Part 4

=Freeman, Edward Augustus.= 182 Historian. Author Hist. Norman Conquest, Wm. Rufus and Henry First, Hist. Architecture, Unity of Hist., etc. An eminently thorough, accurate writer, whose Norman Conquest is one of the most important of English histories. Style animated and scholarly. _Pub. Ho. Mac._

=Fremantle, Wm. Henry.= 183 Theologian. Author The Gospel of the Secular Life, Bampton Lect. 1883, etc. _Pub. Scr._

=Freer, Martha Walker.= 182 Historian. Author Life of Marguerite of Navarre, Life of Henry III. of France, etc.

=Frere [freer], John Hookham.= 1769-1846. Poet. A writer of merit in translation and in original verse. _See Eng. edition of, 2 vols., London, 1872._

=Friswell, James Hain.= 1827-1878. Essayist. Author Familiar Words, The Gentle Life, Francis Spira and other Poems, etc. _Pub. Por._

=Froude [frood], James Anthony.= 181 Historian and essayist. Author Hist. of England, The English in Ireland, Short Studies on Great Subjects, The Nemesis of Faith, etc. His historical portraits are brilliant and his historical grouping dramatic, but his judgments of men and motives are open to criticism. All his works show great labor and research. _Pub. Har. Scr._

=Froude, Richard Hurrel.= 1803-1836. Bro. to J. A. F. Religious writer. _See Remains of, 4 vols., London, 1838._

=Fuller, Thomas.= 1608-1661. Historian and biographer. Author Ch. Hist., Hist. of Worthies of England, Sermons, Holy State, etc. A quaint, humorous, original writer of great eminence in his own day and still read with pleasure. _See Life, by Russell, 1844._ _Pub. Dut. Mac._

=Fullerton, Lady Georgiana.= 181 Novelist. Grantley Manor, Constance Sherwood, Too Strange Not to be True, and Lady Bird, are some of her works. _Pub. Apl. Cath. Pi._

=Furnivall, Fred'k James.= 182 Shakespearean scholar. Editor of the Leopold Shakespeare.

=Fyffe, Chas. Alan.= 184 Historian. Author Modern Europe, Hist. Greece in Appleton's Hist. Primers, etc. _Pub. Apl. Ho._

=Gale, Theophilus.= 1628-1678. Theologian. Author of The Court of the Gentiles.

=Galt, John.= 1779-1839. Scotch novelist. Author Annals of a Parish, Ayrshire Legatees, Life Lord Byron, etc. A prolific writer who has carefully drawn Scotch provincial and peasant life. _See Autobiography, 1834._ _Pub. Har._

=Gardiner, Sam'l Rawson.= 182 Historian. Author of The 30 Years' War, 1618-1648. Eng. Hist. for Students, etc. _Pub. Ho._

=Garrett, Edward.= See Mayo, Mrs. Isabella.

=Garrick, David.= 1716-1779. Dramatist. Author Lying Valet, Miss In her Teens, etc. _See Life, by Percy Fitzgerald, 1872._

=Garth, Samuel.= 1672-1719. Poet and physician. His mock epic, The Dispensary, is a feeble work. _See Ward's English Poets, vol. 3._

=Gascoigne, Mrs. Caroline Leigh.= 181 Novelist and poet. Author Doctor Harold, etc.

=Gascoigne, George.= 1530-1577. Poet. The Steel Glass his chief work. _See Ward's Eng. Poets, vol. 1._

=Gaskell, Mrs. Elizabeth Cleghorn.= 1810-1865. Novelist and biographer. Author of Ruth, Sylvia's Lovers, Wives and Daughters, Mary Barton, etc. Her books are earnest and well written; Cranford, in fact, is almost a classic work, and her Life of Charlotte Bronte is a much-admired biography. _See Lit. World, July 1, 1882._ _Pub. Apl. Har._

=Gast, John.= 1715-1788. Irish historian.

=Gatty, Alfred.= 181 Author The Vicar and His Duties, Study of In Memoriam, etc.

