MYERS, FREDERIC WILLIAM HENRY (1843-1901)

—Poet and e ayist, s. of a clergyman, was b. at Keswick, and ed. at Cheltenham and Camb. He became an inspector of schools, and was the author of several vols. of poetry, including St. Paul (1867). He also wrote E ays Cla ical and Modern , and Lives of Words worth and Shelley. Becoming interested in mesmerism and spiritualism he aided in founding the Society for Psychical Research, and was joint author of Phantasms of the Living . His last work was Human Personality and its Survival of Bodily Death (1903). NABBES, THOMAS ( fl. 1638). —Dramatist, was at Oxf. in 1621. He lived in London, and wrote comedies, satirising bourgeois society. He was most succe ful in writing masques, among which are Spring's Glory and Microcosm us . He also wrote a continuation of Richard Knolles' History of the Turks .