A Brief Handbook of English Authors Part 18

=Locker, Frederick.= 182 Poet. Author London Lyrics, etc. Style airy and graceful. _See Century Mag. Feb. 1883._

=Lockhart, John Gibson.= 1794-1854. Scotch critic and biographer. A writer of much talent and for 27 years editor of the Quarterly Rev.: author Lives of Nelson, Scott, Burns, Napoleon, etc. _See H.

Martineau's Biographical Sketches._ _Pub. Har. Ho. Hou._

=Lockyer, Joseph Norman.= 183 Astronomer. Author Contributions to Solar Physics, etc. _Pub. Apl. Mac._

=Lodge, Edmund.= 1756-1839. Historian. Author Ill.u.s.trations of British Hist., Portraits of Ill.u.s.trious Persons of Gt. Britain, etc.

=Lodge, Thomas.= c. 1555-1625. Dramatist and Poet. To his novel Roslynde; Euphues Golden Legacy, Shakespeare owes the plot and incidents of As You Like It. _See As You Like It, Rolfe's edition, and Ward's Eng. Poets, vol. I._

=Logan, John.= 1748-1788. Scotch poet. His verse is fresh and simple, and his Song to the Cuckoo has great beauty. _See edition 1805, with Life._

=Long, George.= 1800-1879. Cla.s.sical scholar. Author Roman Law, Decline and Fall of the Roman Republic, etc.

=Loudon, Mrs. Jane.= 1800-1858. Wife to J. C. L. Author of The Mummy, a tale, and several horticultural works. _Pub. Rou. Wil._

=Loudon, John Claudius.= 1783-1843. Scotch horticulturist. His Arboretum Britannic.u.m is his chief work.

=Lovelace, Sir Richard.= 1618-1658. Poet. His verse is princ.i.p.ally amatory, and some of his songs are perfect of their kind. To Althea and To Lucasta are the most famous. _See Carew Hazlitt's edition of 1864, and Ward's English Poets, vol. 2._

=Lover, Samuel.= 1797-1868. Irish dramatist, novelist, and poet. Rory O'More and Handy Andy are his best known novels. His most famous song is Rory O'More. _See Life by Bayle Bernard, 1874, and Samuel Lover, by A. J. Symington._ _Pub. Por. Rou._

=Lower, Mark Antony.= 1813-1876. Author Eng. Surnames, Curiosities of Heraldry, Patronymica Britannica, etc.

=Lowndes, Wm. Thos.= ---- 1843. Bibliographer. Author British Librarian and The Bibliographer's Manual.

=Lowth [louth], Rob't.= 1710-1787. Bp. London. Son to W. L. A cla.s.sical and theological writer of great learning. _See Life, by Peter Hall, 1834._

=Lowth, Wm.= 1661-1732. Theologian of note.

=Lubbock, Sir John.= 183 Naturalist. Author Origin of Civilization, Pre-Historic Times, British Wild Flowers, etc. _Pub.

Apl. Mac._

=Lydgate, John.= 1370-1450. Poet. An exceedingly diffuse rhymer. _See minor works of pub. by the Percy Soc. 1842, and Ward's Eng. Poets, vol. I._

=Lyell, Sir Chas.= 1797-1875. Geologist. Author Elements of Geology, Travels in N. America, Antiquity of Man, etc. _Pub. Apl. Har. Lip._

=Lyly or Lily, John.= 1553-1598. Dramatic poet. His dramas are forgotten, but his prose romance, Euphues and his England, is remembered for the great influence it had upon the speech of the time.

L. was a reformer, though pedantic and fantastic. Euphuism has been ridiculed by Sydney, Jonson, Shakespeare, and Walter Scott. _See Collins's Hist. Dramatic Poetry, Lamb's Specimens Early Eng. Poets, and Chas. Kingsley's Westward Ho._

=Lyndsay.= See Lindsay, David.

=Lyte, Henry Francis.= 1793-1847. Poet. His hymn, Abide with Me, is widely known. _Pub. Le. Ran._

=Lyttleton, George, Lord.= 1709-1773. Author Dialogues of the Dead, Hist. Henry II., etc. _See Life, by Phillimore, 1845._

=Lytton.= See Bulwer-Lytton.

