Part 3
=Crabbe, George.= 1754-1832. Poet. Writer of realistic, matter-of-fact narrative poems: The Village, The Parish Register, etc. _See complete edition of 1834, 8 vols., with Life._ _See Atlantic Monthly, May, 1880, "A Neglected Poet."_
=Crabbe, George.= 1778-1834. Philologist. Author of Hist. Eng. Law and a noted work on Eng. Synonyms. _Pub. Har._
=Craig-Knox, Mrs. Isa.= 183 Scotch poet. Author Ode to Burns, Duchess Agnes, etc. _Pub. Cas._
=Craik, Mrs. Dinah Maria Mulock.= 182 Novelist and poet. Author of quiet, helpful, earnest stories, among which John Halifax, Gentleman, is the most noted. Others are, A Brave Lady, A Noble Life, A Woman's Kingdom, Mistress and Maid, etc. Philip My King and Douglas are two of her finest poems. _Pub. Har. Hou. Mac._
=Craik, George Lillie.= 1799-1866. Historian. Author of a valuable Hist. Eng. Lit., The English of Shakespeare, Bacon and his Philosophy, etc. _See Rolfe's Craik's English of Shakespeare._ _Pub. Scr._
=Cranmer, Thos.= 1489-1555. Abp. Canterbury. Theologian. _See Archdeacon Todd's Life of, 1831._
=Crashaw [cr[)a]sh'aw], Richard.= c. 1620-1650. Poet. Author of Steps to the Temple, etc. His verse is fanciful and mystical, but always melodious. _See Turnbull's complete edition of London, 1858._ _See G. MacDonald's England's Antiphon and Cornhill Mag., April, 1883._
=Creasy, Sir Edward Shepherd.= 1812-1878. Historian. Author Fifteen Decisive Battles of the World, Hist. Ottoman Turks, Hist. of England. _Pub. Ho. Har._
=Croker, John Wilson.= 1780-1857. Essayist and historical writer. Style caustic and vigorous. _See H. Martineau's Biographical Sketches._
=Croker, Thos. Crofton.= 1798-1854. Irish novelist. Author of romances and fairy tales, the latter of great beauty.
=Croly, George.= 1780-1860. Irish poet. Author Angel of the World, Catiline, etc. His verse has a showy, tinsel brilliancy. _Pub. Har. Rou._
=Cruden [kroo'den], Alexander.= 1701-1770. Scotch theologian. Famous as the author of the well-known Concordance to the Bible. _Pub. Lip. Ran. Wh._
=Cudlip, Mrs. Annie Pender=, "Annie Thomas." 18-- ----. Novelist. Author Denis Donne, A Passion in Tatters, Playing for High Stakes, etc. _Pub. Har._
=Cudworth, Ralph.= 1617-1688. Philosopher. His True Intellectual System ranks among Eng. prose classics. _See edition 1845, 3 vols._
=Cumberland, Richard.= 1632-1718. Bp. Peterborough. Philosophical writer.
=Cumberland, Richard.= 1732-1811. Great-grandson to preceding. Poet and dramatist. Wrote The West Indian, Wheel of Fortune, and other rather sentimental comedies. _See edition of his dramas, by Jansen, 1813._
=Cumming, John.= 1810-1881. Scotch theologian and popular London preacher. Author Apocalyptic Sketches, Fall of Babylon Foreshadowed, etc.
=Cunningham, Allan=. 1785-1842. Scotch poet and critic. C. wrote many spirited songs, among which A Wet Sheet and a Flowing Sea is best known. Author Hist. British Painters, Life of Wilkie, etc. _See Poems and Songs of, edited by Peter Cunningham, 1847._ _Pub. Har._
=Cunningham, John.= 1729-1773. Irish lyrical poet.
=Cunningham, John Wm.= 1780-1861. Poet.
=Cunningham, Peter.= 1816-1869. Son to A. C. Antiquary. Author Handbook of London, Modern London, Memoir of J. M. W. Turner, etc.
