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Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction, and the Drama, Vol. 4

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Malory (Sir Thomas), 1430-*. Morte d’Arthur (History of Prince Arthur), in 3 parts, 1465-70; printed by Caxton, 1485.

Malthus (Rev. Thomas Robert), born near Dorking, in Surrey, 1766-1834. Essays on the Principle of Population, 1798, 1803. Inquiry into the Nature, etc., of Rent, 1815. Measure of Value, etc. (The), 1823. Principles of Political Economy, 1820.

Mandeville (Sir John de), born at St. Albans, in Hertfordshire, 1300-1372. Voyaige and Travaile, 1356.

Manning (Anne), 1807- Belforest, 1864. Cherry and Violet, 1853. Chronicles of Merrie England, 1854. Claude, the Colporteur, 1857. Duchess of Trajetto (The). Good Old Times, 1856. Household of Sir Thomas More, 1851. Mary Powell, 1850. Miss Biddy Frobisher, 1866. Noble Purpose nobly won (A). Poplar House Academy, 1859. Royal Mischief. Tasso and Leonora.

March (Francis Andrew), born at Millbury, Massachusetts, 1825- Anglo-Saxon Grammar, 1870. Introduction to Anglo-Saxon, 1871. Method of Philological Study of the English Language (A), 1865.

Marlowe (Christopher), born at Canterbury, 1565-1593. Ovid’s Elegies, 1597. ⁂ For his nine dramas, see Appendix III.

Marryat (Captain Frederick), London, 1792-1848. 324Children of the New Forest (The), 1847. Frank Mildmay, or the Naval Officer, 1829. Jacob Faithful, 1835. Japhet in Search of a Father, 1836. King’s Own (The), 1830. Little Savage (The), 1847. Masterman Ready, 1841. Mission (The), or Scenes in Africa, 1845. Mr. Midshipman Easy, 1836. Monsieur Violet, 1843. Newton Forster, 1832. Olla Podrida, 1840. Pacha of Many Tales (The), 1835. Percival Keene, 1842. Peter Simple, 1833. Phantom Ship (The), 1839. Pirate and the Three Cutters (The), 1836. Poor Jack, 1840. Privateersman (The), 1844. Settlers in Canada (The), 1844. Snarley-Yow, or the Dog-Fiend, 1837. Valerie (an autobiography), 1849.

Marryat (Florence), born at Brighton, 1837- Broken Blossom (A), 1879. Confessions of Gerald Estcourt, 1867. Fair-haired Alda, 1880. Fighting the Air, 1875. For Ever and Ever, 1866. Girls of Feversham, 1868. Gyp, 1868. Harvest of Wild Oats (A), 1877. Her Father’s Name, 1876. Her Lord and Master, 1870. Her Own. Her Word against a Lie, 1878. Hidden Chains, 1876. Life and Letters of Captain Marryat, 1872. Little Stepson (A), 1877. Love’s Conflict, 1865. Mad Dumaresq, 1873. My Own Child, 1876. My Sister, the Actress, 1881. Nelly Brooke, 1867. No Intentions, 1874. Open Sesame, 1875. Petronel, 1869. Prey of the Gods (The), 1871. Root of all Evil (The), 1879. Sybil’s Friend, etc., 1873. Too Good for Him, 1865. Verdique, 1868. Veronique, 1869. With Cupid’s Eyes, 1880. Woman against Woman, 1866. Written in Fire, 1878.

Marsh (George Perkins), born at Woodstock, 1801-1882. Camel (The), his Habits and Uses, 1856. Grammar of the Icelandic Language, 1838. Lectures on the English Language, 1861. Origin and History of the English Language, 1862; now called “The Earth as Modified by Human Action,” 1874.

Marston (Philip Bourke), son of Dr. Westland Marston, 1850-1887. All in All, 1874. Songtide, and other Poems, 1871.

Martin (Sir Theodore), born at Edinburgh, 1816- Life of Aytoun, 1867. Life of the Prince Consort, 1874-79.

Martineau (Harriet), born at Norwich, 1802-1876. Billow and the Rock (The), 1846. Biographical Sketches, 1872. British Rule in India, 1857. Christmas Day, 1824. Complete Guide to the Lakes, 1854. Corporate, Traditional and Natural Rights, 1857. Crofton Boys (The), 1840. Deerbrook, 1839. Devotional Exercises ... for the Young, 1823. Eastern Life, etc., 1848. Endowed Schools in Ireland, 1859. England and her Soldiers, 1859. Factory Controversy (The), 1855. Feats of the Fiord, 1840. Forest and Game Law Tales, 1845. Friend (The), 1825. Health, Husbandry and Handicraft, 1861. History of England during the Thirty Years’ Peace (1816-46), 1849-50; introduction, 1851. History of the American Compromise, 1856. Hour and the Man (The), 1840. Household Education, 1854. Illustrations of Political Economy, 1833. Illustrations of Taxation, 1834. Laws of Man’s Nature, etc., 1851. Letter on Mesmerism, 1845. Life in the Sick-Room, 1843. Poor Laws and Paupers, 1834. Principle and Practice, 1826. Prize Essays, 1830. Retrospect of Western Travel, 1838. Rioters, 1826. Society in America, 1837. Traditions of Palestine, 1830. Turn-out (The), 1827.

325Martineau (James), born at Norwich, 1805- Endeavors after the Christian Life, 1843-47. Essays, 1869. Hours of Thought, 1876. Hymns, 1840, 1874. Ideal Substitutes for God, 1878. Miscellanies, 1852. Rationale of Religious Inquiry, 1837. Religion and Modern Materialism, 1874. Studies of Christianity, 1858.

Massey (Gerald), born at Tring, in Hertfordshire, 1828- Ballad of Babe Christabel, and other Poems, 1855. Craigcrook Castle, and other Poems, 1856. Havelock’s March, and other Poems, 1861. Poems and Chansons, 1846. Shakespeare’s Sonnets and his Private Friends, 1866. Tale of Eternity (A), and other Poems, 1869. Voices of Freedom and Lyrics of Love, 1849.

Masson (David), of Aberdeen, 1822- British Novelists, etc., 1859. Critical Sketch ... of British Prose Fiction, 1859. Drummond of Hawthornden, 1873. Essays, Biographical and Critical, etc., 1856. Life of John Milton, 1858-1879. Recent British Philosophy, 1865. Three Devils (The), Luther’s, Milton’s and Goethe’s.

Maurice (Rev. John F. Denison), 1805-1872. Bible and Science (The), 1863. Christian Ethics, 1867. Commandments (The), 1866. Conflict of Good and Evil (The), 1865. Conscience (The), 1868. Doctrine of Sacrifice (The), 1854. Friendship of Books (The), 1873. History of Moral and Physical Philosophy, 1853-62. Kingdom of Christ, 1842. Kingdom of Heaven, 1864. Lectures on Ecclesiastical History, 1854. Patriarchs and Lawgivers of the Old Testament, 1855. Prophets and Kings of the Old Testament, 1853. Religions of the World, 1847. Social Morality, 1869. Theological Essays, 1854.

May (Sir Thomas Erskine), 1815-1886. Constitutional History of England since the Accession of George III., 1861-63, 1871. Democracy in Europe, 1877.

Mayhew (Henry), 1812-1887. Great World of London (The), 1856. London Labor and London Poor, 1851. Mormons, or Latter-day Saints (The), 1852. Rhine (The), and its Scenery, 1856-58. Wandering Minstrel (The), 1841. Wonders of Science (The), 1855.

Mayo (William Starbuck), born at Ogdensburg, 1812- Kaloolah, or Journeyings to the Djebel Kumri, 1848.

Melville (George John Whyte), 1821-1878. Black but Comely, 1879. Bones and I, 1868. Brooks of Bridlemere (The), 1864. Cerise, 1865. Contraband, 1870. Digby Grand, 1853. General Bounce, 1854. Gladiators (The), 1863. Good for Nothing, 1861. Holmby House, 1860. Interpreter (The), 1858. Kate Coventry, 1856. Katerfelto, 1875. M. or N., 1869. Market Harborough, 1861. Queen’s Maries (The), 1864. Rosine, 1876. Roy’s Wife, 1878. Sarchedon, 1871. Satanella, 1872. Sister Louise, 1875. Tilbury Nogo, 1861. True Cross (The), 1873. Uncle John, 1874. White Rose (The), 1868.

Meredith (George), born in Hampshire, 1828- Adventures of Harry Richmond, 1871. Beauchamp’s Career, 1875. Egoist (The), 1879. Emilia in England, 1864. Evan Harrington, 1861. Farina, 1857. Mary Bertrand, 1860. Modern Love, 1862. Ordeal of Richard Feveril (The), 1859. Poems, 1851. Poems and Ballads, 1862. Rhoda Fleming, 1865. Shaving of Shagpat (The), 1855. Vittoria, 1866.

Merivale (Charles), 1808- General History of Rome, 1875. History of the Romans under the Empire, 1850-62.

326Meteyard (Eliza), 1816-1879. Doctor’s Little Daughter (The), 1850. Dr. Oliver’s Maid, 1857. Group of Englishmen (A), 1871. Hallowed Spots of London (The), 1861. Industrial and Household Tales, 1872. Lady Herbert’s Gentlewoman, 1862. Life of Josiah Wedgwood, 1865-66. Lilian’s Golden Hours, 1856. Little Museum-keepers (The), 1863. Maidstone’s Housekeeper, 1860. Struggles for Fame, 1845.

Mill (John Stuart), London, 1806-1873. Auguste Comte and “Positivism,” 1865. Autobiography, 1873. Dissertations and Discussions, 1859-67. England and Ireland, 1868. Essay on Liberty, 1858. Essays on ... Political Economy, 1844. Examination of Sir W. Hamilton’s Philosophy, 1865. Irish Land Question (The), 1870. Nature, and other Essays, 1874. Principles of Political Economy, 1848. Subjection of Women (The), 1867. System of Logic, 1843. Thoughts on Parliamentary Reform, 1859. Utilitarianism, 1862.

Miller (Hugh), born at Cromarty, in Scotland, 1802-1856. Cruise of the Betsy, 1858. First Impressions of England, etc., 1847. Footprints of the Creator, 1850. My Schools and Schoolmasters, 1854. Old Red Sandstone (The), 1841. Poems, 1829. Scenes and Legends in the North of Scotland, 1834. Testimony of the Rocks, 1857.

Miller (Joaquin), born in Indiana, 1841- First Fam’lies in the Sierras, 1875. Life among the Madocs, 1873. One Fair Woman (The), 1876. Pacific Poems, 1864. Ship in the Desert (The), 1875. Songs of Far-away Lands, 1878. Songs of the Sierras, 1864. Songs of the Sun Lands, 1873.

Milman (Henry Hart), London, 1791-1868. History of Christianity, 1840. History of Latin Christianity, 1854-55. History of the Jews, 1829-30.

Milton (John), London, 1608-1674. Arcades, 1633. Comus, 1634; published 1637. Death of an Infant, 1625. L’Allegro, 1645. Lycidas, 1637. May Morning, 1630. Morning of Christ’s Nativity, 1629. Paradise Lost, 1667. Paradise Regained, 1671. Penseroso (Il), 1645. Samson Agonistes, 1671. Sonnet on Reaching the Age of Twenty-Three Years, 1631. University Carrier (The), 1631. Vacation Exercise, 1628. Areopagitica, 1644. Christian Doctrine, 1823. Colasterion, 1645. Considerations ... for removing Hirelings from the Church, 1659. Defence of the Civil Power in Ecclesiastical Causes, 1659. Defensio Populi Anglicani, 1650-51. (Burnt by the public hangman.) Doctrine, etc., of Divorce, 1644. Eikonoklastes, 1649. History of Britain, 1670. Judgment of Bucer touching Divorce, 1644. Latin Letters, 1674. Observations on the Articles of Peace, 1649. On Shakespeare, 1630. Prelatical Episcopacy, 1641. Reasons of Church Government ... against Prelacy, 1641-42. Reformation in England (The), 1641. Tenure of Kings, etc. (The), 1648-49.

Mitchell (Donald Grant), born at Norwich, Conn., 1822- About Old Story-Tellers, 1878. Battle Summer (The), 1849. Dr. John’s, 1866. Dream Life, 1851. Fresh Gleanings, etc., 1847. Judge’s Doings (The), 1854. Lorgnette (The), 1850. My Farm at Edgewood, 1863. Pictures of Edgewood, 1869. Reveries ofof a Bachelor, 1850. Rural Studies, 1867. Seven Stories, Basement and Attic, 1864. Wet Days at Edgewood, 1864.

Mitford (Mary Russell), born at Alresford, in Hampshire, 1786-1855. Our Village, 1824-32. Recollections of a Literary Life, 1851.

Mivart (St. George), London, 1827- Contemporary Evolution, 1876. Genesis of Species (The), 1871.

327Moore (Thomas), born in Dublin, 1779-1852. Epicurean (The), 1827. Irish Melodies, 1807-34. Lalla Rookh, 1817. Life of Lord Byron, 1830.

More (Hannah), born at Stapleton, in Gloucestershire, 1745-1833. Cœlebs in Search of a Wife (a novel), 1809. Village Politics, 1793.

More (Sir Thomas), London, 1480-1535. Utopia, 1516; translated into English, 1551.

Morley (John), born at Blackburn, in Lancashire, 1838- Critical Miscellanies, 1871, 1877. Diderot and the Encyclopædists, 1878. Edmund Burke, 1867. Life of Cobden, 1881. Rousseau, 1873. Struggle of National Education, 1873. Voltaire, 1871.

Morris (William), born near London, 1834- Defence of Guenevère, 1858. Earthly Paradise, 1868-70. Life and Death of Jason, 1865. Love is Enough, 1872. Story of Sigurd (The), etc., 1876. Translations from the Icelandic, 1869; from Virgil’s Æneid, 1876.

Motley (John Lothrop), born at Dorchester, 1814-1877. History of the Rise of the Dutch Republic, 1856. History of the United Netherlands, etc., 1860-1865.

Muller (Frederick Max), a German by birth, but a writer in English, 1823- Chips from a German Workshop, 1868-70. Essay on Bengali (An), 1847. German Classics ... 1858. History of Ancient Sanskrit Literature, 1859. Introduction to Science of Religion, 1873. Lectures on the Science of Language, 1859. Proposals for a Uniform Missionary Alphabet, 1854. Survey of Languages (A), 1855.

Napier (Sir William Francis Patrick), born at Castletown, in Ireland, 1785-1860. History of the Peninsular War, 1828-40.

Newcomb (Simon), born at Wallace, in Nova Scotia, 1835- A B C of Finance (The), 1877. Investigation of the Solar Parallax, 1867. On Action of Planets on the Moon, 1871. On Secular Variations of Asteroids, 1860. Our Financial Policy during the Southern Rebellion, 1865. Popular Astronomy, 1878.

Newman (John Henry), London, 1801-1890. Apologia pro Vita Sua, 1864. Arians of the Fourth Century, 1838. Church of the Fathers, 1842. Development of Christian Doctrine, 1846. Grammar of Assent (The), 1870. Lectures on Justification, 1838. Lectures on Romanism, etc., 1837. Life of Apollonius Tyanæus, 1824. Lives of the English Saints, 1844. Miracles of the Middle Ages (The), 1843. Office and Work of Universities, 1854-56. Poems, 1868. Prophetical Office of the Church, etc., 1837. Theory of Religious Belief (The), 1844. Tracts for the Times (No. 90), 1840.

Newton (Sir Isaac), born at Woolsthorpe, Lincolnshire, 1642-1727. Principia Philosophiæ Naturalis Mathematica, 1684; published 1687-1726.

Oliphant (Laurence), 1829-1888. Incidents of Travel, 1865. Journey to Katmandhu (A), 1850. Minnesota and the Far West, 1855. Narrative of the earl of Elgin’s Mission (1857-59) to China and Japan, 1860. Patriots and Filibusters, 1861. Piccadilly, 1870. Russian Shores of the Black Sea, 1853. Transcaucasian Campaign under Omer Pasha, 1856.

Oliphant (Mrs. Margaret Wilson), born at Liverpool, 1820- Adam Græme of Mossgray, 1852. Agnes, 1866. At his Gates, 1872. Brownlows, 1868. Carità, 1877. Chronicles of Carlingford, 1864-69. Curate in Charge (The), 1876. Dress, 1878. For Love and Life, 1874. Harry Muir, 1853. Innocent, 1873. John, 1870. Katie Stewart, 1856. Lilliesleaf, 1855. Magdalen Hepburn, 1854. May, 1873. Merkland, 1851. Minister’s Wife, 1869. Mrs. Arthur, 1877. 328Mrs. Margaret Maitland of Sunnyside, 1849. Mrs. Marjoribanks. Ombra, 1872. Perpetual Curate (The). Phœbe Junior. Primrose Path (The), 1878. Quiet Heart (The), 1858. Rector (The). Rose in June (A), 1874. Salem Chapel. Son of the Soil (A), 1870. Squire Arden, 1871. Three Brothers, 1870. Valentine and his Brothers, 1875. Within the Precincts, 1879. Young Musgrave, 1877. Zaidee, 1856. Historical Sketches of the Reign of George II., 1869. Life of Edward Irving, 1862. Life of St. Francis of Assisi, 1870. Makers of Florence, 1876. Memoir of Montalembert (A), 1872.

