WOTTON, SIR HENRY (1568-1639).—Diplomatist and poet,s.of a Kentish gentleman, wasb.at Boughton Park, near Maidstone, anded.at Winchester and Oxf. After spending 7 years on the Continent, he entered the Middle Temple. In 1595 he became sec. tothe Earl of Essex, who employed him abroad, and while at Venice he wroteThe State of Christendom or a Most Exact and Curious Discovery of many Secret Passages and Hidden Mysteries of the Times, which was not, however, printed until 1657. Afterwards he held various diplomatic appointments, but Court favour latterly failed him and he was recalled from Venice and made Provost of Eton in 1624, to qualify himself for which he took deacon's orders. Among his other works wereElements of Architecture(1624) andA Survey of Education. His writings in prose and verse werepub.in 1651 asReliquiæ Wottonianæ. His poems include two which are familiar to all readers of Elizabethan verse,The Character of a Happy Life, "How happy is he born and taught," andOn his Mistress, the Queen of Bohemia, beginning "Ye meaner Beauties of the Night." He was the originator of many witty sayings, which have come down.
WRAXALL, SIR NATHANIEL WILLIAM (1751-1831).—Historical writer,b.at Bristol, was for a few years in the service of the East India Company, and thereafter employed on diplomatic missions, and sat for some years in the House of Commons. In addition to a book of travels and some historical works relating to the French and other foreign Courts, he wroteHistorical Memories of my own Time1772-84,pub.in 1815. The work was severely criticised by both political parties, and in particular by Macaulay; but W. made a reply which was considered to be on the whole successful. A continuation bringing the narrative down to 1790 waspub.in 1836. TheMemoirsare valuable for the light they throw on the period, and especially for the portraits of public men which they give.
WRIGHT, THOMAS (1810-1877).—Antiquary,b.near Ludlow, of Quaker parentage, wased.at Camb. His first work was aHistory of Essex(1831-36). In 1836 he went to London, and adopted literature as a profession, devoting himself specially to archæology, history, and biography. He held office in various societies such as the "Camden," "Percy," and "Shakespeare," and ed. many works for them. In all he was the author of over 80 publications, of which some of the chief areThe Celt, the Roman, and the Saxon,Biographia Britannica Literaria,Queen Elizabeth and her Times, andHistory of Domestic Manners and Sentiments in England during the Middle Ages. He was superintendent of the excavation of the Roman city at Wroxeter in 1859.
WYATT, SIR THOMAS (1503-1542).—Poet,s.of Sir Henry W., a servant of Henry VII., anded.at St. John's Coll., Camb., came to Court and was frequently employed by Henry VIII. on diplomatic missions. He is said to have been an admirer of Anne Boleyn before her marriage, and on her disgrace was thrown into the Tower for a short time. In 1537 he was knighted, and two years later was against his will sent on a mission to the Emperor Charles V. On the death in 1540 of Thomas Cromwell, to whose party he belonged, W. was accused of misdemeanours during his embassy and again imprisoned in the Tower, where he wrote a defence which resulted in his release. In 1542 he was sent to meet the Spanish Ambassador at Falmouth, and conduct him to London, but on the way caught a chill, of which hed.W. shares with theEarl of Surrey(q.v.) the honour of being the first real successor of Chaucer, and also of introducing the sonnet into England. In addition to his sonnets, which are in a more correct form than those of Surrey, W. wrote many beautiful lyrics; in fact he may be regarded as the reviver of the lyrical spirit in English poetry which, making its appearance in the 13th century, had fallen into abeyance. In the anthology known asTottel's Miscellany, firstpub.in 1557, 96 pieces by W. appear along with 40 by Surrey, and others by different hands. W. has less smoothness and sweetness than Surrey, but his form of the sonnet was much more difficult as well as more correct than that invented by the latter, and afterwards adopted by Shakespeare, and his lyrical gift is more marked.
