927.1:9

Barrett, Lawrence. Edwin Forrest. [Amer. actor ser.] Bost. 1881. D. Winter, W: The Jeffersons. [Amer. actor ser.] Bost. 1881. D. 927.1:10 Ritchie, Anna Cora, born Ogden, afterward mrs.

Mowatt. Autobiography, or Eight years on the stage. Bost. 1854. S. 927.1:11 Gustafson, Zadel, born Barnes. Genevieve Ward; a biogr. sketch from original material, derived from her family and friends. Bost. 1882 [1881]. S. 927.1:21 Wood, W: B. Personal recollections of the stage; embracing notices of actors, authors and auditors, during a period of forty years. Portr. Phila. 1855. D. 927.1: 20

British.

Lewes, G: H: On actors and the art of acting. [Amateur ser.] N. Y. 1878. D. 927.2:19 Baker, H: Barton. English actors from Shakespeare to Macready. [Amateur ser.] N. Y. 1879. 2 v. D. 927.2:18 Stoddard, R: H:, ed. Bric-a-brac series: Personal reminiscences by O'Keeffe, Kelly and Taylor. N. Y. 1876. Š. 927.2:17 Pascoe, C: Eyre, ed. Our actors and actresses: The dramatic list; a record of the performances of living actors and actresses of the british stage. 2d ed., rev. and enl.

Lond. 1880. D.

927.2:43

Winter, W: Henry Irving. N. Y. 1885. S.

927.2:42 Cole, J: W: Life and theatrical times of C: Kean; incl. a summary of the english stage for the last fifty years, and a detailed account of the management of the Princess's theatre from 1850 to 1859. Lond. 1859. 2 v. D. 927.2:20 Procter, Bryan Waller, (Barry Cornwall). Life of Edmund Kean. [Anon.] N. Y. 1835. D. 927.2:22 Kemble, Frances Ann, formerly mrs. Butler. Records of a girlhood. 2d ed. N. Y. 1879. 927.2:23

D.

Bauer, Karoline. Caroline Bauer and the Coburgs. Tr. and ed. from [her] Nachgelassene memoiren by C: Nisbet. Lond. 1885. D. 927.3:32 Houdin, Robert J: Eugène. Memoirs, written by himself; ed. by R. Shelton Mackenzie. Phila. 1860. D. 927.4:9 Allen, G: The life of Philidor, musician and chess-player; with a supp. essay on Philidor as chess-author and chess-player, by Tassilo v. Heydebrand und der Lasa. Phila. 1863. O. 927.4:4 Altemus, Jameson Torr. Helena Modjeska. Portr. N. Y. [1883]. D. 927.5:45 Memoirs of Rachel by mme. de B-. N. Y. 1858. D. 927.4:8

1. In general.

Bornmüller, Franz, ed. Biographisches schriftsteller lexikon der gegenwart; die bekanntesten zeitgenossen auf dem gebiet der nationallitteratur aller völker, mit angabe ihrer werke. Leipz. 1882. D. 928: R1 DeQuincey, T: Biographical essays. Bost. 1851. D. 928:2 Contents. Shakspeare. - Pope.-C: Lamb.-Goethe. -Schiller. Harris, Amanda B. Pleasant authors for young

folks. Ill. Bost. [1884]. D. x 928:4 Hatfield, Edwin F. The poets of the church; a series of biogr. sketches of hymn-writers,

x denotes books specially adapted for children.

with notes on their hymns. N. Y. [1884]. O. 928+5

Bates, W: The Maclise portrait - gallery of "illustrious literary characters"; with memoirs, biogr., critical, bibliogr. and anecdotal ill. of the literature of the former half of the present century. Portr. Lond. 1882. D. 928: 6

Jameson, Anna, born Murphy. Memoirs of the lives of the poets; biogr. sketches of women celebrated in ancient and modern poetry. Bost. 1857. T.

928:3

Allibone, S: Austin. A critical dictionary_of british and american authors. 820: R1 See col. 1003.

2. American authors.

Collective biogr.

