis.= See Molesworth, Mrs. + +=Grahame, James.= 1765-1811. Scotch poet. Author of The Sabbath, etc. + +=Grahame, James, Marquis of Montrose.= 1612-1650. Lyric poet. Author +of the famous lyric My Dear and Only Love. _See Biographies by Napier, +1856, and Grant, 1858._ + +=Grahame, James.= 1790-1842. Scotch historian. Author Hist. U. S., +etc. Style dignified and impartial. + +=Granger, James.= 1716-1766. Historian. Author Biographical Hist. of +England. + +=Grant, Mrs. Anne= [of Laggan]. 1755-1838. Scotch poet and +miscellaneous writer. Author Memoirs of an American Lady [1808], etc. +_See Memoirs and Correspondence of, 3 vols., 1844._ _Pub. Mu._ + +=Grant, James.= 180 Journalist. Author of The Bench and the Bar, +Sketches in London, etc. + +=Grant, James.= 182 Scotch novelist. Author Hist. of India, and +a long list of novels which do not take a very high rank. _Pub. Cas. +Rou._ + +=Grattan, Thos. Colley.= 1796-1864. Irish novelist and poet. Author +Highways and Byways, Hist. of the Netherlands, etc. _Pub. Har._ + +=Gray, David.= 1831-1861. Scotch poet. Author of The Luggie, etc. _See +H. G. Bell's edition, 1874._ _See R. Buchanan's David Gray and Other +Essays, 1868._ + +=Gray, Thomas.= 1716-1771. Poet. Author of The Bard, Progress of +Poesy, Elegy in a Country Churchyard, etc. A writer of much refinement +of expression and quiet sentiment. The calm beauty of the Elegy has +made it one of the most popular of Eng. poems. _See Gray, by E. W. +Gosse, in Eng. Men of Letters, Mason's Biog., 1778, and Selected Poems +of, edited by W. J. Rolfe._ + +=Green, John Richard.= 1837-1883. Historian. Author Short Hist. of the +Eng. People, The Making of England, Stray Studies, Hist. of the Eng. +People, etc. A picturesque, accurate writer, with great originality +and clearness of style. _See N. Y. Nation, March 29, 1883, +Contemporary Rev., May, 1883, Journal of Education, June, 1883, +British Quarterly Rev., July, 1883, and Fortnightly Rev., May, 1883._ +_Pub. Apl. Har. Mac._ + +=Green, Matthew.= 1696-1737. Poet. The author of a curious reflective +poem called The Spleen. _See Ward's Eng. Poets, vol. 3._ + +=Greene, Robert.= 1560-1592. Dramatist. A prolific writer of humorous +plays, but now best known by his confession entitled Greene's Groat's +Worth of Wit bought with a Million of Repentance. _See Ward's Eng. +Poets, vol. 1._ + +=Greenwell, Dora.= 1821-1882. Poet and miscellaneous writer. Author +Stories That Might be True, The Patience of Hope, John Woolman, Camera +Obscura, A Present Heaven, etc. _Pub. Dut._ + +=Greg, Wm. Rathbone.= 1812-1881. Essayist. Author of Rocks Ahead, +Enigmas of Life, Literary and Social Judgments, Creed of Christendom, +etc., works of a thoughtful, pessimistic cast. _See Macmillan's Mag., +June, 1883._ _Pub. Ho._ + +=Grenville, George, Lord Nugent.= 1788-1850. Author Memorials of +Hampden, Lands Classical and Lay, etc. + +=Greville, Sir Fulke, Lord Brooke.= 1554-1628. Poet and philosopher. +Author Life of Sydney, etc. _See Grosart's edition of, 1870._ _See +Ward's Eng. Poets, vol. 1._ + +=Griffin, Gerald.= 1803-1840. Irish poet and novelist. Author of The +Collegians, etc. _See complete Eng. edition by Griffin, 1857._ _Pub. +Rou. Sad._ + +=Grindon, Leopold Hartley.= 181 Author Life--its Nature, +Varieties, and Phenomena, The Shakespeare Flora, etc. _Pub. Lip._ + +=Grosseteste [gr[=o]s-test], Robert.= c. 1175-1253. Bp. London. +Anglo-Norman poet. + +=Grote, George.= 1794-1871. Historian. Best known by his Hist. of +Greece, a standard work. _See Life, by Mrs. Grote, 1873._ _Pub. Har. +Lit._ + +=Grove, George.= 182 Musical critic. Author Dict. of Music and +Musicians, etc. _Pub. Mac._ + +=Guest, Lady Charlotte.= See Schreiber, Lady Charlotte. + +=Gunter, Edmund.= 1581-1626. Mathematical writer. Inventor of the +terms co-sine, co-tangent, etc. The phrase "according to Gunter" arose +from his scale of measurement being the standard one. + +=Gurney, Joseph John.= 1788-1847. Philanthropist. Author Notes on +Prison Discipline, and numerous religious works. _Pub. Lip._ + +=Guthrie [g[)u]th´r[)i]], Thomas.= 1803-1873. Scotch philanthropist. +Author Plea for Ragged Schools, Man and the Gospel, Out of Harness, +etc. _See Life, 1873._ _Pub. Ca._ + +=Guthrie, Wm.= 1708-1770. Scotch historian. Author Hist. of England, +Hist. of Scotland, etc. His works have been entirely superseded by +later authorities. + + + + +=Habington, Wm.= 1605-1654. Poet. An ingenious writer of love poems. +_See Eng. edition by Arber, 1870._ _See Ward's Eng. Poets, vol. 2._ + +=Hailes, Lord.= See Dalrymple, Sir D. + +=Hakluyt [h[)a]k´loot], Richard.= 1553-1616. Chronicler and +geographer. Hakluyt's Voyages is an important collection of narratives +of earlier or contemporary voyages. _See edition of, 5 vols. 4to, +London, 1809-12._ + +=Hale, Sir Matthew.= 1609-1676. Moral and religious writer. _See Life +by Burnet in Wordsworth's Ecclesiastical Biog._ + +=Hales, John.= 1584-1656. Polemical writer. Styled "The Ever +Memorable." Chiefly noted for his Golden Remains. _See Life by Des +Maizeaux._ + +=Hales, Stephen.= 1677-1761. One of the earliest writers on vegetable +physiology. + +=Hales, Wm.= 1769-1831. Irish theologian. + +=Haliburton, Thos. Chandler.= 1805-1865. Nova Scotian humorist. Author +Sam Slick, etc. _Pub. Di. Har. Hou. Rou._ + +=Halifax, Earl of.= See Montagu, Chas. + +=Halifax, Marquess.= See Saville, George. + +=Hall, Mrs. Anna Maria.= 1805-1881. Wife to S. C. H. Irish novelist +and miscellaneous writer. Author Sketches of Irish Character, The +Outlaw, The Whiteboy, etc. _Pub. Har._ + +=Hall, Basil.= 1798-1844. Scotch writer of travels. + +=Hall, Edward.= ---- 1547. Chronicler. A minute and valuable writer. + +=Hall, Joseph.= 1547-1676. Bp. Norwich. Theologian and satirist. +Sometimes styled the founder of Eng. satire. A vivacious and excellent +writer. _See edition 1837. See Hannay's Satire and Satirists, and +Ward's Eng. Poets, vol. 1._ + +=Hall, Newman,= 181 Congregationalist religious writer. Author +Come to Jesus, The Forum and the Vatican, etc. _Pub. Phi. Sh._ + +=Hall, Robert.= 1764-1831. Baptist religious writer. Author Sermons on +Modern Infidelity, Reflections on War, etc. Style scholarly, eloquent, +and refined. _See Works of, with Memoir, by O. Gregory, 6 vols., +London; also, Biog. by J. W. Morris, 1846, and Life by Paxton Hood._ + +=Hall, Samuel Carter.= 180 Miscellaneous writer. Author The +Stately Homes of England, Book of Memories, Retrospect of a Long Life, +etc. _Pub. Apl._ + +=Hallam, Arthur Henry.= 1811-1833. Poet and essayist. Son to H. H. A +young writer whose loss inspired Tennyson's In Memoriam. _See Remains, +with Life, by his father, 1834; Remains in Verse and Prose, 1862. See +Life, by Dr. John Brown; also, Atlantic Monthly, Dec. 1860._ + +=Hallam, Henry.= 1777-1859. Historian and critic. Author Hist. Middle +Ages, Constitutional Hist. England, Lit. of Europe, etc. An impartial +writer whose works are of great value, but whose style lacks animation +and freshness. _See H. Martineau's Biographical Sketches._ _Pub. Arm. +Har. Lit._ + +=Halliwell-Phillips, James Orchard.= 182 Shakespearean scholar. +Editor of Shakespeare, 16 vols. folio, 1865. Author Dict. Archaic +Words, Life of Shakespeare, Last Days of Shakespeare, etc. + +=Hamerton [h[)a]m´er-ton], Philip Gilbert.= 183 Art Critic. +Author Thoughts on Art, A Painter's Camp, The Unknown River, The +Intellectual Life, etc. A writer of authority in his department. Style +graceful and refined. _Pub. Mac. Rob._ + +=Hamilton, Mrs. Elizabeth.= 1758-1816. Scotch writer. Best known by +her Letters of a Hindoo Rajah and The Cottagers of Glenburnie. _See +Chambers' Cyc. Eng. Lit._ + +=Hamilton, Sir Wm.= 1788-1856. Scotch metaphysician. Author +Discussions on Philosophy, etc. His clear, dignified style is much +admired. _Pub. Apl._ + +=Hannay, James.= 1827-1873. Novelist and miscellaneous writer. Author +Singleton Fontenoy, Studies on Thackeray, etc. _Pub. Har. Rou._ + +=Hardy, Thomas.= 184 Novelist. Author Far From the Madding +Crowd, The Return of the Native, A Pair of Blue Eyes, Two on a Tower, +etc. A novelist of high rank. His character-drawing is sharp and +incisive, his studies of peasant life truthful and sympathetic, and +his descriptive passages masterly. _Pub. Ho._ + +=Hare, Augustus Julius Charles.= 183 Neph. to J. C. H. and A. W. +H. Author Walks in London, Walks in Rome, Days Near Rome, Memorials of +a Quiet Life, etc. _Pub. Por. Ran. Rou._ + +=Hare, Augustus Wm.= 1793-1834. Author Alton Sermons, etc. _Pub. Ran. +Rou._ + +=Hare, Francis.= 1688-1740. Bp. Chichester. Controversial writer. + +=Hare, Julius Chas.= 1796-1855. Bro. to A. W. H., and with him author +of Guesses at Truth. Author Life of Sterling, Victory of Faith, etc. +_Pub. Dut. Mac._ + +=Harrington, James.= 1611-1677. Political philosopher. Author of The +Oceana. + +=Harrington, John.= 1534-1582. Poet. _See Hannah's Courtly Poets._ + +=Harrington, Sir John.= 1561-1612. Poet. Son to preceding. First +English translator of Ariosto. + +=Harrison, Frederic.= 183 Positivist and philosopher. Author +Order and Progress, The Meaning of History, etc., and translator of +Comte's Social Statics. + +=Hartley, David.= 1705-1757. Philosopher. Observations on Man his +chief work. + +=Harvey, Gabriel.= 1545-1637. Poet. One of the first to write English +hexameter. + +=Harvey, Wm.= 1578-1657. Physician. Discoverer of the circulation of +the blood. _See Works of, edited by the Sydenham Society, London, +1847._ + +=Havergal, Frances Ridley.= 1836-1879. Author of much devotional +verse. _Pub. Dut. Ran._ + +=Haweis [hoys], Hugh Reginald.= 183 Religious and miscellaneous +writer. Author Thoughts for the Times, Speech in Season, Current Coin, +Arrows in the Air, Poets in the Pulpit, Unsectarian Family Prayer, +Music and Morals, Pet, or Pastimes and Penalties, Ashes to Ashes, and +My Musical Life. _Pub. Har. Ho._ + +=Haweis, Mrs. Mary Eliza [Joy].= 185 Wife to H. R. H. Author +Chaucer for Children, Chaucer for Schools, Chaucer's Beads, The Art of +Beauty, The Art of Dress, The Art of Decoration, and Beautiful Houses. +The illustrations and cover designs of her own and her husband's works +are by Mrs. Haweis. _Pub. Har._ + +=Hay, Mary Cecil.= 184 Novelist. Author of Old Myddleton's +Money, The Arundel Motto, The Squire's Legacy, etc. _Pub. Har._ + +=Hayley, Wm.= 1745-1820. Poet. Of mediocre ability, but once very +popular. Author Life Wm. Cowper, etc. _See Autobiography, 1823._ + +=Hayward, Mrs. Eliza.= 1693-1756. Author of The New Utopia, The Female +Spectator, etc. A voluminous writer of miscellaneous works of slight +merit. + +=Hazlitt, Wm.= 1778-1830. Critical essayist. Author Table-Talk, Lect. +on Shakespeare, Lect. on the Eng. Poets, etc. His criticisms on art +and the drama are of high order. His style is picturesque and his +imagination rich, but his works are sometimes deficient in moderation +and judgment. _See Life of, by his grandson, 1867._ _Pub. Lip._ + +=Hazlitt, Wm. Carew.= 184 Grandson to W. H. Littérateur. Author +Hist. Venetian Republic, Memoirs Wm. Hazlitt, Handbook to Early Eng. +Lit. etc. + +=Head, Sir Francis Bond.= 1793-1875. Miscellaneous writer. Among his +numerous works Bubbles from the Brunnen of Nassau is one of the best +known. _Pub. Har._ + +=Heber, Reginald.= 1783-1826. Poet. Bp. Calcutta. A talented writer, +best known by his hymns, viz.: The Missionary Hymn, Holy, Holy, Holy, +and Epiphany. _See Life, by Mrs. Heber, 1830._ _Last Days of Heber, by +Robinson, and Memoirs by Potter and Taylor._ + +=Hector, Mrs. Annie Alexander. "Mrs. Alexander."= 182 Irish +novelist. Author of The Wooing O't, Her Dearest Foe, The Freres, The +Admiral's Ward, Which Shall It Be, etc. Style fresh, healthful, and +pleasing. _Pub. Ho._ + +=Helps, Sir Arthur.= 1818-1875. Historian and essayist. Author Hist. +of the Spanish Conquest in America, Realmah, Casimir, Maremma, etc. +His style is quiet and graceful, and Friends in Council, his best +work, is strong and helpful. _Pub. Har. Rob. Rou._ + +=Hemans [h[)e]m´anz], Mrs. Felicia Dorothea.= 1793-1835. Poet. Without +possessing great force some of her poems have yet taken a firm hold +upon popular sympathies. Casabianca, Graves of a Household, and The +Pilgrim Fathers are examples. Her verse is graceful and sweet, but not +strong. _See Memorials of, by H. F. Chorley, 1836._ _Pub. Lip. Por. +Rou._ + +=Henry VIII.= 1491-1547. Author of controversial, anti-Lutheran +treatises. _See Brewer's edition of, 1862._ + +=Henry, Matthew.= 1662-1714. Theologian. Author of a noted Exposition +of the Bible, of which the best edition is that of London, 1869. _See +Lives by Tony and Williams._ _Pub. Ca._ + +=Henry, Robert.= 1718-1790. Scotch historian. His Hist. of Gt. Britain +was the first to take account of manners and the state of society from +a purely historical basis. + +=Henryson, Robert.= fl. c. 1490. Scotch poet. H. wrote the beautiful +pastoral of Robin and Makyne, found in Percy's Reliques. _See Ward's +Eng. Poets, vol. 1._ + +=Herbert, Lord Edward.= 1581-1648. Historian and theologian. His De +Veritate is a plea for Deism. Style dignified and able. _See +Autobiography, edited by W. D. Howells._ _Pub. Hou._ _See Lord Herbert +de Cherbury by Chas. de Rémusat, Paris, 1874._ + +=Herbert, George.= 1593-1632. Religious poet. Bro. to preceding. +Author of The Temple. His verse is elevated in tone, but marred by +quaint and fantastic conceits. _See Lives, by Walton, 1670, and +Duyckinck, 1858._ _See Grosart's edition, with Memoir, 1875._ + +=Herbert, Wm.= 1778-1847. Poet. Author of some spirited translations +from the Norse and other tongues, and of some excellent original +poems. + +=Herrick, Robert.= 1591-1674. Poet. Author of Hesperides, etc. A +skillful lyrist whose airy gracefulness will always continue to +delight. _See Grosart's complete edition of, 1877; also, Abbey's +Illustrated Selections from, 1882._ _See Ward's Eng. Poets, vol. 2, +and Temple Bar, May, 1883._ + +=Herschel, Caroline Lucretia.= 1750-1840. Astronomer. Author Catalogue +of Stars. _See Life and Correspondence of, 1876._ _Pub. Apl._ + +=Herschel, Sir John Frederick Wm.= 1792-1871. Astronomer. Neph. to C. +L. H. Author Study of Nat. Philosophy, Outlines of Astronomy, Physical +Geography, etc. _Pub. Apl. Har. Rou._ + +=Hervey, Lord John.= 1696-1743. Author Memoirs Reign of George II. +_See edition of, 1848, with Life by J. W. Croker._ + +=Hervey, James.= 1714-1758. Moralist. Author Meditations, etc. _Pub. +Ca._ + +=Heylin, Peter.= 1600-1662. Microcosmus is his most noted work. + +=Heywood, Jasper.= 1535-1598. Son to J. H. Author of rhymed +translations of Seneca. + +=Heywood, John.= 1506-1565. Dramatist. Writer of grotesque Interludes. + +=Heywood, Thomas.= ---- 1640. Dramatist. Was a frequent colleague of +other dramatists, and a writer of much talent, with a tender, graceful +style. _See complete edition of, London, 1874, 6 vols._ + +=Hoadley, Benj.= 1670-1761. Bp. Winchester. Theological writer. + +=Hoadley, Benj.= 1706-1757. Dramatist. Son to preceding. + +=Hobbes, Thos.= 1588-1679. Philosopher. A profound thinker, whose +Leviathan, a treatise on monarchical government, is his best known +work. _See Molesworth's complete edition of, 16 vols., London, 1845._ + +=Hogg, James.= 1770-1835. Scotch poet. Called "The Ettrick Shepherd." +Author of The Queen's Wake, etc. Style diffuse, but graceful and +imaginative. _See Collected Works, 1869._ + +=Holcroft, Thomas.= 1745-1809. Dramatist. Best known by his novel The +Marriage of Figaro, and his famous comedy The Road to Ruin. _See +Memoirs, edited by Hazlitt, 1816._ + +=Holinshed, Raphael.= ---- c. 1580. Chronicler. From him Shakespeare +drew in part the stories of Cymbeline, Henry VI., Richard II., Richard +III., Henry IV., Henry V., Macbeth, Lear, and Henry VIII. + +=Holyoake, George Jacob.= 181 Writer on social science. Author +of The Logic of Facts, Hist. of Coöperation in England, etc. _Pub. +Lip._ + +=Home, Henry, Lord Kames.= 1696-1782. Scotch philosopher. Author +Elements of Criticism, etc. _See Life, by A. F. Tytler._ _Pub. Por. +Sh._ + +=Home, John.= 1724-1808. Dramatist. H. wrote the once popular play +Douglas, which contains the famous lines, "My name is Norval," etc. +_See complete works of, with Life, by Mackenzie, 3 vols., 8vo, +Edinburgh, 1822._ + +=Hone, Wm.= 1779-1842. Satirist. Chiefly known by his compilations; +as, The Every-Day Book, The Table-Book, etc. + +=Hood, Edwin Paxton.= 182 Biographer. Author Lives of Wordsworth +and Swedenborg, The Uses of Biography, etc. _Pub. Arm. Do. Lip._ + +=Hood, Thomas.= 1798-1845. Poet and humorist. A writer whose fame as a +wit has overshadowed his merits as a poet. His style, when not +professedly humorous, is tender and graceful. For moral earnestness +The Bridge of Sighs and The Song of the Shirt cannot be surpassed. +_See E. P. Sargent's edition, Pub. Apl.; also, F. J. Child's edition._ +_Pub. Dut. Hon. Por. Put. Rou._ + +=Hood, Thomas.= 1835-1875. Miscellaneous writer. Son to preceding. +Author of The Rhymster, etc. + +=Hook, Theodore Edward.= 1788-1842. A writer of novels of fashion, +inartistic in form, but full of humor. His power of extempore +verse-making was remarkable. _See Life, by Barham, 1848._ _Pub. Rou._ + +=Hook, Walter Farquhar.= 1798-1875. Neph. to T. E. H. Author Lives +Abps. Cant., Ecclesiastical Biog., Ch. Dict., etc. _See Life and +Letters._ _Pub. Dut._ + +=Hooker, Joseph Dalton.= 181 Botanist. Son to W. J. H. Author +Student's Flora British Islands, etc. _Pub. Mac._ + +=Hooker, Richard.= 1553-1600. Theologian. Author The Laws of +Ecclesiastical Polity. The greatest prose writer of the Elizabethan +age. _See Keble's edition, 3 vols._ _Pub. Mac._ + +=Hooker, Sir Wm. Jackson.= 1785-1865. Botanist. Author British Ferns, +Garden Ferns, British Flora, etc. _Pub. Put._ + +=Hope, Alex. James Beresford.= 182 Son to T. H. Author of the +Eng. Cathedral in the 19th Cent., Worship in the Church of England, +etc. + +=Hope, Thomas.= 1770-1831. Miscellaneous writer. Author Costumes of +the Ancients, Household Furniture, etc., and the famous Oriental tale +Anastasius. _Pub. Har._ + +=Horne, George.= 1730-1792. Bp. Norwich. Theologian. Author of a noted +Commentary on the Psalms. _Pub. Ca._ + +=Horne, Richard Hengist.= 180 Dramatic poet. Author Gregory +VII., Cosmo de Medici, Ballads and Romances, Orion, etc. A writer of +much power, whose circle of readers is undeservedly small. _See +Stedman's Victorian Poets._ _Pub. Rob. Rou._ + +=Horne, Thos. Hartwell.= 1780-1862. Theologian. Best known by his +Introduction to the Scriptures. _Pub. Ca._ + +=Horne-Tooke, John.= 1736-1812. Philologist. Author The Diversions of +Purley, etc. _See Memoirs, by Hamilton, 1812, Stephens, 1813, Graham, +1828, N. Y._ + +=Horner Francis.= 1778-1817. Writer on political economy and one of +the founders of the Edinburgh Rev. _See Memoir and Correspondence, +1843._ + +=Horsley, Samuel.= 1733-1806. Bp. St. Asaph. Theological and +controversial writer of note. _See Works of, 6 vols., London, 1845._ + +=Houghton, Lord.= See Milnes, R. M. + +=Hoveden de [h[=o]v´den], Roger.= fl. c. 1200. Chronicler. _See Bohn's +Antiquarian Library._ + +=Howard, Henry, Earl of Surrey.= 1515-1547. His verse is mainly +lyrical, his love songs being his best; nevertheless he first +introduced blank verse into Eng. poetry. _See Ward's Eng. Poets, vol. +1._ + +=Howe, John. 1630-1705.= Theological writer. _See Life, by Rogers, +1836._ _Pub. Dra._ + +=Howell, James.= 1594-1666. Miscellaneous writer. _See Arber's +reprints of Instructions for Foreign Travel, etc._ + +=Howitt, Anna Mary.= Dau. to W. H. and M. H. See Watts, Mrs. A. M. + +=Howitt, Mrs. Mary Botham.= 179 Wife to W. H. An industrious +author of numerous popular poems, mainly juvenile, of several +excellent prose tales, and of numerous translations from the Swedish, +German, and Danish, the most noted of these being the works of +Fredrika Bremer and Hans Andersen. Her work is characterized by +earnestness and sincerity of purpose. _See the Biograph, Aug. 1880._ +_Pub. Alp. Har. Rob. Rou._ + +=Howitt, Wm.= 1796-1879. Poet and Miscellaneous Writer. A versatile +author whose Rural Life in England, Book of the Seasons, etc., have +been deservedly popular. His wife was co-author with him of many +books. _Pub. Har. Rou._ + +=Howson, John Saul.