Shook the Arsenal, and fulmin'd over Greece
To Macedon, and Artaxerxes' throne:

To sage Philosophy next lend thine ear,
From Heaven descended to the low-roof't house
Of Socrates; see there his tenement,
Whom well inspir'd the oracle pronounc'd
Wisest of men; from whose mouth issued forth
Mellifluous streams, that water'd all the schools
Of Academics old and new, with those
Surnam'd Peripatetics, and the sect
Epicurean, and the Stoic severe;

These here revolve, or, as thou lik'st, at home,
Till time mature thee to a kingdom's weight;
These rules will render thee a king complete

Within thyself, much more with empire join'd.'

APPENDIX E.

DICTIONARY OF MINOR AUTHORS.

This... abridgement

Hath to it circumstantial branches.-Cymbeline, Act v. sc. 5.

[IN the following Appendix a number of deceased authors whose names are not included in the body of the foregoing Handbook are arranged in alphabetical order. The reader is requested to bear in mind that the reigns given are those during which they published or produced their works, and do not necessarily include the reign in which they were born. The works cited are usually not all those produced, but only the best or best-known works. The letter p signifies PROSE WORKS; the letter m, METRICAL (or POETICAL) WORKS; and the letter d DRAMATIC WORKS.]*

Adam, Jean, 1710-1765. Scottish poetess. (GEORGE II., GEORGE III.) The ballad There's nae luck about the House has been doubtfully attributed to her. (See Mickle.) [It was sung in the streets about 1772, and printed in Herd's collection 1776.]

Adams, Sarah Flower, 1805-1848. Poetess. (VICTORIA.) m Vivia Perpetua, a dramatic poem, 1841. She wrote the familiar hymn Nearer, my God, to Thee. [See Moncure Conway's Centenary History of South Place Society, 1894.]

Adams, Thomas, fl. 1612-1653. Puritan divine. (JAMES I. to COMMONWEALTH.) 'Works' in Nichol's Puritan Divines, 3 vols. 1862, with a 'Life,' by Joseph Angus, D.D. [Southey calls him' the prose Shakespeare of the puritan theologians.']

Aikin, Lucy, 1781-1864. Historical writer. (GEORGE IV. to VICTORIA.) p Memoirs of the Court of Elizabeth, 1818; James I., 1822; Charles I., 1833; Life of Addison, 1843 (reviewed by Macaulay); also some verse and 'Lorimer,' a tale. [Life and Letters, by P. H. Le Breton, 1864.]

Ainsworth, William Harrison.

1805-1882.

Novelist.

To anticipate the objection that many 'Dramatic' works are metrical, it should be stated that the term 'Metrical' has been adopted here more for the sake of its initial letter than with a view to precise classification.

(WILLIAM IV., VICTORIA.) About 40 works; the novels being based on history. Tower of London, 1840; Old St. Paul's, 1841; Lancashire Witches, 1848, &c. ['Life,' by S. L. Blanchard, 3rd ed., 1884.]

Aird, Thomas, 1802-1876. Scottish poet and newspaper editor. (GEORGE IV. to VICTORIA.) m Poems, 1848 (5th ed. 1878). p Old Bachelor in the old Scottish Village, 1845.

Aldred, the glossator. Tenth century. He wrote the glosses in the Latin MSS. of the Lindisfarne Gospels or Durham Book. [Repr. Surtees Soc. with the Rushworth Gospels, 1851-1865.]

Alexander, William, Earl of Stirling, 1567?-1640. Scholar, poet, statesman, coloniser. (JAMES I., CHARLES I.) m Six works, from Aurora, 1604, to Recreations with the Muses 1637. His Psalmes of King David, 1631, were printed as 'by King James.' d The Monarchicke Tragedies, 1607 (containing Darius, 1603; Cræsus, 1604; The Alexandræan, 1605; Julius Cæsar being added). p Completion of Sidney's Arcadia, 1613; An Encouragement to Colonies, 1624. [Memorials of the Earl of Stirling, and of the House of Alexander, Rev. C. Rogers, 1877.]

Alford, Henry, 1810-1871. Dean of Canterbury. (VICTORIA.) See p. 216. [Life,' 1873; list of works occupies 15 pp.]

Alfred of Beverley, fl. 1143. Chronicler. (STEPHEN, HENRY II.) p Nine Books of a Latin Annals or History of the Kings of Britain. (Pr. by Hearne 1716.) [This was an abridgment of Geoffrey of Monmouth (see p. 19), whose history ended in 689, continued to 1129.]

Alison, Archibald, 1757-1839. Father of the Historian. (See p. 212.) (GEORGE III.) p Essay on the Nature and Principles of Taste, 1790; Sermons.

Alison, Sir Archibald. (See p. 212.) [Autobiography 1883.] Allott, Robert, fl. 1600. Editor and Compiler of Miscellanies. (ELIZABETH.) p Wits Theater of the Little World (brief classified prose extracts from ancient authors), 1599. m Englands Parnassus, 1600. (Over 2,000 signed quotations from poets.) [Repr. in Collier's Seven Eng. Poet. Miscellanies, 1867.]

Amory, Thomas, 1691 ?-1788. (GEORGE II., GEORGE III.) p Memoirs of Several Ladies of Great Britain, 1755; Life and Opinions of John Buncle, Esq., 2 vols., 1756-1766. Virtually a continuation of the Memoirs, and an odd medley of religion, sentiment, description, &c. [Hazlitt called Amory the English Rabelais 'a name also given to Swift and Sterne.]