Adams, Oscar Fay. A brief handbook of american authors. Bost. 1884. D. 928.1: R66 Same. 928.1:66 Homes of american authors; comprising anecdotical, personal and descriptive sketches by various writers. Ill. N. Y. 1853. O. 928.1:64 Contents. Audubon.-Paulding.-Irving. - Bryant. -Bancroft. Dana. Prescott. Miss Sedgwick. Cooper.-Everett.-Emerson.-Simms. Longfellow. -Hawthorne.-Webster.-Kennedy.-Lowell.

Cooper.-Emerson.-Willis.-Poe.-Long

Powell, T: The living authors of America. 1st series. N. Y. 1850. D. 928.1:3 Contents. fellow. Prescott. Bryant.- Halleck. Dana. Frances Osgood.-S. M. Fuller. - Mrs. Kirkland. Sparks. Wilson, James Grant. Bryant and his friends; some reminiscences of the Knickerbocker writers. [Portr. and facsimiles]. N. Y. 1886 [1885]. D. 928.1:78 Contents. W: Cullen Bryant.-James K. Paulding. -Washington Irving. - R: H: Dana. James Fenimore Cooper.- Fitz-Greene Halleck. Joseph Rodman Drake. Nathaniel Parker Willis. - Edgar A. Poe.-Bayard Taylor.- Knickerbocker literature.Index.

Memoirs of James Gordon Bennett and his times, by a journalist. N. Y. 1855. D.

Merriam, G: S.

928.1:4 Didier, Eugene Lemoine. The life and letters of madame Bonaparte. N. Y. 1879. D. 928.1:5 The life and times of S: Bowles. N. Y. 1885. 2 v. O. 928.1:79 Hingston, E: P. The genial showman; reminiscences of the life of Artemus Ward [C: F. Browne], and pictures of a showman's career in the western world. N. Y. 1870. 0. 928.1: 20 Godwin, Parke. A biography of William Cullen Bryant, with extracts from his private corresp. Portr. N. Y. 1883. 2 v. 0.

928.1+55

Hill, D: J. American_authors: W: Cullen Bry

Symington, Andrew James. W: Cullen Bryant; a biogr. sketch, with sel. from his poems and other writings. N. Y. 1880. S.

928.1:7 Curtis, G: W: Life, character and writings of W: Cullen Bryant; a commemorative address, del. before the N. Y. historical society. N. Y. [1879]. D. 928.1:8

Century, The, New York. Bryant memorial meeting of the Century, tuesday evening, nov. 12th 1878. N. Y. [1878]. O.

928.1+63

Contents. Introductory.-Catalogue of pictures.Program. Taylor, B. Epicedium.- Bigelow, J: Oration. Stoddard, R: H: The dead master.-Stedman, E. C. The death of Bryant.

Hudson, Mary, born Clemmer, formerly mrs. Ames. A memorial of Alice and Phoebe Cary; with some of their later poems. Portr. N. Y. 1873. D. 928.1:9 Lounsbury, T: R. James Fenimore Cooper. (Amer. men of letters.) Bost. 1883 [1882]. S. 928.1:48 Derby, James C. Fifty years among authors. books and publishers. Portr. N. Y. 1884. 0. 928.1+72 Farrar, Eliza Ware, born Rotch. Recollections of seventy years. Bost. 1866. S. 928.1:10 Fields, James T: Biographical notes and personal sketches; with unpub. fragments and tributes from men and women of letters. Bost. 1881. O. 928.1:11 Emerson, Ralph Waldo, W: H: Channing and James Freeman Clarke. Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli. Bost. 1852. 2 v. D. 928.1:29

Same. [New ed.] Portr. and app. Bost. 1884. 2 v. in 1. D. 928.1:29 Contents of app. I: Fuller and his descendants.— Memorial of mrs. Margaret Fuller.-Poetical tributes. Higginson, T: Wentworth. Margaret Fuller Ossoli. (Amer. men of letters). Bost. 1884. S. 928.1:67 Howe, Julia Ward. Margaret Fuller, marchesa Ossoli. (Famous women). Bost. 1883. S. 928.1:61 Goodrich, S: Griswold. (Peter Parley). Recollections of a lifetime, or Men and things I have seen, in a series of familiar letters to a friend; historical, biographical, anecdotal and descriptive. N. Y. 1857. 2 v. D. 928.1:12 Cornell, W: Mason. Life and public career of the hon. Horace Greeley. Bost. [1882]. D.

