SUPPLEMENTARY LIST OF POETS. 503 business near Cheltenham-he cultivated poetry with much success. The Roman (1850), was his first, and is still his best poem. Balder-Sonnets on the War, written in conjunction with ALEXANDER SMITH-and England in Time of War, complete the list of Mr. Dobell's works already published. ALEXANDER SMITH, born in 1830 at Kilmarnock, made his fame by A Life Drama, written amid the toils of drawing patterns for a muslin house in Glasgow. A second volume, entitled City Poems, rich with the same excessive wealth of imagery, appeared in 1857. We have here the black streets of smoky Glasgow glorified with poetic light, which sometimes brightens to sublimity. The year 1861 produced mellowed fruit of his genius in a fine poem of the epic class, Edwin of Deira, which gives a stirring and truthful picture of Saxon life in old Northumbria. Mr. Smith, who had been for several years Secretary to the University of Edinburgh, died in 1867 at Wardie near Edinburgh, cut off at the age which proved fatal to Burns and to Byron. In a domestic novel, styled Alfred Hagart's Household, and a book of Essays called Dreamthorp, he gave proof that a poet can often write most graphic and graceful prose. Supplementary List. CAROLINE SOUTHEY.-(1787-1854)-Miss Bowles-Buckland, Hants- Ellen Fitz-Arthur; The Widow's Tale; Chapters on Churchyards (prose). WILLIAM THOM.-(1789-1848)-Aberdeen-a weaver of Inverury-Rhymes and Recollections. BRYAN PROCTER.-(1790-1868)-known as Barry Cornwall-barrister and Commissioner of Lunacy-Marcian Colonna; Flood of Thessaly; Dramatic Scenes; Mirandola (a tragedy). IIENRY HART MILMAN.-(1791-1868)-London-Dean of St. Paul's—Fazio (a tragedy); Samor; The Fall of Jerusalem; The Martyr of Antioch; Ilistory of Latin Christianity (prose). JOHN CLARE. (1793-still living)-Helpstone, Northamptonshire-a ploughman-Poems of Rural Life; The Village Minstrel. HARTLEY COLERIDGE.-(1796-1849)-Clevedon, near Bristol-Poems; Lives of Northern Worthies (prose). DERWENT COLERIDGE.-(1800-still living) -Keswick-Memoir of Hartley Coleridge. SARA COLERIDGE.-(1803 1852)-Keswick-Phantasmion. HAYNES BAYLY.-(1797-1839)--near Bath-lyrist-The Soldier's Tear; I'd be a Butterfly. WILLIAM MOTHERWELL. — (1797-1835) — Glasgow-journalist-Scottish Minstrelsy; Jeanie Morrison. 1 504 SUPPLEMENTARY LIST OF POETS. ALARIO ALEXANDER WATTS. -(1799-1864) - London-journalist - Poetical JOHN EDMUND READE.-dramatist and poet-Italy; Revelations of Life; Cain WINTHROP MACKWORTH PRAED.-(1802-1839)-London-barrister and poli- RICHARD HENRY HORNE.-(1803-still living)-London-Orion, an epic (sold THOMAS KIBBLE HERVEY (1804-1859)-Manchester-editor of the Athenæum THOMAS RAGG.-(1808-still living)-Nottingham-lace-weaver and bookseller RICHARD MONOKTON MILNES-(1809-still living)-now LORD HOUGHTON-York. CHARLES MACKAY.-(1812-still living)-Perth-journalist-Voices from the ROBERT NICOLL.-(1814-1837)-Tullybeltane, Perthshire-editor of the Leeds FRANCES BROWN. (1816-still living)-Stranorlar, Donegal-The Star of ELIZA COOK. (1817-still living)-Southwark-Melaia, and Lyrical Pieces. COVENTRY PATMORE.-(1823-still living)-Woodford, Essex-assistant librarian, Among the many poets to whom our space prevents us from doing justice, WILLIAM BENNETT, and two Irish minstrels, DENIS FLORENCE M'CARTHY of Dublin and WILLIAM ALLINGHAM of Ballyshannon, are prominent. Of the ladies who adorn this department of our current literature it would be unpardonable to pass over ISA CRAIG, who wrote the prize poem on Burns in 1859; BESSIE PARKES, author of Gabriel; MARY HUME, author of Normiton; and ADELAIDE PROCTER, author of Legends and Lyrics; all of whom have added new lustre to their literary fame by untiring efforts to open a wider field of employment to their sex. DRAMATISTS. SIR THOMAS NOON TALFOURD, born in 1795 in a suburb of Staf ford, was the son of a brewer at Reading in Berkshire. Educated for the law, he rose rapidly, until in 1849 a seat on the bench rewarded his talents and his toils. Five years later, he died suddenly of apoplexy, while charging the grand jury at Stafford. The study of the Greek drama, upon which he wrote an Essay, guided his pen to the production of some noble works. His principal play is Ion. But The Athenian Captive; Glencoe, or the Fate of the Macdonalds; and The Castilian, are all dramas of powerful cast and clevated style. We also owe a Life of Charles Lamb to this accomplished man. HENRY TAYLOR, born in the beginning of the present century, has contributed to the modern English drama one of its finest works, Philip van Artevelde, founded on the history of the famous. brewer of Ghent. This noble and stately play was published in 1834. To its accomplished author we also owe a drama, founded on early English history, called Edwin the Fair. Mr. Taylor, who holds a senior clerkship in the Colonial Office, is author of The Eve of the Conquest and other poems, and of Essays entitled Notes from Life and Notes from Books. Supplementary List. THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES.