360 WARNER-WATSON 1898; " The Master-Key,' A He edited: The Book of EloSensational Case,' 1898; The quence,' 1877; American Men of Bohemian Girls,' 1899; The Farm Letters' Series, 1881-1900: 'Library in the Hills,' 1899; The Secret of of the World's Best Literature,' Lyndale,' 1899; A Very Rough 1896-97. Diamond,' 1899; The Plain Miss Educated WATSON (John) ["Ian MacCray,' 1900; Town Lady and laren"] b. 1850. Born, at ManningCountry Lass,' 1900; The Love tree, Essex, 3 Nov. 1850. that Lasts,' 1900; 'A Lowly at Stirling Grammar School; at Lover,' 1900; Once Too often,' Edinburgh Univ.; M.A., 1870; at 1901; A Patched-up Affair,' 1901; New Coll., Edin.; and at Tübingen. 'The Lovely Mrs. Pemberton,' Licensed by Free Church as 1901; Morals and Millions,' 1901; Assistant in Barclay Church, EdinA Fight to a Finish,' 1901; A burgh, 1874; Minister of LogiealHouse with a History, 1901; Amond Free Church, 1875; Minister Hole and Corner Marriage,' 1902; 'Something in the City,' 1902; 'An Outsider's Year,' 1903. 6 of Free St. Matthew's, Glasgow, 1877; Minister of Sefton Park Presbyterian Church, Liverpool, WARNER (Charles Dudley), 1829. 1880. Married Jane Burne Fer1900. Born, at Plainfield, Mass., 12 guson, 1878. Lyman Beecher Sept. 1829. Educated at Hamilton Lecturer, Yale Univ, 1896. Coll. and Pennsylvania Univ. Prac- Moderator of Synod of English tised law in Chicago, 1856-60. Re- Presbyterian Church, 1900. Hon. moved to Hartford, 1860. Edited D.D., St. Andrews, 1886; Hon. 'Hartford Press,' 1861-67; Hart- D.D. Yale, 1897. ford Courant,' 1867-1900. On staff of Harper's Mag.,' 1884 98. Mar ried Susan Lee, 1856. Died, at Hartford, 20 Oct. 1900. Works: Beside the Bonnie Brier 6 Bush' (under pseud. 'Ian Maclaren '), 1894; The Days of Auld Lang Syne' (by Ian Maclaren '), a 1895; 6 A Doctor of the Old School' (by Ian Maclaren '), 1895; The Upper Room,' 1895; Order of Service for Young People,' 1895; 'The Mind of the Master,' 1896; 'The Cure of Souls,' 1896; 'Kate Carnegie' (by Ian Maclaren '), 1896; The Potter's Wheel,' 1897; 'Companions of the Sorrowful Way,' 1898; Afterwards' (by Ian Maclaren '), 1898; Rabbi Saunderson' (by 'lan Maclaren) 1898; The Doctrines of Grace,' 1900; 'Church Folks,' Maclaren '), 1901; The Life of 1900; 'Young Barbarians' (by 'Ian the Master,' 1901; His Majesty Baby' (by Ian Maclaren '), 1902. (William), b. Works: 'My Summer in Garden,' 1870; Backlog Studies,' 1872; Saunterings,' 1873; Baddeck,' 1874; The Gilded Age' (with Mark Twain), 1874; Mummies and Moslems,' 1876 (later edns. called My Winter on the Nile'); In the Levant,' 1877; 'Being a Boy,' 1877; In the Wilderness, 1878; 'Studies of Irving' (with W. C. Bryant and G. P. Putnam), 1880; The American Newspaper, 1881; Captain John Smith,' 1881; 'Washington Irving,' 1881; 'A Roundabout Journey,' 1883; Their Pilgrimage,' 1886; On Horseback,' 1888; 'A Little Journey in the World,' 1889; Studies in the South 6 were we WATSON and West,' 1890; 'As 1858. 'The Golden House,' 1894; 'The Add to Works': 'The Hope of 'New WATTS-DUNTON-WHYTE-MELVILLE dore), b. 1832. [See p. 295.] 361 WATTS-DUNTON (Walter Theo- of Science. B.Sc., 1890. Married 6 Add to Works': 'The Coming of Love,' 1898; 'Aylwin,' 1899; 'David Gwynn's Story,' 1901; 'The Christmas Dream,' 1901; Christmas at the Mermaid,' 1902; The Renascence of Wonder,' 1902; of Shakespeare,' 1902; Second-Sight,' 1903. 