Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction, and the Drama, Vol. 4 A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook

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=Byron= (George Noel Gordon, lord), London, 1788-1824. Beppo, 1818. Bride of Abydos, 1813. Cain, 1821. Childe Harold, canto i., 1809; ii., 1810; iii., 1816; iv., 1818. Corsair (The), 1814. Curse of Minerva, 1812. Deformed Transformed (The), 1824. Don Juan, cantos i., ii., 1819; iii.-v., 1821; vi.-viii., 1823; ix.-xi., 1823; xii.-xiv., 1823; xv., xvi., 1824. English Bards and Scotch Reviewers, 1809. Giaour (The), 1813. Heaven and Earth: a Mystery, 1822. Hebrew Melodies, 1815. Hours of Idleness, 1807. Island (The), 1823. Lament of Tasso, 1817. Lara, 1814. Manfred, 1817. Marino Faliero, 1821. Mazeppa, 1819. Memoirs of my own Life, 1825. Monody on Sheridan, 1817. Morgante Maggiore, etc., 1823. Ode to Napoleon Bonaparte, 1814. Parisina, 1816. Prisoner of Chillon, 1816. Prophecy of Dante, 1821. Sardanapalus, 1821. Siege of Corinth, 1816. Werner, 1822. Letters and Journal, 1831. =Byron= (Henry James), born at Manchester, 1835-1884. American Lady (An), 1874. Fra Diavolo, 1858. Ill-treated Il Trovatore, 1855. Not such a Fool as he looks, 1869. Old Sailors, 1874. Our Boys, 1878. War to the Knife, 1865.

=Cædmon=, first English poet, died at Whitby, 680. Paraphrasis Poetica Geneseos, printed 1655. =Campbell= (John, lord), born near Cupar, in Scotland, 1779-1861. Lives of the Chief Justices, 1849. Lives of the Lord Chancellors, 1845-47. =Campbell= (Thomas), of Glasgow, 1777-1844. Battle of the Baltic, 1801. Exile of Erin, 1801. Gertrude of Wyoming, 1809. Hohenlinden, 1801. Pilgrim of Glencoe, and other Poems, 1842. Pleasures of Hope, 1799. Reullura, the Beautiful Star, 1817. Theodoric, and other Poems, 1824. Ye Mariners of England, 1801. =Carey= (Henry), 1696-1743. Sally in our Alley, 1737. =Carleton= (William), of Ireland, 1798-1869. Black Prophet (The), 1847. Tales, 1841. Traits and Stories of the Irish Peasantry, 1830-32. Valentine M’Clutchy, 1845. Willie Reilly, 1855. =Carlyle= (Thomas), of Dumfriesshire, in Scotland, 1795-1881. Chartism, 1839. French Revolution (The), 1837. Friedrich II. the Great, vol. i., ii., 1858; iii., iv., 1862. Heroes and Hero-worship, 1840. Life of Schiller, 1823-24; recast 1825. Life of John Sterling, 1851. Oliver Cromwell’s Letters and Speeches, 1845. Past and Present, 1843. Reminiscences, 1881. Sartor Resartus, 1833-34. =Cary= (Rev. Henry Francis), born at Birmingham, 1772-1844. Dante (translated), 1805-14. =Cass= (Lewis), born at Exeter, in New Hampshire, 1782-1866. King, Court, and Government of France, 1840. =Cavendish= (George), a pseudonym. Life of Cardinal Wolsey, 1825. =Chalmers= (Alexander), of Aberdeen, 1759-1834. British Essayist, 1803. English Poets, 1810. General Biographical Dictionary, 1812-17. =Chalmers= (Thomas), born at Anstruther, in Scotland, 1780-1847. Adaptation of Nature to the Constitutions of Man, 1833. =Chambers= (Robert), born at Peebles, in Scotland, 1802-1871. Book of Days (The), 1863-64. =Chambers= (William), brother of the above, 1800-1883. Ailie Gilroy, 1872. Book of Scotland, 1830. Memoir of Robert Chambers, 1872. _The Two Brothers._ Cyclopædia of English Literature, 1842-44. Domestic Annals of Scotland, 1858. Essays, 1866. Edinburgh Journal, started 1832. Information for the People, commenced 1834. Gazetteer of Scotland, 1829-30. =Chamier= (Frederic), London, 1796-1870. Ben Brace, 1835. Tom Bowline, 1839. =Channing= (William Ellery), born at Boston, 1818- Poems, 1843, 1847. Wanderer (The), 1872. Woodman (The), 1849. Thoreau, the Poet-Naturalist, 1873. =Chapman= (Dr. George), born at Hitching Hill, in Hertfordshire, 1557-1634. Homer’s _Iliad_, 1603. Homer’s _Odyssey_, 1614. =Chatterton= (Thomas), of Bristol, 1752-1770. Rowley Correspondence begins 1768. Godwin, 1771. Miscellanies, 1778. Supplement, 1784. Poems, 1771. Rowley Pieces