RITCHIE, MRS. ANNE ISABELLA (THACKERAY) (1837).—Novelist, etc.The Story of Elizabeth(1863),The Village on the Cliff(1865),To Esther(1869),Old Kensington(1873),Blue Beard's Keys(1874),Miss Angel(1875),Mrs. Dymond(1885), etc.
ROBERTS, CHARLES GEORGE DOUGLAS (1860).—Canadian poet and naturalist. In verse,Orion(1880),In Divers Tones(1887),Songs of the Common Day(1893),New York Nocturnes(1898),Book of the Rose(1903); prose,The Raid from Beauséjour(1894),Around the Camp Fire(1896),The Forge in the Forest(1897),The Kindred of the Wild(1902),Haunters of the Silences(1907), etc.
ROBERTSON, JOHN MACKINNON (1856).—Critic, etc.Buckle and his Critics,Montaigne and Shakespeare,The Dynamics of Religion,History of Free Thought,Christianity and Mythology,Introduction to English Politics,Short History of Christianity,Essays in Ethics and Sociology, etc.
ROBINS, ELIZABETH ("C.E. RAIMOND").—American novelist and actress.New Moon(1895),Below the Salt(1896),The Open Question(1898),The Convert(1907), etc.
ROBINSON, AGNES MARY FRANCES (MME. DUCLAUX) (1857).—Poetess.A Handful of Honeysuckles(1878),The Crowned Hippolytus(1881),Arden(novel) (1883),The New Arcadia(1884),Italian Garden(songs) (1886),A Mediæval Garland(1897),The Fields of France(1903),The End of the Middle Ages, books in French on Froissart, Renan, etc.
ROSE, JOHN HOLLAND, Litt.D. (1855).—Historical and biographical writer.A Century of Continental History,The Revolutionary and Napoleonic Era,Napoleonic Studies,Life of Napoleon I.(1902),The Development of the European Nations, 1870-1900 (1905), etc.
ROSEBERY (ARCHIBALD PHILIP PRIMROSE), 5TH EARL of, K.G., K.T., LL.D., etc. (1847).—Statesman and biographical writer.Pitt(1891),Appreciations and Addresses(1899),Sir Robert Peel(1899),Napoleon, the Last Phase(1900), andOliver Cromwell(1900).
ROSSETTI, WILLIAM MICHAEL (1829).—Biographer, ed., etc. Translator of Dante'sHell(1865),Lives of Famous Poets(1878),Life of Keats(1887),Memoir of Dante G. Rossetti, and has ed. many poets, etc.
RUSSELL, WILLIAM CLARK (1844).—Novelist.John Holdsworth,Chief Mate(1874),A Sailor's Sweetheart(1877),An Ocean Tragedy(1881),The Convict Ship(1895),List, ye Landsmen(1897),Overdue(1903),The Yarn of Old Harbour Town(1905), etc.
SAINTSBURY, GEORGE EDWARD BATEMAN, LL.D., D.Litt., etc. (1845).—Critic and biographer.Short History of French Literature, etc.(1882),Essays in English Literature(1890),Nineteenth Century Literature(1896),A History of Criticism(1900-4),History of English Prosody, vol. i. (1906), etc.,Livesof Dryden (English Men of Letters) and Sir W. Scott, etc.
SANDYS, JOHN EDWIN, Litt.D. (1844).—Scholar; joint ed. ofDictionary of Classical Mythology, Religion, etc.(1891),History of Classical Scholarship from Sixth Century, B.C.,to the End of the Middle Ages(1903),History of Classical Scholarship from Revival of Learning to Present Day(1907), etc.; has produced many ed. of classics.
SAYCE, ARCHIBALD HENRY, D.Litt., LL.D., etc. (1846).—Orientalist and philologist, etc.Principles of Comparative Philology(1874),Babylonian Literature(1877),Monuments of the Hittites(1881),Ancient Empires of the East(1884),Races of the Old Testament(1891),Babylonians and Assyrians(1900),Archæology of Cuneiform Inscriptions(1907), etc.
SEAMAN, OWEN (1861).—Parodist, etc.Œdipus and the Wreck(1888),Horace at Cambridge(1894),In Cap and Bells(1899),A Harvest of Chaff(1904), etc. Ed. ofPunchsince 1906.