=Dalrymple, Sir David.= 1726-1792. Scotch historian. Author Annals of Scotland, etc.
=Dalrymple, John Hamilton.= 1726-1810. Scotch historian. Author Memoirs of Great Britain.
=Daniel, Samuel.= 1562-1619. Poet and historian. D. wrote a Hist. of the Civil Wars in 8-line stanzas, also a prose Hist. of England. _See Campbell's Specimens of Eng. Poets._
=D'Arblay, Madame,= _nee_ =Frances Burney.= 1752-1840. Novelist. Author Evelina, Cecilia, Camilla, etc. _See her Diary, pub. 1846; also Contemporary Rev., Dec., 1882._ _Pub. Har. Rob._
=Darwin, Chas. Robert.= 1809-1882. Naturalist. The most notable scientist of the age, and the originator of the Evolution Theory. He had a clear, well-balanced mind, and his statements are based on careful observation and reflection. Origin of Species, Variation under Domestication, Expression of Emotion in Man and Animals, Descent of Man, Insectivorous Plants, and Movements in Plants are his chief works. _See Atlantic Monthly, June, 1882; Century Mag., Jan., 1883._ _Pub. Apl._
=Darwin, Erasmus.= 1731-1802. Grandfather to C. D. Poet and physician. Author of The Botanic Garden, a hard, metallic poem of a scientific cast, polished and elaborated to excess. _See Miss Seward's Memoirs of; Craik's Eng. Lit., vol. 2; Krause's Life of._
=Davenant, Sir Wm.= 1605-1688. Dramatist. D. wrote 25 comedies and tragedies, and the long and feeble heroic poem Gondibert. _See Ward's Eng. Poets, vol. 2._
=Davies, Sir John.= 1570-1626. Poet. Author of Nosce Teipsum, a poem on the immortality of the soul, of great power and beauty, and a poetical treatise on dancing, entitled Orchestra. _See Grosart's complete edition, 1876._ _See Ward's Eng. Poets, vol. 1._
=Davy, Sir Humphrey.= 1778-1829. Chemist. Author Researches Chemical and Philosophical, Elements of Chemical Philosophy, Consolations of Travel, etc. _See Life and Works of, by John Davy, 9 vols., London, 1840._ _Pub. Rob._
=Day, Thomas.= 1748-1789. Author of the famous juvenile tale Sandford and Merton. _Pub. Har. Hou. Rob._
=Defoe, Daniel.= 1661-1731. Political writer and novelist. His stories form the link connecting the tales and romances of the 17th cent. with the novel of the 18th. Moll Flanders, Capt. Singleton, and Robinson Crusoe are among his chief works. Style lively, rapid, and realistic. _See Oxford edition, 20 vols., 1840._ _See Life, by Lee, 3 vols.; also, Defoe, by Wm. Minto, in Eng. Men of Letters._
=Dekker, Thomas.= c. 1570-1641. Dramatist. Author Satiriomastix, etc. D. wrote mainly with other dramatists, but so far as his separate work can be traced, it shows tenderness and pathos. _See Eng. edition of Dekker, 1873._ _See Ward's Eng. Poets, vol. 2._
=De la Rame [deh-lae-rae-m[=a]'], Louisa=, "Ouida." 184 Novelist. Author of Strathmore, Moths, Bebee, Wanda, etc. An entertaining, sprightly writer, of much genius, whose works are of a doubtful moral tendency. _Pub. Lip._
=De Morgan, Augustus.= 1806-1871. Mathematician. Author Essays on Probabilities, Formal Logic, Paradoxes and Problems, etc.
=Denham, Sir John.= 1615-1668. Poet. His poem Cooper's Hill shows fine descriptive powers. _See Ward's Eng. Poets, vol. 2._
=Dennis, John.= 1657-1734. Dramatist and critic. Author of A Plot and No Plot, Appius and Virginia, The Usefulness of the Stage, The Grounds of Criticism, etc.