Andrewes, Lancelot, 1555-1626. Successively Bishop of

Chichester, Ely and Winchester. (JAMES I.) He aided James in his controversy against Cardinal Bellarmine with Tortura Torti, 1609, and the Responsio ad Apologiam Bellarmini, 1610. His famous Manual of Private Devotion (prayers in Greek and Latin) has been often translated, e.g. by (Cardinal) J. H. Newman, 1842; by Canon Venables, 1883, &c. [Works 11 vols. in Library of Anglo-Catholic Theology. Life,' A. T. Russell, 1863.]

Armin, Robert, fl. 1610. Actor and dramatist. (ELIZABETH, JAMES I.) d A Nest of Ninnies, 1608. (Repr. Shak. Soc. 1842.) [Grosart, Occas. Issues, 1880, repr. three other works.]

Armstrong, John, M.D. 1709-1779. Poet, physician, essayist. (GEORGE II.) m The Art of Preserving Health, 1744. A popular didactic poem in 4 books of blank verse. Often repr. (e.g. Chalmers' Poets, xvi., Anderson's Poets, x.) Also a tragedy, essays, &c.

Ashmole, Elias, 1617-1692. Antiquarian and virtuoso, sonin-law of Dugdale. (CHARLES II.) p History of the Order of the Garter, 1672; Theatrum Chemicum, 1652 (a collection of twentynine old metrical treatises on alchemy). A. inherited the collection of Tradescant, which with his additions forms the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford. [His Diary was printed 1717.]

Atherstone, Edwin, 1788–1872. Miscellaneous prose and verse writer. (GEORGE IV. to VICTORIA.) m Last Days of Herculaneum, 1821 (his first work); The Fall of Nineveh, 1828, 6 books; 1847, 7 others; 1868, extended to 30 books! (His chief work.) d Dramatic Works, 1888.

Aubrey, John, 1626-1697. Antiquary. (WILLIAM III.) p Miscellanies 1696, dealing with dreams, omens, ghost stories, &c. (Repr. 1857, Lib. of Old Authors.) Various other works. [‘Life, 1845, by J. Britton; see also British Quarterly Review, vol. xxiv., Prof. Masson.]

Aungerville, Richard. (See Bury, Richard of.)

Austin, Henry, xvii. cent. Poet. (JAMES I.) m The Scourge of Venus, 1613. [Repr. Grosart, Occas. Issues, 1876.]

Austin, Sarah, 1793-1867. Translator. (WILLIAM IV., VICTORIA.) p Characteristics of Goethe, 1833 (from German); also trans. from Ranke, Niebuhr, Guizot, &c. [S. A. was wife of John Austin the Jurist,1790-1859.]

Avesbury, Robert of, xiv. cent. Chronicler. (EDWARD III.) p De mirabilibus gestis Edvardi III. Pr. 1720 by Hearne.

Aylmer, John, 1521-1594. Bishop of London. (ELIZABETH.) p An Harborowe for faithfull and trewe Subjects against the late blowne Blaste concerning the Government of Women, 1559, a reply to

Knox's First Blast. (See Knox.) ['Life,' by J. Strype, repr. Clar. Press, 1821.]

Ayton (or Aytoun), Sir Robert, 1570-1638. Poet. (JAMES I., CHARLES I.) m Poems, pr. in Delitiæ Poetarum Scotorum, 1637, ed. A. Johnston. Repr. 1827, 1844, 1871 (with Life').

Bage, Robert, 1728-1801. Novelist. (GEORGE III.) p Six novels, 1781-1796. Barham Downs, 1784; Man as he is, 1792; Hermsprong, or Man as he is not, 1796.

Bagehot, Walter, 1826-1877. Economist, critic, journalist. (VICTORIA.) p The English Constitution, 1867; Lombard St., 1872 (10th ed. 1892); Economic Studies, 1880 (last ed. 1895); Literary Studies, 1878 (3 vols., 1895).

Baker, Sir Richard, 1568–1645. Chronicler. (CHARLES I.) p Chronicle of the Kings of England from the Time of the Romans Government unto the Death of King James, 1643. [This was long popular, see Addison's Spectator, Nos. 269 and 329. B.'s Meditations on the Psalms, 1639-1640, were repr. by Grosart in 1882.]

Baldwin, William, f. 1547. Printer and verse writer. (EDWARD VI., MARY, ELIZABETH.) B. edited the first edition of the Myrrovre for Magistrates, 1559, and contributed 4 out of its 19 'legends.' He wrote two others, and an interesting preface for the Seconde Parte, 1563. (Also other works.)

Bale, John, 1495-1563. Bishop of Ossory. (HENRY VIII. to ELIZABETH.) p Illustrium Maioris Britanniæ Scriptorum Summarium, 1548. (500 writers mentioned; 1557, 900 writers; 1559, 1400 writers.) d 5 plays remain out of 35. Kynge Johan (repr. Camden Soc., 1838), God's Promises (Hazlitt's Dodsley I.), Temptacyon of our Lorde (Fuller's Worthies, Miscell., 1870), Johan Baptystes (Harleian Miscell. I), Three Laws of Nature, Moses and Christ (not repr.). [See Athenæ Cantabrigienses I., 225– 230 (list of 90 works). Parker Soc., 1849, issued 'Select Works.'] Banim, John, 1798-1842. Novelist and dramatic poet. (GEORGE IV. to VICTORIA.) p Tales of the O'Hara Family, 18251826, and other works often written with his brother Michael, who claims 13 vols. out of 24, including The Croppy, 1828. (See Dict. of Nat. Biog., and 'Life,' by P. J. Murray, 1857.)

Barbauld, Anna Letitia, 1743-1825. Poet and miscellaneous writer. (GEORGE III.) m Poems, 1773. p The Evenings at Home (written with her brother, J. Aikin) are still repr. ['Works,' 1825, with Memoir. Life, letters, and selections, 1874, by G. A. Ellis.] Barclay, John, 1582-1621. Latin poet. (JAMES I.) m