_Plain Tales from the Hills_ (1887), _Soldiers Three_, _The Light that Failed_ (1891), _The Jungle Books_ (1894 and 1895), _Kim_ (1901), _Puck of Pook’s Hill_, etc. Also poems, _Barrack-Room Ballads_, _The Seven Seas_, and _The Five Nations_.
LANG, ANDREW, D.Litt., etc. (1844).–Poet, critic, and folklorist. _Ballads and Lyrics of Old France_ (1872), _Ballads in Blue China_ (1880), _Custom and Myth_ (1884), _Books and Bookmen_ (1886), _Mark of Cain_ (1886), _Myth, Ritual, and Religion_ (1887), “Blue,” “Red,” “Green,” “Yellow,” “Pink,” and “Olive” Fairy Books (ed. 1889-1907), _Sir Stafford Northcote_ (1890), _Prince Ricardo of Pantouflia_ (1893), _Homer and the Epic_ (1893), _Life of J.G. Lockhart_ (1896), translation of _Odyssey_ (with Prof. Butcher), and of _Iliad_ (with Mr. Myers and Mr. W. Leaf), _The Making of Religion_ (1898), _History of Scotland from the Roman Occupation_, vol. i., _Prince Charles Edward_ (1901), _The Mystery of Mary Stuart_ (1901), _The Valet’s Tragedy_ (1903), _John Knox and the Reformation_ (1905), etc.
LANE-POOLE, STANLEY, Litt.D., etc. (1854).–Historian and archaeologist. _Histories of the Moors in Spain_ (7th ed. 1904), _The Mohammedan Dynasties_ (1893), _The Mogul Emperors_ (1892), _Art of the Saracens of Egypt_ (1886), _The Story of Cairo_, _Lives_ of Lord Stratford de Redcliffe, E.W. Lane, Aurangzib Saladin, etc., edit. Lane’s _Arabic Lexicon_, etc.
LAUGHTON, SIR JOHN KNOX (1830).–Writer on naval subjects, etc. _Physical Geography in relation to the Prevailing Winds and Currents_ (1870), _Studies in Naval History_ (1887), _Nelson_ (English Men of Action) (1895), _Nelson and his Companions in Arms_ (1896), _Sea Fights and Adventures_ (1901); ed. _Letters and Dispatches of Lord Nelson_, _From Howard to Nelson_ (1899), etc.
LAW, WILLIAM ARTHUR (1844).–Dramatic author. _A Night Surprise_ (1877), _Enchantment_ (1878), _Castle Botherem_ (1880), _Nobody’s Fault_ (1882), _A Mint of Money_ (1884), _The Judge_ (1890), _Country Mouse_ (1902), _Three Blind Mice_ (1906), etc.
LAWLESS, THE HON. EMILY.–Novelist. _Hurrish_ (1886), _Story of Ireland_ (1887), _Plain Frances Mowbray_ (1889), _With Essex in Ireland_ (1890), _A Garden Diary_ (1901), _Book of Gilly_ (1906), etc.
LEAF, WALTER, Litt.D. (1852).–Scholar and translator. _The Iliad of Homer translated into English Prose_ (with A. Lang and E. Myers) (1882), _Companion to the Iliad_ (1892), etc.
LEE, SIDNEY, D.Litt., LL.D. (1859).–Ed. of _The Dictionary of National Biography_ (with Sir L. Stephen), _Stratford on Avon from the Earliest Times to the Death of Shakespeare_ (1885), _Life of Shakespeare_ (1898), _A Life of Queen Victoria_ (1902), _Shakespeare and the Modern Stage_ (1906), etc. Has also ed. various English texts.
LE GALLIENNE, RICHARD (1866).–Novelist and poet. _Volumes in Folio_ (1888), _The Religion of a Literary Man_ (1893), _Quest of the Golden Girl_ (1896), _Romance of Zion Chapel_ (1898), _Sleeping Beauty_ (1900), _New Poems_ (1909), etc.
LILLY, WILLIAM SAMUEL (1840).–Philosopher, etc. _Ancient Religion and Modern Thought_ (1884), _Chapters in European History_ (1886), _A Century of Revolution_ (1889), _The Great Enigma_ (1893), _Four English Humorists of the Nineteenth Century_ (1895), _Renaissance Types_ (1901), _Studies in Religion and Literature_ (1904).