Olmsted (Frederick Law), born in Hartford, 1822- Cotton Kingdom (The), 1861. Journey in the Black Country, 1860. Journey to the Seaboard Slave States, 1856. Journey through Texas, 1857. Walks and Talks, 1852.

Opie (Mrs.), born at Norwich, 1769-1853. Adelaide Mowbray, 1804. Detraction Displayed, 1828. Father and Daughter, 1810. Illustrations of Lying in All its Branches, 1827. Lays for the Dead, 1833. Madeline, 1822. Mother and Son, 1800. New Tales, 1818. Poems, 1802-8. Simple Tales, 1806. Tales of the Heart, 1811. Tales of Real Life, 1813. Temper, or Domestic Scenes, 1812. Valentine Eve, 1812. Warrior’s Return (The), and other Poems, 1809.

Ossian, Celtic warrior-poet, said to have lived in the third century. Poems published by James Macpherson, consist of two epics, viz. “Fingal” and “Temora,” and several smaller prose-poems, 1760-63.

Owen (Robert Dale), born at New Lanark, in Scotland, 1804-1877. Authenticity of the Bible, 1832. Beyond the Breakers, 1870. Debatable Land (The), 1872. Footfalls on the Boundary of Another World, 1860. Threading my Way, 1874. Wrong of Slavery (The), 1864.

Paine (Thomas), born at Thetford, in Norfolk, 1737-1809. Age of Reason, 1792-95, 1807. Agrarian Justice, 1797. American Crisis (The), 1776, 1796. Common Sense, 1776. Crisis (The), 1776-80. Dissertation on the First Principles of Government, 1795. Political and Moral Maxims, 1792. Prospects on the Rubicon, 1787. Public Good, 1780. Rights of Man (The), 1791-92.

Paley (William), born at Peterborough, in Northamptonshire, 1743-1805. Evidences of Christianity, 1794. Horæ Paulinæ, 1790. Moral and Political Philosophy, 1785. Natural Theology, 1802.

Palgrave (Francis Turner), London, 1824- Essays on Art, 1866. Five Days’ Entertainments at Wentworth Grange, 1868. Golden Treasury of English Songs, etc., 1861. Hymns, 1867. Idylls and Songs, 1854. Life of Sir Walter Scott, 1867. Lyrical Poems, 1871. Visions of England (The), poems, 1881.

Park (Mungo), born near Selkirk, in Scotland, 1771-1805. Travels (in 1795-97) in the Interior of Africa, 1799.

Parker (Rev. Theodore), born at Lexington, 1810-1860. Discourse of Matters pertaining to Religion, 1842. Sermons, 1852-53. Speeches, 1855.

Parkman (Francis), born at Boston, 1823- California and Oregon Trail (The), 1849. Discovery of the Great West (The), 1869. France and England in America, 1865-67. Frontenac, 1878. History of the Conspiracy of Pontiac, 1851. Old Régime in Canada (The), 1874. Prairie and Rocky Mountain Life, 1852. Vassal Morton, 1856.

Patmore (Coventry Kearsay Deighton), born at Woodford, in Essex, 1823- Angel of the House (The), in four parts, 1855; part i., the Betrothal, 1854; part ii., the Espousal, 1856; part iii., Faithful for Ever, 1860; part iv., the Victories of Love, 1862. Memoir of Barry Cornwall, 1878. Poems, 1844.

Pattison (Rev. Mark), born at Hornby, in Yorkshire, 1813-1884. Isaac Casaubon, 1875.

Payn (James), born at Rodney Lodge, Cheltenham, in Gloucestershire, 1830- At Her Mercy. Best of Husbands (The). Bentinck’s Tutor. By Proxy, 1878. Carlyon’s Year. Cecil’s Tryst. Clyffards of Clyffe (The). Confidential Agent (A), 1830. County Family (A), 1869. Fallen Fortunes. Family Scapegrace (The), 1861. For Cash Only, 1882. Foster Brothers (The). Found Dead. From Exile, 1881. Grape from a Thorn (A), 1881. Gwendoline’s Harvest. Halves. High Spirits, 1879. Humorous Stories. Less Black than we’re Painted, 1878. Like Father, Like Son, 1870. Lost Sir Massingberd, 1864. Marine Residence (A). Married Beneath Him. Mirk Abbey. Murphy’s Master. Not Wooed, but Won. Perfect Treasure (A), 1869. Some Private Views, 1882. Two Hundred Pounds Reward. Under One Roof, 1879. Walter’s Word. What He Cost Her, 1877. Woman’s Vengeance (A).

Pearson (John), born at Snoring, in Norfolk, 1612-1686. Exposition of the Creed, 1659.

Pennell (Henry Cholmondeley), 1836- Angler-Naturalist (The), 1864. Book of the Pike (The), 1866. Fishing Gossip, 1867. Modern Practical Angler, 1873. Muses of Mayfair, 1874. Puck on Pegasus, 1861.

Pepys (Samuel), born at Brampton, in Huntingdonshire, 1632-1703. Diary, in shorthand, deciphered by the Rev. John Smith, and published 1825.

Percy (Thomas), born at Bridgnorth, in Shropshire, 1728-1811. Reliques of Ancient English Poetry, 1765.

Percy Anecdotes, compiled by Thomas Byerley, of Mount Benger, in Scotland, under the pseudonyms of “Sholto” and “Reuben Percy,” brothers of the Benedictine Monastery, Mount Benger, 1820-23.

Planche (James Robinson), London, 1796-1880. Costumes for King John, 1823-1825. Costumes for Richard III., 1830. Cyclopædia of Costume, 1875-79. History of British Costume, 1834, 1847. Introduction to Heraldry, 1866. King Nutcracker, 1853. Popular Fairy Tales, 1857.

Plowman (Piers), before 1350. Visio Willi de Petro Plouhman, printed by R. Cowley, 1550. The Appendix to the Vision is called “Pierce Ploughman’s Crede,” and was published by R. Wolfe, 1553.

Plumptre (Edward Hayes), 1821-1891. Bible Educator (The), 1873. Biblical Studies, 1870. Book of Proverbs, 1864. Byways of Scripture, 1869. Christ and Christendom, 1867. Confession and Absolution, 1874. Dangers Past and Present, 1861. Education of the Clergy, 1862. Epistle of St. James (The), 1876. Epistles of St. Peter and of St. Jude, 1876. Epistles to the Seven Churches, 1877. Gospels (The First Three), 1878. Lazarus, and other Poems, 1864. Master and Scholar, with other Poems, 1865. Movement of Religious Thought, 1879. Our Life in Heaven, 1856. Perversions to Rome, 1877. Respice, Aspice, Prospice, etc., 1876. Spirits in Prison, 1871. Tragedies of Æschylus translated, 1870; Sophocles, 1866.

Poe (Edgar Allen), born at Baltimore, 1811-1849. Al Aaraff, and Minor Poems, 1829. Bells (The), 1831. Eureka, 1848. 329Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym, 1838. Poems, 1831. Raven (The), and other Poems, 1831. Tales, 1845, 1850. Tales of the Grotesque, etc., 1840. Tamerlane, and some Minor Poems, 1829.

Pollok (Robert), Scotland, 1799-1827. Course of Time (The), 1820.

Pope (Alexander), London, 1688-1744. Correspondence, 1735-36. Dunciad, 1726. Eloisa to Abelard, 1717. Epistle on Taste, 1731. Essay on Criticism, 1711. Essay on Man, 1732-34. Imitations of Horace, 1733, 1734, 1737. Iliad translated into English verse; completed 1719, begun 1713. Messiah (The), 1712. Miscellaneous Poems, 1709. Moral Essays, 1731-35. New Dunciad (A), 1742-43. Ode on St. Cecilia’s Day, 1713. Odyssey translated into English verse, 1725. Pastorals, 1709. Rape of the Lock, 1712. Satires, 1734. Temple of Fame, 1712. Windsor Forest, 1704, 1713.

Porter (Jane), born at Durham, 1776-1850. Scottish Chiefs, (The), 1810. Sir Edward Seaward’s Narrative, 1831. Thaddeus of Warsaw, 1803.

Praed (Winthrop Mackworth), London, 1802-1839. Works, 1864.

Prescott (William Hickling), born at Salem, 1796-1859. Biographical and Critical Essays, 1843. History of Ferdinand and Isabella, 1837. History of Philip II., King of Spain, 1855-59. History of the Conquest of Mexico, 1843. History of the Conquest of Peru, 1847.

Prior (Matthew), born at Wimborne, in Dorsetshire, 1664-1721. Alma, 1717. Carmen Seculare, 1700. City and Country Mouse, 1688. Solomon, 1718.

Procter (Adelaide Anne), 1835-1864. Chaplet of Verse, 1862. Legends and Lyrics, 1858, 1861.

Procter (Bryan Waller), London, 1790-1874. Autobiography, 1877. Biography of Kean, 1835. Biography of Lamb, 1836. Dramatic Scenes, 1819. Effigies Poeticæ, 1832. Essays and Tales, 1851. Flood of Thessaly (The), 1822. Marcian Colonna, 1820. Mirandola, 1821. Sicilian Story (A), 1820.

Proctor (Richard Anthony), born at Chelsea, 1837-1888. Borderland of Science, 1873. Easy Star Lessons, 1881. Elementary Astronomy, 1871. Essays on Astronomy, 1872. Expanse of Heaven (The), 1873. Familiar Science Studies, 1882. Half-hours with the Stars, 1869. Half-hours with the Telescope, 1868. Handbook of the Stars (The), 1866. Moon (The), 1873. Myths and Marvels of Astronomy, 1877. Orbs Around Us (The), 1872. Other Worlds than Ours, 1870. Our Place among Infinities. Pleasant Ways in Science, 1878. Rough Ways made Smooth, 1879. Sun (The), 1871. Sun-Views of the Earth, 1867.

Pusey (Edward Bouverie), 1800-1882. Advice on hearing Confession, 1878. Church of England a Portion of Christ’s One Holy Catholic Church (The), 1865. Doctrine of Real Presence vindicated, 1855. History of Councils of the Church, 1857. Holy Eucharist (The), 1843. Minor Prophets (The); 1862-67. Tracts for the Times, 1835. Unscience, not Science, adverse to Faith, 1878.

Quarles (Francis), born near Romford, in Essex, 1592-1664. Emblems, etc., 1635.

Radcliffe (Mrs.), born in London, 1764-1823. Mysteries of Udolpho (The), 1794. Poems, 1834. Romance of the Forest (The), 1791. Sicilian Romance (A), 1790.

Raleigh (Sir Walter), born at Budleigh Salterton, in Devonshire, 1552-1618. History of the World, 1614.

Ralston (William Ralston), 1828-1889. Early History of Russia (The), 1874. Kriloff and his Fables, 1869. Nest of Gentlemen (A), 1869. Russian Folk Tales, 1873. 330Songs Illustrative of Slavonic Mythology, etc., 1872.

Ramsay (Allan), born at Leadhills, Lanarkshire, in Scotland, 1686-1758. Gentle Shepherd, 1725.

Rawlinson (Rev. George), born at Chadlington, in Oxfordshire, 1815- Five Great Monarchies of the Ancient World (The), 1862, 1864. History of Ancient Egypt, 1881. History of Herodotus, 1858-60. History, etc., of the Sassanian Empire, 1876. Manual of Ancient History (A), 1869.

Reade (Charles), 1814-1884. Autobiography of a Thief, 1858. Christie Johnstone, 1853. Cloister and the Hearth (The), 1861. Course of True Love never did run Smooth, 1857. Drink, 1879. Foul Play, 1868. Gold, 1850. Griffith Gaunt, 1866. Hard Cash, 1863. Hero and Martyr (A), 1876. Jack of All Trades, 1858. King’s Rivals (The), 1854. Love me Little, Love me Long, 1859. Masks and Faces, 1854. Never too Late to Mend, 1856. Peg Woffington, 1852. Put Yourself in his Place, 1870. Scuttled Ship (The), 1877. Simpleton (A), 1873. Terrible Temptation (A), 1871. Two Loves and a Life, 1854. Wandering Heir (The), 1875. White Lies, 1860. Woman-hater (A), 1877.

Reid (Mayne), born in Ulster, Ireland, 1818-1883. Afloat in the Forest, 1866. Boy Hunters (The), 1852. Bruin, or the Grand Bear Hunt, 1860. Bush Boys (The), 1855. Castaways (The), 1870. Child Wife (The), 1868. Cliff Climbers (The), 1864. Death Shot (The), 1873. Desert Home, or the Family Robinson, 1851. Finger of Fate (The), 1872. Flag of Distress (The), 1876. Forest Exiles (The), 1854. Giraffe Hunters (The), 1867. Guerilla Chief (The), 1867. Gwen Wynn, 1877. Headless Horseman (The), 1865. Hunter’s Feast (The), 1860. Maroon (The), 1862. Mountain Marriage (The), 1876. Ocean Waifs, 1864. Osceola, 1859. Plant Hunters (The), 1857. Quadroon (The), 1856. Quadrupeds, 1867. Rifle Rangers (The), 1849. Scalp Hunters (The), 1850. Tiger Hunters (The), 1860. War Trail (The), 1858. White Chief (The), 1855. White Gauntlet, 1864. White Squaw (The), 1870. Wood Rangers (The), 1860. Yellow Chief (The), 1870. Young Voyageurs (The), 1853. Young Yägers (The), 1856.

Rhymer (Thomas the), the earliest poet of Scotland. Real name, Thomas Learmouth. Born in Tweeddale, Scotland, about 1240-1298. Prophecies of the Rhymer, first published 1603. Sir Tristrem, edited by Sir W. Scott, 1804.

Ricardo (David), London, 1772-1823. Principles of Political Economy, etc., 1817.

Richard de Bury, bishop of Durham, 1281-1345. Philobiblon, 1345; first printed 1473.

Richardson (Sir John), born at Dumfries, in Scotland, 1787-1865. Arctic Searching Expedition, 1851. Fauna Boreali-Americana, 1829-37. Polar Regions, 1861. Zoölogy, 1839, 1844-47.

Richardson (Samuel), born in Derbyshire, 1689-17611689-1761. Clarissa Harlowe, 1748. Correspondence, 1804. Pamela, 1740. Sir Charles Grandison, 1753.

Riddell (Mrs. J. H.), born at Carrickfergus, in Ireland, *-- Alaric Spenceley, 1881. Above Suspicion, 1875. Austin Friars. City and Suburbs (The). Dearly Bought. Far above Rubies. George Geith, 1871. Her Mother’s Darling, 1877. Life’s Assize (A), 1873. Moors and Fens. 331Mortomley’s Estate, 1874. Premie Keller. Race for Wealth (The). Too Much alone.

Robertson (William), born at Bothwick, in Scotland, 1721-1793. History of America, 1777, 1788. History of Charles V., 1769. History of Scotland, 1759, 1787.

Robinson (Henry Crabb), born at Bury St. Edmunds, in Suffolk, 1775-1867. Diary and Correspondence, 1869.

Rogers (Samuel), London, 1763-1855. Italy, 1822. Pleasures of Memory, 1792. Recollections, 1859. Table Talk, 1856, 1859.

Roget (Peter Mark), London, 1779-1869. Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases, 1852.

Rossetti (Christina Georgina), London, 1830- Annus Domini, 1874. Commonplace, and other Short Stories, 1870. Goblin Market, and other Poems, 1862. Pageant (A), and other Poems, 1881. Poems, 1875. Prince’s Progress (The), and other Poems, 1866. Seek and Find, 1879. Singsong, 1872. Speaking Likenesses, 1874.

Rossetti (Dante Gabriel), London, 1828-1882. Dante and his Circle, 1873; the same as-- Early Italian Poets (The), 1861. Poems, 1870.

Rossetti (Maria Francesca), London, 1827-1876. Shadow of Dante (The), 1871.

Rossetti (William Michael), London, 1829- Criticisms on Swinburne, 1866. Dante’s Hell translated into English, 1865. Fine Arts, 1867. Lives of Famous Poets, 1878. Memoir of Shelley, 1870.

