Upton, George Putnam.

r927.8 U26s Standard musical biographies; a handbook setting forth the lives, works and characteristics of representative composers. 1910. McClurg. "Principal works" at the beginning of each chapter.

"Handbook giving in condensed form the biographies of one hundred and four composers whose works are most familiar in concert rooms, with a list of the principal compositions of each and an estimate of their claims to fame. There are some surprising omissions but the book is on the whole useful and both unbiased and authoritative." A. L. A. booklist, 1910.

Actors

See also Theatre, 792

Edwards, Henry Sutherland.

Idols of the French stage. 2v. 1889. Remington.

The same. 2V....

V.I.

927.9 E31

.1927.9 E31

The wife of Molière.-Adrienne Lecouvreur.-Madame Favast.-Sophie Arnould.-Mademoiselle de Camargo.

V.2. Madeline Guimard. Madame Dugazon. Mademoiselle Clairon. - Mademoiselle Contat.-Mademoiselle Raucourt.-Madame de Saint-Huberty.-Rachel.-Sarah Bernhardt.

Green room book; or, Who's who on the stage, 1907, 1909.
Clark.

г927.9 G82 [1907-09.]

General biographical dictionary of actors, managers, playwrights and critics. tains also miscellaneous information in regard to the theatrical events of the year.

Hamm, Margherita Arlina..

Con

927.9 H22 Eminent actors in their homes; personal descriptions and interviews. 1902. Pott.

Contents: Introduction: The actor and his home. E. H. Sothern, Virginia Harned-Sothern in West Sixty-ninth street, N. Y.-Richard Mansfield, Beatrice Cameron-Mansfield, their lares and penates.-Marie Bates, her home in East Thirty-first street, N. Y. - Elsie de Wolfe at her own hearth. M. M. Fiske at home. - Annie O'Neill at home and abroad.-Edward Harrigan at Schroon lake.-A. W. Tiffany by the sea-shore.-May Robson, the domestic side of a great artist.-David Warfield at leisure.-Viola Allen, her domestic gods.-Francis Wilson at the Orchard.-Julia Marlowe on hearth and heath.-Annie Russell, her mansion and bungalow.-Amelia Bingham and her many-sided home.-Burr McIntosh in many rôles.-Chauncey Olcott, the domestic side of a nomad.-J. K. Hackett, Mary Mannering-Hackett, their home life.— Mr and Mrs Robert Edeson at home.-Joseph Jefferson, America's first actor; his inner life. Otis Skinner in town and woodland.-W. H. Crane and his "Fishing-box."-Mary Anderson de Navarro, mistress of the Court Farm, Broadway, Worcestershire.-N. C. Goodwin, Maxine Elliott-Goodwin, their home on the Old Kent road.

Melbourne, George A. pub.

Famous players of to-day. 1904.

qr927.9 M58

Brief sketches, accompanied by full-page portraits, of Mrs Leslie Carter, Kyrle Bellew, Blanche Bates, E. H. Sothern, Maude Adams, David Warfield, Drina de Wolfe, Wright Lorimer, Eleanor Robson, Tyrone Power, Rose Coghlan, Robert Hilliard, Marie Cahill, T. Q. Seabrooke, Mrs Fiske and Henry Miller.

Shipman, Louis Evan.

r927.9 $55

Group of theatrical caricatures; 12 plates by W. J. Gladding, with an introduction and biographical sketches by L. E. Shipman. 1897. Dunlap Soc.

The caricatures were drawn in 1868 and are said to give faithfully the striking characteristics of each actor. They include John Lester Wallack, Edwin Forrest, William J. Florence and Edwin Booth.

Strang, Lewis Clinton.

Famous actors of the day. [1906.] Page.