LOCKE, WILLIAM JOHN (1863).–Novelist. _At the Gate of Samaria_ (1895). _The Demagogue and Lady Phayre_ (1896), _A Study in Shadows_ (1896), _The White Dove_ (1900), _The Usurper_ (1901), _The Beloved Vagabond_ (1906), etc.; also dramas, _The Morals of Marcus_, _The Palace of Puck_, _Idols_, etc.
LOCKYER, SIR JOSEPH NORMAN, K.C.B., F.R.S. (1836).–Astronomer. _Elementary Lessons in Astronomy_ (1870), _Studies in Spectrum Analysis_ (1878), _Star-gazing, Past and Present_ (1878), _Chemistry of the Sun_ (1887), _Dawn of Astronomy_ (1894), _The Sun’s Place in Nature_ (1897), _Stonehenge and other British Stone Monuments Astronomically Considered_ (1906-1907), etc.
LODGE, SIR OLIVER JOSEPH, F.R.S., LL.D. (1851).–Scientist and psychologist. _Elementary Mechanics_ (1881), _Modern Views of Electricity_ (1888, 1892, 1907), _Signalling through Space without Wires_ (1894), _Life and Matter: A Short Treatise on Fundamental Problems_ (1905), _Electrons, or the Nature of Negative Electricity_ (1906), _The Substance of Faith_ (1907), _Man and the Universe: A Study of the Influence of Modern Discoveries on our Conception of Christianity_ (1908), _The Ether of Space_ (1909), _Survival of Man: A Study in Unrecognised Human Faculty_ (1909), etc.
LODGE, RICHARD, LL.D., etc. (1855).–Historian. _Students’ Modern Europe_, _Richelieu_ (Foreign Statesmen Series), _The Close of the Middle Ages_, etc.
LONDON, JACK (1876).–American novelist. _The Son of the Wolf_ (1900), _The God of his Fathers_, _Children of the Frost_, _People of the Abyss_, _Call of the Wild_, _Tales of the Fish Patrol_ (1905), _The Road_ (1908), etc.
LOW, SIDNEY JAMES.–Journalist and miscellaneous writer. _The Governance of England_ (1904), _A Vision of India_ (1906), _Dictionary of English History_, etc.
LUCAS, EDWARD VERALL (1868).–Novelist. Ed. of Lamb, etc. _The Open Road_ (1899), _Old-fashioned Tales_ (1905), _The Friendly Town_ (1905), _Forgotten Tales of Long Ago_ (1906); ed. _Works of Charles and Mary Lamb_, _Life of C. Lamb_ (1905), books for children, etc.
LYALL, SIR ALFRED COMYN, K.C.B., etc. (1835).–Poet and biographer. _Verses written in India_, _British Dominion in India_, _Asiatic Studies_, _Lives_ of Warren Hastings, Lord Dufferin, etc.
M’CARTHY, JUSTIN (1830).–Novelist and historian. Novels, _Miss Misanthrope_, _Dear Lady Disdain_, _Maid of Athens_, _Red Diamonds_, _Mononia_, etc.; historical works, _History of our Own Times_, _Four Georges and William IV._, _Modern England_, _Reign of Queen Anne_, _Lives_ of Sir R. Peel, Pope, etc., Reminiscences, etc.
MCCARTHY, JUSTIN HUNTLY (1860).–Novelist and dramatist. Novels, _Dolly_, _Marjorie_, _Flower of France_, _Needles and Pins_, etc.; _Ireland since the Union_; plays, _The candidate_, _My Friend the Prince_, _If I were King_, etc.
MACKAIL, JOHN WILLIAM, LL.D., etc. (1859).–Scholar, etc. _Select Epigrams from the Greek Anthology_ (1890), _Latin Literature_ (1895), _Life of William Morris_ (1899), and translated Homer’s _Odyssey_ in verse.
MAHAFFY, JOHN PENTLAND, LL.D., D.C.L., etc. (1839).–Scholar and writer on philosophy. _Twelve Lectures on Primitive Civilisation_ (1868), _Prolegomena to Ancient History_ (1871), _Kant’s Critical Philosophy for English Readers_ (1871), _History of Greek Literature_ (1880), _Greek Life and Thought from Alexander to the Roman Conquest_ (1887), _Empire of the Ptolemies_ (1896), _The Silver Age of the Greek World_ (1906), etc.
