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sioner for that paper in the South Seas. Has published Pierre and His People," 1892; Mrs. Falchion," 1893; "The Translation of a Savage," 1894; A Lover's Diary," 1894; The Trail of the Sword," 1895. Well known in the United States by his novels, and a prominent contributor to American magazines.

PARNELL, Frances Isabel (Fanny), b. 1854; d. 1882. Sister of Charles Stewart Parnell and granddaughter of Charles Stewart, the historic commander of the U. S. frigate "Constitution." Her poems have never been collected.

PATMORE, Coventry Kearsey Deighton, b. Woodford, 1823. In 1844 brought out his first volume of poems; in 1847, became assistant librarian in the British Museum. Published "The Angel in the House," " The Betrothal," 1854, and "The Espousals," 1856. After his wife's death he retired from the Museum and has since lived at Hastings. The Unknown Eros" appeared in 1877; Amelia,' and a collected edition of his poems, in 1878. Edited The Children's Garland in the Golden Treasury Series. D. Lymington, 1896.

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PEACOCK, Thomas Love, novelist, b. Weymouth, 1785; d. Lower Halliford, 1866. One of the best classical scholars of his time, though self-educated. Became the intimate friend of Shelley, and was his executor. Was connected with the India House as chief examiner from 1819 to 1856. Wrote several novels, of which "Headlong Hall," published in 1815, was the first. Rhododaphne," a long poem, appeared in 1818; "Nightmare Abbey," in 1818; "Maid Marian," in 1822; Gryll Grange," in 1860.

PFEIFFER, Emily (Davis), b. Wales, 1841; d. 1890. Daughter of Mr. R. Davis of Oxfordshire, an officer in the army. Lack of means prevented her receiving a systematic education. After a tour abroad she married Mr. Pfeiffer, a rich German merchant who settled in London. Though suffering for years from ill-health, she wrote, chivalrously encouraged by her husband, many volumes of poetry,

and contributed articles on "Woman's Work" to the "Contemporary Review."

POLLOCK, Sir Frederick, 3d Bart., barrister, b. 1845. Eldest son of Sir William Frederick Pollock, Bart. Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, 1868. Made Corpus Prof. Jur., Öxford, 1883, and Prof. of Common Law, Inns of Court, 1884. Also editor of the Law Quar terly Review" and author of various legal works. Has written a book on Spinoza, and in verse, the witty "Leading Cases Done into English," 1876, from which The Six Carpenters' Case," given in this Anthology, is taken.

POLLOCK, Walter Herries, editor, b. London, 1850. Brother of the preceding. Graduated from Trinity College, Cambridge, 1871. Called to the bar at the Inner Temple, 1874. Has lectured at the Royal Institution, London, and other places. Long the editor of the "Saturday Review." In addition to a volume of lectures and a novel, he has published The Poet and the "Verses of Two Tongues," 66 Muse," translated from A. de Musset, and 'Songs and Rhymes," 1882.

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PROBYN, May. Author of "Poems," 1881; "A Ballad of the Road and Other Poems," 1883; and works of fiction. Her verse was well received by the public. It is understood that, having entered an order of the Roman Catholic Church, for a time she ceased to write, but a new volume of her poetry has been announced.

PROCTER, Adelaide Anne, b. London, 1825; d. 1864. Daughter of Bryan Waller Procter, "Barry Cornwall." Her verses were first published over the signature of "Mary Berwick," and were sent to her father's friend, Charles Dickens, then editor of "Household Words." The success of her efforts led her to disclose her identity. She became a Roman Catholic and was indefatigable in charitable work. An enlarged edition of "Legends and Verses was issued in 1861. "A Chaplet of Verses" appeared in 1862, and a complete edition of her poems, with an introduction by Charles Dickens, was issued not long after her death.