Parton, James. Life of Horace

928.1:45

928.1:14

Greeley. N.

present time. Bost. 1872. D. 928.1:15

Greeley, Horace. Recollections of a busy life, incl. reminiscences of amer. politics and politicians, from the opening of the Missouri contest to the downfall of slavery; added, miscellanies: "Literature as a vocation"; Poets and poetry"; "Reforms and reformers"; "A defence of protection", etc., also a discussion with Robert Dale Owen on the law of divorce. N. Y. 1868. O. 928.1:13 Cleveland, Cecilia. The story of a summer or Journal leaves from Chappaqua [relating to Horace Greeley]. N. Y. 1874. T.

Wilson, James Grant. Life and letters of FitzGreene Halleck. N. Y. 1869. D.

928.1:17

Cousin, Alice; a memoir of Alice B. Haven. N. Y. 1865. D. 928.1:44 Hawthorne, Julian. Nathaniel Hawthorne and his wife; a biography. Portr. Bost. 1885 [1884]. 2 v. D. 928.1:71 James, H, jr. Hawthorne. [Eng. men of letters]. N. Y. 1880. D. 928.1:18

Lathrop, G: Parsons. A study of Hawthorne. Bost. 1876. T. 928.1:19

Brown, E. E. Life of Oliver Wendell Holmes. Portr. Bost. [1884]. D. 928.1:68 Kennedy, W: Sloane. Oliver Wendell Holmes; poet, litterateur, scientist. Bost. 1883. D. 928.1:58 Bryant, W: Cullen. Discourse on the life, character and genius of Washington Irving. N. Y. 1860. D. 928.1:26 Hill, D: J. American authors: Washington Irving. Portr. N. Y. 1879. S. 928.1:22 Irving, Pierre M. Life and letters of Washington Irving, by his nephew. N. Y. 18621864. 4 v. D. 928.1: 24

- Same. In Irving, W. Works.

820.1: P11 v25-27 Warner, C: Dudley. Washington Irving. (Amer. men of letters). Bost. 1881. S. 928.1:21 Studies of Irving. N. Y. 1880. 0. 928.1:25 Irvinginana; a memorial. N. Y. 1860. O.

- and others.

928.1+23 Contents. Memoranda of [his] literary career, by E. A. Duyckinck.-Funeral, by W. F. Williams.-Proceedings of the New York board of aldermen and councilmen.-Resolutions of the Athenæum club.Proceedings of the New York historical society.Proceedings of the Massachusetts historical society. -Sunnyside; a poem, by H: T. Tuckerman.-An editorial of the Evening post.-An editorial of the Richmond (L. I.) Gazette.-Mr. Irving's religious character, by rev. dr. Creighton.- Passage from a discourse by the rev. J: A. Todd.-The rev. dr. Chapin's remarks.-Posthumous influence, by the rev. dr. W: F. Morgan.-Goldsmith and Irving, by G: W. Greene. -Irving described in verse by J. R. Lowell.-Visits to Sunnyside, by N. P. Willis.-Half an hour at Sunnyside, by T. Tilton.-A day at Sunnyside, by O: Tiffany. -Anecdote.--Washington Irving, by G: W: Curtis.Same, by F: S. Cozzens.-Table-talk by J. G. Wilson. Anecdotes by F. Saunders.-Icha bod Crane, from a letter by Irving.-Cockloft Hall, a reminiscense.Irving portraits. Mr. Irving's objection to public dinners.-Anecdote, from the Spirit of the times.Two poems, by Irving.-American literary commissions in London in 1822, a letter by Irving.-Life and letters of Irving.

Keese, W: Linn. John Keese, wit and littérateur; a biogr. memoir. Portr. N. Y. 1883. O. 928.1:59 Austin, G: Lowell. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow; his life, his works, his friendships. Ill. Bost. 1883. O. 928.1:69 Kennedy, W: Sloane. Henry W. Longfellow; biography, anecdote, letters, criticism. Cambridge. 1882. O. 928.1:52

Longfellow, S:, ed. Life of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow; with extracts from his journals and corresp. Ill. Bost. 1886. 2 v. O. 928.1:80 Stoddard, R: H: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow; a medley in prose and verse. N. Y. 1882. 0. 928.1:57 Underwood, Francis H: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow; a biogr. sketch. Bost. 1882. 928.1:53

D.