MAHAN, ALFRED THAYER, D.C.L., LL.D. (1840).–American writer on naval history. _Influence of Sea Power upon History_ (1890), _Influence of Sea Power upon French Revolution and Empire_ (1892), _The Interest of the United States in Sea Power_ (1897), _Lessons of the War with Spain_ (1899), etc.
“MALET, LUCAS,” (_see_ HARRISON, MRS. MARY ST. LEGER).
MALLOCK, WILLIAM HURRELL (1849).–Novelist and writer on politics, evolution, etc. _The New Republic_ (1877), _The New Paul and Virginia_ (1878), _Studies of Contemporary Superstitions_, _Social Equality_, _Property and Progress_, _Classes and Masses_ (1896), _Aristocracy and Evolution_ (1898), _Religion as a Credible Doctrine_ (1902), _Reconstruction of Belief_ (1905); novels, _A Romance of the Nineteenth Century_, _The Old Order Changes_, _A Human Document_, _The Individualist_, _The Veil of the Temple_.
“MATHERS, HELEN” (MRS. HENRY REEVES) (1853).–Novelist. _Comin’ through the Rye_, _Cherry Ripe_, _My Lady Green-sleeves_, _Venus Victrix_, _Griff of Griffiths Court_, _The Ferryman_, etc.
MATTHEWS, JAMES BRANDER, Litt.D., D.C.L., etc. (1852).–American critic, etc. _French Dramatists of the Nineteenth Century_, _Introduction to the Study of American Literature_, _Aspects of Fiction_, _His Father’s Son_, etc.
MAUGHAM, WILLIAM SOMERSET (1874).–Novelist. _Liza of Lambeth_ (1897), _The Making of a Saint_ (1898), _The Hero_ (1901), _Mrs. Craddock_ (1902), _The Land of the Blessed Virgin_ (1905), _The Bishop’s Apron_ (1906). Plays: _Lady Frederick_, _Mrs. Dot_, _Smith_, etc.
MAXWELL, SIR HERBERT EUSTACE, F.R.S., LL.D., etc. (1845).–Novelist, essayist, etc. Novels, _Sir Lucian Elphin_ (1889), _The Letter of the Law_ (1890), _A Duke of Britain_ (1895), _Chevalier of the Splendid Crest_ (1905), etc.; other writings, _Meridiana_, _Noontide Essays_ (1892), _Scottish Land Names_ (1894), _Afternoon Essays_ (1895), _Rainy Days in a Library_ (1896), _Bruce and the Struggle for Scottish Independence_, _Memories of the Months_ (4 series), _Story of the Tweed_ (1905), _Lives_ of W.H. Smith, Wellington, Romney, etc.
“MEADE, L.T.” (MRS. TOULMIN SMITH).–Novelist. _Scamp and I_, _A World of Girls_, _The Medicine Lady_, _Wild Kitty_, _Brotherhood of the Seven Kings_, _From the Hand of the Hunter_, etc.
MEYNELL, MRS. ALICE (THOMPSON).–Poet and essayist. _Preludes_, _The Rhythm of Life_ (1893), _The Colour of Life_ (1896), _The Flower of the Mind_, _Anthology of English Poetry_ (ed.), _The Spirit of Place_ (1898), _Later Poems_ (1901), a book on Ruskin, etc.
MITCHELL, SILAS WEIR, M.D., LL.D. (1830).–American poet, novelist, and physician. _Hephzibah Guinness_ (1880), _Roland Blake_ (1886), _Masque and other Poems_ (1888), _Cup of Youth_ (poems), _Characteristics_ (1892), _When all the Woods are Green_ (1894), _Adventures of Francois_, etc., besides various medical works.
MITFORD, BERTRAM.–Novelist. _Romance of the Cape Frontier_, _Wind of Deadly Hollow_, _A Veldt Official_, _Ruby Sword_, _A Veldt Vendetta_, etc.
MOLESWORTH, MRS. MARY LOUISA (STEWART) (1839).–Novelist and writer for children. _Carrots_, _Cuckoo Clock_, _Herr Baby_, _The Boys_, etc.; novels, _Hathercourt Rectory_, _The Laurel Walk_, etc.