= 181 Dean of Chester. Theologian. Author +Life and Epistles of St. Paul [with W. J. Conybeare], Companions of +St. Paul, Metaphors of St. Paul, Miracles of Christ, etc. _Pub. Mac. +Rou._ + +=Hoyle [hoil], Edward.= 1672-1769. A noted writer upon Games. _Pub. +Lip. Rou._ + +=Hugesson.= See Knatchbull-Hugesson. + +=Hughes, John.= 1677-1720. Poet and essayist. A contributor to The +Spectator. + +=Hughes, Thomas.= 182 A popular writer whose School Days at +Rugby, Tom Brown at Oxford, Life of King Alfred, Manliness of Christ, +Scouring of the White Horse, etc., have been widely read. _Pub. Hou. +Mac. Por._ + +=Hume, David.= 1711-1766. Scottish historian and philosopher. Author +Philosophical Essays, Hist. of England, etc. His style possesses +originality and spirit, but as a historian he is inaccurate. _See Life +and Correspondence of, by T. Hill Burton, Edinburgh, 1847; also Hume, +by T. H. Huxley in Eng. Men of Letters._ _Pub. Har. Lip. Por._ + +=Hunt, James Henry Leigh.= 1784-1859. Poet and essayist. Francesca da +Rimini and Legend of Florence are his finest poems, but Abou-Ben-Adhem +is the best known. A writer whose happy, genial spirit expresses +itself in his prose and verse. _See Autobiography edited by his son, +1850._ _See Ward's Eng. Poets, vol. 4, and Century Mag. March, 1882._ +_Pub. Har. Rob. Rou._ + +=Hunter, Mrs. Anne.= 1742-1821. Poet. Her lyrics possess much beauty, +and some of them were set to music by Haydn. "My mother bids me bind +my hair" is well known. + +=Hurd, Richard.= 1720-1808. Bp. Worcester. Theologian. Author +Dialogues, Sermons, etc. _See edition 1811, 8 vols._ + +=Hutcheson, Francis.= 1694-1747. Irish metaphysician. Author of a +System of Moral Philosophy, etc. Founder of the Scotch Metaphysical +School. + +=Hutchinson, Mrs. Lucy.= 1620-1659. Known to literature by her +admirable Memoirs of her husband first published in 1808. + +=Hutton, Richard Holt.= 182 His main work in the London +Spectator. Author Essays, Theological and Literary. _Pub. Har. Mac. +Por._ + +=Huxley, Thomas Henry.= 182 Naturalist. Author Man's Place in +Nature, Comparative Anatomy, Protoplasm, Lay Sermons, etc. A leader in +modern thought and investigation. _Pub. Apl. Mac._ + +=Hyde, Edward, Earl of Clarendon.= 1608-1673. Historian. Author Hist. +of the Great Rebellion. His style is defective, but he is fully master +of his subject. + + + + +=Inchbald, Mrs. Elizabeth.= 1753-1821. Novelist and dramatist. Her +novels, A Simple Story and Nature and Art were once popular, and some +of her plays are yet acted. The best are Such Things Are, Wives as +They Were and Maids as They Are, and Lovers' Vows. _See Boaden's Life +of, 1833; also Miss Kavanagh's Eng. Women of Letters._ _Pub. Har._ + +=Ingelow [[)i]n´j[)e]-low], Jean.= 183 Poet and novelist. Her +novels Off the Skelligs, Don John, etc., though popular and +entertaining, are inartistic in construction. Her poetry, though +occasionally obscure, is always graceful and beautiful. Songs of +Seven, The High Tide, and Divided are among the best. _Pub. Rob. Rou._ + +=Ingleby, Clement Mansfield.= 182 Shakespearean scholar. Author +of Shakespeare--the Man and the Book, View of the Shakespeare +Controversy, etc. + +=Inglis, Henry David.= 1795-1835. Scotch writer of travels. + +=Ingulphus.= 1030?-1109. A monk to whom was long ascribed the famous +History of the Abbey of Croyland. _See Bohn's Antiquarian Library._ + +=Ireland, Wm. Henry.= 1777-1835. Shakespearean forger. Author of a +wretched play called Vortigern, which he asserted to be by +Shakespeare. _See Ingleby's Shakespeare, The Man and the Book, Part +2._ + +=Irons, Wm.= 1812-1883. Theologian. Author of The Whole Doctrine of +Final Causes, Parochial Lect., Sermons for the People, Hymns from the +Hebrew, Athanasius Contoa Mundum, etc. _Pub. Dut._ + +=Irving, Edward.= 1792-1834. Scotch theologian. Founder of the +Irvingite, or Catholic Apostolic Church. _See Lives by Wilkes and Mrs. +Oliphant; also Carlyle's Reminiscences._ + + + + +=James I.= King of Scotland. 1394-1437. Poet. The King's Quhair is a +long love poem in 7-line stanzas, and pure and sweet in sentiment. +_See Ward's Eng. Poets, vol. 1._ + +=James V.= King of Scotland. 1511-1542. Poet. Supposed author of +Peebles to the Play and Christ's Kirk on the Green: comic and +satirical ballads. + +=James VI.= of Scotland, I. of England. 1566-1625. Author of some +feeble poetry, a number of theological treatises and a famous +Counterblast Against Tobacco. + +=James, George Payne Rainsford.= 1801-1860. Novelist. Author of an +immense number of novels with a strong likeness to each other. +Beginning by imitating Scott, he ended by copying himself. _Pub. Har. +Rou._ + +=Jameson, Mrs. Anna.= 1797-1860. An able writer who touched upon many +topics. Characteristics of Women, Sacred and Legendary Art, and Diary +of an Ennuyée, are some of her books. Her dissertations upon +Shakespeare's women are keenly appreciative. _See Memoir of, by +Geraldine Macpherson; also H. Martineau's Biographical Sketches._ +_Pub. Apl. Har. Hou. Por. Rou._ + +=Jeaffreson, John Cordy.= 183 Novelist and biographer. Author +Live It Down, The Real Lord Byron, etc. _Pub. Har._ + +=Jeffrey, Lord Francis.= 1773-1850. Scotch critic and essayist. One of +the founders of the Edinburgh Review. A writer of great merit, but one +whose judgment was often warped by prejudice. _See Life by Lord +Cockburn, 1852._ + +=Jenkins, Edward.= 183 Political satirist. Author Ginx's Baby, +Lord Bantam, Haverholme, etc. _Pub. Har._ + +=Jenyns, Soame.= 1704-1787. Moralist. _See complete works of, London, +1790._ + +=Jephson, Robert.= 1736-1803. Dramatist. The Court of Narbonne and +Duke of Braganza were successful tragedies in their day. + +=Jerdan, Wm.= 1782-1869. Journalist. _See Autobiography, 1853._ + +=Jerrold, Douglas Wm.= 1803-1857. Dramatist and humorist. Black-Eyed +Susan and Rent Day are his best dramas. Of his other works, A Man Made +of Money, Chronicles of Clovernook, and The Caudle Lectures are most +noted. _See Life by his son._ _Pub. Har. Hou. Rou._ + +=Jerrold, Wm. Blanchard.= 182 Miscellaneous writer. Son to D. W. +J. Author Imperial Paris, Napoleon III., etc. + +=Jevons, Wm. Stanley.= 1835-1882. Political economist. Author The +State in Relation to Labor, Methods of Social Reform and other Essays, +Investigations in Currency and Finance, etc. _Pub. Apl. Mac._ + +=Jewsbury, Geraldine Endsor.= 1821-1880. Novelist and journalist. +Author of Zoë, Half Sisters, Constance Herbert, etc. _Pub. Har._ + +=Jewsbury, Maria Jane.= Sister to G. E. J. See Fletcher, Mrs. + +=Johnson, Samuel.= 1705-1773. Dramatist. Author Hurlothrumbo, etc. + +=Johnson, Samuel.= 1709-1784. Lexicographer and miscellaneous writer. +Author of London, a poetical satire, Rasselas, a didactic novel, Lives +of the Poets, Dict. of the Eng. Lang., and numerous other works. His +style is heavy and ponderous, but dignified, sonorous, and peculiarly +his own. He was the greatest literary figure in England between 1745 +and 1784. _See Boswell's Life of, edited by J. W. Croker; also Johnson +by Leslie Stephen in Eng. Men of Letters._ _Pub. Har. Le. Lit. Mac._ + +=Johnston, Arthur.= 1587-1641. Scotch poet. Noted for a fine Latin +translation of the Psalms. + +=Johnstone, Charles.= ---- 1800. Novelist. His Adventures of a Guinea +was once popular. _See W. Scott's Lives of Eminent Novelists._ + +=Jones, Sir Wm.= 1746-1794. Poet, Orientalist, and translator. _See +edition of 1807 with Life._ + +=Jonson, Ben.= 1574-1637. Dramatist. A robust, dignified writer, more +popular in his day than Shakespeare. Volpone, Silent Woman, Alchemist, +Every Man in his Humor, and Every Man out of his Humor are his best +comedies: Catiline and Sejanus his only tragedies. His pastoral drama, +The Sad Shepherd, is graceful and sweet. _See Cunningham's edition of +Johnson, 1870, and Schlegel's Dramatic Literature._ _Pub. Apl. Rou._ + +=Jortin, John.= 1698-1770. Ecclesiastical historian. + +=Jowett, Benjamin.= 181 Greek scholar. Translator of Plato and +Thucydides. _Pub Scr._ + +=Junius.= See Francis, Sir Philip. + + + + +=Kames, Lord.= See Home, Henry. + +=Kavanagh [kav´a-nä´ or kav´a-nah´], Julia.= 1824-1877. Irish +novelist. Author Nathalie, Eng. Women of Letters, Beatrice, etc. _Pub. +Apl. Ho._ + +=Kaye, Sir John Wm.= 1814-1876. Military historian. Author Hist. War +in Afghanistan [1851], Hist. Sepoy War, Lives of Indian Officers, +Essays of an Optimist, etc. _Pub. Lip. Rou._ + +=Keary, Annie.= 1825-1879. Novelist. Author Castle Daly, A Doubting +Heart, Heroes of Asgard, Clemency Franklyn, etc. _See Memoir of, by +her Sister; also Catholic World, July, 1879._ _Pub. Har. Mac. Por._ + +=Keats, John.= 1795-1821. Poet. A great master of the music of verse. +The Ode on a Grecian Urn and Ode to a Nightingale are nearly perfect +poems. The Eve of St. Agnes, Isabella, Hyperion and Endymion are +longer poems, full of sensuous richness of expression and intensity of +feeling. _See Rossetti's edition of._ _See Life of, by Lord Houghton._ + +=Keble [k[)e]b´l], John.= 1792-1866. Religious poet. Author Christian +Year, Lyra Innocentium, etc. Versification musical and refined. _See +Shairp's Studies in Poetry and Philosophy, C. Yonge's Musings over the +Christian Year, Ward's Eng. Poets, vol. 4, and Memoir by J. T. +Coleridge._ _Pub. Dut._ + +=Keddie, Henrietta=, "Sarah Tytler." 182 Novelist. Author +Citoyenne Jacqueline, What She Came Through, and several valuable +literary and artistic handbooks. _Pub. Har. Rob. Rou._ + +=Keightley [k[=i]t´l[)i]], Thomas.= 1789-1872. Historian. Author Hist. +England to 1839, Outlines of Hist., Mythology of Ancient Greece, etc. +_Pub. Apl. Har. Lip._ + +=Kemble, Adelaide.= See Sartoris, Mrs. + +=Kemble, Frances Anne.= 181 Poet and miscellaneous writer. _See +Allibone's Dict._ _Pub. Har. Ho._ + +=Kemble, John Mitchell.= 1807-1857. Anglo-Saxon scholar. Bro to A. K. +and F. A. K. Author of The Saxons in England, etc. A writer of +authority in his department. + +=Ken, Thomas.= 1637-1711. Bp. Bath and Wells. Poet. His Morning and +Evening Hymns introduced a simpler, sincerer style of religious +poetry. _See Life, by Duyckinck._ + +=Kenney, Charles Lamb.= 1823-1881. Dramatist. Author lives of Balzac +and Balfe, etc. _Pub. Rou._ + +=Kenney, James.= 1780-1849. Dramatist. Author Raising the Wind, etc. + +=King, Henry.= 1591-1669. Bp. Chichester. Religious poet. + +=Kinglake, Alex. Wm.= 180 Historian. A brilliant and powerful +writer. Author Hist. Crimean War, Eothen, etc. _Pub. Arm. Har._ + +=Kingsley, Charles.= 1819-1875. Novelist and poet. Author of +Andromeda, the finest Eng. hexameter poem, and the stories, Alton +Locke, Yeast, Westward Ho, Hypatia, At Last, etc. Style forcible but +uneven. _See Life by Mrs. Kingsley, 1876._ _Pub. Apl. Har. Mac. Lip. +Scr._ + +=Kingsley, Henry.= 1830-1876. Novelist. Bro. to C. K. Author +Ravenshoe, Silcote of Silcotes, Austin Elliott, Hetty, etc. _Pub. Do. +Har. Mac. Rou._ + +=Kingston, Wm. H. G.= 1843-1880. Author of spirited tales of adventure +for young readers. _Pub. Arm. Cas. Lip. Rou._ + +=Kitchener, Wm.= 1775-1827. Physician. Author of the Cook's Oracle, +etc. _Pub. Har._ + +=Kitto, John.= 1804-1854. Author of the Pictorial Bible, Cyc. of +Biblical Lit., etc. _Pub. Ca. Phi._ + +=Knatchbull-Hugesson, Edward.= 182 Writer for children. Author +Crackers for Christmas and several vols. of fairy tales. _Pub. Apl. +Har. Rou._ + +=Knight, Charles.= 1791-1873. Shakespearean scholar and miscellaneous +writer. Author of a Pictorial Hist. England, etc. Editor of a +Pictorial Shakespeare, etc. _See Passages from the Life of (pub. +Put.)._ _Pub. Fu. Lip. Por._ + +=Knight, Richard Payne.= 1750-1824. Poet and antiquary. His verse is +worthless, but his archæological works are much esteemed. _See +edition, 1874, N. Y._ + +=Knolles [n[=o]lz], Richard.= 1540-1610. Historian. His Hist. of the +Turks was much praised by Dr. Johnson and Hallam. + +=Knowles, Herbert.= 1798-1817. Religious poet. + +=Knowles, James Sheridan.= 1794-1862. Irish dramatist. His best +tragedies are Caius Gracchus, Virginius, and Wm. Tell. The Hunchback +is his finest comedy. While his works will not bear severe criticism, +they are popular and among the best acting of modern plays. _See +edition, 1873._ + +=Knowles, Richard Brinsley.= 1819?-1882. Son to J. S. K. Journalist +and historical writer. Was author of the comedy The Maiden Aunt. + +=Knox, Mrs. Craig.= See Craig-Knox. + +=Knox, John.= 1505-1572. Scotch theologian. Author Hist. Reformation +in Scotland, and First Blast Against the Monstrous Regiment of Women. +_See Lives by Smeaton, 1572; McCrie, 1812; Niemeyer, 1824; Laing, +1847, and Brandes, 1863._ _See Fraser's Mag. April, 1875; also +Lorimer's John Knox and the Church of England._ + +=Knox, Vicesimus.= 1752-1821. Essayist. Author Winter Evenings, Family +Lect., etc. + +=Knox, Wm.= 1789-1825. Scotch poet. Best remembered for his poem "O +why should the spirit of mortal be proud!" _Pub. Le._ + +=Kyd, Thomas.= fl. c. 1590. Dramatist. Author Hieronimo, The Spanish +Tragedy, etc. _See Lamb's Dramatic Poets._ + +=Kynaston, Francis.= 1587-1642. Poet. + + + + +=Laffan, May.= 18-- ----. Novelist. Author Hogan, M. P., Flitters, +Tatters and the Counsellor, Christy Carew, and The Honorable Miss +Ferrard. _Pub. Ho. Mac._ + +=Lang, David.= 1793-1878. Librarian and bibliographer. A literary +student of great diligence, and editor and author of some two hundred +and fifty works. + +=Laing, Malcolm.= 1762-1818. Scotch historian. Author Hist. of +Scotland, etc. Style independent and truthful. + +=Laing, Samuel.= 1780-1868. Traveler. Author Norway, Tour in Sweden, +etc., and translator of the Heimskringla, or Chronicle of the Kings of +Norway. + +=Lamb, Caroline, Lady.= 1785-1828. Novelist. Author Glenarvon, Graham +Hamilton, etc. + +=Lamb, Charles.= 1775-1834. Essayist. A humorist who is unsurpassed +for gentleness and purity of style. Essays of Elia, Rosamond Gray, a +tale, John Woodvil, a drama; and Specimens of Old Eng. Dramatists are +his chief works. Among the Essays Dream-Children is the most nearly +perfect. _See Lives by Talfourd, Fitzgerald, and Procter._ _See +Centenary edition of, 1875._ _Pub. Arm. Clx. Har. Lip. Rou._ + +=Lamb, Mary Anne.= 1765-1847. Sister to C. L. and co-author with him +of Tales from Shakespeare, Poetry for Children, etc. _See W. Carew +Hazlitt's edition of Poems, Letters, etc. of Chas. and Mary_ _Lamb, +1874; and Mary Lamb, by Anne Gilchrist, in Famous Women._ + +=Landon, Letitia Elizabeth= [Mrs. Maclean], 1802-1838. Poet and +novelist. Her verse is melodious and delicate, but is lacking in +force. _See Poems of, edited by W. B. Scott, 1873._ _See Life by L. +Blanchard, 1841, and Living Age, Jan. 6, 1883._ _Pub. Apl._ + +=Landor, Walter Savage.= 1775-1864. Poet and prose writer. Author +Gebir, Heroic Idyls, Hellenics, etc., and of numerous prose works, of +which the Imaginary Conversations is the chief. A strong, original +writer, self asserting and unrestrained. _See Forster's Life of, +Stedman's Victorian Poets, Atlantic Monthly, April, May, and June, +1864, and Feb. 1883, H. Martineau's Biographical Sketches, and Landor, +by Colvin, in Eng. Men of Letters._ _Pub. Lip. Rob._ + +=Lane, Edward Wm.= 1801-1876. Orientalist. Author Modern Egyptians, +Arabic Lexicon, etc., and translator of the Arabian Nights. _Pub. +Lit._ + +=Lang, Andrew.= 184 Poet. Author Ballads in Blue China, Helen of +Troy, etc. _See Harper's Mag. May, 1882, "Some London Poets."_ _Pub. +Mac._ + +=Langhorne, John.= 1735-1779. Poet and translator of Plutarch. + +=Langland, Wm.= c. 1322-c. 1400. Poet. Author Vision of Piers Plowman, +an allegorical, satirical poem, aimed at the corruptions of the +church. _See edition by Wright, 1856; also Skeat's edition._ _See +Ward's Eng. Poets, vol. 1._ _Pub. Mac._ + +=Lardner, Dionysius.= 1793-1859. Scientific writer. + +=Lardner, Nathaniel.= 1684-1768. Theological writer. _See Collected +Works, with Memoir by Kippis, 1788._ + +=Latham, Rob't Gordon.= 181 Ethnologist. Author Man and His +Migrations, etc. + +=Latimer, Hugh.= c. 1491-1555. Bp. Worcester. Theologian. His Sermons +are rude but forcible and strongly idiomatic discourses. _See Corrie's +edition. London, 4 vols. 8vo, 1845._ _See Life, by Demaus, 1869; and +Tulloch's Leaders of the Reformation._ + +=Law, Wm.= 1686-1761. Theologian. Author Serious Call to a Higher +Life, etc. _See Life, by Tighe, 1813._ + +=Lawrence, Geo. Alfred.= 1827-1876. Novelist. Author Guy Livingstone, +Sword and Gown, Sans Merci, Anteros, Maurice Dering, etc. _Pub. Har. +Lip._ + +=Layamon.= fl. c. 1200. Author The Brut, or Chronicle of Britain, a +famous semi-Saxon poem. Style earnest and simple. _See F. Madden's +edition, 1847._ + +=Layard [l[=a]-ard], Austen Henry.= 181 Archæologist. Author +Nineveh and its Remains, Monuments of Nineveh, etc. _Pub. Har._ + +=Lear, Edward.= 18-- ----. Author Journal of a Landscape Painter, +Nonsense Book, etc. _Pub. Rob._ + +=Lecky, Wm. Edw. Hartpole.= 183 Irish historian. Author Hist. +Rationalism, Hist. European Morals, Hist. England in the 18th Cent. +etc. A careful, dignified writer who treats of history philosophically. +_Pub. Apl._ + +=Lee, Frederick George.= 183 Theologian and poet. Author of +Historical Sketches of the Reformation, Lyrics of Life and Light, etc. +_See The Biograph, Aug. 1880._ _Pub. Dut._ + +=Lee, Harriet.= 1766-1851. Author [with Sophia L.] of the Canterbury +Tales, a series of tales of much power. Byron's Werner is a version of +one of them. + +=Lee, Holme.= See Parr, Harriet. + +=Lee, Nathaniel.= 1655-1692. Dramatist. Alexander the Great is one of +his tragedies. + +=Lee, Sophia.= 1750-1824. Novelist. Sister to H. L. Author of two of +the Canterbury Tales, of several novels, and of the comedy The Chapter +of Accidents. + +=Lee, Wm.= 1815-1883. Irish theologian and ecclesiologist. His chief +work is the Donnellan Lect. on the Inspiration of Scripture. A +profound biblical scholar. _Pub. Ca._ + +=LeFanu, J. Sheridan.= ---- 1874. Novelist. Author All in the Dark, +Tenants of Malory, etc. _Pub. Har._ + +=Leighton [l[=a]-ton], Rob't.= 1613-1684. Abp. Glasgow. Theologian. +His style is still much admired. _See Pearson's edition, London, 1828, +N. Y. 1859._ _Pub. Ca._ + +=L. E. L.= See Landon. + +=Leland, John.= 1506-1552. Antiquarian. Author The Itinerary, etc. + +=Lemon, Mark.= 1809-1870. Journalist, novelist, and dramatist. The +Serious Family is his best known farce. Author Jest Book, etc. _Pub. +Mac._ + +=Lempriere [l[)e]m´pr[)i]-er, or lem-preer´], John.= 1765-1824. +Scholar of note. Author of a Classical Dict., and a Universal +Biography. _Pub. Lip. Put. Rou._ + +=Lennox, Mrs. Charlotte.= 1720-1804. Novelist. Author Harriet Stuart +and The Female Quixote. + +=Lesley, John.= 1527-1596. Bp. Ross. Scotch historian. _See Thomson's +Edition, 1830._ + +=Leslie, Chas.= 1650-1722. Irish theologian. Leslie wrote A Short and +Easy Method with the Deists, a controversial work once noted. + +=Leslie, Chas. Rob't.= 1794-1859. Artist. Author Handbook for Young +Painters, Memoirs Sir John Constable, Life and Times Sir Joshua +Reynolds, etc. _See Autobiographical Recollection of, edited by Tom +Taylor, 1860._ + +=L'Estrange [l[)e]s-tr[=a]nj], Sir Roger.= 1616-1704. Political writer +and translator. + +=Lever [l[=e]´ver], Chas. James.= 1806-1872. Irish novelist. Author +Harry Lorrequer, Charles O'Malley, etc., rollicking tales not greatly +approved by the present taste. His later novels, like That Boy at +Norcott's, etc., are soberer in tone. _Pub. Har._ + +=Lewes [l[=u]-is], Geo. Henry.= 1817-1878. Philosopher and critic. +Author Problems of Life and Mind, Life of Goethe, Hist. of Philosophy, +etc. _Pub. Apl. Ho. Hou._ + +=Lewes, Mrs. G. H.= See Evans, Marian. + +=Lewis, Sir Geo. Cornwall.= 1806-1863. Political and historical +writer. _See Letters of, 1870._ + +=Lewis, Matthew Gregory.= 1775-1818. Novelist. Famous as the author of +The Monk, a fantastic, demoniac tale. _See Life and Correspondence, +1839._ + +=Leyden [li´den], John.= 1775-1811. Scotch poet and Orientalist. _See +edition of his poems, 1858._ + +=Liddell [l[)i]d´del], Mrs. Catharine Christina Fraser-Tytler.= +184 Poet and novelist. Author Mistress Judith, Jonathan, Songs +in Minor Keys, etc. _Pub. Ho. Mac._ + +=Liddell, Mrs. Edward.= See Liddell, Mrs. C. + +=Liddell, Henry George.