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

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published 1816. Kubla Khan (a vision), 1816. Poems, 1796. Translation of Wallenstein, 1800. Aids to Reflection, 1825. Biographia Literaria, 1817. Essays on his own Times, 1850. Friend (The), 27 numbers, 1809-10. Lay Sermons, 1816-17. Notes and Lectures on Shakespeare, etc., 1849. Table Talk, 1835. =Collier= (Jeremy), born at Stow Quy, in Cambridgeshire, 1650-1726. Ecclesiastial History of Great Britain, 1708-14. Essays on Moral Subjects, 1697, 1705, 1709. =Collier= (John Payne), London, 1789-1883. Bibliographical Account of Rare Books, 1865. History of English Dramatic Poetry, 1831. Memoirs of Actors in the Plays of Shakespeare, 1846. New Facts regarding Shakespeare, 1835, 1836, 1839. Notes and Emendations to the Text of Shakespeare’s Plays, 1852. Poetical Decameron, 1820. Poet’s Pilgrimage (The), 1822. Sculptor (The), 1878. =Collins= (Mortimer), of Plymouth, in Hampshire, 1827-1876. Blacksmith and Scholar, 1875. Fight with Fortune (A), 1876. Frances, 1874. Idyls and Rhymes, 1855. Ivory Gate (The), 1869. Marquis and Merchant, 1871. Miranda, 1873. Mr. Carington, 1873. Princess Clarice, 1872. Squire Silchester’s Whim, 1873. Summer Songs, 1860. Sweet and Twenty, 1875. Sweet Anne Page, 1868. Transmigration, 1873. Two Plunges for a Pearl, 1872. Village Comedy (The), 1877. Vivian Romance (The), 1870. Who is the Heir? 1865. =Collins= (William), of Chichester, 1720-1756. Odes, 1745-46. Ode to Evening, 1746. Oriental Eclogues, 1742. Passions (Ode on the), 1746. Poems, 1765. =Collins= (William Wilkie), London, 1824-1889. After Dark, and other Stories, 1856. Antonina, or the Fall of Rome, 1850. Armadale, 1866. Basil, 1852. Black Robe (The), 1881. Dead Secret (The), 1857. Fallen Leaves (The), 1880. Frozen Deep (The), 1873. Haunted Hotel (The), 1879. Hide and Seek, 1854. Law and the Lady (The), 1875. Man and Wife, 1870. Miss or Mrs.? and other Stories, 1873. Mr. Wray’s Cash-box (a Christmas tale), 1852. Moonstone (The), 1868. My Miscellanies, 1863. New Magdalen (The), 1873. No Name, 1862. Poor Miss Finch, 1872. Queen of Hearts (The), 1859. Rambles beyond Railways, 1851. Two Destinies, 1876. Woman in White (The), 1860. Black and White. Frozen Deep (The), 1857. Lighthouse (The), 1855. =Colman= (George), 1762-1836. Broad Grins, 1802. Eccentricities for Edinburgh, 1820. My Nightgown and Slippers, 1797. Poetical Vagaries, 1812. Random Records, 1830. Vagaries vindicated, 1814. ⁂ For his plays, see APPENDIX III. =Colton= (Rev. Caleb C.), *-1832. Lacon, or Many Things in Few Words, 1822. =Congreve= (William), born at Stafford, 1670-1729. Poems, 1710. ⁂ For his plays, see APPENDIX III. =Conington= (John), born at Boston, in Lincolnshire, 1825-1869. Translations into English verse of the _Æneid_ of Virgil, 1866; of the _Agamemnon_ of Æschylus, 1848; of the _Odes_ of Horace, 1863. =Cook= (Eliza), 1812-1889. Journal, 1849-54. New Echoes, and other Poems, 1864. Poems, 1840. =Cook= (Captain James), born at Marton, in Yorkshire, 1728-1779. Three Voyages around the World, first published in 1773; second in 1777; third in 1784. =Cooke=(John Esten), born at Winchester, in Virginia, 1830-1886. Henry St. John, Gentleman, 1856. Her Majesty the Queen, 1873. Hilt to Hilt, 1869. Leather Stockings and Silk, 1854. Life of Robert E. Lee, 1871. Life of Stonewall Jackson, 1866. Mohun, or the Last Days of Lee and his Paladins, 1868. Virginia Comedians (The), 1855. =Cooley= (Thomas McIntyre), born at Attica, in New York, 1824- Constitutional Limitations ... of the American Union, 1868, 1871. =Coombe= (William), born at Bristol, 1741-1823. Tour in Search of the Picturesque, 1812. Tour in Search of Consolation, 1820. Tour in Search of a Wife, 1821. Tour of Dr. Syntax through London, 1810. =Cooper= (James Fenimore), born at Burlington, 1789-1851. Afloat and Ashore, 1844. Bravo (The), 1831. Chainbearer (The), 1845. Deer-slayer (The), 1841. Headsman of Berne, 1833. Home as Found, 1838. Homeward Bound, 1838. Jack Tier, 1848. Last of the Mohicans (The), 1826. Lionel Lincoln, 1825. Mercedes of Castile, 1840. Miles Wallingford, 