-(1803–1849)—son of a learned physician-The Bride's RICHARD LALOR SHEIL.-(died 1851)-Dublin-an orator and politician-Evadne; GILEERT ABBOTT A'BECKETT.-(1810-1856)-London-a police magistrate- TOM TAYLOR.-(1817-still living)-Sunderland-Secretary to Board of Health -many Comedies and Farces; contributions to Punch; Memorials of Haydon. WESTLAND MARSTON.-(1825-still living)-Boston, Leicestershire-Heart of the World; Patrician's Daughter. ROBERT B. BROUGH.-(born 1828)-London-brewer's son- What to Eat, Drink, and Avoid; Medea (a burlesque), &c. Other names worthy of honourable mention under this head are SHIRLEY BROOKS, the novelist (Our Governess; The Creole)-WILKIE COLLINS (The Frozen Deep)-MARK LEMON, editor of Punch (more than fifty Farces, &c.)-HENRY MAYHEW, founder of Punch and author of London Labour and the London Poor (The Wandering Minstrel, a farce), 506 HISTORIANS AND BIOGRAPHERS. HISTORIANS AND BIOGRAPHERS. SIR ARCHIBALD ALISON, born in 1792 at Kenley in Shropshire, received his education at the University of Edinburgh. Called to the Scottish bar, he was appointed in 1834 Sheriff of Lanarkshire, a position which he held up to his death in 1867. His great work is The History of Europe from the Commencement of the French Revolution to the Restoration of the Bourbons, published in ten volumes between 1839 and 1842. Eight volumes, carrying the work on to the Accession of Louis Napoleon, were afterwards added. Many errors have been detected in this great work; but in spite of imperfection it remains a remarkable monument of the historian's energy, perseverance, and literary skill. Sir Archibald, made a baronet in 1852, was also the author of A Life of Marlborough. GEORGE GROTE, born in 1794 at Clay Hill, near Beckenham in Kent, was educated at the Charter-house. Amid the toils of a London banking-house, he found time to prosecute historical studies with so much success, that his great work, The History of Greece, from the earliest period to the Death of Alexander the Great, completed in 1856, ranks with the best of our modern histories. The sympathies of the writer throughout the entire narrative are enlisted on the side of Athenian democracy. THOMAS ARNOLD, the celebrated head-master of Rugby, was born in 1795, at East Cowes in the Isle of Wight. Educated at Oxford, he became a Fellow of Oriel. His appointment to Rugby School took place in 1828. As an author, he was chiefly distinguished for a fragment of Roman History, closing with the Second Punic War. This work is modelled after Niebuhr. An edition of Thucydides; eight Historical Lectures, delivered at Oxford, where he became Professor of Modern History in 1841; his Sermons to the Rugby boys; and his collected Essays, complete the short list of his published works. He died suddenly at Rugby in the summer of 1842. CONNOP THIRLWALL, born in 1797, at Stepney in Middlesex, having studied at Trinity College, Cambridge, was called to HISTORIANS AND BIOGRAPHERS. 507 the bar in 1825 at Lincoln's Inn. But after three years he abandoned the law for the Church, and ultimately became Bishop of St. David's. A calm and scholarly History of Greece, written originally for Lardner's "Cyclopædia," gives him an honourable place among British authors. SIR FRANCIS PALGRAVE, born in London, Deputy-keeper of Public Records, produced several remarkable historical works. The History of the Anglo-Saxons; The Rise and Progress of the English Commonwealth; and especially The History of Normandy and of England, of which the Norman Conquest is the central subject, are his leading works. He died in 1861. JOHN GIBSON LOCKHART, born in 1794, at Cambusnethan in Lanarkshire, is best known as the biographer of Sir Walter Scott, whose son-in-law he was. Except Boswell's "Johnson" we have no finer "Life" in the language. The diary and letters of Scott are interwoven with the story of his life, in that finished, graceful style, of which Lockhart was a thorough master. Valerius, a tale of Trajan's time; Reginald Dalton, an English story; and two other similar works, entitle Lockhart to a high place among novelists. His Spanish Ballads possess remarkable poetic fire; and his articles in the Quarterly Review, which he edited from 1826 until shortly before his death in 1854, place him in the foremost rank of English essayists and critics. JOHN FORSTER, born in 1812 at Newcastle, was long the acting editor of the "Examiner." His literary fame rests on the Lives of the Statesmen of the Commonwealth, and still more surely on an admirable Life of Goldsmith, in which the man and his times are all produced with vivid effect. Mr. Forster is a Commissioner of Lunacy GEORGE HENRY LEWES, born in 1817 in London, carly forsook the study of medicine for the more congenial toils of the pen. His literary talent has been directed to a great variety of subjects; and in all, his power of clothing a dry theme with living interest manifests itself clearly. His chief works are A Biographical History of Philosophy, and a Life of Goëthe. But he has also written a Life of Robespierre; The Physiology of Common Life; The Spanish |