= 181 Classical scholar. Author of a +Hist. of Rome, and co-author with Scott of the noted Greek lexicon +known as Liddell-and-Scott's. _Pub. Har._ + +=Liddon, Henry, Parry.= 183 Theologian. Author Bampton Lect. +1867, University Sermons, Sermons to the People, etc. A leader of +High Church thought. _Pub. Dut._ + +=Lightfoot, Joseph Barber.= 182 Bp. Durham. Biblical +commentator. _Pub. Mac._ + +=Lillo, George.= 1693-1739. Dramatist. Author George Barnwell, Fatal +Curiosity, and Arden of Feversham. A master of dramatic situations. + +=Lindsay, Sir David.= 1490-1557. Scotch poet. _See Chalmers' edition +with Life, 1806._ _See Ward's Eng. Poets, vol. 1._ + +=Lingard, John.= 1771-1859. Historian. Author Hist. England, +Antiquities of the Anglo-Saxon Ch., etc. His history has a high rank +and is valued as a fair statement of facts from a Roman Catholic +standpoint. _Pub. Est._ + +=Linton, Mrs. Eliza Lynn.= 182 Novelist. Wife to W. J. L. Author +Lizzie Lorton, Sowing the Wind, etc. _Pub. Har. Lip. Rou._ + +=Linton, Wm. James.= 181 Poet and Engraver. Author Claribel, +Hist. Wood Engraving, Life Thos. Paine, etc. _See Stedman's Victorian +Poets._ _Pub. Est. Le._ + +=Livingstone, David.= 1817-1873. African explorer. Author Expedition +to the Zambesi, Last Journals, etc. _Pub. Har._ + +=Lloyd, Chas.= ---- 1839. Poet. Co-author with Chas. Lamb. + +=Lloyd, Robert.= 1733-1764. Poet. _See Collected Works with Life, by +Kenrick, 1774._ + +=Locke, John.= 1632-1704. Philosopher. Author of the famous Essay on +the Understanding, a work of great penetration and power. _See Life by +Fox-Bourne, and Locke, by T. Fowler in Eng. Men of Letters._ _Pub. +Apl._ + +=Locker, Frederick.= 182 Poet. Author London Lyrics, etc. Style +airy and graceful. _See Century Mag. Feb. 1883._ + +=Lockhart, John Gibson.= 1794-1854. Scotch critic and biographer. A +writer of much talent and for 27 years editor of the Quarterly Rev.: +author Lives of Nelson, Scott, Burns, Napoleon, etc. _See H. +Martineau's Biographical Sketches._ _Pub. Har. Ho. Hou._ + +=Lockyer, Joseph Norman.= 183 Astronomer. Author Contributions +to Solar Physics, etc. _Pub. Apl. Mac._ + +=Lodge, Edmund.= 1756-1839. Historian. Author Illustrations of British +Hist., Portraits of Illustrious Persons of Gt. Britain, etc. + +=Lodge, Thomas.= c. 1555-1625. Dramatist and Poet. To his novel +Roslynde; Euphues Golden Legacy, Shakespeare owes the plot and +incidents of As You Like It. _See As You Like It, Rolfe's edition, and +Ward's Eng. Poets, vol. I._ + +=Logan, John.= 1748-1788. Scotch poet. His verse is fresh and simple, +and his Song to the Cuckoo has great beauty. _See edition 1805, with +Life._ + +=Long, George.= 1800-1879. Classical scholar. Author Roman Law, +Decline and Fall of the Roman Republic, etc. + +=Loudon, Mrs. Jane.= 1800-1858. Wife to J. C. L. Author of The Mummy, +a tale, and several horticultural works. _Pub. Rou. Wil._ + +=Loudon, John Claudius.= 1783-1843. Scotch horticulturist. His +Arboretum Britannicum is his chief work. + +=Lovelace, Sir Richard.= 1618-1658. Poet. His verse is principally +amatory, and some of his songs are perfect of their kind. To Althea +and To Lucasta are the most famous. _See Carew Hazlitt's edition of +1864, and Ward's English Poets, vol. 2._ + +=Lover, Samuel.= 1797-1868. Irish dramatist, novelist, and poet. Rory +O'More and Handy Andy are his best known novels. His most famous song +is Rory O'More. _See Life by Bayle Bernard, 1874, and Samuel Lover, by +A. J. Symington._ _Pub. Por. Rou._ + +=Lower, Mark Antony.= 1813-1876. Author Eng. Surnames, Curiosities of +Heraldry, Patronymica Britannica, etc. + +=Lowndes, Wm. Thos.= ---- 1843. Bibliographer. Author British +Librarian and The Bibliographer's Manual. + +=Lowth [louth], Rob't.= 1710-1787. Bp. London. Son to W. L. A +classical and theological writer of great learning. _See Life, by +Peter Hall, 1834._ + +=Lowth, Wm.= 1661-1732. Theologian of note. + +=Lubbock, Sir John.= 183 Naturalist. Author Origin of +Civilization, Pre-Historic Times, British Wild Flowers, etc. _Pub. +Apl. Mac._ + +=Lydgate, John.= 1370-1450. Poet. An exceedingly diffuse rhymer. _See +minor works of pub. by the Percy Soc. 1842, and Ward's Eng. Poets, +vol. I._ + +=Lyell, Sir Chas.= 1797-1875. Geologist. Author Elements of Geology, +Travels in N. America, Antiquity of Man, etc. _Pub. Apl. Har. Lip._ + +=Lyly or Lily, John.= 1553-1598. Dramatic poet. His dramas are +forgotten, but his prose romance, Euphues and his England, is +remembered for the great influence it had upon the speech of the time. +L. was a reformer, though pedantic and fantastic. Euphuism has been +ridiculed by Sydney, Jonson, Shakespeare, and Walter Scott. _See +Collins's Hist. Dramatic Poetry, Lamb's Specimens Early Eng. Poets, +and Chas. Kingsley's Westward Ho._ + +=Lyndsay.= See Lindsay, David. + +=Lyte, Henry Francis.= 1793-1847. Poet. His hymn, Abide with Me, is +widely known. _Pub. Le. Ran._ + +=Lyttleton, George, Lord.= 1709-1773. Author Dialogues of the Dead, +Hist. Henry II., etc. _See Life, by Phillimore, 1845._ + +=Lytton.= See Bulwer-Lytton. + + + + +=Macaulay, Mrs. Catherine.= 1733-1791. Historian. Author Hist. of +England during the Stuart dynasty, etc. + +=Macaulay, Thos. Babington, Lord.= 1800-1859. Poet, essayist, and +historian. A brilliant but partisan writer. The impetuous rush and +vigor of his Lays of Ancient Rome obscure their poetical defects. His +essays are numerous and cover a wide range. His Hist. of England is a +superb piece of writing but it lacks the calm impartiality that a +history should possess. _See Lines by Milman, F. Arnold and G. O. +Trevelyan; Macaulay, by J. C. Morrison in Eng. Men of Letters; and H. +Martineau's Biographical Sketches._ _Pub. Apl. Arm. Clx. Har. Hou. +Lip. Lit. Por. Rou._ + +=MacDonald, George.= 182 Scotch novelist and poet. His work is +all of an earnest, religious cast, but marred sometimes by mannerisms +and vagueness of touch. Robert Falconer, Alec Forbes, and St. George +and St. Michael are the best of his numerous novels. Phantastes +contains some of his best poetry. _See Lit. World, May 19, 1883._ +_Pub. Apl. Do. Har. Lip. Mac. Rob. Rou. Scr._ + +=Mackarness, Mrs. Henry.= 1826-1881. Author of the tale A Trap to +Catch a Sunbeam, etc. _Pub. Rou._ + +=Mackay, Chas.= 181 Scotch poet and miscellaneous writer. Author +Town Lyrics, etc. _See Poems of, edition 1876._ _Pub. Rou._ + +=Mackay, Wm.= 1803-1882. Philosopher. Author Progress of the +Intellect, Eternal Gospel, etc. + +=Mackenzie, Sir George.= 1636-1691. Scotch miscellaneous writer. A +voluminous author of much eminence in his day. + +=Mackenzie, Henry.= Scotch novelist and essayist. Author the famous +novel, The Man of Feeling, etc. _See collected works, 1808._ _Pub. +Har._ + +=Mackintosh, Sir James.= 1765-1832. Ethical and historical writer. +_See Memoirs by his son._ _Pub. Har._ + +=Macklin, Chas.= 1690-1797. Irish dramatist. Author of the bright +comedy, The Man of the World. M. appeared on the stage as an actor +till nearly 100. _See Memoirs of, 1804._ + +=Macleod [m[)a]k-lowd´], Norman.= 1812-1872. Scotch miscellaneous +writer. Author of The Starling, Reminiscences of a Highland Parish, +etc. _See Life by his brother, and Memoir by Alex. Strahan._ _Pub. Do. +Lip. Rou._ + +=Macneil, Hector.= 1746-1818. Scotch poet. Author Will and Jean, etc. + +=Macpherson, James.= 1738-1796. Scotch poet. Supposed author of a +series of poems purporting to be by Ossian, an ancient Gaelic bard. +These forgeries were immensely popular in spite of their wild and +over-strained diction. M. never revealed the secret of their +authorship. _See H. Morley's Shorter Eng. Poems._ + +=Macquoid, Mrs. Katherine S.= 18-- ----. Novelist. Author Patty, Beside +the River, Too Soon, etc., and several vols. of travel, Through +Normandy, Through Brittany, etc. _Pub. Apl. Har. Lip. Mac. Ran. Rou._ + +=Madden, Richard Robert.= 179 Poet and miscellaneous writer. +Author The Infirmities of Genius, etc. + +=Magee, Wm.= 1765-1831. Abp. Dublin. Theologian. His best known work +is the Discourses on the Atonement. _See complete works, 1842._ + +=Magee, Wm. Connor.= 182 Bp. Peterborough. Grandson to Wm. M. +Religious writer. Author Sermons, Lectures, etc. Style eloquent and +forcible. + +=Maginn, Wm.= 1793-1842. Irish humorist. Style learned, witty, and +brilliant. _See Works, edited by R. S. Mackenzie, 5 vols., N. Y. +1857._ _Pub. Wid._ + +=Mahaffey, John Peytland.= 183 Author Hist. Classical Greek +Lit., Old Greek Life, Rambles and Studies in Greece, Greek Social +Life, Old Greek Education, etc. _Pub. Apl. Har. Mac._ + +=Mahoney, Francis=, "Father Prout." 1805-1866. Irish poet and +journalist. M. wrote the noted poem, The Bells of Shandon. + +=Maine, Sir Henry James Sumner.= 182 Jurist. Author Roman Law, +Ancient Law, Village Communities, Early Hist. of Institutions, etc. +_Pub. Ho._ + +=Maitland, Edward.= 18-- ----. Novelist. Author The Higher Law, The +Pilgrim and the Shrine, and By-and-By. _Pub. Put._ + +=Maitland, Sir Richard.= 1496-1586. Scotch poet. + +=Malcolm, Sir John.= 1769-1833. Diplomatist. Author Hist. of Persia, +Political Hist. India, Life of Lord Clive, etc. _See Kaye's Life of, +London, 1856._ + +=Mallet, David.= 1700-1765. Scotch poet. Author Ballads, etc. + +=Mallock, Wm. Hurrel.= 184 Novelist. Author Is Life Worth +Living, The New Republic, Positivism on an Island, Romance of the 19th +Cent., etc. A writer of much force and originality. + +=Malmesbury, Wm. of.= 1095?-1143. Anglo-Norman historian. + +=Malone, Edmund.= 1741-1812. Shakespearean scholar. Editor of the +edition of 1790. _See Life, by Prior, 1860._ + +=Malory, Sir Thomas.= 1430?-1496. Author or translator of the famous +romance, The Morte d'Arthur. _Pub. Mac._ + +=Malthus, Thos. Robt.= 1766-1834. Political economist. Author of a +celebrated Essay on the Principle of Population. _See Life, by Otter, +1836._ + +=Mandeville, Bernard.= 1670-1733. Philosopher. Author of the noted +Fable of the Bees, or Private Vices Public Benefits, etc. _See Craik's +Eng. Lit. vol. 2._ + +=Mandeville, Sir John.= 1300-1372. "The first writer in formed +English." He traveled extensively and wrote an entertaining account of +his travels. + +=Manley, Mrs. Mary de la Riviere.= 1672-1724. Novelist and dramatist. +She wrote the noted political satire, The New Atlantis. + +=Manners, John Lord.= 181 Poet. Author England's Trust, English +Ballads, etc. + +=Manning, Anne.= 180 Novelist. Author Mary Powell, Household of +Sir Thos. More, Passages in the Life of the Faire Gospeller, etc. +_Pub. Do._ + +=Manning, Henry Edw., Cardinal.= 180 Theologian. Author Temporal +Power of the Pope, Parochial Sermons, The Vatican Decrees, etc. _See +Century Mag. May, 1883._ _Pub. Apl. Sad._ + +=Mannyng, Robert.= fl. c. 1340. Rhyming chronicler. + +=Mansel, Henry Longueville.= 1820-1871. Philosopher. Author The Limits +of Religious Thought, Philosophy of Consciousness, Bampton Lect., +1858, etc. _Pub. Apl. Mac._ + +=Mant, Richard.= 1776-1848. Bp. Killaloe. Religious writer. Author +Poems, Hist. Ch. of Ireland, etc. + +=Mantell, Gideon Algernon.= 1790-1852. Geological writer of note. +Author Thoughts on a Pebble, Medals of Creation, etc. + +=Map=, or =Mapes, Walter=. 1150-1196. Anglo-Norman poet and romancer. + +=Marlowe, Christopher.= 1564-1593. Dramatist and poet. The greatest +dramatist before Shakespeare. His Tamburlaine was the first blank +verse play acted. Faustus, Jew of Malta, and Edward II. are powerful +dramas. The influence of Marlowe is traceable in several of +Shakespeare's plays. _See editions by Cunningham and Dyce._ _See +Schlegel's Dramatic Lit._ _Pub. Mac. Rou._ + +=Marryatt, Frederick.= 1792-1849. Marine novelist. Peter Simple, Jacob +Faithful, and Midshipman Easy are among the best of his novels. They +are lively, inartistic tales, full of broad fun and drollery. _See +Life, by his daughter Florence, 1872._ _Pub. Apl. Har. Lip. Rob._ + +=Marryatt, Florence.= See Ross-Church, Mrs. + +=Marsh, Mrs. Anne Caldwell.= ---- 1874. Novelist. Author Ravenscliffe, +Emilia Wyndham, Lettice Arnold, etc. _Pub. Har._ + +=Marsh, Herbert.= 1757-1839. Bp. Peterborough. A profound writer on +politics and divinity. Author of a noted Hist. of the Politics of Gt. +Britain and France. + +=Marston, John.= 1575-1634. Dramatist and satirist. _See Halliwell's +edition, 3 vols., London, 1856._ + +=Marston, Philip Bourke.= 185 Poet. Son to W. M. Author +Song-Tide, All in All, etc., and of numerous sketches and tales. His +verse is strongly subjective in tone. _See Stedman's Victorian Poets._ + +=Marston, Westland.= 182 Dramatist and poet. The Patrician's +Daughter is one of his best plays. + +=Martin, Theodore.= 181 Translator and biographer. Author of +Life of the Prince Consort, etc., and with W. E. Aytoun of the Bon +Gualtier Ballads. _See The Biograph, Jan. 1879._ _Pub. Apl. Por._ + +=Martineau, Harriet.= 1802-1876. Miscellaneous writer. Her +illustrations of political economy are in the form of fiction. +Deerbrook and The Hour and the Man are her most noted romances. Style +strong, clear, and original. _See Autobiography, 1876._ _Pub. Har. Ho. +Mac. Por. Rob. Rou._ + +=Martineau, James.= 180 Theologian. Bro. to H. M. A leader of +Unitarian thought. Author Studies of Christianity, Hymns of Praise and +Prayer, Religious and Modern Materialism, Endeavors after a Christian +Life, etc. _Pub. Ho. Put. Rob. A. U. A._ + +=Marvell, Andrew.= 1620-1678. Poet and controversialist. As the former +he ranks among the first of the minor poets of his time. His fancy is +delicate and quaint. _See Ward's Eng. Poets, vol. 2._ _Pub. Har._ + +=Marzials, Théophile.= 185 Poet and musician. Author of The +Gallery of Pigeons, etc. Of his songs Twickenham Ferry is one of the +best known. _See The Biograph, March, 1880._ + +=Mason, Wm.= 1725-1797. Poet. His verse is wordy and feeble. + +=Massey, Gerald.= 182 Poet. Author Babe Christabel, Craigcrook +Castle, etc. His verse has more sweetness than strength. _See +Stedman's Victorian Poets._ + +=Massinger [m[)a]s´s[)i]n-j[)e]r], Philip.= 1584-1640. A writer of +much power whose style is clear and flexible. The Virgin Martyr, Fatal +Dowry, City Madam, and A New Way to Pay Old Debts, are his finest +plays. The latter is often acted. _See Works of, edited by Gifford, 4. +vols._ + +=Masson, David.= 182 Scotch biographer and critic. Author +British Novelists, Biographical and Critical Essays, Recent British +Philosophy, etc. His chief work is a Life of Milton, a book of great +merit and ability. _See The Biograph, vol. 3._ _Pub. Mac. Apl._ + +=Mathers, Helen.= See Reeves, Mrs. + +=Mathias, Thos. James.= 1776-1835. Supposed author of the poem The +Pursuits of Literature. + +=Maturin [m[)a]t-yoo´r[)i]n], Chas. Robert.= 1782-1824. Irish +novelist. Author Melmoth, an extravagant romance, and the tragedy of +Bertram. + +=Maurice [maw´r[)i]ss], John Frederic Denison.= 1805-1872. Theologian +and ethical writer. A prominent Broad Church clergyman, writing much +and well upon theology, philosophy, and other subjects. A Hist. Moral +and Metaphysical Philosophy is his chief work. Others are Theological +Essays, The Bible and Science, and the Friendship of Books. _Pub. Le. +Mac._ + +=Maxwell, James Clerk.= 183 Scientific writer of note. _Pub. +Apl. Mac._ + +=Maxwell, Mrs. Mary E. [Braddon].= 183 Novelist. A writer of +sensational tales, among which Aurora Floyd is the most famous. Her +latest novels show a greatly improved style. _Pub. Har._ + +=Maxwell, Wm. Hamilton.= 1794-1850. Irish novelist. His fiction is +military in character. _Pub. Rou._ + +=Maxwell, Sir Wm. Stirling.= 1818-1878. Author The Cloister Life of +Chas. V., Velasquez and his Works, etc. + +=May, Sir Thos. Erskine.= 181 Historian. Author Constitutional +Hist. England, Hist. Democracy in Europe, etc. Style careful and +thoughtful. _See Lit. World, April, 1878, and The Biograph, March, +1880._ _Pub. Arm. Wid._ + +=Mayhew, Augustus.= 1812-1875. Littérateur. + +=Mayhew, Edward.= 181 Veterinary writer. Bro. to A. M. Author +Illustrated Horse Doctor, etc. _Pub. Apl. Lip. Rou._ + +=Mayhew, Henry.= 1812-1876. Bro. to two preceding. Author London Labor +and London Poor, German Life and Manners and numerous humorous works. +_Pub. Har. Rou._ + +=Mayhew, Horace.= 1819-1872. Humorist. Bro. to three preceding. Author +Letters Left at the Pastry Cook's, etc. + +=Mayhew, Thomas.= 181 Bro. to four preceding. Editor of the +Penny National Library. + +=Mayne, John.= 1761-1836. Scotch poet. Author of The Siller Gun, Logan +Braes, etc. + +=Mayo, Mrs. Isabella Fyvie=, "Edward Garrett." 184 Religious +novelist. Author By Still Waters, Occupations of a Retired Life, Gold +and Dross, etc. _Pub. Do._ + +=McCarthy, Denis Florence.= 1820-1880. Poet and miscellaneous writer. +Author Ballads, Poems, and other Lyrics, etc., and translator of the +dramas of Calderon. + +=McCarthy, Justin.= 183 Novelist and historian. Author Linley +Rochford, Dear Lady Disdain, etc., and of a valuable Hist. of Our Own +Times. Style graphic and forcible. _Pub. Har._ + +=McCulloch, John Ramsay.= 1789-1864. Political economist. Author +Principles of Political Economy, Dict. of Commerce, Statistical +Account of the British Empire, etc. + +=Melmoth, Wm.= 1710-1799. Translator of Pliny. Author Lælius, or +Friendship, etc. + +=Melville, Sir James.= 1535-1606. Scotch writer. Author Historical +Memoirs. + +=Melville, J. G. Whyte.= 1821-1878. Novelist. Author Kate Coventry, +The White Rose, Katerfelto, etc. Style rapid and spirited. _Pub. Apl. +Por._ + +=Meredith, Owen.= See Bulwer-Lytton, E. R. + +=Merivale, Chas.= 1808-1874. Historian. Author Hist. Latin +Christianity, Fall of the Roman Republic, Hist. of the Romans under +the Empire, etc. A writer of much ease and dignity of style, whose +historical estimates are careful and valuable. _Pub. Apl. Har. Rou._ + +=Merivale, Herman.= 1806-1874. Historical writer. Bro. to C. M. + +=Merrick, James.= 1720-1769. Poet. His poem The Chameleon is well +known. + +=Miall, Edward.= 1809-1881. Political writer. Author Ethics of +Non-Conformity, The Voluntary Principle, etc. + +=Mickle, Wm. Julius.= 1734-1788. Scotch poet. His poem, Cumnor Hall, +suggested Scott's Kenilworth. _See Works of, 1808._ + +=Middleton, Conyers.= 1683-1750. Theologian. M. wrote a Life of Cicero +and a Free Inquiry into the Miraculous Powers of the Church. + +=Middleton, Thomas.= 1570-1627. Dramatist. The Witch of Edmonton, a +tragi-comedy, is his most noted play. _See Dyce's edition, 1840._ + +=Mill, James.= 1773-1836. Scotch historian and philologist. Author of +an impartial Hist. British India, Analysis of the Mind, etc. + +=Mill, John Stuart.= 1806-1873. Philosopher. Son to J. M. A profound +but cold thinker and writer. Author System of Logic, Political +Economy, Liberty, Subjection of Women, etc. _See Autobiography, +Table's Eng. Lit., and Caroline Fox's Memories of old Friends._ _Pub. +Apl. Har. Ho. Lit._ + +=Miller, Hugh.= 1802-1856. Geologist. Author Old Red Sandstone, +Footprints of the Creator, etc., works which greatly helped to +popularize the study of geology. _See Life, by Peter Bayne._ _Pub. +Ca._ + +=Miller, Thomas.= 180 Poet and novelist. Author Rural Sketches, +Country Scenes, Fair Rosamond, Songs for British Riflemen, etc. _Pub. +Rou._ + +=Milman, Henry Hart=. 1791-1868. Poet and historian. M. was author of +Fazio, a successful drama, of an excellent Hist. of the Jews, of +numerous poems, and editor of an annotated Gibbon. _Pub. Arm. Har. +Lit. Por. Put. Rou._ + +=Milnes [milnz], Richard Monckton, Lord Houghton.= 180 Poet and +littérateur. Author Poems of Many Years, Life of Keats, etc. _See +Stedman's Victorian Poets._ _Pub. Rob._ + +=Milton, John.= 1608-1674. Poet. His literary life sharply defines +itself into 3 periods; in the first, 1626-1640, he wrote the poems +L'Allegro, Il Penseroso, the Pastoral of Comus, and the elegy Lycidas. +During the second, 1640-1660, he wrote prose treatises, mainly +controversial, such as the Areopagitica, and his sonnets. After 1660 +came the great epics, Paradise Lost, and Paradise Regained, and the +choral drama Samson Agonistes. A great artist, he created the Eng. +epic, infusing it with his own severe strength and dignity. He had no +humor or feeling for dramatic situation but he could be both graceful +and tender as his early poems show. He was the great Puritan poet. Of +the numerous Lives of Milton the best are, _Masson's and Mark +Pattison's Milton in Eng. Men of Letters. Pickering's, Rossetti's and +Masson's are among the best editions of his poems. For complete +edition of his prose works see Bohn's Standard Library._ _See Hines's +Study of Paradise Lost._ _Pub. Mac._ + +=Minto, Wm.