PROCTER, Bryan Waller, barrister, b. London, 1787; d. London, 1874. Educated at Harrow. He was called to the bar in 1831. Held the post of Commissioner of Lunacy from 1831 to 1861. His first work was published under the pen-name of Barry Cornwall." Author of Dramatic Scenes and Other Poems," 1819; 'Mirandola,” a play that had a successful run at Covent Garden, 1821; "A Sicilian

Story," 1821; "Flood of Thessaly," 1823; "English Songs," 1832; and memoirs of Shakespeare, Lamb, and others. A natural and exquisite song-writer, associated in literary annals with our traditions of Lamb, Hunt, Landor, Keats, Shelley, and the post-Georgian school. Cp. "Victorian Poets," chap. iii.

QUILLER-COUCH, Arthur Thomas, romancer, b. Bodwin in Cornwall, 1863. Educated at Clifton College and Trinity College, Oxford. Has published "The Splendid Spur," 1889; "The Delectable Duchy," 1893;" Green Bays and "The White Moth" (verse), 1893.

RADFORD, Dollie, b. 1858. Author of “A Light Load," 1891; Songs and other Verses," 1895. Was Miss Dollie Maitland before her marriage to the well-known writer Ernest Radford.

RANDS, William Brighty, b. 1823; d. 1880. Wrote under the pseudonyms of "Henry Holbeach," "Matthew Browne," and " Timon Fielding." Was reporter in the Committee Rooms of the House of Commons. Wrote "The Literary Lounger" in the "Illustrated Times"; contributed to other periodicals. "Lilliput Levee " appeared in 1864; "Chaucer's England," in 1869; "Lilliput Lectures," in 1871.

RHYS, Ernest, editor, b. London, 1859. Educated at schools in Bishop Stootford and Newcastle-on-Tyne. Became a mining engineer, and followed his profession in County Durham, but after awhile devoted himself to letters. Having resided as a boy in South Wales, he has paid special attention to the translation of Welsh literature. Editor of the "Camelot Series," sixty-five volumes, 1885-90, of popular reprints and translations. Author of The Great Cockney Tragedy," 1891; "A London Rose and Other Rhymes," 1894; "Life of Sir Frederick Leighton, P. R. A.," 1895. Member of the Rhymers' Club, and a contributor to its "First and Second Books," 1893

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ROBERTS, Charles George Douglas, professor, b. New Brunswick, 1860. The son of a clergyman, he was educated at home under his father's instruction, and at the University of New Brunswick. Was made head master of Chatham Grammar School in 1879. Two years later edited the Toronto Week" for a short time. In 1885 became professor of Modern Literature in King's College, Windsor, N. S. Author of "Orion and Other Poems," 1880; "In Divers Tones," 1887; "Songs of the Common Day," 1893. Has now resigned his professorship to devote himself more freely to literature. He has been an influential leader of the new and promising Canadian group of writers.

ROBERTS, Jane Elizabeth Gostwycke, b. Westcock, New Brunswick. Sister of C. G. D. Roberts.

ROBINSON, A. Mary F.-See A. M. F. Darmesteter.

RODD, Rennell, diplomatist, b. 1858. His poem on Sir Walter Raleigh won for him the

Newdigate prize at Oxford, in 1880. Appointed to the Berlin Embassy in 1884, and afterwards connected with the Legation at Athens. In addition to "Feda and Other Poems," 1886, has published some volumes of verse and two prose works.

ROPES, Arthur Reed, b. near London, 1859. Son of an American merchant whe settled in England, and nephew of John C. Ropes, the writer on military history. Fellow of King's College, Cambridge, 1884-90. Published "Poems" in 1884, and has since written lyrics for the stage under the name of “* Adrian Roos." Edited, also, selections from the letters of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu.

ROSCOE, William Caldwell, b. Liverpool, 1823; d. 1859. Took his degree at University College, London, 1843. Called to the Bar, 185, but owing to ill-health he was obliged to give up practice. His "Poems and Essays," in twe volumes, were edited with a memoir, by his brother-in-law, Richard Holt Hutton, after his death.