=Gatty, Mrs. Margaret.= 1809-1873. Wife to A. G. Author Parables from Nature, The Fairy Godmother, Proverbs Illustrated, Aunt Judy's Tales, etc. _Pub. Ca. Put._

=Gauden, John.= 1605-1664. Bp. Worcester. His Ik[=o]n Basilik[=e] professed to be the work of Charles I., of whose sufferings it was an account, and its true authorship has occasioned much controversy.

=Gay, John.= 1688-1732. Poet and dramatist. G. wrote The Beggar's Opera, a famous musical drama, and numerous other works. _See edition of his Poems, London, 1806._ _See Ward's Eng. Poets, vol. 3, and Gay's Fables edited by Austin Dobson._ _Pub. Apl._

=Gell [j[)e]l], Sir Wm.= 1777-1836. Archaeologist. Author Topography of Rome, etc.

=Geoffrey [j[)e]f'r[)i]] of Dunstable.= ---- 1146. Author of a miracle play of St. Catherine [1110], usually considered the first dramatic work in any modern language.

=Geoffrey of Monmouth.= c. 1100-1154. Bp. St. Asaph, Anglo-Saxon Chronicler.

=Gibbon, Edward.= 1737-1794. Historian. Author of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire; a masterly work, artistically conceived and carried out, with great research and careful detail. See Milman's edition, 1845. _See Autobiography edited by Milman, 1839._ _Pub. Har. Por._

=Gifford, Wm.= 1757-1826. Critic and reviewer. G. wrote the Baviad and Maeviad, two sharp literary satires, and as editor of the Quarterly Review was author of many bitter, satirical reviews. _See Hazlitt's Spirit of the Age._

=Gilbert, Wm.= 1540-1603. Philosophical writer. Author De Magnete.

=Gilbert, Wm.= 18-- ----. Novelist. Author De Profundis, etc.

=Gilbert, Wm. Schevenck.= 183 Dramatist and humorous poet; son to preceding. Author of The Bab Ballads, Original Plays, and of the librettos of Pinafore, Pirates of Penzance, The Sorcerer, Patience, Iolanthe, etc. _See Scribner's Mag., Sept. 1879._ _Pub. Por. Rou. Scr._

=Gilchrist, Alexander.= 1827-1861. Biographer and art writer. Author lives of Blake and Etty.

=Gildas.= fl. c. 510. Anglo-Latin Chronicler. _See Stevenson's edition, London, 1838._

=Gilfillan, George.= 1813-1878. Scotch miscellaneous writer. Author Gallery of Literary Portraits, Life of Walter Scott, Bards of the Bible, etc. _Pub. Har._

=Gilfillan, Robert.= c. 1798-1850. Scotch poet.

=Gillies, John.= 1747-1836. Scotch historian. Author Hist. Ancient Greece, etc.

=Gilpin, John.= 1724-1804. Critic and biographer. Author Life of Bernard Gilpin, etc.

=Giraldus, Cambrensis.= 1147-1216. Welsh historian and poet.

=Girdlestone, Chas.= 1797-1881. Religious writer. Author Concordance to the Prayer-Book, etc.

=Gladstone, Wm. Ewart.= 180 Statesman and essayist. Author of Juventus Mundi, Homeric Studies, The Vatican Decrees, etc. Style polished and able. _See Sketch of, by H. W. Lucy, Short Life of, by C. H. Jones, and Life, by Geo. Barnett Smith._ _Also Harper's Mag., April, 1882._ _Pub. Apl. Har. Scr._

=Gloucester [gl[)o]s-ter], Robert of.= fl. c. 1280. Rhyming chronicler.