Underwood, Francis H:-Continned.

James Russell Lowell; a biogr. sketch. Bost. 1882. O. 928.1:46 Mansfield, E: Deering. Personal memoirs; social, political and literary, with sketches of many noted people, 1803-1843. Cinc. 1879. D. 928.1:27 Holmes, Oliver Wendell. J: Lothrop Motley; a memoir. Bost. 1879. S. 928.1:28 Owen, Robert Dale. Twenty-seven years of autobiography: Threading my way. N. Y. 1874. D. 928.1:30 Paine, Martyn and Mary Ann, born Weeks. Memoir of Robert Troup Paine by his parents. Printed for private distribution, especially for the class-mates of the youth. N. Y. 1852. Q. 928.1: R31 Harrison, Gabriel. John Howard Payne, dramatist, poet, actor and author of "Home, sweet home"; his life and writings. Rev. ed. Ill. Phila. 1884. O. 928.1+73 Ward, Julius H. Life and letters of James Gates Percival. Bost. 1866. D. 928.1:32 Gill, W: Fearing. Life of Edgar Allan Poe. 5th ed., rev. and enl. Ill. N. Y. 1880. D. 928.1:34

Ingram, J: H. Edgar Allan Poe; his life, letters and opinions. Portr. Lond. 1880. 2 928.1:33 V. D. Woodberry, G: E: Edgar Allan Poe. (Amer. men of letters.) Bost. 1885. S. 928.1:74 Brinley, Francis. Life of W: T. Porter. N. Y. 1860. D. 928.1:35 Prentiss, G: L. Life and letters of Elizabeth Prentiss. N. Y. [1882]. O. 928.1:54 Ticknor, G: Life of W: Hickling Prescott. Bost. 1864. Q. 928.1+36 Frothingham, Octavius Brooks. George Ripley. (Amer. men of letters.) Bost. 1882. S. 928.1:51 Sigourney, Lydia Howard, born Huntley. Letters of life. N. Y. 1866. D. 928.1:37 Swisshelm, Jane Grey, born Cannon. Half a century. 2d ed. Chicago. 1880. D. 928.1:47 Conwell, Russell H. The life, travels and literBost. ary career of Bayard Taylor. [1881]. D. 928.1:38 Taylor, Marie, born Hansen, and Horace Elisha Scudder, eds. Life and letters of Bayard Taylor. Portr. Bost. 1884. 2 v. D. 928.1:70

Thorburn, Grant. Forty years' residence in America, or The doctrine of a particular providence, exemplified in his life; written by himself. Bost. 1834. D. 928.1:40 Channing, W: Ellery. Thoreau, the poetnaturalist; with memorial verses. Bost. 1873. D. 928.1:39 Sanborn, Franklin B: Henry D. Thoreau. Bost. 1882. D. 928.1:50

Hillard, G: Stillman, ed. Life, letters and journals of G: Ticknor. Ill. Bost. 1876. 2 v. 0. 928.1:41 Wheaton, Robert. Memoir, with selections from his writings. Bost. 1854. D. 928.1:42 Contents. Memoir. Selections from his writings: The sources of the Divina commedia; Jasmin, the barber poet; Coquerel's Experimental christianity; The revolution in Prussia; The revolution of 1848 in Sicily; Schmidt's History of the Albigenses; Thiers' History of the consulate and the empire; Memoir of the late dr. Wheaton.

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Bucke, R: Maurice. Walt Whitman. Portr. Phila. 1883. D. 928.1:60 Kennedy, W: Sloane. John Greenleaf Whittier; his life, genius and writings. Bost. 1882. O. 928.1:49 Underwood, Francis H: John Greenleaf Whittier; a biography. Ill. and portr. Bost. 1883. D. 928.1:62 Wikoff, H: Reminiscences of an idler. N. Y. 1880. O. 928.1:43 Beers, H: Augustin. Nathaniel Parker Willis. (Amer. men of letters.) Portr. Bost. 1885. S. 928.1:75

Life and poems of Theodore Winthrop, The; ed. by his sister. Portr. N. Y. 1884. D. 928.1:65

3. British authors.

(For Shakspere, see cl. 822.3, col. 1045.)