WYCHERLEY, WILLIAM (1640?-1716).—Dramatist, wasb.at Clive, near Shrewsbury, where hisf.had an estate. He was at the Inner Temple in 1659, and at Oxf. in 1660. Part of his youth had been spent in France, where he became a Roman Catholic, but at the Restoration he returned to Protestantism. He wrote four comedies,Love in a Wood,The Gentleman Dancing Master,The Country Wife, andThe Plain Dealer, all produced in the reign of Charles II., and nothing of consequence afterwards, a vol. of poems doing little to add to his reputation. About 1679 hem.the widowed Countess of Drogheda, whod.in 1681, and he entered into a second marriage eleven days before his death. In his later years he formed a friendship with Pope, then a boy of 16. W. was one of the founders of the Comedy of Manners. The merit of his plays lies in smart and witty dialogue rather than in construction.The Plain Dealer, his best, is founded upon Molière'sMisanthrope. His plays are notoriously coarse.
WYNTOUN, ANDREW of (1350?-1420?).—Chronicler, was a canon of St. Andrews, who became Prior of St. Serf's island in Loch Leven. His work, entitledThe Orygynale Cronykil, begins with the creation of angels and men and comes down to 1406. It is poetic in form though rarely so in substance, and is of considerable historical value in its later parts and as regards the see of St. Andrews.
YALDEN, THOMAS (1670-1736).—Poet,s.of an exciseman at Oxf., anded.at Magdalen Coll., entered the Church, in which he obtained various preferments. He was the author of a considerable number of poems, including aHymn to Darkness, Pindaric Odes, and translations from the classics.
YATES, EDMUND (1831-1894).—Novelist and dramatist,b.at Edin., held for some years an appointment in the General Post Office. He did much journalistic work, mainly as a dramatic writer, and wrote many dramatic pieces and some novels, includingRunning the GauntletandThe Black Sheep. He was perhaps best known as ed. ofThe Worldsociety journal.
YONGE, CHARLOTTE MARY (1823-1901).—Novelist, onlydau.of a landed gentleman of Hampshire, wasb.near Winchester, and in her girlhood came under the influence of Keble, who was a near neighbour. She began writing in 1848, andpub.during her long life about 100 works, chiefly novels, interesting and well-written,with a High Church tendency. Among the best known areThe Heir of Redclyffe,Heartsease, andThe Daisy Chain. She also wroteCameos from English History, and Lives of Bishop Patteson and Hannah More. The profits of her works were devoted to religious objects.
YOUNG, ARTHUR (1741-1820).—Writer on agriculture, wasb.in London, thes.of a Suffolk clergyman. In his early years he farmed, making many experiments, which though they did not bring him financial success, gave him knowledge and experience, afterwards turned to useful account. Various publications had made his name known, and in 1777 he became agent to Lord Kingsborough on his Irish estates. In 1780 hepub.hisTour in Ireland, and four years later started theAnnals of Agriculture, 47 vols. of which appeared. His famous tours in France were made 1787-90, the results of his observations beingpub.inTravels in France(1792). He was in 1793 appointed sec. to the newly founded Board of Agriculture, andpub.many additional works on the subject. He is justly regarded as the father of modern agriculture, in which, as in all subjects affecting the public welfare, he maintained an active interest until his death. In his later years he was blind.
YOUNG, EDWARD (1683-1765).—Poet,s.of the Rector of Upham, Hampshire, where he wasb.After being at Winchester School and Oxf. he accompanied the Duke of Wharton to Ireland. Y., who had always a keen eye towards preferment, and the cult of those who had the dispensing of it, began his poetical career in 1713 withAn Epistle to Lord Lansdowne. Equally characteristic was the publication in the same year of two poems,The Last DayandThe Force of Religion. The following year he produced an elegyOn the Death of Queen Anne, which brought him into notice. Turning next to the drama he producedBusirisin 1719, andThe Revengein 1721. His next work was a collection of 7 satires,The Love of Fame, the Universal Passion. In 1727 he entered the Church, and was appointed one of the Royal Chaplains, and Rector of Welwyn, Herts, in 1730. Next year hem.Lady Elizabeth Lee, the widoweddau.of the Earl of Lichfield, to whom, as well as to herdau.by her former marriage, he was warmly attached. Bothd., and sad and lonely the poet began his masterpiece,The Complaint, or Night Thoughts(1742-44), which had immediate and great popularity, and which still maintains its place as a classic. In 1753 he brought out his last drama,The Brothers, and in 1761 he received his last piece of preferment, that of Clerk to the Closet to the Princess Dowager of Wales. Four years later, in 1765, hed.The poems of Y., though in style artificial and sometimes forced, abound in passages of passion and power which sometimes reach the sublime. But the feelings and sentiments which he expresses with so much force as a poet form an unpleasantly harsh contrast with the worldliness and tuft-hunting of his life.