=Glover, Richard.= 1712-1785. Poet. Author of Leonidas, an epic, Hosier's Ghost, etc. _See Ward's Eng. Poets, vol. 3._

=Godwin, Mrs. Mary Wollstonecraft.= 1759-1797. Wife to W. G. Author Vindication of the Rights of Women, etc. Style bold and able. _See Atlantic Monthly, Dec. 1880._

=Godwin, Wm.= 1756-1836. Philosopher and novelist. Author Caleb Williams, St. Leon, Cloudesly, Answer to Malthus, Political Justice, etc. _See Life, by Kegan Paul, 1876, and Leslie Stephen's Hours in a Library._ _Pub. Har._

=Goldsmith, Oliver.= 1728-1774. Irish poet and novelist. A writer of great delicacy and purity of sentiment, possessing a simple, delightful style. His poems, The Deserted Village and The Traveller, are charming pieces of description; his comedies, The Good-Natured Man and She Stoops to Conquer, are bright and sparkling, the latter being perennially fresh; and his novel, The Vicar of Wakefield, is an Eng. classic. _See Lives, by Prior, Forster, W. Irving, and Goldsmith by Wm. Black in Eng. Men of Letters._ _See Select Poems of, edited by W.J. Rolfe._ _Pub. Clx. Har._

=Good, John Mason.= 1764-1827. Physician and miscellaneous writer. Author Study of Medicine, The Book of Nature, Medical Technology, etc. _Pub. Har._

=Gordon, George, Lord Byron.= 1788-1824. Childe Harold, Prisoner of Chillon, and Don Juan are his finest poems. A writer of great power and strong personality, whose talent was warped by license and self-will. Don Juan, his most brilliant poem, sins deeply against morality. Manfred, The Giaour, and Lara are striking poems. _See Lives by Galt, Moore, E. Brydges, Lake, and Elze; also, Byron, by Nichols, in Eng. Men of Letters, and the Real Lord Byron by J. C. Jeaffreson._ _See Quarterly Rev., July, 1868, and prefaces to respective editions by Wm. Rossetti and A. C. Swinburne._

=Gore, Mrs. Catherine Grace.= 1799-1861. Novelist. A prolific writer of society tales. Author of The Cabinet Minister, The Royal Favorite, etc. _Pub. Har._

=Gosse, Edmund W.= 184 Poet and critic. Son to P. H. G. Author of Viol and Flute, King Erik, New Poems, Grey in Eng. Men of Letters, etc. A lyrist of much merit. _See Harper's Mag. May, 1882, "Some London Poets."_ _Pub. Har. Ho._

=Gosse, Philip Henry.= 181 Zoologist. Author Romance of Natural Hist., Marine Zoology, Evenings with the Microscope, etc. _Pub. Apl. A. T. S. Lip._

=Goulbourn, Edward Meyrick.= 181 Religious writer. Author Thoughts on Personal Religion, The Holy Catholic Ch., Pursuit of Holiness, etc. _Pub. Apl._

=Gould, Baring.= See Baring-Gould.

=Gower, John.= 1350-1402. Poet. G. wrote the Speculum Meditantis, in French, Vox Clamantis, in Latin, and Confessio Amantis in Eng. _See edition, 3 vols. 8vo, London, 1857._ _See Ward's Eng. Poets, vol. 1; also Rolfe's edition of Pericles._

=Graeme [gr[=a]m], John.= 1748-1772. Scotch poet.

=Graham, Ennis.= See Molesworth, Mrs.

=Grahame, James.= 1765-1811. Scotch poet. Author of The Sabbath, etc.

=Grahame, James, Marquis of Montrose.= 1612-1650. Lyric poet. Author of the famous lyric My Dear and Only Love. _See Biographies by Napier, 1856, and Grant, 1858._

=Grahame, James.= 1790-1842. Scotch historian. Author Hist. U. S., etc. Style dignified and impartial.

=Granger, James.= 1716-1766. Historian. Author Biographical Hist. of England.

=Grant, Mrs. Anne= [of Laggan]. 1755-1838. Scotch poet and miscellaneous writer. Author Memoirs of an American Lady [1808], etc. _See Memoirs and Correspondence of, 3 vols., 1844._ _Pub. Mu._

=Grant, James.= 180 Journalist. Author of The Bench and the Bar, Sketches in London, etc.