Collective biogr.

Adams, Oscar Fay. A brief hand-book of eng. lish authors. Bost. 1884 [1883]. D. 928.2: R189 928.2 189

Same. Wright, T: Biographia britannica literaria, or Biography of literary characters of Great Britain and Ireland, arr. in chronological order. Lond. 1842, 1846. 2 v. O. 928.2187 Contents. V. 1. Anglo-saxon period. 2. Anglonorman period. Mason, E: T., ed. Personal traits of british authors. Portr. N. Y. 1885. 4 v. D. 928.2215

Contents. V. 1. Wordsworth.-Coleridge.-Lamb.Hazlitt. Leigh Hunt.-Procter. 2. Scott.--Hogg.Campbell.-Chalmers.- Wilson.- De Quincey.-Jeffrey. 3. Byron.-Shelley.- Moore.-Rogers.-Keats. Southey.-Landor. 4. Hood.-Macaulay. Sydney Smith. Jerrold. Dickens. Charlotte Bronte. Thackeray.

Stoddard, R: H:, ed. Bric-a-brac series: Per

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sonal reminiscences by Chorley, Planché and Young. N. Y. 1874. S. 928.2:42 Same: Anecdote biographies of Thackeray and Dickens. N. Y. 1874. S. 928.2:137 Same: Personal reminiscences by Moore and Jerdan. N. Y. 1875. D. 928.2: 106

Same: Personal reminiscences by Cornelia Knight and Thomas Raikes. N. Y. 1875. S.

928.2: 152 - Same: Personal reminiscences by Constable and Gillies. N. Y. 1876. S. 928.2:46 Same: Personal reminiscences by Barham, Harness and Hodder. N. Y. 1876. S.

928.2:6 Same: Personal reminiscences of Lamb, Hazlitt and others. N. Y. 1878. S.

928.2:7
Contents. C: Lamb.-W: Hazlitt.-T: Campbell.--
Countess of Blessington.
Clarke, C, and Mary Virginia, born Novello,

Cowden-. Recollections of writers; with
letters of C: Lamb, Leigh Hunt, Douglas
Jerrold and C: Dickens, and a pref. by
Mary Cowden Clarke. N. Y. [1878]. O.

928.2:47

Contents. Preface.- General recollections.-Recollections of J: Keats.-C: Lamb and his letters.-Mary Lamb.-Leigh Hunt and his letters.-Douglas Jerrold

Johnson, S: The lives of the most eminent english poets, with critical observations on their works. New ed., corr. Lond. 1794. 4 v. 0. 928.2:4 Contents. V. 1. Cowley.-Denham.- Milton.-Butler.-Rochester. Roscommon.- Otway. - Waller.Pomfret. Dorset. - Stepney. -J. Philips.-Walsh. 2. Dryden.-Smith.-Duke.-King.-Sprat.-Halifax. -Parnell. Garth. Rowe. Addison. Hughes. Sheffield, duke of Buckinghamshire. 3. Prior. Congreve. Blackmore. - Fenton.-Gay.-Granville. -Yalden.-Tickell. - Hammond. - Somerville.-Savage. Swift.-Broome. 4. Pope.-Pitt.-Thomson.Watts.-A. Philips. - West.stone. -Young." Mallet. telton.

Collins. Dyer.-ShenAkenside. Gray.-Lyt

Same. Aberdeen. 1847. 4 y. in 1. S.

928.2:4 Cary, H: Francis. Lives of the english poets from Johnson to Kirke White, designed as a continuation of Johnson's Lives. Lond. 1846. S. 928.2:2 Contents. S: Johnson.-J: Armstrong.-R: Jago.R: O. Cambridge. -Tobias Smollett.-T: Warton.Joseph Warton. Christopher Anstey.-W: Mason. Oliver Goldsmith. Erasmus Darwin. - W: J. Mickle. James Beattie.-W: Hayley.-Sir W: Jones. -T: Chatterton.-H: Kirke White.