ROSSETTI, Christina Georgina, b. Lovdon, 1830; d. London, 1894. Daughter of Gabriel Rossetti, an Italian political exile and distinguished student of Dante, and sister of Dante Gabriel Rossetti. In the front rank of modern women poets. Her later work is devo tional in sentiment, and consists chiefly of poeti cal commentaries on religious subjects. Collec tive editions of her poems have been published in England and America. Author of "Goblia Market and Other Poems," 1862; The Prince's Progress and Other Poems," 1866; **Sing-Song, a Nursery Rhyme-book," 1872; Annus De mini, a Collect for Each Day of the Year," 1874; A Pageant and Other Poems," 1881; "Letter and Spirit, Notes on the Commandments," 1883; "Time Flies, a Reading Diary," 1885.

ROSSETTI, Dante Gabriel (Gabriel Charles Dante), painter, b. London, 1828; d. Westgate-on-Sea, 1882. Son of Gabriel Ro setti and brother of Christina Rossetti. Educated at King's College School; studied art at the Royal Academy Antique School and in Ford Madox Brown's studio. He was confessedly the leader and exemplar of the PreRaphaelite School, both in painting and poetry, In 1850, with the assistance of a few associates of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, he founded

The Germ," which was the organ of the order, and in which "The Blessed Damozel" appeared in 1850. His pictures are distinguished by the same subtle quality that marks his verse, and exercised as great an influence in art as the latter did in literature. His "Early Italian Poets," a translation, appeared in 1861; “Poems," in 1870; "Dante and His Circle," also a transla tion, in 1874; and "Ballads and Sonnets," in 1881. "Cp. "Victorian Poets," chap. x and p 439.

ROSSLYN, 4th Earl of, Francis Robert St. Clair Erskine, b. 1833; d. 1890. Published his "Sonnets" in 1883.

RUSKIN, John, critic and virtuoso, and Slade Professor of Fine Arts at Oxford, b. London, 8 Feb., 1819; d. Brentwood, near Coniston, 20 Jan., 1900. Educated at Oxford, where he took the Newdigate prize in 1829. Devoted himself to art, and in 1843 published the first volume of "Modern Painters," which work finally consisted of five volumes, illustrated by himself. Besides many noble books on the fine arts, composed in his fervent and cumulative style, he published two architectural treatises. His writings often involved a criticism of life, from an idealist's point of view, and bore upon social problems. Under the title Praeterita," 1885-1889, he issued what is practically his autobiography.

RUSSELL, George William ("A. E."), b. Durgan, a town in the North of Ireland, 1867. Moved to Dublin with his family at the age of ten. Formed the acquaintance of a group of literary people, of which W. B. Yeats and Katharine Tynan were conspicuous members. He studied art for a short time. His poems have been published under the initials "A. E." "Homeward Songs by the Way was reissued in the United States, 1895.

RUSSELL, Percy, Australian journalist and poet, now living in London. Author of "King Alfred and Other Poems," 1880; "My Strange Wife," 1886.

SAVAGE-ARMSTRONG, George Francis, b. County Dublin, 1845. Educated at Trinity College, Dublin. Professor of History and English Literature in Queen's College, Cork, and a professor of the Queen's University, Ireland. Edited the works of his deceased brother, Edmund J. Armstrong, with a biogra phy. Made Litt. D., Queen's University, 1882, and is a Fellow of the Royal University of Ireland. Author of many poetical works, among which are 66 Poems, Lyrical and Dramatic, 1879; "Ugone, a Tragedy," 1870; "The Tragedy of Israel" (a trilogy), 1872-76; "Stories of Wicklow," 1886; One in the Infinite," 1891. An edition of all his poetry, in 10 volumes, was issued in 1892. (D. 1906.)

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SCHUYLER - LIGHTHALL, Douw, advocate, b. Hamilton, Ontario, 1857. Published several volumes on Canadian national life. Thoughts, Moods, and Ideals," a small book of verse, was printed for private circulation in 1887. He also edited "Songs of the Great Dominion," 1889.