=De Quincey, Thomas.= 1785-1859. Critic and essayist. A great master of Eng. prose. He possessed great acuteness and fine descriptive powers, but lacked creative ability. Confessions of an Opium-Eater and Murder Considered as one of the Fine Arts are two of the best examples of his style. _See Page's Life of, 1877; Biographical Sketches by H. Martineau._ _Pub. Hou._
=Derby, Earl of.= See Stanley, Edward G. S.
=De Redcliffe, Lord Stratford.= 1788-1880. Poet and theologian.
=De Vere, Sir Aubrey.= 1788-1846. Irish poet. Author Julian the Apostate, etc.
=De Vere, Aubrey Thos.= 181 Irish poet. Son to preceding. Author May Carols, Irish Odes, The Sisters, etc. His verse is pleasing, and possesses merit.
=De Vere, Edward.= Earl of Oxford. 1545-1604. Poet.
=Dibdin, Charles.= 1745-1814. Poet and miscellaneous writer. Author of a complete Hist. of the Eng. Stage, but best known by his naval songs, over 1200 in number. _For the latter, see Hogarth's edition, 1843._
=Dibdin, Thos.= 1771-1841. Son to C. D. A prolific song-writer and playwright. Author of a Metrical Hist. of England, etc.
=Dibdin, Thos. Frognall.= 1776-1847. Bibliographer. Neph. to C. D. Author Bibliomania, Typographical Antiquities of Gt. Britain, Bibliographical Decameron, etc.
=Dicey, Edward Stephen.= 183 Journalist. Author Memoir of Cavour, Rome in 1860, The Schleswig-Holstein War, etc.
=Dick, Thomas.= 1772-1857. Scotch writer. The Christian Philosopher is his best known work. _Pub. Har. Clx. Phi._
=Dickens, Charles.= 1812-1870. Novelist. Author of some 30 novels and tales, all bearing marks of genius and originality. He is widely read and admired, and his novels delight readers of all ages. His principal faults consist in elaborating and dwelling on the grotesque and unattractive side of humanity, and in overstraining the pathetic portions of his novels. Pickwick Papers, Nicholas Nickleby, Tale of Two Cities, David Copperfield, Oliver Twist, and the Christmas Carol are among the best of his works. _See Fields's Yesterdays with Authors, and Lives by Forster and Mackenzie._ _Pub. Apt. Est. Har. Hou. Le. Lip. Lit. Pet. Por. Rou. Os._
=Digby, Sir Kenelm.= 1603-1665. Philosophical writer.
=Digby, Kenelm Henry.= 180 Archaeologist. Author Mores Catholici, The Broad Stone of Honor, etc. An industrious and careful writer.
=Dilke, Chas. Wentworth.= 1789-1864. Critical writer of note.
=Dilke, Sir Chas. Wentworth.= 184 Grandson to preceding. Traveler and political writer. Author Greater Britain, The Fall of Prince Florestan of Monaco, etc. _Pub. Har. Lip. Mac._
=Dillon, Wentworth.= Earl of Roscommon. 1633-1684. Poet. Essay on Translated Verse is his chief work. Style elegant and cold.
