ns for Restoring some Prayers_
(1717), was followed by others. In 1718 was published a new _Communion
Office taken partly from Primitive Liturgies and partly from the first
English Reformed Common Prayer Book,..._ which embodied the changes
desired by Collier. The controversy that ensued made a split in the
nonjuring communion. His last work was a volume of _Practical
Discourses_, published in 1725. He died on the 26th of April 1726.

BIBLIOGRAPHY.--There is an excellent account of Collier in A. Kippis's
_Biographia Britannica_, vol. iv. (1789), where some sensible
observations by the editor are added to the original biography. A full
list of Collier's writings is given by the Rev. Wm. Hunt in the
article in the _Dictionary of National Biography_. For particulars of
Collier's history as a nonjuring bishop, see Thomas Lathbury, _A
History of the Nonjurors ..._ (1845). There is an excellent account of
the _Short View_ and the controversy arising from it in A. Beljame's
_Le Public et les hommes de lettres en Angleterre au XVIIIe siecle_
(2nd ed., 1897), pp. 244-263.

FOOTNOTE:

[1] "He is too much given to horse-play in his raillery, and comes to
battle like a dictator from the plough. I will not say, 'the zeal of
God's house has eaten him up'; but I am sure it has devoured some
part of his good manners and civility." (Dryden, _Works_, ed. Scott,
xi. 239).

COLLIER, JOHN PAYNE (1789-1883), English Shakespearian critic, was born
in London, on the 11th of January 1789. His father, John Dyer Collier
(1762-1825), was a successful journalist, and his connexion with the
press obtained for his son a position on the _Morning Chronicle_ as
leader writer, dramatic critic and reporter, which continued till 1847;
he was also for some time a reporter for _The Times_. He was summoned
before the House of Commons in 1819 for giving an incorrect report of a
speech by Joseph Hume. He entered the Middle Temple in 1811, but was not
called to the bar until 1829. The delay was partly due to his
indiscretion in publishing the _Criticisms on the Bar_ (1819) by "Amicus
Curiae." His leisure was given to the study of Shakespeare and the early
English drama. After some minor publications he produced in 1825-1827 a
new edition of Dodsley's _Old Plays_, and in 1833 a supplementary volume
entitled _Five Old Plays_. In 1831 appeared his _History of English
Dramatic Poetry and Annals of the Stage to the Re