A Brief Handbook of English Authors Part 29

=Somers, Lord John.= 1651-1716. Jurist. Author of the noted "Somers Tracts." _See Walter Scott's edition, 13 vols. 4to, 1815._ _See Campbell's Lives of the Chancellors._

=Somerville, Mrs. Mary.= 1780-1872. Scotch astronomer. Author Mechanism of the Heavens, Connection of the Physical Sciences, Physical Geography, etc. _See Personal Recollections, by Mrs.

Somerville, 1873._ _Pub. Har. Rob. Sh._

=Somerville, Wm.= 1682-1742. Poet. Author of The Chase, etc. _See Ward's Eng. Poets, vol. 3._

=Sotheby [s[)u]th'[e^]-b[)i]], Wm.= 1757-1833. A fine translation of Wieland's Oberon is his best known work.

=South, Robert.= 1633-1716. A witty theologian, whose Sermons possess vitality and are still read. _Pub. Dut. Hou._

=Southern [s[)u]th'ern], Thos.= 1660-1746. Irish dramatist. Author Oroonoko, The Fatal Dowry, etc. His plays were once very popular and show great power.

=Southey [sowth'[)i]], Mrs. Caroline Anne [Bowles].= 1787-1854. Poet.

Wife to R. S. Author of The Young Gray Head, The Pauper's Death Bed, etc. Style harmonious and pathetic. _Pub. Rou._

=Southey, Robert.= 1774-1843. Poet and essayist. Author of Thalaba, Curse of Kehama, Roderick, Madoc, etc. As a whole his verse is a good deal like prose, but prose of an excellent quality. The Doctor is one of his most noted prose works. _See Life, by C. T. Browne, and Dowden's Southey, in Eng. Men of Letters._ _Pub. Apl. Har. Hou. Rou._

=Southwell, Robert.= 1560-1595. Poet. Content and Rich and Times go by Turns are among his best poems. His verse has much quiet beauty. _See MacDonald's England's Antiphon and Ward's Eng. Poets, vol. 1._

=Spedding, James.= 1808-1881. Baconian scholar. Editor Lord Bacon's works, author Life and Letters of Bacon, Reviews and Discussions, Evenings with a Reviewer, etc. _Pub. Hou._

=Speed, John.= 1552-1629. Antiquary. Hist. Great Britain, etc.

=Spelman, Sir Henry.= 1562-1641. Antiquary. Author Hist. Eng.

Councils, Glossarium Archaeologic.u.m, etc.

=Spencer, Herbert.= 182 Philosopher. Author Social Statics, Principles of Psychology, Study of Sociology, Education, Descriptive Sociology, etc. _Pub. Apl._

=Spencer, Wm. Robert.= 1770-1834. Poet. Beth-Gelert is his best known poem.

=Spenser, Edmund.= 1552-1599. Poet. Shepherd's Calendar, Mother Hubbard's Tale, Amoretti, Epithalamion, and Prothalamion are the best of his minor poems. The Faerie Queene, an allegory in 6 books, is his greatest work, the interest of which lies not in the poem as a narration, but in its symbolic representation of the soul at war with evil. _See Todd's Variorum edition, and editions by Payne Collier, 1862, and Morris, 1869._ _See Craik's Spenser and his Poetry, Morley's Library Eng. Lit., and Church's Spenser, in Eng. Men of Letters._ _Pub. Mac. Hou._

=Spottswood= or =Spottiswoode, John=. 1565-1639. Abp. St. Andrew's.

Ecclesiastical historian. Author Hist. Church of Scotland, etc. _See Russell's edition, 1851._

=Sprat, Thos.= 1636-1713. Bp. Rochester. Theologian. Author Hist.

Royal Society, Life of Cowley, Poems, Sermons, etc.

=Spurgeon, Chas. Haddon.= 183 Author several vols. of Sermons, John Ploughman's Talks, etc. _Pub. Ca. Scr. Sh._

=Stanhope, Philip Dormer, Earl of Chesterfield.= 1694-1773. Author of the celebrated Letters to his Son, Philip Stanhope, the morality of which has been much debated. Style polished and able.