1893; 'Honours (with R. A. Gregory), 1893; Select Conversations with an Uncle,' 1895; The Time Machine,' 1895; Studies The Stolen Bacillus,' 1895; The 'Love's Wonderful Visit,' 1895; The Island of Doctor Moreau,' 1896; 'The · Has edited Borrow's 'Romany Wheels of Chance,' 1896; 'The Rye,' 1900. Works: Blanche Lisle' (under pseud. Cecil Home'), 1860; 'Lilian Grey' (by Cecil Home'), 1864; 'Lesley's Guardians' (by 'Cecil Home'), 1864; Dramatic Studies,' 1866; A Woman Sold,' 1867; 'Portraits,' 1870; 'The Auspicious Day,' 1872; Yu-Pe-Ya's Lute,' 1874; Housewife's Opinions,' 1879; 'Disguises,' 1879; A Book of Rhyme,' 1881; In a Day,' 1882; 'Daffodil and the Croäxaxicans,' 1884; 'The Sentence,' 1887; 'Selected Poems,' 1893. A Posthumous: Mother and Daughter' (ed. by W. Rossetti), 1895. She translated: Eschylus' Prometheus Bound,' 1866; Euripides' 'Medea,' 1870. WEDMORE (Frederick), b. 1844. [See p. 296.] 6 Add to Works': On Books and Arts,' 1899; Whistler's Etchings,' 1899; 'The Collapse of the Penitent,' 1900. WELLS (Herbert George), b. 1866. Born, at bromley, 21 Sept. 1866. Educated at schools at Bromley and Midhurst, and at Royal Coll. 1900; The First Men in the Moon,' 1901; 'Anticipations,' 1902; 'The Discovery of the Future,' 1902; The Sea Lady,' 1902; 'Mankind in the Making,' 1903. WHITEING (Richard), b. 1840 Born, in London, 27 July 1840. Educated privately. Studied for some time at School of Design. Took to journalism, 1866, as contributor to ' Evening Star.' Successively on staff of Morning Star,' on editorial staff of Press Association, and of Manchester Guardian.' Married Helen Harris, 1869. Paris Correspondent of 'Manchester Guardian,' 1875; subsequently of London World,' and of New York 'World.' On editorial staff, ' Daily News,' 1886-99. 362 WILDE-YONGE 6 WILDE (Oscar Fingall O'Flahertie Posthumous Essays, Criticisms Wills), 1856-1900. Born, in Dublin, and Reviews' (priv. ptd.), 1901; 15 Oct. 1856. At Trin. Coll., Dub-Vera' (priv. ptd.), 1902. lin, 1873-74; Berkeley Gold Medal WILKINS (Mary Eleanor), b. 1862. for Greek Essay. Matric., Magdalen Born, at Randolph, Mass., 1862. Coll., Oxford, Oct. 1874; Demyship, Educated there. Married to Dr. Magd. Coll., 1874-79; B.A., 1878. C. M. Freeman, 1901. Newdigate Prize Poem, 1878. Contrib. poems to Month,' 'Catholic Mirror,' 'Irish Monthly,' 'Kottabos,' 'Time,' etc. On leaving Oxford, became recognized leader of socalled Esthetic' Movement. Lectured in U.S.A upon Esthetic Philosophy,' 1882. Play, Vera,' produced in New York, 1882. Married Constance Lloyd, 1884; she died, 1896. Published various vols. of essays. Contrib. to Lippincott's Mag.,' 'Fortnightly Rev.,' The Chameleon,' 'Blackwood's Mag., The Spirit Lamp,' etc. Edited 'The Woman's World,' 1888-90. Play, The Duchess of Padua,' produced in New York, 1891; Lady Windermere's Fan,' St. James's theatre, London, 20 Feb. 1892; A Woman of No Importance,' Haymarket,' 19 April 1893; Salomé' (written in French), Paris, 1894; An Ideal Husband,' Haymarket, 3 Jan. 1895; The Importance of being Earnest,' 14 Feb. 1895. Sentenced to two