SECCOMBE, THOMAS (1866).—Miscellaneous writer.Twelve Bad Men(1894),The Age of Johnson(1900),The Age of Shakespeare(with J.W. Allen, 1903),Bookman History of EnglishLiterature(1905-6),In Praise of Oxford, etc.; was assistant ed. ofThe Dictionary of National Biography.
SETON, ERNEST THOMPSON ("SETON THOMPSON") (1860).—Naturalist.Wild Animals I have Known(1898),Biography of a Grizzly,Two Little Savages, books on natural history of Manitoba, etc.
SHAW, GEORGE BERNARD (1856).—Novelist, critic, and dramatist. Novels,The Irrational Knot,Cashel Byron's Profession, etc.;Plays Pleasant and Unpleasant(1898),Three Plays for Puritans(1900),Man and Superman(1903),The Doctor's Dilemma(1906),The Devil's Disciple(1907), etc.
SHIEL, MATTHEW PHIPPS (1865).—Novelist.The Rajah's Sapphire,Shapes in the Fire,The Yellow Danger,Unto the Third Generation, etc.
SHORTER, CLEMENT KING (1858).—Journalist and biographer.Charlotte Bronté and her Circle(1896),Sixty Years of Victorian Literature(1897),Charlotte Bronté and her Sisters(1905),The Brontés and their Correspondents(1907),Life of George Borrow(1907); is ed. of theSphere.
SHORTER, DORA SIGERSON.—Poetess.The Fairy Changeling and other Poems(1897),Ballads and Poems(1899),The Father Confessor(1900),As the Sparks Fly Upward(1904),Through Wintry Terrors(1907), etc.
SIMS, GEORGE ROBERT (1847).—Novelist and dramatist, etc.The Dagonet Ballads,Memoirs of Mary Jane,Ten Commandments,Once upon a Christmas Time(1898),Joyce Pleasantry, etc.; plays,Crutch and Tooth-pick,Mother-in-Law,The Lights o' London,Harbour Lights, etc.
SINCLAIR, MISS MAY.—Novelist, etc.Nakietas and other Poems,Audrey Craven,Two Sides of a Question,The Divine Fire,The Helpmate, etc.
SKEAT, REV. WALTER WILLIAM, Litt.D., LL.D. (1835).—Philologist and Early English scholar; has ed. Langland'sPiers Plowman,The Lay of Havelock, Barbour'sBruce, and other early English texts, a complete ed. of Chaucer, 6 vols. (1894), and of many of his works separately, and is author ofAn Etymological Dictionary of the English Language,Principles of English Etymology, and books on the place-names of the counties of Cambridge, Huntingdon, Herts, and Bedford, etc.
SMEATON, WM. HENRY OLIPHANT, M.A. (1856).—Novelist, etc.By Adverse Winds(1895),Our Laddie(1897),Treasure Cave of the Blue Mountains(1899),A Mystery of the Pacific(1899),William Dunbar and his Times(1898),English Satires and Satirists(Warwick Library, 1899),The Medici and the Italian Renaissance(1901), and has ed. numerous English classics.
SMITH, MRS. BURNETT ("ANNIE S. SWAN").—Novelist.Aldersyde,Carlowrie,A Lost Ideal,A Divided House,Not Yet(1898), etc.
SMITH, GEORGE ADAM, D.D., LL.D. (1856).—Biblical scholar, etc.The Book of Isaiah(1888-90),Historical Geography of the Holy Land(1894),Jerusalem(1907), etc.
SMITH, GEORGE GREGORY (1865).—Critic, etc.The Days of James IV., The Transition Period(of European literature of the fifteenth century),Specimens of Middle Scots(1902),Elizabethan Critical Essays(1904), etc.
SMITH, GOLDWIN, D.C.L. (1823).—Essayist and writer on politics, etc.Three English Statesmen,Lectures on the Study of History,Rational Religion and Rationalistic Objections,The Political Destiny of Canada,Guesses at the Riddle of Existence,Revolution or Progress, etc.; books on Cowper, Miss Austen, etc.
SMITH, MRS. TOULMIN, (see"L.T. MEADE").