The number of writers included in this Appendix, and their bibliographies, are necessarily limited, but it is hoped that despite the difficulties of selection the list will be found fairly representative.
ABBOTT, REV. EDWIN ABBOTT, D.D. (1838).—Writer on Biblical and literary subjects.Shakespearian Grammar(1870), ed. ofBacon's Essays(1876),Bacon and Essex(1877),Francis Bacon ... his Life and Works(1885),Flatland, a Romance of Many Dimensions(1884),St. Thomas of Canterbury(1898),Paradosis(1904),Johannine Vocabulary(1905),Silanus the Christian(1906), etc.
ALLEN, JAMES LANE (1849).—American novelist.A Kentucky Cardinal,The Choir Invisible,A Summer in Arcady,Blue Grass Region of Kentucky,The Increasing Purpose,Aftermath, part ii. ofA Kentucky Cardinal,The Mettle of the Pasture,The Reign of Law.
ANSON, SIR WILLIAM REYNELL, BART., D.C.L. (1843).—Legaland constitutional writer, etc.,Law and Custom of the Constitution, ed.Memoirs of the third Duke of Grafton, etc.
ANSTEY, F., (seeGUTHRIE).
ARBER, EDWARD, D.Litt.—Literary antiquary. Has issued many reprints of rare books.English Reprints,English Scholars' Library, ed.An English Garner(1880-83),British Anthologies(1899-1901),A Christian Library(1907).
ARCHER, WILLIAM (1856).—Writer on the drama and translator of Ibsen; ed. Ibsen'sProse Dramas, 5 vols.,Collected Works of Ibsen, 11 vols., translated with his brother, Major Chas. A., Ibsen'sPeer Gynt,Life of Macready,Masks or Faces,Study and Stage,Real Conversations(1904), etc.
ARNIM, COUNTESS VON (BEAUCHAMP).—Elizabeth and her German Garden,A Solitary Summer,The April Baby's Book of Tunes,The Benefactress,Elizabeth's Adventures in Ruegen,Fraulein Schmidt and Mr. Anstruther.
ASHTON, JOHN (1834).—Literary antiquary, etc.History of Chap-books of Eighteenth Century(1882),Humour, Wit, and Satire of Seventeenth Century(ed. 1883),Adventures and Discoveries of Capt. John Smith(1884),Romances of Chivalry(1886),Social England under the Regency(1890), etc.
AUSTIN, ALFRED (1835).—Poet Laureate 1896.The Human Tragedy,Lyrical Poems,Narrative Poems,Fortunatus the Pessimist,Alfred the Great,Flodden Field: a Tragedy(1903), etc.Prose works includeThe Garden that I Love,In Veronica's Garden,Lamia's Winter Quarters,Sacred and Profane Love(1908).
AVEBURY, JOHN LUBBOCK, 1ST LORD, P.C., D.C.L., etc. (1834).—Miscellaneous writer.Use of Life,Beauties of Nature,Pleasures of Life(two parts),British Wild Flowers considered in relation to Insects, Ants, Bees, and Wasps,The Origin of Civilisation, and many other works on Natural History, Sociology, and Economics.
BAGOT, RICHARD (1860).—Novelist.A Roman Mystery(1899),Casting of Nets(1901),Donna Diana(1903),Temptation(1907), etc.
BALFOUR, RIGHT HON. ARTHUR JAMES, P.C., LL.D., D.C.L., etc. (1848).—Statesman and philosophic writer.A Defence of Philosophic Doubt(1879),Essays and Addresses(1893),The Foundations of Belief(1895),Reflections suggested by the New Theory of Matter(1904).
BALL, SIR ROBERT STAWELL, LL.D., F.R.S. (1840).—Scientific writer.The Story of the Heavens(1885),Starland(1889),The Story of the Sun(1893),The Earth's Beginning(1901), etc.
BARING-GOULD, SABINE (1834).—Novelist and folk-lorist, etc.Iceland, its Scenes and Sagas(1862),Curious Myths of the Middle Ages(1866),Origin and Development of Religious Belief(1869-70),Lives of the Saints(1872-77). Novels,Mehalah(1880),Richard Cable(1888),The Pennycomequicks(1889),Domitia(1898),Pabo the Priest(1899),Crock of Gold(1899),Nebo the Nailer(1902),Devonshire Characters(1908), etc.; also books on Folk-lore.
