Woman in France during the Eighteenth Century, 1850; Various graceful tales.

Kaye, Sir John William, 1814-1876. Military historian. (VICTORIA.) p History of The War in Afghanistan, 1851; History of the Sepoy War (i.e. the 'Mutiny'), 1864-1876 (this is the best of a number of works on Indian subjects; it has been revised and continued by Col. Malleson, 6 vols. 1888-1889).

Keble, John, 1792-1866. Divine and poet. (GEORGE IV. to VICTORIA.) m The Christian Year, 1827 (109 editions of from 3,000 to 5,000 copies by the year after his death); Lyra Innocentium, 1846; and other works. [His edition of Hooker, 1836, as revised by Church and Paget, 1888, is still the standard edition.]

Ken (or Kenn), Thomas, 1637-1711. Bishop of Bath and Wells. (CHARLES II. to WILLIAM III.) pm Morning and Evening Hymns, poems, sermons, &c. ['Life,' by Dean Plumtree, 1888. Poetical works, 4 vols., 1721 (hymns, two epics, &c.); 'Prose,' in Ancient and Modern Library of Theological Literature, 1889.]

Killigrew, Thomas, 1612–1683. Dramatist. (CHARLES II.) a Comedies and Tragedies, 10 plays, chiefly in prose; these were not published till 1664, but several were acted before the Civil War. [K. is best remembered as a wit. Pepys called him 'a merry droll,' and declared that he had a 'fee for cap and bells under the title of the King's Foole or Jester.' Diary, Feb. 13, 1667-8.]

King, Henry, 1592-1669. Bishop of Chichester. (CHARLES I., CHARLES II.) m Psalms of David turned into Metre, 1651; Poems, 1657.

Knox, John, 1505-1572. Reformer and historian. (MARY, ELIZABETH.) p The First Blast of the Trumpet against the Monstrvovs regiment (i.e. ‘rule ') of women, 1558 (repr. Arber's Eng. Scholar's Lib.); History of the Reformation in Scotland, 1587-1644. ['Life,' by T. MacCree, 1818; Works,' 6 vols., 1846-1864, ed. David Laing. Both excellent.]

Laing, Malcolm, 1762-1815. Scottish historian. (GEORGE III.) p History of Scotland, from James VI. to Anne, 1802 (still of considerable value).

Lambarde, Willlam, 1536-1601. Topographer. (ELIZABETH.) PA Perambulation of Kent, 1576, the first county history known. Also 5 other works.

Lane, Edward William, 1801-1876. Arabic scholar. (VICTORIA.) p Modern Egyptians, 1836 (1st ed. sold in two weeks: last ed. 1890. It is still a standard authority); Trans. of The

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Arabian Nights, 1838-40 (our first accurate trans. often repr.); Arabic-English Lexicon, 1863–74. Continued by S. Lane Poole, 1877-1892. [Life by S. Lane-Poole, 1877.]

Langbaine, Gerard, 1656-1692. Dramatic biographer and critic. (WILLIAM III.) p Account of the English dramatic Poets, 1691. (Valuable in some respects, but inaccurate in bibliographical details.)

Langhorne, John, D.D., 1735-1779. Poet and translator. (GEORGE III.) p Trans., with his brother, of Plutarch's Lives, 1770 (still in circulation). m Poems are in Chalmers' Poets, xvi. He produced about 25 works.

Lardner, Nathaniel, D.D., 1684-1768. Nonconformist divine and scholar. (GEORGE II., GEORGE III.) p Credibility of the Gospel History, 1727-57. This at once took first rank. Paley and others freely used and popularised his thoughts.

Law, Rev. William, 1686-1761. Nonjuror and mystic. (GEORGE II., GEORGE III.) Serious Call to a devout and holy Life, 1728. [Law much influenced the Wesleys, Whitfield and the early Evangelicals. Dr. Johnson called Law's work the finest piece of hortatory theology in any language;' he first read it at Oxford, when aged 20, and found it quite an overmatch for me; and this was the first occasion of my thinking in earnest of religion.']

Lee, Harriet, 1757-1851. Novelist and dramatist. (GEORGE III.) The Canterbury Tales with S. Lee, q.v.

Lee, Sophia, 1750-1820. Novelist and dramatist. III.) p The Canterbury Tales, 1797-1805.

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Twelve tales told by travellers accidentally thrown together. Byron founded his Werner upon the 'German's Tale, Kruitzner,' which he read when a boy, and says it contains the germ of much that I have since written.' (See Preface to Werner.)