=Grant, James.= 182 Scotch novelist. Author Hist. of India, and a long list of novels which do not take a very high rank. _Pub. Cas. Rou._

=Grattan, Thos. Colley.= 1796-1864. Irish novelist and poet. Author Highways and Byways, Hist. of the Netherlands, etc. _Pub. Har._

=Gray, David.= 1831-1861. Scotch poet. Author of The Luggie, etc. _See H. G. Bell's edition, 1874._ _See R. Buchanan's David Gray and Other Essays, 1868._

=Gray, Thomas.= 1716-1771. Poet. Author of The Bard, Progress of Poesy, Elegy in a Country Churchyard, etc. A writer of much refinement of expression and quiet sentiment. The calm beauty of the Elegy has made it one of the most popular of Eng. poems. _See Gray, by E. W. Gosse, in Eng. Men of Letters, Mason's Biog., 1778, and Selected Poems of, edited by W. J. Rolfe._

=Green, John Richard.= 1837-1883. Historian. Author Short Hist. of the Eng. People, The Making of England, Stray Studies, Hist. of the Eng. People, etc. A picturesque, accurate writer, with great originality and clearness of style. _See N. Y. Nation, March 29, 1883, Contemporary Rev., May, 1883, Journal of Education, June, 1883, British Quarterly Rev., July, 1883, and Fortnightly Rev., May, 1883._ _Pub. Apl. Har. Mac._

=Green, Matthew.= 1696-1737. Poet. The author of a curious reflective poem called The Spleen. _See Ward's Eng. Poets, vol. 3._

=Greene, Robert.= 1560-1592. Dramatist. A prolific writer of humorous plays, but now best known by his confession entitled Greene's Groat's Worth of Wit bought with a Million of Repentance. _See Ward's Eng. Poets, vol. 1._

=Greenwell, Dora.= 1821-1882. Poet and miscellaneous writer. Author Stories That Might be True, The Patience of Hope, John Woolman, Camera Obscura, A Present Heaven, etc. _Pub. Dut._

=Greg, Wm. Rathbone.= 1812-1881. Essayist. Author of Rocks Ahead, Enigmas of Life, Literary and Social Judgments, Creed of Christendom, etc., works of a thoughtful, pessimistic cast. _See Macmillan's Mag., June, 1883._ _Pub. Ho._

=Grenville, George, Lord Nugent.= 1788-1850. Author Memorials of Hampden, Lands Classical and Lay, etc.

=Greville, Sir Fulke, Lord Brooke.= 1554-1628. Poet and philosopher. Author Life of Sydney, etc. _See Grosart's edition of, 1870._ _See Ward's Eng. Poets, vol. 1._

=Griffin, Gerald.= 1803-1840. Irish poet and novelist. Author of The Collegians, etc. _See complete Eng. edition by Griffin, 1857._ _Pub. Rou. Sad._

=Grindon, Leopold Hartley.= 181 Author Life--its Nature, Varieties, and Phenomena, The Shakespeare Flora, etc. _Pub. Lip._

=Grosseteste [gr[=o]s-test], Robert.= c. 1175-1253. Bp. London. Anglo-Norman poet.

=Grote, George.= 1794-1871. Historian. Best known by his Hist. of Greece, a standard work. _See Life, by Mrs. Grote, 1873._ _Pub. Har. Lit._

=Grove, George.= 182 Musical critic. Author Dict. of Music and Musicians, etc. _Pub. Mac._

=Guest, Lady Charlotte.= See Schreiber, Lady Charlotte.

=Gunter, Edmund.= 1581-1626. Mathematical writer. Inventor of the terms co-sine, co-tangent, etc. The phrase "according to Gunter" arose from his scale of measurement being the standard one.