1844. Ned Myers, 1843. Oak Openings, 1848. Outward Bound, 1836. Pathfinder, 1840. Pilot (The), 1823. Pioneers (The), 1823. Prairie (The), 1827. Precaution, 1821. Red Rover (The), 1827. Red Skins (The), 1846. Satanstoe, 1845. Sea Lions, 1849. The Spy, 1821. Two Admirals (The), 1842. Water Witch (The), 1830. Ways of the Hour, 1850. Wept of Wishton-Wish (The), 1829. Wing and Wing, 1842. Wyandotte, 1843. =Cotton= (Charles), born at Beresford Hall, in Staffordshire, 1630-1687. Complete Angler, 1676. =Coverdale= (Miles), bishop of Exeter, born at Coverham, in Yorkshire, 1487-1568. Cranmer’s (or the Great) Bible, 1539. Translation of the Bible, 1535. =Cowper= (William), born at Great Berkhampstead, in Hertford, 1731-1800. John Gilpin, 1782. Miscellaneous Poems, 1793. On the Receipt of My Mother’s Picture, 1798. Table Talk, 1781; published 1782. Task (The), in six books, 1783-85. =Cox= (Rev. Sir George William), 1827- Crusades (The), 1874. History of Greece (A), 1874. Great Persian War (The), 1861. Introduction to the Science of Comparative Mythology and Folk Lore, 1881. Mythology of the Aryan Nations (The), 1870. Poems, Legendary and Historical, 1850. Tales of Ancient Greece, 1868, 1877. Tales of Thebes and Argos, 1863. Tales of the Gods and Heroes, 1862. =Cox= (Samuel Sullivan), born at Zanesville, Ohio, 1824-1889. Buckeye Abroad (The), 1852. Eight Years in Congress, 1865. Search for Winter Sunbeams, 1870. =Coxe= (Rev. Arthur Cleveland), born at Mendham, New Jersey, 1818-. Advent, a Mystery, 1837. Athanasion, and other Poems, 1842. Athwold, 1838. (Recast and reproduced under the title of “The Ladye Chase.”) Christian Ballads, 1840. Halloween, 1844. Saul, a Mystery, 1845. =Craik= (George Lillie), of Fifeshire, Scotland, 1799-1866. Bacon, his Writings and Philosophy, 1846-47. English of Shakespeare (The), 1857. History of British Commerce, 1844. Pursuit of Knowledge under Difficulties, 1831. Romance of the Peerage, 1848-50. Outlines of the History of the English Language, 1855. Sketches of the History of Literature and Learning in England, 1844-45. Spenser and his Poetry, 1845. =Craik= (Mrs. Dinah Maria Mulock), born at Stoke-upon-Trent, in Staffordshire, 1826-1887. Agatha’s Husband, 1852. Avilion, and other Tales, 1854. Christian’s Mistake, 1865. Hannah, 1871. Head of the Family (The), 1851. John Halifax, Gentleman, 1857. Laurel Bush (The), 1877. Legacy (A), 1878. Life for a Life (A), 1859. Mistress and Maid, 1863. Noble Life (A), 1866. Ogilvies (The), 1849. Olive, 1850. Poems, 1872. Sermons out of Church, 1875. Studies from Life, 1869. Woman’s Kingdom (The), 1870. =Creasy= (Sir Edward Shepherd), born at Bexley, in Kent, 1812-1878. Fifteen Decisive Battles of the World (The), 1851. =Croly= (Rev. George), born at Dublin, 1780-1860. Salathiel, 1827. =Crosby= (Howard), born in New York, 1826-1890. Lands of the Moslem, 1850. Life of Christ, 1871. Notes on the New Testament, 1861. =Crowe= (Mrs.), born at Borough Green, in Kent, 1800-1876. Night Side of Nature (ghost stories), 1848. =Crowe= (Joseph Arthur), London, 1825- Early Flemish Painters, 1857, 1872. History of Painting in Italy, 1864. History of Painting in North Italy, 1871. Life of Titian, 1877. =Cruden= (Alexander), of Aberdeen, 1700-1770. Concordance of the Holy Scriptures, 1737. Scripture Dictionary, 1770. =Cumming= (Roualeyn George Gordon), born in Scotland, 1820-1866. Hunter’s Life in South Africa (A), 1850. =Cunningham= (Alexander), born at Ettrick, in Scotland, 1654-1737. History of Great Britain, etc., 1787. =Cunningham= (Allan), born at Blackwood, in Scotland, 1785-1842. Lives of British Painters, Sculptors, and Architects, 1829-33. =Curtis= (George Ticknor), born at Watertown, in Massachusetts, 1812- History of the Origin, Formation, and Adoption of the Constitution of the United States, 1855-58. Life of Daniel Webster, 1855-58. =Curtis= (George William), born at Providence, in Rhode Island, 1824- Howadji in Syria, 1852. Lotus Eaters, 1852. Nile Notes of a Howadji, 1850. Potiphar Papers (The), 1853. Prue and I, 1862. =Cushing= (Caleb), born at Salisbury, in Massachusetts, 1800-1879. Review of the Three Days’ Revolution in France, 1833.

