A Brief Handbook of English Authors Part 27

The literary merit of his treatises is considerable.

=Saville, Sir Henry.= 1549-1622. Antiquarian. Editor of a noted edition of Chrysostom, 1613.

=Sawyer, Wm.= 182 Poet. Author of A Year of Song, The Legend of Phillis, etc.

=Sayce, Archibald Henry.= 184 Philologist. Author of An a.s.syrian Grammar, Principles of Comparative Philology, Introduction to the Science of Language, etc.

=Schreiber, Lady Charlotte Elizabeth.= c. 1814-c. 1879. Welsh writer.

Translator of The Mabinogion.

=Scot, Sir Alexander.= fl. c. 1562. Scotch poet. His verse is amatory in tone. _See edition by David Laing, 1821._ _See Grant Wilson's Poets of Scotland._

=Scott, John.= 1730-1783. Scotch poet. His productions are flavorless and poor.

=Scott, Michael.= 1789-1835. Novelist. Author Tom Cringle's Log, etc.

=Scott, Sir Michael.= fl. c. 1250. Scotch philosopher.

=Scott, Robert=. 181 Cla.s.sical scholar. One of the editors of Liddell and Scott's Greek Lexicon.

=Scott, Thomas.= 1747-1821. Commentator. Author Bible Commentary, etc.

_Pub. Lip._

=Scott, Sir Walter.= 1771-1832. Scotch novelist and poet. Author of a long series of romances, beginning with Waverley, in 1814, and ending with Anne of Geierstein, in 1829. S. first made the novel a really great power in life as well as in literature. The flow of his narrative is always animated and infused with a kindly spirit. Guy Mannering, Ivanhoe, Old Mortality, and Quentin Durward are among the best of his novels. The Lady of the Lake, Marmion, and Lay of the Last Minstrel are fine narrative poems, filled with vivid descriptions of Scotch scenery. _See Taine's Eng. Lit., Ma.s.son's Novelists and Their Styles, and Hutton's Scott, in Eng. Men of Letters._ _See also The Waverley Dict., by May Rogers._

=Scott, Wm. Bell.= 181 Poet and art writer. Author The Year of the World, Life of Albert Durer, etc. _See Grant Wilson's Poets of Scotland._ _Pub. Rou._

=Scrivener, Frederick Henry.= 181 Biblical scholar. Author of a Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament, and editor of a Greek Testament, The Cambridge Paragraph Bible, etc. _Pub. Ho._

=Sedley, Sir Chas.= 1639-1701. Lyric and dramatic poet. S. wrote the comedy of The Mulberry Garden. _See Ward's Eng. Poets, vol. 2._

=Seeley, John Robert.= 183 Author Ecce h.o.m.o, Lect. and Essays, Roman Imperialism, etc. Style clear and strong. _See Myers's Essays, Modern._ _Pub. Mac. Rob._

=Selden, John.= 1584-1654. Antiquarian. Author t.i.tles of Honor, Hist.

of t.i.tles, etc. A man of wide learning, whose Table-Talk is his best known work. _See Lives, by Wilkins, 1726, Aiken, 1773, and Johnson, 1835._

=Selwyn, Geo. Augustus.= 1809-1878. Bp. Lichfield. Author Tribal a.n.a.lysis of the Bible, Are Cathedral Inst.i.tutions Useless? etc. _Pub.

Mac._

=Senior, Na.s.sau Wm.= 1790-1864. Political economist. Author Lect. on Population, Essays on Fiction, etc.

=Settle, Elkanah.= 1648-1724. Dramatist. A writer of trifling merit but the rival of Dryden in his time.

=Seward, Anna.= 1747-1809. Poet. Although called in her day "the Swan of Lichfield," her verse is weakly sentimental and commonplace.

=Sewell, Elizabeth Missing.= 181 Poet and novelist. Author Amy Herbert, Margaret Percival, etc. A writer of excellent stories, which have a strong High Church flavor. _Pub. Apl. Dut. Har. Ho._

=Sewell, Wm.= 1805-1874. Religious writer. Bro. to E. M. S. Author of Christian Morals, etc.

=Shadwell, Thos.= 1640-1692. Dramatist. Author of 17 plays, but chiefly remembered as the b.u.t.t of Dryden's satire MacFlecknoe.

=Shaftesbury, 3d Earl of.= See Cooper, Anthony Ashley.

=Shairp, John Campbell.= 181 Scotch essayist. Author Culture and Religion, Aspects of Poetry, Studies in Poetry and Philosophy, Poetic Interpretation of Nature, Burns, in Eng. Men of Letters, etc. _Pub.