Ruskin (John), London, 1819- Aratra Pentilici, 1872. Cambridge School of Art (The), 1858. Crown of Wild Olive (The), 1866. Decoration and Manufacture, 1859. Deucalion, 1876. Eagle’s Nest (The), 1872. Elements of Perspective, 1859. Ethics of the Dust, 1863. Frondes Agrestes, 1875. Giotto and his Works, 1855. Harbors of England, 1856. King of the Golden River, 1851. King’s Treasures and Queen’s Gardens, 1865. Laws of Fésole, 1877. Lectures on Architecture and Painting, 1854. Lectures on Art, 1859. Lectures on the Political Economy of Art, 1857. Love’s Meinie, 1873. Michael Angelo and Tintoret, 1872. Modern Painters, 1843-46, 1860. Mornings in Florence, 1877. On the Nature of Gothic Architecture, 1853. Pre-Raphaelism, 1850. Proserpina, 1875-76. Queen of the Air, etc., 1867. Sesame and Lilies, 1864. Seven Lamps of Architecture (The), 1849. Stones of Venice, 1851-53. Study of Architecture in Schools, 1865. Time and Tide, etc., 1868. Two Paths, 1854. Unto this Last, 1862. Val d’Arno, 1874.

Russell (William Howard), born at Lily Vale, in Dublin, Ireland, 1821- Canada, its Defences, Conditions, etc., 1865. Diary in the East, 1869. Diary in the Last Great War, 1873. Diary in India, 1860. Diary, North and South, 1863. Letters from the Crimea, 1855-56. Prince of Wales’s Tour in India, 1877.

Saxe (John Godfrey), 1816-1887. Clever Stories of Many Nations, 1864. Flying Dutchman (The), 1862. Masquerade (The), and other Poems, 1866. Leisure Day Rhymes, 1875.

Schaff (Philip), born at Chur, in Switzerland, 1819- Political, Social and Religious Condition of the United States, 1855. What is Church History? 1846.

Scott (Michael), born at Glasgow, in Scotland, 1789-1835. Cruise of the Midge. Tom Cringle’s Log.

Scott (Rev. Thomas), born at Braytoft, in Lincolnshire, 1747-1821. Commentary on the Bible, 1796.

Scott (Sir Walter), born at Edinburgh, 1771-1832. Abbot (The), 1820; time, Elizabeth. Anne of Geierstein, 1829; time, Edward IV. Antiquary (The), 1816; time, George III. Aunt Margaret’s Mirror; time, William III. 332Betrothed (The), 1825; time, Henry II. Black Dwarf (The), 1816; time, Anne. Bride of Lammermoor, 1819; time, William III. Castle Dangerous, 1831; time, Henry I. Count Robert of Paris, 1831; time, Rufus. Fair Maid of Perth, 1828; time, Henry IV. Fortunes of Nigel, 1822; time, James I. Guy Mannering, 1815, time, George II. Heart of Midlothian, 1818; time, George II. Highland Widow (The), 1827; time, George II. Ivanhoe, 1819; time, Richard I. Kenilworth, 1821; time, Elizabeth. Laird’s Jock (The), 1827; time, Elizabeth. Legend of Montrose (The), 1819; time, Charles I. Monastery (The), 1820; time, Elizabeth. Old Mortality, 1816; time, Charles II. Peveril of the Peak, 1823; time, Charles II. Pirate (The), 1821; time, William III. Quentin Durward, 1823; time, Edward IV. Redgauntlet, 1824; time, George III. Rob Roy, 1817; time, George I. St. Ronan’s Well, 1825; time, George III. Surgeon’s Daughter (The), 1827; time, George II. Talisman (The), 1825; time, Richard I. Tapestried Chamber (The), time, George III. Two Drovers (The), 1827; time, George III. Waverley, 1814; time, George II. Woodstock, 1826; time, Commonwealth. Ballads and Lyrical Pieces, 1806. Border Minstrelsy, 1802-5. Bridal of Triermain, 1813. Lady of the Lake (The), 1809. Lay of the Last Minstrel (The), 1805. Lord of the Isles, 1814. Marmion, 1808. Rokeby, 1813. Sir Tristram, 1804. Vision of Don Roderick, 1811. Border Antiquities of Scotland, 1818. Demonology and Witchcraft, 1831. History of Scotland, 1830. Life of Dryden, 1808. Life of Napoleon Bonaparte, 1827. Life of Swift, 1814. Lives of British Novelists, 1825. Memoirs of the Earl of Montrose, 1808. Tales of a Grandfather, 1827-1830.

Shakespeare (William), born at Stratford-upon-Avon, in Warwickshire, 1564-1616. Lover’s Complaint (The), 1609. Passionate Pilgrim (The), 1599. Rape of Lucrece (The), 1594. Sonnets, 1598. Venus and Adonis, 1593. ⁂ For his plays, see p. 385, vol. III.

Shedd (William), born at Acton, 1820- History of Christian Doctrines, 1863. Homiletics and Pastoral Theology, 1867. Lectures on the Philosophy of History, 1856. Outlines of a System of Rhetoric, 1850. Sermons to the Natural Man, 1871.

Shelley (Mrs.), Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin, born in London, 1798-1851. Biography of Percy B. Shelley, 1839. Falkner, 1837. Frankenstein, 1816. Last Man (The), 1824. Lodore, 1835. Perkin Warbeck, 1830. Rambles in Germany and Italy, 1844. Valperga, 1823.

Shelley (Percy Bysshe), born at Field Place, in Sussex, 1792-1822. Adonais, 1821. Alastor, or the Spirit of Solitude, 1816. Arethusa, 1820. Cenci (The), 1819. Cloud (The), 1820. Hellas, 1823. Julian and Maddalo, 1820. Laon and Cythna, 1818. Nightmare (The), 1809. Œdipus Tyrannus, 1820. Peter Bell III., 1819. Prometheus Unbound, 1821. Prometheus Unmasked, 1823. Queen Mab, 1813. Revolt of Islam, 1817. Rosalind and Helen, 1818. St. Irvyne, 1810. Shelley Papers (The), 1815. Skylark (The), 1820. Witch of Atlas (The), 1820.

Shenstone (William), born at the Leasowes, in Shropshire, 1714-1763. Elegies, 1743-46. Essay on Men and Manners, 1764. Jemmy Dawson, 1745. Judgment of Hercules, 1741. Odes, Songs and Ballads, 1750-54. Pastoral Ballad, 1743. Poems on Several Occasions, 1737. Progress of Taste, 1764. Schoolmistress (The), 1737, 1742.

Sheridan (Richard Brinsley Butler), born in Dublin, 1751-1816. Clio’s Protest, and other Poems, 1819. His Speech for the Impeachment of Warren Hastings, 1786. ⁂ For his plays, see Appendix III.

Sidney (Sir Philip), born in Penshurst, in Kent, 1554-1586. Apologie for Poetrie (An), 1595. Arcadia, 1580; published 1590-93. Astrophel and Stella, 1591. Defence of Poesie, 1583; published 1595.

Sigourney (Mrs. Lydia Huntly), born at Norwich, 1791-1865. Lays of the Heart. Pleasant Memories of Pleasant Lands, 1842. Pocahontas, and other Poems. Sketch of Connecticut, 1824. Tales in Prose and Verse. Traits of the Aborigines (a poem), 1822.

Simms (William Gilmore), born at Charleston, South Carolina, 1806-1870. Beauchamps (The), 1842. Book of My Lady (The), 1833. Border Beagles, 1840. Carl Werner, 1838. Cassique of Kiawah, 1860. Castle Dismal, 1845. Charlemont, 1856. Confession, or the Blind Heart, 1842. Count Julien, 1845. Damsel of Darien (The), 1845. Eutaw, 1856. Foragers (The), 1855. Golden Christmas, 1852. Guy Rivers, 1834. Helen Halsey, 1845. Katherine Walton, 1851. Kinsman (The), 1841. Lily (The) and the Totem, 1845. Marie de Bernière, 1853. Maroon (The), 1858. Martin Faber, 1833. Mellichamp, 1851. Partisan (The), 1835. Pelayo, 1838. Richard Hurdis, 1838. Scout (The), 1841. Vasconcelos, 1857. Wigwam and the Cabin (The), 1845-46. Woodcraft, 1855. Yemassee, 1835.

Skeat (Rev. Walter William), London, 1835- Etymological Dictionary of the English Language, 1879. Mæso-Gothic Glossary (A), 1868. Tale of Ludlow Castle (A), a poem, 1866.

Smedley (Francis Edward), born at Marlow, in Buckinghamshire, 1818-1864. Frank Fairleigh, 1850. Gathered Leaves, 1865. Harry Coverdale’s Courtship, 1854. Lewis Arundel, 1852.

Smiles (Samuel), born at Haddington, in Scotland, 1812- Baker of Thurso (The), 1878. Character, 1871. George Moore, 1878. Huguenots in England and Ireland, 1867. Huguenots in France, 1874. Industrial Biography, 1863. Life of George Stephenson, 1857. Life of Robert Dick, 1878. Life of Boulton and Watt, 1865. Lives of the Engineers, 1862. Physical Education, 1837. Railway Property, 1849. Scotch Naturalist, 1876. Self-Help, 1860. Thrift, 1875. Workmen’s Earnings, Strikes and Wages, 1861.

Smith (Adam), born at Kirkaldy, in Scotland, 1723-1790. Wealth of Nations, 1776.

Smith (Albert Richard), born at Chertsey, in Middlesex, 1816-1860. Adventures of Mr. Ledbury. Christopher Tadpole. Marchioness of Brinvilliers. Pottleton Legacy (The). Scattergood Family (The).

Smith (Goldwin), born at Reading, in Berkshire, 1823- Does the Bible sanction American Slavery? 1864. Empire (The), 1862-63. England and America, 1865. Irish History and Irish Character, 1861. Lectures on Modern History, 1869. Rational Religion, etc., 1858. Three English Statesmen, Pym, Cromwell and Pitt (The), 1867.

Smith (Horace), London, 1779-1849. Rejected Addresses, 1812.

Smith (Joseph), born at Sharon, 1805-1844. Book of Mormon, 1830.

Smith (Rev. Sydney), born at Woodford, in Essex, 1771-1845. Peter Plymley’s Letters, 1807. Sermons, 1800, 1809, 1846. Sketches of Moral Philosophy, 1850. Wit and Wisdom of Sydney Smith, 1861. Works, 1839-40.

Smith (Dr. William), London, 1813- 333Atlas of Biblical and Classical Geography, 1875. Dictionary of Christian Biography, 1876-81. Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, 1840-42. Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, 1843-49. Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, 1852-57. Dictionary of the Bible, 1860-63. New Classical Dictionary, 1850.

Smollett (Tobias), born at Cardross, in Scotland, 1721-1771. Adventures of an Atom, 1769. Compendium of Voyages and Travels, 1757. Essay on External Use of Water, 1752. Ferdinand Count Fathom, 1753. Humphry Clinker, 1771. Peregrine Pickle, 1751. Roderick Random, 1748. Sir Launcelot Greaves, 1760-61.

Somerville (Mrs.), born in Roxburghshire, Scotland, 1780-1872. Connection of the Physical Sciences (The), 1834. Mechanism of the Heavens, 1831. Molecular and Microscopic Science, 1851. Personal Recollections, 1873. Physical Geography, 1848.

Southey (Robert), born at Bristol, 1774-1843. Battle of Blenheim, 1798. Bishop Bruno, 1798. Bishop Hatto, 1799. Botany Bay Eclogues, 1794. Carmen Triumphale, 1815. Cataract of Lodore, 1820. Curse of Kehama, 1809. Devil’s Walk (The), 1820. English Eclogues, 1798-1803. Holly Tree (The), 1798. Inchcape Rock (The), 1802. Joan of Arc, 1795. Madoc, 1805. Mary, the Maid of the Inn, 1796. Metrical Tales, 1804. Old Woman of Berkeley, 1798. Pilgrim of Compostella (The), 1829. Roderick, the Last of the Goths, 1814. St. Patrick’s Purgatory, 1801. Tale of Paraguay (A), 1814. Thalaba, the Destroyer, 1800. Vision of Judgment, 1822. Wat Tyler, 1817. Well of St. Keyne (The), 1798. Commonplace Book, 1849-51. Correspondence, 1849-50. Doctor (The), 1834. Essays, 1832. History of Brazil, 1810-19. History of the Peninsular War, 1822-32. Letters from England, 1807. Life of Dr. Andrew Bell, 1844. Life of Bunyan, 1830. Life of Cromwell, 1844. Life of Lord Nelson, 1813. Life of John Wesley, 1820. Lives of the English Admirals, 1833-40. Naval History of England, 1833-40.

Sparks (Jared), born at Willington, 1789-1866. Correspondence of American Revolution, 1854. Diplomatic Correspondence of the American Revolution, 1829-30. History of the American Revolution, 1845. Library of American Biography, 1834-48. Life of Ledyard, the American Traveller, 1828. Life of Governor Morris, 1832. Life of Washington, 1833-40.

Spencer (Herbert), born at Derby, 1820- Ceremonial Institutions, 1879. Classification of the Sciences, 1864. Data of Ethics, 1879. Descriptive Sociology, 1873. Education, 1861. Essays, 1858-63. First Principles, 1862. Principles of Biology, 1864. Principles of Psychology, 1855. Proper Sphere of Government, 1842. Recent Discussions in Science, Philosophy and Morals, 1871. Sins of Trade and Commerce, 1875. Social Statics, 1851. Spontaneous Generation, 1870. Study of Sociology, 1869.

Spenser (Edmund), London, 1553-1599. Astrophel, 1594. Colin Clout’s come Home again, 1591. Daphnaiada, 1592. Epithalamium, 1595. Faëry Queen, i.-iii., 1590; iv.-vi., 1596. Four Hymns, 1596. Mother Hubberd’s Tale, 1591. Muiopotmos, or the Fate of the Butterfly, 1590. Prothalamion, 1596. Ruins of Rome, 1590. Ruins of Time, 1590. Shepheardes Calendar, 1579. Tears of the Muses, 1590. Visions of the World’s Vanity, 1590. View of the State of Ireland, 1633.

334Spurgeon (Rev. Charles Haddon), born at Kelvedon, in Essex, 1834- Comments and Commentaries, 1876. Evening by Evening, 1868. Feathers for Arrows, 1870. Flashes of Thought, 1874. Gleanings among the Sheaves, 1859. Interpreter (The), 1873. John Ploughman’s Pictures, 1881. John Ploughman’s Talk, 1869. Lectures to my Students, 1875, 1877. Memorial Volume, 1879. Metropolitan Tabernacle (The), its History and Work, 1875. Morning by Morning, 1865. Our Own Hymn-book, 1866. Saint and his Saviour (The), 1857. Smooth Stones. Speeches, 1878. Spurgeon’s Gems, 1859. Treasury of David (The), 1869-78. Trumpet Calls, etc., 1875. Types and Emblems, 1873.

Stanley (Arthur Penrhyn), born at Alderley, in Cheshire, 1815-1881. Athanasian Creed (The), 1871. Christian Institutions, 1881. Epistles to the Corinthians (The), 1854. Essays on Church and State, 1870. Historical Memorials of Canterbury, 1854. Historical Memorials of Westminster Abbey, 1767. History of the Eastern Church, 1861. History of the Jewish Church, 1863, 1865. Lectures on the Church of Scotland, 1872. Life of Dr. Arnold, 1844. Life of Bishop Stanley (his father), 1850. Life of Edward and Catherine Stanley, 1879. Sermons Preached before the University of Oxford, 1860-63. Sermons Preached in the East, 1862. Sinai and Palestine, 1855.

Stanley (Henry M.), born at Denbigh, in Wales, 1840- Coomassie and Magdala. How I found Livingstone, 1872. My Kalulu; Prince, King and Slave (a story). Through the Dark Continent, etc., 1878.

Stedman (Edmund Clarence), born at Hartford, Conn., 1833- Alice of Monmouth, and other Poems, 1864. Blameless Prince (The), and other Poems, 1869. Hawthorne, and other Poems, 1877. Lyrics and Idylls, 1860. Poetical Works, 1874. Victorian Poets (The), 1875.

Steele (Sir Richard), born in Dublin, 1671-1729. Christian Hero (The), 1701. Crisis (The), 1714. Poetical Miscellanies, 1694. ⁂ Began the Tatler, 1709; the Spectator (with Addison), 1711; the Guardian, 1713; and the Englishman, 1713.

Sterne (Rev. Laurence), born at Clonmel, in Ireland, 1713-1768. History of a Warm Watchcoat, 1769. Letters, 1775, 1788, 1844. Sentimental Journey, 1768. Sermons of Mr. Yorick, 1760, 1766, 1769. Tristram Shandy, Gent., 1759-67.

Still (John), bishop of Bath and Wells, 1543-1607. Gammer Gurton’s Needle, printed 1575.

Stoddard (Richard Henry), born at Hingham, 1825- Adventures in Fairyland, 1853. Book of the East, and other Poems, 1871. Children in the Wood, 1866. Female Poets of America, 1874. Footprints, 1849. King’s Bell (The), 1863. Late English Poets, 1865. Life of Alexander von Humboldt, 1859. Loves and Heroines of the Poets, 1860. Melodies and Madrigals, 1865. Memoir of Edgar Allan Poe, 1875. Poems, 1852. Poets and Poetry of England, 1875. Putnam the Brave, 1869. Songs of Summer, 1857. Story of Little Red Riding Hood, 1864. Town and Country, 1857. Under Green Leaves, 1865.