BARRIE, JAMES MATTHEW, LL.D. (1860).—Novelist and dramatist.Auld Licht Idylls,When a Man's Single(1888),A Window in Thrums(1889),My Lady Nicotine(1890),The Little Minister(1891),Sentimental Tommy,Margaret Ogilvy(1896),The Little White Bird(1902),Peter Pan(1906), etc. Dramatic works includeThe Professor's Love Story,The Little Minister,The Wedding Guest(1900),The Admirable Crichton(1903),Peter Pan(1904),What Every Woman Knows(1908).
BARRY, REV. WILLIAM (FRANCIS), D.D. (1849).—Novelist, etc.The New Antigone(1887),Two Standards(1898),Arden Massiter(1900),The Wizard's Knot(1901),The Dayspring(1903), etc.
BATTERSBY, HARRY FRANCIS PREVOST ("FRANCIS PREVOST").—Poet, novelist, and war correspondent. Poems,Melilot(1886),Fires of Greenwood(1887). Novels,Rust of Gold(1895),The Avenging Hour(1896),False Dawn(1897),The Plague of the Heart(1902), etc.; joint translator of Tolstoi'sChrist's ChristianityandWhat to Do. Plays,The Way of War(1902), andVoice of Duty(1904).
BAX, ERNEST BELFORT (1854).—Writer on philosophy and socialism.Kant's Prolegomena with Biography and Introduction(1882),Handbook to the History of Philosophy(1884),Religion of Socialism(1886),Ethics of Socialism(1889),The Problem of Reality(1893),Socialism, its Growth and Outcome(with W. Morris) (1894),The Roots of Reality(1907), etc.
BEAZLEY, CHARLES RAYMOND, F.R.G.S. (1868).—Historical geographer,James of Aragon(1870),Henry the Navigator(1895),Dawn of Modern Geography, 3 vols. (1897-1906), etc.
BECKE, GEORGE LOUIS (1848).—Novelist.By Reef and Palm(1890),A First Fleet Family(1896),Pacific Tales(1897),Tom Wallis(1900),Yorke, the Adventurer(1901),Chinkie's Flat(1903), etc.; and with W. Jeffery,His Native Wife(1896),The Mutineer,Admiral Phillip(1899),The Tapu of Benderah, etc.
BEECHING, REV. HENRY CHARLES, D.Litt. (1859).—Miscellaneous writer.In a Garden and other Poems(1895),Pages from a Private Diary(1898), various vols. of sermons, etc., includingSeven Sermons to Schoolboys(1894),The Grace of Episcopacy(1906); has ed.A Paradise of English Poetry(1892),Lyra Sacra(1894), and various English classics, etc.
BEERBOHM, MAX (1872).—Essayist and dramatic critic,The Works of Max Beerbohm,The Happy Hypocrite,Caricatures of Twenty-five Gentlemen,More(1898),Yet Again(1909), etc.
BEESLY, EDWARD SPENCER (1831).—Writer on history and philosophy.Catiline, Clodius, and Tiberius(1878),Queen Elizabeth(1892), has translated various works of Aug. Comte, etc.
BELL, HENRY THOMAS MACKENZIE (1856).—Poet and critic.Spring's Immortality and other Poems,Christina Rossetti,Pictures of Travel and other Poems(1898),Collected Poems(1901).
BELLOC, HILAIRE (1870).—Miscellaneous writer.The Bad Child's Book of Beasts(1896),More Beasts for Worse Children(1897),The Moral Alphabet,Danton(1899),Lambkin's Remains(1900),Robespierre(1901),Caliban's Guide to Letters(1903),Mr. Burden(1904),Esto Perpetua(1906),The Historic Thames(1907),The Path to Rome, etc.
BENNETT, ENOCH ARNOLD (1867).—Novelist, etc.A Man from the North(1898),Polite Farces(1899),Anna of the Five Towns(1902),A Great Man(1904),The Grim Smile of the Five Towns(1907),Buried Alive(1908),Old Wives' Tale(1908), etc.
BENSON, ARTHUR CHRISTOPHER (1862).—Poet, biographer and miscellaneous writer.Poems(1893),Lyrics(1895),The Professor and other Poems(1900),The House of Quiet(1903),Peace and other Poems(1905),From a College Window(1906),Beside Still Waters(1907), books on Tennyson, Rossetti, E. Fitzgerald, Walter Pater, etc.