=Stanhope, Philip Henry, Lord Mahon.= 1805-1875. Author Hist. of England, Hist. War of the Spanish Succession, etc. _Pub. Lit._

=Stanley, Arthur Penrhyn.= 1815-1881. Theologian. Author Lect. on the Jewish Church, Lect. on the Eastern Church, Christian Inst.i.tutions, Life of Dr. Arnold, etc. A writer of much vigor and strength, whose wide sympathies are clearly shown in his works. _See Century Mag. Jan.

1883, and Myers's Essays Modern._ _Pub. Arm. Dut. Har. Mac. Scr._

=Stanley, Thomas.= 1625-1678. Poet. Beside a vol. of quaint verse S.

wrote a Hist. of Philosophy.

=Staunton [stan't[o^]n], Howard.= 1810-1874. Shakespearean scholar.

His library edition of Shakespeare appeared in 1863. _Pub. Rou._

=Steele, Sir Richard.= 1671-1729. Essayist. S. began the periodical Essay by The Tatler in 1709, and wrote afterwards with Addison in The Spectator and The Guardian. Author also of The Christian Hero. _See Thackeray's Eng. Humorists._

=Steevens, George.= 1736-1800. Shakespearean scholar. S. edited with Dr. Johnson the edition of 1773, and with Isaac Reed those of 1785 and 1793.

=Stephen, Sir James.= 1789-1859. Historian and essayist. Author Essays in Eccl. Biography, Lect. on Hist. of France, etc. _See Life, by his son, 1860._ _Pub. Har._

=Stephen, Sir James Fitzjames.= 182 Jurist. Son to preceding.

Author General View of the Criminal Law of England, Essays by a Barrister, etc. _Pub. Mac. Th._

=Stephen, Leslie.= 183 Litterateur. Neph. to Sir J. S. Author of a brilliant Hist. Eng., Thought in the Eighteenth Cent., Science of Ethics, Hours in a Library, and Pope, Johnson, and Swift, in Eng. Men of Letters. _Pub. Har. Scr._

=Stephenson, Mrs. Eliza [Tabor].= 183 Novelist. Author St.

Olave's, Jeanie's Quiet Life, The Blue Ribbon, Meta's Faith, The Senior Songman, etc. St. Olave's, her best work, has been very popular. _Pub. Har._

=Sterling, John.= 1806-1844. Poet and critic. _See Lives, by Hare, 1848, T. Carlyle, 1851; also, Caroline Fox's Memories of Old Friends._

=Sterne, Lawrence.= 1713-1768. Humorist. Author of Tristram Shandy and The Sentimental Journey, two rambling, fantastic books, with a slender thread of story in each. The quaintness is affected, and the humor sometimes obscure, but the character drawing is inimitable. _See Life, by Fitzgerald, Taine's Eng. Lit., Ma.s.son's Eng. Novelists and Their Styles, and H. D. Traill's Sterne, in Eng. Men of Letters._ _Pub. Clx.

Lip. Rou._

=Sternhold, Thos.= c. 1500-1549. a.s.sociate with Hopkins in a metrical version of the Psalms.

=Stevenson, John Hall.= 1718-1785. Poet. Author Crazy Hall Tales, etc.

=Stevenson, Robert Louis.= 18-- ----. Author of Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes, An Inland Voyage, The New Arabian Nights, etc. _Pub.

Rob._

=Stewart, Dugald.= 1753-1828. Scotch metaphysician. Author Philosophical Essays, Philosophy of the Active and Moral Powers, etc.

=Still, John.= 1543-1607. Bp. Bath and Wells. To him has been doubtfully attributed the comedy Gammer Gurton's Needle, one of the very earliest English plays. _See Dodsley's Old Plays._

=Stillingfleet, Edward.= 1635-1699. Bp. Worcester. Controversial writer of note. _Pub. Mac._

=Stirling, Earl of.= See Alexander, Wm.

=Stirling, Sir Wm. Maxwell.= See Maxwell Stirling.

=Stormonth, James.= 1825-1882. Scotch lexicographer. Author Dict. of Scientific Terms, Etymological Dict., etc.

=Stoughton, John.= 18-- ----. Religious historian. Author Hist. of Religion in England from the Opening of the Long Parliament to the End of the Eighteenth Cent., and Introduction to Historical Theology.

_Pub. Arm. Phi._

=Stow, John.= 1525-1605. Chronicler.

=Strangford, Viscount.= See Smythe, G. S.