=Disraeli [diz-r[=a]'el-ee], Benj.= 1805-1881. Novelist and statesman. Son to I. D. A talented and successful writer, possessed of great energy and strength of will. In his novels the leading people of his time are satirized. Vivian Gray, his first novel, and Endymion, his last, appeared fifty-five years apart. Others are Contarini Fleming, Henrietta Temple, Coningsby, Venetia, Tancred, and Lothair, all brilliant and showy productions. _Pub. Apl. Har._
=Disraeli, Isaac.= 1766-1848. An industrious writer of miscellaneous works, the best known being Curiosities of Lit., Calamities of Authors, Quarrels of Authors, etc. _See edition of, by his son, 1850._ _Pub. Arm. Har. Rou._
=Dixon, Wm. Hepworth.= 1821-1879. Historian and biographer. Author Personal Hist. of Lord Bacon, New America, Hist. of Two Queens, Her Majesty's Tower, etc. _Pub. Har. Lip._
=Dobell [d[)o]-bell'], Sydney.= 1824-1874. Poet. A writer who has an honorable place among modern minor poets. Author of The Roman, Balder, etc. _See Stedman's Victorian Poets; Ward's Eng. Poets, vol. 4._ _See complete English edition, 1875; also, Life and Letters of, London, 1879._
=Dobson, Austin.= 184 Poet and critic. Author Vignettes in Rhyme, Proverbs in Porcelain, etc. An exceedingly graceful writer, whose poems all show a cultivated imagination and much tenderness of expression. Among the best are After Sedan, The Dead Letter, and The Young Musician. Fielding, in Eng. Men of Letters, is his chief prose work. _Pub. Ho._
=Doddridge, Philip.= 1702-1751. Moralist. Author Rise and Progress of Religion in the Soul, Family Expositor, Hymns, etc. Style plain and simple. _See edition of, Leeds, 1802, 10 vols.; also, Life and Correspondence, 5 vols., London, 1831, and Life, by D. A. Harsha._
=Dodsley, Robert.= 1703-1764. Poet and publisher. Author Economy of Human Life, etc. Best known by his Collection of Old Plays. _See edition by W. Carew Hazlitt, 1875._
=Donne [d[)o]n], John.= 1573-1631. Poet and theologian. His versification is rugged, and his style obscure and fantastic, but his poems, both religious and amatory, contain much beauty of thought. His seven Satires are vigorous efforts. _See Ward's Eng. Poets, vol. 1._ _See Dean Alford's 6 vol. edition, 8vo, London, 1838._ _Pub. Hou._
=Doran, John.= 1807-1878. Biographer. Author Lives of Queens of the House of Hanover, Monarchs Retired from Business, Hist. Court Fools, New Pictures and Old Panels, etc. _Pub. Arm._
=Dorset, 6th Earl of.= See Sackville, Geo.
=Dorset, 1st Earl of.= See Sackville, Thos. See Buckhurst, Lord.
=Douglas, Gawain.= 1474-1522. Bp. Dunkeld. Scotch poet. D. was the first metrical translator of Virgil in Gt. Britain. _See Ward's Eng. Poets, vol. 1._ _See complete Eng. edition by J. Small, 1874._
=Dowden, Edward.= 184 Poet and Shakespearean scholar. Author Shakespeare's Mind and Art, Southey, in Eng. Men of Letters, Poems, etc. _Pub. Har._
=Drayton, Michael.= 1563-1631. Poet. His chief work is the Polyolbion, a poetical description of Britain in 100,000 lines. A far better work is the Nymphidia, an exquisitely graceful, mock heroic fairy poem. _See Ward's Eng. Poets, vol. 1._
=Drummond, William= [of Hawthornden]. 1585-1649. Scotch poet. His Sonnets are his best production. _See Memoirs by Masson, 1863._ _Ward's Eng. Poets, vol. 1._
=Dryden, John.= 1631-1700. Poet and dramatist. His verse takes a wide range: in satire we have Absalom and Achitophel, MacFlecknoe, etc.; in theology, Religio Laici, Hind and Panther, etc.; in drama, some thirty plays; in translation, his Virgil; and in lyric poetry, his magnificent Ode for St. Cecilia's Day. D. had great genius, not always worthily employed. His dramas, when not stilted, are licentious, and as a satirist he is bitter, personal, and coarse. _See Masson's Essays, and Lowell's Among My Books; also, Dryden, by Saintsbury, in Eng. Men of Letters._ _Pub. Hou. Har. Rou._
=Dugdale, Sir Wm.= 1605-1685. Antiquary. Author Antiquities of Warwickshire, and other valuable antiquarian works.
