A Brief Handbook of English Authors Part 28

=Sidney= or =Sydney, Sir Philip.= 1554-1586. Poet and prose writer.

Author of Sonnets, the prose romance Arcadia, and The Apologie for Poetrie, with which latter work literary criticism may be said to begin. _See Grosart's complete edition, 1877._ _See Ward's Eng. Poets, vol. 1, Ma.s.son's Eng. Novelists, and Life, by Fox-Bourne, 1862._

=Simc.o.x, Geo. Augustus.= 184 Poet and litterateur. Author Prometheus Unbound, a tragedy, Poems and Romances, and a Hist. of Latin Lit. _Pub. Har. Rou._

=Simpson, Sir James Young.= 1811-1870. Scotch medical writer of note.

_Pub. Apl. Lip._

=Simpson, Thomas.= 1710-1761. Mathematician. Author of a long series of mathematical works.

=Simson, Robert.= 1687-1768. Scotch mathematician. Author of a noted translation of Euclid.

=Sinclair, Mrs. Catherine.= 1800-1864. Scotch novelist. Author of Beatrice, Modern Society, Jane Bouverie, etc. _Pub. Har._

=Singer, Samuel Weller.= 1783-1868. Shakespearean scholar. His edition of Shakespeare appeared in 1826.

=Skeat [skeet], Walter Wm.= 183 Philologist. Editor of numerous Early Eng. and Anglo-Saxon works, and author of an Etymological Dict.

of the Eng. Language. _Pub. Mac._

=Skelton, John.= c. 1460-1529. Poet. Author Why Come Ye Not to Court?

a fierce satire upon Wolsey, Colin Clout, and the Boke of Phyllype Sparowe. His verse is rugged and harsh, but very powerful. _See Dyce's edition, 1843, and Ward's Eng. Poets, vol. 1._ _Pub. Hou._

=Skene, Wm. Forbes.= 180 Antiquarian. Author The Highlanders of Scotland, Chronicles of the Picts and Scots, etc.

=Sketchley, Arthur.= See Rose, Geo.

=Skinner, John.= 1721-1807. Scotch poet. Tullochgorum is his most noted poem. _See Poems of, with Memoir, 1859._

=Smart, Benj. Humphrey.= c. 1785-1872. Lexicographer. The chief of his numerous works is a p.r.o.nouncing Dict., which first appeared in 1836.

=Smart, Christopher.= 1722-1770. Poet. Author of a noted satire called The Hilliad and the famous Song to David. _See edition 1791._

=Smart, Hawley.= 18-- ----. Novelist. Author Breezie Langton, Bound to Win, etc. _Pub. Apl._

=Smedley, Edward.= 1789-1836. Historian. Author Religio Clerici, Hist.

Reformed Religion in France, Hist. France, etc. _Pub. Har._

=Smedley, Francis Edward.= 1819-1865. Novelist. Author Frank Fairleigh, Harry Coverdale's Courts.h.i.+p, etc. _Pub. Pet. Rou._

=Smedley, Menella Bute.= c. 1825-c. 1875. Poet. Sister to F. E. S.

Author of Nina, Twice Lost, and other prose tales. One of the finest of her poems is The Little Fair Soul. _Pub. Rou._

=Smee, Alfred.= 181 Scientific writer of note. _Pub. Put._

=Smiles, Samuel.= 181 Scotch writer. Author Self Help, Thrift, Life of a Scotch Naturalist, Life of Geo. Stephenson, etc. _Pub. Har.

Lip. Rou._

=Smith, Adam.= 1723-1790. Political economist. Author of The Wealth of Nations, the theory of which is that labor is the source of wealth.

_See Lives by Brougham, Playfair, and Smellie._ _Pub. Mac. Put._

=Smith, Albert Richard.= 1816-1860. Novelist. Author Christopher Tadpole, etc.