BENSON, EDWARD FREDERIC (1867).—Novelist.Dodo(1893),Rubicon(1894),Judgment Books(1895),The Babe B.A.(1897),Vintage(1898),Scarlet and Hyssop(1902),Image in the Sand(1905). Plays,Aunt Jeannie(1902),House of Defence(1907), etc.
BERDOE, EDWARD (1836).—Writer on Browning, etc.Browning's Message to his Time(1890),Browning Cyclopædia(1891),Biographical and Historical Notes to Browning's Complete Works(1894),Browning and the Christian Faith(1896),A Browning Primer(1904), and various books on medicine, etc.
BERENSON, BERNHARD (1865).—Writer on art.Venetian Painters of the Renaissance(1894),Lorenzo Lotto, an Essay on Constructive Art Criticism(1895),Florentine Painters of the Renaissance(1896),Central Italian Painters of the Renaissance(1897),Study and Criticism of Italian Art(1901),North Italian Painters of the Renaissance,A Sienese Painter of the Franciscan Legend(1910), etc.
BESANT, MRS. ANNIE (1847).—Theosophist.Re-incarnation(1892),Death and After(1893),Karma(1895),The Self and its Sheaths(1895),Ancient Wisdom(1897),Dharma(1899),Esoteric Christianity(1901),Pedigree of Man(1903),Wisdom of the Upanishats(1906), etc.
BINYON, LAURENCE (1869).—Poet and art critic.Lyric Poems(1894),London Visions, Book I. (1895), Book II. (1898),The Praise of Life(1896),Porphyrion and other Poems(1898),Odes(1900),Penthesilea(1905),Paris and Ænone(1906), etc.
BIRRELL, AUGUSTINE, M.P., LL.D. (1850).—Essayist, etc.Obiter Dicta(1884),Res Judicatæ(1892),Men, Women, and Books(1894),Collected Essays(1900),Miscellanies(1901). Books on Charlotte Bronté, Hazlitt, etc. Ed. Boswell'sJohnson(1907).
BLAIKIE, JOHN ARTHUR (1849).—Poet and journalist.Madrigals, Songs, and Sonnets(1870),Love's Victory(1890), andA Sextet of Singers(1895).
BLAND, MRS. HUBERT ["E. NESBIT"] (1858).—Poet and novelist.Lays and Legends(1886), second series (1892),A Pomander of Verse(1895),In Homespun(1896),Secret of Kyriels(1898),Book of Dragons(1900),Five Children and It(1902),The Phœnix and the Carpet(1904),The Railway Children(1906),Salome and the Head(1908), etc.
BLOUNDELLE-BURTON, JOHN EDWARD (1850).—Novelist.Silent Shore(1886),Desert Ship(1890),Denounced(1896),A Bitter Heritage(1899),A Branded Name(1903),A Woman from the Sea(1907), andLast of her Race(1908), etc.
BLUNT, WILFRID SCAWEN (1840).—Poet, etc.Love Sonnets of Proteus(1880),Future of Islam(1882),The Wind and the Whirlwind(1883),Esther(1892),The Stealing of the Mare(1892),Seven Golden Odes of Pagan Arabia(1903),Secret History of the English Occupation of Egypt(1907), etc.
BOAS, FREDERICK S. (1862).—Scholar.Shakespeare and his Predecessors(1896), ed. works of T. Kyd, and of Giles and Phineas Fletcher, etc.
BODLEY, JOHN EDWARD COURTENAY, D.C.L. (1853).—Historian.France, vol. i.The Revolution and Modern France, vol. ii.The Parliamentary System,The Coronation of Edward VII.(1903),The Church in France(1906), etc.
"BOLDREWOOD, ROLF," (seeBROWNE).
BOURDILLON, F.W. (1852).—Poet, etc.Among the Flowers(1878),Sursum Corda(1893),Nephelé(1896), etc.
BRADDON, MARY ELIZABETH (1837).—Novelist.Lady Audley's Secret,Aurora Floyd(1862),Henry Dunbar(1864),Only a Clod(1865),The Lady's Mile(1866),Dead Sea Fruit(1869),Robert Ainsleigh(1872),Hostages to Fortune(1875),Vixen(1870),Wyllard's Weird(1886),Rough Justice(1898),His Darling Sin(1895),The White House(1906), and many others.
