Chapter IV: Part 4

=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.