A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature Part 61

SHORTER, CLEMENT KING (1858).--Journalist and biographer. _Charlotte Bronte and her Circle_ (1896), _Sixty Years of Victorian Literature_ (1897), _Charlotte Bronte and her Sisters_ (1905), _The Brontes and their Correspondents_ (1907), _Life of George Borrow_ (1907); is ed. of the _Sphere_.

SHORTER, DORA SIGERSON.--Poetess. _The Fairy Changeling and other Poems_ (1897), _Ballads and Poems_ (1899), _The Father Confessor_ (1900), _As the Sparks Fly Upward_ (1904), _Through Wintry Terrors_ (1907), etc.

SIMS, GEORGE ROBERT (1847).--Novelist and dramatist, etc. _The Dagonet Ballads_, _Memoirs of Mary Jane_, _Ten Commandments_, _Once upon a Christmas Time_ (1898), _Joyce Pleasantry_, etc.; plays, _Crutch and Tooth-pick_, _Mother-in-Law_, _The Lights o' London_, _Harbour Lights_, etc.

SINCLAIR, MISS MAY.--Novelist, etc. _Nakietas and other Poems_, _Audrey Craven_, _Two Sides of a Question_, _The Divine Fire_, _The Helpmate_, etc.

SKEAT, REV. WALTER WILLIAM, Litt.D., LL.D. (1835).--Philologist and Early English scholar; has ed. Langland's _Piers Plowman_, _The Lay of Havelock_, Barbour's _Bruce_, and other early English texts, a complete ed. of Chaucer, 6 vols. (1894), and of many of his works separately, and is author of _An Etymological Dictionary of the English Language_, _Principles of English Etymology_, and books on the place-names of the counties of Cambridge, Huntingdon, Herts, and Bedford, etc.

SMEATON, WM. HENRY OLIPHANT, M.A. (1856).--Novelist, etc. _By Adverse Winds_ (1895), _Our Laddie_ (1897), _Treasure Cave of the Blue Mountains_ (1899), _A Mystery of the Pacific_ (1899), _William Dunbar and his Times_ (1898), _English Satires and Satirists_ (Warwick Library, 1899), _The Medici and the Italian Renaissance_ (1901), and has ed. numerous English cla.s.sics.

SMITH, MRS. BURNETT ("ANNIE S. SWAN").--Novelist. _Aldersyde_, _Carlowrie_, _A Lost Ideal_, _A Divided House_, _Not Yet_ (1898), etc.

SMITH, GEORGE ADAM, D.D., LL.D. (1856).--Biblical scholar, etc. _The Book of Isaiah_ (1888-90), _Historical Geography of the Holy Land_ (1894), _Jerusalem_ (1907), etc.

SMITH, GEORGE GREGORY (1865).--Critic, etc. _The Days of James IV., The Transition Period_ (of European literature of the fifteenth century), _Specimens of Middle Scots_ (1902), _Elizabethan Critical Essays_ (1904), etc.

SMITH, GOLDWIN, D.C.L. (1823).--Essayist and writer on politics, etc.

_Three English Statesmen_, _Lectures on the Study of History_, _Rational Religion and Rationalistic Objections_, _The Political Destiny of Canada_, _Guesses at the Riddle of Existence_, _Revolution or Progress_, etc.; books on Cowper, Miss Austen, etc.

SMITH, MRS. TOULMIN, (_see_ "L.T. MEADE").

STACPOOLE, H. DE VERE.--Novelist. _f.a.n.n.y Lambert_, _The Crimson Azaleas_, _The Blue Lagoon_ (1907), _Patsy_ (1908), _The Pools of Silence_ (1909).

STANNARD, MRS. ARTHUR ("JOHN STRANGE WINTER") (1856).--Novelist.

_Bootle's Baby_, _Army Society_, _Beautiful Jim_, _The Soul of the Bishop_, _Grip_, _He went for a Soldier_, _The Truth-tellers_, _A Name to Conjure With_, _A Blaze of Glory_, _Marty_, _Jimmy_, _The Ivory Box_ (1909), etc.

STEEL, MRS. FLORA ANNIE (WEBSTER) (1847).--Novelist. _Wide-awake Stories_ (1884), _From the Five Rivers_ (1893), _The Potter's Thumb_ (1894), _Tales from the Punjab_ (1894), _Red Rowans_ (1895), _On the Face of the Waters_ (1896), _Voices in the Night_ (1900), _A Sovereign Remedy_ (1906), etc.

STEWART, JOHN ALEXANDER, LL.D. (1846).--Scholar. _The English MSS. of the Nicomachean Ethics_ (1882), _Notes on the Nicomachean Ethics_ (1902), article _Ethics_ in _Encyclopaedia Britannica_ (1902), and _The Myths of Plato_ (1905).

"SWAN, ANNIE S.," (_see_ MRS. BURNETT SMITH).

SYMONDS, MISS E.M. ("GEORGE PASTON").--Novelist, etc. _A Modern Amazon_ (1894), _A Bread and b.u.t.ter Miss_ (1894), _The Career of Candida_ (1896), _A Fair Deceiver_ (1897), _Little Memoirs of the Eighteenth Century_ (1901), _Little Memoirs of the Nineteenth Century_ (1902), _Side-Lights on the Georgian Period_ (1902), books on Mrs. Delaney, G. Romney, Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, etc.

SYMONS, ARTHUR (1865).--Poet and critic. _An Introduction to the Study of Browning_ (1886), _Days and Nights_ (1889), _London Nights_ (1895), _The Symbolist Movement in Literature_ (1899), _Images of Good and Evil_ (1900), _Studies in Seven Arts_ (1906), etc.