SCOTT, Clement William, dramatist and dramatic critic, b. Hoxton, London, 1841. Son of Rev. William Scott. Educated at Marlborough College, Wiltshire. Appointed to a clerkship in the War Office, 1860, and in 1879 retired on a pension. Has contributed to many of the leading English periodicals. Became dramatic critic to the London "Daily Telegraph" in 1879. Lays of a Londoner арpeared in 1882; "Lays and Legends," in 1888. Is the author of several successful plays, among which are "The Cape Mail," Odette," and

"Sister Mary," in which he collaborated with Wilson Barrett. (D. London, 1904.)

SCOTT, Duncan Campbell, b. Ottawa, 1862. Lived in Ottawa, and subsequently in Quebec, until 1879, when he entered the Indian Department of the Civil Service, and is now chief clerk of that department. He published "The Magic House in 1893.

SCOTT, Frederick George, clergyman, b. 1861. In charge of a church at Drummondville, Quebec. Author of "The Soul's Quest," 1888, and "My Lattice and Other Poems," 1894.

SCOTT, William Bell, painter and etcher, b. near Edinburgh, 1811; d. Ayrshire, 1890. Educated at the Edinburgh High School and studied art at the Government Academy and the British Museum. Established a Government art school at Newcastle, 1844. His early poems appeared in the Edinburgh magazines. Poems of a Painter was published in 1854, and A Poet's Harvest Home" in 1882. His personal reminiscences, largely concerned with the Pre-Raphaelite group of poets and painters, were published after his death.

SHANLY, Charles Dawson, journalist, b. Dublin, Ireland, 1811; d. Florida, U. S., 1875. Educated at Trinity College, Dublin. Went to Canada and finally to New York, where he wrote regularly for the newspapers and magazines, but is claimed as a Canadian poet.

SHARP, William,1 author and critic, b. Garthland Place, Scotland, 1856. Educated at the University of Glasgow. In youth was intimate with Dante Rossetti, whose biography he wrote, 1882, as also that of Browning in after years. His travels have been extensive, including a sojourn in Australia, and visits to Continental Europe, Northern Africa, and the United States. His earliest book of poetry was "The Human Inheritance, Transcripts from Nature, and Other Poems," 1882. Since this have appeared: "Earth's Voices," 1884; "Romantic Ballads," 1888; "Sospiri di Roma," 1891; "Flower of the Vine," 1892, an American reprint of the last two works; and "Vistas," 1894, weirdly symbolic dramas, but of an individual cast. Has written several novels, etc., and is editor of the "Canterbury Poets" series. (D. Sicily, 1905.)

SIGERSON, Dora, b. Dublin, 187-. Daughter of Dr. George Sigerson, the writer and balladist. Author of "Verses," 1893, Now Mrs. Clement Shorter.

SIMMONS, Bartholomew, b. Kilworth, Ireland, 18-; d. 1850. Obtained a situation in the Excise Office, after removing to London. Contributed to various magazines. Published "Legends, Lyrics, and Other Poems," 1843.

SINNETT, Percy F., b. Norwood, South Australia, 18-; d. North Adelaide, at the age of twenty-two. He wrote a number of political poems. "The Song of the Wild StormWaves" was written, when he was eighteen, on the loss of the "Tararua."

SKIPSEY, Joseph, b. near North Shields, 1832. Much of his life, since his seventh year, has been spent in the coal-pits, at hard physical labor. "A Book of Miscellaneous Lyrics," published in 1878, attracted the attention of the Pre-Raphaelite poets. In 1886, **Carols was issued, and in 1892, from the Coalfields' “Songs and Lyrics."

SLADEN, Douglas Brooke Wheelton, man of letters, b. London, 1856. Studied at Cheltenham and Oxford, went to Australia, 1879, and for a time was professor of History in the University of Sydney. From 1882 to 1890 he published many volumes of poems, among them: Frithjof and Ingebjorg," 1882; "Australian Lyrics," 1883, 1888; A Poetry of Exiles," 1884; A Summer Christmas," 1885; In Cornwall and Across the Sea," 1885; Edward the Black Prince" (drama), 1886; "The Spanish Armada," 1888. Editor of Australian and Canadian Anthologies, which have been of service to the present work. An extensive traveller and industrious writer, he latterly has paid more attention to prose, his books The Japs at Home," and "On the Cars and Off" (Canadian travel), 1894, having been well received, to which he has added a novel, "A Japanese Marriage," 1895. Is honorary secretary of the Authors' Club, London.