=Gurney, Joseph John.= 1788-1847. Philanthropist. Author Notes on Prison Discipline, and numerous religious works. _Pub. Lip._

=Guthrie [g[)u]th'r[)i]], Thomas.= 1803-1873. Scotch philanthropist. Author Plea for Ragged Schools, Man and the Gospel, Out of Harness, etc. _See Life, 1873._ _Pub. Ca._

=Guthrie, Wm.= 1708-1770. Scotch historian. Author Hist. of England, Hist. of Scotland, etc. His works have been entirely superseded by later authorities.

=Habington, Wm.= 1605-1654. Poet. An ingenious writer of love poems. _See Eng. edition by Arber, 1870._ _See Ward's Eng. Poets, vol. 2._

=Hailes, Lord.= See Dalrymple, Sir D.

=Hakluyt [h[)a]k'loot], Richard.= 1553-1616. Chronicler and geographer. Hakluyt's Voyages is an important collection of narratives of earlier or contemporary voyages. _See edition of, 5 vols. 4to, London, 1809-12._

=Hale, Sir Matthew.= 1609-1676. Moral and religious writer. _See Life by Burnet in Wordsworth's Ecclesiastical Biog._

=Hales, John.= 1584-1656. Polemical writer. Styled "The Ever Memorable." Chiefly noted for his Golden Remains. _See Life by Des Maizeaux._

=Hales, Stephen.= 1677-1761. One of the earliest writers on vegetable physiology.

=Hales, Wm.= 1769-1831. Irish theologian.

=Haliburton, Thos. Chandler.= 1805-1865. Nova Scotian humorist. Author Sam Slick, etc. _Pub. Di. Har. Hou. Rou._

=Halifax, Earl of.= See Montagu, Chas.

=Halifax, Marquess.= See Saville, George.

=Hall, Mrs. Anna Maria.= 1805-1881. Wife to S. C. H. Irish novelist and miscellaneous writer. Author Sketches of Irish Character, The Outlaw, The Whiteboy, etc. _Pub. Har._

=Hall, Basil.= 1798-1844. Scotch writer of travels.

=Hall, Edward.= ---- 1547. Chronicler. A minute and valuable writer.

=Hall, Joseph.= 1547-1676. Bp. Norwich. Theologian and satirist. Sometimes styled the founder of Eng. satire. A vivacious and excellent writer. _See edition 1837. See Hannay's Satire and Satirists, and Ward's Eng. Poets, vol. 1._

=Hall, Newman,= 181 Congregationalist religious writer. Author Come to Jesus, The Forum and the Vatican, etc. _Pub. Phi. Sh._

=Hall, Robert.= 1764-1831. Baptist religious writer. Author Sermons on Modern Infidelity, Reflections on War, etc. Style scholarly, eloquent, and refined. _See Works of, with Memoir, by O. Gregory, 6 vols., London; also, Biog. by J. W. Morris, 1846, and Life by Paxton Hood._

=Hall, Samuel Carter.= 180 Miscellaneous writer. Author The Stately Homes of England, Book of Memories, Retrospect of a Long Life, etc. _Pub. Apl._

=Hallam, Arthur Henry.= 1811-1833. Poet and essayist. Son to H. H. A young writer whose loss inspired Tennyson's In Memoriam. _See Remains, with Life, by his father, 1834; Remains in Verse and Prose, 1862. See Life, by Dr. John Brown; also, Atlantic Monthly, Dec. 1860._

=Hallam, Henry.= 1777-1859. Historian and critic. Author Hist. Middle Ages, Constitutional Hist. England, Lit. of Europe, etc. An impartial writer whose works are of great value, but whose style lacks animation and freshness. _See H. Martineau's Biographical Sketches._ _Pub. Arm. Har. Lit._

=Halliwell-Phillips, James Orchard.= 182 Shakespearean scholar. Editor of Shakespeare, 16 vols. folio, 1865. Author Dict. Archaic Words, Life of Shakespeare, Last Days of Shakespeare, etc.