927.9 S89f

Contents: Joseph Jefferson.-J. A. Herne.—Richard Mansfield.—E. M. Holland.-E. H. Sothern.- John Drew.- William Faversham.-J. B. Mason. N. C. Goodwin.James O'Neill.-W. H. Crane.-Wilton Lackaye.-William Gillette.-Henry Miller.-J. K. Hackett.-Henry Jewett.-Stuart Robson.-Melbourne MacDowell.-S. S. Russell. -Otis Skinner.-J. E. Dodson.-R. B. Mantell.-Roland Reed.-Joseph Haworth.Herbert Kelcey.

qr927.9 W66 Who's who on the stage; the dramatic reference book and biographical dictionary of the theatre, records of actors, actresses, managers and playwrights of the American stage; ed. by Walter Browne and F. A. Austin. 1906. Walter Browne.

928

Literature. Authors

Austin, Wiltshire Stanton, jr. & Ralph, John.

928 A93

Lives of the poets-laureate, with an introductory essay on the title and office. 1853. Bentley.

Bell, Charles Dent.

Some of our English poets. 1895. Stock.

928 B39

Contents: Thomas Gray.-Oliver Goldsmith.-William Cowper.-Sir Walter Scott. -Samuel Taylor Coleridge.-William Wordsworth.

Bell, Robert.

928 B41

Lives of the most eminent literary and scientific men of Great Britain; English poets. 2v. 1839. Longman.

V.I. Michael Drayton.—Abraham Cowley.-Edmund Waller.-John Milton.-Samuel Butler.

v.2. John Dryden.-Two centuries of minor poets.-Matthew Prior.-Alexander Pope.-Edward Young.-Mark Akenside.

Black, Mrs Helen C.

Notable women authors of the day; biographical sketches. Bryce.

928 B51 1893.

Contents: Mrs Lynn Linton. Mrs Riddell.-Mrs L. B. Walford.-Rhoda Brough ton. John Strange Winter (Mrs Arthur Stannard).-Mrs Alexander.-Helen Mathers. -Florence Marryat.-Mrs Lovett Cameron.-Mrs Hungerford.-Matilda Betham Ed. wards. Edna Lyall.-Rosa Nouchette Carey.-Adeline Sergeant.-Mrs Edward Kennard.-Jessie Fothergill.-Lady Duffus Hardy.-Iza Duffus Hardy.-May Crommelin. -Mrs Houstoun.-Mrs Alex. Fraser.-Honourable Mrs Henry Chetwynd.-Jean Middlemass.-Augusta de Grasse Stevens.-Mrs Leith Adams.-Jean Ingelow.

Cary, Henry Francis.

928 C24 Lives of English poets from Johnson to Kirke White; designed as a continuation of Johnson's Lives. 1846. Bohn. (Works, v.3.)

Contents: Samuel Johnson.-John Armstrong.-Richard Jago.-R. O. Cambridge. -Tobias Smollett.-Thomas Warton.-Joseph Warton.-Christopher Anstey.-William Mason. Oliver Goldsmith.-Erasmus Darwin.-W. J. Mickle.-James Beattie.-William Hayley. Sir William Jones.-Thomas Chatterton.-H. K. White.

Clarke, Charles Cowden, & Clarke, Mrs Mary Cowden.
Recollections of writers. [1878.] Scribner.

928 C52

Contents: General recollections.-Recollections of John Keats.-Charles Lamb and his letters.-Mary Lamb.-Leigh Hunt and his letters.-Douglas Jerrold and his letters. -Charles Dickens and his letters.

Ditchfield, Peter Hampson.

928 D638 Books fatal to their authors. 1903. Stock. (Book-lover's. library.) Enumerates a large number of authors of all countries who have suffered because of their books.

Dutt, William Alfred.

928 D95

Some literary associations of East Anglia, with illustrations in colour by Walter Dexter. 1907. McClure.