=Dunbar, Wm.= 1465-1530. Scotch poet. D. wrote The Thistle and Rose, The Golden Terge, etc. His witty, striking, and original genius is closely akin to that of Burns. _See Ward's Eng. Poets, vol. 1._
=D'Urfey, Thos.= 1650-1723. Dramatist. Witty, but coarse and immoral.
=Dutt, Toru.= 1856-1877. Hindu poetess. A writer of much genius. Ballads of Hindustan, and Sheafs Gleaned from French Fields, a vol. of fine Eng. translations, are her chief works. _See Lit. World, June 17, 1882._
=Dyce, Alexander.= 1798-1869. Scotch Shakespearean scholar of note. _See his edition of Shakespeare, with Glossary, 1867._
=Dyer, George.= 1755-1841. Author Hist. University of Cambridge, etc.
=Dyer, John.= 1698-1758. Welsh poet. Author Grongar Hill, The Fleece, and Ruins of Rome. His verse is natural and unaffected. _See Ward's Eng. Poets, vol. 3._
=Dyer, Thos. Henry.= 180 Historian. Author Hist. Modern Europe, Ancient Athens, Hist. Kings of Rome, Hist. City of Rome, and Life of Calvin. _Pub. Lit._
=Eadmer [[)e]d'mer].= ---- 1124. Bp. St. Andrews. Wrote a Latin Hist. of his Own Time.
=Earle, John.= 1601-1655. Bp. Worcester. The reputed author of the Micosmography, a remarkable vol. of studies of character.
=Eastlake, Sir Chas.= 1793-1865. Artist. Author Hist. Gothic Revival, Materials for a Hist. Oil Painting, etc. _See Lady Eastlake's Biography of, 1870._
=Eden [[=e]'den], Sir Fred'k Morton.= 1766-1809. Author of a valuable Hist. of the Laboring Classes of England, etc.
=Edgeworth, Maria.= 1767-1849. Novelist. Author Rosamond, Castle Rackrent, Belinda, Helen, etc. Style didactic, but entertaining. Her juvenile tales are numerous and popular. _See Study of Miss Edgeworth, by Mrs. Oliver, 1882._ _Pub. Har. Lip. Rou._
=Edwards, Amelia Blandford.= 183 Novelist and Egyptologist. Author Barbara's History, Lord Brackenbury, etc. A writer of much talent, whose rank among Eng. novelists is a high one. _See Lit. World, June 4, 1881._ _Pub. Har. Por. Rou._
=Edwards, Mrs. Annie.= 18-- ----. Novelist. Susan Fielding, Ought We to Visit Her? and Archie Lovell are among the best of her excellent novels. _Pub. Sh._
=Edwards, Matilda Betham.= 183 Novelist. Cousin to A. B. E. Author Doctor Jacob, Kitty, etc. Style clear and picturesque. _Pub. Har. Lip. Rob._
=Edwards, Richard.= 1523-1566. Poet. Principal author of the famous poetical collection of his day, The Paradise of Dainty Devices.
=Eliot, George.= See Evans, Marian.
=Ellicott, Chas. John.= 181 Bp. Gloucester and Bristol. Theologian. Author The New Testament Commentary, Historical Lect. on the Life of Christ, etc. _Pub. Arm. Dra. Dut._
=Elliott, Ebenezer.= 1781-1849. Poet. Known as the Corn-Law Rhymer. His verse is earnest and ardent, and shows much feeling. _See Life of, by Searle._ _See Eng. edition, 1876._
=Ellis, George.= 1745-1815. Antiquarian of note. Best known by his valuable work, Specimens of Early Eng. Poets.
=Ellis, Sir Henry.= 1777-1869. Antiquarian writer.
=Ellis, Mrs. Sarah [Stickney].= 1812-1872. Author Women of England, Daughters of England, Wives of England, Mothers of England, etc.
=Ellwood, Thos.= 1639-1713. Poet. Author of a dull poem entitled The Davideis.
=Elphinstone [[)e]l'fin-st[o^]n], James.= 1721-1809. Scotch grammarian.