Stoddard (Mrs. Richard Henry), 1823- Morgesons (The), 1862. Temple House, 1867. Two Men, 1865.

Story (Joseph), born at Marblehead, 1779-1845. Commentaries on the Conflict of Laws, 1834. Commentaries on thethe Constitution of the United States, 1833. Power of Solitude (The), and other Poems, 1804. ⁂ Many other legal “Commentaries.”

Story (William Wetmore), born at Salem, 1819- American Question (The), 1862. Graffiti d’Italia, 1869. Life of Joseph Story (his father), 1851. Nero, 1875. Poems, 1847. 335Proportions of the Human Figure, 1866. Roba di Roma, 1863. Roman Lawyer in Jerusalem (The), 1870. Stephanie, 1877.

Strickland (Agnes), born at Reydon Hall, in Suffolk, 1806-1874. Historical Tales of Illustrious British Children, 1847. Lives of the Bachelor Kings of England, 1861. Lives of the Queens of England, 1840-48. Lives of the Queens of Scotland, etc., 1850-59. Lives of the Seven Bishops, 1866. Patriotic Songs, 1825.

Suckling (Sir John), born at Whitton, in Middlesex, 1609-1641. Account of Religion by Reason (An). Four Plays, 1646. Session of the Poets (A), 1636. Songs and Ballads.

Swift (Jonathan), born at Dublin, 1667-1745. Arguments for the Abolition of Christianity, 1708. Battle of the Books, 1704. Baucis and Philemon, 1710. Bella Punica, or the Art of Punning, 1719. Cadenus and Vanessa, 1713. City Shower described, 1710. Directions to Servants, 1729. Drapier’s Letters, 1724. Gulliver’s Travels, 1726. History of the Last Four Years of Queen Anne, 1728. Polite Conversation, 1738. Predictions of Isaac Bickerstaff, 1708. Stella (To), 1720-26. Tale of a Tub, 1704. Trip to Dunkirk (A), 1708.

Swinburne (Algernon Charles), born in London, 1837- Atalanta in Calydon, 1864. Blake (William), 1867. Bothwell, 1874. Chapman (George), 1875. Charlotte Bronté, 1877. Chastelard, 1865. Erechtheus, 1876. Essays and Studies, 1875. Mary Stuart, 1881. Note of an English Republican on the Muscovite Crusade, 1876. Notes on Poems and Reviews, 1866. Ode on the Proclamation of the French Republic, 1870. Poems and Ballads, 1866; second series, 1878. Queen Mother (The), a play, 1861. Rosamond, 1861. Shakespeare (A Study of), 1880. Siena, 1868. Song of Italy (A), 1867. Songs of the Springtides, 1880. Songs before Sunrise, 1871. Under the Microscope, 1872.

Taylor (Ann), 1782-1866. Original Poems, 1806.

Taylor (Bayard), born at Kennett Square, Chester, 1825-1878. At Home and Abroad, 1859, 1862. Book of Romances, Lyrics and Songs, 1851. Byeways of Europe (The) 1869. El Dorado, or Adventures in the Path of Empire, 1850. Essays on German Literature, 1880. Home Pastorals, and other Poems, 1875. John Godfrey’s Fortunes, 1864. Journey to Central Africa, etc., 1853. Lands of the Saracen (The), 1854. Lyrics of the War of Secession, 1865. Masque of the Gods (The), 1872. Northern Travel, or Pictures of Sweden, Denmark and Lapland, 1856. Poems of Home and Travel, 1855. Poems of the Orient, 1854. Poet’s Journal (The), 1862. Prince Deukalion, 1879. Prophet (The), 1874. Rhymes of Travel, Ballads and other Poems, 1848. Story of Kennet (The), a tale, 1866. Travels in Greece and Russia, etc., 1857. Views Afoot, or Europe seen with Knapsack and Staff, 1846. Visit to India, China, Japan, etc., 1855. Voyage to California, 1850. Ximena, and other Poems, 1844.

Taylor (Sir Henry), 1800-1886. Philip van Artevelde, 1834.

Taylor (Jane), born in London, 1783-1824. Hymns for Infant Minds, 1818. Poems for Infant Minds, 1806. Rhymes for the Nursery, 1807.

Taylor (Jeremy), bishop of Down and Connor, born at Cambridge, 1613-1667. Holy Living and Holy Dying, 1651.

Taylor (Tom), born at Sunderland, in Cumberland, 1817-1880. Life and Times of Sir J. Reynolds, 1865. ⁂ For his plays, see Appendix III.

Tennyson (Alfred), born at Somersby, in Lincolnshire, 1809- Aylmer’s Field, 1864. Charge of the Light Brigade, 1854. 336Dying Swan (The), 1830. Enoch Arden, 1864. Falcon (The), 1879. Grandmother’s Apology (The), 1859. Harold, 1877. Hero and Leander, 1830. Idylls of the King, 1858-59. Gareth and Lynette, 1872. Holy Grail (The), 1867. In Memoriam, 1850. Lady Clara Vere de Vere, 1833. Last Tournament (The), 1871. Lilian, 1830. Locksley Hall, 1833. Lotus-eater (The), 1833. Lover’s Tale (The), 1879. Mariana, 1830. Maud and other Poems, 1855. May the First, 1862. Mermaid (The), 1830. Miller’s Daughter (The), 1833. Oriana, 1830. Poems, 1827, 1830, 1842. Princess (The), 1847-50. Queen Mary, 1875. Relief of Lucknow, 1879. Revenge (The), 1878. Timbuctoo, 1829. Tithonus, 1864. Welcome (A), 1863. Welcome to Marie Alexandrovna, 1874. Wellington (Death of the Duke of), 1852. Window (The), or Songs of the Wrens, 1870.

Thackeray (Anne Isabella), 1839- Miss Angel, 1875. Old Kensington, 1872. Story of Elizabeth, 1863. Toilers and Spinsters, with other Essays, 1873. Village on the Cliff (The), 1866.

Thackeray (William Makepeace), born at Calcutta, 1811-1863. Adventures of Philip, 1861. Barry Lyndon, 1853. Book of Snobs (The), 1848. Catherine, 1839-40. Chronicle of the Drum (The), 1841. Denis Duval. English Humorists (The), 1851. Esmond, 1852. Four Georges (The), 1860. From Cornhill to Grand Cairo, 1845. Hoggarty Diamond (The Great). Kickleburys on the Rhine (The), 1851. Irish Sketch-book (The), 1843. Lovel, the Widower. Jeames’s Diary. Mrs. Perkins’s Ball, 1847. Newcomes (The), a novel, 1855. Novels by Eminent Hands, etc. Our Street, 1848. Paris Sketch-book (The), 1840. Pendennis, 1849-50. Philip. Roundabout Papers (The). Second Funeral of Napoleon (The), 1841. Vanity Fair, 1846-48. Virginians (The), 1857-59.

Thomson (James), born at Ednam, in Scotland, 1700-1748. Castle of Indolence, 1748. Seasons, 1730. ⁂ For his plays, see Appendix III.

Trevelyan (George Otto), born at Rothley Temple, in Leicestershire, 1838- Life of Lord Macaulay, 1876.

Trollope (Anthony), 1815-1882. American Senator (The), 1877. Ayala’s Angel, 1881. Barchester Towers, 1857. Belton Estate (The), 1865. Bertrams (The), 1859. Can you Forgive Her? 1864. Castle Richmond, 1860. Claverings (The), 1867. Cousin Henry, 1879. Doctor Thorn, 1858. Eustace Diamonds, 1872. Framley Parsonage, 1861. Golden Lion of Grandpère, 1872. Harry Heathcote, 1874. He knew he was Right, 1869. Is he Popenjoy? 1878. Kellys (The) and the O’Kellys, 1848. Lady Anna, 1874. Last Chronicles of Barset, 1867. La Vendée, 1850. Macdermots of Ballycloran (The), 1847. Miss Mackenzie, 1865. Orley Farm, 1862. Phineas Finn, the Irish Member, 1869. Phineas Redux, 1873. Prime Minister (The), 1875. Ralph the Heir, 1871. Sir Harry Hotspur, 1870. Small House at Allington, 1864. Struggles of Brown, Jones and Robinson (The), 1870. Thackeray (a biographical sketch), 1879. Three Clerks (The), 1857. Vicar of Bullhampton (The), 1870. Warden, (The), 1855. Way we Live Now (The), 1875.

337Trollope (Mrs. Frances), born at Heckfield, in Hampshire, 1790-1863. Domestic Manners of the Americans, 1832.

Trollope (Thomas Adolphus), 1810- History of Florence, 1865. Impressions of a Wanderer in Italy, 1850.

Tupper (Martin Farquhar), 1810-1889. Proverbial Philosophy, 1838, 1842, 1867.

Tyndall (John), born at Leighlin Bridge, in Ireland, 1820- Absorption and Radiation of Heat by Gases and Vapors, 1861. Address to the British Association, 1871. Calorescence, 1865. Contributions to Molecular Physics, 1872. Faraday as a Discoverer, 1868. Forms of Water in Clouds and Rivers, Ice and Glaciers, 1872. Fragments of Science, 1871. Glaciers of the Alps, 1860. Heat as a Mode of Motion, 1863. Hours of Exercise in the Alps, 1871. Imagination in Science, 1870. Invisible Radiation of Electric Light, 1865. Lectures on Light, 1869, 1872-73. Lectures on Sound, 1867. Lessons on Electricity, 1875-76. Mountaineering, 1861. Notes on Electricity, 1870. Notes on Light, 1871. On Molecular Influences, 1853. Physical Connection of Absorption and Radiation, etc., 1861. Physical Phenomena of Glaciers, 1857. Physical Properties of Ice, 1858-59. Radiation, 1861-65. Sounding and Sensitive Flames, 1867. Transmission of Heat through Gaseous Bodies, 1859. Transmission of Heat through Organic Structures, 1853. Vacation Tour, 1862.

Ure (Andrew), born at Glasgow, 1778-1857. Dictionary of Arts and Manufactures, 1839. Dictionary of Chemistry, 1821. New System of Geology, 1829. Philosophy of Manufactures, 1835.

Victoria (Queen), born at Kensington Palace, 1819- Early Days of the Prince Consort, 1867. Leaves from the Journal of Our Life in the Highlands, 1869. Life of the Prince Consort, 1874-78.

Walton (Izaak), born at Stafford, 1593-1683. Compleat Angler (The), 1653. Life of Donne, 1640. Life of Herbert, 1670. Life of Hooker, 1665. Life of Sanderson, 1678. Life of Wotton, 1651.

Warner (Susan), born at New York, 1818- Melbourne House, 1864. Hills of the Shatemuc, 1856. Old Helmet (The), 1863. Queechy, 1851. Wide, Wide World (The), 1849.

Warren (Samuel), born in Denbighshire, North Wales, 1807-1877. Diary of a Late Physician, 1830. Ten Thousand a Year, 1839-1841.

Watts (Isaac), born at Southampton, 1674-1748. Divine Songs, 1726. Hymns, 1707. Moral Songs, 1730.

Webster (Noah), born at Hartford, Conn., 1758-1843. Dictionary of the English Language, 1828.

Wesley (Rev. Charles), born at Epworth, in Lincolnshire, 1708-1788. Hymns and Sacred Poems, 1749. Hymns for Ascension Day, 1753. Hymns for the Nativity, 1750. Hymns for the Resurrection, 1754. Hymns for the Watch Night, 1780. Hymns for the Year, 1756. Works, 1829-31.

Wesley (Rev. John), born at Epworth, in Lincolnshire, 1703-1791. Account of the People called “Methodists,” 1749. Ecclesiastical History, 1781. History of England from the Death of George II., 1776. Letters, 1816.

Whately (Richard), archbishop of Dublin, born in London, 1787-1863. Elements of Logic, 1826. Elements of Rhetoric, 1828. English Synonyms, 1851. Errors of Romanism, 1830. Historic Doubts, 1819. History of Religious Worship, 1847. Introductory Lectures on Political Economy, 1831.

White (Rev. Gilbert), born at Selborne, in Hampshire, 1720-1793. Natural History of Selborne, 1789. Naturalist’s Calendar (The), 1795.

338White (Henry Kirke), born at Nottingham, 1785-1806. Clifton Grove, and other Poems, 1803. Poems, 1804. Remains, 1807.

White (Richard Grant), born in New York, 1822-1885. Authorship of the Three Parts of Henry VI., 1859. Handbook of Christian Art, 1853. Life and Genius of Shakespere, 1865. National Hymns, 1861. New Gospel of Peace (The), 1863-66. Poetry of the Civil War, 1866. Shakespere’s Scholar, 1854. Words and their Uses, 1870.

Whitman (Walt), 1819- Poems, such as “Leaves of Grass,” “Drum Taps,” etc., 1878.

Whittier (John Greenleaf), born at Haverhill, Massachusetts, 1807- Among the Hills, and other Poems, 1868. Ballads, 1838. Ballads of New England, 1870. Centennial Hymn (A), 1876. Chapel of the Hermits, and other Poems, 1853. Child Life, 1871. Collected Poems, 1850. Home Ballads, and other Poems, 1859. In War Time, and other Poems, 1863. Lays of my Home, and other Poems, 1843. Leaves from Margaret Smith’s Journal, 1836. Legends of New England, 1831. Literary Recreations, 1854. Maud Müller, 1865. Miriam, and other Poems, 1870. Moll Pitcher, 1833. National Lyrics, 1865-66. Old Portraits and Modern Sketches, 1850. Panorama (The), and other Poems, 1856. Pennsylvania Pilgrims (The), and other Poems, 1872. Sabbath Verse (A), 1853. Snow-bound, a Water Idyll, 1866. Songs of Labor, and other Poems, 1851. Stranger in Lowell (The), 1845. Supernaturalism in New England, 1847. Tent on the Beach, and other Poems, 1867. Vision of Echard, etc. (The), 1878. Voices of Freedom, 1836.

Willis (Nathaniel Parker), born in Maine, 1807-1867. Dashes at Life with a Free Pencil, 1845. Famous Persons and Places, 1854. Fun Jottings, 1853. Health Trip to the Tropics, 1852. Hurrygraphs, 1851. Inklings of Adventure, 1839. Letters from under a Bridge, 1840. Life Here and There, 1850. Loiterings of Travels, 1839. Memoranda of Jenny Lind, 1851. Paul Fane, 1856. Pencillings by the Way, 1835. People I have met, 1850. Poems, 1828-31. Summer Cruise in the Mediterranean, 1853.

Wills (William Gorman), of Kilkenny, in Ireland, 1828- ⁂ For his plays, see Appendix III.

Wilson (John), born at Paisley, in Scotland, 1785-1854. Lights and Shadows of Scottish Life, 1822. Noctes Ambrosianæ, 1822-36. Poems and Dramatic Works, 1825. Recreations of Christopher North, 1842.

Wood (Mrs. Henry), born at Worcester, 1820-1887. Adam Grainger, 1876. Anne Hereford, 1868. Bessy Rane, 1870. Channings (The), 1862. Court Netherleigh, 1881. Dene Hollow, 1871. East Lynne, 1861. Edina, 1876. Elster’s Folly, 1866. Foggy Night at Offord (A), 1862. George Canterbury’s Will, 1870. Johnny Ludlow, in the Argosy. Lady Adelaide. Life Secret (A), 1867. Lord Oakburn’s Daughters, 1864. Master of Greylands, 1873. Mildred Arkell, 1865. Mrs. Halliburton’s Troubles, 1862. Oswald Cray, 1864. Orville College. Parkwater. Pomeroy Abbey, 1878. Red Court Farm. Roland Yorke, 1869. St. Martin’s Eve, 1866. Shadow of Ashlydyat (The), 1863. Told in the Twilight, 1875. Trevlyn Hold, 1864. Verner’s Pride, 1863. William Allair, 1863. Within the Maze, 1872.

Wood (Rev. John George), born in London, 1828-1889. 339Bible Animals. Common Objects of the Country. Common Objects of the Microscope. Common Objects of the Sea Shore, 1857. Common Beetles of England. Common Moths of England. Common Shells of England. Field Naturalist’s Handbook (The), 1880. Homes without Hands. Insects Abroad, 1874. Insects at Home. Man and Beast, 1873. My Feathered Friends. Natural History of Man. Natural History Ramble, 1879. Our Garden Friends and Foes. Popular Natural History.

Woolman (John), born in New Jersey, 1720-1773. Journal of his Life and Travels, 1776.

Woolsey (Theodore Dwight), born at New York, 1801-1889. Introduction to International Law, 1860.

Worcester (Joseph Emerson), 1784-1865. Universal and Critical Dictionary of the English Language, 1846.