= 184 Littérateur. Author Characteristics of Eng. +Poets, from Chaucer to Shirley, Manual of Eng. Prose Lit., Defoe in +Eng. Men of Letters, etc. _Pub. Har._ + +=Mitford, John.= 1781-1859. Poet and critic. + +=Mitford, Mary Russell.= 1786-1855. Miscellaneous writer. Author of +the tragedies Julian, Rienzi, Foscari, etc., and the charming series +of those sketches entitled Our Village. _See Fields' Yesterdays with +Authors, and The Friendships of Mary Russell Mitford._ _Pub. Har._ + +=Mitford, Wm.= 1744-1827. Historian. Author Hist. of Greece, etc. _See +Life, by Lord Redesdale._ + +=Mivart, St. George.= 182 Naturalist. Author The Genesis of +Species, Contemporary Evolution, The Cat, etc. _Pub. Apl. Mac. Scr._ + +=Moberly, Geo.= 180 Bp. Salisbury. Religious writer. _Pub. Dut._ + +=Moir [moi´[e^]r], David Macbeth.= 1798-1851. Scotch poet and +novelist. + +=Molesworth, Mrs. Mary Louisa [Stewart]=, "Ennis Graham." 184 +Scotch novelist. Author of the novels Hathercourt and Miss Bouverie, +and of numerous excellent juvenile works of which The Cuckoo Clock, +Carrots, and The Tapestry Room are well-known examples. _See The +Spectator, Jan. 1880, Jan. 1881, and Jan. 1882._ _Pub. Har. Ho. Mac. +Rou._ + +=Monboddo, Lord.= See Burnet, James. + +=Montagu, Chas. Earl of Halifax.= 1661-1715. Poet. Co-author with +Prior of The City Mouse and the Country Mouse, and author of +miscellaneous poems. _See Johnson's Lives of the Poets._ + +=Montagu, Mrs. Elizabeth.= 1720-1800. Founder of the Blue Stocking +Club and author of a once famous essay on the Genius of Shakespeare. +_See Doran's A Lady of the Last Century._ + +=Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley.= 1690-1762. Famous for her brilliant and +satirical Letters. _See Letters of, edited by Mrs. S.J. Hale, N. Y., +1856._ + +=Montgomery [m[o^]nt-g[)u]m-[)e]r-[)i]], James.= 1771-1854. Scotch +poet. His verse is not strong, but some of his hymns are general +favorites. _See Critical Essays, by A. K. H. Boyd._ _Pub. Hou. Rou._ + +=Montgomery, Robert.= 1808-1855. Poet. Author Satan, etc. Style +stilted, showy, and unnatural. _See Macauley's Miscellaneous Essays._ + +=Montrose, Marquis of.= See Grahame, James. + +=Moore, Edward.= 1712-1757. Dramatist. Author of the tragedy, The +Gamester. + +=Moore, John.= 1730-1802. Scotch novelist. Author Zeluco, Edward, +Mordaunt, etc. _See Works, with Memoir, 7 vols., Edinburgh, 1820._ + +=Moore, Thomas.= 1779-1852. Irish poet. Author of Irish Melodies, +which take high rank as lyrics, Lalla Rookh, a vol. of brilliant and +showy oriental poetry, and of much other verse, as well as several +prose works. Though by no means a great poet, he has always been a +popular one. _See R. H. Montgomery's Life of, 1850; also Earl +Russell's edition of Moore's Diary._ _Pub. Apl. Arm. Clx. Har. Hou. +Le. Lip. For. Rou. Scr._ + +=More, Hannah.= 1745-1833. Dramatist and ethical writer. Author of +Percy, a drama, and of numerous popular moral tales, of which The +Shepherd of Salisbury Plain is the most famous. _See complete works, +1853._ _See Lives by Shaw, Roberts, Thompson, and Smith._ _Pub. Ca. +Har. Lip._ + +=More, Henry.= 1614-1687. Philosopher. A writer whose mystical +theories are expressed in a clear, limpid style. + +=More, Sir Thomas.= 1480-1530. Philosopher. His famous prose romance, +The Utopia, embodies many of his philosophical views. _See Life by Sir +James Mackintosh._ _Pub. Mac._ + +=Morell, Thomas.= 1703-1784. Philologist. Author of the text of the +Oratorios of Joshua and Judas Maccabæus. + +=Morgan, Lady Sydney Owenson.= 1783-1859. Irish novelist. Author Wild +Irish Girl, Absenteeism, etc. A voluminous author, spirited but +wanting in refinement. + +=Morier, James.= 1780-1849. Oriental novelist. Hajji Baba is his most +noted work. _Pub. Rou._ + +=Morley, Henry.= 182 Author Hist. Eng. Lit., Tables of Eng. +Lit., Journal of a London Playgoer, Life of Palissy the Potter, etc. +_Pub. Cas._ + +=Morley, John.= 183 Essayist and biographer. Author Lives of +Voltaire and Rousseau, Limits of the Historic Method, On Compromise, +Burke on Eng. Men of Letters, etc. _Pub. Apl. Har._ + +=Morris, Wm.= 183 The Defence of Guinevere, Life and Death of +Jason, and The Earthly Paradise are his chief poems. His verse is +mainly classical or mediæval in subject and epic in form. _See +Stedman's Victorian Poets and Swinburne's Essays and Studies._ _Pub. +Rob._ + +=Mortimer, Mrs. Favell Lee.= 1802-1878. Religious writer. Author +Reading Without Tears, Peep of Day Series, etc. _Pub. Ca. Har. Hou._ + +=Morton, Thomas.= 1764-1838. Dramatist. Author Speed the Plough, +Secrets Worth Knowing, etc. _See Gentleman's Mag. Dec. 1838._ + +=Moss, Thomas.= 1740-1808. Poet. Author of the famous poem beginning +"Pity the sorrows of a poor Old Man." + +=Motherwell, Wm.= 1797-1858. Scotch poet. Jeanie Morrison, The +Cavalier's Song, and others of his ballads possess great lyric beauty. +_See edition 1849._ + +=Mozley, James Bowling.= 1813-1878. Theologian. Author Lect. on the +Miracles, On Subscription to the Articles, Sermons, Essays, +Historical, Theological, etc. A clear, masterly thinker. _Pub. Dut._ + +=Mozley, Thomas.= 180 Bro. to J. B. M. Author Reminiscences of +Oriel College and the Oxford Movement. _Pub. Hou._ + +=Mudie [moo´d[)i] or m[=u]´d[)i]] Robert.= Scotch naturalist. Author +of some 90 vols. mainly on natural history; British Birds is his most +important work. _Pub. Har._ + +=Muller, Friedric Max.= 182 German philologist. Author Chips +from a German Workshop, Science of Lang., Hist. Ancient Sanskrit Lit., +etc. _Pub. Mac. Scr._ + +=Muloch, Dinah Maria.= See Craik, Mrs. + +=Munday, Anthony.= 1553-1633. Dramatist. _See Carew Hazlitt's Early +English Literature._ + +=Murchison, Sir Roderick I.= 1792-1871. Geologist of note. _See +Memoirs of, by Geikie, 2 vols., London, 1874._ + +=Mure, Wm.= 1799-1860. Scotch historian. Author Critical Hist., Lang. +and Lit. of Ancient Greece, The Calendar of the Zodiac of Ancient +Egypt, etc. + +=Murphy, Arthur.= 1730-1805. Dramatist. Of his 23 plays The Grecian +Daughter and The Way to Keep Him were the most popular. + +=Murray, Alexander.= 1775-1813. Scotch philologist. Author Hist. +European Languages. + +=Murray, Hugh.= 1779-1841. Scotch geographer. Author of the +Encyclopedia of Geography, etc. _Pub. Har._ + +=Myers, Ernest.= 18-- ----. Poet. Author of The Puritans, The Defence +of Rome, and other Poems, etc. _Pub. Mac._ + +=Myers, Frederic Wm. Henry.= 184 Poet and littérateur. Author of +St. Paul, a poem, The Renewal of Youth and other Poems, Wordsworth in +Eng. Men of Letters, and Essays Modern and Classical. A thoughtful +writer, possessing a graceful and scholarly style. _Pub. Har. Mac. +Ran._ + + + + +=Nabbes, Thomas.= 1600-1645. Dramatist. + +=Nairne, Baroness.= See Oliphant, Carolina. + +=Napier, Admiral Sir Chas.= 1786-1860. Military historian. Cousin to +Sir C. J. N. Author Hist. Baltic Campaign, etc. _See Life and +Correspondence, 1862._ + +=Napier, Gen. Sir Chas. James.= 1782-1853. Author Lights and Shadows +of Military Life, Hist. Ionian Islands, etc. _See Life and Opinions +of, 4 vols., London, 1857._ + +=Napier, Capt. Henry Edward.= 1789-1853. Historian. Bro. to Sir C. J. +N. Author of a valuable Hist. of Florence in 7 vols. Style easy and +flowing. + +=Napier, John.= 1550-1617. Scotch mathematical writer. Inventor of +logarithms. + +=Napier, Macvey.= 1776-1847. Scotch writer. Editor of the supplement +and 7th edition of the Encyc. Brit. and for 17 years editor of the +Edinburgh Rev. + +=Napier, Mark.= 179 Biographer. Author Memorials of Montrose, +Life and Times of Montrose, etc. + +=Napier, Gen. Sir Wm. Francis Patrick.= 1785-1860. Military historian. +Bro. to Sir. C. J. N. and H. E. N. His great work is the Hist. of the +Peninsular War, a work of great value, possessing a perennial charm. +_See H. Martineau's Biographical Sketches, and Life by H. A. Bruce, +1863._ _Pub. Arm. Rou._ + +=Nares, Edward.= 1762-1841. Elements of General Hist. and the novel, +Thinks I to Myself, are among his chief works. + +=Nares, Robert.= 1753-1829. Critical and theological writer. Cousin to +E. N. + +=Nash, Thomas.= 1577-1600. Dramatist. Author Summer's Last Will and +Testament, and of many brilliant satirical pamphlets. _See edition of +Pierre Penniless, with Life of Nash by Collier, 1842._ + +=Neville, Henry.= 1620-1694. Political philosopher. Author of Plato +Redivivus, a dialogue concerning government. + +=Newcastle, Margaret, Duchess of.= 1624-1673. An untiring writer of +tasteless works in verse and prose. _See Poems of, edited by E. +Brydges, 1813._ + +=Newcome, Wm.= 1729-1800. Abp. Armagh. Theologian. Author Harmony of +the Gospels, etc. + +=Newman, Francis Wm.= 180 Miscellaneous writer. Author of +Phases of Faith, etc. He has written largely on religious topics from +a rationalistic standpoint. + +=Newman, Cardinal John Henry.= 180 Theologian. Bro. to F. W. N. +Author Tract No. 90, Parochial Sermons, Theory of Religious Belief, +The Grammar of Assent, Apologia Pro Vita Sua, Poems, etc. The Apologia +is one of the very finest of autobiographies. Style clear, polished, +and logical. _See Century Mag. June, 1882._ _Pub. Cath._ + +=Newton, Sir Isaac.= 1642-1727. Mathematical philosopher. A writer of +clear, comprehensive intellect, Author of the Principia and a valuable +treatise on Optics, etc. _See Brewster's Life of._ _Pub. Mac._ + +=Newton, John.= 1722-1807. Devotional writer. Co-author with Cowper of +the Olney Hymns. _See Works of London, 6 vols. 8vo, 1816._ + +=Nichol, John.= 183 Scotch littérateur. Author Sketch Am. Lit., +the drama of Hannibal, Tables of European Lit. and Hist., and a +brilliant monograph on Byron in Eng. Men of Letters. _See Lit. World. +Feb. 24, 1883._ _Pub. Apl. Har._ + +=Nichol, John Pringle.= 1804-1859. Astronomer. Author The Solar +System, The Stellar Heavens, Dict. Physical Sciences, etc. + +=Nicholas, Thomas.= 1820-1879. Ethnologist and historian. Author +Pedigree of the Eng. People, Hist. of Wales, etc. + +=Nicholson, Wm.= 1655-1727. Abp. Cashel. Antiquarian writer. + +=Nicol, Henry.= 1845-1881. Philologist. Author Hist. Eng. Sounds. + +=Nicolas, Sir Nicholas Harris.= 1799-1848. Genealogist. Author Hist. +Orders of Knighthood of the Brit. Empire, etc. + +=Nicoll, Robert.= 1814-1837. Scotch poet. + +=Noel-Fearn, Henry= [Christmas]. 1811-1868. Miscellaneous writer. +Author Science and History, Preachers and Preaching, etc. + +=Norris, John.= 1657-1711. Platonic philosopher. Author Theory of the +Ideal World, etc. + +=North, Christopher.= See Wilson, John. + +=Norton, Mrs. Caroline Elizabeth Sheridan= [Lady Maxwell]. 1808-1877. +Poet and novelist. Her verse has much grace and intensity of feeling. +Bingen on the Rhine is her most quoted poem. _Pub. Har. Lip. Mac. +Ran._ + +=Norton, Thomas.= 1532-1584. Dramatist. Co-author with Sackville of +the tragedy Ferrex and Porrex, and assistant of Sternhold and Hopkins +in their metrical version of the Psalms. + +=Nugent, Lord.= See Grenville, George. + + + + +=Occam, Wm. of.= 1270-1347. Philosopher. Defender of the doctrine of +Nominalism and the greatest logician of the Middle Ages. + +=Occleve, Thos.= c. 1370-1454. Poet. His verse has little merit. + +=O'Hare, Kane.= 1722-1782. Irish dramatist. + +=O'Keefe, John.= 1747-1833. Irish dramatist. The best of his numerous +plays and operas, some of which are still acted, is Wild Oats. + +=Oldham, John.= 1653-1683. Poet. Author of Satires against the +Jesuits. Style spirited and forcible. _See Ward's Eng. Poets, vol. 2._ + +=Oldmixon, John.= 1673-1742. Dramatist and historian. His plays and +histories are of slight value, and his chief title to remembrance is +Pope's satire upon him in The Dunciad. + +=Oldys, Wm.= 1696-1761. Biographer and antiquarian. Best known by his +famous little poem, The Fly and the Cup of Ale. + +=Oliphant, Carolina, Baroness Nairne.= 1766-1845. Scotch poet. Her +songs, such as Land o' the Leal, Caller Herrin', etc., take a high +rank. _See Complete Works, with Life by C. Rogers, Edinburgh, 1869._ + +=Oliphant, Laurence.= 182 Satirist and miscellaneous writer. +Author of Piccadilly, a Fragment of Contemporaneous Biography, Tender +Recollections of Irene McGillicuddy, Altiora Peto, etc. _Pub. Apl. +Har._ + +=Oliphant, Mrs. Margaret.= 182 Novelist. Author of a long series +of novels, all good, and some very fine, and much well written +biography. Her style is even, her turns of expression felicitous and +her character drawing truthful. The Perpetual Curate, Chronicles of +Carlingford, Zaidee, Harry Joscelyn, Son of the Soil, Lady Jane, The +Little Pilgrim, and the Literary Hist. of England are some of her best +books. Few authors have written so much and so uniformly well. _Pub. +Apl. Har. Ho. Lip. Mac. Por._ + +=O'Meara, Barry Edward.= 1780-1836. Napoleonic writer. Author Letters +from St. Helena, Memoirs of Napoleon, Napoleon in Exile, etc. _Pub. +Arm. Wid._ + +=Opie, Mrs. Amelia= [Alderson]. 1769-1853. Novelist and poet. Father +and Daughter is her best novel, The Orphan Boy her most familiar poem. +Style simple and pathetic. _See Miss Brightwell's Life of, London, +1834, and H. Martineau's Biographical Sketches._ _Pub. Ca._ + +=Orme, Robert.= 1728-1801. Historian. Hist. British in India, etc. + +=O'Shaughnessy [o'shaw´n[)e]-s[)i], Arthur W. E.= 1844-1881. Author +Songs of a Worker, Lays of France, Music and Moonlight, etc. _See +Stedman's Victorian Poets, and Ward's Eng. Poets, vol. 4, 2d edition._ + +=Ossian.= Mythical Keltic bard. See Macpherson, James. + +=Ottley, Wm. Young.= 1771-1836. Art writer. Author The Italian School +of Design, Engravers and their Works, etc. + +=Otway, Thomas.= 1651-1685. Dramatist. A tragic writer of great +pathos. His greatest works, Venice Preserved and The Orphan are still +occasionally acted. _See Works with Life, by Thornton, 1813._ + +=Ouida.= See De la Ramé, Louisa. + +=Ousely [ooz´l[)i]], Sir Wm.= 1771-1842. Orientalist. Author Oriental +Collections, Travels in Persia, etc. + +=Overbury, Sir Thomas.= 1581-1613. Poet and philosopher. Characters, +his chief work, contains an exquisite and oft quoted description of A +Fair and Happy Milkmaid. + +=Owen, John.= 1616-1683. Theologian. Style heavy and labored. _See +edition of 1826 with Life._ _Pub. P. B._ + +=Owen, Richard.= 180 Scientific writer of note. Author Lect. on +Comparative Anatomy, etc. + +=Owen, Robert.= 1771-1858. Writer on social reforms. _See H. +Martineau's Biographical Sketches._ + +=Owenson, Sydney.= See Morgan, Lady. + +=Oxenden, Ashton.= 180 Bp. Montreal. Religious writer. Author +Pathway of Safety, Our Church and her Services, Thoughts for Lent, +etc. _Pub. Dut. Ran. Wh._ + +=Oxenford, John.= 1812-1877. Dramatist and critic. Translator of +Goethe's Autobiography. + + + + +=Paley, Frederic Apthorp.= 181 Classical scholar. Grandson to W. +P. Editor and translator of numerous classical works. + +=Paley, Wm.= 1743-1805. Moral philosopher. Author Natural Theology, +Elements of Moral and Political Philosophy, etc. _See Complete Works, +4 vols., London, 1838, biography by Meadley, 1839._ _Pub. Ca. Nel. +Har._ + +=Palgrave [pawl´gr[=a]v], Sir Francis.= 1788-1861. Historian. Author +Hist. of the Anglo-Saxons, Rise and Progress of the Eng. Commonwealth, +Anglo-Saxon Period, Hist. of Normandy and of England, etc. _Pub. Mac._ + +=Palgrave, Francis Turner.= 182 Poet and critic. Son to F. P. +Author Essays on Art, Hymns, Lyrical Poems, etc. _See Stedman's +Victorian Poets._ _Pub. Mac. Por. Ran. Rou._ + +=Palgrave, Wm. Gifford.= 182 Traveller. Son to F. P. Author +Essays on the Eastern Question, Dutch Guiana, Herman Agha, etc. _Pub. +Ho. Mac._ + +=Palmer, Sir Roundell= [Baron Selborne]. 181 Author of the Book +of Praise. _Pub. Mac._ + +=Pardoe [par´d[=o]], Julia.= 1806-1862. Novelist and historical +writer. Author Court and Reign of Francis I., etc. _Pub. Har. Pet._ + +=Paris, Matthew.= ---- 1259. Historical writer. _See Bohn's +Antiquarian Library._ + +=Park, Mungo.= 1771-1805. Scotch explorer and writer of travels. _Pub. +Har._ + +=Parker, John Henry.= 180 Writer on Architecture. Author +Glossary of Arch., Introduction to the Study of Gothic Arch., Domestic +Arch. of the Middle Ages, etc., _Pub. Lit._ + +=Parnell [par´nell], Thomas.= 1669-1718. Poet. Author of The Hermit, +etc. _See Ward's Eng. Poets, vol. 3._ _Pub. Hou._ + +=Parr, Harriet= ["Holme Lee"]. 18-- ----. Novelist. Author Sylvan +Holt's Daughter, Kathie Brande, For Richer for Poorer, etc. _Pub. Har. +Por._ + +=Parr, Mrs. Louisa.= 18-- ----. Novelist. Author Dorothy Fox, Adam and +Eve, etc. _Pub. Ho. Lip._ + +=Parr, Samuel.= 1747-1825. Classical scholar and critic. _See Field's +Memoirs of, 1828._ + +=Pater, Walter H.= 183 Author Studies on the Hist. of the +Renaissance. _Pub. Mac._ + +=Patmore, Coventry Kearsey Dighton.= 182 Poet. Author Angel in +the House, Faithful Forever, and other vols. of rather commonplace +verse. _See Stedman's Victorian Poets._ _Pub. Dut. Mac._ + +=Pattison, Mark.= 181 Author Tendencies of Religious Thought in +England, a noted Biography of Isaac Casaubon, Milton in Eng. Men. of +Letters, etc. _Pub. Har._ + +=Payn, James.= 183 Novelist. A writer of excellent stories; Lost +Sir Massingberd, and By Proxy, being among the best. _Pub. Apl. Har. +Pet._ + +=Peacock, Thos. Love.= 1785-1866. Novelist and poet. Maid Marian, +Headlong Hall, etc., are lively, witty novels. _See Complete Works +edited by Cole, 1875._ _See Ward's Eng. Poets, vol. 4._ + +=Pearson, Charles Henry.= 183 Historian. Author Hist. of England +in the Early and Middle Ages. _Pub. Put._ + +=Pearson, John.= 1613-1686. Bp. Chester. Theologian. His Exposition of +the Creed is still a standard theological work. _Pub. Apl. Mac._ + +=Pecock, Reginald.= 1390-1460. Bp. Chichester. Theologian. Author of +The Repressor, etc. _See Morley's Eng. Writers, vol. 2._ + +=Peele, George.= 1552-1598. Dramatist and poet. Author Arraignment of +Paris, Absalom, Edward I., etc. In places Peele's verse is very +musical. _See Lamb's Dramatic Poets; also Ward's Eng. Poets, vol. 1, +and Ulrici's Dramatic Art._ + +=Penn, Wm.= 1644-1718. No Cross No Crown, his most noted work, sets +forth the doctrines of the Quakers. _See Lives, by H. Dixon, Janney, +and Wirt._ + +=Pennant, Thomas.= 1726-1798. Antiquarian and writer on natural +history. + +=Pennell, Henry Cholmondeley [ch[)u]m´l[)i]].= 183 Poet. Author +of Puck on Pegasus, Pegasus Re-saddled, etc., and several works on +Angling. _Pub. Rou._ + +=Pepys [peeps or p[)e]ps], Samuel.= 1633-1703. Author of a famous +Diary presenting an extremely lifelike picture of the time of Charles +II. _See Samuel Pepys and the World he Lived In, by Henry B. Wheatly._ +_See Braybrooke edition_, _pub. Apl._; _Bright edition, London_, _pub. +Bi._ + +=Percy, Thos.= 1728-1811. Bp. Dromore. Poet and editor of the famous +Reliques of Ancient Eng. Poetry, a work of great influence upon +subsequent Eng. verse. _See Hales's and Furnivall's edition, 1868._ +_Pub. Por. Rou._ + +=Phillimore, John George.= 1809-1865. Jurist. Author Hist. Law of +Evidence, Principles and Maxims of Jurisprudence. _Pub. Mac._ + +=Phillimore, Robert Joseph.= 181 Jurist. Bro. to J. G. P. Author +Civil and Canon Law, Eccl. Law Church of England, etc. _Pub. Jo._ + +=Philips, Ambrose.= 1675-1749. Dramatist. A writer of trifling merit, +who is chiefly remembered on account of Pope's vindictive satire upon +him. + +=Philips, John.= 1676-1708. Poet. Author of the mock-heroic poem The +Splendid Shilling. + +=Philips, Mrs. Katharine.= 1631-1664. Poet. Known as "The Matchless +Orinda." + +=Phillips, Halliwell.= See Halliwell-Phillips. + +=Pickering, Ellen.= ---- 1843. Novelist. Author Who Shall be Heir, +Secret Foe, etc. _Pub. Har._ + +=Pindar, Peter.= See Wolcott, John. + +=Pinkerton, John.= 1758-1826. Scotch historian and antiquary. His +Hist. of Scotland and other works are fiercely controversial in tone. + +=Piozzi [p[=e]-[)o]t´see], Mrs. Hester [Lynch]. Mrs. Thrale.= +1740-1821. Author Anecdotes of Dr. Johnson, etc., and the well-known +poem The Three Warnings. _See Autobiography, Letters, etc., 1861._ + +=Pitt, Wm., Lord Chatham.