=Elphinstone, Mountstuart.= 1779-1859. Historical writer. Author Hist. of India, etc.
=Elyot [[)e]l'[)i]-[o^]t], Sir Thos.= c. 1495-1546. Moralist. Author Defence of Good Women, etc.
=Emerson-Tennent, Sir James.= 1804-1869. Historical writer.
=Erskine, Thos.= 1750-1823. Jurist. _See Select Speeches, with Memoir by Walford, 2 vols., 8vo, London, 1870._
=Etheridge, Sir George.= 1636-1694. Comic dramatist. Author of The Comical Revenge, She Would if She Could, etc. Style sprightly and witty. _See Living Age, Apr. 30, 1881._
=Evans, Marian=, "George Eliot." 1820-1880. Novelist and poet. A complete list of her works comprises translations of Strauss's Life of Jesus and Feuerbach's Essence of Christianity; the novels, Scenes of Clerical Life, Adam Bede, Mill on the Floss, Silas Marner, Romola, Felix Holt, Middlemarch, and Daniel Deronda; the long poems, Spanish Gypsy, Agatha, Legend of Jubal, and How Lisa Loved the King, with a few short ones; and a vol. of essays, entitled Impressions of Theophrastus Such. The strength of her novels lies in their wonderful delineations of character, their subtle analysis of motive as acted on by circumstance, and the lofty wisdom that infuses the whole. They awaken the best impulses of humanity, and appeal to all the finer sympathies. Her style is strongly marked, often picturesque, and her descriptions clear and distinct. Her poems, though containing many beautiful passages, do not, with one or two exceptions, take a high rank. The best one is probably the famous O May I Join the Choir Invisible. _See George Eliot, by Mathilde Blind; Hutton's Essays; Cent. Mag., Nov., 1881; Eclectic Mag., April, 1881; Lit. World, Feb. 24, 1883; and Galaxy Mag., June, 1869._
=Evelyn, John.= 1620-1706. Agricultural writer. Author of Sylva Terra and a famous Diary, which accurately reflects the manners of his time. _See Diary and Letters of, edited by John Forster, 1857._ _See London edition, 1875._
=Faber Frederick William.= 1815-1863. Religious poet. Author of a number of beautiful and popular Hymns. _Pub. Dut. Mur. Wh. Rou._
=Faber, George Stanley.= 1773-1854. Theologian. Author of The Sacred Calendar of Prophecy, etc. Style clear and exact.
=Fabyan, Robert,= c. 1456-1512. Chronicler. Wrote a Concordance of Histories, which begins with Brutus and ends with his own time.
=Fairfax, Edward.= ---- 1632. Poet. Author of a fine translation of Tasso. _See Am. edition, 1855, 12mo._
=Falconer [fawk'ner], Wm.= 1730-1769. Scotch poet. Author of The Shipwreck, a poem of considerable beauty, and a Marine Dict. _See Campbell's Specimens of the Eng. Poets._ _Pub. Hou._
=Fanshawe, Sir Richard.= 1608-1666. Poet. Translator of Camoens's Lusiad, and author of some graceful poems.
=Faraday, Michael.= 1791-1867. Chemist. Author of numerous scientific works, The Chemistry of a Candle, Physical Forces, etc. _See Life and Letters of, 1870, by J. Bruce Jones, Tyndall's Faraday as a Discoverer, and Life, by J. H. Gladstone._ _Pub. Har. Rou._
=Farjeon, Benjamin Leopold.= 183 Novelist. Joshua Marvel, Grif, Blade-o'-Grass, London's Heart, and Bells of Penraven are among his best works. Style akin to that of Dickens. _Pub. Har._
=Farmer, Richard.= 1735-1797. Shakespearean scholar. Author Essay on the Learning of Shakespeare.