STACPOOLE, H. DE VERE.—Novelist.Fanny Lambert,The Crimson Azaleas,The Blue Lagoon(1907),Patsy(1908),The Pools of Silence(1909).
STANNARD, MRS. ARTHUR ("JOHN STRANGE WINTER") (1856).—Novelist.Bootle's Baby,Army Society,Beautiful Jim,The Soul of the Bishop,Grip,He went for a Soldier,The Truth-tellers,A Name to Conjure With,A Blaze of Glory,Marty,Jimmy,The Ivory Box(1909), etc.
STEEL, MRS. FLORA ANNIE (WEBSTER) (1847).—Novelist.Wide-awake Stories(1884),From the Five Rivers(1893),The Potter's Thumb(1894),Tales from the Punjab(1894),Red Rowans(1895),On the Face of the Waters(1896),Voices in the Night(1900),A Sovereign Remedy(1906), etc.
STEWART, JOHN ALEXANDER, LL.D. (1846).—Scholar.The English MSS. of the Nicomachean Ethics(1882),Notes on the Nicomachean Ethics(1902), articleEthicsinEncyclopædia Britannica(1902), andThe Myths of Plato(1905).
"SWAN, ANNIE S.," (seeMRS. BURNETT SMITH).
SYMONDS, MISS E.M. ("GEORGE PASTON").—Novelist, etc.A Modern Amazon(1894),A Bread and Butter Miss(1894),The Career of Candida(1896),A Fair Deceiver(1897),Little Memoirs of the Eighteenth Century(1901),Little Memoirs of the Nineteenth Century(1902),Side-Lights on the Georgian Period(1902), books on Mrs. Delaney, G. Romney, Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, etc.
SYMONS, ARTHUR (1865).—Poet and critic.An Introduction to the Study of Browning(1886),Days and Nights(1889),London Nights(1895),The Symbolist Movement in Literature(1899),Images of Good and Evil(1900),Studies in Seven Arts(1906), etc.
TEMPLE, SIR RICHARD CARNAC, C.I.E. (1850).—Orientalist, etc.Wide-awake Stories(Punjab Folk Tales) (1884), with Mrs. F.A. Steel,Legends of the Punjab(1883-90), ed. various works dealing with the religions and geography of India, etc.
THOMAS, ANNIE (MRS. PENDER CUDLIP).—Novelist.Sir Victor's Choice,Denis Doune(1862),Comrades True(1900),TheDiva(1901),The Cleavers of Cleaver(1902),Social Ghosts(1903), etc.; has written over 100 novels and tales.
THOMAS, EDWARD.—Reviewer and miscellaneous writer.Book of the Open Air,Horæ Solitaræ,Oxford,Beautiful Wales,The Heart of England,Life and Writings of Richard Jefferies.
TOUT, THOMAS FREDERICK (1855).—Historian.Analysis of English History(1891),Edward I.(12 English Statesmen series) (1893),The Empire and the Papacy(1898),History of Great Britain(1902-6),Germany and the Empire(Cambridge Modern History), etc.
TRENCH, HERBERT (1865).—Poet, etc.Deirdre Wedded(1901),Apollo and the Seaman,The Questioners(1907), etc.
TREVELYAN, GEORGE MACAULAY (1876).—Historical writer.England in the Age of Wycliffe(1899),England under the Stuarts(1904),The Poetry and Philosophy of George Meredith(1906),Garibaldi's Defence of the Roman Republic(1907), etc.
TREVELYAN, SIR GEORGE OTTO, P.C., LL.D., etc. (1838).—Statesman, biographer, etc.The Competition Wallah(1864),Life and Letters of Lord Macaulay(1876),The Early History of C.J. Fox(1880),Interludes in Prose and Verse(1905).
TROWBRIDGE, JOHN TOWNSEND (1827).—American poet, etc. Poems,The Vagabonds,The Book of Gold,The Emigrant's Story,A Home Idyll,The Lost Earl; books for the young,The Little Master,Tide Mill,The Pocket Rifle,The Kelp Gatherers,Jack Hazard Stories,Fortunes of Toby Trafford, etc.; novels,Neighbours' Wives,Coupon Bonds, etc.