=Smith, Alexander.= 1830-1867. Scotch poet and essayist. Author Edwin of Deira, Life Drama, City Poems, etc. His verse achieved a sudden but brief popularity. It is brilliant, but uneven. His prose, of which A Summer in Skye is the best example, is excellent. _See Life, by Alexander, 1868, and Stedman's Victorian Poets._

=Smith, Mrs. Charlotte.= 1749-1806. Poet and novelist. Elegiac Sonnets are her princ.i.p.al poems, and The Old Manor House is her best novel.

=Smith, George.= c. 1825-1876. Orientalist. Author of The Chaldean Account of Genesis, a.s.syrian Discoveries, Records of the Past, etc.

_Pub. Scr._

=Smith, Goldwin.= 182 Miscellaneous writer. Author Lect. and Essays, The Study of Hist., Three Eng. Statesmen, etc. _Pub. Har.

Mac._

=Smith, Horace.= 1779-1849. Poet and novelist. Author of the noted poem Address to a Mummy, of five of the Rejected Addresses published by Horace and James Smith, and of several novels,--The Moneyed Man, Brambletye House, etc. _Pub. Har. Ho. Put._

=Smith, Isaac Gregory.= 182 Religious writer. Author Characteristics of Christian Morality, etc. _Pub. Dut._

=Smith, James.= 1775-1839. Poet and critic. Bro. to H. S. Author of five of the travesties in Rejected Addresses, viz., those on Wordsworth, Cobbett, Southey, Coleridge, and Crabbe. _See Memoirs of, by Horace Smith, 1840._ _Pub. Ho. Put._

=Smith, James.= 182 Scotch poet and novelist.

=Smith, John Pye.= 1775-1851. Theologian. Author Letters to Belsham, etc.

=Smith, Robert Payne.= 181 Religious writer. Author Bampton Lect., 1869, etc. _Pub. Mac._

=Smith, Sarah=, "Hesba Stretton." 18-- ----. Novelist. Author Bede's Charity, Through A Needle's Eye, and other excellent novels. _Pub. Do.

Rou._

=Smith, Sydney.= 1771-1845. Essayist and humorist. Author of the Plymley Letters, etc. A perfect master of an intensely amusing and sarcastic style of reasoning. _See Duyckinck's Wit and Wisdom of Sydney Smith._ _Pub. Apl. Har. Rou._

=Smith, Thos. Southwood.= 1788-1861. Medical writer of note. Author Philosophy of Health, The use of the Dead to the Living, etc. _Pub.

Clx. Lip._

=Smith, Wm.= 1769-1839. Geological writer of eminence. _See Life, by Phillips, 1844._

=Smith, Wm.= 181 Cla.s.sical lexicographer. Author Dict. Greek and Roman Antiquities, Dict. of the Bible, etc. _Pub. Apl. Est. Har. Hou.

Lit. Por._

=Smith, Wm. Robertson.= 184 Scotch theologian of note. Author of The Old Testament in the Jewish Church, etc. _Pub. Apl._

=Smollett, Tobias George.= 1721-1771. Author of Roderick Random; Peregrine Pickle, Count Fathom, Humphrey Clinker, etc., novels whose coa.r.s.eness is scarcely atoned for by their wit and vivacity. _See Complete Works, 1872._ _See Thackeray's Eng. Humorists and Ma.s.son's Novelists and Their Styles._ _Pub. Har. Rou._

=Smyth, Chas. Piazzi.= c. 182 Egyptologist. Son to W. H. S.

Author Our Inheritance in the Gt. Pyramid, Life and Work at the Gt.

Pyramid, etc. An ingenious but somewhat fanciful thinker. _Pub. Est.

Rou. Scr._

=Smyth, Wm. Henry.= 1788-1865. Hydrographer. Author of a noted work on the physical geography of the Mediterranean. _Pub. Mac._

=Smythe, Geo. Sydney, Viscount Strangford.= 1818-1857. Novelist.

Author of Historic Fancies and Angela Pisani.