=Farquhar [far'kwar or far'kaer], George.= 1678-1707. Irish dramatist. A writer of brilliant, sparkling comedies, full of good feeling. The Beaux' Stratagem and The Recruiting Officer are the best. _See his comedies edited by Leigh Hunt._ _See Atlantic Monthly, March, 1882._
=Farrar, Frederic Wm.= 183 Theologian. Author Life of Christ, Eternal Hope, Life and Epistles of St. Paul, Seekers after God, etc. Of several stories by him, St. Winifred's is perhaps the best. _Pub. Cas. Dut. Fu. Lip. Mac._
=Fawcett, Henry.= 183 Writer on Political Economy. Author Free Trade and Protection, Pauperism--its Causes and Remedies, Manual of Political Economy, etc. _Pub. Mac._
=Fawcett, Millicent Garrett.= 184 Wife to H. F. Author Tales in Political Economy, Political Economy for Beginners, etc. _Pub. Mac._
=Feltham, Owen.= c. 1608-1677. Essayist. Author Divine and Moral Resolves. Style pointed and sententious.
=Fenton, Elijah.= 1683-1730. Poet. Assisted Pope in translating the Odyssey. His original verse is not unmusical.
=Ferguson, Adam.= 1724-1816. Scotch historian and philosopher. Author Hist. of Civil Society, Hist. Progress and Termination of Roman Empire, etc. Style clear and scholarly.
=Ferguson, James.= 1710-1776. Scotch philosophical and mathematical writer.
=Fergusson, James.= 180 Scotch architectural writer of note. Author Hist. of Architecture. _Pub. Lit._
=Fergusson, Robert.= 1750-1774. Scotch poet. Author of The Farmer's Ingle, etc. _See Ward's Eng. Poets, vol. 3._
=Ferrar, Nicholas.= 1592-1637. Religious writer. _See Atlantic Monthly, Aug. 1871._
=Ferrier, James.= 1808-1864. Scotch metaphysician. His Institutes of Metaphysics is a work of much learning and acuteness.
=Ferrier, Susan Edmonstone.= 1782-1854. Scotch novelist. Aunt to J. F. Author of Marriage, The Inheritance, and Destiny. Her works show much humor and are piquant in style. _See Eng. edition 1841._ _See Temple Bar, Nov., 1878, and London Lit. World, March 31, 1882._ _Pub. Har. Rou._
=Fielding, Henry.= 1707-1754. Novelist. With Richardson he founded a new school of fiction, distinguished by a careful study of character and a more truthful drawing of human nature than what had preceded. Joseph Andrews, Amelia, and Tom Jones, though stamped with the coarseness of his age, will continue to be read for their originality, wit, and acute reflections. _See Thackeray's Eng. Humorists, Masson's Novelists and their Styles, and Dobson's Fielding in Eng. Men of Letters._ _Pub. Har. Lit. Rou._
=Finlay, George.= 1800-1875. Scotch historian. Author Hist. Greece under the Romans, Hist. Byzantine and Greek Empires, Hist. Greece under Ottoman and Venetian Dominion, and Hist. of the Greek Revolution. A standard authority. _Pub. Mac._
=Fisher, Edward.= 1620-1660. Welsh theologian. Author of a noted controversial work called The Marrow of Modern Divinity.
=Fitzgerald, Edward.= 1808-1883. Translator of note. Author of scholarly translations of Omar Khayyam, Calderon, and AEschylus.
=Fitzgerald, Percy.= 183 Novelist and litterateur. Author Romance of the English Stage, etc.
=Fitzgerald, Wm.= 181 Bp. Killaloe. Theologian. Author Holy Scripture, The Ultimate Rule of Faith, Life of Butler, etc.
=Flamsteed, John.= 1646-1719. Astronomical writer.
