A Brief Handbook of English Authors Part 33

=Wallace, Donald Mackenzie.= 184 Traveler. Author of Russia, etc. _Pub. Ho._

=Waller, Edmund.= 1605-1687. Poet. Go, Lovely Rose, On a Girdle, and Old Age and Death are some of his best poems. _See Bell's edition, 1866._ _See Ward's Eng. Poets, vol. 2._

=Waller, John Francis.= 181 Poet and prose writer. Author Poems, The Slingsby Papers, etc., and editor of the Imperial Dict. of Universal Biography. _Pub. Cas._

=Wallis, John.= 1616-1703. Mathematician. Author numerous works on algebra, geometry, etc.

=Walpole [w[)o]l'pol], Horace.= 1717-1797. Miscellaneous writer.

Author Castle of Otranto, a sensational romance, The Mysterious Mother, a tragedy, Historic Doubts concerning Richard III., etc. A brilliant but superficial writer. _See Memoirs of, 1851; also, Living Age, vol. 13, "Strawberry Hill."_

=Walter, John.= 1739-1812. Journalist. Founder of the London Times, 1788.

=Walton, Brian.= 1600-1661. Bp. Chester. Editor of the London Polyglott Bible. _See Life, by Todd, 1821._

=Walton, Izaak.= 1593-1683. Biographer and angler. The Complete Angler, his chief work, is a book of much quiet beauty. _Pub. Lit._

=Warburton, Eliot Bartholomew Geo.= 1810-1852. Irish novelist and miscellaneous writer. Author The Crescent and the Cross, Prince Rupert and the Cavaliers, etc.

=Warburton, George.= ---- 1857. Bro. to E. B. G. W. Author Conquest of Canada, Hochelaga, etc. _Pub. Har._

=Warburton, Wm.= 1698-1779. Bp. Gloucester. A learned and brilliant but arrogant author. He wrote The Divine Legation of Moses, and published an edition of Shakespeare in 1747. _See Life, by Watson, 1863, and Quarterly Rev. June, 1812._

=Ward, Robert Plumer.= 1765-1846. Novelist. Author Tremaine, De Vere, De Clifford, and Chatsworth; metaphysical, philosophical, and political narratives. _See Memoirs, 1850._ _Pub. Har._

=Waring, Anna L.= 18-- ----. Welsh poet. Author of Hymns and Meditations. _Pub. Dut._

=Warner, Ferdinando.= 1703-1768. Historian. Author Eccl. Hist.

England, Hist. Ireland, etc.

=Warner, Wm.= 1558-1609. Poet. Author of Albion's England, a hist. of England from the Deluge to Elizabeth, containing 10,000 14-syllable lines. It is humorous, spirited, and even pathetic in places. _See Craik's Eng. Lit., vol. 1, and Ward's Eng. Poets, vol. 1._

=Warren, John Leicester.= 18-- ----. Poet. Author Philoctetes, Rehearsals, Orestes, Searching the Net, etc. _See Stedman's Victorian Poets._ _Pub. Rou._

=Warren, Samuel.= 1807-1877. Novelist and physician. Author Diary of a Physician, and the famous novel Ten Thousand a Year. _Pub. Har. Por._

=Warton, Joseph.= 1722-1800. Poet and critic. _See Biography, by Wool, 1806._

=Warton, Thomas.= 1728-1790. Poet and critic. Bro. to J. W. A valuable Hist. Eng. Poetry is his chief prose work. _See Carew Hazlitt's edition._ _See Ward's Eng. Poets, vol. 3._ _Pub. Rou._

=Waterton, Charles.= 1782-1865. Naturalist. Author Essays on Nat.

Hist., etc. _Pub. Mac._

=Watson, Richard.= 1737-1816. Bp. Llandaff. Theologian. Author of Apologies for Christianity and the Bible, etc. _See Autobiography, 1817._ _Pub Phi._

=Watson, Robert.= 1730-1780. Scotch historian. Author of a worthless Hist. of Philip II.

=Watson, Thomas.= 1560-1592. Poet. His Sonnets have been much praised.

_See Ward's Eng. Poets, vol. 1._

=Watts, Alaric Alexander.= 1799-1864. Poet. Author Poetical Sketches, Lyrics of the Heart, etc.