=Macaulay, Mrs. Catherine.= 1733-1791. Historian. Author Hist. of England during the Stuart dynasty, etc.

=Macaulay, Thos. Babington, Lord.= 1800-1859. Poet, essayist, and historian. A brilliant but partisan writer. The impetuous rush and vigor of his Lays of Ancient Rome obscure their poetical defects. His essays are numerous and cover a wide range. His Hist. of England is a superb piece of writing but it lacks the calm impartiality that a history should possess. _See Lines by Milman, F. Arnold and G. O.

Trevelyan; Macaulay, by J. C. Morrison in Eng. Men of Letters; and H.

Martineau's Biographical Sketches._ _Pub. Apl. Arm. Clx. Har. Hou.

Lip. Lit. Por. Rou._

=MacDonald, George.= 182 Scotch novelist and poet. His work is all of an earnest, religious cast, but marred sometimes by mannerisms and vagueness of touch. Robert Falconer, Alec Forbes, and St. George and St. Michael are the best of his numerous novels. Phantastes contains some of his best poetry. _See Lit. World, May 19, 1883._ _Pub. Apl. Do. Har. Lip. Mac. Rob. Rou. Scr._

=Mackarness, Mrs. Henry.= 1826-1881. Author of the tale A Trap to Catch a Sunbeam, etc. _Pub. Rou._

=Mackay, Chas.= 181 Scotch poet and miscellaneous writer. Author Town Lyrics, etc. _See Poems of, edition 1876._ _Pub. Rou._

=Mackay, Wm.= 1803-1882. Philosopher. Author Progress of the Intellect, Eternal Gospel, etc.

=Mackenzie, Sir George.= 1636-1691. Scotch miscellaneous writer. A voluminous author of much eminence in his day.

=Mackenzie, Henry.= Scotch novelist and essayist. Author the famous novel, The Man of Feeling, etc. _See collected works, 1808._ _Pub.

Har._

=Mackintosh, Sir James.= 1765-1832. Ethical and historical writer.

_See Memoirs by his son._ _Pub. Har._

=Macklin, Chas.= 1690-1797. Irish dramatist. Author of the bright comedy, The Man of the World. M. appeared on the stage as an actor till nearly 100. _See Memoirs of, 1804._

=Macleod [m[)a]k-lowd'], Norman.= 1812-1872. Scotch miscellaneous writer. Author of The Starling, Reminiscences of a Highland Parish, etc. _See Life by his brother, and Memoir by Alex. Strahan._ _Pub. Do.

Lip. Rou._

=Macneil, Hector.= 1746-1818. Scotch poet. Author Will and Jean, etc.

=Macpherson, James.= 1738-1796. Scotch poet. Supposed author of a series of poems purporting to be by Ossian, an ancient Gaelic bard.

These forgeries were immensely popular in spite of their wild and over-strained diction. M. never revealed the secret of their authors.h.i.+p. _See H. Morley's Shorter Eng. Poems._

=Macquoid, Mrs. Katherine S.= 18-- ----. Novelist. Author Patty, Beside the River, Too Soon, etc., and several vols. of travel, Through Normandy, Through Brittany, etc. _Pub. Apl. Har. Lip. Mac. Ran. Rou._

=Madden, Richard Robert.= 179 Poet and miscellaneous writer.

Author The Infirmities of Genius, etc.

=Magee, Wm.= 1765-1831. Abp. Dublin. Theologian. His best known work is the Discourses on the Atonement. _See complete works, 1842._

=Magee, Wm. Connor.= 182 Bp. Peterborough. Grandson to Wm. M.

Religious writer. Author Sermons, Lectures, etc. Style eloquent and forcible.

=Maginn, Wm.= 1793-1842. Irish humorist. Style learned, witty, and brilliant. _See Works, edited by R. S. Mackenzie, 5 vols., N. Y.

1857._ _Pub. Wid._

=Mahaffey, John Peytland.= 183 Author Hist. Cla.s.sical Greek Lit., Old Greek Life, Rambles and Studies in Greece, Greek Social Life, Old Greek Education, etc. _Pub. Apl. Har. Mac._