=Fletcher, Sir Andrew= [of Saltoun]. 1663-1716. Political writer. _See Erskine's Life of, 1792._
=Fletcher, Giles.= 1588-1623. Poet. Bro. to P. F. and cousin to J. F. Author Christ's Victory and Triumph, a long poem in 8-line stanzas. _See Works edited by Grosart, 1876._ _See Ward's Eng. Poets, vol. 2._
=Fletcher, John.= 1576-1625. Dramatist. Colleague of Beaumont. Among plays attributed solely to F. are Rule a Wife and Have a Wife, Beggar's Bush, and the exquisite pastoral drama The Faithful Shepherdess. He wrote, also, portions of Shakespeare's Two Noble Kinsmen and Henry VIII., perhaps his finest effort being the famous Wolsey Soliloquy in the latter. See Beaumont, F. _See Dyce's edition, 1843._ _See Lamb's Specimens of the Dramatic Poets, Schlegel's Dramatic Lit., and Ward's Eng. Poets, vol. 2._
=Fletcher, Mrs. Maria Jane.= [Jewsbury.] 1800-1833. Poet.
=Fletcher, Phineas.= 1584-1650. Poet. Bro. to G. F. and cousin to J. F. F. wrote a long and curious allegorical and anatomical poem, The Purple Island. The subject, fantastically and minutely treated, is the human body. _See Southey's Early Eng. Poets._
=Florio, John.= 1545-1625. Grammarian.
=Fonblanque [f[)o]n-bl[)a]nk'], Albany.= 1797-1872. Journalist. Author England under Seven Administrations. _See Life and Labors of, 1874._
=Foote, Samuel.= 1721-1777. Comic dramatist. The Liar and one or two other farces of his still keep the stage. _See Fosters Essays and Life by Coke, 1805._
=Forbes, Alexander Penrose.= 1817-1875. Bp. Brechin. Theologian. Author Explanation of the Thirty-Nine Articles, etc. _See Memoir, 1876._ _Pub. Dut._
=Forbes, Archibald.= 183 Scotch journalist. Author Soldiering and Scribbling, Glimpses through the Cannon Smoke, etc. _Pub. Osg. Rou._
=Forbes, James David.= 1809-1868. Scientist. Author Theory of Glaciers, etc. _See Life and Letters of by John C. Shairp, 1873._
=Ford, John.= 1586-1639. Dramatist. His plays all deal with unhappy love, but are powerful though morbid. The Broken Heart, his best work, is a masterpiece of pathos. His style possesses great beauty. _See Moxon's edition Old Eng. Dramatists, and Swinburne's Essays and Studies._
=Forrester, Mrs.= 18-- ----. Novelist. Author Dolores, Diana Carew, Mignon, etc. _Pub. Lip._
=Forster, John.= 1812-1876. Essayist and biographer. Author lives of Dickens, Goldsmith, Landor, Swift, Statesmen of the Commonwealth of Eng., etc. _Pub. Apl. Har. Lip._
=Fortescue, Sir John.= c. 1395-1485. Legal writer. De Laudibus Legum Angliae.
=Foster, John.= 1770-1843. Essayist. His style has both vigor and beauty. _Pub. Ca._
=Fothergill, Jessie.= 18-- ----. Novelist. Author The First Violin, Kith and Kin, One of Three, etc. _Pub. Ho._
=Fox, Chas. James.= 1749-1806. Orator and historian. _See edition of his Speeches, 6 vols., London, 1815, and Life, by Geo. O. Trevelyan._
=Fox, George.= 1624-1690. Theological writer. Founder of the Society of Friends. _See Life, by S. M. Janney._
=Fox, John.= 1517-1587. Martyrologist. Author of the famous Book of Martyrs. _Pub. Cas. Clx._
=Francillon, R. E.= 184 Novelist. Author Under Slieve Ban, Rare Good Luck, Queen Cophetua, etc. _Pub. Apl. Ho._
=Francis, Sir Philip.= 1740-1818. Political writer. Supposed author of the famous Junius Letters, a series of powerful political tracts. _See Junius, Johnson's Cyc._ _Pub. Rou._
=Fraser, James Baillie.= 1783-1856. Novelist and traveller. Author of The Kuzzilbash, Hist. Persia, etc. _See Chambers Cyc. Eng. Lit., vol. 2._