MOORE, FRANK FRANKFORT (1855).–Novelist and dramatist. _Dawn_ (verse), _Told by the Sea_, _I forbid the Banns_ (1893), _The Jessamy Bride_ (1897), _A Damsel or Two_ (1902), _The King’s Messenger_ (1907), etc.; plays, _A March Hare_, _The Queen’s Room_, _Kitty Clive_, _The Food of Love_ (1909), etc.
MOORE, GEORGE (1857).–Novelist, playwright, and art critic. _Flowers of Passion_ (verse) (1877), _A Mummer’s Wife_ (1884), _Literature at Nurse_ (1885), _Vain Fortune_ (1890), _Ideals in Ireland_ (1891), _Modern Painting_ (1893), _Esther Waters_ (1894), _The Bending of the Bough_ (play), etc.
MORLEY, JOHN, 1ST LORD MORLEY of BLACKBURN, P.C., O.M., F.R.S., etc. (1838).–Biographer and essayist. _Edmund Burke_ (1867), _Critical Miscellanies_ (1871-77) (two series), _Voltaire_ (1871), _Rousseau_ (1873), _On Compromise_ (1874), _Diderot and the Encyclopaedists_ (1878), _Studies in Literature_ (1891), _Oliver Cromwell_ (1900), _Life of Gladstone_ (1903), etc.
MORRISON, ARTHUR (1863).–Novelist. _Tales of Mean Streets_ (1894), _Martin Hewitt_ (1894), _A Child of the Jago_ (1896), _The Hole in the Wall_ (1902), etc.
MULLINGER, JAMES BASS (1834).–Historian. _Cambridge Characteristics in the Seventeenth Century_ (1867), _The Ancient African Church_ (1869), _The New Reformation_ (1875), _The Schools of Charles the Great_ (1876), _The University of Cambridge from the Earliest Times to the Accession of Charles I._, _Introduction to English History_ (with S.R. Gardiner), _History of St. John’s College, Cambridge_ (1901), etc.
MUNRO, NEIL (1864).–Novelist, etc. _The Lost Pibroch_ (1896), _John Splendid_ (1898), _Gillian the Dreamer_ (1899), _Doom Castle_ (1901), _The Shoes of Fortune_ (1901), _Children of the Tempest_ (1903), _The Daft Days_ (1907), etc.
MURFREE, MARY NOAILLES (“CHARLES EGBERT CRADDOCK”).–American novelist. _In the Tennessee Mountains_ (1884), _Down the Ravine_ (1885), _The Prophet of the Great Smoky Mountains_ (1886), _Story of Keedar Bluffs_ (1887), _His Vanished Star_ (1894), _The Juggler_ (1897), _The Bushwhackers_ (1899), etc.
MURRAY, GEORGE GILBERT AIMEE, LL.D. (1866).–Scholar. _History of Ancient Greek Literature_ (1897), _Euripidis Fabulae adnotatione critica instructae_ (1901 and 1904), _Euripides, Verse Translations_, _Rise of the Greek Epic_ (1907), etc.
MURRAY, SIR JAMES AUGUSTUS HENRY, LL.D., D.C.L., etc. (1837).–Philologist. Ed. of _New English Dictionary_, _Dialect of the Southern Counties of Scotland_, has ed. various works for the Early English Text Society, etc.
“NESBIT, E.,” (_see_ BLAND, MRS. HUBERT).
NICOLL, SIR WILLIAM ROBERTSON, LL.D. (1851).–Journalist, poet, and essayist, etc. _Literary Anecdotes of the Nineteenth Century_ (1895), _Songs of Rest_ (two series), ed. _Letters on Life_, _The Church’s One Foundation_; has ed. _Works of C. Bronte_, _Expositors’ Greek Testament_, etc. Editor of _British Weekly_.
NORRIS, WILLIAM EDWARD (1846).–Novelist. _Heaps of Money_ (1877), _Mademoiselle de Mersac_, _My Friend Jim_, _The Dancer in Yellow_ (1896), _An Octave_ (1900), _The Credit of the County_ (1902), _Harry and Ursula_ (1907), etc.
NOYES, ALFRED (1880).–Poet, etc. _The Loom of Years_ (1902), _The Flower of Old Japan_ (1903), _Poems_ (1904), _The Forest of Wild Thyme_ (1905), _Drake_ (an English epic) (1906), _William Morris_ (1907), _The Enchanted Island_ (1909).