"TWAIN, MARK" (SAMUEL LANGHORNE CLEMENS), D.Litt. (1835).—American humorist.The Jumping Frog(1867),The Innocents Abroad(1869),Roughing It(1872),Sketches New and Old(1873),Adventures of Tom Sawyer(1876),A Tramp Abroad(1880),The Prince and the Pauper(1880),Life on the Mississippi(1883),Huckleberry Finn(1885),The American Claimant(1892),Tom Sawyer Abroad(1894),Christian Science(1907), etc.
TYLOR, EDWARD BURNETT, LL.D., F.R.S. (1832).—Anthropologist.Anahuac,Mexico, and the Mexicans(1859),Researches into the Early History of Mankind(1865),Primitive Culture(1871), andAnthropology(1881).
"TYNAN, KATHARINE" (MRS. TYNAN HINKSON) (1861).—Novelist and verse writer.Louise de la Vallière(1885),Shamrocks(1887),Ballads and Lyrics(1890),Cuckoo Songs(1894),A Cluster of Nuts(1894),An Isle in the Water,The Way of a Maid(1895),Miracle Plays(1896),A Lover's Breast Knot(1896),The Handsome Brandons,The Wind in the Trees(poems) (1898),The Dear Irish Girl,She Walks in Beauty(1899),Three Fair Maids(1900),That Sweet Enemy(1901),Love of Sisters(1902),A Red Red Rose(1903),Judy's Lovers(1905),A Yellow Domino(1906),For Maisie(1907),Her Mother's Daughter(1909), etc.
TYRRELL, ROBERT YELVERTON, LL.D., D.C.L. (1844).—Scholar. Has translatedAcharniansof Aristophanes into Englishverse (1883), author ofCicero in his Letters(1896),Latin Poetry(1893),Echoes of Kottabos(with Sir E. Sullivan) (1906), has ed. various classics.
UPWARD, ALLEN (1863).—Novelist, etc.Songs in Zïklag(1888),The Prince of Balkistan(1895),A Crown of Straw(1896),Secrets of the Courts of Europe(1897),A Day's Tragedy(1897),Treason(1903),Secret History of To-day(1904),A Flash in the Pan(comedy) (1896).
VACHELL, HORACE ANNESLEY (1861).—Novelist.Romance of Judge Kitchener(1894),Quicksands of Pactolus(1896),A Drama in Sunshine(1897),The Procession of Life(1899),John Charity(1900),The Pinch of Prosperity(1903),The Hill(1905),The Face of Clay(1906), andHer Son(1907).
VAMBERY, ARMINIUS, C.V.O., etc. (1832).—Traveller, etc.Travels in Central Asia(1864),Sketches of Central Asia(1867),History of Bokhara(1873),The Coming Struggle for India(1885),Western Culture in Eastern Lands(1906),Arminius Vambery, his Life and Adventures(1883).
VIZETELLY, ERNEST ALFRED (1853).—Novelist, etc.The Scorpion(1894),A Path of Thorns(1901),The Lover's Progress(1902), has ed. most of E. Zola's works, etc.
WALFORD, MRS. LUCY BETHIA (1845).—Novelist.Mr. Smith(1874),Pauline(1877),Troublesome Daughters(1880),The Baby's Grandmother(1885),The History of a Week(1886),A Stiff-necked Generation(1888),A Sage of Sixteen(1889),The Mischief of Monica(1891),The Matchmaker(1893),Frederick(1895),The Intruders(1898),A Dream's Fulfilment(1892),The Enlightenment of Olivia(1907), etc.
WALLACE, ALFRED RUSSEL, F.R.S., LL.D., etc. (1823).—Naturalist and evolutionist.Travels on the Amazon(1853),Palm Trees of the Amazon(1853),The Malay Archipelago(1869),Natural Selection(1870),The Geographical Distribution of Animals(1876),Tropical Nature(1878),Australasia(1879),Island Life(1880),Darwinism(1889),Studies Scientific and Social(1900),Man's Place in the Universe(1903),My Life(1905), etc.
WARD, ADOLPHUS WILLIAM, Litt.D., LL.D. (1837).—Historian and critic.The House of Austria in the Thirty Years' War(1869),A History of English Dramatic Literature to the Death of Queen Anne(1875),Livesof Chaucer (1880) and Dickens (1882) (English Men of Letters Series),The Counter Reformation(1888), translated Curtius'sHistory of Greece, ed. Pope's poetical works (Globe), Poems of John Byrom, and various other works, etc.