Wordsworth (William), born at Cockermouth, in Cumberland, 1770-1850. Borderers (The), 1842. Descriptive Sketches in Verse, 1793. Excursion, 1814. Idiot Boy (The), 1819. Lyrical Ballads, 1798. Memorials of a Tour in Scotland, 1803, 1814. Memorials of a Tour on the Continent, 1820. Odes, 1803-6. Peter Bell, 1819. Prelude, 1850. Sonnets to Liberty, 1802-16. Waggoner (The), 1819. White Doe of Rhylstone, 1815. Yarrow revisited, and other Poems, 1835.

Wycherly (William), born at Clive, in Shropshire, 1640-1715. Poems, 1704. Works, 1712. Works, 1728. ⁂ For his plays, see Appendix III.

Yates (Edmund Hodgson), 1831- After Office Hours, 1861. Black Sheep, 1866-67. Broken to Harness, 1864-65. Business of Pleasure, 1865. Cast Away, 1872. Dr. Wainwright’s Patient, 1871. For Better for Worse, 1876. Forlorn Hope, 1867. Impending Sword (The), 1874. Kissing the Rod, 1865. Land at Last, 1866. Life of Charles Mathews the Elder, 1860. Memoir of Albert Smith, 1860. Mirth and Metre, 1854. My Haunts and their Frequenters, 1854. Nobody’s Fortune, 1871. Pages in Waiting, 1865. Righted Wrong (A), 1871. Rock Ahead (A), 1868. Running the Gauntlet, 1867. Silent Witness, 1875. Two by Tricks, 1874. Two Merry Men, 1854. Waiting Rain, 1872. Wrecked in Port, 1869. Yellow Flag (The), 1872.

Yonge (Charles Duke), 1812- History of England, 1857. History of France under the Bourbons, 1866. History of the British Navy, 1864. History of the English Revolution, 1874. Life of the Duke of Wellington, 1860. Parallel Lives: Epaminondas and Gustavus Adolphus, Philip and Frederick the Great, 1858. Three Centuries of Modern History, 1872.

Yonge (Charlotte Mary), born at Otterbourne, in Hampshire, 1823- Catharine of Aragon, 1881. Chaplet of Pearls (The), 1868. Christian Names, their History and Derivation. Clever Woman of the Family (The), 1865. Daisy Chain (The), 1856. Dove in the Eagle’s Nest (The), 1866. Dynevor Terrace, 1857. Heart’s-ease, 1854. Heir of Redclyffe, 1853. Lady Hester, 1873. Lances of Lynwood (The). Landmarks of History. Life of Bishop Patteson, 1873. Little Duke (The). Magnum Bonum, 1880. Three Brides (The), 1876. Trial (The), 1764. Young Stepmother (The), 1864.

Young (Rev. Edward), born at Upham in Hampshire, 1684-1765. Night Thoughts, 1742-46. ⁂ For his plays, see Appendix III.

APPENDIX II. DATES OF FOREIGN POEMS AND NOVELS.

LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS.

Alex. = Alexandrine metre. b.v. = Blank verse. bks. = Books. d.m. = Divers metres. Ep. = Epic. Ep., H.M. = Epic in heroic metre. Ep., Hex. = Epic in hexameter verse. Es. = Essay or Essays. H.M. = Heroic metre. H.M., b.v. = Heroic metre in blank verse. H.M., rh. = Heroic metre in rhyme. Hex. = Hexameter verse.

Nov. = [Prose] novel. p. = Poetry. pr. = Prose. pr. and v. = Prose and verse. pr. Ep. = Prose epic. rh. = Rhyme. Rom. = Romance. Rom. p. = Romance in poetry. Sp. m. = Spencerian metre. ter. rh. = Ternary rhymes. v. = Verse. 8 syl. v. = Octosyllabic verse.

Æsop, Fables, about B.C. 570. Greek pr.

Amadis of Gaul, begun by Vasco de Lobeira, 14th cent.; finished by sundry hands, 15th cent. Old French pr.

Arabian Nights, first published in Paris, by Antony Galland, 1704-17. The best are Indian; the sentimental love tales are Persian; the witty, comical ones are Arabic. Arabic pr. tales. Lane’s translation, 1841.

Argonauts (The), by Appolonius Rhodius, about B.C. 200 (4 bks.). Greek Ep., Hex. Translated into English by Fawkes, 1780; and into English verse by Green, 1780; W. Preston, 1803. H.M., rh.

Chinese Tales, by Gueulette, 1723. French pr.

Chrestien de Troyes, the Chevalier au Lion, Chevalier de l’Epée, Sir Lancelot du Lac, in metrical French (before 1200).

Chronicles of Albericus Trium Fontium, 1242. Latin pr.

Cid (The), 1040-1099. The Spanish Chronicle of the Cid, 13th cent., first printed in 1541, and a second by Medina del Campo, in 1552. The Spanish Poem of the Cid dates from 1207, and 102 ballads on the Cid in Spanish were published in 1615. Southey published an excellent English Chronicle in 1808. Lockhart has rendered eight of them into English ballads; and George Dennis has strung together, in prose and verse, a connected tale of the great Spanish hero, 1845. (The Cid, in Spanish romance, occupies the same position as Arthur in English story, Charlemagne in French and Theodorick in German.)

Contes de Fees, by Claude Perrault, 1697. French pr. fairy tales.

Creation, or La Première Semaine, by Du Bartas, about 1570. French Ep., H.M. English version by Joshua Sylvester, 1605.

Decameron, by Boccaccio, 1350. Italian pr. tales. An English version by G. Standfast, and by many others. Diable Boiteux, by Lesage, 1707. French pr. tale. W. Coombe wrote an English imitation, called The Devil upon Two Sticks, 1790.

340Divina Commedia, by Dantê: Inferno, 1300; Purgatory, 1308; Paradise, 1311. Italian Ep. poems. English translations by Boyd, 1785; Gary, 1814, b.v.; Wright, 1833, triple rh.; Caley, 1851-55, ter. rh.; Pollock, 1854, b.v.; Dayman, 1865; Rossetti, 1865; Longfellow, 1870; Norton, 1892; etc.

Don Quixote, by Cervantes, pt. i., 1605; ii., 1615. Spanish Nov. English versions by Shelton, 1612-20; Motteux, 1719; Jarvis, 1742; Smollett, 1755; Wilmot, 1774; Duffield, 1881; etc. All in pr. Dramatized by Durfey, 1694-96.

Fables, by Lafontaine, 1668. French; d.m.

Fairy Tales, by la comtesse D’Aunoy, 1682. French pr.

Gargantua, by Rabelais, 1533. French Nov. English version by Urquhart and Motteux, 1653.

Gil Blas, by Lesage, bks, i.-iii., 1715; iv.-vi., 1724; vii.-xii., 1735. French Nov. English version by Smollett, 1761; Procter, 1774; Smart, 1807; etc. All in pr.

Goblin Stories, by the brothers Grimm, 1812. German pr.

Goethe, 1749-1832 (German). Achilliad (The), about 1800. Farbenlehre, 1810. Hermann and Dorothea, 1797. Poem. Metamorphosis of Plants, 1790. Es. Werther, 1774. Rom. Wilhelm Meister, 1794. Rom. (For dramatic pieces, see Appendix III.)

Gulistan (Garden of Roses), by Saadi, 13th cent. Persian p.

Henriade, by Voltaire, 1724 (10 chants). French Ep.; rh.

Herbelot (D’), Bibliothèque Orientale, an Oriental Miscellany, 1697. French pr.

Hitôpadêsa, an epitome of the Pancha Tantra, 5th cent. B.C. Hindû.

Homer, Iliad (24 bks.), composed in the prime of his life, about B.C. 962. Greek Ep. Hex. Odyssey (24 bks.), composed in maturer age, about B.C. 927. Greek Ep., Hex. These poems were first reduced to writing by Pisistratos, of Athens, B.C. 531. English versions by Chapman, Il. 1598, Od. 1614; Bryant, Il. 1870, Od. 1871. The following have translated the Iliad only: Hall, 1581; Tickell, bk. i. 1715; Macpherson, 1773; Morrice, 1809; Brandreth, 1846; Barter, 1854; Newman, 1856; Wright, 1859; Selwyn, 1865; Green, 1865; Simcox, 1865; Dart, 1865; Herschel, 1866; Lord Derby, 1867; Merivale, 1869; Cordery, 1870; Newman, 1871. The following have translated the Odyssey alone: Cary, 1823; Hayman, 1866; Musgrave, 1869; Edginton, 1869; Wither, 1869; Merry, 1871.

Jerusalem Delivered, by Tasso, 1575. Italian Ep. English version by Carew, 1594; Fairfax, 1600; Hoole, 1762.

Lokman, Fables, contemporary with David and Solomon. Arabian; d.m.

Lusiads (The), by Camoens, 1572 (in 10 bks.). Portuguese Ep. English versions, “The Lusiad,” by Fanshawe, 1655; Mickle, H.M., rh., 1775; “The Lusiads,” by Aubertin, 1878; R. F. Burton, 1880.

Messiah, by Klopstock, bks. i.-iii., 1748; iv.-xv., 1771. German Ep., Hex. English version in pr. by Collyer, 1763; Raffles, 1815. In v. by Egestorff, 1821.

Metamorphoses, Ovid (in 15 bks.). Latin; about A.D. 6. Hex. English version by Golding, 1565; Sandys, 1626; Dr. Garth, assisted by Dryden, Congreve, Rowe and several others, 1716. H.M., rh.

Moral Tales, by Marmontel, 1761. French pr.

Niebelungen Lied, 1210 (in 39 adventures). From Snorro Sturleson’s Edda. Old German Ep. Transplanted into Germany by the minnesingers. English version by Lettsom, 1850.

Oriental Tales, by comte de Caylus, 1740. French pr.

Orlando Furioso, by Ariosto, 1516. Italian Rom., p. English version by Harrington, 1591; Croker, 1755; W. S. Rose, 1823; and an abridged version by Hoole, H.M., rh., 1783.

Orlando Innamorato, by Bojardo, 1495 (in 3 bks., unfinished). Italian Rom.; p. Three more books were added, in 1531, by Agostini; and the whole was remodelled by Berni. Translated by Tofte, 1598. Pancha Tantra, a collection of Hindû fables, 6th cent. B.C. Hindû.

341Pantagruel, Rabelais, 1545. French Nov. English version by Urquhart and Motteux, 1653.

Paul and Virginia, by St. Pierre, 1788. French tale; pr.

Phædrus, fables, about A.D. 25, chiefly from Æsop. Latin v. In English v. by C. Smart, 1765.

Pharsalia (The), by Lucan, about A.D. 60 (in 10 bks.). Latin Ep.; Hex. English version by C. Marlowe; Gorge, 1614; May, 1627; Rowe, 1729; and a literal translation by Riley, in Bohn’s series.

Pilpay, Fables, compiled from the Pancha Tantra and other sources, 4th cent. B.C. Indian.

Pliny, Natural History, about A.D. 77. Latin pr. English version by Dr. Holland, 1601; Bostock, 1828; Riley, in Bohn’s series, 1855-57.

Plutarch, Parallel Lives, about A.D. 110-13. Greek pr. English version by North, 1579; Langhorne, 1771; another by Dryden and others, re-edited by Clough. All in pr.

Reynard the Fox, 1498. German pr., by Heinrich von Alkmaar. An English version printed by Caxton, 1481. Romance of the Rose, by Guillaume de Lorris, 13th cent. Continuation by Jean de Meung, 14th. cent. French Rom. p. English poetic version by Chaucer, in 8 syl. v., about 1360.

Telemachus, by Fénelon, 1700 (in 24 bks.). French pr. Ep. English version by Dr. Hawkesworth, 1810; pr.

Thebaid, by Statius, about A.D. 86 (in 12 bks.). Latin Ep., Hex. An English version by Lewis, 1767. Parts by Pope; Stephens, 1648; Howard, H.M., rh., etc.

Undine, by De la Motte Fouqué, 1813. An English version was published by Routledge and Sons, 1875.

Victor Hugo, 1802-1885. (French poet and novelist). Autumn Leaves, 1832; p. Last Days of a Condemned Criminal, 1829. (For dramatic pieces, see APPENDIX III.)

Virgil, Æneid (in 12 bks.), B.C. 27-20. Latin Ep., Hex. English version by Gawin, 1513; Lord Surrey 1553; Phaer and Twyne, 1558-73; Stanihurst, 1583; Ogilby, 1649; Dryden, H.M., rh., 1697; Dr. Trapp, b.v., 1731; Pitt and Warton, 1740; Kennedy, 1849; Singleton, “in rhythm,” 1855-59; Conington, 1866; Morris, 1876; Cranch, 1872; etc. In literal pr. by Davidson, 1743; Wheeler, 1852; etc.

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LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS IN APPENDIX III.

A. = Afterpiece. Alleg.Pl. = Allegorical play. B. = Burlesque. B.C. = Burlesque comedy. B.O. = Burlesque opera. B.T. = Burlesque tragedy. Bd. = Ballad. Bd.F. = Ballad farce. Bd.O. = Ballad opera. Bl. = Ballet. Blta. = Burletta. C. = Comedy. C.Bf. = Comédie bouffe. C.D. = Comic drama. C.H. = Comédie historique. C.O. = Comic opera. Cdta. = Comedietta or comedetta. Cl.C. = Classical comedy. Cl.Cdta. = Classical comedietta. Cl.D. = Classical drama. Cl.Pl. = Classical play. Cl.T. = Classical tragedy. Ct.E. = Court entertainment. Ct.S. = Court show. D. = Drama. D.Dia. = Dramatic dialogue. D.E. = Dramatic entertainment. D.Fab. = Dramatic fable. D.H. = Drama historique. D.Mon. = Dramatic monologue. D.N. = Dramatic novel. D.O. = Dramatic opera. D.Pc. = Dramatic piece. D.Pm. = Dramatic poem. D.R. = Dramatic romance. D.S. = Dramatic satire. D.Sk. = Dramatic skit. Dom.D. = Domestic drama. E. = Entertainment. Ex. = Extravaganza. F. = Farce. F.C. = Farce comedy. Fy.C. = Fairy comedy. Fy.P. = Fairy pastoral. G.E.Mel.S. = Grand Eastern melodramatic spectacle. G.O.R. = Grand operatic romance. H.C. = Historic comedy. H.D. = Historic drama. H.O. = Historic opera. H.Pc. = Historic piece. H.Pl. = Historic play. H.R. = Historic romance. H.T. = Historic tragedy. Hc.Pl. = Heroic play. Int. = Interlude. I.D. = Irish drama. L.D. = Lyrical drama. L.Pl. = Lyrical play. LowC. = Low comedy. M. = Masque. Mel. = Melodrama. Mel.O. = Melodramatic opera. Mel.R. = Melodramatic romance. Met.D. = Metrical drama.

Mir.Pl. = Miracle play. Mo. = Morality. MockPl. = Mock play. MockT. = Mock tragedy. Mu.C. = Musical comedy. Mu.D. = Musical drama. Mu.E. = Musical entertainment. Mu.F. = Musical farce. Mu.Int. = Musical interlude. Mu.Pl. = Musical play. Mu.Sp. = Musical spectacle. Mu.Tr. = Musical trifle. Mys. = Mystery. Myt.C. = Mythological comedy. Myt.D. = Mythological drama. N.Blta. = Nautical burletta. N.C.O. = Nautical comic opera. N.C.Opta. = Nautical comic operetta. N.D. = Nautical drama. N.O. = Nautical opera. N.Pl. = Nautical play. O. = Opera. O.Bf. = Opera bouffe. O.Blta. = Operatic burletta. O.C. = Opera comique. O.D. = Operatic drama. O.E. = Operatic entertainment. O.Ex. = Operatic extravaganza. O.F. = Operatic farce. Op.C. = Operatic comedy. Opta. = Operetta. Or. = Oratorio. P. = Pastoral. P.C. = Pastoral comedy. P.O. = Pastoral opera. P.T. = Pastoral tragedy. P.T.C. = Pastoral tragi-comedy. Pl. = Play. Pn. = Pantomime. Pn.Bl. = Pantomimic ballet. Po.D. = Poetic drama. Pol.D. = Political drama. Pr.C. = Prize comedy. Pr.T. = Prize tragedy. Pt.C. = Petit comedy. Pt.Pc. = Petit piece. R.D. = Romantic drama. R.T. = Romantic tragedy. Rel.Pl. = Religious play. S.D. = Sacred drama. S.T. = Sacred tragedy. Sat.C. = Satiric comedy. Sat.D. = Satiric drama. Sen.D. = Sensational drama. Ser. = Serenata. Sol. = Solemnity. Sp.T. = Spasmodic tragedy. T. = Tragedy. T.C. = Tragi-comedy. T.C.P. = Tragi-comic pastoral. T.L. = Tragedie lyrique. T.O. = Tragedy-opera. V. = Vaudeville. * = Unknown. Etc. = With some other author or authors.