=Hamerton [h[)a]m'er-ton], Philip Gilbert.= 183 Art Critic. Author Thoughts on Art, A Painter's Camp, The Unknown River, The Intellectual Life, etc. A writer of authority in his department. Style graceful and refined. _Pub. Mac. Rob._

=Hamilton, Mrs. Elizabeth.= 1758-1816. Scotch writer. Best known by her Letters of a Hindoo Rajah and The Cottagers of Glenburnie. _See Chambers' Cyc. Eng. Lit._

=Hamilton, Sir Wm.= 1788-1856. Scotch metaphysician. Author Discussions on Philosophy, etc. His clear, dignified style is much admired. _Pub. Apl._

=Hannay, James.= 1827-1873. Novelist and miscellaneous writer. Author Singleton Fontenoy, Studies on Thackeray, etc. _Pub. Har. Rou._

=Hardy, Thomas.= 184 Novelist. Author Far From the Madding Crowd, The Return of the Native, A Pair of Blue Eyes, Two on a Tower, etc. A novelist of high rank. His character-drawing is sharp and incisive, his studies of peasant life truthful and sympathetic, and his descriptive passages masterly. _Pub. Ho._

=Hare, Augustus Julius Charles.= 183 Neph. to J. C. H. and A. W. H. Author Walks in London, Walks in Rome, Days Near Rome, Memorials of a Quiet Life, etc. _Pub. Por. Ran. Rou._

=Hare, Augustus Wm.= 1793-1834. Author Alton Sermons, etc. _Pub. Ran. Rou._

=Hare, Francis.= 1688-1740. Bp. Chichester. Controversial writer.

=Hare, Julius Chas.= 1796-1855. Bro. to A. W. H., and with him author of Guesses at Truth. Author Life of Sterling, Victory of Faith, etc. _Pub. Dut. Mac._

=Harrington, James.= 1611-1677. Political philosopher. Author of The Oceana.

=Harrington, John.= 1534-1582. Poet. _See Hannah's Courtly Poets._

=Harrington, Sir John.= 1561-1612. Poet. Son to preceding. First English translator of Ariosto.

=Harrison, Frederic.= 183 Positivist and philosopher. Author Order and Progress, The Meaning of History, etc., and translator of Comte's Social Statics.

=Hartley, David.= 1705-1757. Philosopher. Observations on Man his chief work.

=Harvey, Gabriel.= 1545-1637. Poet. One of the first to write English hexameter.

=Harvey, Wm.= 1578-1657. Physician. Discoverer of the circulation of the blood. _See Works of, edited by the Sydenham Society, London, 1847._

=Havergal, Frances Ridley.= 1836-1879. Author of much devotional verse. _Pub. Dut. Ran._

=Haweis [hoys], Hugh Reginald.= 183 Religious and miscellaneous writer. Author Thoughts for the Times, Speech in Season, Current Coin, Arrows in the Air, Poets in the Pulpit, Unsectarian Family Prayer, Music and Morals, Pet, or Pastimes and Penalties, Ashes to Ashes, and My Musical Life. _Pub. Har. Ho._

=Haweis, Mrs. Mary Eliza [Joy].= 185 Wife to H. R. H. Author Chaucer for Children, Chaucer for Schools, Chaucer's Beads, The Art of Beauty, The Art of Dress, The Art of Decoration, and Beautiful Houses. The illustrations and cover designs of her own and her husband's works are by Mrs. Haweis. _Pub. Har._

=Hay, Mary Cecil.= 184 Novelist. Author of Old Myddleton's Money, The Arundel Motto, The Squire's Legacy, etc. _Pub. Har._

=Hayley, Wm.= 1745-1820. Poet. Of mediocre ability, but once very popular. Author Life Wm. Cowper, etc. _See Autobiography, 1823._

=Hayward, Mrs. Eliza.= 1693-1756. Author of The New Utopia, The Female Spectator, etc. A voluminous writer of miscellaneous works of slight merit.