Rossetti, W: Michael. Lives of famous poets; a companion volume to the series Moxon's popular poets. Lond. 1878. D. 928.2:5 Contents. Chaucer.-Spenser. Shakespeare.-Milton.-Butler. Dryden.-Pope.- Thomson.-Gray.Goldsmith.-Cowper.-Burns. Wordsworth.-Scott. -Coleridge.-Campbell.-Moore.- Byron.-Shelley.

Mrs. Hemans.-Keats.-Hood.-Longfellow.

Dennis, J: Heroes of literature: English poets; a book for young readers. Lond. 1883. D. 928.2: 192 Robertson, Eric S. English poetesses; a series of critical biographies with illustrative extracts. Lond. 1883. D. 928.2:196 Gosse, Edmund W: Seventeenth-century studies; a contribution to the history of english poetry. Lond. 1883. O. 928.2213

Contents. T: Lodge.-J: Webster.-S: Rowlands.Capt. Dover's Cotswold games.-Robert Herrick.-R: Crashaw. Abraham Cowley.-The matchless Orinda. -Sir G: Etheredge.-T: Otway.

Howitt, W: Homes and haunts of the most eminent british poets. Ill. N. Y. 1851. 2 v. D. 914.2: 28 Contents, see col. 1233. Baker, D: Erskine. Biographia dramatica; or Companion to the playhouse, etc.

See col. 1044.

822.4:3

Campbell, T:, and others. Lives of the british dramatists. Phila. 1846. 2 v. in 1. S.

928.2:1 Remarks on the

Contents. V. 1. Campbell, T: life and writings of W: Shakspeare.-Gifford, W: Memoirs of Ben Jonson. 2. Darley, G: Lives of Beaumont and Fletcher.-Coleridge, H. Lives of Massinger and Ford.-Hunt, J. H: L. Biographical and critical notices of Wycherley, Congreve, Vanbrugh and Farquhar.

Archer, W: English dramatists of today. Lond. 1882. D. 928.2 183

Contents. Introd. Playwrights of yesterday.-J. Albery.-F. W. Broughton.-F. C. Burnand. — H: J. Byron.-W. S. Gilbert.-S. Grundy. B. Howard.H. A. Jones.-P. Meritt.-H. C. Merivale. - A. W. Pinero.-R. Reece.-G: R. Sims.-S. T. Smith.-Tennyson.-W. G. Wills.

Ritchie, Anna Isabella, born Thackeray. A book of sibyls: Mrs. Barbauld, miss Edgeworth, mrs. Opie, miss Austen. Lond. 1883. O. 928.2:175

Anton, P:

England's essayists; Addison, Bacon, DeQuincey, Lamb. Lond. [1884]. D. 928.2: 208 Thackeray, W: Makepeace. The english humourists of the 18th century; a series of lectures, del. in England, Scotland and the U. S. of America. Leipz. 1853. S.

928.2:8 Contents. Swift.-Congreve and Addison.- Steele. -Prior, Gay and Pope. -Hogarth, Smollett and Fielding. Sterne and Goldsmith.-Charity and humour. Same. T. p. w. [N. Y. 1860]. D. 928.2:8 Adams, W: H: Davenport. Celebrated englishwomen of the victorian era. Lond. 1884. D. 928.2:212

Contents. Queen Victoria. Harriet Martineau.Charlotte Brontë. - Mary Russell Mitford. - - Mary Somerville. Sara Coleridge. Mary Carpenter. Adelaide Anne Procter.-George Eliot.-Jane Welsh Carlyle. Curwen, H: A history of booksellers; the old and the new. Portr. and ill. Lond. n. d. D. 928.2:144 Contents. The booksellers of olden times. - The Longman family.-Constable, Cadell and Black. -J: Murray.- W: Blackwood. - Chambers, Knight and Cassell.-H: Colburn.-The Rivingtons, the Parkers and James Nisbet.-Butterworth and Churchill.-E: Moxon. Kelly and Virtue.-T: Tegg.-T: Nelson.Simpkin, Marshall and co. C: E: Mudie.-W. Smith and son.-Provincial booksellers.

Individual biogr.

H.