years' imprisonment under Criminal Law Amendment Act, May 1895; released, May 1897. Works: Ravenna,' 1878; 'Poems,' 1881; The Happy Prince,' 1888; The Portrait of Mr. W. H.' (priv. ptd.), 1889; Lord Arthur Savile's Crime,' 1891; 'The Picture of Dorian Gray,' 1891;'Intentions,' 1891; 'A House of Pomegranates,' 1891; 'Lady Windermere's Fan,' 1893; Salomé,' 1893; A Woman of No Importance,' 1894; The Sphinx,' 1894; 'Oscarina Epigrams' (priv. ptd.), 1895; The Ballad of Reading Gaol' (anon.), 1898; 'An Ideal Husband,' 1899; 'The Importance of being Earnest,' 1899. Works: A Humble Romance,' 1887; A Faraway Melody,' 1890; A New England Nun,' 1891; Young Lucretia,' 1892; 'Jane Field,' 1892; The Pot of Gold,' 1892; Giles Corey,' 1893; 'Pembroke,' 1894; The Long Arm,' 1895; Madelon,' 1896; 'Jerome,' 1897; 'Some of our Neighbours,' 1898; Silence,' 1898; 'Once Upon a Time,' 1893; Evelina's Garden,' 1899; The Jamesons,' 1899; 'The Love of Parson Lord,' 1900; The Heart's Highway,' 1900; 'Understudies,' 1901: Cinnamon Roses,' 1901; The Portion of Labour,' 1901; Six Trees,' 1903; 'The Wind in the Rosebush,' 1903. WOODS (Mrs. Margaret Louisa), b. 1856. [See p. 304.] Add to Works': 'Weeping Ferry,' 1898; 'Sons of the Sword,' 1901; The Princess of Hanover,' 1902. YEATS (William Butler), b. 1865. [See p. 307.] · Add: Play, The Hour Glass,' produced by Irish National Theatre Society, Dublin, 14 March 1903. Add to Works': 'The Wind among the Reeds,' 1899; "The Shadowy Waters,' 1900; 'Cathleen ni Hoolihan,' 1903; Ideas of Good and Evil,' 1903; Where There is Nothing,' 1903; 'In the Seven Woods,' 1903. 6 Has edited: Beltaine: the Organ of the Irish Literary Theatre,' 1899, etc. YONGE (Charlotte Mary), 18231901. See p. 307, col. i. For First literary publication, about 1846,' read: 'First publications were five works of fiction in 1841.' Add: Died, at Otterbourne, 24 March 1901. Add to Works': 'Founded on Paper,' 1898; 'John Keble's Parishes,' 1898; 'The Patriots of Moment of Death,' Wällack's Palestine,' 1899; 'The Herd Boy theatre, New York, 1900; and his Hermit,' 1900; 'The Making of a Missionary,' 1900; 'Modern Broods,' 1900; Reasons why I am a Catholic and not a Roman Catholic,' 1901. Life: by C. Coleridge, 1903. ZANGWILL (Israel), b. 1864. Born, in London, spring of 1864. B.A., London Univ., 1883. Engaged for some time in scholastic work. Became a journalist in 1887. Editor of 'Puck' (afterwards 'Ariel'), 1890. Has lectured in Europe, America, and the East. Is an advocate of Zionism. Plays, 'Six Persons,' produced at Haymarket theatre, 1892; 'Children of the Ghetto,' Adelphi, 1899; The The Revolted Daughter,' Comedy theatre, 1901. Married Edith Ayrton, 26 Nov. 1903. Works: The Premier and the Painter' (with L. Cowen, under pseud. J. Freeman Bell'), 1888; 'The Bachelor's Club,' 1891; 'The Big Bow Mystery,' 1892; 'The Old Maids' Club,' 1892; 'Children of the Ghetto,' 1892; 'Merely Mary Ann,' 1893; 'Ghetto Tragedies,' 1893; The King of Schnorrers,' 1894; The Master,' 1895; 'Without Prejudice,' 1896; Dreamers of the Ghetto,' 1898; They that Walk in Darkness,' 1899; 'The Mantle of Elijah,' 1900; The Grey Wig,' 1903; 'Blind Children,' 1903. 6 GILBERT & RIVINGTON, Ltd., St. John's House, Clerkenwell, E.C. |