=Hazlitt, Wm.= 1778-1830. Critical essayist. Author Table-Talk, Lect. on Shakespeare, Lect. on the Eng. Poets, etc. His criticisms on art and the drama are of high order. His style is picturesque and his imagination rich, but his works are sometimes deficient in moderation and judgment. _See Life of, by his grandson, 1867._ _Pub. Lip._

=Hazlitt, Wm. Carew.= 184 Grandson to W. H. Litterateur. Author Hist. Venetian Republic, Memoirs Wm. Hazlitt, Handbook to Early Eng. Lit. etc.

=Head, Sir Francis Bond.= 1793-1875. Miscellaneous writer. Among his numerous works Bubbles from the Brunnen of Nassau is one of the best known. _Pub. Har._

=Heber, Reginald.= 1783-1826. Poet. Bp. Calcutta. A talented writer, best known by his hymns, viz.: The Missionary Hymn, Holy, Holy, Holy, and Epiphany. _See Life, by Mrs. Heber, 1830._ _Last Days of Heber, by Robinson, and Memoirs by Potter and Taylor._

=Hector, Mrs. Annie Alexander. "Mrs. Alexander."= 182 Irish novelist. Author of The Wooing O't, Her Dearest Foe, The Freres, The Admiral's Ward, Which Shall It Be, etc. Style fresh, healthful, and pleasing. _Pub. Ho._

=Helps, Sir Arthur.= 1818-1875. Historian and essayist. Author Hist. of the Spanish Conquest in America, Realmah, Casimir, Maremma, etc. His style is quiet and graceful, and Friends in Council, his best work, is strong and helpful. _Pub. Har. Rob. Rou._

=Hemans [h[)e]m'anz], Mrs. Felicia Dorothea.= 1793-1835. Poet. Without possessing great force some of her poems have yet taken a firm hold upon popular sympathies. Casabianca, Graves of a Household, and The Pilgrim Fathers are examples. Her verse is graceful and sweet, but not strong. _See Memorials of, by H. F. Chorley, 1836._ _Pub. Lip. Por. Rou._

=Henry VIII.= 1491-1547. Author of controversial, anti-Lutheran treatises. _See Brewer's edition of, 1862._

=Henry, Matthew.= 1662-1714. Theologian. Author of a noted Exposition of the Bible, of which the best edition is that of London, 1869. _See Lives by Tony and Williams._ _Pub. Ca._

=Henry, Robert.= 1718-1790. Scotch historian. His Hist. of Gt. Britain was the first to take account of manners and the state of society from a purely historical basis.

=Henryson, Robert.= fl. c. 1490. Scotch poet. H. wrote the beautiful pastoral of Robin and Makyne, found in Percy's Reliques. _See Ward's Eng. Poets, vol. 1._

=Herbert, Lord Edward.= 1581-1648. Historian and theologian. His De Veritate is a plea for Deism. Style dignified and able. _See Autobiography, edited by W. D. Howells._ _Pub. Hou._ _See Lord Herbert de Cherbury by Chas. de Remusat, Paris, 1874._

=Herbert, George.= 1593-1632. Religious poet. Bro. to preceding. Author of The Temple. His verse is elevated in tone, but marred by quaint and fantastic conceits. _See Lives, by Walton, 1670, and Duyckinck, 1858._ _See Grosart's edition, with Memoir, 1875._

=Herbert, Wm.= 1778-1847. Poet. Author of some spirited translations from the Norse and other tongues, and of some excellent original poems.

=Herrick, Robert.= 1591-1674. Poet. Author of Hesperides, etc. A skillful lyrist whose airy gracefulness will always continue to delight. _See Grosart's complete edition of, 1877; also, Abbey's Illustrated Selections from, 1882._ _See Ward's Eng. Poets, vol. 2, and Temple Bar, May, 1883._

=Herschel, Caroline Lucretia.= 1750-1840. Astronomer. Author Catalogue of Stars. _See Life and Correspondence of, 1876._ _Pub. Apl._

=Herschel, Sir John Frederick Wm.= 1792-1871. Astronomer. Neph. to C. L. H. Author Study of Nat. Philosophy, Outlines of Astronomy, Physical Geography, etc. _Pub. Apl. Har. Rou._

=Hervey, Lord John.= 1696-1743. Author Memoirs Reign of George II. _See edition of, 1848, with Life by J. W. Croker._

=Hervey, James.= 1714-1758. Moralist. Author Meditations, etc. _Pub. Ca._

=Heylin, Peter.= 1600-1662. Microcosmus is his most noted work.