WARD, MRS. HUMPHREY (ARNOLD) (1851).—Novelist.Milly and Olly(1881),Miss Bretherton(1886),Robert Elsmere(1888),The History of David Grieve(1892),Marcella(1894),Sir George Tressady(1896),Helbeck of Bannisdale(1898),Lady Rose's Daughter(1903),The Marriage of William Ashe(1905)Fenwick's Career(1906); plays,Eleanor(1902),Agatha(1905), etc.
WATSON, HENRY BRERETON MARRIOTT (1863).—Novelist, etc.Lady Faintheart(1890),The Web of the Spider(1891),Diogenes of London(1893),At the First Corner(1895),The Heart of Miranda(1897),The Princess Xenia(1899),The House Divided(1901),Captain Fortune(1904),Twisted Eglantine(1905),The Privateers(1907), etc.
WATSON, WILLIAM, LL.D. (1858).—Poet.The Prince's Quest(1880),Epigrams of Art, Life and Nature(1884),Wordsworth's Grave(1890),Lachrymæ Musarum(1892),Lyric Love(1892),The Eloping Angels(1893),Excursions in Criticism(1893),Odes and other Poems(1894),The Father of the Forest(1895),The Purple East(1896),The Year of Shame(1896),The Hope of the World(1897),Collected Poems(1898),Ode on the Coronation of King Edward VII.(1902),For England(1903), andNew Poems(1909).
WATTS-DUNTON, THEODORE (1832).—Poet, novelist, and critic.The Coming of Love,Rhona Boswell's Story(1897),Aylwin(1898),Christmas at the Mermaid,The Renascence of Wonder(1903), ed. Borrow'sLavengroandRomany Rye; articlePoetryinEncyclopædia Britannica, and many other articles in the same.
WAUGH, ARTHUR (1866).—Critic.Alfred, Lord Tennyson, a Study(1892),Robert Browning(in Westminster Biographies), has ed. Johnson'sLives of the Poets, Dickens, Milton, Lamb, Tennyson, etc.
WEDMORE, FREDERICK (1844).—Writer on art, etc.Pastorals of France,Renunciations,English Episodes,Orgeás and Miradou,Studies in English Art,Méryon,Etching in England,Whistler's Etchings,Fine Prints,On Books and Arts,The Collapse of the Penitent(novel), etc.
WELLS, HERBERT GEORGE, B.Sc., etc. (1866).—Novelist.Select Conversations with an Uncle(1895),The Time Machine(1895),The Stolen Bacillus(1895),The Wonderful Visit,The Wheels of Chance,The Island of Dr. Moreau(1896),The Invisible Man(1897),The War of the Worlds(1898),When the Sleeper Wakes(1899),The First Men in the Moon(1901),Mankind in the Making(1903),The Food of the Gods(1904),A Modern Utopia(1905),The War in the Air(1908),Tono-Bungay,Ann Veronica(1909), etc.
WENDELL, BARRETT (1855).—American critic, etc.William Shakespeare(1894),A Literary History of America(1900),Raleigh in Guiana, etc. (1902),The Temper of the Seventeenth Century in English Literature(1904),The France of To-day(1907), etc.
WERNER, ALICE (1859).—Miscellaneous writer.A Time and Times(poems) (1886),O'Driscoll's Weird(1892),The Humour of Italy(1892),The Humour of Holland(1893),The Captain of the Locusts(1899),Chapinga's While Man(1901),Native Races of British Central Africa(1906).
WEYMAN, STANLEY JOHN (1855).—Novelist.The House of the Wolf(1890),Francis Cludde(1891),A Gentleman of France(1893),Under the Red Robe(1894),My Lady Rotha(1894),The RedCockade(1895),The Man in Black(1896),Shrewsbury(1897),The Castle Inn(1898),Sophia(1900),The Long Night(1903),The Abbess of Vlaye(1904),Starvecrow Farm(1905),Laid up in Lavender(1907).
WHARTON, EDITH (JONES) (1862).—American novelist.The Great Inclination(1889),A Gift from the Grave,Crucial Instances(1901),The Valley of Decision(1902),Sanctuary(1903),Italian Backgrounds(1905),The House of Mirth(1905),Madame de Treymes(1907),The Fruit of the Tree(1907).
