A SHORT BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY OF ENGLISH LITERATURE

bY JOHN. W. COUSIN been taken to secure accuracy; but where so large a collection of facts and dates is involved, it would be too sanguine to expect that succe has invariably been attained. J.W.C. January , 1910 . The following list gives some of the best known works of Biography:— All i bone, Critical Dictionary of English Literature and English and American Authors, 1859-71, Supplement, by J.F. Kirke, 1891; W. Hazlitt, Collections and Notes of Early English Literature, 1876-93; R. Chambers, Cyclopædia of English Literature, 1876, 1901; Halkett and Laign, Dictionary of Anonymous and Pseudonymous Literature, 1882-88; Dictionary of National Biography, ed. by Leslie Stephen and Sidney Lee, 1885, etc., re-i ue, 1908, etc.; Applet on's Cyclopædia of American Biography, ed. by J. Grant Wilson and John Fiske, 1887, etc.; J. Thomas, Universal Dictionary of Biography and Mythology, 1887-89; Men and Women of the Time, 15th edit., ed. by Victor G. Plarr, 1889.