erment, that of
Clerk to the Closet to the Princess Dowager of Wales. Four years later,
in 1765, he _d._ The poems of Y., though in style artificial and
sometimes forced, abound in passages of passion and power which sometimes
reach the sublime. But the feelings and sentiments which he expresses
with so much force as a poet form an unpleasantly harsh contrast with the
worldliness and tuft-hunting of his life.
APPENDIX OF LIVING WRITERS
_The number of writers included in this Appendix, and their
bibliographies, are necessarily limited, but it is hoped that despite the
difficulties of selection the list will be found fairly representative_.
ABBOTT, REV. EDWIN ABBOTT, D.D. (1838).--Writer on Biblical and literary
subjects. _Shakespearian Grammar_ (1870), ed. of _Bacon's Essays_ (1876),
_Bacon and Essex_ (1877), _Francis Bacon ... his Life and Works_ (1885),
_Flatland, a Romance of Many Dimensions_ (1884), _St. Thomas of
Canterbury_ (1898), _Paradosis_ (1904), _Johannine Vocabulary_ (1905),
_Silanus the Christian_ (1906), etc.
ALLEN, JAMES LANE (1849).--American novelist. _A Kentucky Cardinal_, _The
Choir Invisible_, _A Summer in Arcady_, _Blue Grass Region of Kentucky_,
_The Increasing Purpose_, _Aftermath_, part ii. of _A Kentucky Cardinal_,
_The Mettle of the Pasture_, _The Reign of Law_.
ANSON, SIR WILLIAM REYNELL, BART., D.C.L. (1843).--Legaland
constitutional writer, etc., _Law and Custom of the Constitution_, ed.
_Memoirs of the third Duke of Grafton_, etc.
ANSTEY, F., (_see_ GUTHRIE).
ARBER, EDWARD, D.Litt.--Literary antiquary. Has issued many reprints of
rare books. _English Reprints_, _English Scholars' Library_, ed. _An
English Garner_ (1880-83), _British Anthologies_ (1899-1901), _A
Christian Library_ (1907).
ARCHER, WILLIAM (1856).--Writer on the drama and translator of Ibsen; ed.
Ibsen's _Prose Dramas_, 5 vols., _Collected Works of Ibsen_, 11 vols.,
translated with his brother, Major Chas. A., Ibsen's _Peer Gynt_, _Life
of Macready_, _Masks or Faces_, _Study and Stage_, _Real Conversations_
(1904), etc.
ARNIM, COUNTESS VON (BEAUCHAMP).--_Elizabeth and her German Garden_, _A
Solitary Summer_, _The April Baby's Book of Tunes_, _The Benefactress_,
_Elizabeth's Adventures in Ruegen_, _Fraulein Schmidt and Mr.
Anstruther_.
ASHTON, JOHN (1834).--Literary antiquary, etc. _History of Chap-books of
Eighteenth Century_ (1882), _Humour, Wit, and Satire of Seventeenth
Century_
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