Leighton, Robert, 1611-1684. Archbishop of Glasgow. (COMMONWEALTH, CHARLES II.) p Sermons and Commentaries. 1692-1708 (posthumous, like all his work). Often repr.; full account in W. West's ed., 1869-1875.

Leland, John, 1506?-1552. Antiquary. (HENRY VIII., EDWARD VI.) p The Itinerary, a description of England, first pr. by Hearne, 1710. 9 vols. [Leland was our earliest modern English antiquary.]

Lennox, Charlotte, 1720-1804. Miscellaneous writer. (GEORGE III.) p Harriot Stuart, 1750. The Female Quixote, 1752, her best work. Also other works, including plays and poems

[Dr. Johnson flattered Mrs. Lennox. See Hawkins' Life of Johnson, p. 286.]

Leslie, Charles, 1650-1722. Nonjuror and controversialist. (WILLIAM III. to GEORGE I.) p A short and easy Method with the Deists, 1698. Often repr., translated and abridged. Also numerous other works. ['Life and Writings,' by R. J. Leslie, 1885; Works, 7 vols., 1832.]

Leyden, John, M.D., 1775-1811. Physician and poet, (GEORGE III.) m Poetical Remains, 1819; Poems and Ballads, with a memoir by Scott, 1858. A centenary edition was pub. in 1875. p Various works.

Lillo, George, 1693-1739. Dramatist. (GEORGE II.) d George Barnwell, acted 1731. This was wonderfully successful, and kept the stage for over a century. Thackeray wrote a burlesque on it, with the same name. The play was founded on the ballad given in Percy's Reliques, series iii., book iii., No. 6. Arden of Faversham, 1762. This adaptation of an old play pr. 1592, and once attributed to Shakespeare, was left unfinished by Lillo. It was acted 1759, as completed by Dr. John Hoadly. The Fatal Curiosity, 1737, and other plays. [Works, 2 vols., with memoir, 1810. Lillo helped to popularise 'domestic drama,' and influenced the novel at home and the drama abroad.]

Lingard, John, D.D., 1771-1851. Roman Catholic historian of England. (GEORGE III. to VICTORIA.) p History of England to 1688, 1819-1830. Last ed. 1888, 10 vols. Numerous other works. Lister, Thos. Henry, 1800-1842. Novelist and dramatist. (GEORGE IV. to VICTORIA.) p Granby, 1826, a clever society novel, and some 6 others.

Lloyd, Robert, 1733-1764. Poet. (GEORGE III.) m The Actor, 1760, and other poems. [L. was the friend of Churchill, and was engaged to his sister. Works,' 1774.]

Locker-Lampson, Frederick, 1821-1895. Poet and humourist. (VICTORIA.) m London Lyrics, 1857 (10th ed. 1885); Lyra Elegantiarum, a collection of some of the best vers de société and vers d'occasion in English, 1867, enlarged 1891. p m Patchwork 1879. [My Confidences, an Autobiographical Sketch, 1896.]

Lodge, Thomas, 1558 ?-1625. Poet, dramatist, romance writer, translator. (ELIZABETH, JAMES I.) d The Wounds of Civill War, 1594 (repr. Hazlitt's Dodsley, vii.); A Looking Glass for London, 1594 (with Robert Greene: repr. in Gr.'s works). m Phillis, 1593, was his chief vol. of verse-40 poems. p Rosalynde (see p. 252, No. x.), repr. Cassell's National Lib. Also other

romances and moral prose, together with trans. from Josephus, Seneca, and Du Bartas.

Lofft, Capell, 1751-1824. Miscellaneous writer. (GEORGE III.) Some 18 works, among them Laura, or an Anthology of Sonnets, in 6 languages, original and translated. 5 vols., 1812

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Logan, Rev. John, 1748-1788. Poet and divine. (GEORGE III.) m Poems, 1781. These included the Ode to the Cuckoo,' which Burke called the most beautiful lyric in our language. d Runnamede, a tragedy, 1783. p Sermons, 1790-1791. [L. was one of the most popular preachers of his day. The controversy about his ed. of the poems of M. Bruce, q.v., has been dealt with by D. Laing, 1873, and by John Small, in the British and Foreign Evangelical Review, 1877 and 1879. The poems are in Anderson xi., Chalmers xviii.]