O’GRADY, STANDISH (1846).–Writer on Irish history and literature. _History of Ireland, Heroic Period_, vols. i. and ii., _History of Ireland, Critical and Philosophical_, vol. i., _The Flight of the Eagle_, _The Bog of Stars_, _Finn and his Companions_, _Ulrick the Ready_, _The Chain of Gold_, _The Coming of Cuculain_, etc.
OKEY, THOMAS.–Writer on topography and art. _Venice and its Story_, _Paris and its Story_, _Venetian Palaces and Old Venetian Folk_, Translator of Dante’s _Purgatorio_.
OMAN, CHARLES WILLIAM CHADWICK, (1860).–Historian. _A History of Greece_ (1888), _Warwick the Kingmaker_ (1891), _Short History of the Byzantine Empire_ (1892), _A History of Europe_, 476-918 (1893), _Short History of England_ (1895), _History of the Peninsular War_, vols. i. and ii., etc.
OPPENHEIM, E. PHILLIPS (1866).–Novelist. _The Master Mummer_, _Mysterious Mr. Sabin_, _A Prince of Sinners_, _Conspirators_, etc.
“ORCZY, BARONESS” (MRS. MONTAGU BARSTOW).–Novelist and playwright. _The Emperor’s Candlesticks_, _The Scarlet Pimpernel_ (1905), _A Son of the People_ (1906), _I will Repay_ (1906), etc.
OXENHAM, JOHN.–Novelist. _God’s Prisoner_ (1898), _John of Gerisau_ (1902), _White Fire_ (1905), _Giant Circumstance_, _The Long Road_, etc.
PATRICK, DAVID, LL.D. (1849).–Ed. of _Chambers’ Encyclopaedia_ (1888-92), _Chambers’ Cyclopaedia of English Literature_ (1901-3), and _Chambers’s Biographical Dictionary_ (with F.H. Groome) (1897).
PAIN, BARRY (1868).–Novelist, etc. _In a Canadian Canoe_ (1891), _Stories and Interludes_ (1892), _Graeme and Cyril_ (1893), _Kindness of the Celestial_ (1894), _The Romantic History of Robin Hood_ (1898), _Lindley Kays_ (1904), _Wilhelmina in London_ (1906), _Shadow of the Unseen_ (1907), etc.
PASTURE, MRS. HENRY DE LA (BONHAM).–Novelist and dramatist. _The Little Squire_ (1894), _A Toy Tragedy_, _Deborah of Tod’s_ (1897), _Catherine of Calais_ (1901), _Peter’s Mother_ (1905), _The Tyrant_ (1909).
PAUL, HERBERT WOODFIELD (1853).–Historian and biographer. _Men and Letters_ (1901), _History of Modern England_, _Stray Leaves_ (1906), _Queen Anne_ (1906), _Lives_ of W.E. Gladstone, Matthew Arnold (English Men of Letters), Lord Acton, and Froude.
PEARS, SIR EDWIN (1835).–War correspondent, etc, _Fall of Constantinople_ (1885), _The Destruction of the Greek Empire_ (1903), etc.
PEMBERTON, MAX (1863).–Novelist. _The Sea Wolves_ (1894), _The Impregnable City_ (1895), _Christine of the Hills_ (1897), _Pro Patria_ (1901), _Dr. Xavier_ (1903), _Red Morn_ (1904), _The Hundred Days_ (1905), _The Fortunate Prisoner_ (1909), etc.
PHELPS, ELIZABETH STUART (MRS. H.D. WARD) (1844).–American novelist. _The Gates Ajar_ (1869), _Hedged In_ (1870), _Story of Avis_ (1877), _An Old Maid’s Paradise_ (1879), _Beyond the Gates_ (1883), _The Madonna of the Tubs_ (1887), _The Gates Between_ (1887), _Struggle for Immortality_ (1889), _Come Forth_ (with H.D. Ward, 1890), _Avery_, _Trixy_ (1904), etc.
PHILLIPS, CLAUDE.–Writer on art. _Picture Gallery of Charles I._, _The Earlier Work of Titian_, _The Later Work of Titian_, _Lives_ of Reynolds, Watteau, etc.
PHILLIPS, STEPHEN (1868).–Poet. _Marpessa_ (1890), _Eremus_ (1894), _Christ in Hades_ (1896), _Poems_ (1897), _Paolo and Francesca_ (1899), _Herod_ (1900), _Ulysses_ (1902), _The Sin of David_ (1904), _Nero_ (1906), etc.