Notwithstanding the length of this list, there are some dramatic pieces very difficult to classify.

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APPENDIX III. AUTHORS AND DATES OF DRAMAS AND OPERAS.

If any discrepancy is observed between the dates given in this list and those in the body of the book, the dates here given are to be preferred. It must be borne in mind that the date of some plays is purely conjectural, and can be assigned only approximately; and in not a few instances authorities differ.

Abdelazer, or the Moor’s Revenge, 1677, Mrs. Behn. C.

Abel, 18th cent., Alfieri. T.O.

About Town, 1873, A. W. A’Beckett. C.

Abraham’s Sacrifice, 1550, T. Beza (French). Rel.Pl. (translated by A. Golding, 1575).

Abroad and at Home (1764-1817), Holman. C.O.

Absalon, 1590, Peele. T.

Absent Man (The), 1768, Bickerstaff. C.

Accomplices (The), about 1790, Goethe. C.

Acharnanians, B.C. 425, Aristophanes. C.

Achille in Sciro, 1736, Metastasio. O.

Achilles, 1732, Gay. O.

Acis and Galatea, 1683, Camistron. O.

Acis and Galatea, 1732, Gay. Ser.

Adelaide, 1814, Sheil.

Adelaide du Guesclin, 1734, Voltaire. T.

Adelaide of Wulfingen, 1799. B. Thompson. T.

Adelgitha, 1806, Lewis. Pl.

Adelmorn, or The Outlaw, 1801, Lewis. D.

Adelphi, or The Brothers, B.C. 160, Terence. C.

Adherbal, 1687, Lagrange. T.

Adopted Child, * Birch. Mu.D.

Adrasta, or Woman’s Spleen, 1635, J. Jones. Pl.

Adriano in Siria, 1731, Metastasio. O.

Adrienne Lecouvreur, 1849, MM. Legouvé and Scribe. C.

Adventures of Five Hours, 1663, Tuke. C.

Ælla, posthumous, 1777, Chatterton. T.

Æsop, 1697, Vanbrugh.

Afflicted Father (The), 1745-1820, Hayley. D.

Africaine (L’), 1865, Meyerbeer. O.

Africans (The), 1808, Colman. Pl.

After Dark, 1868, Boucicault.

Agamemnon, B.C. 458, Æschylus. T. (Greek).

Agamemnon (B.C. 58-32), Seneca. T. (Latin).

Agamemnon, 1738, Thomson. T.

Agamemnon, printed 1783, Alfieri. T.

Agathocles, or The Sicilian Tyrant, 1676, R. Perrinchief. T.

Agésilas, 1666, Corneille. T.

Agis, 1758, Home. T.

Agis (Agide), printed 1783, Alfieri. T.

Aglaura, 1637, Sir J. Suckling. T.C.

Agnes de Castro (1679-1749), Cockburn. D.

Agnes de Vere, 1834, Buckstone. D.

Agnese, about 1820, Paer. O.

Agreeable Surprise, 1798, O’Keefe. C.

Agrippina, 1771, T. Gray. T. (unfinished).

Ah! que l’Amour est Agréable! 1862, Delaporte. C.

Aïda, 1872, Verdi. O.

Ajax, about B.C. 420, Sophocles. T. (Greek).

Aladdin, 1824, Bishop. O.

Alaham Mustapha, 1609, T. Grenville. T.

Alarcos, 1839, Disraeli. T.

Alarkas, 1802, F. C. Schlegel. T.

Alarming Sacrifice, about 1849, Buckstone. F.

Alarum for London, or the siege of Antwerp, 1602, Anon. T.

Alasco, 1824, Shee. T.

Alba, 1583, performed at Oxford before Albertus de Alasco, a Polish prince.

Albertus Wallenstein, 1639, Glapthorne. T.

Albovine, King of Lombardy, 1629, Sir W. Davenant. T.

Albumazar, 1634, B. (a comedy).

Albumazar, the Astronomer, 1614, Tomkis. C.

Albyon Knight (The), 1565, Anon. Alleg.Pl.

Alcazar (Battle of), 1594, Peele. T.

Alceste, 1690, Lagrange. T.

Alceste, 1747, Smollett. O.

344Alceste, 1769, Glück. O. (libretto by Calzabigi).

Alcestis, B.C. 438, Euripides. T. (Greek).

Alchemist (The), 1610, Jonson. C.

Alcibiade, 1688, Campistron. T.

Alcibiades, 1675, Otway. T.

Alcida, 1588, Greene.

Alessandro nell’ Indie, 1729, Metastasio. O.

Alexander and Campaspê, etc., 1584, J. Lyly. Myt.D.

Alexander and the King of Egypt, 1788, Anon. MockPl.

Alexandre, 1665, Racine. T.

Alexandrians (The), 1605, Lord Stirling. T.

Alexina, 1866, Knowles. Pl.

Alexius, or the Chaste Lover, 1639, Massinger. C.

Alfonso, King of Castile, 1801, Lewis. H.Pl.

Alfred, 1724, Arne or his pupil Burney. O.

Alfred, 1778, Home. H.Pl.

Alfred, or the Roast Beef of Old England, 1740, J. Thompson and Mallet. M.

Alfred the Great at Athelney, 1876, Stratford de Redcliffe. T.

Ali Baba, 1833, Cherubini. O.

Aline Reine de Golconde, 1767, Sedaine. O.

All Alive and Merry, 1737, S. Johnson. C.

All Fools, 1605, Chapman. C.

All for Fame, 1805, Cherry. C.

All for Love, or The World Well Lost, 1668, Dryden. T.

All for Money, 1578, Lupton. T.C.

All in the Wrong, 1761, Murphy. C.

All is Vanity, or the Cynic’s Defeat, * Alfred Thompson. Cl.Cdta.

All’s Fair in Love, 19th cent., J. Brougham. D.Pc.

All’s Lost by Lust, 1633, Rowley. T.

All’s Well that Ends Well, 1598, Shakespeare. C.

All the World’s a Stage, 1777, Jackman. F.

Almahide and Hamet, 1804, Malkin. T.

Almansor. (See “Conquest of Granada.”)

Almeria, 1698, Handel. O.

Almeyda, Queen of Granada, 1796, Miss Lee. T.

Alonzo, 1773, Home. T.

Alphonsus, Emperor of Germany, 1654, Capman. T.

Alphonsus, King of Aragon, 1594, Greene. C.

Alsatia (The Squire of), 1688, Shadwell. C.

Alzire, 1736, Voltaire. T.

Amadis de Grèce, 1704, Lamotte. O.

Amant Difficile (L’), 1672-1731, Lamotte. C.

Amant Jaloux (L’), 1778, Grétry. O.

Amants Magnifiques, 1670, Molière. C.

Amasis (1677-1758), Lagrange. T.

Ambassadrice, 1837, Scribe. O.C.

Amber Witch (The), 1861, Wallace. O.

Ambitious Stepmother (The), 1698, Rowe. T.

Ambitious Vengeance (1755-1798), Merry.

Amboyna, 1673, Dryden.

Amelia, 1732, H. Carey.

Amelia, 1768, Cumberland.

Amends for Ladies, 1611, Field. C.

American Cousin (Our), 1858, Tom Taylor and Sothern. C.

American Lady (An), 1874, H. J. Byron. C.

Americans (The), about 1770, Arnold. O.

Ami de la Maison, 1772, Marmontel. O.

Amoroso, King of Little Britain, 1818, Planché. B.

Amorous Bigot, 1690, Shadwell. C.

Amorous Fantasms, 1660, Lower. T.C.

Amorous Gallant (The), 1675, (from Corneille).

Amorous Old Woman (The), 1674, Duffet. C.

Amorous Orontus, or Love in Fashion, 1665, J. Bulteel. C.

Amorous Prince (The), 1671, Mrs. Behn. C.

Amorous Warre, 1648, Mayne. T.C.

Amorous Widow (The), 1706, Betterton. C.

Amour (L’) et l’Opinion (1781-1857), Brifaut. C.

Amour Médecin, 1665, Molière. C.

Amours de Diable, 1852, St. Georges. O.C.

Amphitruo (B.C. 254-184), Plautus. C. (Latin).

Amphitryon, 1668, Molière. C.

Amphitryon, 1690, Dryden. C.

Amphitryon, 1781, Sedaine. O.

Amphitryon, 1782, Andrieux. C.

Amy Robsart (1830-1877), Halliday.

Amyntas or The Impossible Dowry, 1638, Randolph. Fy.P.

Amyntas, 1698, Oldmixon. C.

Anacreon, 1766, Sedaine. C.O.

Anacreon, 1832, Cherubini. O.

Anaximandre, 1782, Andrieux. C.

Andrew of Hungary, 1839, Landor. T.

Andria (The Woman of), B.C. 166, Terence. C.

Andromachê, B.C. 417, Euripides. T.

Andromana, or The Merchant’s Wife, 1660, Shirley. T.

Andromaque, 1667, Racine. T.

Andromaque, 1683, Campistron. T.

Andronic, 1686, Campistron. T.

Andronicus, or Heaven’s Late Revenge, 1661, Anon. T.

Angelica, 1722, Metastasio. O.

Anglais à Bordeaux (L’), 1763-72, Favart. O.C.

Anglomane, 1752, Saurin. C.

Animal Magnetism, 1785, Inchbald. F.

Ann Blake, 1852, W. Marston. Pl.

Anna Bolena, 1830, Donizetti. O.

Anna Boleyn, about 1680, Banks. T.

Anna Boleyn, 1877, Miss Dickinson. H.P.

345Anne Boleyn, 1826, Milman. D.Pm.

Anne Boleyn, 1850, G. H. Boker. T.

Anne Boleyn, 1876, T. Taylor.

Annette et Lubin, 1763-72, C. N. Favart. O.C.

Año Despues de la Boda, 1825, Gil y Zarate.

Antidote (The), 1805, Alfieri. C.

Antigonê, about B.C. 441, Sophocles. T.

Antigone, 1631, May. Cl.D.

Antigone, 1633, Rotrou. Cl.D.

Antigone, 1756. Glück. O.

Antigone, 1783, Alfieri. T.

Antiochus et Cléopâtre, 1717, Deschamps. T.

Antipodes (The), 1633, Brome. C.

Antiquary (The), 1633, Marmion. C.

Antonio and Mellida, 1602, Marston. T.

Antonio and Vallia, 1660, Massinger.

Antonio, or the Soldier’s Return, 1801, Godwin. T.

Antonio’s Revenge, 1602, Marston. T.

Antony, 1590, Lady Pembroke. T.

Antony, 1831, Dumas. T.

Antony and Cleopatra, 1608, Shakespeare. T.

Anything for a Quiet Life, 1662, Middleton. C.

Apocryphal Ladies (The), 1624-1673, Margaret, duchess of Newcastle. C.

Apollo and Daphne, 1716, Hughes. M.

Apollo Shroving, 1626, Hawkins. C.

Apostate (The), 1817, Sheil. T.

Appearance is Against Them, * Anon. F.

Appius and Virginia, 1574, R. B----. Mo.

Appius and Virginia, 1654, Webster. T. Revised by Betterton, 1679, and entitled The Roman Virgin, or The Unjust Judge.

Appius and Virginia, 1705, Dennis. T.

Apprentice (The), 1751 or 1756, Murphy. F.

Arab (The), 1783, Cumberland. T.

Arcades, 1636, Milton. M.

Arcadia, 1640, Shirley. Pl. (based on Sidney’s Arcadia).

Archipropheta, 1547, Grimbold. T. (Latin, John the Baptist).

Arden of Feversham, 1592, Anon. H.T. (altered in 1739 by Lillo).

Argalus and Parthenia, 1639, Glapthorne. Pl.

Ariadne, 1721, D’Urfey. O.

Ariane, 1672, T. Corneille. T.

Ariodante and Ginevra, 1582, Anon. Pl. (founded on a story in Orlando Furioso, by Ariosto).

Aristodemus, 1825, Monti. T. (rendered into French, 1854, by Duplissis).

Aristomène, 1749, Marmontel. T.

Armgart, 1874, “George Eliot.” D.Pm.

Armida, 1774, Glück. O. (libretto by Calzabigi).

Arminius, 1684, Campistron. T.

Arminius, 1798, Murphy. T.

Armourer (The), 1793, Cumberland. C.O.

Armourer of Nantes, 1863, Balfe. O.

Arrah na Pogue, 19th cent., Boucicault. I.D.

Arraignment of Paris, 1584, Peele. Ct.S. or M.

Art of Management, 1735, C. Clarke. D.Pc.

Artaserse, before 1730, Metastasio. O.

Artaxerxes, 1741, Glück. O.

Artaxerxes, 1761, Arne. O. (from Metastasio).

Artaxerxes, 1831, Dorn. O.

Artémire, 1720, Voltaire. T.

Arthur (King), 1691, Dryden. O. (music by Purcell).

Arthur, King of England, 1598, Hathaway. Pl. (See “Misfortunes of Arthur.”)

Artifice, 1721, Centlivre. C.

As Cool as a Cucumber, 1851, W. B. Jerrold. F.

As You Find it, 1703, Boyle. C.

As You Like it, 1600, Shakespeare. C. (The quarry of this play was Lodge’s novel called Rosalynde, 1590.)

Asdrubal, 1647, Jacob Montfleury. T.

Asinaria, or The Ass Comedy (B.C. 254-184). Plautus. C. (Latin). Translated into blank verse by Messrs. Thornton, Rich, Warner and Colman, 1769-74.

Assignation (The), 1672, Dryden. C.

Assignation (The), 1807, Miss Lee. C.

Assommoir (L’), 1878, Zola. D. (See “Drink.”)

Astræa Appeased, 1797, Olivari (translated from Metastasio).

At Home, 1818, C. Mathews. E.

Atalanta in Calydon, 1864, Swinburne. D.Pm.

Athalia, 1733, Handel. O.

Athalia, 1844, Mendelssohn. O.

Athalie, 1690, Racine. T. (translated by J. C. Knight, 1822).

Atheist’s Tragedy (The), 1611, Tourneur. T.

Athelwold, 1732, Hill. T.

Athelwold, 1842, W. Smith. T.

Athénais (1677-1758), Lagrange. T.

Athenian Captive, 1838, Talfourd. Cl.Pl.

Atonement, or Branded for Life, 1863, Muskerry. D. (Les Misérables of Victor Hugo dramatized).

Attila, 1667, Corneille. T.

Attila, 19th cent., Verdi. O.

Attilio Regolo, 1740, Metastasio. O.

Atys, 1780, Piccini. O.

Auchindrane. (See “Ayrshire Tragedy.”)

Auction of Pictures, 1748, Foote. F.

Auction (The), 1757, T. Cibber. F.

Augusto (L’), 1665, Amore. T.

Aulularia (B.C. 254-184), Plautus. C. (Latin). Translated into blank verse by Thornton, Rich, Warner and Colman, 1769-1774.

Aureliano in Palmira, 1814, Rossini. O.

346Aurengzebe, 1675, Dryden. He.Pl.

Author (The), 1757, Foote. F.

Author’s Farce (The), 1731, Fielding. F.

Avant, Pendant et Aprés, before 1822, Scribe. V.

Avare (L’), 1667, Molière. C. (indebted to the Aulularia of Plautus).

Avocat Patelin (L’), 1706, De Brueys. F. (This was a reproduction of a comedy attributed to Blanchet, who died 1519; but Bouillet says it was more ancient still.)

Ayrshire Tragedy, 1830, Sir W. Scott. T.

Babes in the Wood, 1860, Tom Taylor. (Rob. Yarrington, in 1601, wrote Two Lamentable Tragedies, one of which was about a young child murdered in a wood by two ruffians by command of its uncle.)

Bacchæ (B.C. 480-407), Euripides (Greek). Translated by Potter, 1781; Wodhull, 1782; Buckley, pr., in Bohn’s library.

Bacchides (B.C. 254-184), Plautus. C. (Latin, based on a Greek comedy by Menander.) Translated into blank verse by Thornton, Rich, Warner and Colman, 1769-74.

Bad Lovers, 1836, Coyne. C.

Bague de Thérèse, 1861, Carmouche. C.

Bajazet, 1672, Racine. T.

Balder’s Död, 1773, Evald or Ewald. D.

Ball (The), 1632, Chapman and Shirley. C.

Ballo in Maschera (Un), 1861, Verdi. O.

Banditti (The), 1686, D’Urfey. Pl.

Banishment of Cicero (The), 1761, Cumberland. D.Pm.

Banker’s Daughter (The), 1879, B. Howard. D.

Bankrupt (The), 1776, Foote. F.

Baptistes (1506-1582), G. Buchanan. T. (Latin).

Barbarossa, 1755, Brown. T.

Barbe Bleue, 1866, Offenbach. C.Bf.

Barbier de Séville (Le), 1775, Beaumarchais. C.

Barbiere di Siviglia, 1780, Paisiello. O.

