of "The Innocents Abroad," "Roughing It," etc. [p. 91]

COLERIDGE, Samuel Taylor, a distinguished literary character, a poet and philosopher,-b. in Devonshire, England, in 1772, d. in 1834. Some of his most beautiful poems are "Christabel," the

"Rime of the Ancient Mariner," and "Ode to the Departing Year." [pp. 75, 112, 327.]

COLTON, Caleb C., an English writer,-b. in 1780, d. in 1832. His "Lacon, or Many Things in Few Words," a collection of moral aphorisms, is the most popular of his works. [pp. 392, 393.]

COWPER, William, one of the most eminent of English poets,-b. in 1731, d. in 1800. His ballad of "John Gilpin" first gave him a wide renown. "The Task," and his translation of Homer, are highly popular to this day. [pp. 240, 360, 363.]

CRABBE, George, an English curate and poet,-b. in 1754, d. in 1832. His best poetic productions are "The Village," and "The Borough." [p. 421.]

CRANCH, Rev. Christopher P., an American landscape-painter and poet,-b. at Alexandria, Va., in 1813. He has translated the Æneid in blank verse. [p. 401.]

CURRAN, John Philpot, an eminent orator, member of the Irish bar and Irish Parliament,-b. in 1750, d. in 1817. In his speeches "he was copious, splendid, full of wit, and life, and ardor." [p. 264.]

DALLAS, Alexander James, an American statesman, lawyer, and writer,-b. at Jamaica, W.I., in 1759, died at Trenton, N.J., in 1817. [p 263.]

DERZHAVIN, Gavriil Romanovitch, a Russian lyric poet and statesman,-b. in 1743, d. in 1816. He holds the highest place among the bards of his country. [p. 70.]

DICKINSON, Charles M. [p. 50.]

ENGLISH, Thomas Dunn,-b. in Philadelphia in 1819,-author of "Poems," "American Ballads," etc., and a frequent contributor to periodical literature. [p. 329.]

EVERETT, Edward,-b. in Dorchester, 'Mass., in 1794, d. in 1865,-a learned and eloquent orator, and graceful writer,-successively Professor of Greek in Harvard College, Governor of Massachusetts, Minister to England, Secretary of State of the United States, and U. S. Senator. [p. 436.]

FENELON, François de Salignac de la Mothe, a French prelate and author,-b. in 1651, d. in 1715. His most celebrated work is the "Adventures of Telemachus," which has been translated into nearly all European languages, and has been versified in English, Latin, Greek, etc. [p. 338.]

FIELD, Henry M., an American clergyman, editor, and author,-b. in Stockbridge, Mass., in 1822. [pp. 269, 271-8, 396, 426.]

Fox, Charles James,-b. in 1749, d. in 1800,--a famous English statesman and orator. Like Burke, he was a friend of the American colonies and of the wronged people of the East Indies. [p. 431.]

GIBBON, Edward, an English historian,

b. in 1737, d. in 1794. His "Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire" is generally admitted to be the greatest historical work in the English language. [pp. 339, 434.]

GILDER, Richard Watson, b. in Bordentown, N.J., in 1844,-author of "The New Day," "The Poet and his Master," etc. [p. 211.]

GOLDSMITH, Oliver, a celebrated English poet and miscellaneous writer,-b. in 1728, d. in 1774. "The Traveller" and "The Deserted Village" are his best-known poems, and "The Vicar of Wakefield" his most famous prose work. [pp. 35, 134.]

HALE, Edward Everett, an American clergyman, editor, and author of a number of ingenious and entertaining fictions and other works,-b. in Boston, Mass., in 1822. One of his most celebrated stories is "The Man without a Country." [p. 338.]

HAMERTON, Philip Gilbert, an English author, artist, and art critic,-b. in 1834. [pp. 246-250.]

HAMILTON, George A., author of a volume of poems, 1860. [p. 411.]

HARTE, Francis Bret, an American prose writer, poet, and frequent contributor to periodicals,-b. in Albany, N.Y., in 1839. His "Luck of Roaring Camp," a story of California mining life, and his humorous poem "The Heathen Chinee," made him suddenly famous. [pp. 400, 445.]

