Baring-Gould, Sabine

Church of England; b. at Exeter, Jan. 28, 1834; was student in Clare College, Cambridge; graduated B. A, 1854; M. A., 1856; ordained deacon, 1864; priest, 1865; became perpetual curate of Dalton, Yorkshire, 1866 rector of East Mersea, E ex, 1871; and rector of Lew Trenchard, Lew Down, North Devons hire, 1881. He has written, besides volumes of sermons under various titles, in 1872, 1873, 1875, 1879, 1880, 1881, 1884, 1885, and novels, the following: The Path of the Just, London, 1856; Iceland, its Scenes and its Sagas, 1863; Post-me<liceual Preachers, 1865; The Book of Were-ioolves, 1865; Curious Myths of the Middle Ages, 1866-68, 2 series, new ed., 1881, 1 vol. (reprinted Boston) The Silver Store, collected from mediaeval Christian and Jewish Mines, 1868, 2d ed. 1882; Curiosities of Olden Times, 1869, 2d ed. 1875; The Origin and Development of Religious Belief 1870-71, 2 vols., 2d ed. 1882 (reprinted New York); Legends of the Old-Testament Characters, 1871, 2 vols, (reprinted New York); Lives of the Saints, 1872- 77, 15 vols.; The Lost and Hostile Gospels, 1874; Yorkshire Oddities, 1874; Some Modern Difficulties, 1875; The. Vicar of Morwenstow (Rev. Robert Stephen Hawker), 1876 (reprinted New York); Germany, Past and Present, 1879. From 1871 to 1873 he edited The Sacristy, a quarterly review of ecclesiastical art and literature.