Barbiere di Siviglia, 1816, Rossini. O. (Sir H. Bishop altered it).

Barmecides (Les), 1778, Laharpe. T.

Barnwell. (See “George Barnwell.”)

Barry (Mde. du), 1836, Ancelot. V.

Bartholomew Fayre, 1614, Jonson. C.

Bashful Lover, 1636, printed 1655, Massinger. C.

Bashful Man (The), *-1857, Moncrieff. C.D.

Basil (Count), 1798, printed in the “Series,” 1802, J. Baillie. T. (the passion of “love”).

Basset Table, 1706, Centlivre. C.

Bastard (The), 1652, C. Manuche. T.

Bastien et Bastienne (1749-1806), Favart. O.C.

Bath (The), 1701, D’Urfey. C.

Battaile de Danes, 1851, Scribe and Legouvé. C.

Battle of Alcazar, 1594, Peele. T.

Battle of Hastings, 1778, Cumberland. T.

Battle of Hermann (1776-1811), Kleist. H.D.

Battle of Hexham, 1789, Colman. C.

Battle of Sedgmoor, about 1675, duke of Buckingham. F.

Bear-Hunters (1802-1879), Buckstone.

Beatrice di Tenda, 1833, Bellini. O.

Beau Brummel, 1858, W. B. Jerrold. C.

Beau’s Duel, 1703, Centlivre. C.

Beauty, 1616, Jonson. C.

Beauty in a Trance, 1653, Ford. C.

Beauty in Distress, 1698, Motteux. T.

Beauty’s Triumph, 1676, Duffett. M.

Beaux’ Stratagem, 1707, Farquhar. C.

Becket. (See “Thomas à Becket.”)

Beggar of Bethnal Green, 1834, Knowles. C. (See “Blind Beggar of Bethnal Green.”).

Beggars’ Bush, 1622, Fletcher (Beaumont died 1616). Folio edition 1647. C.

Beggar’s Opera, 1727, Gay. C.O. (music by Linley. Dr. Pepusch adapted music to this opera).

Believe as you List, 1653, Massinger. C.

Bélisaire, 1645, Rotrou. T.

Belisarius (1757-1823), Kemble.

Bellamere Earl of Carlisle, 1807. T.

Bellamira, or The Mistress, 1687, Sedley. C.

Bellamira, 1818, Sheil. C.

Belle Arsène (La), 1775, Favart. O.C. (music by Monsigny).

Belle Hélène (La), 1865, Offenbach. O.Bf.

Belle’s Stratagem (The), 1780, Mrs. Cowley. C.

Bells (The), 1874, Erckmann-Chatrian, adapted from The Polish Jew (q.v.).

Belphegor, 1856, C. Webb, and L. Buckingham. D. (translated from the French of Dennery and Fournier).

Belshazzar, 1822, Milman. D.Pm.

Ben Nazir, 1827, Grattan. T.

Benevolent Tar (The), * Cross. Mu.E.

Benyowski, 1811, Kotzebue. (The English version is called The Virgin of the Sun.)

Bérenice, 1670, Racine. T.(the hero and heroine meant for Louis XIV., and Henrietta of England).

Bertram, 1816, Maturin. T.

Bertrand et Raton, 1833, Scribe. C.

Betrothal (The), 1852, G.H. Boker.

Betsy, 1879, Burnard (from the French).

Better Late than Never, before 1814, Andrews. C.

Beverley, 1748, Saurin. D.

Bianca, 1817, Ingemann. T.

Bianca, 1859, Balfe. O.

Bianca Visconti, 1843, Willis. T. (Greek).

Bickerstaff’s Burying, 1710, Centlivre. C.

347Bijou Perdu, 1855, Adam. Pt. Pc. (libretto by Deforges).

Billy Taylor (1802-1879), Buckstone.

Bird in a Cage (The), 1633, Shirley. C.

Birds (The), B.C. 409, Aristophanes. C. (Greek). Translated by Mitchell, 1820-22; Carey, 1824; Hickie, 1853; Rudd, 1867.

Biron’s Conspiracie, 1604, Chapman. T.

Biron’s Tragedy, 1605, Chapman. T.

Birth (1829-1871), Robertson. C.

Birth of Jupiter, 1797, Olivari (translated from Metastasio).

Birth of Merlin, 1662, Rowley. C.

Birthday (The), 1801. C. (from Kotzebue).

Biter (The), 1705, acted 1706, Rowe. C.

Black and White, 19th cent., Collins. C.

Black Domino, 1841, an English version of Scribe’s Le Domino Noir, 1737. O.C.

Black-Eyed Susan, 1822, D. Jerrold. N.D.

Black Horse (The), before 1620, Fletcher. Pl. (See “Palæmon and Arcyte.”)

Black Prince, 1669, Lord Orrery. H.Pl.

Black Sheep (1805-1868), Coyne.

Blackness, 1616, Jonson. C.

Blanche of Navarre, 1839, James. Pl.

Blazing Comet (The), 1732, S. Johnson. C.

Blighted Being (A), 1854, Tom Taylor.

Blind Bargain (1765-1841), Reynolds. C.

Blind Beggar of Alexandria, 1559, Chapman. Pl.

Blind Beggar of Bethnal Green, 1592, acted 1600, Day. C. (See “Beggar of Bethnal Green.”)

Blind Beggar of Bethnal [Bednal] Green (The), 1745, Dodsley. C.

Blind Girl, 1801, Morton. C.

Blind Lady (The), 1660, Howard. C.

Bloodie Banquet (The), 1639, R. Davenport. T.

Bloody Brother, 1639, Beaumont and Fletcher. T.

Blot on the ’Scutcheon, 1843, R. Browning. T.

Blue Beard, 1797, Sedaine. C.O. (music by Grétry); 1866.

Blue Beard, 1798, Colman. Mu.Sp. (music by Kelly).

Blue Beard, 1868, Offenbach. O.Bf.

Blurt, Master Constable, 1602, Middleton. C.

Boadicea, 1611, Fletcher. T.

Boadicea, 1753, Glover. T.

Bohemian Girl, 1844, Balfe. O. (burlesqued by H. J. Byron in The Bohemian Gyurl).

Bohemians or Rogues of Paris, 1863, Stirling. D.

Bohemienne, 1862, St. Georges. O.C.

Boite d’Argent, 1858, Dumas fils. C.

Bold Stroke for a Husband, 1782. Cowley. C.

Bold Stroke for a Wife, 1717, Centlivre. C.

Bombastes Furioso, 1790, Rhodes. F.

Bon Fils, 1785, Florian. C.

Bon Ménage, 1782, Florian. C.

Bon Père, 1783, Florian. C.

Bon Ton, 1760, Burgoyne. C.

Bon Ton, 1776, Garrick. F.

Bondman (The), 1624, Massinger and Field. T.

Bondman (The), 1780, Cumberland.

Bondman (The), 1846, Balfe. O.

Bondman (The), or Love and Liberty, 1719, Betterton. C.

Bonduca, 1647, Beaumont and Fletcher. T.

Bonne Mère, 1784, Florian. C.

Boots at the Swan, 1857, Selby, F. (Dickens’s tale dramatized).

Borderers (The), 1795-96, Wordsworth. T.

Bothwell, * Ware. T.

Bothwell, 1874, Swinburne. T.

Bourgeois Gentilhomme, 1670, Molière. C.

Bourgeoises à-la-Mode, 1654, Dancourt. C.

Bourse (La), 1856, Ponsard. F.

Bow Bells, 1880, Mr. Byron. D.

Box and Cox, * J. M. Morton. F.

Box Lobby Challenge (The), 1794, Cumberland. C.

Bradamante, 1580, Garnier. T.

Braganza (The Duke of), 1775, Jephson. T.

Bravo (The), 1833, Buckstone. Mel. (Cooper’s novel dramatized).

Brazen Age (The), 1603, T. Heywood. C.

Breach of Promise (1829-1871), Robertson. C.

Brennoralt (1609-1641), Sir J. Suckling. T.

Bride (The), 1640, Nabbes. C.

Bride (The), 1808, Korner. C.

Bride of Messina, 1803, Schiller. T.

Bride’s Tragedy (The), 1822, Beddoes. T.

Brides of Aragon (The), 1823, Beer. T.

Brier Cliff, 1842, George Morris. D.

Brigand (The), 1829, Planché.

Brighton. (See “Saratoga.”)

Bristowe Merchand (The), * Ford and Dekker.

Britannia Triumphans, 1637, Davenant. M.

Britannicus, 1669, Racine. T.

British Enchanters (The), 1701, G. Granville. D.Pm.

Briton (The), 1722, Philips. T.

Broken Heart, 1633, Ford. T.

Broken Hearts, 1876, Gilbert. T.C.

Broker of Bogota (1803-1854), Bird. T.

Brother and Sister, 1633, Ford. T.

Brother Sam, 19th cent., Oxenford, Sothern and Buckstone. C.

Brothers (The), 1652, Shirley. Pl.

Brothers (The), 1728, Young. T.

Brothers (The), 1769, Cumberland. C. (based on “The Little French Lawyer,” q.v. See “Adelphi”).

Brutus, about 1690, Miss Bernard. T.

Brutus, 1730, Voltaire. T.

Brutus (Junius), 1783, Alfieri. T. (translated by C. Lloyd, 1815).

Brutus (Junius), 1828, Andrieux. T.

Brutus (Lucius Junius) 1679, Lee. T.

Brutus (Lucius Junius), 1784, Duncombe. T.

Brutus and Cassius (1764-1811), Chénier. T. (See “Conspiracy of Brutus.”)

Brutus, or the Fall of Tarquin, 1820,1820, Payne. T.

Bubbles of the Day, 1842, Jerrold. C.

Buckingham, 1875, Wills. H.Pl.

Buffoon (Sir Hercules), 1622-1681, Lacy. C

Bull. (See “John Bull.”)

Bury Fair, 1689, Shadwell. C.

Busiris, 1719, Young. T.

Bussy d’Ambois, 1607, Chapman. T.

Bussy d’Ambois, 1691, D’Urfey. T.

Busybody (The), 1708, Centlivre. C. (based on Dryden’s Sir Martin Marall, 1667.)

By Royal Command, 19th cent., Stirling. C.O.

Cabal and Love, 1783, Schiller. T.

Cadi Dupé (Le), 1761, Monsigny. O.C.

Cælina, or L’Enfant du Mystère, 1800, Guilbert de Pixérécourt. Mel.

Cæsar and Pompey, 1631, Chapman. T.

Cæsar and Pompey, or Cæsar’s Revenge, 1607.

Cain, 1821, Byron. Mys.

Caio Gracco, 1720, Leo. O. (See “Gracchus.”)

Caius Gracchus, 1815, Knowles. H.T.

Caius Gracchus, 1825, Monti. H.T. (rendered into French by Duplissis, 1854; and into English by Lord John Russell, 1830).

Caius Marius, 1680, Otway. T. (This is Shakespeare’s Coriolanus reset.)

Calandria (La), 1490, Bibbi. C. (the first Italian comedy).

Calaynos, 1848, G. H. Boker. T.

Caleb Quotem, * H. Lee.

Calife de Bagdad, 1799, Boieldieu. O.

Calisto, about 1679, Crowne. M.

Calistus, 1530, Anon. T.C.

Callisthène, 1780, Piron. T.

Calypso, 1779, Cumberland.

Calypso, 1803, Winter. O. (See “Gracchus.”)

Calypso and Telemachus (1677-1720), Hughes. O.

Camaraderie (La), 1837, Scribe. C.

Cambises (King), 1569, Preston. T. (Referred to by Shakespeare, 1 Hen. IV., act ii. sc. 4.)

Cambyses, 1671, Settle. T.

Cameralzaman, 1848, James. Fy.C.

Camma, 1661, T. Corneille. T.

Camp (The), 1780, Sheridan. Mu.D.

Campaigners (The), or Pleasant Adventures in Brussels, 1698, D’Urfey. C.

Campaign, or Love in the East, 1783, Jephson. O.

Campaspê. (See “Alexander and Campaspê,” “Cupid and Campaspê.”)

Candidate (The) about 1781, Dent. F. (See “Rival Candidates.”)

Caprices of a Lover (The), 1769, Goethe. C.

Capricious Lovers (The), 1764, R. Lloyd. C.O. (from the Caprices d’Amour of Favart).

Captain (The), 1613, Beaumont and Fletcher. C.

Captain Mario, 1577, Gosson. C.

Captifs (Les), 1635, Rotrou. C. (imitated from the Captivi of Plautus).

Captive (The), 1769, Bickerstaff.

Captive (The), 1839, Lewis. Mel.

Captives (The), 1723, J. Gay. T.

Captivi (B.C. 254-184). Plautus. C. (Latin.) Translated into blank verse by Messrs. Thornton, Rich, Warner and Colman, 1769-74. (See “Captifs.”)

Captivity (The), 1728-1744, Goldsmith. Or.

Capuchin (The), 1776, Foote.

Caractacus, 1759, Mason. D.Pm.

Caractacus, 1808, Bishop. Pn.Bl.

Caravanne (La), 1783, Grétry. O.

Card of Fancy, 1601, Greene. C.

Cardinal (The), 1652, Shirley. D.

Cardinal Beaton, 1823, Tennant. T.

Careless Husband (The), 1704, Cibber. C.

Careless Shepherdess, 1656, T. G[offe]. T.C.

Carlos (Don), 1676, Otway. T.

Carlos (Don), 1787, Schiller. T.

Carmelite (The), 1785, Cumberland. T.

Carnival (The), 1663, Porter. C.

Carnival of Venice, 1781, Tickell. C.O.

Cartesmunda, the Fair Nun of Winchester, 1655, Brewer. T.

Case is Altered (The), 1609, Jonson. C.

Casini (B.C. 254-184), Plautus. C. (Latin, based on a Greek comedy by Diphilos). Translated to blank verse by Messrs, Thornton, Rich, Warner and Colman, 1769-74.

Cassandre, 17th cent., Calprenède. T. (translated by Sir C. Cotterell, 1652).

Cassandre (1677-1758), Lagrange. O.

Cassius (1677-1758), Lagrange. T.

Caste, 1867, Robertson. C.

Castilian (The), 1853, Talfourd. T.

Castle of Andalusia, 1798, O’Keefe. C.O.

Castle of Sorento, * Heartwell. Mu.E.

Castle of Perseverance (The). One of the oldest Morality plays in the language.

Castle Spectre, 1797, Lewis. D.R.

Castor and Pollux, 1700, Bernard. O.

Catch Him Who Can, 1808, Hook.

Caterino Conara, 1844, Donizetti. O.

Catherine Douglas, 1843, Helps. T.

Catherine Grey, 1837, Balfe. O.

348Catherine of Heilbronn (1776-1811), Kleist. C.

Catiline, 1822, Croly. T.

Catiline’s Conspiracy, 1611, Jonson. T.

Catiline’s Conspiracy (1554-1623), Gosson. H.D.

Cato, 1713, Addison. T.

Caton d’Utique, 1715, Dechamps. O. (music by Vinci).

Catone in Utica, 1726, Metastasio. T. (music by Leo.)

Catspaw, 1850, Jerrold.

Ce qui Plait aux Femmes, 1860, Ponsard. C.

Cecchina (La), 1760, Piccini. O.

Celestina. (See “Spanish Bawd.”).

Cenci (The) 1819, Shelley. T.

Cenerentola (La), 1817, Rossini. O.

Chabot, Admiral of France, 1639, Chapman. T.

Chaîne (Une), 1841, Scribe. C.

Châlet (Le), 1834, Adam. O.C. (libretto by Scribe).

Challenge for Beautie (A), 1606, Thomas Heywood. T.C.

Chances (The), 1620 Fletcher (Beaumont died 1616). C. (altered by the Duke of Buckingham, and then by Garrick, to a farce).

Changeling (The), 1654, Middleton. T.

Changement d’Uniforme, 1836, Dennery. D.

Changes (The), 1633, Shirley. C.

Chanson de Fortunio, 1861, Offenbach. O.Bf.

Chaperon Rouge (Le), 1818, Boieldieu. O.

Chapter of Accidents (The), 1780, Miss Lee. C.

Charity, 1874, Gilbert. Pl.

Charlatanisme (Le), before 1822, Scribe. Pt.Pc.

Charles I., 1750, Havard. H.D.

Charles I., 1828, E. Cobham Brewer. H.T.

Charles I., 1830, Miss Mitford. H.D.

Charles I., 1853 Gurney. H.Pl. (See “Cromwell.”)

Charles I., 1872, Wills. H.Pl.

Charles II., 1849, Macfarren. O.

Charles II (1792-1852), Payne. D.

Charles VI., 1841, Halévy. O. (libretto by Delavigne).

Charles VII., 1831, Dumas. H.D.

Charles IX., 1789, Chénier. H.D.

Charles XII., 1826, Planché. H.D.

Charles le Téméraire, 1814, Guilbert de Pixérécourt. D.