HARVEY, Peter, author of " Reminiscences of Daniel Webster." [pp. 414-421.]

HAYGARTH, William, wrote "Greece, a Poem," with critical notes, 8vo, London, 1814. [p. 186.]

He

HEADLEY, Rev. Joel T., an American author, b. at Walton, N.Y., in 1814. wrote Napoleon and his Marshals," "Sacred Mountains," "Washington and his Generals," and numerous other works. [p. 230.]

HERSCHEL, Sir John Frederick William, an eminent English astronomer and writer on physics,-b. in 1792, d. in 1871. His great enterprise was the wonderful “gauging of the heavens" of the southern hemisphere. [p. 339.]

It may

HEMANS, Mrs. Felicia Dorothea, an English poetess,-b. in 1794, d. in 1835. almost be said that she "lisped in numbers," as a volume of her poems was published before she was fifteen years of age. [pp. 186, 226, 267.]

HIGGINS, John, an English schoolmaster and divine, of the time of Elizabeth. [p. 421.]

HOMER, the supposed author of the "Iliad" and the "Odyssey," and the "father of epic poetry." The prevailing opinion is that he was born near Smyrna, about 900 B.C. [p. 272.]

HOPE, James Barron, a native of Hampton, Va. He published in 1857 a volume of poems. His "Charge at Balaklava" has received high commendation. [p. 205.]

HORACE, Quintus Horatius Flaccus, a Roman poet,-b. 65 B.C., d. 8 B.C.,-is the most frequently quoted of all the writers of

antiquity. His "Odes," "Satires," and "Epistles" are exquisitely finished. [pp. 393.]

HUGO, Victor Marie, a French poet and novelist, b. in 1802. His productions in both departments are numerous. His writings have had an immense circulation in France, and have been translated into nearly all the languages of Europe. [p. 376.]

HUNT, James Henry Leigh, an English poet and prose writer,-b. in 1784, d. in 1859. Besides being the author of numerous works, he was a frequent contributor to Blackwood and other inagazines. 320, 343, 348, 349.]

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INGLIS, Henry David ("Derwent Conway"),-b. in Edinburgh in 1795, d. in 1835. He wrote numerous delightful sketches of travel through many countries of Europe. [pp. 57-69.]

IRVING, Washington,-b. in the city of New York in 1783, d. in 1859,-is, perhaps, one of the dearest names in the annals of American literature. He is eminent both as a historian and as a writer of tales and sketches. [pp. 141-2.]

JOHNSON, Dr. Samuel, an English author, one of the most distinguished literary characters of any age or country,-b. in 1709, d. in 1784. He was poet, essayist, lexicographer, and critic. His best-known works are the great English Dictionary that bears his name, "The Vanity of Human Wishes," "The Rambler," "The Idler," Rasselas," and the " Lives of the Poets." [pp 192, 280.]

JUDSON, Mrs. Emily C. ("Fanny Forester"), the third wife of the Rev. Adoniram Judson, Baptist missionary to Burmah,-b. in Eaton, N.Y., in 1817, d. in 1854. Her poetry is pure, delicate, and natural. [p. 378.]

LELAND, Charles Godfrey, an American writer of prose and poetry,-b. in Philadelphia in 1824.

LONGFELLOW, Henry Wadsworth, for many years Professor of Belles-Lettres in Harvard College, one of the most popular of modern poets,-b. in Portland, Me., in 1807. "His verse is always melodious, tender, and delicate, unobtrusively winning its way to the heart." [pp. 147, 409.]

MACKAY, Charles, a popular British poet, journalist, and voluminous miscellaneous writer,-b.in Scotland in 1812. "One great purpose, from which he never deviates, is the promotion of human virtue and human happiness." [p. 444.]

MACLELLAN, Isaac, an American poet and miscellaneous writer,-b. in Portland, Me., in 1810. [p.332.]

MARVELL, Andrew, an English poet, prose writer, political satirist, and member of Parliament,-b. in 1620, d. in 1678. His opposition to the corrupt practices of the time earned for him the name of "the British Aristides." [p. 337.]

MILTON, John, an English poet,-b. in 1608, d. in 1674,-"one of the most illus

trious of his race for genius, philanthropy, learning, and virtue." His great works are "Paradise Lost" and "Paradise Regained." [pp. 150, 394.]