= 1708-1778. Statesman. His numerous Speeches +rank among the finest of their class. + +=Planche [plon-sh[=a]´], James Robinson.= 1796-1870. Dramatist. A +prolific writer of dramas, fairy extravaganzas and farces; Prince +Charming, Yellow Dwarf, etc. _See Bric-a-brac Series, 1st vol., and +The Biograph, March, 1880._ + +=Plumptre, Edward Hayes.= 182 Poet and translator. Author +Lazarus and other Poems, etc., Byways of Scripture, etc., and +translation of Sophocles and Æschylus. His verse is didactic in +character. _Pub. Dut. Mac. Rou._ + +=Pole, Reginald, Cardinal.= 1500-1558. Theological writer. + +=Pollock, Frederick.= 184 Jurist. Author Principles of Contract, +Digest of Law of Partnership, Spinoza: his Life and Philosophy, and +The Land Laws in Macmillan's Eng. Citizen Series. _Pub. Mac. Th._ + +=Pollock, Robert.= 1799-1827. Scotch poet. Author of The Course of +Time, a heavy, didactic, blank-verse poem, once very popular. _Pub. +Apl. Ca. Clx._ + +=Pomfret, John.= 1667-1703. Poet. Author of The Choice. _See Life, by +Dr. Johnson._ + +=Poole, John.= 1786-1872. Dramatist and humorist. Author of the +comedy, Paul Pry, Little Pedlington, a vol. of witty sketches, The +Comic Sketch-Book, etc. + +=Poole, Matthew.= 1624-1679. Biblical Commentator. _Pub. Ca._ + +=Pope, Alexander.= 1688-1744. A correct, polished poet whose verse +lacks sentiment and feeling. The heroic couplet is his usual measure. +His translation of Homer, though a fine effort, lacks the freshness +and spontaneity of its original. His chief poems are Essay on Man, +Moral Essays, The Dunciad, a talented but terrible satire, and The +Rape of the Lock, a brilliant, glittering piece of literary trifling. +_See editions of, by A. W. Ward, Cowden-Clarke, and Rossetti._ _See +Lowell's My Study Windows; also Leslie Stephen's Pope in Eng. Men of +Letters._ _Pub. Apl. Le. Mac. Rou._ + +=Porson, Richard.= 1759-1808. Classical scholar and writer of note. +_See Watson's Life of, 1861._ + +=Porter, Anna Maria.= 1781-1832. Novelist. Don Sebastian is perhaps +the best of her numerous novels. + +=Porter, Jane.= 1776-1850. Novelist. Sister to A. M. P. The famous +romances Thaddeus of Warsaw and Scottish Chiefs are her chief works. +_Pub. Apl. Le. Lip. Por._ + +=Powell, Baden.= 1796-1860. Philosopher. Author Hist. Nat. Philosophy, +Spirit of Inductive Philosophy, Study and Evidence of Christianity, +etc. + +=Poynter, E. Frances.= 18-- ----. Novelist. Author My Little Lady, +Ersilia, Among the Hills, etc. _Pub. Ho._ + +=Praed [pr[=a]d], Winthrop Mackworth.= 1802-1839. Poet. A writer of +pleasing verse, of which the Belle of the Ball is a good example. _See +Complete Works, edited by Sir Geo. Young._ _See Ward's Eng. Poets, +vol. 4._ _Pub. Arm._ + +=Price, Bonamy.= 180 Political economist. Author Practical +Political Economy, Currency and Banking, Principles of Currency, etc. +_Pub. Apl._ + +=Prideaux [pr[)i]d´o, or pr[)i]d-[)u]x], Humphrey.= 1648-1724. +Theologian. Noted for his Connection of the Old and New Testaments. +_Pub. Har. Mac._ + +=Priestley, Joseph.= 1733-1804. Theologian and scientist. Author of +over 300 books on chemistry, theology, metaphysics, etc. _See Works +of, 1824, 26 vols._ _See Life of, by Corry._ + +=Pringle, Thomas.= 1789-1834. Scotch poet. His best poem is the +spirited Afar in the Desert. _See Grant Wilson's Poets of Scotland._ + +=Prior, Matthew.= 1664-1721. Poet. A sprightly writer whose light and +airy style is seen to best advantage in his comic narrative poems. +_See Ward's Eng. Poets, vol. 3._ _Pub. Hou._ + +=Procter, Adelaide Anne.= 1825-1864. Poet. Dau. to B. W. P. Author +Legends and Lyrics. _See Stedman's Victorian Poets._ _Pub. Hou._ + +=Procter, Bryan Waller, "Barry Cornwall."= 1790-1874. Poet. A writer +of somewhat over-praised lyric verse. The tragedy of Mirandola is his +finest dramatic effort. _See Autobiography. Compare Stedman's +Victorian Poets and Ward's Eng. Poets, vol. 4._ + +=Proctor Richard Anthony.= 183 Astronomer. Author Other Worlds +than Ours, Our Place Among the Infinities, etc. _Pub. Apl. Arm. Lip. +Put._ + +=Prout, Father.= See Mahoney, Francis. + +=Prynne, Wm.= 1600-1669. Political and antiquarian writer. + +=Pugin [p[=u]-jin], Augustus.= 1792-1832. Architectural writer of +note. + +=Pugin, Augustin Welby Northmore.= 1812-1852. Architect. Son to A. P. +Author Examples of Gothic Architecture, Glossary of Eccl. Ornament, +etc. _See Ferrey's Recollections of A. W. N. Pugin and Augustus Pugin, +1861._ + +=Purchas, Samuel.= 1577-1628. Chronicler and compiler of travels. + +=Pusey [p[=u]´z[)i]], Edward Bouverie.= 1800-1882. Theologian. Author +Hist. Councils of the Church, Doctrine of the Real Presence, etc, and +many of the Tracts for the Times. The earlier Ritualists were named +Puseyites. His influence greatly deepened the religious feeling of the +Anglican Church. _See Life, by Liddon._ _Pub. Apl._ + +=Pusey, Philip Edward.= 18-- 1880. Theological writer. Son to E. B. P. + +=Puttenham, George.= 1530-c. 1600. Author of The Art of Eng. Poesie. + +=Pye, Henry James.= 1745-1813. Poet. Author of very indifferent verse. + + + + +=Quarles, Francis.= 1592-1644. Poet. An ingenious versifier, very +popular in his own day, and now chiefly known by his Divine Emblems +and a vol. of prose maxims entitled Enchiridion. + +=Quarles, John.= 1624-1665. Poet. Son to F. Q. Author Divine +Meditations, etc. His verse is marked by the same fantastic, labored +conceits as that of his father. + +=Quincey, Thos. de.= See De Quincey. + + + + +=Radcliffe, Mrs. Ann [Ward].= 1764-1823. Novelist. A writer of +powerful sensational romances, the best known of which are The +Mysteries of Udolpho and Romance of the Forest. _See Memoir of, by +Talfourd, and Memoir of, by Miss Rossetti._ _Pub. Clx. Rou._ + +=Raleigh [raw´l[)i]], Sir Walter.= 1532-1618. His chief work, The +Hist. of the World, has great literary merit. _See Lives, by +Whitehead, Oldys, Birch, Cayley, Thomson, Tytler, Napier, St. John, +and Edwards. See Ward's Eng. Poets, vol. 1._ + +=Ramsay [r[)a]m´z[)i]], Allan.= 1685-1758. Scotch poet. Author of the +pastoral poem The Gentle Shepherd. _See edition 1800, with Life; also +Ward's Eng. Poets, vol. 3._ + +=Ramsay, Edward Bannerman.= 1793-1872. Author of the famous +Reminiscences of Scottish Life and Character, Sermons, Pulpit +Table-Talk, etc. _See 23d edition of the Reminiscences, 1874, and +Memorials and Recollections, by C. Rogers._ + +=Randolph, Thos.= 1605-1634. Poet and dramatist. His works are +inferior in quality. The Jealous Lover is one of his plays. _See Works +of, edited by Carew Hazlitt, 1875, and Ward's Eng. Poets, vol. 2._ + +=Rankine, Wm. John Macquorn.= 1820-1872. Writer on mechanics. Author +Applied Mechanics, The Steam Engine, Songs and Fables, etc. _See +Memoir, by P. G. Tait._ _Pub. Apl. Mac._ + +=Rawlinson, George Henry.= 181 Historian. Author The Five Great +Monarchies of the Eastern World, Manual of Ancient Hist., The Seventh +Great Oriental Monarchy, etc. _Pub. Apl. Do. Est. Har. Mac._ + +=Rawlinson, Sir Henry Creswicke.= 181 Archæological writer of +note. Bro. to G. H. R. + +=Ray, John.= 1628-1705. Naturalist. Author of the Historia Plantarum, +etc. _See Life, by Wm. Derham, 1760._ + +=Reach, Angus Bethune.= 1821-1856. Novelist and miscellaneous writer. +Author of Leonard Lindsay, The Natural Hist. of Bores and Humbugs, The +Comic Bradshaw, etc. _See Chas. Mackay's Recollections._ _Pub. Rou._ + +=Reade, Charles.= 181 Novelist. A writer of strong genius, whose +style is piquant and aggressive. Put Yourself in his Place, Griffith +Gaunt, The Cloister and the Hearth, and Christie Johnstone are among +his best novels. _See Atlantic Monthly, Aug. 1864._ _Pub. Har._ + +=Redding, Cyrus.= 1785-1870. Miscellaneous writer. Author of A Wife +and Not a Wife, Remarkable Misers, Past Celebrities, etc. + +=Reeve, Clara.= 1725-1803. Novelist. Author Old English Baron, etc. + +=Reeve, Lovell.= 1814-1865. Conchologist. Author Conchologia Iconica, +Elements of Conchology, Conchologia Systematica, etc. _Pub. Put._ + +=Reeves, Mrs. Helen Buckingham [Mathers].= 185 Novelist. Author +of Cherry Ripe, Comin' thro' the Rye, My Lady Green Sleeves, As He +Comes Up the Stair, Land o' the Leal, Sam's Sweetheart, etc. _Pub. +Apl._ + +=Reid, Mayne.= 1818-1883. Author of tales of adventure for young +readers. _Pub. Rou. Sh._ + +=Reid, Thomas.= 1710-1796. Scotch metaphysician. Author Inquiry into +the Human Mind, Essays on the Intellectual Powers, etc. _See +Hamilton's edition of Reid, 1846._ + +=Reynolds, Frederick.= 1765-1841. Dramatist. Author of nearly 100 +plays, of which The Dramatist and Folly as it Flies are the best. + +=Reynolds, George W. M.= ---- 1879. Novelist. Author Mysteries of +London, Reformed Highwayman, etc. Style sensational, and influence +pernicious. _Pub. Di. Pet._ + +=Reynolds, Sir Joshua.= 1723-1792. Artist. Author Discourse on +Painting. _See Malone's edition of, 1797._ _See Lives by Malone, +Northcote, Farrington, Cotton, and Leslie, Mrs. Thackeray-Ritchie's +Miss Angel, and Reynolds as a Portrait Painter, by J. E. Collins._ + +=Ricardo [re-kar´do], David.= 1792-1823. Political economist. Author +High Price of Bullion, Principles of Political Economy and Taxation, +etc. _See McCulloch's edition, 1846._ + +=Rice, James.= 1843-1882. Novelist. Colleague of Walter Besant, and +author with him of Sweet Nelly My Heart's Delight, Golden Butterfly, +and other novels. See Besant, Walter. _Pub. Har._ + +=Richards, Alfred Bate.= 1820-1876. Poet and dramatist. Author of +Cromwell, Vandyck, and other dramas, Medea, and other vols. of poems, +and the novel So Very Human. + +=Richardson, Chas.= 1775-1865. Lexicographer. Author of an Eng. Dict. +and The Study of Language. + +=Richardson, Samuel.= 1689-1761. Novelist. Author Pamela, Clarissa +Harlowe, and Sir Charles Grandison. The slow movement of these stories +does not appeal readily to modern taste, but they display a wonderful +knowledge of the workings of the human heart. Clarissa, the best, is a +fine piece of realism. _See Taine's Eng. Lit., Masson's Novelists and +their Styles, and Leslie Stephen's Hours in a Library._ _Pub. Ho. +Rou._ + +=Richmond, Leigh.= 1772-1827. Moralist. Author The Dairyman's +Daughter, etc. _Pub. Ca. Phi. Rou._ + +=Riddell, Mrs. Charlotte Eliza Lawson.= 18-- ----. Novelist. Author +George Geith, A Life's Assize, The Senior Partner, etc. _Pub. Clx. +Est. Har. Pet._ + +=Riddell, Henry Scott.= 1798-1870. Scotch poet. _See Grant Wilson's +Poets of Scotland._ + +=Riddell, Mrs. J. H.= See Riddell, Mrs. Charlotte. + +=Ritchie, Mrs. Anne Isabella.= See Thackeray-Ritchie. + +=Ritchie, Leitch.= 1801-1865. Miscellaneous writer. Author of +Headpieces and Tailpieces, Wearyfoot Common, Romance of French +History, etc. + +=Ritson, Joseph.= 1752-1803. Antiquary and critic. + +=Roberts, Margaret.= 183 Novelist. Author Mademoiselle Mori, +Denise, The Atelier du Lys, In the Olden Time, On the Edge of the +Storm, Osé, Tempest tossed, Madame Fontenoy, Summerleigh Manor, etc. +_Pub. Ho._ + +=Robertson, Frederick Wm.= 1816-1853. Religious writer. Author 4 vols. +of sermons, which rank among the finest religious utterances of the +age. _See Life, by Stopford Brooke, and Blackwood's Mag., Aug. 1862._ +_Pub. Dut. Har._ + +=Robertson, James Burton.= 180 Historical writer. Author Lect. +on Various Subjects of Ancient and Modern Hist., etc. + +=Robertson, James Craigie.= 1813-1882. Ecclesiastical historian. +Author Hist. of the Christian Church, Biography of Thomas a Becket, +etc. + +=Robertson, Thos. Wm.= 1829-1871. Dramatist. Author David Garrick, +Ours, Caste, M. P., and other lively and popular plays. + +=Robertson, Wm.= 1721-1793. Scotch historian. Author Hist. Scotland, +Hist. Reign of Charles V., Hist. Discovery of America, etc. His style +is picturesque, but his statements are sometimes inaccurate. _See +Prescott's Robertson's Charles V. Pub. Har._ + +=Robinson, A. Mary F.= 185- ----. Poet and littérateur. Author of A +Handful of Honeysuckle, The Crowned Hippolytus, Rural England, and +Emily Brontë, in Famous Women Series, etc. _Pub. Rob._ + +=Robinson, Frederick Wm.= 183 Novelist. Author of A Bridge of +Glass, As Long as she Lived, Poor Zeph, Her Face was her Fortune, +Little Kate Kirby, Second-Cousin Sarah, Stern Necessity, True to +Herself, etc. _Pub. Har._ + +=Robinson, Henry Crabb.= 1775-1867. He left an entertaining Diary, +published in 1869. _Pub. Hou. Mac._ + +=Robinson, Mrs. Mary.= 1758-1800. Poet and actress. Known to her +contemporaries as "Perdita, the Fair." + +=Rochester, Earl of.= See Wilmot, John. + +=Rogers, Charles.= 182 Scotch antiquarian writer. Author of A +Century of Scottish Life, Boswelliana, Scotland: Social and Domestic, +etc. + +=Rogers, Henry.= 1810-1877. Critic. Author Eclipse of Faith, Reason +and Faith, etc. _Pub. Rou. Scr._ + +=Rogers, Samuel.= 1763-1855. Poet. Author Pleasures of Memory, a fine +though labored production, Italy, etc. _See Hazlitt's Eng. Poets._ +_Pub. Lip._ + +=Romilly, Sir Samuel.= 1757-1818. Jurist. Author of Speeches, etc. +_See Autobiography, 1840._ + +=Roscoe, Henry.= 1800-1836. Son to W. R. Author Lives of Eminent +Lawyers, etc. _Pub. Jo._ + +=Roscoe, Thos.= 1791-1871. Son to W. R. Translator of important +Italian works. + +=Roscoe, Wm.= 1753-1831. Historian. Author Lives of Lorenzo de Medici +and Leo X., etc. A careful, painstaking writer, whose works, written +in an easy, flowing style, are standard of their kind. _See Life of, +by Henry Roscoe._ + +=Roscommon, Earl of.= See Dillon, Wentworth. + +=Rose, George.= "Arthur Sketchley." 1830-1882. Littérateur. Best known +by his humorous Mrs. Brown sketches. _Pub. Rou._ + +=Rose, Henry John.= 1801-1873.} Authors of a General} Biographical +=Rose, Hugh James.= 1795-1838.} Dict., etc. Bro. to preceding.} + +=Rose, Wm.= 1762-1790. Scotch pastoral poet. His Praise of the +Highland Maid is one of his best poems. _See Grant Wilson's Poetry of +Scotland._ + +=Rose, Wm. Stewart.= 1775-1843. Poet. Translator of Ariosto. + +=Ross, Alexander.= 1699-1784. Scotch poet. Best known by his ballad +Woo'd and Married and a'. _See Irving's Scottish Writers._ + +=Ross-Church, Mrs. Florence [Marryatt].= 183 Novelist. Author +Her Lord and Master, The Prey of the Gods, No Intentions, etc. _Pub. +Har._ + +=Rossetti [r[)o]s-s[)e]t´tee], Christina Georgina.= 183 Poet. +Author of The Pageant, Sonnet of Sonnets, Goblin Market, etc. Style +serious and earnest. _See Stedman's Victorian Poets._ _Pub. Mac. Rob._ + +=Rossetti, Dante Gabriel.= 1828-1882. Poet and artist. Bro. to C. G. +R. A writer of the so-called Pre-Raphaelite school, whose verse is +passionate and musical. Sister Helen, The Blessed Damozel, and Rose +Mary are his most striking poems. _See Stedman's Victorian Poets, +Swinburne's Essays and Studies, Ward's Eng. Poets, vol. 4, 2d edition, +Essays Modern, by F. W. H. Myers, Wm. Sharp's_ _Record and Study of +Rossetti, Cornhill Mag. Feb. 1883, Contemporary Rev. Feb. 1883, +Harper's Mag. Nov. 1882, and English Illus. Mag. Oct. 1883._ _Pub. +Rob._ + +=Rossetti, Maria Francesca.= 1827-1875. Commentator on Dante. Sister +to two preceding. Author The Shadow of Dante, etc. _Pub. Rob._ + +=Rossetti, Wm. Michael.= 182 Biographer and critic. Author Fine +Art, etc. Bro. to three preceding. _Pub. Mac._ + +=Rowe [r[=o]], Nicholas.= 1673-1718. Dramatist and Shakespearean +editor. Author Jane Shore, Fair Penitent, etc. His dramas are +melancholy, but never licentious, like those of his contemporaries. + +=Rowley, Wm.= fl. c. 1625. Dramatist. Colleague of Dekker and Ford in +the Witch of Edmonton, and of Massinger and Middleton in the Old Law. + +=Roy, William.= fl. c. 1525. Poet. Author of a singular satire upon +Wolsey and the clergy, entitled Read me and be not Wroth, for I say +Nothing but Troth. + +=Roydon, Matthew.= fl. c. 1585. Poet. Author of the beautiful Lament +for Astrophel, an elegy upon Sir Philip Sidney. + +=Ruskin, John.= 181 Art critic. Author Modern Painters, Stones +of Venice, Seven Lamps of Architecture, Sesame and Lilies, Fors +Clavigera, etc. Style original, masterly, and of rare beauty. Its +chief defect is a vein of petulance and intolerance, which is +strongest in his latest books. _Pub. Wil._ + +=Russell, John, Earl.= 1792-1878. Statesman. Author Causes of the +French Revolution, Life and Times of Chas. James Fox, Establishment of +the Turks in Europe, etc. _Pub. Rob._ + +=Russell, John Scott.= 180 Engineer. Author Modern System of +Naval Architecture, a work of great practical value. _Pub. Apl._ + +=Russell, Michael.= 1781-1848. Bp. Glasgow. Scotch historian. + +=Russell, Lady Rachel.= 1636-1723. Her Letters are of much literary +and historical value. _See Earl Russell's edition, 1854._ + +=Russell, Wm.= 1741-1793. Scotch historian. Author Hist. Modern +Europe, etc. _Pub. Har._ + +=Russell, Wm. Clark.= 184 Marine novelist. Author Wreck of the +Grosvenor, A Sailor's Sweetheart, An Ocean Free Lance, Jack's +Courtship, Little Loo, etc. Style original and spirited. _Pub. Har._ + +=Russell, Wm. Howard.= 182 Journalist. Author Hist. of the +Crimean War, Diary North and South, Diary in India, Hesperothen, etc. +_Pub. Har. Rou._ + +=Ryle, John Charles.= 181 Bp. Liverpool. A popular religious +writer. Author Expository Thoughts on the Gospels, etc. _Pub. Ca. Phi. +Ran._ + +=Rymer, Thos.= 1638-1714. Antiquary and critic. Author of Edgar, a +play, The Tragedies of the Last Age Considered, etc., and compiler of +Rymer's F[oe]dera, a collection of treatises, etc. + + + + +=Sackville, Chas., Earl of Dorset.= 1637-1705. Poet Author of the +bright, lively song To all you Ladies now on Land. _See Ward's Eng. +Poets, vol. 2._ + +=Sackville, Thos., Earl of Dorset and Lord Buckhurst.= 1536-1608. +Poet. Author of the Induction and one tale of the Mirror for +Magistrates, and, with Thos. Norton, of the tragedy of Gorboduc. _See +edition 1820._ + +=Sadler, Michael Thos.= 1780-1830. Author of The Law of Population, +etc. + +=Sainsbury, Wm. Noel.= 182 Editor of Colonial Calendar of State +Papers, America and West Indies, 1574-1668, etc. + +=St. John, Bayle.= 1822-1859. Miscellaneous writer. Son to J. A. St. +John. Author Village Life in Egypt, Memoirs of St. Simon, The Turks in +Europe, etc. + +=St. John, Henry, Viscount Bolingbroke.= 1678-1751. Political +essayist. His Letter to Sir Wm. Windham [a vol. of 300 pages] is his +chief work. + +=St. John, Horace Roscoe.= 183 Son to J. A. St. John. Author The +Indian Archipelago, Hist. British Conquests in India, etc. + +=St. John, James Augustus.= 1801-1875. Miscellaneous writer. Author of +The Anatomy of Society, The Nemesis of Power, Manners and Customs of +Ancient Greece. + +=St. John, Percy Bolingbroke.= 182 Writer of tales of adventure. +Son to J. A. St. John. Author The Arctic Crusoe, The Creole Bride, The +Red Queen, etc. + +=St. John, Spenser.= 182 Son to J. A. St. John. Author Life in +the Forests of the Far West, etc. + +=Saintsbury, Geo. Warner.= 184 Littérateur. Author Dryden, in +Eng. Men of Letters, Primer of French Lit., etc. _Pub. Har. Mac._ + +=Sala, George Augustus.= 182 Novelist, essayist, and journalist. +Author Quite Alone, Twice Round the Clock, Paris Herself Again, etc. +_Pub. Fu. Har. Rou._ + +=Sale, George.= 1680-1736. Orientalist. Translator of the Koran. _Pub. +Lip._ + +=Sanderson, Robert.= 1587-1663. Bp. Salisbury. Theological writer of +great learning. _Pub. Mac._ + +=Sandys, George.= 1577-1644. Poet and traveler. Translator of Ovid. +_See Tyler's Am. Lit. vol. 1._ + +=Sartoris, Mrs. Adelaide [Kemble].= 1816-1879. Author of A Week in a +French Country House, a work of great freshness and beauty, and of +Medusa and Other Tales. + +=Savage, Marmion.= ---- 1872. Irish novelist. Author of The Bachelor of +the Albany, The Woman of Business, Reuben Medlicott, etc. _Pub. Apl._ + +=Savage, Richard.= 1698-1743. Poet. A writer of languid verse, and +held in remembrance mainly by Johnson's Biography of him. + +=Saville, George, Marquess of Halifax.= 1630-1695. Political writer. +The literary merit of his treatises is considerable. + +=Saville, Sir Henry.= 1549-1622. Antiquarian. Editor of a noted +edition of Chrysostom, 1613. + +=Sawyer, Wm.= 182 Poet. Author of A Year of Song, The Legend of +Phillis, etc. + +=Sayce, Archibald Henry.= 184 Philologist. Author of An Assyrian +Grammar, Principles of Comparative Philology, Introduction to the +Science of Language, etc. + +=Schreiber, Lady Charlotte Elizabeth.