Aikin, Lucy. Life of Joseph Addison. Phila. 1846. D. 928.2:12

Courthope, W: J: Addison. [Eng. men of letters]. N. Y. 1884. D. 928.2:194 Aikin, Lucy. Memoir of John Aikin; with a selection of his miscellaneous pieces, biographical, moral and critical. Phila. 1824. d. 928.2:13

Contents. Memoir. Critical essays on english poets: Account of the life and works of Spencer [sic]; On the poetry of Milton; On the heroic poem of Gondibert; Critical remarks on Dryden's fables; Observations on Pope's Essay on man; Plan and character of Thomson's Seasons: Comparison between Thomson and Cowper as descriptive poets; On dr. Armstrong's Art of preserving health; On the poems of Green; On Somerville's Poem of the chase; On the poetry of Goldsmith.-Miscellaneous pieces: Aphorisms on mind and manners; What man is made for; On the touch for the king's evil; Literary prophecies for 1797: Remarks on the charge of jacobism; On the probable melioration in the state of mankind; On toleration in Russia; Military piety; Inquiry into the nature of family pride; Apology for the demolition of ruins; Inquiry into the essential character of man: Thoughts on the formation of character; On self-biographers; On the attachment to Mary, queen of scots; On the imitative principle; Historical relations of poisonings; A word for philosophy; On cant; On mottoes.-App.: Descriptions of vegetables from the roman poets; Biogr. account of the rev. dr. Enfield; Description of the country about Dorking; Biogr. account of R: Pulteney; Memoir of Gilbert Wakefield; Memoir of Joseph Priestley; Memoir of James Currie; Memoir of rev. G: Walker. Arblay, Frances, born Burney, mme. d'. Diary

and letters; ed. by her niece [Charlotte Barrett]. Lond. 1854. 7 v. S. 928.2:14 Abbott, Edwin Abbott. Francis Bacon; an account of his life and works. Lond. 1885. 0. 928.2+217 Church, R: W: Bacon. [Eng. men of letters.] N. Y. 1884. D. 928.2197 Dixon, W: Hepworth. Personal history of lord Bacon; from unpub. papers. Bost. 1861. 928.2:15

D.

Oliver, Grace Atkinson, born Little, formerly mrs. Ellis. [Memoir, letters and a selection from the poems and prose writings of Anna Lætitia Barbauld.] Bost. 1874. 2 v. D. 928.2:16

Contents. V. 1. Memoir, with many of her letters. 2. Poems. Prose works. Miscellaneous: The hill of science; On romances; An inquiry into those kinds of distress which excite agreeable sensations, with a tale; The curé of the banks of the Rhone; On evil; On monastic institutions; Against inconsistency in our expectations; On education; On prejudice; On female studies; On the classics; Selama; Letter on watering-places; Dialogue in the shades; Knowledge and her daughter. Legacy for young ladies: True magicians; The pine and the olive; On riddles; Enigma, to the ladies; The king in his castle; The misses, addressed to a careless girl; The four sisters; Letter of a young king; On the uses of history; Fashion, a vision; Description of two sisters; On friendship; Confidence and modesty, a fable; Picnic; Letter from Grimalkin to Selima; Allegory on sleep; Expense, a dialogue.

Barton, Lucy. Memoir, letters and poems of Bernard Barton; ed. by his daughter. Phila. 1850. D. 928.2:17 Beloe, W: The sexagenarian, or The recollections of a literary life. 2d ed. Lond. 1818. 2 v. O. 928.2:200 Jebb, R: Claverhouse. Bentley. [Eng. men on letters]. N. Y. 1882. D. 928.2:159 Madden, R: Robert. Literary life and corresp. of the countess of Blessington. N. Y. 1855. 2 v. D. 928.2:18 Waller, J: Francis. Boswell. in 928.2: 85 Gaskell, Elizabeth Cleghorn, born Stevenson. Life of Charlotte Brontë. N. Y. 1864. 2 v. in 1. D. 928.2: 20 Holloway, Laura Carter. An hour with Charlotte Bronté, or Flowers from a Yorkshire 928.2 193 moor. N. Y. [1883]. D. Reid, T. Wemyss. Charlotte Brontë; a monograph. II. N. Y. 1877. D. 928.2:19 Robinson, A. Mary F. Emily Brontë. (Fa

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