PHILLPOTTS, EDEN (1862).–Novelist. _Down Dartmoor Way_ (1894), _Lying Prophets_ (1896), _Children of the Mist_ (1898), _Sons of the Morning_ (1900), _The River_ (1902), _The Secret Woman_ (1905), _The Whirlwind_ (1907), etc.
PINERO, SIR ARTHUR WING (1855).–Dramatist. _The Magistrate_, _Sweet Lavender_, _The Profligate_, _The Weaker Sex_, _Lady Bountiful_, _The Second Mrs. Tanqueray_, _The Notorious Mrs. Ebbsmith_, _The Benefit of the Doubt_, _The Princess and the Butterfly_, _The Gay Lord Quex_, _His House in Order_, _Mid Channel_, etc.
POLLARD, ALBERT FREDERICK, F.R.Hist.S. (1869).–Historical writer. _The Jesuits in Poland_ (1892), _England under Protector Somerset_ (1900), _Henry VIII._ (Gougiel Series, 1902), _Life of Thomas Cranmer_ (1904), etc., and has contributed largely to _The Dictionary of National Biography_, and to the _Cambridge Modern History_, and ed. _Political Pamphlets_, _Tudor Tracts_, etc.
POLLARD, ALFRED WILLIAM (1859).–Bibliographer, etc. _Books about Books_ (1893), _Bibliographica_ (1894-96), _Early Illustrated Books_ (1893), _Italian Book Illustrations_ (1894), etc.; and has ed. _English Miracle Plays_ (1890), Herrick, Chaucer (Globe ed.), etc.
POLLOCK, WALTER HERRIES (1850).–Poet and miscellaneous writer. _The Modern French Theatre_ (1878), _Verse, Old and New_, _Sealed Orders and other Poems_, _Lectures on French Poets_, _A Nine Men’s Morrice_, _King Zub_, _Jane Austen, her Contemporaries and Herself_, etc.
POOLE, REGINALD LANE, Ph.D. (1857).–Historical writer. _History of the Huguenots of the Dispersion_ (1880), _Illustrations of the History of Modern Thought_ (1884), _Wycliffe and Movements for Reform_ (1889), _Historical Atlas of Modern Europe_ (1897-1902), etc.
PRAED, MRS. ROSA CAROLINE MACKWORTH (“MRS. CAMPBELL PRAED”) (1851).–Australian novelist. _Policy and Passion_ (1881), _Nadine_ (1882), _The Head Station_ (1885), _Miss Jacobsen’s Chance_ (1887), _December Roses_ (1893), _The Insane Root_, _The Luck of the Leura_ (1907), etc.
PREVOST, FRANCIS, (_see_ BATTERSBY).
PROTHERO, GEORGE WALTER, Litt.D., LL.D., etc. (1848).–Historian. _Life and Times of Simon de Montfort_ (1877), _Memoir of Henry Bradshaw_ (1889), ed. Voltaire’s _Louis Quatorze_, _Select Statutes, etc., of Elizabeth and James I._, co-ed. of _Cambridge Modern History_, etc.
PROTHERO, ROWLAND EDMUND, M.V.O. (1852).–Biographer, etc. _Life and Correspondence of Dean Stanley_ (1893), ed. _Letters of Edward Gibbon_, _Letters and Journals of Lord Byron_, _The Psalms in Human Life_, etc.
QUILLER-COUCH, ARTHUR THOMAS (“Q”) (1863).–Novelist. _Dead Man’s Rock_ (1887), _Troy Town_ (1888), _The Splendid Spur_ (1889), _The Blue Pavilions_ (1891), _The Golden Pomp_ (1895), _The Ship of Stars_ (1899), _Shining Ferry_ (1905), finished R.L. Stevenson’s _St. Ives_, etc.
“RAIMOND, C.E.,” (_see_ ROBINS, ELIZABETH).
RALEIGH, WALTER (1861).–Biographer and critic. _The English Novel_ (1894), _Robert Louis Stevenson_ (1895), _Style_ (1897), books on Shakespeare, Milton, and Wordsworth, etc.
REEVES, MRS. H., (_see_ MATHERS, HELEN).