= c. 1814-c. 1879. Welsh writer. +Translator of The Mabinogion. + +=Scot, Sir Alexander.= fl. c. 1562. Scotch poet. His verse is amatory +in tone. _See edition by David Laing, 1821._ _See Grant Wilson's Poets +of Scotland._ + +=Scott, John.= 1730-1783. Scotch poet. His productions are flavorless +and poor. + +=Scott, Michael.= 1789-1835. Novelist. Author Tom Cringle's Log, etc. + +=Scott, Sir Michael.= fl. c. 1250. Scotch philosopher. + +=Scott, Robert=. 181 Classical scholar. One of the editors of +Liddell and Scott's Greek Lexicon. + +=Scott, Thomas.= 1747-1821. Commentator. Author Bible Commentary, etc. +_Pub. Lip._ + +=Scott, Sir Walter.= 1771-1832. Scotch novelist and poet. Author of a +long series of romances, beginning with Waverley, in 1814, and ending +with Anne of Geierstein, in 1829. S. first made the novel a really +great power in life as well as in literature. The flow of his +narrative is always animated and infused with a kindly spirit. Guy +Mannering, Ivanhoe, Old Mortality, and Quentin Durward are among the +best of his novels. The Lady of the Lake, Marmion, and Lay of the Last +Minstrel are fine narrative poems, filled with vivid descriptions of +Scotch scenery. _See Taine's Eng. Lit., Masson's Novelists and Their +Styles, and Hutton's Scott, in Eng. Men of Letters._ _See also The +Waverley Dict., by May Rogers._ + +=Scott, Wm. Bell.= 181 Poet and art writer. Author The Year of +the World, Life of Albert Dürer, etc. _See Grant Wilson's Poets of +Scotland._ _Pub. Rou._ + +=Scrivener, Frederick Henry.= 181 Biblical scholar. Author of a +Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament, and editor +of a Greek Testament, The Cambridge Paragraph Bible, etc. _Pub. Ho._ + +=Sedley, Sir Chas.= 1639-1701. Lyric and dramatic poet. S. wrote the +comedy of The Mulberry Garden. _See Ward's Eng. Poets, vol. 2._ + +=Seeley, John Robert.= 183 Author Ecce Homo, Lect. and Essays, +Roman Imperialism, etc. Style clear and strong. _See Myers's Essays, +Modern._ _Pub. Mac. Rob._ + +=Selden, John.= 1584-1654. Antiquarian. Author Titles of Honor, Hist. +of Titles, etc. A man of wide learning, whose Table-Talk is his best +known work. _See Lives, by Wilkins, 1726, Aiken, 1773, and Johnson, +1835._ + +=Selwyn, Geo. Augustus.= 1809-1878. Bp. Lichfield. Author Tribal +Analysis of the Bible, Are Cathedral Institutions Useless? etc. _Pub. +Mac._ + +=Senior, Nassau Wm.= 1790-1864. Political economist. Author Lect. on +Population, Essays on Fiction, etc. + +=Settle, Elkanah.= 1648-1724. Dramatist. A writer of trifling merit +but the rival of Dryden in his time. + +=Seward, Anna.= 1747-1809. Poet. Although called in her day "the Swan +of Lichfield," her verse is weakly sentimental and commonplace. + +=Sewell, Elizabeth Missing.= 181 Poet and novelist. Author Amy +Herbert, Margaret Percival, etc. A writer of excellent stories, which +have a strong High Church flavor. _Pub. Apl. Dut. Har. Ho._ + +=Sewell, Wm.= 1805-1874. Religious writer. Bro. to E. M. S. Author of +Christian Morals, etc. + +=Shadwell, Thos.= 1640-1692. Dramatist. Author of 17 plays, but +chiefly remembered as the butt of Dryden's satire MacFlecknoe. + +=Shaftesbury, 3d Earl of.= See Cooper, Anthony Ashley. + +=Shairp, John Campbell.= 181 Scotch essayist. Author Culture and +Religion, Aspects of Poetry, Studies in Poetry and Philosophy, Poetic +Interpretation of Nature, Burns, in Eng. Men of Letters, etc. _Pub. +Har. Hou._ + +=Shakespeare, Wm.= 1564-1616. The world's greatest dramatist. Author +of 37 plays, in two of which, Henry VIII. and Two Noble Kinsmen, +Fletcher is supposed to have had a hand. The others are King John, +Richard II., Richard III., the two parts of Henry IV., Henry V., the +three parts of Henry VI., all historical plays; the tragedies, Hamlet, +Macbeth, Othello, Lear, Antony and Cleopatra, Timon of Athens, +Coriolanus, Julius Cæsar, Romeo and Juliet, and Troilus and Cressida; +and the comedies, or tragi-comedies, Midsummer Night's Dream, Comedy +of Errors, Love's Labor's Lost, Taming of the Shrew, Two Gentlemen of +Verona, Merchant of Venice, All's Well that Ends Well, Much Ado About +Nothing, As You Like It, Merry Wives of Windsor, Measure for Measure, +Winter's Tale, Tempest, Twelfth Night, Pericles, and Cymbeline. S. was +also the author of the poems Lucrece, Venus and Adonis, and 154 +Sonnets. No writings, save the Scriptures, have ever moved the world +like those of Shakespeare, which appeal to every emotion in the mind +of man. He has no equals; there are none with whom he may be compared. +_Among the best complete Am. editions are White's Riverside_, _pub. +Hou._; _Rolfe's_, _pub. Har._; _and Hudson's_, _pub. Gi._ _See also +Furness's Variorum Macbeth, Lear, Hamlet, and Romeo and Juliet_, _pub. +Lip._ + +=Sharpe, Samuel.= 180 Historian. Author Hist. Egypt, Hist. +Hebrew Nation and Lit., Texts from the Bible Explained by Ancient +Monuments, etc. + +=Sheffield, John, Duke of Buckingham.= 1649-1720. Author Essay on +Poetry, a poem in heroic measure, polished and prosaic. + +=Sheil [sheel], Richard Lalor.= 1791-1851. Irish dramatist. Author +Evadne, The Apostate, Sketches of the Irish Bar, etc. _See +Biographies, by McNevin, 1845, and McCulloch, 1855._ _Pub. Arm._ + +=Shelley, Mrs. Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin.= 1797-1851. Novelist. Wife +to P. B. S. Author Frankenstein, a repulsive but powerful romance, +Valperga, Perkin Warbeck, etc. + +=Shelley, Percy Bysshe [b[)i]sh].= 1792-1822. Poet. An imaginative +genius of the highest order. Author of Queen Mab, Prometheus Unbound, +Alastor, The Cenci, etc. Some of his best work is seen in the Adonais, +an elegy upon Keats, and the Ode to a Skylark, while all his poems +possess an ethereal beauty quite unlike anything else in literature. +_See Atlantic Monthly, Feb. 1863, Macmillan's Mag. June, 1861, Shelley +and his Writings, by C. S. Middleton, Symonds' Shelley, in Eng. Men. +of Letters, and Swinburne's Essays and Studies._ _Pub. Lit. Mac. Por. +Rou._ + +=Shenstone, Wm.= 1714-1763. Pastoral poet. Author of The +Schoolmistress, a poem in Spenserian stanza, and of pastoral ballads. +_See Gilfillan's edition of, Edinburgh, 1854._ _See Ward's Eng. Poets, +vol. 3._ + +=Sheridan, Mrs. Frances.= 1724-1766. Novelist and dramatist. Wife to +T. S. + +=Sheridan, Richard Brinsley.= 1751-1816. Irish dramatist. Son to F. S. +and T. S. A sparkling, witty writer. Author of The Duenna, an opera, +The Critic, a farce, and The Rivals and School for Scandal, two of the +best comedies in the Eng. language. _See Works, edited by J. B. +Browne, 1873, and F. Stainforth, 1874; also edition of 1883, with +Introduction, by R. G. White._ _See Life of, by Moore, Atlantic +Monthly, Oct. 1883, and Sheridan, by Mrs. Oliphant, in Eng. Men. of +Letters._ _Pub. Do. Rou._ + +=Sheridan, Thomas.= 1721-1788. Irish lexicographer. Author Dict. Eng. +Lang., etc. + +=Sherlock, Wm.= 1678-1761. Bp. London. Theologian of note. + +=Sherwood, Mrs. Mary Martha.= 1775-1851. Writer of an immense number +of religious tales, once very popular. Little Henry and his Bearer is +one of the best known. _See Life, 1874._ _Pub. Ca. Har. Wh._ + +=Shirley, James.= 1594-1666. Dramatist. The latest of the +Shakespearean dramatists. Better known than any of his 40 plays is the +noble poem Death's Final Conquest. _See Dyce's Life of, 1833, and +Ward's Eng. Poets, vol. 2._ + +=Shorthouse, Joseph Henry.= 183 Novelist. Author of John +Inglesant and Little Schoolmaster Mark. _Pub. Mac._ + +=Sidgewick, Henry.= 183 Political economist. Author of The +Principles of Political Economy, The Methods of Ethics, Ethics in +Encyc. Britan., etc. A precise and impartial thinker. _Pub. Mac. Put._ + +=Sidney, Algernon.= 1622-1683. Political writer. Author Discourses on +Government, etc. _See Life, by Meadley, 1813._ + +=Sidney= or =Sydney, Sir Philip.= 1554-1586. Poet and prose writer. +Author of Sonnets, the prose romance Arcadia, and The Apologie for +Poetrie, with which latter work literary criticism may be said to +begin. _See Grosart's complete edition, 1877._ _See Ward's Eng. Poets, +vol. 1, Masson's Eng. Novelists, and Life, by Fox-Bourne, 1862._ + +=Simcox, Geo. Augustus.= 184 Poet and littérateur. Author +Prometheus Unbound, a tragedy, Poems and Romances, and a Hist. of +Latin Lit. _Pub. Har. Rou._ + +=Simpson, Sir James Young.= 1811-1870. Scotch medical writer of note. +_Pub. Apl. Lip._ + +=Simpson, Thomas.= 1710-1761. Mathematician. Author of a long series +of mathematical works. + +=Simson, Robert.= 1687-1768. Scotch mathematician. Author of a noted +translation of Euclid. + +=Sinclair, Mrs. Catherine.= 1800-1864. Scotch novelist. Author of +Beatrice, Modern Society, Jane Bouverie, etc. _Pub. Har._ + +=Singer, Samuel Weller.= 1783-1868. Shakespearean scholar. His edition +of Shakespeare appeared in 1826. + +=Skeat [skeet], Walter Wm.= 183 Philologist. Editor of numerous +Early Eng. and Anglo-Saxon works, and author of an Etymological Dict. +of the Eng. Language. _Pub. Mac._ + +=Skelton, John.= c. 1460-1529. Poet. Author Why Come Ye Not to Court? +a fierce satire upon Wolsey, Colin Clout, and the Boke of Phyllype +Sparowe. His verse is rugged and harsh, but very powerful. _See Dyce's +edition, 1843, and Ward's Eng. Poets, vol. 1._ _Pub. Hou._ + +=Skene, Wm. Forbes.= 180 Antiquarian. Author The Highlanders of +Scotland, Chronicles of the Picts and Scots, etc. + +=Sketchley, Arthur.= See Rose, Geo. + +=Skinner, John.= 1721-1807. Scotch poet. Tullochgorum is his most +noted poem. _See Poems of, with Memoir, 1859._ + +=Smart, Benj. Humphrey.= c. 1785-1872. Lexicographer. The chief of his +numerous works is a Pronouncing Dict., which first appeared in 1836. + +=Smart, Christopher.= 1722-1770. Poet. Author of a noted satire called +The Hilliad and the famous Song to David. _See edition 1791._ + +=Smart, Hawley.= 18-- ----. Novelist. Author Breezie Langton, Bound to +Win, etc. _Pub. Apl._ + +=Smedley, Edward.= 1789-1836. Historian. Author Religio Clerici, Hist. +Reformed Religion in France, Hist. France, etc. _Pub. Har._ + +=Smedley, Francis Edward.= 1819-1865. Novelist. Author Frank +Fairleigh, Harry Coverdale's Courtship, etc. _Pub. Pet. Rou._ + +=Smedley, Menella Bute.= c. 1825-c. 1875. Poet. Sister to F. E. S. +Author of Nina, Twice Lost, and other prose tales. One of the finest +of her poems is The Little Fair Soul. _Pub. Rou._ + +=Smee, Alfred.= 181 Scientific writer of note. _Pub. Put._ + +=Smiles, Samuel.= 181 Scotch writer. Author Self Help, Thrift, +Life of a Scotch Naturalist, Life of Geo. Stephenson, etc. _Pub. Har. +Lip. Rou._ + +=Smith, Adam.= 1723-1790. Political economist. Author of The Wealth of +Nations, the theory of which is that labor is the source of wealth. +_See Lives by Brougham, Playfair, and Smellie._ _Pub. Mac. Put._ + +=Smith, Albert Richard.= 1816-1860. Novelist. Author Christopher +Tadpole, etc. + +=Smith, Alexander.= 1830-1867. Scotch poet and essayist. Author Edwin +of Deira, Life Drama, City Poems, etc. His verse achieved a sudden but +brief popularity. It is brilliant, but uneven. His prose, of which A +Summer in Skye is the best example, is excellent. _See Life, by +Alexander, 1868, and Stedman's Victorian Poets._ + +=Smith, Mrs. Charlotte.= 1749-1806. Poet and novelist. Elegiac Sonnets +are her principal poems, and The Old Manor House is her best novel. + +=Smith, George.= c. 1825-1876. Orientalist. Author of The Chaldean +Account of Genesis, Assyrian Discoveries, Records of the Past, etc. +_Pub. Scr._ + +=Smith, Goldwin.= 182 Miscellaneous writer. Author Lect. and +Essays, The Study of Hist., Three Eng. Statesmen, etc. _Pub. Har. +Mac._ + +=Smith, Horace.= 1779-1849. Poet and novelist. Author of the noted +poem Address to a Mummy, of five of the Rejected Addresses published +by Horace and James Smith, and of several novels,--The Moneyed Man, +Brambletye House, etc. _Pub. Har. Ho. Put._ + +=Smith, Isaac Gregory.= 182 Religious writer. Author +Characteristics of Christian Morality, etc. _Pub. Dut._ + +=Smith, James.= 1775-1839. Poet and critic. Bro. to H. S. Author of +five of the travesties in Rejected Addresses, viz., those on +Wordsworth, Cobbett, Southey, Coleridge, and Crabbe. _See Memoirs of, +by Horace Smith, 1840._ _Pub. Ho. Put._ + +=Smith, James.= 182 Scotch poet and novelist. + +=Smith, John Pye.= 1775-1851. Theologian. Author Letters to Belsham, +etc. + +=Smith, Robert Payne.= 181 Religious writer. Author Bampton +Lect., 1869, etc. _Pub. Mac._ + +=Smith, Sarah=, "Hesba Stretton." 18-- ----. Novelist. Author Bede's +Charity, Through A Needle's Eye, and other excellent novels. _Pub. Do. +Rou._ + +=Smith, Sydney.= 1771-1845. Essayist and humorist. Author of the +Plymley Letters, etc. A perfect master of an intensely amusing and +sarcastic style of reasoning. _See Duyckinck's Wit and Wisdom of +Sydney Smith._ _Pub. Apl. Har. Rou._ + +=Smith, Thos. Southwood.= 1788-1861. Medical writer of note. Author +Philosophy of Health, The use of the Dead to the Living, etc. _Pub. +Clx. Lip._ + +=Smith, Wm.= 1769-1839. Geological writer of eminence. _See Life, by +Phillips, 1844._ + +=Smith, Wm.= 181 Classical lexicographer. Author Dict. Greek and +Roman Antiquities, Dict. of the Bible, etc. _Pub. Apl. Est. Har. Hou. +Lit. Por._ + +=Smith, Wm. Robertson.= 184 Scotch theologian of note. Author of +The Old Testament in the Jewish Church, etc. _Pub. Apl._ + +=Smollett, Tobias George.= 1721-1771. Author of Roderick Random; +Peregrine Pickle, Count Fathom, Humphrey Clinker, etc., novels whose +coarseness is scarcely atoned for by their wit and vivacity. _See +Complete Works, 1872._ _See Thackeray's Eng. Humorists and Masson's +Novelists and Their Styles._ _Pub. Har. Rou._ + +=Smyth, Chas. Piazzi.= c. 182 Egyptologist. Son to W. H. S. +Author Our Inheritance in the Gt. Pyramid, Life and Work at the Gt. +Pyramid, etc. An ingenious but somewhat fanciful thinker. _Pub. Est. +Rou. Scr._ + +=Smyth, Wm. Henry.= 1788-1865. Hydrographer. Author of a noted work on +the physical geography of the Mediterranean. _Pub. Mac._ + +=Smythe, Geo. Sydney, Viscount Strangford.= 1818-1857. Novelist. +Author of Historic Fancies and Angela Pisani. + +=Somers, Lord John.= 1651-1716. Jurist. Author of the noted "Somers +Tracts." _See Walter Scott's edition, 13 vols. 4to, 1815._ _See +Campbell's Lives of the Chancellors._ + +=Somerville, Mrs. Mary.= 1780-1872. Scotch astronomer. Author +Mechanism of the Heavens, Connection of the Physical Sciences, +Physical Geography, etc. _See Personal Recollections, by Mrs. +Somerville, 1873._ _Pub. Har. Rob. Sh._ + +=Somerville, Wm.= 1682-1742. Poet. Author of The Chase, etc. _See +Ward's Eng. Poets, vol. 3._ + +=Sotheby [s[)u]th´[e^]-b[)i]], Wm.= 1757-1833. A fine translation of +Wieland's Oberon is his best known work. + +=South, Robert.= 1633-1716. A witty theologian, whose Sermons possess +vitality and are still read. _Pub. Dut. Hou._ + +=Southern [s[)u]th´ern], Thos.= 1660-1746. Irish dramatist. Author +Oroonoko, The Fatal Dowry, etc. His plays were once very popular and +show great power. + +=Southey [sowth´[)i]], Mrs. Caroline Anne [Bowles].= 1787-1854. Poet. +Wife to R. S. Author of The Young Gray Head, The Pauper's Death Bed, +etc. Style harmonious and pathetic. _Pub. Rou._ + +=Southey, Robert.= 1774-1843. Poet and essayist. Author of Thalaba, +Curse of Kehama, Roderick, Madoc, etc. As a whole his verse is a good +deal like prose, but prose of an excellent quality. The Doctor is one +of his most noted prose works. _See Life, by C. T. Browne, and +Dowden's Southey, in Eng. Men of Letters._ _Pub. Apl. Har. Hou. Rou._ + +=Southwell, Robert.= 1560-1595. Poet. Content and Rich and Times go by +Turns are among his best poems. His verse has much quiet beauty. _See +MacDonald's England's Antiphon and Ward's Eng. Poets, vol. 1._ + +=Spedding, James.= 1808-1881. Baconian scholar. Editor Lord Bacon's +works, author Life and Letters of Bacon, Reviews and Discussions, +Evenings with a Reviewer, etc. _Pub. Hou._ + +=Speed, John.= 1552-1629. Antiquary. Hist. Great Britain, etc. + +=Spelman, Sir Henry.= 1562-1641. Antiquary. Author Hist. Eng. +Councils, Glossarium Archæologicum, etc. + +=Spencer, Herbert.= 182 Philosopher. Author Social Statics, +Principles of Psychology, Study of Sociology, Education, Descriptive +Sociology, etc. _Pub. Apl._ + +=Spencer, Wm. Robert.= 1770-1834. Poet. Beth-Gélert is his best known +poem. + +=Spenser, Edmund.= 1552-1599. Poet. Shepherd's Calendar, Mother +Hubbard's Tale, Amoretti, Epithalamion, and Prothalamion are the best +of his minor poems. The Faerie Queene, an allegory in 6 books, is his +greatest work, the interest of which lies not in the poem as a +narration, but in its symbolic representation of the soul at war with +evil. _See Todd's Variorum edition, and editions by Payne Collier, +1862, and Morris, 1869._ _See Craik's Spenser and his Poetry, Morley's +Library Eng. Lit., and Church's Spenser, in Eng. Men of Letters._ +_Pub. Mac. Hou._ + +=Spottswood= or =Spottiswoode, John=. 1565-1639. Abp. St. Andrew's. +Ecclesiastical historian. Author Hist. Church of Scotland, etc. _See +Russell's edition, 1851._ + +=Sprat, Thos.= 1636-1713. Bp. Rochester. Theologian. Author Hist. +Royal Society, Life of Cowley, Poems, Sermons, etc. + +=Spurgeon, Chas. Haddon.= 183 Author several vols. of Sermons, +John Ploughman's Talks, etc. _Pub. Ca. Scr. Sh._ + +=Stanhope, Philip Dormer, Earl of Chesterfield.= 1694-1773. Author of +the celebrated Letters to his Son, Philip Stanhope, the morality of +which has been much debated. Style polished and able. + +=Stanhope, Philip Henry, Lord Mahon.= 1805-1875. Author Hist. of +England, Hist. War of the Spanish Succession, etc. _Pub. Lit._ + +=Stanley, Arthur Penrhyn.= 1815-1881. Theologian. Author Lect. on the +Jewish Church, Lect. on the Eastern Church, Christian Institutions, +Life of Dr. Arnold, etc. A writer of much vigor and strength, whose +wide sympathies are clearly shown in his works. _See Century Mag. Jan. +1883, and Myers's Essays Modern._ _Pub. Arm. Dut. Har. Mac. Scr._ + +=Stanley, Thomas.= 1625-1678. Poet. Beside a vol. of quaint verse S. +wrote a Hist. of Philosophy. + +=Staunton [stän´t[o^]n], Howard.= 1810-1874. Shakespearean scholar. +His library edition of Shakespeare appeared in 1863. _Pub. Rou._ + +=Steele, Sir Richard.= 1671-1729. Essayist. S. began the periodical +Essay by The Tatler in 1709, and wrote afterwards with Addison in The +Spectator and The Guardian. Author also of The Christian Hero. _See +Thackeray's Eng. Humorists._ + +=Steevens, George.= 1736-1800. Shakespearean scholar. S. edited with +Dr. Johnson the edition of 1773, and with Isaac Reed those of 1785 and +1793. + +=Stephen, Sir James.= 1789-1859. Historian and essayist. Author Essays +in Eccl. Biography, Lect. on Hist. of France, etc. _See Life, by his +son, 1860._ _Pub. Har._ + +=Stephen, Sir James Fitzjames.= 182 Jurist. Son to preceding. +Author General View of the Criminal Law of England, Essays by a +Barrister, etc. _Pub. Mac. Th._ + +=Stephen, Leslie.= 183 Littérateur. Neph. to Sir J. S. Author of +a brilliant Hist. Eng., Thought in the Eighteenth Cent., Science of +Ethics, Hours in a Library, and Pope, Johnson, and Swift, in Eng. Men +of Letters. _Pub. Har. Scr._ + +=Stephenson, Mrs. Eliza [Tabor].= 183 Novelist. Author St. +Olave's, Jeanie's Quiet Life, The Blue Ribbon, Meta's Faith, The +Senior Songman, etc. St. Olave's, her best work, has been very +popular. _Pub. Har._ + +=Sterling, John.= 1806-1844. Poet and critic. _See Lives, by Hare, +1848, T. Carlyle, 1851; also, Caroline Fox's Memories of Old Friends._ + +=Sterne, Lawrence.= 1713-1768. Humorist. Author of Tristram Shandy and +The Sentimental Journey, two rambling, fantastic books, with a slender +thread of story in each. The quaintness is affected, and the humor +sometimes obscure, but the character drawing is inimitable. _See Life, +by Fitzgerald, Taine's Eng. Lit., Masson's Eng. Novelists and Their +Styles, and H. D. Traill's Sterne, in Eng. Men of Letters._ _Pub. Clx. +Lip. Rou._ + +=Sternhold, Thos.= c. 1500-1549. Associate with Hopkins in a metrical +version of the Psalms. + +=Stevenson, John Hall.= 1718-1785. Poet. Author Crazy Hall Tales, etc. + +=Stevenson, Robert Louis.