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 AEschylus. 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 Archaeological 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, Ose, 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 litterateur. Author of A
Handful of Honeysuckle, The Crowned Hippolytus, Rural England, and
Emily Bronte, 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. Litterateur. 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 Litterateur. 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 Duerer, 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 Caesar, 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 litterateur. 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 Archaeologicum, 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-Gelert 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 [staen'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 Litterateur. 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 Cevennes, 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. Litterateur. 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. Archaeological 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 Archaeologist. Author
Sacred Archaeology. Cathedral Cities of England and Wales, Memorials of
Canterbury, etc.
=Walford, Edward.= 182 Litterateur. 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 Archaeologist 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 Ambrosianae. 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 Athenae 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 Archaeologist. 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.