WHIBLEY, CHARLES.—Critic and reviewer.A Book of Scoundrels,Studies in Frankness,The Pageantry of Life,Thackeray(1903),William Pitt(1906).
WHISHAW, FRED.—Novelist.The Emperor's Englishman,Out of Doors in Tsarland,Boris the Bear-Hunter,The Romance of the Woods,Harold the Norseman(1896),The White Witch(1897),A Race for Life(1898),The Diamond of Evil(1902),A Splendid Impostor(1903),The Great Green God(1906),The Secret Syndicate(1907).
WHITE, WILLIAM HALE (c.1830).—Novelist, etc.The Autobiography of Mark Rutherford(1885),Mark Rutherford's Deliverance(1885),The Revolution in Tanner's Lane(1887),Miriam's Schooling(1890),Catherine Furze(1889),Clara Hopgood(1896), translated Spinoza'sEthics,Pages from a Journal(1900).
WHITEING, RICHARD (1840).—Novelist, etc.The Democracy(1876),No. 5 John Street(1899),The Yellow Van(1903),Ring in the New(1906),All Moonshine(1907).
WHITNEY, ADELINE DUTTON (TRAIN) (1824).—American novelist.Faith Gartney's Girlhood,The Gayworthys,Hitherto,Leslie Goldthwaite,Real Folks,Homespun Yarns; poems,Pansies,Daffodils,Holy Tides,Bird Talk, etc.
WICKSTEED, REV. PHILIP HENRY (1844).—Writer on Dante, political economy, etc.Translation of the Bible for Young People(1882),Alphabet of Economic Science(1888),Henrik Ibsen(1892),Dante, Six Sermons(1895),Trans.: De Witte's Select Essays on Dante(with C.M. Laurence) (1898),Trans.: Dante's Paradiso(1899),Dante and Del Virgilio(with E.G. Gardner) (1901),Studies in Theology(with J.E. Carpenter) (1903),Further Translations of Dante's Convivio(1903),Early Lives of Dante(1904),Dante's Latin Works(1904), etc.
WIGGIN, KATE DOUGLAS (MRS. GEORGE C. RIGGS).—American novelist.Timothy's Quest,Polly Oliver's Problem,The Story of Patsy,Penelope's Experiences,Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm,Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch, etc.
WILKINS, MARY ELEANOR (MRS. C.M. FREEMAN) (1862).—American story-writer.A New England Nun,Young Lucretia,A Humble Romance,A Faraway Melody,Giles Cory,The Wind in the Rosebush,The Debtor, etc.
"WINTER, JOHN STRANGE," (seeMRS. ARTHUR STANNARD).
WINTER, WILLIAM (1836).—American critic, etc.Shakespeare's England,Grey Days and Gold,Old Shrines and IvyBrown Heath and Blue Bells,Life and Art of Edwin Booth,The Stage Life of Mary Anderson, etc.
WRIGHT, WILLIAM ALDIS, LL.D., etc.—English scholar. Joint ed. of Globe Shakespeare and of the Cambridge Shakespeare.Bible Word-Bookand many other English Classics,Letters and Literary Remains of Edward Fitzgerald(1889),The Works of Edward Fitzgerald(7 vols. 1903), etc.
YEATS, WILLIAM BUTLER (1865).—Poet.The Wanderings of Oisin(1889),The Countess Kathleen(1892),The Celtic Twilight(1893),A Book of Irish Verse(1895),Poems(1895),The Secret Rose(1897),The Wind Among the Reeds(1899),The Shadowy Waters(1900),Ideas of Good and Evil(1903), etc.
ZANGWILL, ISRAEL (1864).—Novelist.Children of the Ghetto(1892),Merely Mary Ann(1893),Ghetto Tragedies(1893),The King of Schnorrers(1894),Dreamers of the Ghetto(1898),They that Walk in Darkness(1899),The Mantle of Elijah(1900),The Grey Wig(1903),Blind Children(verse) (1903),Ghetto Comedies(1907); plays,Children of the Ghetto,The Moment of Death,The Revolted Daughter,Merely Mary Ann,The Serio-Comic Governess, etc.