MITFORD, Mary Russell,-b. at Alresford, Hampshire, England, in 1786, d. in 1855. She wrote numerous stories, poems, dramatic scenes, tragedies, etc. "Her writings are distinguished by good taste, genuine simplicity, and natural feeling [p. 439.]

MONTGOMERY, James, a British poet,-b. in Scotland in 1771, d. in 1854. "He is essentially a religious poet,-a steadfast advocate of whatsoever is true, just. pure, lovely, or of good report." [p. 329.]

MORE, Hannah, an English authoress,b. in 1745, d. in 1833. "Her poems, religious, moral, and political tracts, promote virtue, and their repeated editions prove their worth and utility." [p. 254.]

MORRIS, George P., an American journalist and popular song-writer,-b. in Philadelphia in 1802, d in 1864. [p. 109.]

NEWTON, Sir Isaac, the most illustrious of natural philosophers, and one of the most excellent of men,"-b. in Lincolnshire, England, in 1642, d. in 1727. His great work is the "Principia," embracing the mathematical principles of Natural Philosophy. [p. 375.]

NORTON, Mrs. Caroline Elizabeth Sarah, an English writer of poetry and prose,b. in 1808, d. in 1877. She has been called "the Byron of modern poetesses." [p. 79.]

OVERBURY, Sir Thomas, an English poet and prose writer,-b. in 1581, d. in 1613. [p. 341.]

PETRARCH, Francesco, an Italian poet of immense erudition,-b. in 1304, d. in 1374. He wrote both in Latin and in Italian. [p. 339.]

PIERPONT, Rev. John, an American poet, author of "Airs of Palestine, and other Poems,""-b. in Litchfield, Conn., in 1785, d. in 1866. "In his poetry he is a follower of Campbell." [pp. 234, 236.]

PINDAR, the prince of lyric poets," -b. 520 B.C., d. 440 B.C. Of his numerous works time has spared only four books of Odes. [pp. 138, 210.]

PITT, William, first Earl of Chatham, affectionately called by the people the "Great Commoner," "-b. in 1708, d. in 1778,--was an illustrious English statesman and orator. His distinguished son, William Pitt the younger,-b. in 1759, d. in 1806,-was Prime Minister at twentyfour years of age. [p. 430-1.]

POPE, Alexander, a celebrated English poet,-b. in 1688, d. in 1744. Most of his "Windsor Forest" was written at the age of sixteen, and he completed his great work, the translation of the "Iliad," at the age of thirty-two. [pp. 129, 175, 2:3, 224, 272, 293.]

PRESCOTT, William Hickling, an American classical historian,-b. at Salem, Mass., in 1796, d. in 1859. His chief works are the "Reign of Ferdinand and Isabella,"

"History of Philip II.," "Conquest of Mexico," and "Conquest of Peru." [p. 394.]

QUARLES, Francis, an English author of many books, both in prose and in verse,b. in 1592, d. in 1644. "He is continually quaint in his poetry, but often eloquent, and often extremely pathetic." [p. 373.]

READ, Thomas Buchanan, au American artist and poet,-b. in Chester, Pa., in 1822, d. in 1872. "A poet painter, whose song has the vividness of picture, and whose canvas is painted with angels, fairies, and water-sprites, done to the ethereal life." [p. 133.]

ROBINSON, Edward, an American Biblical scholar, b. at Southington, Conn., in 1794, d. in 1863. The greatest of his works are his "Biblical Researches in the Holy Land," and his "Greek-and-English Lexicon of the New Testament." [p. 228.]

ROGERS, Samuel, an English poet,-b. in 1763, d. in 1855,-author of "Pleasures of Memory,"" Voyage of Columbus," "Human Life," "Italy," etc. [pp. 112, 130, 160.]

RUSKIN, John, an English author,-b. in 1819. In such works as "The Seven Lamps of Architecture," "The Stones of Venice," etc., he has created a new literature,-the literature of art. [p. 165.]

SAXE, John Godfrey, an American humorous poet,-b. in Highgate, Vt., in 1816. [p. 368.]

