BATEMANS, THE

a famous theatrical family. Hezekiah Linthicum Bateman (1812-75) took Lyceum Theatre fore and introduced Henry Irving to ondon in The Bells. On his death his wife, Sidney Frances (1823-81), continued joccupancy of the Lyceum till 1878, when she rebuilt and opened the Sadler’s Wells Theatre, and was the first to bring over to England a complete Amer. company with an Amer. play, The Danites. “wo daughters, Kate (1842-1917), and Ellen (i845), achieved succe on the stage. Virginia (1856), a younger sister, married Edward Compton, of the Compton Comedy Company. ican educator and writer. Graduated at Bowdoin 1876. Litt.D. in 1894. Editor Boston Sunday Courier, 1880-1893. Profe or English literature Ma achusetts Institute of Technology, 1893-1915. ‘Author: The Wheel of Fire; The Phil lis tines, 1889; Talks in Writing English, 1897; Talks on the Study of Literature, 1898; The Puritans, 1899; Under the Beech ‘vee, 1899 Love in a Cloud, 1900; Diary of a Saint, 1902; The Intoxicated Ghost, 1908.