= 18-- ----. Author of Travels with a Donkey +in the Cévennes, An Inland Voyage, The New Arabian Nights, etc. _Pub. +Rob._ + +=Stewart, Dugald.= 1753-1828. Scotch metaphysician. Author +Philosophical Essays, Philosophy of the Active and Moral Powers, etc. + +=Still, John.= 1543-1607. Bp. Bath and Wells. To him has been +doubtfully attributed the comedy Gammer Gurton's Needle, one of the +very earliest English plays. _See Dodsley's Old Plays._ + +=Stillingfleet, Edward.= 1635-1699. Bp. Worcester. Controversial +writer of note. _Pub. Mac._ + +=Stirling, Earl of.= See Alexander, Wm. + +=Stirling, Sir Wm. Maxwell.= See Maxwell Stirling. + +=Stormonth, James.= 1825-1882. Scotch lexicographer. Author Dict. of +Scientific Terms, Etymological Dict., etc. + +=Stoughton, John.= 18-- ----. Religious historian. Author Hist. of +Religion in England from the Opening of the Long Parliament to the End +of the Eighteenth Cent., and Introduction to Historical Theology. +_Pub. Arm. Phi._ + +=Stow, John.= 1525-1605. Chronicler. + +=Strangford, Viscount.= See Smythe, G. S. + +=Street, Geo. Edmund.= 1824-1881. Gothic architect. Author The Brick +and Marble in the Middle Ages, Gothic Architecture in Spain, etc. _See +The Biograph, Aug. 1880._ + +=Stretton, Hesba.= See Smith, Sarah. + +=Strickland, Agnes.= 1796-1874. Historical writer. Author Lives of the +Queens of England, Lives of the Queens of Scotland, Lives of the Seven +Bishops, etc. _Pub. Har. La. Lip. Por._ + +=Strutt, Joseph.= 1742-1802. Antiquarian. Author Sports and Pastimes +of the People of England, Biographical Hist. of Engravers, etc. _Pub. +Rou._ + +=Strype, John.= 1643-1737. Historian. Author Annals of the +Reformation, Life of Cranmer, etc. + +=Stuart, Gilbert.= 1742-1786. Historian. Author View of Society in +Europe, Hist. of Scotland, etc. An accurate but prejudiced writer. + +=Stubbs, Wm.= 182 Historian. Author of The Constitutional Hist. +of England, The Early Plantagenets, etc. _Pub. Est. Mac._ + +=Stukely, Wm.= 1687-1765. Antiquarian writer. + +=Suckling, Sir John.= 1609-1641. Of his gay, airy verse, the Ballad +upon a Wedding is most widely known. _See Ward's Eng. Poets, vol. 2._ + +=Sugden, Edward B., Baron St. Leonards.= 1781-1875. Jurist of high +rank. Author Handy Book on Property Law, etc. _Pub. Jo._ + +=Sumner, John Bird.= 1780-1862. Abp. Canterbury. Religious writer. +Author Practical Reflections, etc. + +=Surrey, Earl of.= See Howard, Henry. + +=Swain, Charles.= 1803-1874. Poet. His verse is pleasing, but has +little strength. _Pub. Rob._ + +=Swift, Jonathan.= 1667-1745. Irish satirist. Author Battle of the +Books, Tale of a Tub, Drapier's Letters, Gulliver's Travels, etc. +Style coarse, bitterly savage and personal, but of great vigor, +keenness, and force. _See Lives, by T. Sheridan and Forster; also, +Taine's Eng. Lit., Thackeray's Eng. Humorists, Leslie Stephen's Swift, +in Eng. Men of Letters, and Masson's Novelists._ _Pub. Hou._ + +=Swinburne, Algernon Charles.= 183 Poet and critic. Author of +Atalanta in Calydon, Song of Italy, Chastelard, Mary Stuart, Bothwell, +Tristram, etc. Tristram is the finest of his long poems, and A Child's +Song in Winter one of the best of the minor ones. His verse shows +wonderful melody and perfect mastery of metre even when most obscure, +and abounds in vivid and exquisite descriptions. _See Stedman's +Victorian Poets and Lowell's My Study Windows._ _Pub. Ho._ + +=Sylvester, Joshua.= 1563-1618. Poet. Translator of the French poet Du +Bartas, and known in his day as Silver-Tongued Sylvester. + +=Symonds, John Addington.= 184 Poet and critic. Author Hist. of +the Renaissance in Italy, Studies of the Greek Poets, Sketches and +Studies in Southern Europe, Italian Byways, etc., and two vols. of +poems, entitled New and Old and Many Moods. _Pub. Har. Ho. Os._ + + + + +=Tabor, Eliza.= See Stephenson, Mrs. + +=Tait, Archibald Campbell.= 1811-1882. Abp. Canterbury. Theologian. +Author Dangers and Safeguards of Modern Theology, etc. _Pub. Mac._ + +=Talfourd [tawl´furd], Sir Thomas Noon.= 1795-1854. Dramatic poet. +Author of The Athenian Captive, Glencoe, The Castilian, etc., but +chiefly known by his fine tragedy Ion, and Final Memorials of Chas. +Lamb. + +=Tannahill, Robert.= 1774-1810. Scotch poet. His lyrics possess a +sweetness like those of Burns. Braes of Balquither and The Flower of +Dumblane are familiar examples. _See Centenary edition, 1874._ + +=Tate, Nahum.= 1652-1715. Associate with Brady in a noted metrical +version of the Psalms, and author of several plays. + +=Tautphoeus, Baroness.= 18-- ----. Novelist. Author of The Initials, +Quits, Cyrilla, At Odds, etc. _Pub. Ho. Lip._ + +=Taylor, Brook.= 1685-1731. Mathematician. Author Methods of Increment +and inventor of Taylor's Theorem. + +=Taylor, Sir Henry.= 180 Dramatic poet. Author Edwin the Fair, +Philip Van Artavelde, Isaac Comnenus, etc. Philip Van Artavelde, his +finest work, ranks high in modern dramatic poetry. _See edition 1863._ +_See Fortnightly Review, vol. 1, and The Biograph, vol. 2._ _Pub. +Lip._ + +=Taylor, Isaac.= 1787-1865. Miscellaneous writer. Author Elements of +Thought, The Spirit of Hebrew Poetry, The World of Mind, etc. _Pub. +Ca. Dut. Har. Mac._ + +=Taylor, Jane.= 1783-1824. Moral and religious writer. Sister to I. T. +Author with her sister Ann of Hymns for Infant Minds, etc. _Pub. Ca. +Har. Por. Rou._ + +=Taylor, Jeremy.= 1613-1667. Bp. Down and Connor. Theologian. His best +works are Sermons, The Great Exemplar, and Holy Living and Holy +Dying. His warmth of imagination and poetic fervor render his prose +both musical and eloquent, while his long, involved sentences are +managed with the rarest skill. _See Heber's edition, 15 vols., 1820._ +_See Life, by Wilmott, 1847._ _Pub. Ca. Clx. Dut. Lip._ + +=Taylor, John.= 1580-1654. Poet. Called the Water Poet. A voluminous +writer but one of little interest to modern readers. + +=Taylor, Robert.= fl. c. 1600. Dramatist. Author of The Hog hath Lost +his Pearl, etc. + +=Taylor, Thomas.= 1758-1835. Philosophical writer. Known as the +Platonist. + +=Taylor, Tom.= 1817-1880. Dramatist. Of his many excellent plays, The +Ticket-of-Leave Man is the most popular. _See Eclectic Mag. Oct. +1880._ + +=Taylor, Wm.= 1765-1836. His translations of Goethe, Schiller, and +Lessing promoted greatly the study of German literature in England. + +=Temple, Frederick.= 182 Bp. Exeter. Theologian of the Broad +Church school. Author Sermons in Rugby School, etc. _Pub. Mac._ + +=Temple, Sir Wm.= 1628-1699. Philosophical essayist. _The best edition +of his works is 4 vols. 8vo, London, 1814._ + +=Tennant, Wm.= 1774-1848. Scotch poet. Author of the humorous, +mock-heroic poem, Auster Fair, etc. _See Ward's Eng. Poets, vol. 4._ + +=Tennent, Sir James.= See Emerson-Tennent. + +=Tennyson, Alfred.= 180 Poet Laureate. In Memoriam, Idyls of the +King, The Princess, Maud, and Enoch Arden, with the dramas Harold and +Queen Mary, comprise his longest poems. Among the finest of the +shorter ones are [OE]none, Ulysses, The Talking Oak, Lotus Eaters, +Lady of Shalott, The Gardener's Daughter, The Revenge, and Locksley +Hall, and of the brief songs, Tears, Idle Tears, and Late, so Late. +The poetry of T., taken as a whole, represents the highest water mark +of the non-dramatic poetry of the English-speaking world. In it is +united a perfect mastery of words and metre with a widely cultured, +thoughtful imagination. _See Hutton's Essays, Stedman's Victorian +Poets, Buchanan's Master Spirits, Tavish's Studies in Tennyson, +Gatty's Study of In Memoriam, Genung's Study of In Memoriam, Atlantic +Monthly, Sept. 1879._ _Pub. Har. Hou. Os._ + +=Tennyson-Turner, Chas.= 1808?-1881. Poet. Bro. to A. Tennyson. Style +delicate and meditative. His Sonnets have been greatly praised. _See +Living Age, Dec. 31, 1881._ + +=Tennyson, Frederick.= 180 Poet. Bro. to two preceding. Author +Days and Hours, etc. Style artistic and elegant. The Blackbird is one +of his best poems. _See Stedman's Victorian Poets._ + +=Thackeray-Ritchie, Mrs. Anne Isabella.= 184 Dau. to W. M. T. +Novelist. Author of Miss Angel, Old Kensington, Village on the Cliff, +etc. Style quiet, picturesque, and refined. _Pub. Har._ + +=Thackeray, Wm. Makepeace.= 1811-1863. Novelist. Author of Vanity +Fair, Newcomes, Pendennis, Virginians, Henry Esmond, Philip, Denis +Duval, Hoggarty Diamond, Barry Lyndon, etc. Of these Esmond must rank +highest as a piece of literary art. His style presents a union of the +satirical and the humorous, the cynical and the kindly, which +perplexes some readers, but is almost always an example of excellent +English. The End of the Play and Bouillebaisse are his two best poems. +_See_ _Hannay's Studies on Thackeray in Every Saturday, vol. 6, Old +Series, Shepard's Pen Pictures of Modern Authors, Rideing's Stray +Moments with Thackeray, and Taylor's Thackeray the Humorist._ _Pub. +Har. Ho. Lip._ + +=Theobald [thee-o-bawld, or t[)i]b´bald], Lewis.= 1688-1744. Dramatist +and Shakespearean editor. His edition of Shakespeare appeared in 1733, +and is of great merit. T. was savagely and unjustly satirized by Pope +in the Dunciad. + +=Thirlwall, Connop.= 1797-1875. Bp. St. David's. Historian. Author of +a valuable Hist. of Greece _Pub. Har. Rob._ + +=Thomas, Annie.= See Cudlip, Mrs. Pender. + +=Thoms, Wm. John.= 180 Antiquarian writer. + +=Thomson, James.= 1700-1748. Scotch poet. Author of The Seasons, +Castle of Indolence, etc. His style is somewhat heavy, but his feeling +for nature is genuine and his descriptions are fine. _See Lives, by +Buchan, Gilfillan, and Bell; also, Ward's Eng. Poets, vol. 3._ _Pub. +Apl. Clx. Hou._ + +=Thomson, James. 1834-1882. Scotch poet. Author of a sombre but= +striking poem, The City of Dreadful Night. _See To-day, July, 1883, +and Ward's Eng. Poets, vol. 4, 2d edition._ + +=Thomson, Mrs. Katharine.= 1800-1862. Historical writer. + +=Thomson, Wm.= 181 Abp. York. Religious writer. + +=Thornbury, Geo. Walter.= 1828-1876. Novelist and poet. Author Life of +Turner, True as Steel, Greatheart, etc. Culloden and The Jester's +Sermon are among his best poems. Style spirited and strong. _See +Stedman's Victorian Poets._ _Pub. Ho._ + +=Thornton, Bonnell.= 1724-1768. Dramatist and translator. + +=Thornton, Wm. Thomas.= 181 Political economist. Author +Over-Population and its Remedy, Plea for Peasant Proprietors, On +Labor, Old-Fashioned Ethics and Common-Sense Metaphysics, Poems, etc. +_Pub. Mac._ + +=Thorold, Anthony Wilson.= 18-- ----. Bp. Rochester. Religious writer. +Author The Presence of Christ, The Threshold of Private Devotions, +etc. _Pub. Ran._ + +=Thrale, Mrs.= See Piozzi, Mrs. + +=Thurlow, Lord Edward Hovell.= 1781-1829. Poet. Author Ariadne, etc. + +=Tickell, Richard.= ---- 1793. Humorist. Author of The Anticipation, an +amusing forecast of the debates in the Parliament of 1778. + +=Tickell, Thomas.= 1686-1740. Poet and essayist. Grandfather to R. T. +Author of a fine elegy upon Addison, the ballad of Colin and Lucy, +several papers in the Spectator, etc. _See Ward's Eng. Poets, vol. 3._ +_Pub Hou._ + +=Tighe [t[=i]], Mrs. Mary Blackford.= 1773-1810. Irish poet. Subject +of Moore's poem "I saw thy form in youthful prime," and author of +Psyche, a highly imaginative poem in Spenserian stanza. + +=Tillotson, John.= 1630-1694. Abp. Cant. His Sermons, still +occasionally read, are sedate and solid in style. + +=Timbs, John.= 1801-1875. Miscellaneous writer. Author +Anecdote-Biography, Curiosities of London, Club Life in London, etc. +_Pub. Har. Rou._ + +=Tindal, Matthew.= 1657-1733. Religious controversial writer. + +=Tobin, John.= 1770-1804. Dramatist. Author, among other plays, of the +romantic, popular comedy The Honeymoon. _See Memoirs, by E. S. Benger, +1820._ + +=Todd, Henry John.= 1763-1845. Littérateur. Author Life of Cranmer, +Account of the Deans of Canterbury, etc., and editor of Spenser, +Milton, and Johnson's Dict. + +=Tonna, Mrs. Charlotte Elizabeth= [Brown]. 1792-1846. Writer of moral +and religious tales. Known as an author by her signature Charlotte +Elizabeth. + +=Tooke, John Horne.= See Horne-Tooke. + +=Toplady, Augustus Montague.= 1740-1778. Theologian and hymn writer. +Chiefly known by the famous hymn Rock of Ages. _See Works, 1869._ + +=Tourneur, Cyril.= fl. c. 1600. Dramatist. Author The Atheist's +Tragedy, Revenger's Tragedy, etc. His plays show great power and +dramatic skill. + +=Townley, James.= 1715-1788. Dramatist. Author of the witty farce High +Life Below Stairs, etc. + +=Townshend [townz´end], Chauncey Hare.= 1798-1868. Poet and prose +writer. Author Sermons in Sonnets, Facts in Mesmerism, Mesmerism +Proved, etc. _Pub. Har._ + +=Trafford, F. G.= See Riddell, Mrs. C. E. + +=Tregelles, Samuel Prideaux.= 1813-1875. Biblical scholar of note. +Author The Englishman's Greek Concordance to the New Testament, etc. + +=Trelawney, Edward John.= 1792-1881. Novelist. Author Adventures of a +Younger Son, Recollections of the Last Days of Shelley and Byron, etc. + +=Trench, Richard Chenevix.= 180 Abp. Dublin. Poet, philologist, +and theologian. Author Notes on the Miracles, Study of Words, English +Past and Present, Poems, etc. _See Myers's Essays Modern._ _Pub. Apl. +Arm. Mac. Scr._ + +=Trevelyan, George Otto.= 183 Miscellaneous writer. Author +Cawnpore, Life of Macaulay, etc. _Pub. Har._ + +=Trimmer, Mrs. Sarah.= 1741-1810. Miscellaneous writer. Author +Fabulous Histories, Abridgments of Scripture Hist., Sermons for Family +Reading, etc. _Pub. Rou._ + +=Trollope, Anthony.= 1815-1882. Novelist. Son to F. M. T. Author of a +very long list of excellent novels, the best of which are, He Knew he +was Right, Barchester Towers, Marion Fay, Doctor Thorne, and Framley +Parsonage. His stories are never dull; the current of the narrative +flows easily and the characters are well sketched, but the English is +sometimes a little careless. _See Autobiography; also, Blackwood's +Mag. Feb. 1883, Century Mag. July, 1883, and Princeton Review, July, +1883._ _Pub. Har. Lip. Mac. Pet. Por. Rou._ + +=Trollope, Edward.= 181 Bp. Nottingham. Archæological and +architectural writer of note. Cousin to A. T. and T. A. T. + +=Trollope, Mrs. Frances Eleanor= [Tiernan]. 18-- ----. Novelist. Wife +to T. A. T. Author of Aunt Margaret's Trouble, Anne Furness, Among +Aliens, Mabel's Progress, The Sacristan's Household, Veronica, etc. +_Pub. Har._ + +=Trollope, Mrs. Frances= [Milton]. 1778-1863. Novelist. Author +Domestic Manners among the Americans, Widow Barnaby, etc. A +voluminous, witty, but inartistic writer. _Pub. Har. Rou._ + +=Trollope, Thomas Adolphus.= 181 Novelist and historian. Son to +F. M. T. Author Lindisfarne Chase, Filippo Strozzi, La Beata, Hist. +Florentine Commonwealth, Life Pope Pius IX., The Papal Conclaves, etc. +_See "Eng. Authors in Florence," Atlantic Monthly, Dec. 1864._ _Pub. +Har. Mac. Pet._ + +=Tucker, Abraham.= 1705-1774. Metaphysician. Author of The Light of +Nature Pursued, published under the pseudonym Edward Search. + +=Tucker, Charlotte.= "A. L. O. E." 183 Writer of religious +juvenile fiction. _Pub. Ca. Nel._ + +=Tulloch, John.= 182 Scotch theologian. Author Theism, Leaders +of the Reformation, Christ of the Gospels and Christ of Modern +Criticism, etc. _See The Biograph, vol. 3._ _Pub. Mac. Phi. Rou. Scr._ + +=Tupper, Martin Farquhar.= 181 Poet and prose writer. Author of +The Proverbial Philosophy, and other popular but exceedingly +commonplace poems. Some of his prose tales are excellent; of these +Crock of Gold is the best known. _Pub. Arm. Pet._ + +=Turberville, George.= 1530-c. 1595. Poet. Author Tragical Tales, etc. + +=Turner, Chas. Tennyson.= See Tennyson-Turner. + +=Turner, Dawson.= 1775-1858. Author Nat. Hist. of Sea Weeds, etc. + +=Turner, Sharon.= 1768-1847. Historian. His chief works are Hist. of +England in the Middle Ages, Sacred Hist. of the World, and a valuable +Hist. of the Anglo-Saxons. _Pub. Har._ + +=Tusser, Thomas.= 1515-1580. Poet. Author of A Hondreth Good Points of +Husbandrie, expanded by later writers into Five Hundred Points of Good +Husbandrie. _See Mavor's edition, 1812._ + +=Tylor, Edward Burnett.= 183 Ethnologist. Author of Anahauc, or +Mexico and the Mexicans, Researches into the Early Hist. of Mankind, +Anthropology and Primitive Culture. A writer of thorough scientific +knowledge, possessing an admirable style. _Pub. Apl. Ho._ + +=Tyndale= or =Tindal, Wm.= 1477-1536. Translator of the New +Testament, 1525. Tyndale's version was afterwards revised by +Coverdale. _See Offor's Life of, 1836._ + +=Tyndall, John.= 182 Irish physicist. Author Glaciers of the +Alps, Heat as a Mode of Motion, Lect. on Light, On Radiation, etc. +_Pub. Apl._ + +=Tyrwhitt [t[)e]r´[)i]t], Thomas.= 1730-1786. Antiquary and Chaucerian +scholar. Editor of the works of Chaucer and Chatterton. A scholar of +singular insight, whose conjectures have nearly all been sustained by +texts of which he knew nothing. + +=Tytler [t[=i]t´l[e^]r], Alex Fraser, Lord Woodhouselee.= 1747-1813. +Scotch historian. Son to Wm. T. Author Elements of Gen. Hist., Essay +on Military Law, etc. _Pub Clx. Har._ + +=Tytler, C. C. Fraser.= Great-niece to P. F. T. See Liddell, Mrs. + +=Tytler, Patrick Fraser.= 1791-1849. Scotch historian and biographer. +Son to A. F. T. Author Scottish Worthies, etc., and a standard Hist. +of Scotland. _Pub. Har._ + +=Tytler, Sarah.= See Keddie, Henrietta. + +=Tytler, Wm.= 1711-1792. Scotch historical and critical writer. + + + + +=Udall [yoo´d[)a]l], Nicholas.= 1506-1556. Dramatist. Author Ralph +Roister Doister, the first Eng. comedy. It is known to have been acted +before 1551. _See Arber's reprint._ + +=Upcott, Wm.= 1779-1845. Bibliographer of note. + +=Urquhart [[^u]rk´[a^]rt], David.= 180 Scotch writer. Author +Turkey and its Resources, The Progress of Russia, the Pillars of +Hercules, etc. _Pub. Har._ + +=Usher or Ussher, James.= 1580-1656. Abp. Armagh. Chronologist. +Author Chronological Tables of Universal Hist. from the Creation to +Vespasian. The marginal dates in the authorized version of the Bible +are from Usher. _See Complete Works, 17 vols., Dublin, 1864._ _See +Life, by Aikin._ + + + + +=Valpy, Abraham John.= 1787-1854. Shakespearean editor. His +illustrated Shakespeare, 15 vols., appeared in 1834. + +=Vanbrugh [v[)a]n´broo], Sir John.= 1666-1726. Dramatist and +architect. Author of a dozen brilliant but coarse comedies, among +which The Relapse, Revoked Wife, The Confederacy, and Journey to +London are the best. + +=Vaughan [vawn or vaw´[a^]n], Chas. James.= 181 Theologian. +Author Heroes of Faith, Epistles of St. Paul for Eng. Readers, etc. A +leader of Broad Church thought. _Pub. Dut. Mac. Phi. Rou._ + +=Vaughan, Henry.= 1621-1695. Poet. His verse is religious in +character, and is as frequently harsh in sound as quaint in form. +Silex Scintillans is the title of his principal work. _See Ward's Eng. +Poets, vol. 2, MacDonald's England's Antiphon, and Dr. John Brown's +Spare Hours, 1st Series._ _Pub. Hou._ + +=Vaughan, Robert.= 1795-1868. Miscellaneous writer. Author of +Congregationalism, the Age of Great Cities, Revolutions in English +Hist., etc. + +=Vaughan, Robert Alfred.= 1823-1855. Son to R. V. Author Hours with +the Mystics, etc. _See Memoir by his father, 1858._ + +=Vaux [vawks], Thomas, Lord.= 1510-1557. Poet. Author of the +Grave-digger's song in Hamlet and the meditative poem Thought. + +=Veitch, John.= 182 Scotch philosophical writer. Author Memoirs +of Dugald Stewart and Sir Wm. Hamilton, etc. + +=Venn, Henry.= 1725-1797. Religious writer. Author Complete Duty of +Man, etc. _See Life, by Henry Venn, 1834._ + +=Vere, De, Sir Aubrey.= See De Vere, Sir Aubrey. + +=Vere, De, Aubrey Thomas.= See De Vere, Aubrey. + +=Vere, De, Edward, Earl of Oxford.= See De Vere, Edward. + +=Villiers, George, Duke of Buckingham.= 1627-1688. Dramatist. Author +The Rehearsal and Battle of Sedgemoor. + +=Viner [v[=i]´n[e^]r], Chas.= 1680-1756. Legal writer. Author Complete +Abridgment of Law and Equity. + + + + +=Wace, Maistre Richard.= c. 1120-1184. Anglo-Norman poet. Author of +the Brut d'Angleterre and the Roman de Rou: the first poem of 12,000 +lines, the latter of 17,000. + +=Waddington, George.= 1793-1869. Historian. Author Hist. of the +Church, Hist. Reformation on the Continent, etc. _Pub. Har._ + +=Wakefield, Gilbert.= 1756-1801. Theological and classical writer. His +annotated edition of Lucretius is one of his chief works. + +=Wakefield, Mrs. Priscilla.