BRADLEY, ANDREW CECIL, L.L.D., Litt.D., etc.—Critic.A Commentary on Tennyson's In Memoriam(1901),Shakespearian Tragedy(1904),Oxford Lectures on Poetry(1909).
BRADLEY, FRANCIS HERBERT (1846).—Philosopher.The Presuppositions of Critical History(1874),Ethical Studies(1876),The Principles of Logic(1883), andAppearance and Reality(1893).
BRIDGES, ROBERT (1844).—Poet.Essay on Milton's Prosody,Critical Essay on Keats. Poems,The Growth of Love,Prometheus the Firegiver,Eros and Psyche. Plays,Nero,Ulysses,Christian Captives,Achilles in Scyros,Feast of Bacchus, etc.
BROOKE, REV. STOPFORD AUGUSTUS, LL.D. (1832).—Writer on English literature and theology, etc.Theology of the English Poets(1874),Primer of English Literature(1876),Riquet of the Tuft(1880), (drama),Unity of God and Man(1886),Poems(1888),History of Early English Literature(1892),History of English Literature(1894), andGospel of Joy(1898).
BROUGHTON, RHODA (1840).—Novelist.Cometh up as a Flower(1867),Not Wisely but too Well(1867),Red as a Rose is She(1870),Goodbye, Sweetheart, Goodbye(1872),Dr. Cupid(1886),Scylla or Charybdis?(1895),Dear Faustina(1897),The Game and the Candle(1899),Foes in Law(1901), etc.
BROWN, PETER HUME, LL.D. (1850).—Historian.George Buchanan, Humanist and Reformer(1890),Early Travellers in Scotland(1891),Scotland before 1700(1893),John Knox, a Biography(1895),History of Scotland(1898-1909), etc.
BROWNE, THOMAS ALEXANDER (1826).—Australian novelist.Robbery under Arms(1888),The Miner's Right(1890),A Sydney-side Saxon(1891),A Modern Buccaneer(1894),The Squatter's Dream,The Crooked Stick,Old Melbourne Memories(1895),A Canvas Town Romance(1898),Babes in the Bush(1900),A Tale of the Golden West(1906), etc.
BROWNING, OSCAR (1837).—Historian, etc.Modern England(1879),Modern France(1880),England and Napoleon in 1803(1887),History of England, in four vols. (1890),True Storiesfrom English History(1886),Guelphs and Ghibellines(1894),Wars of the Nineteenth Century(1899),History of Europe1814-1843 (1901), and also Lives of George Eliot, Dante, Goethe, Bartolommeo Colleoni, and Napoleon.
BRYCE, RIGHT HON. JAMES, P.C., D.C.L., etc. (1838).—Historical and political writer, etc.The Holy Roman Empire(1862),Transcaucasia and Ararat(1877),The American Commonwealth(1888),Studies in History and Jurisprudence(1901),Studies in Contemporary Biography(1903), etc.
BUCHAN, JOHN (1875).—Novelist, etc.Musa Piscatrix(1896),Scholar-Gipsies(1896),John Burnet of Barns(1898),The Watcher by the Threshold(1902), andA Lodge in the Wilderness(1906).
BUDGE, ERNEST A. WALLIS, Litt.D., etc.—Orientalist, etc. Has produced ed. of numerous Assyrian and Egyptian texts.The Dwellers on the Nile(1885),Excavations at Aswân(1888),Festival Songs of Isis and Nephthys, etc.(1891),Book of the Dead(1895),The Laughable Stories of Bar-Hebræus(1896),A History of Egypt, etc.(1902),The Gods of Egypt(1903),The Egyptian Sûdân(1907), etc.
BULLEN, ARTHUR HENRY (1857).—Ed. of Old English writers. Ed. Works of John Day, dramatist (1881),Collection of Old English Plays(1882-84),Selections from Poems of Michael Drayton(1883), ed. Works of Marlowe, Middleton, Marston, Peele, Campion,Lyrics from the Song Books of Elizabethan Age(1886),England's Helicon(1887), works of Thos. Traherne, W. Strode, etc.
BULLEN, FRANK THOMAS (1857).—Writer of nautical romances.The Cruise of the Cachalot,Idylls of the Sea,With Christ at Sea,A Whaleman's Wife,Sea Wrack,Sea Puritans,A Son of the Sea,Frank Brown, etc.