=Heywood, Jasper.= 1535-1598. Son to J. H. Author of rhymed translations of Seneca.

=Heywood, John.= 1506-1565. Dramatist. Writer of grotesque Interludes.

=Heywood, Thomas.= ---- 1640. Dramatist. Was a frequent colleague of other dramatists, and a writer of much talent, with a tender, graceful style. _See complete edition of, London, 1874, 6 vols._

=Hoadley, Benj.= 1670-1761. Bp. Winchester. Theological writer.

=Hoadley, Benj.= 1706-1757. Dramatist. Son to preceding.

=Hobbes, Thos.= 1588-1679. Philosopher. A profound thinker, whose Leviathan, a treatise on monarchical government, is his best known work. _See Molesworth's complete edition of, 16 vols., London, 1845._

=Hogg, James.= 1770-1835. Scotch poet. Called "The Ettrick Shepherd." Author of The Queen's Wake, etc. Style diffuse, but graceful and imaginative. _See Collected Works, 1869._

=Holcroft, Thomas.= 1745-1809. Dramatist. Best known by his novel The Marriage of Figaro, and his famous comedy The Road to Ruin. _See Memoirs, edited by Hazlitt, 1816._

=Holinshed, Raphael.= ---- c. 1580. Chronicler. From him Shakespeare drew in part the stories of Cymbeline, Henry VI., Richard II., Richard III., Henry IV., Henry V., Macbeth, Lear, and Henry VIII.

=Holyoake, George Jacob.= 181 Writer on social science. Author of The Logic of Facts, Hist. of Cooperation in England, etc. _Pub. Lip._

=Home, Henry, Lord Kames.= 1696-1782. Scotch philosopher. Author Elements of Criticism, etc. _See Life, by A. F. Tytler._ _Pub. Por. Sh._

=Home, John.= 1724-1808. Dramatist. H. wrote the once popular play Douglas, which contains the famous lines, "My name is Norval," etc. _See complete works of, with Life, by Mackenzie, 3 vols., 8vo, Edinburgh, 1822._

=Hone, Wm.= 1779-1842. Satirist. Chiefly known by his compilations; as, The Every-Day Book, The Table-Book, etc.

=Hood, Edwin Paxton.= 182 Biographer. Author Lives of Wordsworth and Swedenborg, The Uses of Biography, etc. _Pub. Arm. Do. Lip._

=Hood, Thomas.= 1798-1845. Poet and humorist. A writer whose fame as a wit has overshadowed his merits as a poet. His style, when not professedly humorous, is tender and graceful. For moral earnestness The Bridge of Sighs and The Song of the Shirt cannot be surpassed. _See E. P. Sargent's edition, Pub. Apl.; also, F. J. Child's edition._ _Pub. Dut. Hon. Por. Put. Rou._

=Hood, Thomas.= 1835-1875. Miscellaneous writer. Son to preceding. Author of The Rhymster, etc.

=Hook, Theodore Edward.= 1788-1842. A writer of novels of fashion, inartistic in form, but full of humor. His power of extempore verse-making was remarkable. _See Life, by Barham, 1848._ _Pub. Rou._

=Hook, Walter Farquhar.= 1798-1875. Neph. to T. E. H. Author Lives Abps. Cant., Ecclesiastical Biog., Ch. Dict., etc. _See Life and Letters._ _Pub. Dut._

=Hooker, Joseph Dalton.= 181 Botanist. Son to W. J. H. Author Student's Flora British Islands, etc. _Pub. Mac._

=Hooker, Richard.= 1553-1600. Theologian. Author The Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity. The greatest prose writer of the Elizabethan age. _See Keble's edition, 3 vols._ _Pub. Mac._