= 1751-1832. Miscellaneous writer. + +=Walcott, Mackenzie Edward Chas.= 182 Archæologist. Author +Sacred Archæology. Cathedral Cities of England and Wales, Memorials of +Canterbury, etc. + +=Walford, Edward.= 182 Littérateur. Author Handbook of the Greek +Drama, etc. _See The Biograph, vol. 1._ + +=Walford, Mrs. Lucy Bethia= [Colquhoun]. 184 Novelist. Author +Mr. Smith, Pauline, Cousins, Troublesome Daughters, Dick Netherby, +etc. _Pub. Ho._ + +=Walker, John.= 1732-1807. Lexicographer. His Dict. of the English +Language appeared in 1775. + +=Wallace, Alfred Russel.= 182 Naturalist. Author Travels on the +Amazon, The Malay Archipelago, Geographical Distribution of Animals, +etc. Independently of Darwin, W. originated a theory of natural +selection. _Pub. Har. Mac._ + +=Wallace, Donald Mackenzie.= 184 Traveler. Author of Russia, +etc. _Pub. Ho._ + +=Waller, Edmund.= 1605-1687. Poet. Go, Lovely Rose, On a Girdle, and +Old Age and Death are some of his best poems. _See Bell's edition, +1866._ _See Ward's Eng. Poets, vol. 2._ + +=Waller, John Francis.= 181 Poet and prose writer. Author Poems, +The Slingsby Papers, etc., and editor of the Imperial Dict. of +Universal Biography. _Pub. Cas._ + +=Wallis, John.= 1616-1703. Mathematician. Author numerous works on +algebra, geometry, etc. + +=Walpole [w[)o]l´pol], Horace.= 1717-1797. Miscellaneous writer. +Author Castle of Otranto, a sensational romance, The Mysterious +Mother, a tragedy, Historic Doubts concerning Richard III., etc. A +brilliant but superficial writer. _See Memoirs of, 1851; also, Living +Age, vol. 13, "Strawberry Hill."_ + +=Walter, John.= 1739-1812. Journalist. Founder of the London Times, +1788. + +=Walton, Brian.= 1600-1661. Bp. Chester. Editor of the London +Polyglott Bible. _See Life, by Todd, 1821._ + +=Walton, Izaak.= 1593-1683. Biographer and angler. The Complete +Angler, his chief work, is a book of much quiet beauty. _Pub. Lit._ + +=Warburton, Eliot Bartholomew Geo.= 1810-1852. Irish novelist and +miscellaneous writer. Author The Crescent and the Cross, Prince +Rupert and the Cavaliers, etc. + +=Warburton, George.= ---- 1857. Bro. to E. B. G. W. Author Conquest of +Canada, Hochelaga, etc. _Pub. Har._ + +=Warburton, Wm.= 1698-1779. Bp. Gloucester. A learned and brilliant +but arrogant author. He wrote The Divine Legation of Moses, and +published an edition of Shakespeare in 1747. _See Life, by Watson, +1863, and Quarterly Rev. June, 1812._ + +=Ward, Robert Plumer.= 1765-1846. Novelist. Author Tremaine, De Vere, +De Clifford, and Chatsworth; metaphysical, philosophical, and +political narratives. _See Memoirs, 1850._ _Pub. Har._ + +=Waring, Anna L.= 18-- ----. Welsh poet. Author of Hymns and +Meditations. _Pub. Dut._ + +=Warner, Ferdinando.= 1703-1768. Historian. Author Eccl. Hist. +England, Hist. Ireland, etc. + +=Warner, Wm.= 1558-1609. Poet. Author of Albion's England, a hist. of +England from the Deluge to Elizabeth, containing 10,000 14-syllable +lines. It is humorous, spirited, and even pathetic in places. _See +Craik's Eng. Lit., vol. 1, and Ward's Eng. Poets, vol. 1._ + +=Warren, John Leicester.= 18-- ----. Poet. Author Philoctetes, +Rehearsals, Orestes, Searching the Net, etc. _See Stedman's Victorian +Poets._ _Pub. Rou._ + +=Warren, Samuel.= 1807-1877. Novelist and physician. Author Diary of a +Physician, and the famous novel Ten Thousand a Year. _Pub. Har. Por._ + +=Warton, Joseph.= 1722-1800. Poet and critic. _See Biography, by Wool, +1806._ + +=Warton, Thomas.= 1728-1790. Poet and critic. Bro. to J. W. A +valuable Hist. Eng. Poetry is his chief prose work. _See Carew +Hazlitt's edition._ _See Ward's Eng. Poets, vol. 3._ _Pub. Rou._ + +=Waterton, Charles.= 1782-1865. Naturalist. Author Essays on Nat. +Hist., etc. _Pub. Mac._ + +=Watson, Richard.= 1737-1816. Bp. Llandaff. Theologian. Author of +Apologies for Christianity and the Bible, etc. _See Autobiography, +1817._ _Pub Phi._ + +=Watson, Robert.= 1730-1780. Scotch historian. Author of a worthless +Hist. of Philip II. + +=Watson, Thomas.= 1560-1592. Poet. His Sonnets have been much praised. +_See Ward's Eng. Poets, vol. 1._ + +=Watts, Alaric Alexander.= 1799-1864. Poet. Author Poetical Sketches, +Lyrics of the Heart, etc. + +=Watts, Mrs. Anna Mary [Howitt].= 182 Artist and miscellaneous +writer. Author of The Art Student in Munich, Pioneers of Spiritualism, +containing Lives of Dr. Justinius Kerner and Wm. Howitt, written from +the psychological point of view, etc. + +=Watts, Isaac.= 1674-1748. Religious poet. Author Psalms and Hymns, +etc. While some of his verse is hardly more than doggerel, he +sometimes rises to a lofty plane of expression. _See Life, by Milner, +1834._ _Pub. Ca. Hou. Rou._ + +=Waugh [waw], Edwin.= 181 Dialect poet. Author Lancashire Songs, +etc. + +=Webster, Mrs. Augusta.= 184 Poet. Author Dramatic Studies, +Portraits, A Woman Sold, translations from Euripides, etc. Her verse +is strong and original in tone. _See Stedman's Victorian Poets._ _Pub. +Mac._ + +=Webster, John.= c. 1582-1638. Dramatist. Author of the tragedies of +The White Devil, Duchess of Malfy, Guise, Devil's Law Case, Appius +and Virginia, etc. W. is the greatest master of the terrible among +Eng. dramatists. _See Dyce's edition 1830, and Hazlitt's 1857._ _Pub. +Rou._ + +=Wesley, Chas.= 1708-1788. Hymn writer of note. _See Ward's Eng. +Poets, vol. 3._ + +=West, Gilbert.= 1705-1756. Theologian and poet. Translator of Pindar +and author of the able treatise Observations on the Resurrection. + +=Westcott, Brooke Foss=. 182 Theologian. Author Hist. Canon of +the New Testament, Hist. of the Eng. Bible, The Bible and the Church, +etc. _Pub. Har. Mac._ + +=Westwood, Thos.= 181 Poet. Author Beads from a Rosary, Quest of +the Sancgreal, Berries and Blossoms, etc. + +=Whately [hw[=a]t´l[)i]], Richard.= 1787-1863. Abp. Dublin. Essayist. +Author New Testament Difficulties, Political Economy, Logic and +Rhetoric, etc. A thinker of logical but unimaginative powers. _See +Life and Correspondence, edited by his daughter, 1864, and H. +Martineau's Biographical Sketches._ _Pub. Ca. Dra. Har. Sh._ + +=Whetstone, Geo.= fl. c. 1580. Dramatist. From his play Promos and +Cassandra Shakespeare has drawn the story of Measure for Measure. + +=Whewell [h[=u]´[e)]l], Wm.= 1794-1866. Philosopher. Author Hist. +Inductive Sciences, Plurality of Worlds, Hist. Moral Philosophy in +England, Philosophy of the Inductive Sciences, etc. _Pub. Apl. Har._ + +=Whiston, Wm.= 1667-1752. Theologian and mathematician. Author of A +New Theory of the Earth, etc., and editor of Josephus. _Pub. Por._ + +=Whitaker, John.= 1735-1808. Historian. Author Hist. of Manchester, +Mary, Queen of Scots, Vindicated, etc. + +=White, Gilbert.= 1720-1793. Author of the Naturalist's Calendar and +the delightful Nat. Hist. of Selborne. _See Buckland's edition, +London, 1875._ _See Fraser's Mag., March, 1879._ _Pub. Har. Mac. Rou._ + +=White, Henry.= 183 Archæologist and religious writer. Author +Historical Memorials of the Savoy Conferences on Art and History, etc. +_See The Biograph, Aug. 1880._ + +=White, Henry Kirke.= 1785-1806. Poet. His verse is mediocre and +crude. _See Life, by Southey._ _Pub. Apl. Hou._ + +=White, James.= 1804-1862. Historical writer. Author Historical +Landmarks, The Eighteen Christian Centuries, Hist. of France, Hist. of +England, etc. _Pub. Apl. Rou._ + +=White, Joseph Blanco.= 1775-1841. Miscellaneous writer. His Sonnet on +Night is widely known and esteemed. + +=Whitehead, Paul.= 1710-1774. Poet. Style witty and satirical. + +=Whitehead, Wm.= 1715-1785. Poet. Of his seven indifferent dramas the +best are Creusa and The Roman Father. _See Ward's Eng. Poets, vol. 3._ + +=Whitelocke, Bulstrode.= 1605-1676. Historical writer. His Memorials +of Eng. Affairs and other works are of much value. + +=Wicklif, John.= 1324-1384. Reformer. Translator of the Bible. _See T. +Arnold's Select Eng. Works of 1871._ _See Biography, by Vaughan, +1853._ _Pub. Mac._ + +=Wilberforce, Robert Isaac.= 1802-1857. Theological writer. Son to W. +W. + +=Wilberforce, Samuel.= 1805-1873. Bp. Oxford. Son to W. W. Author +Hist. P. E. Church in America, Sermons, Eucharistica, etc. _See Life, +1883._ _Pub. Ca. Dut._ + +=Wilberforce, Wm.= 1759-1833. Philanthropist. Author Practical View of +Christianity, etc. _See Life, by his sons, 5 vols., London, 1838; +also, Life, by John Stoughton._ + +=Wilde, Oscar.= 185 Irish poet. Charmides and Ave Imperatrix are +among his finest poems. His verse is musical, but frequently erotic. +_See The Biograph, Aug. 1880._ _Pub. Rob._ + +=Wilkie, Wm.= 1721-1772. Scotch poet. Author of The Epigoniad. + +=Wilkins, John.= 1614-1672. Bp. Chester. Of his many works, the chief +is the Discovery of a New World, which attempts to prove the +feasibility of a passage from the earth to the moon. + +=Wilkinson, Sir John Gardner.= 1797-1875. Egyptologist. Author Manners +and Customs of the Ancient Egyptians, Architecture of Ancient Egypt, +Modern Egypt, etc. _See Memoir, by his wife, 1876._ _Pub. Har. Lit._ + +=Wilkinson, John James Garth.= 181 Physician. Author Biography +of Swedenborg, The Human Body, The Ministry of Health, etc. _Pub. +Lip._ + +=Williams, Sir Chas. Hanbury.= 1709-1759. Satirist and poet. + +=Williams, Helen Maria.= 1762-1827. Poet and political writer. Author +of the familiar hymn beginning "While Thee I seek, Protecting Power." + +=Williams, Monier.= 181 Sanskrit scholar. Author Eng. and +Sanskrit Dict., and Sanskrit and Eng. Dict., etc. _Pub. Mac._ + +=Williams, Rowland.= 1817-1870. Welsh theologian. _See Life, by his +wife, 1874._ + +=Wills, Wm. Gorman.= 182 Dramatist and novelist. Eugene Aram, +Jane Shore, Charles I., and Mary Stuart are some of his plays. _Pub. +Har._ + +=Wills, Wm. Henry.= 1810-1880. Journalist and miscellaneous writer. +_Pub. Har._ + +=Wilmot, John, Earl of Rochester.= 1647-1680. Poet. A writer of +numerous gay, witty, but extremely licentious lyrics. + +=Willmott, Robert Avis.= 1809-1863. Poet and biographer. Author Life +of Jeremy Taylor, and editor of Herbert, Gray, Cowper, etc. _Pub. +Rou._ + +=Wilson, Daniel.= 181 Miscellaneous writer. Author of +Prehistoric Annals of Scotland, Prehistoric Man, Caliban the Missing +Link, Chatterton: a Biographical Study, etc. _Pub. Mac._ + +=Wilson, George.= 1818-1859. Chemist and essayist. Author Five +Gateways to Knowledge, Life Prof. Forbes, etc. _See Memoir, by his +sister._ _Pub. Mac._ + +=Wilson, Horace Hayman.= 1788-1860. Sanskrit scholar. Author Hist. +Cashmere, translation of the Rig-Veda, etc. + +=Wilson, John=, "Christopher North." 1785-1854. Poet and essayist. +Author of the poems The Isle of Palms and The City of the Plague, of +the stories Margaret Lyndsay and Lights and Shadows of Scottish Life, +and of the famous Noctes Ambrosianæ. His style could be tender and +pathetic, but as a reviewer it was often coarse, prejudiced, and +brutal. _See Ferrier's edition, 12 vols._ _See Life, by Mrs. Gordon, +1862._ _Pub. Arm. Ca. Wid._ + +=Wilson, Sir Thomas.= 1523-1581. Author of The Art of Rhetoric, etc. + +=Wilson, Wm.= 1801-1860. Scotch poet. _See Grant Wilson's Poets of +Scotland._ + +=Winchelsea, Countess Anne.= c. 1700-1720. Poet. Author of The +Nocturnal Reverie, etc. _See Ward's Eng. Poets, vol. 3._ + +=Wingate, David.= 182 Scotch poet. Author Annie Weir, etc. _See +Grant Wilson's Poets of Scotland._ + +=Winkworth, Catherine.= 1825-1878. Hymnologist. Editor Hymns of the +Ages, Lyra Germanica, etc. _Pub. Mac._ + +=Winslow, Forbes Benignus.= 1810-1874. Physician. Author Physic and +Physicians, The Anatomy of Suicide, Lectures on Insanity, Obscure +Diseases of the Brain, etc. + +=Wiseman, Nicholas, Cardinal.= 1802-1865. Miscellaneous writer. Author +works on religion, science, art, literature, etc. + +=Wither, George.= 1588-1677. Poet. A voluminous writer, best known by +his Shepherd's Resolution and The Steadfast Shepherd. Style forcible +and original. _See Craik's Eng. Lit., vol. 2, and Ward's Eng. Poets, +vol. 2._ + +=Wolcott [w[)o]l´k[o^]t, or w[)oo]l´k[o^]t], John=, "Peter Pindar." +1738-1819. Poet. Author of numerous witty, satirical poems, as The +Lousiad, Bozzy and Piozzi, and the Lyric Odes of Peter Pindar, many of +which were in ridicule of George III. + +=Wolfe, Charles.= 1791-1823. Irish poet. Author of the famous Lines on +the Burial of Sir John Moore. _See Ward's Eng. Poets, vol. 4._ + +=Wollstonecraft, Mary.= See Godwin, Mrs. Mary. + +=Wood, Anthony.= 1632-1695. Antiquary. Author Athenæ Oxonienses, etc. +_See Rawlinson's Life, 1811._ + +=Wood, Mrs. Ellen [Price].= 182 Novelist. Of her many novels, +East Lynne is the most famous. Johnny Ludlow is one of her best books. +_Pub. Di. Pet._ + +=Wood, Mrs. Henry.= See Wood, Mrs. Ellen. + +=Wood, John George.= 182 Naturalist. Author Homes without Hands, +Bible Animals, Common Objects of the Sea and Shore, etc. _Pub. Cas. +Har. Por. Rou._ + +=Woodhouselee, Lord.= See Tytler, A. F. + +=Woolner, Thomas.= 182 Sculptor and poet. Author My Beautiful +Lady, etc. Style delicate and pure. _Pub. Mac._ + +=Worboise, Mrs. Emma Jane.= 182 Novelist. Author Helen Bury, +Lights and Shadows of Christian Life, Thornycroft Hall, etc. _Pub. +Rou._ + +=Wordsworth, Chas.= 180 Bp. St. Andrew's. Son to succeeding. +Neph. to W. W. Author Shakespeare's Knowledge and Use of the Bible, +The Bible in the Authorized Version with Notes and Introduction, etc. +_Pub. Dut. Mac._ + +=Wordsworth, Christopher.= 1774-1846. Bro. to W. W. Author Eccl. +Biography, etc. + +=Wordsworth, Christopher.= 180 Bp. Lincoln. Son to preceding. +Author Hist. Church in Ireland, Memoirs Wm. Wordsworth, etc. _Pub. +Dut._ + +=Wordsworth, Wm.= 1770-1850. His poems number in all 485, including +the long poems, The Excursion, Peter Bell, White Doe, and the Prelude. +The best of his verse is contained in the Ode on Immortality, Tintern +Abbey, Ode to Duty, Laodamia, The Cuckoo, Lucy, and a few of the +Sonnets, some of which are nearly perfect of their kind. Much of his +verse contains little of real interest, but his best is poetry of the +very highest type. _See Grosart's complete edition, 1875._ _See Lives, +by Bp. Wordsworth, Phillips, and Paxton Hood; also, Myers's +Wordsworth, in Eng. Men of Letters, Masson's Essays, and Shairp's +Studies in Poetry._ _Pub. Hou. Mac. Por. Rou._ + +=Worsley, Philip Stanhope.= ---- 1866. Poet. Translator of the Iliad. + +=Wotton, Sir Henry.= 1586-1639. Poet and miscellaneous writer. His +most familiar poem is the one beginning, "How happy is he born and +taught." _See Ward's Eng. Poets, vol. 2._ + +=Wotton, Wm.= 1666-1726. Author of the Reflections upon Ancient and +Modern Learning, one of the original sources of the Boyle and Bentley +controversy. + +=Wrangham, Francis.= 1769-1843. Poet and translator from the classics. + +=Wraxall, Sir Fred'k Chas. Lascelles.= 1828-1865. Novelist. Author +Wild Oats, Camp Life, Memoirs Queen Hortense, etc. + +=Wraxall, Sir Nathaniel.= 1751-1831. Historical writer. Author Memoirs +Kings of France, Hist. France, Historical Memoirs of my own Time, etc. + +=Wright, Thomas.= 181 Archæologist. Author Domestic Manners in +England in the Middle Ages, Wanderings of an Antiquary, Hist. of +Caricature and the Grotesque, Womankind in Western Europe, etc. _Pub. +Apl._ + +=Wright, Wm. Aldis.= 183 Shakespearean scholar. Co-editor with +Clark of the Cambridge Shakespeare, 9 vols., 1866, and of the Globe +Shakespeare. + +=Wyatt, Sir Thomas.= 1503-1542. Poet. Author of love lyrics, one of +the finest being Forget not yet the Tried Intent. _See Poems with +Memoir, 1831._ _See Ward's Eng. Poets, vol. 1._ _Pub. Hou._ + +=Wycherley [w[)i]tch-[e)]r-l[)i]], Wm.= 1640-1715. Dramatist. The +Country Wife and The Plain Dealer are the best of his plays, all of +which are witty, sprightly, and immoral. _See edition of 1831, with +Congreve, Farquhar, and Vanbrugh._ _Pub. Ron._ + +=Wyckliffe.= See Wiclif, John. + +=Wynter, Andrew.= 1819-1876. Miscellaneous writer. Author Our Social +Bees, Curiosities of Civilization, Borderlands of Insanity, etc. _Pub. +Put._ + + + + +=Yates, Edmund Hodgson.= 183 Novelist. Author Black Sheep, The +Yellow Flag, Kissing the Rod, Wrecked in Port, etc. _Pub. Apl. Har. +Rou._ + +=Yonge [y[)u]ng], Charles Duke.= 181 Historian. Author Hist. +British Navy, Hist. Eng. Revolution of 1688, Hist. France Under the +Bourbons, Three Centuries of Modern Hist., etc. _Pub. Apl. Har._ + +=Yonge, Charlotte Mary.= 182 Novelist. Cousin to C. D. Y. An +industrious writer, of whose 50 vols. more than 30 are fictions. The +Heir of Redclyffe is her most noted book; others are Heartsease, Hopes +and Fears, and The Daisy Chain. Her work is all careful, well +intentioned, and strongly High Church in character. _Pub. Apl. Dut. +Est. Har. Ho. Lip. Lo. Mac. Phi. Rob_. + +=Youatt [yoo´[a)]t], Wm.= 1777-1847. Veterinary writer. Author of The +Horse, Cattle, Sheep, The Pig, and other similar standard works. _Pub. +Ju. Lip. Por. Rou._ + +=Young, Arthur.= 1741-1820. Agricultural writer of note. Author Rural +Economy, Six Months' Tour through North of England, etc. _See +Allibone's Dict. and Donaldson's Agricultural Biography._ + +=Young, Edward.= 1684-1765. Poet. Author Night Thoughts, etc. Style +strained and affected. _See Ward's Eng. Poets, vol. 3._ _Pub. Apl. Ca. +Hou._ + +=Young, Thomas.= 1773-1829. Scientific writer of eminence. _See +Peacock's Life of._ + + + + +=Zouch, Richard.= c. 1590-1660. A voluminous legal writer. + +=Zouch, Thomas.= 1737-1815. Miscellaneous writer. Author Memoirs Sir +Philip Sidney, Izaak Walton, etc. + + + + +ADDENDA. + + +=Bain, Alexander.= 181 Philosopher. Author The Senses and the +Intellect, The Emotions and the Will, Study of Character, Mental and +Moral Science, Logic, Mind and Body, Education as a Science, Life of +John Stuart Mill, etc. _Pub. Apl. Ho._ + +=Barnes, Wm.= 181 Poet and philologist. Author of Poems of Rural +Life in the Dorset Dialect, Grammar of the Dorset Dialect, etc. _Pub. +Rob._ + +=Bastian, Henry Charlton.= 183 Physician. Author The Beginnings +of Life, Evolution and the Origin of Life, Common Forms of Paralysis +from Brain Disease, etc. _Pub. Apl. Mac._ + +=Blackburn, Henry.= 183 Traveler. Author Travelling in Spain, +Normandy Picturesque, The Pyrenees, Artists and Arabs, Art in the +Mountains, etc. _Pub. Os._ + +=Browning, Oscar.= 183 Littérateur. Author of Hist. Educational +Theories. Modern England, 1820-1874, Modern France, 1815-1880, etc., +and articles in Encyc. Brit. on Cæsar, Carthage, Dante, Goethe, etc. +_Pub. Har._ + +=Buxton, Mrs. B. H. [Bee].= 184 Dramatic novelist. Author of +Jennie of the Prince's, Great Grenfell Gardens, Nell: on and off the +Stage, From the Wings, etc. _See the Biograph, Aug. 1880._ _Pub. Har. +Rou._ + +=Clark, Wm. George.= 1821-1878. Shakespearean scholar. Co-editor with +Wm. Aldis Wright, of the Cambridge and Globe editions of Shakespeare. + +=Coleridge, Derwent.= 1800-1883. Miscellaneous writer. Son to S. T. +Coleridge. Author Scriptural Character of the English Church, Memoir +of Hartley Coleridge, Life of Praed, etc. + +=Cook, Dutton.= 1832-1883. Novelist and dramatic critic. Author of +Young Mr. Nightingale, Art in England, The Book of the Play, etc. + +=Craik, Georgiana Marion.= 183 Novelist. Author of Faith Unwin's +Ordeal, Mildred, Sylvia's Choice, Dorcas, Two Women, Winnifred's +Wooing, Only a Butterfly, The Cousin from India, Anne Warwick, Miss +Moore, etc. _Pub. Har. Rou._ + +=Crosland, Mrs. Camilla [Toulmin].= 181 Miscellaneous writer. +Author Hubert Freeth's Prosperity, The Island of the Rainbow, Hildred +the Daughter, Stratagems, etc. _Pub. Lip. Rou._ + +=Crosland, Mrs. Newton.= See Crosland, Mrs. Camilla. + +=Geikie, Alexander.= 183 Geologist. Author The Story of a +Boulder, Phenomena of the Glacial Drift of Scotland, etc. + +=Harris, George.= 180 Philosophical writer. Author True Theory +of Representation in a State, Theory of the Arts, Civilization as a +Science, Philosophical Treatise on the Nature and Constitution of Man, +etc. _See the Biograph, Aug. 1880._ _Pub. Apl._ + +=Sheppard, Elizabeth Sara.= ---- 1862. Novelist. Author Rumor, +Counterparts, Almost a Heroine, and the famous musical romance Charles +Auchester. _See Atlantic Monthly, June, 1862._ + + + + +Transcriber's Note: + + +Not all letters can be shown as in the original text. 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