in a Collective Form, 1777. =Chaucer= (Geoffrey), born in London, 1328-1400. Boke of Cupid, or the Cuckow and the Nightingale, 1364; first printed 1532. Boke of Fame (The), printed by Caxton, no date; by Pynson, 1526. Boke of the Duchesse (The), 1371; printed 1532. Canterbury Tales (The), 1383; printed by Caxton, 1475. Compleynte of a Loveres Lyfe (The), 1362. Compleynte of Chaucer to his Purse (The), 1377; first printed 1532. Compleynte of Mars and Venus (The), 1364. Flower and the Leaf (The), first printed 1598. House of Fame (The), 1373; first printed 1532. Jacke Upland, first printed 1602. Parlement of Briddes, or Assembly of Fowles (The), 1358; or Scipio’s Dream, printed by Wynkyn de Worde, 1530. Ploughman’s Tale (The), first printed 1542. Praise of Women (A), 1366; first printed 1532. Romaunt of the Rose (The), 1360; printed 1532. Treatise on the Astrolabie, 1391-92. Troylus and Creseyde, 1369; printed by Caxton, no date; Wynkyn de Worde, 1517. =Chavasse= (Pye H.), 19th century. Advice to a Mother on the Management of her Children, 1849. Advice to a wife on the Management of her Own Health, 1850. =Chesterfield= (Philip Dormer Stanhope, earl of), born in London, 1694-1773. Letters to his Son, posthumous, 1774; supplement, 1777. =Child= (Mrs. Lydia Maria), born at Medford, 1802-1880. Autumnal Leaves, 1860. Fact and Fiction, 1846. Flowers for Children, 1852. Hobomok, a Story of the Pilgrims, 1824. Isaac T. Hopper, a True Life, 1853. Looking towards Sunset, 1860. Philothea, a Greek Romance, 1836. Progress of Religious Ideas, etc., 1855. Rebels (The), 1825. Romance of the Republic (A), 1867. =Church= (Rev. Richard William), 1815-1890. Beginning of the Middle Ages, 1877. Civilization before and after Christianity, 1872. Influences of Christianity upon National Character, 1873. Sacred Poetry of Early Religions, 1874. =Cibber= (Colley), of London, 1671-1757. Apology for his own Life, 1740. Works, 1721. =Clarendon= (Henry Hyde, earl of), born at Dinton, in Wiltshire, 1638-1709. History of the Rebellion and Civil War in England, 1702-4. =Clarke= (Charles Cowden), born at Enfield, in Middlesex, 1787-1877. Molière Characters, 1865. Shakespeare Characters, 1863. Tales from Chaucer, 1833. =Clarke= (Mrs. Cowden), 1809- Complete Concordance to the Works of Shakespeare (A), 1845. Girlhood of Shakespeare’s Heroines (The), 1850. =Clarke= (James Freeman), born in Hanover, 1810-1888. Christian Doctrine of Forgiveness (The), 1852. Christian Doctrine of Prayer (The), 1854. Essentials and Non-essentials in Religion, 1878. Orthodoxy, 1866. Steps of Belief, 1870. Ten Great Religions (The), 1870. =Clemens= (Samuel Langhorne), pseudonym “Mark Twain,” born in Florida, 1835- An Idle Excursion, 1878. Gilded Age (The), 1874. Innocents Abroad (The), 1869. Jumping Frog (The), 1867. Prince and Pauper, 1881. Roughing it, 1872. Tom Sawyer, 1876. Tramp Abroad, 1880. =Clough= (Arthur Hugh), born in Liverpool, 1819-1861. Poems and Essays, 1871. =Cobbe= (Frances Power), born in the county of Dublin, 1822- Cities of the Past, 1864. Criminals, Idiots, Women and Minors, 1869. Dawning Lights, 1868. Essays on the Pursuits of Women, 1863. Female Education, 1862. Friendless Girls and How to Help Them, 1861. Hours of Work and Play, 1867. Religious Duty, 1864. Studies of Ethical and Social Subjects, 1865. Thanksgiving, 1863. Workhouse as an Hospital (The), 1861. =Cobbett= (William), born at Farnham, in Surrey, 1762-1835. Advice to Young Men, 1831. Cottage Economy, 1822. History of the Protestant Reformation in England, etc., 1810. Parliamentary History of England, 1803. Political Registers, 1802-13. Poor Man’s Friend (The), 1826. Works of Peter Porcupine, 1801. =Cobbold= (Rev. Richard), 1797-1877. Margaret Catchpole, 1845. =Cockburn= (Henry Thomas, lord), Edinburgh, 1779-1854. Life of Lord Jeffrey, 1852. =Coke= (Sir Edward), born at Milenam, in Norfolk, 1551-1633. Institutes, part i. (Coke upon Littleton), 1628;