Lyttleton, George, 1st Baron Lyttleton, 1709-1773. Miscellaneous writer. (GEORGE II., GEORGE III.) p Letters from a Persian in England to his Friend at Ispahan, 1735; Observations on the Conversion... of St. Paul, 1747 (often repr.); Dialogues of the Dead, 1770 (often repr.); m Miscellaneous poems (given in Anderson x. and Chalmers xiv.). These include the lines beginning Tell me, my heart, can this be Love? [Dr. Johnson said of the St. Paul, 'infidelity has never been able to fabricate a specious answer.' L. is known as the 'good Lord Lyttleton.' 'Memoir' and Corre ondence, 1845.]

Macaulay, Mrs. Catharine, 1731-1791. Historian and controversialist. (GEORGE III.) p History of England from 16031714, 1763-1783 (now forgotten). Also other works. [Mary Wollstonecraft in 1792 called Mrs. M. 'the woman of the greatest abilities that this country has ever produced.']

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M'Culloch, John Ramsay, 1789-1864. political economist. (GEORGE IV. to VICTORIA.) p Dictionary of Commerce, 1832; and works on Political Economy.

Mackay, Charles, LL.D., 1814-1889. Song writer and journalist, &c. (VICTORIA.) m Collected Songs, 1859. Among these are The Good Time Coming, and Cheer, Boys, Cheer; Varicus poems and prose works. Dr. M. edited the 1001 Gems' of Poetry, &c.

Mackenzie, Sir George, 1636-1691. King's Advocate in Scotland. (CHARLES II. to WILLIAM III.) p A Moral Essay, 1665, and about 30 other works. Collected ed., 1716-1722. Ilis Memoirs of the Affairs of Scotland was pr. 1822. [Dryden

called him 'the noble wit of Scotland;' the Covenanters termed him 'Bloody Mackenzie.' He practically founded the Advocates' Library, Edinburgh.]

Maginn, William, LL.D., 1793-1842. Poet, journalist, miscellaneous writer. (GEORGE III. to VICTORIA.) p m Homeric Ballads, 1850 (appeared in Fraser's Magazine, 1838 &c.) Miscellanies, last ed. 1885. 2 vols. [Thackeray introduced him in Pendennis as Captain Shandon.]

Mallet (orig. Mallock), David, 1705 ?-1765. Poet, miscellaneous writer. (GEORGE III.) p m and d Ballads and miscellaneous works. [Rule Britannia, which is at the end of the masque of Alfred, acted 40, has been ascribed to him: more probably it is by Jas. Thomst. The poems are in Anderson ix. and Chalmers xiv.]

Malone, Edmund, 1741-1812. Shakespearian critic. (GEORGE III.) His edition of Shakespeare in 10 vols.-vol. i. being in two parts-appeared 1790. It included various Essays'-e.g. on the order of Shakespeare's plays, &c.

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Manley, Mary de la Rivière, 1672?-1724. Miscellaneous writer. (ANNE, GEORGE I.) p Secret Memoirs . . . from the New Atlantis, 1709, a vigorous attack on the Whigs, who had promoted the Revolution of 1688-1689. Other works, including plays. [Mrs. M. succeeded Swift as editor of the Examiner' in 1711.]

Markham, Gervase or Jervis, 1568 ?-1637. Miscellaneous writer. (ELIZABETH to CHARLES I.) p Many works on agriculture, fishing, archery, &c. m The Poem of Poems .. the Divine Song of Salomon in Eight Eclogues, 1595; and two other poems, 1600-1601, which were repr. by Grosart in 1871. d Herod and Antipater, 1622. [M.'s poem in 174 8-line stanzas on the Honorable Tragedie of Sir Richard Grinvile, 1595, as repr. by Arber, 1871, was used by Tennyson for his ballad 'The Revenge.' He has been called our earliest English hackney writer.']

Marmion, Shackerley, 1603-1639. Poet and dramatist. (CHARLES I.) m Cupid and Psyche, 1637, in heroic couplets: repr. 1820. d Three comedies, Hollands Leagver, 1632; A Fine Companion, 1633; The Antiquary, 1641, repr. in Hazlitt's Dodsley, xiii. All three repr. 1875

Maturin, Rev. Charles Robert, 1782-1824. Novelist and dramatist. (GEORGE III., GEORGE IV.) p Melmoth, the Wanderer, 1820, and seven other novels. Melmoth,' his best work, had much influence on the French romantic school: Balzac wrote a kind