Har. Hou._

=Shakespeare, Wm.= 1564-1616. The world's greatest dramatist. Author of 37 plays, in two of which, Henry VIII. and Two n.o.ble Kinsmen, Fletcher is supposed to have had a hand. The others are King John, Richard II., Richard III., the two parts of Henry IV., Henry V., the three parts of Henry VI., all historical plays; the tragedies, Hamlet, Macbeth, Oth.e.l.lo, Lear, Antony and Cleopatra, Timon of Athens, Coriola.n.u.s, Julius Caesar, Romeo and Juliet, and Troilus and Cressida; and the comedies, or tragi-comedies, Midsummer Night's Dream, Comedy of Errors, Love's Labor's Lost, Taming of the Shrew, Two Gentlemen of Verona, Merchant of Venice, All's Well that Ends Well, Much Ado About Nothing, As You Like It, Merry Wives of Windsor, Measure for Measure, Winter's Tale, Tempest, Twelfth Night, Pericles, and Cymbeline. S. was also the author of the poems Lucrece, Venus and Adonis, and 154 Sonnets. No writings, save the Scriptures, have ever moved the world like those of Shakespeare, which appeal to every emotion in the mind of man. He has no equals; there are none with whom he may be compared.

_Among the best complete Am. editions are White's Riverside_, _pub.

Hou._; _Rolfe's_, _pub. Har._; _and Hudson's_, _pub. Gi._ _See also Furness's Variorum Macbeth, Lear, Hamlet, and Romeo and Juliet_, _pub.

Lip._

=Sharpe, Samuel.= 180 Historian. Author Hist. Egypt, Hist.

Hebrew Nation and Lit., Texts from the Bible Explained by Ancient Monuments, etc.

=Sheffield, John, Duke of Buckingham.= 1649-1720. Author Essay on Poetry, a poem in heroic measure, polished and prosaic.

=Sheil [sheel], Richard Lalor.= 1791-1851. Irish dramatist. Author Evadne, The Apostate, Sketches of the Irish Bar, etc. _See Biographies, by McNevin, 1845, and McCulloch, 1855._ _Pub. Arm._

=Sh.e.l.ley, Mrs. Mary Wollstonecraft G.o.dwin.= 1797-1851. Novelist. Wife to P. B. S. Author Frankenstein, a repulsive but powerful romance, Valperga, Perkin Warbeck, etc.

=Sh.e.l.ley, Percy Bysshe [b[)i]sh].= 1792-1822. Poet. An imaginative genius of the highest order. Author of Queen Mab, Prometheus Unbound, Alastor, The Cenci, etc. Some of his best work is seen in the Adonais, an elegy upon Keats, and the Ode to a Skylark, while all his poems possess an ethereal beauty quite unlike anything else in literature.

_See Atlantic Monthly, Feb. 1863, Macmillan's Mag. June, 1861, Sh.e.l.ley and his Writings, by C. S. Middleton, Symonds' Sh.e.l.ley, in Eng. Men.

of Letters, and Swinburne's Essays and Studies._ _Pub. Lit. Mac. Por.

Rou._

=Shenstone, Wm.= 1714-1763. Pastoral poet. Author of The Schoolmistress, a poem in Spenserian stanza, and of pastoral ballads.

_See Gilfillan's edition of, Edinburgh, 1854._ _See Ward's Eng. Poets, vol. 3._

=Sheridan, Mrs. Frances.= 1724-1766. Novelist and dramatist. Wife to T. S.

=Sheridan, Richard Brinsley.= 1751-1816. Irish dramatist. Son to F. S.

and T. S. A sparkling, witty writer. Author of The Duenna, an opera, The Critic, a farce, and The Rivals and School for Scandal, two of the best comedies in the Eng. language. _See Works, edited by J. B.

Browne, 1873, and F. Stainforth, 1874; also edition of 1883, with Introduction, by R. G. White._ _See Life of, by Moore, Atlantic Monthly, Oct. 1883, and Sheridan, by Mrs. Oliphant, in Eng. Men. of Letters._ _Pub. Do. Rou._

=Sheridan, Thomas.= 1721-1788. Irish lexicographer. Author Dict. Eng.

Lang., etc.

=Sherlock, Wm.= 1678-1761. Bp. London. Theologian of note.

=Sherwood, Mrs. Mary Martha.= 1775-1851. Writer of an immense number of religious tales, once very popular. Little Henry and his Bearer is one of the best known. _See Life, 1874._ _Pub. Ca. Har. Wh._

=s.h.i.+rley, James.= 1594-1666. Dramatist. The latest of the Shakespearean dramatists. Better known than any of his 40 plays is the n.o.ble poem Death's Final Conquest. _See Dyce's Life of, 1833, and Ward's Eng. Poets, vol. 2._

=Shorthouse, Joseph Henry.= 183 Novelist. Author of John Inglesant and Little Schoolmaster Mark. _Pub. Mac._

=Sidgewick, Henry.= 183 Political economist. Author of The Principles of Political Economy, The Methods of Ethics, Ethics in Encyc. Britan., etc. A precise and impartial thinker. _Pub. Mac. Put._

=Sidney, Algernon.= 1622-1683. Political writer. Author Discourses on Government, etc. _See Life, by Meadley, 1813._