Contents: The homes and haunts of Edward Fitzgerald.-With Crabbe at Aldeburgh.-In and about Framlingham.-With Crabbe at Parham.-East Dereham.-Norwich.-Sir Thomas Browne and Bishop Hall.-Lowestoft.-George Borrow at Oulton.Dickens' "Blunderstone" and Thomas Gray.-Great Yarmouth.-The Waveney valley.Bury St. Edmunds.-Barton and Hawstead.-Honington, Euston and Ickworth.-King's Lynn and North Norfolk.

"Works consulted," p.332-333.

East Anglia, the ancient English kingdom, corresponded to the modern Norfolk and Suffolk.

Edwards, Matilda Betham-.

928 E31 French men, women and books; a series of 19th century studies. 1910. Chapman.

Contents: French domestic poetry, with original translations.-A great love-story: Balzac and Madame Hanska. French author and publisher: Barbey D'Aurévilly and Trebutien.-An Anglo-French romance: Mary Clarke and Claude Fauriel.-A "Godintoxicated Frenchman:" Jean Reynaud.-The new fiction: MM. Boysleve and Henry Bordeaux.-A great prose epic, 1870-71: the brothers Margueritte.-A typical artisan and the people's universities.-Anglophile and reformer: Edmond Demolins.-The historian of a tragedy: M. Joseph Reinach.-French views of England: MM. Chevrillon, Coste, Boutmy and others.-POSTSCRIPT: La France vue de l'Angleterre; French study by the author.

Erskine, John.

928 E78

Leading American novelists. 1910. Holt. (Biographies of leading Americans.)

Contents: C. B. Brown.-J. F. Cooper.-W. G. Simms.-Nathaniel Hawthorne.H. B. Stowe.-Bret Harte.

Essays, both biographical and critical.

Forrest, Mary, (pseud. of Julia Deane Freeman).

1928 F78

Women of the South distinguished in literature. 1866. Richardson. Contents: O. W. Le Vert. Caroline Gilman. Caroline Howard. A. C. M. Ritchie.-C. A. Warfield.-E. P. Lee.-M. J. McIntosh.-A. L. Phelps.-Marion Harland.-E. D. E. N. Southworth-R. V. Johnson-C. L. Hentz.-S. R. Ford.-S. A. Talley.-A. J. Evans.-J. T. H. Cross.-M. S. B. D. Shindler.-A. E. Dupuy.-A. B. Welby.-K. A. Du Bose.-A. R. Blount and C. B. Sinclair.-Lizzie Petit.-S. A. Reedy.-L. V. French.-M. E. Bryan.-A. P. Dinnies.-L. S. McCord.-M. E. Lee.G. A. H. McLeod.-M. J. Windle.-J. T. Worthington.-R. Jacobus.-E. B. Cheesborough.-E. C. S. Chilton.

Forster, Joseph.

928 F786

Great teachers.

1898. Redway.

Contents: Burns.

Shelley.-Coleridge.-Tennyson.-Ruskin.-Carlyle.-Emerson.

-Browning.

Graham, Henry Grey.

Scottish men of letters in the 18th century. 1901. Black.

928 G76

Contents: Dawn of literature, Allan Ramsay, Hamilton of Bangour, Robert Blair. -Early Scottish philosophy, Hutcheson, David Hume.-John Home.-Principal Robertson.-Adam Ferguson, Dr Hugh Blair, William Wilkie, Dr Blacklock.-Adam Smith. -Literary judges: Lord Kames, Lord Monboddo, Lord Hailes.-James Boswell.-James

Graham, Henry Grey-continued.

928 G76

Macpherson.-Dr Thomas Reid, Dr James Beattie.-Scottish men of letters in England: Mallet, Thomson, Smollett.-Women of letters: Lady Wardlaw, Lady Grisell Baillie, Mrs Cockburn, Jean Elliot, Lady Anne Barnard, Lady Nairne.-Song-writers: Skinner, Bruce, Fergusson.-Robert Burns.-Henry Mackenzie, Dugald Stewart, Close of the century.

Anecdotal biographies.