SCOTT, Sir Walter, a celebrated Scottish novelist, poet, and historical writer,-b. in Edinburgh in 1771, d. in 1832. His "Waverley Novels" gave him a world-wide reputation. [pp. 28, 29, 30, 421, 427.]

SHAKSPEARE, William, the greatest of dramatists, b. at Stratford-upon-Avon, England, in 1564, d. in 1616. The mere titles of the books that have been written upon his life, genius, and the texts of his works, fill a volume of 89 octavo pages. [pp. 263, 286, 338, 360, 433.]

SHERIDAN, Richard Brinsley,-b. in Dublin in 1751, d. in 1816,-was a distinguished dramatist, politician, and orator. [p. 431.] SIMONIDES, the most prolific and probably the most popular lyric poet that Greece ever produced,-b. in 556 B.C., d. in 467 B.C. [pp. 190, 191.]

SMITH, Horace, an English author, both of prose and poetry,-b. in 1779, d. in 1849. The brothers James and Horace were associated in most of their literary labors. [p. 275.]

SMITH, Rev. Sydney, a prolific English author, one of the founders of the Edinburgh Review, celebrated as a good preacher, a brilliant wit, an unsparing critic, and a great master of ridicule,-b. in 1771, d. in 1845. [p. 427.]

SOUTHEY, Robert, an English poet and prose writer, and poet-laureate,-b. in 1774, d. in 1843. His literary life was marked by untiring and cheerful labor,

and by repeated acts of generosity. [pp. 32, 55.]

SOUVESTRE, Emile (a-meel'), a French author,-b. in 1806, d. in 1854. He excelled as a writer of instructive novels and tales. Two of his works, "The Pleasures of Old Age," and "The Attic Philosopher,' are highly celebrated. [pp. 102-107, 151157, 195-201, 371.]

SPRAGUE, Charles, an American poet and prose writer,-b. in Boston in 1791, d. in 1875. "For his terseness, his finished elegance, his regularity of metre, and his nervous point, he has been called the American Pope." [pp. 341, 450.]

STERNE, Laurence, a British writer of prose fiction,-b. in 1713, d. in 1768. [p. 193]

TAPPAN, William Bingham, the author of several volumes of pleasing poems,-b. in Beverly, Mass., in 1794, d. in 1849. [p. 421.]

TASSO, Torquato, one of the greatest of Italian poets,-b. in 1544, d. in 1595. His great work is the "Jerusalem Delivered," -an epic on the delivery of Jerusalem by the Crusader, Godfrey of Bouillou. [p. 291.].

TENNYSON, Alfred, who succeeded Wordsworth as poet-laureate of England in 1850, -b. at Somersby, Lincolnshire, in 1809. "He is the first poet of our time."-Lond. Times. [p. 86]

TROWBRIDGE, John Townsend, a favorite contributor to some of our magazines, and a writer of numerous popular poems and stories,-b. at Ogden, N.Y., in 1827. [pp. 294-317.]

VIRGIL (or, Publius Virgilius Maro), the greatest of the Roman poets,-b. 70 B.C., d. 19 B.C. His principal works are the "Eclogues," the "Georgics," and the "Eneid." [p. 138.]

WALLACE, Miss. [p. 84.]

WALLER, Sir William, an English general and author,-b. in 1597, d. in 1668. [p. 338.]

WEBSTER, Daniel, a great lawyer, statesman, and orator, and a master of the best English,-b. at Salisbury (now Franklin), N.H., in 1782, d. at Marshfield, Mass., in 1852. [pp. 26, 414-421.]

WHITTIER, John Greenleaf, called "the Quaker poet,"-b. in Haverhill, Mass., in 1807. He is our leading lyric poet, and is more peculiarly American than any other of equal fame. His "Mand Muller," "The Barefoot Boy," "Barbara Frietchie," etc., are familiar to almost every school-boy in the land. "Snow-Bound" is one of the best of his poems. [pp. 224, 225, 229, 236, 240, 242.]

WOLFE, Rev. Charles,-b. in Dublin, Ireland, in 1791, d. in 1823. "His Ode on the Burial of Sir John Moore went directly to the heart of the nation, and it is likely to remain forever enshrined there." [p. 89.]

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