Charlotte Corday, 1850, Ponsard. T.

Chasse à St. Germain, 1860, Deslandes. D.

Chaste Mayd in Cheapside (The), 1620, Middleton. C.

Chastelard, 1865, Swinburne. T.

Châtelet (Mde. du), about, 1834, Ancelot. V.

Chatterbox (The), 1857, W. B. Jerrold. C.

Cheats of Scapin, 1677, Otway. F. (from Molière’s Fourberies de Scapin, 1671. C.).

Checkmate (1830-1877), Halliday.

Chefe Promises of God unto Man, 1538, Bale. Mir.Pl.

Chercheuse l’Ésprit (La), 1710-1792, Favart. O.C.

Cheshire Comics, 1730, S. Johnson. C.

Chester Mysteries (24). The oldest dramatic works in the language. Ascribed to R. Heyden, who died 1363.

Chevalier à-la-Mode, 1652, Dancourt. C.

Chien de Montargis (Le), 1814, Guilbert de Pixérécourt. D.

Chiens du Mont St. Bernard, 1838, Antier. T.

Child of Nature (1753-1821), Inchbald. D.

Children of the Wood, 1815, Morton. C.

Chivalry, 1873, R. Lee. Pl.

Chloridia, 1630, Jonson. M.

Choephori, B.C. 458, Æschylus. T. (Greek). Translated by Potter, 1777; Buckley 1849, Plumptre, 1869.

Choleric Man, 1775, Cumberland. C.

Chosroes, 1649, Rotrou. T.

Christabel, 1816, Coleridge. D.

Christian Slave (The), 1855, Mrs. Beecher-Stowe. T. (Uncle Tom’s Cabin dramatized).

Christian turned Turke (A), 1612, Dayborn. Pl.

Christine, 1830, Dumas. H.Pl.

Christine à Fontainebleau, 1829, Soulié. D.R.

Christine en Suède, 1829, Brault. H.Pl.

Christmas, 1616, Jephson.

Christo Triumphante (De), 1551, J. Foxe. T. (Latin), translated, 1579.

Christophe Colomb, 1815, Guilbert de Pixérécourt. D.

Chronicle History of Leir, King of England 1578, Anon. H.Pl. (This was the quarry of Shakespeare’s King Lear.)

Chrononhotonthologos, 1734, Carey. MockT.

Cid (The), 1621, Guilhelm de Castro. T.

Cid (The), 1636, Corneille. T. (an adaptation of the above; translated 1714, by J. Ozell; 1802, by a “Captain”).

Cid (The), 1637, J. Rutter. T.C.

Cid (The), or the Heroic Daughter, 1714, J. Ozell. T.

Cinna, 1639, Corneille. D.H.

Cinna’s Conspiracy, 1740, T. Cibber. T.

Cinthia’s Revels. (See “Cynthia’s Revels.”)

Cinthia’s Revenge, 1613, Stephens. C.

Circassian’s Bride (The), 1809, Bishop. O.

Circe, 1677, C. Davenant. T.

Ciro Riconosciuto, 1739, Leo. O.

Cistellaria, or The Casket Comedy (B.C. 254-184). Plautus. C. (Latin, adapted from a Greek play by Menander). Translated into blank349 verse by Messrs. Thornton, Rich, Warner and Colman, 1769-74.

Citizen (The), 1761, Murphy. F.

Citizen General (The), 1793, Goethe. C.

City Heiress (The), 1682, Mrs. Behn. C.

City Madam (The), 1659, Massinger. C.

City Match, 1639, Mayne. C.

City Nightcap (The), 1661, R. Davenport. T.C. (a dramatized version of the Curious Impertinent in “Don Quixote,” welded on a tale of the “Decameron,” day vii., nov. 7).

City Politics, 1672, Crowne. C.

City Ramble (The), 1712, Settle. C.

City Witt (The), 1653, Brome. C.

City of the Plague, 1816, Wilson. D.Pm.

Civil Wars of Henry VI., 1724, T. Cibber. H.T.

Clandestine Marriage, 1766, Colman the Elder and Garrick. C. (based on The False Concord, by Townley, 1760).

Claracilla, 1641, Killigrew. T.C.

Clari, the Maid of Milan, 1822, Payne. Mu.D. (music by Bishop).

Clavijo, 1774, Goethe. D. (translated 1798).

Clementina, 1774, Kelly. T.

Clemenza di Tito, 1734, Metastasio. O. (music by Leo).

Clemenza di Tito, 1754, Glück. O.

Clemenza di Tito, 1791, Mozart. O.

Cleomenes, 1692, Dryden and Sothern.

Cleone, 1740, Dodsley. T.

Cleonice, 1775, Hoole. T.

Cleopatra, 1594, Daniel. T.

Cleopatra, 1639, May. T.

Cleopatra, 1773, acted 1775, Alfieri. T. (translated by C. Lloyd, 1815).

Cléopâtre, 1630, Mairet. T.

Cléopâtre, 17th cent., Calprenède. T. (translated by R. Loveday, 1668).

Cléopâtre, 1750, Marmontel. T.

Cléopâtre, Captive, 1550, Jodelle. T.

Clifford, 1817, Clifford. T.

Clitandre, 1632, Corneille.

Closerie des Genêts (La), 1846, Soulié. D.

Clotilde, 1832, Soulié. T.

Clouds (The), B.C., 423, Aristophanes. C. (Greek). Translated by Stanley, 1687; White, 1759; Cumberland, 1797; Mitchell, 1820-22; Hickie, 1853; Rudd, 1867.

Clytemnestra, 1823, Beer. T.

Cobbler’s Prophecy (The), 1594, Wilson. D.

Cocalus, B.C. 387, Aristophanes. C. (Translated by Mitchell, 1820-22; Hickie, 1853; Rudd, 1867.)

Cocu Imaginaire, 1660, Molière.

Cœlum Britannicum, 1633, Carew. M.

Coffee-house Politicians, 1732, Fielding. C.

Colinette à la Cour (1774-1826), Grétry. O.

Colleen Bawn, 1860, Boucicault. C.

Columbus, 1798, Morton. H.PL

Combat of Love and Friendship (The), 1654, Mead. C.

Combat of the Tongue, 1607, Brewer. C. (Cromwell acted the part of Tactus in this play.)

Comédienne (La), 1816, Andrieux. C.

Comédiens (Les), 1819, Delavigne. C.

Comedy of Errors, 1593, Shakespeare. C. (first mentioned 1598).

Comical Gallant, 1702, Dennis. C. (This is The Merry Wives of Windsor, by Shakespeare, 1596, new set.)

Comical Hash (The), 1625-1673, Margaret, duchess of Newcastle. C.

Comical History of Don Quixote, in three parts, 1694-96, D’Urfey. C.

Comical Lovers (The), 1671-1757, C. Cibber. C.

Comical Revenge, or Love in a Tub, 1664; Etherege. C.

Commissary (The), 1765, Foote. F.

Committee (The), 1670, Howard. C. (See “Honest Thieves.”)

Common Conditions, 1576, * C.

Commonwealth of Women (The), 1686, D’Urfey. T.C. (based on Fletcher’s Sea Voyage).

Complaint of Rosamond (1562-1619), Daniel. T.

Comte d’Ory (Le), 1828, Scribe. C.

Comtesse d’Escarbagnas, 1672, Molière. C.

Comus, 1634, Milton. M. (music by Lewes).

Comus, 1738, Arne. O.

Confederacy (The), 1705, Vanbrugh. C.

Confederates (The), 1717, Jos. Gay. F.

Confederates (The), about 1720, Breval. Sat.D.

Conflict of Conscience, 1581, Woodes. Mo.

Conquest of China, 1676, Settle. T.

Conquest of Granada, 1672, Dryden. T.

Conrad, 1772, Magnocavallo. Pr.T.

Conscience, or The Bridal Night, 1823. Haynes.

Conscious Lovers (The), 1722, Steele. C.

Conseiller Rapporteur (Le), 1841, Delavigne. C.

Conspiracy (The), 1638, H. Killigrew. T.

Conspiracy (The), 1796, Jephson. T. (Metastasio’s Clemenza di Tito).

Conspiracy of Brutus, 1691, Antoni. T. (See “Julius Cæsar.”)

Conspiracy of the Pazzi, 1783, Alfieri. T. (translated by C. Lloyd, 1815).

Constant Couple (The), 1700, Farquhar. C.

Constant Maid (The), 1640, Shirley. C. (altered into Love will find out a Way, 1661).

Contention (The), 1640, Shirley. C.

Contention between Liberality and Prodigality, 1602 (?) Greene. Mo.

350Contention between the Houses of Lancaster and York, 1600. Anon. H.Pl. (Shakespeare’s part ii. of Henry VI., published 1623, is very like it indeed.)

Contes de la Reine de Navarre (Les), 1850, Scribe and Legouvé.

Contested Election (The), 1859, Tom Taylor.

Contract (The), 1780, T. Franklin. C.

Contrivances (The), 1715, Carey. Bd.F.

Convict ( The), 1816, J. Wilson. D.Pm.

Convivado de Piedra, 1626, Tirso de Molino, whose name was Tellez. C. (This is the original of all the Don Juans.)

Cool as a Cucumber, 1851, W. B. Jerrold. F.

Cophte (The Grand), 1792, Goethe. C.

Coquette (The), 1706-1767, Molloy. C.

Coquette du Village, 1715, Dufresny. C.

Corésus et Callirhoe, 1696, Lafosse. T.

Coriolan, 1781, Laharpe. T.

Coriolanus, 1610, Shakespeare. T. (See “Invader of His Country.”)

Coriolanus, 1723, founded on Haym’s drama of Cajo Marzio Coriolano, music by Attilo Ariosto.

Coriolanus, 1749, Thomson. T.

Cornelia, 1594, Kyd. T. (from Gander’s tragedy Cornélie).

Cornélie, 1591, Garnier. T. (see above).

Cornélie, 1768, Henault and Fusher. T.

Cornette Jaune, 1864, Carmouche. C.

Coronation (The), 1640, Shirley. C.

Corsaire (The), 1856, Adam. B.

Corsican Brothers, 1848, Boucicault. D.

Corsicans, 1799. D. (from Kotzebue).

Cosa Rara (La), 1786, Martini. O. (The English version is called The Siege of Belgrade.)

Cosi Fan Tutte, 1788, Mozart. O.

Cosmo de Medici, 1837, Horne. T.

Costlie Whore (The), 1633, Anon. C.

Count Egmont, 1788, Goethe. T.

Count of Burgundy, 1798, Anne Plumtree. Pl. (from Kotzebue).

Count of Narbonne, 1781, Jephson. T. (Walpole’s Castle of Otranto dramatized).

Counterfeit Presentment. 1876, Howells. C.

Counterfeits, 1677, Leanerd. C.

Countess of Salisbury, 1767, Hartson. T.

Country Attorney, 1793, Cumberland. C.

Country Captain (The), 1649, duke of Newcastle. C.

Country Girle (The), 1647, Brewer. C.

Country Girl (The), 1716-1779, Garrick. C. (altered from The Country Wife).

Country House, 1715, Vanbrugh. F.

Country Innocence, 1677, Leanerd. C. (a plagiarismplagiarism of The Country Girle).

Country Wake (The), 18th cent., Dogget. C.

Country Wife, 1675, Wycherly. C. (largely borrowed from L’Ecole des Maris and L’Ecole des Femmes, by Molière, q.v.).

Courageous Turk (Aurath I.), 1632, Goff. T.

Courier of Lyons, 1852, Stirling. D.

Couronne de Bluets, 1836, Houssaye.

Court Beauties, 1835, Planché. C.

Court Beggar (The), 1653, Brome. C.

Court Secret (The), 1653, Shirley. C.

Courtley Nice (Sir), 1685, Crowne. C.

Courtly Masque (A), 1620, Middleton. M.

Covent Garden, 1632, printed 1638, Nabbes. C.

Covent Garden Weeded, 1653, Brome. C.

Coventry Plays (The), in MS..[MS.**], 1468.

Covivando de Piedro. (See “Convivado,” etc.)

Coxcomb, 1612, Beaumont and Fletcher. C.

Cozeners (The), 1774, Foote. F.

Creation (The), 1798, Haydn. Or.

Creatures of Impulse, 19th cent., Gilbert.

Creole (The), 1815-1874, C. S. Brooks. D.

Creusa, 1754, Whitehead. T.

Crispin Gentilhomme (1640-1685), Ant. J. Montfleury. C.

Critic (The), 1779, Sheridan. F. (“Sir Fretful Plagiary” is meant for Cumberland.)

Critique (La), 1662, Molière. C.

Crochets du Père Martin (Les), 1858, Cormon and Grange. (This is the original of Oxenford’s Porter’s Knot, and Boucicault’s Daddy O’Dowd.)

Crociato in Egitto (Il), 1825, Meyerbeer. O.

Crœsus, 1604, Alexander, earl of Stirling. T.

Crœsus, 1845, Richards. T.

Cromwell (Lord), 1602, Anon. H.Pl.

Cromwell, 1827, Victor Hugo. H.Pl. (See “Charles I.”)

Cromwell, 1847, Richards. H.Pl.

Cross Purposes, 1842, O’Brien. F.

Crown Diamonds, 1842 (English version of Diamants de la Couronne, q.v.).

Crowne for a Conqueror (A), 1639, E. Davenport. D.

Cruel Brother (The), 1630, Davenant. T.

Cruel Gift, 1707, Centlivre.

Crutch and Toothpick, 1879, Sims. B.

Cry (The), 1754, Mesd. Fielding and Collier. D.Fab.

Cuck Queanes, etc., 1824, Percy. C.

Cuculio, or the Hood (B.C. 254-184), Plautus. C. (Latin). Translated into blank verse by Messrs. Thornton, Rich, Warner and Colman, 1769-74.

Cunning Lovers (The), 1654, Brome. C.

Cup (The), 1881, Tennyson. T.

Cupid and Campaspê, 1583, Lyly. L.D.

351Cupid and Death, 1653, Shirley. M.

Cupid and Psychê, 19th cent., Miller. L.D.

Cupid in Waiting, 1871, W. B. Jerrold. C.

Cupid’s Revenge, 1615, Beaumont and Fletcher. C. (The quarry of this play was Sidney’s Arcadia.)

Cure for a Cuckold (A), 1661, Webster and Rowley. C.

Cure for Romance, 1819, Thomson. C.

Cure for the Heartache, 1811, Th. Morton. C.

Cure of Saul, 1770, Arnold. O.

Curfew (The), 1770-1804, Tobin. Pl.

Custom of the Country, 1647, Beaumont and Fletcher. T.

Cutter of Coleman Street, 1663, Cowley. C.

Cyclops (B.C. 480-407), Euripides. Sat.D. (Greek). Translated by Potter, 1781; Wodhull, 1782; Shelley; with Buckley’s prose translation in Bohn’s series.

Cymbeline, 1605, Shakespeare. T.

Cymon (1716-1779), Garrick. D.R.

Cymon and Iphigenia (1631-1701), Dryden.

Cynthia and Cyrus, 1768, Hoole. T.

Cynthia and Endymion, 1697, D’Urfey. D.O.

Cynthia’s Revels, 1600, Jonson. Sat.C.

Cyril’s Success, 19th cent., H. J. Byron.

Cyrus the Great, 1696, Banks. T.

Daddy O’Dowd, 19th cent., Boucicault. I.D. (See “Crochets du Père Martin.”)

Daisy Farm (The), 1871, H. J. Byron. Dom.D.

Dame Blanche (La), 1829, Boieldieu. O.C. (libretto by Scribe).

Dame Médecin (La), 1640-1685, Ant. J. Montfleury. C.

Dame Voilée, 1838, Balfe. O.

Dame aux Camélias, 1848, Dumas fils. C.

Dames Capitaines, (Les), 1857, Reber. O.

Damoiselle, 1653, Brome. C.

Damoiselle à Marier (La), before 1822, Scribe.

Damoiselles à-la-Mode, 1667, Flecknoe. C.

Damon and Pythias, 1571, R. Edwards. T. (See “Ferrex and Porrex.”)

Damon and Pythias, 1825, Banim. Pl.

Dancing Devils (The), 1724, E. Ward. C.

Dan’l Druce, 1878, Gilbert. D.

Daphne and Amintor, 1765, Bickerstaff.

Daranes, 1743, Hill.

Darius (King), 1565, Anon. Mir. Pl.

Darius, 1603, published 1607, Lord Stirling. T.

Dark Glen of Ballyfoill (The), 19th cent., Stirling. I.D.

Daughter (The), 1836, Knowles. D.

Daughter of St. Mark, 1844, Balfe. O.

Daughter of the Isles, 1861, Leslie. O.

352Daughter of the Stars (The), 1815-1874, C. S. Brooks. D.

Daughter to Marry (A), 1828, Planché. C.

David (1724-1803), Klopstock. S.D.

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