=Watts, Mrs. Anna Mary [Howitt].= 182 Artist and miscellaneous writer. Author of The Art Student in Munich, Pioneers of Spiritualism, containing Lives of Dr. Justinius Kerner and Wm. Howitt, written from the psychological point of view, etc.

=Watts, Isaac.= 1674-1748. Religious poet. Author Psalms and Hymns, etc. While some of his verse is hardly more than doggerel, he sometimes rises to a lofty plane of expression. _See Life, by Milner, 1834._ _Pub. Ca. Hou. Rou._

=Waugh [waw], Edwin.= 181 Dialect poet. Author Lancas.h.i.+re Songs, etc.

=Webster, Mrs. Augusta.= 184 Poet. Author Dramatic Studies, Portraits, A Woman Sold, translations from Euripides, etc. Her verse is strong and original in tone. _See Stedman's Victorian Poets._ _Pub.

Mac._

=Webster, John.= c. 1582-1638. Dramatist. Author of the tragedies of The White Devil, d.u.c.h.ess of Malfy, Guise, Devil's Law Case, Appius and Virginia, etc. W. is the greatest master of the terrible among Eng. dramatists. _See Dyce's edition 1830, and Hazlitt's 1857._ _Pub.

Rou._

=Wesley, Chas.= 1708-1788. Hymn writer of note. _See Ward's Eng.

Poets, vol. 3._

=West, Gilbert.= 1705-1756. Theologian and poet. Translator of Pindar and author of the able treatise Observations on the Resurrection.

=Westcott, Brooke Foss=. 182 Theologian. Author Hist. Canon of the New Testament, Hist. of the Eng. Bible, The Bible and the Church, etc. _Pub. Har. Mac._

=Westwood, Thos.= 181 Poet. Author Beads from a Rosary, Quest of the Sancgreal, Berries and Blossoms, etc.

=Whately [hw[=a]t'l[)i]], Richard.= 1787-1863. Abp. Dublin. Essayist.

Author New Testament Difficulties, Political Economy, Logic and Rhetoric, etc. A thinker of logical but unimaginative powers. _See Life and Correspondence, edited by his daughter, 1864, and H.

Martineau's Biographical Sketches._ _Pub. Ca. Dra. Har. Sh._

=Whetstone, Geo.= fl. c. 1580. Dramatist. From his play Promos and Ca.s.sandra Shakespeare has drawn the story of Measure for Measure.

=Whewell [h[=u]'[e)]l], Wm.= 1794-1866. Philosopher. Author Hist.

Inductive Sciences, Plurality of Worlds, Hist. Moral Philosophy in England, Philosophy of the Inductive Sciences, etc. _Pub. Apl. Har._

=Whiston, Wm.= 1667-1752. Theologian and mathematician. Author of A New Theory of the Earth, etc., and editor of Josephus. _Pub. Por._

=Whitaker, John.= 1735-1808. Historian. Author Hist. of Manchester, Mary, Queen of Scots, Vindicated, etc.

=White, Gilbert.= 1720-1793. Author of the Naturalist's Calendar and the delightful Nat. Hist. of Selborne. _See Buckland's edition, London, 1875._ _See Fraser's Mag., March, 1879._ _Pub. Har. Mac. Rou._

=White, Henry.= 183 Archaeologist and religious writer. Author Historical Memorials of the Savoy Conferences on Art and History, etc.

_See The Biograph, Aug. 1880._

=White, Henry Kirke.= 1785-1806. Poet. His verse is mediocre and crude. _See Life, by Southey._ _Pub. Apl. Hou._

=White, James.= 1804-1862. Historical writer. Author Historical Landmarks, The Eighteen Christian Centuries, Hist. of France, Hist. of England, etc. _Pub. Apl. Rou._

=White, Joseph Blanco.= 1775-1841. Miscellaneous writer. His Sonnet on Night is widely known and esteemed.

=Whitehead, Paul.= 1710-1774. Poet. Style witty and satirical.

=Whitehead, Wm.= 1715-1785. Poet. Of his seven indifferent dramas the best are Creusa and The Roman Father. _See Ward's Eng. Poets, vol. 3._