Chapter II: Part 2

=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 Archaeologist. 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'kaer], 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 AEschylus.

=Fitzgerald, Percy.= 183 Novelist and litterateur. 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 Angliae.

=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 Bronte 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. Archaeologist. 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 Maeviad, 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 Zoologist. Author Romance of Natural Hist., Marine Zoology, 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._

=Graeme [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. Litterateur. 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 Remusat, 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 Cooperation 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 Ennuyee, 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 Zoe, 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-nae' 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._