RHYS, ERNEST (1859).–Poet, novelist, etc. _A London Rose_ (verse), _The Fiddler of Carne_ (1896), _Welsh Ballads_ (1898), _The Whistling Maid_ (1900), _The Man at Odds_, _Gwenevere_ (play); has ed. the Camelot Series (1886-91), _Dekker’s Plays_ in Mermaid Series, etc.
RHYS, MRS. GRACE (1865).–Novelist and essayist. _Mary Dominic_ (1898), _The Wooing of Sheila_ (1901), _The Bride_ (1909), _Five Beads on a String_ (essays) (1907), etc.
RHYS, SIR JOHN, D.Litt. (1840).–Celtic philologist. _Celtic Britain_ (1882), _Studies in the Arthurian Legend_ (1891), _Celtic Folklore_ (1901), etc.
RIDGE, WILLIAM PETT.–Novelist. _A Clever Wife_ (1895), _Mord Em’ly_ (1898), _A Son of the State_ (1899), _Erb_ (1903), _Mrs. Galer’s Business_ (1905), _The Wickhamses_ (1906), _Name of Garland_ (1907), etc.
RILEY, JAMES WHITCOMB (1858).–American poet and humorist. _The Old Swimmin’ Hole_ (1883), _Pipes o’ Pan at Zekesbury_ (1887), _Rhymes of Childhood_ (1889), _Old-fashioned Roses_ (1891), _Green Fields and Running Brooks_ (1893), _A Child World_ (1896), _While the Heart beats Young_ (1906), etc.
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 Beausejour_ (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 Mediaeval 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), and _Oliver Cromwell_ (1900).
ROSSETTI, WILLIAM MICHAEL (1829).–Biographer, ed., etc. Translator of Dante’s _Hell_ (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., _Lives_ of Dryden (English Men of Letters) and Sir W. Scott, etc.
SANDYS, JOHN EDWIN, Litt.D. (1844).–Scholar; joint ed. of _Dictionary 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), _Archaeology of Cuneiform Inscriptions_ (1907), etc.
SEAMAN, OWEN (1861).–Parodist, etc. _Oedipus and the Wreck_ (1888), _Horace at Cambridge_ (1894), _In Cap and Bells_ (1899), _A Harvest of Chaff_ (1904), etc. Ed. of _Punch_ since 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 English Literature_ (1905-6), _In Praise of Oxford_, etc.; was assistant ed. of _The 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 Bronte and her Circle_ (1896), _Sixty Years of Victorian Literature_ (1897), _Charlotte Bronte and her Sisters_ (1905), _The Brontes and their Correspondents_ (1907), _Life of George Borrow_ (1907); is ed. of the _Sphere_.
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’s _Piers Plowman_, _The Lay of Havelock_, Barbour’s _Bruce_, and other early English texts, a complete ed. of Chaucer, 6 vols. (1894), and of many of his works separately, and is author of _An 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), article _Ethics_ in _Encyclopaedia Britannica_ (1902), and _The Myths of Plato_ (1905).
“SWAN, ANNIE S.,” (_see_ MRS. 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), _The Diva_ (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_, _Horae Solitarae_, _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), and _Anthropology_ (1881).
“TYNAN, KATHARINE” (MRS. TYNAN HINKSON) (1861).–Novelist and verse writer. _Louise de la Valliere_ (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 translated _Acharnians_ of Aristophanes into English verse (1883), author of _Cicero 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 Ziklag_ (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), and _Her 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), _Lives_ of Chaucer (1880) and Dickens (1882) (English Men of Letters Series), _The Counter Reformation_ (1888), translated Curtius’s _History 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), _Lachrymae 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), and _New 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’s _Lavengro_ and _Romany Rye_; article _Poetry_ in _Encyclopaedia 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’s _Lives of the Poets_, Dickens, Milton, Lamb, Tennyson, etc.
WEDMORE, FREDERICK (1844).–Writer on art, etc. _Pastorals of France_, _Renunciations_, _English Episodes_, _Orgeas and Miradou_, _Studies in English Art_, _Meryon_, _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 Red Cockade_ (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’s _Ethics_, _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,” (_see_ MRS. ARTHUR STANNARD).
WINTER, WILLIAM (1836).–American critic, etc. _Shakespeare’s England_, _Grey Days and Gold_, _Old Shrines and Ivy Brown 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-Book_ and 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.