=Dana= (James Dwight), born at Utica, in New York, 1813- Corals and the Coral Islands, 1872. Manual of Geology, 1862. On Crustacea, 1852-54. On the Geology of the Pacific, 1849. On Zoöphytes, 1846. Text-book of Geology, 1864. =Dana= (Richard Henry), born at Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1815-1882. To Cuba and Back, 1859. Two Years before the Mast, 1869. =Darwin= (Charles), born at Shrewsbury, 1809-1882. Cross and Self Fertilization, etc., 1876. Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex (The), 1871. Different Forms of Flowers in Plants of the same Species, 1877. Domesticated Animals and Cultivated Plants, etc., 1867. Effects of Cross-fertilization in Plants, 1876. Expression of Emotion in Man and Animals (The), 1872. Fertilization of Orchids, 1862. Formation of Vegetable Mould through the Action of Worms, 1881. Fossil Lepodidæ of Great Britain (The), 1855. Geological Observations on South America, 1846. Geological Observations on Volcanic Islands, 1844. Insectivorous Plants, 1875. Journal of Researches in Various Countries visited by H.M.S. _Beagle_ in 1831. Monograph of the Family Cirripedia, 1851. Movements and Habits of Climbing Plants, 1875. Nutation of Plants, 1880. Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection (The), 1859. Structure and Distribution of Coral Reefs (The), 1842. Voyage of a Naturalist, 1845. Zoölogy of the Voyage of H.M.S. _Beagle_, 1840-43. =Davy= (Sir Humphrey), born at Penzance, in Cornwall, 1778-1829. Researches, Chemical and Philosophical, 1800. =Dawson= (John William), born at Picton, in Nova Scotia, 1820- Archaia, or Studies on the Cosmogony, etc., of the ... Scriptures, 1858. Story of the Earth and Man, 1872. =Day= (Thomas), London, 1748-1789. History of Sandford and Merton, 1783-89. =Defoe= (Daniel), London, 1661-1731. Colonel Jack, 1721. Jonathan Wild, 1725. Journal of the Plague Year, 1722. Memoirs of a Cavalier, 1724. Moll Flanders, 1721. Political History of the Devil (The), 1726. Robinson Crusoe, 1719. =De la Ramé= (Louisa), _nom de plume_ “Ouida,” born at Bury St. Edmunds, 1840- Ariadne, 1877. Cecil Castlemaine’s Gage, 1867. Chandos, 1866. Dog of Flanders (A), 1872. Folle Farine, 1871. Friendship, 1878. Held in Bondage, 1863. In a Winter City, 1876. Leaf in a Storm (A), 1873. Moths, 1880. Pascarel, 1873. Pipistrello, and other Stories, 1880. Puck, his Vicissitudes and Adventures, 1869. Signa, 1875. Strathmore, 1865. Tricotrin, a Story of a Waif and Stray, 1860. Two Little Wooden Shoes, 1874. Under Two Flags, 1868. Village Commune (A), 1881. =De Quincey= (Thomas), Manchester, 1786-1859. Confessions of an English Opium Eater, 1821. =Dewey= (Orville), born at Sheffield, Massachusetts, 1794- Old World and the New (The), 1836. On the Education of the Human Race, 1855. =Dexter= (Henry Martyn), born at Plympton, 1821- Banishment of Roger Williams (The), 1876. Church Policy of the Pilgrims, 1866. History of King Philip’s War (The), 1870. History of the Plymouth Colony, 1877. =Dibdin= (Charles), Southampton, 1745-1814. Complete History of the English Stage (A), 1795. Sea-songs, 1790. Shepherd’s Artifice (The), an opera, 1761. =Dicey= (Edward), born at Claybrook Hall, in Leicestershire, 1832- Battlefields of 1866 (The), 1866. Memoir of Cavour, 1859. Month in Russia (A), 1867. Morning Land (The), 1870. Rome in 1860. Schleswig-Holstein War (The), 1864. =Dick= (Thomas), born at Dundee, in Scotland, 1774-1857. Celestial Scenery, 1838. Christian Philosopher (The), 1823. Philosophy of Religion (The), 1825. Philosophy of a Future State (The), 1828. Practical Astronomer (The), 1845. =Dickens= (Charles), born