SMEDLEY, Menella Bute, b. 1820; d. 1877. Her delicate health made it necesary for her to reside for many years at Tenby, a seacoast town. She published three volumes of verse, many of the poems in "Child-World" and Poems Written for a Child," and several successful prose tales.

SMITH, A. C., clergyman. Was in charge of a Presbyterian church in Victoria, Australia, but afterward moved to Queensland.

SMITH, Alexander, b. Kilmarnock, 31 December, 1829; d. 1867. While he was a pattern designer at Glasgow, some of his verse was published in the Glasgow Citizen" and afterwards in the British Critic." In 1852 ** The Life Drama came out and made a sensation. (See W. E. Aytoun.) He became secretary to the University of Edinburgh in 1854. Edited an edition of Burns, and with Mr. Sidney Dobell wrote "Sonnets on the Crimean War." "City Poems" appeared in 1857; "Edwin of Deira," in 1861.

SMITH, Walter C., clergyman, b. 1824. Since 1876 has been pastor of the Free High Church, Edinburgh. Author of the following

books of poetry, some of which have passed through several editions: "Olrig Grange, "Borland Hill," "Hilda," ** Raban, bishop Walk and Other Poems;" also of **North Country Folk," 1883; "Kildrostan, a Dramatis Poem," 1884; "A Heretic," 1891.

SOUTHESK, Earl of, (Sir James Carnegie, 6th Earl of Southesk, Scotland, and Baron Balinhard, U. K.), b. 1827. Autha of "Herminius: a Romance," 1962; “Jone Fisher: a Poem in Brown and White," 1576; 'Meda Maiden," 1877; "The Burial of Isis, with Other Poems," 1884.

STANLEY, Arthur Penrhyn, divine, b Alderly, Cheshire, 1815; d. London, 1881. Educated at Rugby and Oxford, where he was distinguished for scholarship. For twelve years tutor in the University. Canon of Canterbury and of Christ Church, and Professor of Ecclesiastical History at Oxford. In 1863 was ap pointed to the Deanery at Westminster, and in the same year married Lady Augusta Bruce, daughter of the 7th Earl of Elgin, Pablished several prose works but no collected edition of his poems.

STEPHEN, James Kenneth, “J. K. 8.,” b. 1859; d. London, 1892. Son of Sir James Fitzjames Stephen. Educated at Eton and at King's College, Cambridge. A Fellow of King's, and for a time tutor of Prince Albert Victor. Called to the Bar at the Inner Temple, 1884. Author of "International Law and International Relations," 1885; Lapsus Calami,” 1891, which reached its fourth edition in the same year; and "Quo, musa, tendis?" INL

STEPHENS, James Brunton, instructor, b. Linlithgowshire, Scotland, 1835. Emigrated to Queensland, 1866. At one time head mas ter in one of the State schools. Author of "Miscellaneous Poems," 1880; "Convict Once and Other Poems," 1885.

STERLING, John, b. Kames Castle in Bute, 1806; d. 1844. Educated at Glasgow University and Trinity College, Cambridge. For a time editor of the "Athenæum." Or dained curate in 1834, but owing to ill-health soon gave up his orders. Published "Poems" in 1839, and "Strafford," a drama, in 193 After his death his essays and tales were cullected and edited by Archdeacon Hare. The memoir prefixed to these caused Thomas Car lyle, who was his intimate friend, to write the "Life of John Sterling."

STEVENSON, Robert Louis Balfour novelist, b. Edinburgh, 1850; d. in Samoa 1894. Grandson of Robert Stevenson, an eminent engineer. His people having been engineers to the Board of Northern Lighthouses for three generations, he was at first trained for the same profession. Called to the bar in 1875, but after a short practice abandoned it. Owing to ill-health, much of his time was spent in travelling, until he finally built for himself a picturesque tropical home near Apia, in the