BURNAND, SIR FRANCIS COWLEY (1836).—Humorist and dramatist, ed. ofPunch(1880-1906), to which he contributedMokeanna,Strapmore,Happy Thoughts, etc. Has written over 120 plays, includingBlack-eyed Susan,The Colonel,Contrabandista,His Majesty, etc.
BURNETT, MRS. FRANCES HODGSON (1849).—Novelist and dramatist.That Lass o' Lowrie's(1877),Haworths(1879),A Fair Barbarian(1881),Through One Administration(1883),Little Lord Fauntleroy(1886),A Lady of Quality(1896),Making of a Marchioness(1901), etc. Plays,Phyllis,The Showman's Daughter,Esmeralda,Little Lord Fauntleroy, etc.
BURY, JOHN B., LL.D., etc. (1861).—Historian.Historyof the Later Roman Empire from Arcadius to Irene(1889),History of Greece to Death of Alexander the Great(1900),Life of St. Patrick(1905); has ed.Pindar's Nemean OdesandIsthmian Odes, Gibbon'sDecline and Fall, and part of E.A. Freeman's works.
BUTCHER, SAMUEL HENRY, LL.D., etc. (1850).—Scholar.Prose Translation of the Odyssey(1879), with A. Lang,Some Aspects of the Greek Genius(1891-1904),Aristotle's Theory of Poetry, (1895, 1903). etc.
BUTLER, SIR WILLIAM FRANCIS, G.C.B. (1838).—Traveller and biographer.The Great Lone Land(1872),The Wild North Land(1873),The Campaign of the Cataracts(1887),From Naboth's Vineyard(1907), Lives of Gen. Gordon, Sir. C. Napier, Sir G.P. Colley, etc.
CABLE, GEORGE WASHINGTON (1844).—American novelist.Old Creole Days(1879),The Grandissimes(1880),Madame Delphine(1881),Dr. Sevier(1884),John March(1884),The Cavalier(1901),Bylow Hill(1902), etc.
CAINE, HALL (1853).—Novelist.—Shadow of a Crime(1885),Son of Hagar(1886),The Deemster(1887),The Bondman(1890),The Scapegoat(1891),The Manxman(1894),The Christian(1897),The Eternal City(1901),The Prodigal Son(1904), several of which have been dramatised. Has also written books on Rossetti and Coleridge.
CAMBRIDGE, ADA (MRS. CROSS) (1844).—Australian novelist.A Marked Man(1891),The Three Miss Kings(1891),A Little Minx(1893),Fidelis(1895),Materfamilias(1898),The Devastators(1901),A Happy Marriage(1906),The Eternal Feminine(1907), etc.
CAMPBELL, WILFRED, LL.D. (1861).—Poet.Lake Lyrics(1889),Dread Voyage Poems(1893),Mordred and Hildebrand Tragedies(1895),Beyond the Hills of Dream(1899),Ian of the Orcades(1906) (novel), etc.
CASTLE, EGERTON (1858).—Novelist.Consequences(1891),The Light of Scarthey(1895),The Jerningham Letters(1896),The Pride of Jennico(1898),Desperate Remedies(play),Young April(1899),The Secret Orchard(1899),Incomparable Bellairs(1904),Wroth(1908) (with Agnes Castle), etc.
CHAMBERS, ROBERT WILLIAM (1865).—American novelist.In the Quarter(1895),The Red Republic(1896),Lorraine,The Cambric Mask,The Maids of Paradise(1903),A Young Man in a Hurry(1906),The Fighting Chance(1907), etc.
CHESTERTON, GILBERT KEITH (1874).—Essayist, etc.The Wild Knight,Greybeards at Play,Twelve Types,The Napoleon of Notting Hill(1904),Club of Queer Trades(1905),Heretics(1905),All Things Considered(1908), books on R. Browning, Dickens, G.F. Watts, G.B. Shaw, etc.
CHOLMONDELEY, MARY.—Novelist.Diana Tempest,Red Pottage,Moth and Rust(1902),Prisoners(1906), etc.
CHURCHILL, WINSTON (1871).—American novelist.The Celebrity,Richard Carvel(1899),The Crisis(1901),The Crossing(1903),Coniston(1906),Mr. Crewe's Career(1908).