TEMPLE, SIR RICHARD CARNAC, C.I.E. (1850).--Orientalist, etc. _Wide-awake Stories_ (Punjab Folk Tales) (1884), with Mrs. F.A. Steel, _Legends of the Punjab_ (1883-90), ed. various works dealing with the religions and geography of India, etc.

THOMAS, ANNIE (MRS. PENDER CUDLIP).--Novelist. _Sir Victor's Choice_, _Denis Doune_ (1862), _Comrades True_ (1900), _The Diva_ (1901), _The Cleavers of Cleaver_ (1902), _Social Ghosts_ (1903), etc.; has written over 100 novels and tales.

THOMAS, EDWARD.--Reviewer and miscellaneous writer. _Book of the Open Air_, _Horae Solitarae_, _Oxford_, _Beautiful Wales_, _The Heart of England_, _Life and Writings of Richard Jefferies_.

TOUT, THOMAS FREDERICK (1855).--Historian. _a.n.a.lysis of English History_ (1891), _Edward I._ (12 English Statesmen series) (1893), _The Empire and the Papacy_ (1898), _History of Great Britain_ (1902-6), _Germany and the Empire_ (Cambridge Modern History), etc.

TRENCH, HERBERT (1865).--Poet, etc. _Deirdre Wedded_ (1901), _Apollo and the Seaman_, _The Questioners_ (1907), etc.

TREVELYAN, GEORGE MACAULAY (1876).--Historical writer. _England in the Age of Wycliffe_ (1899), _England under the Stuarts_ (1904), _The Poetry and Philosophy of George Meredith_ (1906), _Garibaldi's Defence of the Roman Republic_ (1907), etc.

TREVELYAN, SIR GEORGE OTTO, P.C., LL.D., etc. (1838).--Statesman, biographer, etc. _The Compet.i.tion Wallah_ (1864), _Life and Letters of Lord Macaulay_ (1876), _The Early History of C.J. Fox_ (1880), _Interludes in Prose and Verse_ (1905).

TROWBRIDGE, JOHN TOWNSEND (1827).--American poet, etc. Poems, _The Vagabonds_, _The Book of Gold_, _The Emigrant's Story_, _A Home Idyll_, _The Lost Earl_; books for the young, _The Little Master_, _Tide Mill_, _The Pocket Rifle_, _The Kelp Gatherers_, _Jack Hazard Stories_, _Fortunes of Toby Trafford_, etc.; novels, _Neighbours' Wives_, _Coupon Bonds_, etc.

"TWAIN, MARK" (SAMUEL LANGHORNE CLEMENS), D.Litt. (1835).--American humorist. _The Jumping Frog_ (1867), _The Innocents Abroad_ (1869), _Roughing It_ (1872), _Sketches New and Old_ (1873), _Adventures of Tom Sawyer_ (1876), _A Tramp Abroad_ (1880), _The Prince and the Pauper_ (1880), _Life on the Mississippi_ (1883), _Huckleberry Finn_ (1885), _The American Claimant_ (1892), _Tom Sawyer Abroad_ (1894), _Christian Science_ (1907), etc.

TYLOR, EDWARD BURNETT, LL.D., F.R.S. (1832).--Anthropologist. _Anahuac_, _Mexico, and the Mexicans_ (1859), _Researches into the Early History of Mankind_ (1865), _Primitive Culture_ (1871), and _Anthropology_ (1881).

"TYNAN, KATHARINE" (MRS. TYNAN HINKSON) (1861).--Novelist and verse writer. _Louise de la Valliere_ (1885), _Shamrocks_ (1887), _Ballads and Lyrics_ (1890), _Cuckoo Songs_ (1894), _A Cl.u.s.ter of Nuts_ (1894), _An Isle in the Water_, _The Way of a Maid_ (1895), _Miracle Plays_ (1896), _A Lover's Breast Knot_ (1896), _The Handsome Brandons_, _The Wind in the Trees_ (poems) (1898), _The Dear Irish Girl_, _She Walks in Beauty_ (1899), _Three Fair Maids_ (1900), _That Sweet Enemy_ (1901), _Love of Sisters_ (1902), _A Red Red Rose_ (1903), _Judy's Lovers_ (1905), _A Yellow Domino_ (1906), _For Maisie_ (1907), _Her Mother's Daughter_ (1909), etc.

TYRRELL, ROBERT YELVERTON, LL.D., D.C.L. (1844).--Scholar. Has translated _Acharnians_ of Aristophanes into English verse (1883), author of _Cicero in his Letters_ (1896), _Latin Poetry_ (1893), _Echoes of Kottabos_ (with Sir E. Sullivan) (1906), has ed. various cla.s.sics.

UPWARD, ALLEN (1863).--Novelist, etc. _Songs in Zklag_ (1888), _The Prince of Balkistan_ (1895), _A Crown of Straw_ (1896), _Secrets of the Courts of Europe_ (1897), _A Day's Tragedy_ (1897), _Treason_ (1903), _Secret History of To-day_ (1904), _A Flash in the Pan_ (comedy) (1896).

VACh.e.l.l, HORACE ANNESLEY (1861).--Novelist. _Romance of Judge Kitchener_ (1894), _Quicksands of Pactolus_ (1896), _A Drama in Suns.h.i.+ne_ (1897), _The Procession of Life_ (1899), _John Charity_ (1900), _The Pinch of Prosperity_ (1903), _The Hill_ (1905), _The Face of Clay_ (1906), and _Her Son_ (1907).

VAMBERY, ARMINIUS, C.V.O., etc. (1832).--Traveller, etc. _Travels in Central Asia_ (1864), _Sketches of Central Asia_ (1867), _History of Bokhara_ (1873), _The Coming Struggle for India_ (1885), _Western Culture in Eastern Lands_ (1906), _Arminius Vambery, his Life and Adventures_ (1883).