at Portsmouth, 1812-1870. Barnaby Rudge, 1841. Battle of Life, 1846. Bleak House, 1852. Chimes (The), 1844. Cricket on the Hearth (The), 1846. Christmas Carol (A), 1843. David Copperfield, 1849. Dr. Marigold’s Prescriptions, 1868. Dombey and Son, 1846-47. Great Expectations, 1860. Hard Times, 1854. Haunted House (The), 1859. Haunted Man (The), 1848. Holly-tree Inn (The), 1855. Hunted Down, 1860. Little Dorritt, 1857. Martin Chuzzlewit, 1843. Master Humphrey’s Clock, 1840-41. Message from the Sea (A), 1860. Mrs. Lirriper’s Lodgings, 1863. Mugby Junction, 1866. Mystery of Edwin Drood, 1870. Nicholas Nickleby, 1838. No Thoroughfare, 1867. Old Curiosity Shop (The), 1840. Oliver Twist, 1837. Our Mutual Friend, 1864. Pickwick Papers (The), 1836. Round of Stories (A), 1852. Sketches by Boz, 1835. Somebody’s Luggage, 1862. St. George and the Dragon, 1866. Strange Gentleman (The), 1836. Tale of Two Cities (A), 1859. Tenants at Will, 1864. Tom Tiddler’s Ground, 1867. Village Coquettes (The), 1836. Uncommercial Traveller (The), 1860. American Notes, 1842. Child’s History of England (The), 1851. Sunday under Three Heads, 1836. =Dilke= (Charles Wentworth), 1843- Greater Britain, 1868. =Disraeli= (Benjamin, earl of Beaconsfield), 1805-1881. Alarcos, 1839. Alroy (The Wondrous Tale of), 1833. Coningsby, or the New Generation, 1844. Contarini Fleming, 1832. Endymion, 1881. Henrietta Temple, 1837. Ixion in Heaven, 1833. Lothair, 1871. Revolutionary Epic (The), 1834. Rise of Iskander (The), 1833. Sybil, or the Two Nations, 1845. Tancred, or the New Crusade, 1847. Venetia, 1837. Vivian Grey, 1826-27. Voyage of Captain Popanilla (The), 1828. Young Duke (The), 1831. =Disraeli= (Isaac), born at Bradenham House, in Buckinghamshire, 1766-1848. Amenities of Literature, 1841. Calamities of Authors, 1812. Curiosities of Literature, 1791, 1793, 1823. Defence of Poetry (A), 1790. Dissertation on Anecdotes, 1793. Miscellanies of Literature, 1812-22. Quarrels of Authors (The), 1814. =Dixon= (William Hepworth), born at Newton Heath, in Yorkshire, 1821-1879. British Cyprus, 1879. Diana, Lady Lyle, 1877. Free Russia, 1870. Her Majesty’s Tower, 1871. Holy Land (The), 1865. John Howard, 1849. Life of Lord Bacon, 1860. Life of Admiral Blake, 1852. Life of William Penn (A), 1851. New America, 1867. Personal History of Lord Bacon (The), 1860. Robert Blake, Admiral, etc., 1852. Royal Windsor, 1878. Ruby Grey, 1878. Spiritual Wives, 1868. Switzers (The), 1872. Two Queens, 1873. White Conquest, 1875. =Dobell= (Sydney), London, 1824-1874. England in Time of War, 1856. Poetical Works, 1875. =Dodd= (Rev. William), born at Bourne, in Lincolnshire, 1729-1777. Beauties of _Shakespeare_, 1752. =Doddridge= (Philip), London, 1702-1751. Rise and Progress of Religion in the Soul, 1750. =Doran= (John), 1807-1878. Monarchs Retired from Business, 1857. =Drake= (Samuel), born at Pittsfield, New Hampshire, 1798-1875. Book of the Indians, 1833. History of Boston, 1852. =Draper= (John William), born at St. Helen’s, near Liverpool, 1811-1882. Forces which Produce the Organization of Plants (The), 1844. History of the American Civil War, 1867-70. History of the Conflict between Religion and Science, 1874. History of the Intellectual Development of Europe, 1862. Thoughts on the Future Policy of America, 1865. =Drayton= (Michael), born at Hartshill, in Warwickshire, 1563-1631. Barons’ Wars (The), 1596. Nymphidia, or the Court of Fairy, 1627. Polyolbion, songs i.-ix., 1612; xi.-xviii., 1613; xix.-xxx., 1622. =Dryden= (John), born at Aldwinkle, in Northamptonshire, 1631-1701. Absalom and Achitophel, part i., 1681;