Gubernatis, Angelo, conte de, comp.

qr928 G95d

Dictionnaire international des écrivains du monde latin. 1905. Biographical dictionary which includes authors of all nationalities who have written on the Latin world. The largest place is given to Italian writers and to books relating to Italy. Contains a subject index.

928 H75

Homes of American authors, comprising anecdotical, personal and descriptive sketches, by various writers. 1853. Putnam.

Contents: J. J. Audubon.-J. K. Paulding.-Washington Irving.-W. C. Bryant. -George Bancroft.-R. H. Dana.-W. H. Prescott.-C. M. Sedgwick.-J. F. Cooper. -Edward Everett.-R. W. Emerson.-W. G. Simms.- H. W. Longfellow.-Nathaniel Hawthorne.-Daniel Webster.-J. P. Kennedy.-J. R. Lowell.

Huneker, James Gibbons.

928 H93

Egoists; a book of supermen. 1909. Scribner.

Contents: Stendhal.-Baudelaire.-Flaubert.-Anatole France.-Huysmans.-Bar

rès.-Nietzsche.-Blake.-Ibsen.-Stirner.-Ernest Hello.

Appeared in various magazines.

Jerrold, William Blanchard.

928 J28

Days with great authors, comprising choice selections from Charles Dickens, Sir Walter Scott, W. M. Thackeray and Douglas Jerrold, with biographical sketches. 1894. Hagemann.

Kavanagh, Julia.

928 K14 French women of letters; biographical sketches. 2v. 1862. Hurst. V.I. Introduction.-Mademoiselle de Gournay.-Mademoiselle de Scudéry.-“Ibrahim."-"The grand Cyrus."—"Clelia.”—Mademoiselle de Scudéry's purpose.—Madame de la Fayette. "Zayde." "The princess of Clèves.". -- Madame de Tencin. "The memoirs of Comminge;" "The misfortunes of love."-Madame Riccoboni.

V.2. Madame Riccoboni's tales.-Madame de Genlis.-Historical novels.-Domestic tales.-Madame de Charrière: The "Letters from 'Lausanne.'"-Madame de Krüdener. -"Valérie."-Madame Cottin: "Amélie Mansfield."-Madame de Staël.-"Delphine."

-"Corinne."

Könnecke, Gustav, comp.

9928 K37

Deutscher literaturatlas, mit einer einführung von Christian Muff.

1909.

Reproductions of manuscripts, illustrations and title-pages, autographs, miniatures, portraits of authors, etc., with brief explanatory text.

Mason, Edward Tuckerman, ed.

Personal traits of British authors. 4v. 1885. Scribner.

928 M44

V.I. Lord Byron.-P. B. Shelley.-Thomas Moore.-Samuel Rogers.-John Keats. -Robert Southey.-W. S. Landor.

V.2. William Wordsworth.-S. T. Coleridge.-Charles Lamb.-William Hazlitt.— J. H. L. Hunt.-B. W. Procter.-Evenings with the Lambs.

V.3. Sir Walter Scott.-James Hogg.-Thomas Campbell.-Thomas Chalmers.—

John Wilson.-Thomas De Quincey.-Lord Jeffrey.

V.4. Thomas Hood.- Lord Macaulay. Sydney Smith.-D. W. Jerrold. Charles Dickens.-Charlotte Brontë.-W. M. Thackeray.

"List of authorities" at the end of each volume.

Nichols, John.

г928 N31

Literary anecdotes of the 18th century, comprizing biographical memoirs of William Bowyer and many of his friends; an incidental view of the progress and advancement of literature in this kingdom during the last century. 9v. 1812-15. Nichols.

v.7 is an index volume.

"Invaluable bibliographical and biographical storehouse of information...being an expansion of the earlier 'Memoirs of Bowyer.'" Dictionary of national biography.

Payne, William Morton.

928 P33

Leading American essayists. 1910. Holt. (Biographies of leading Americans.)

Contents: Introduction.-Washington Irving.-R. W. Emerson.-H. D. Thoreau. -G. W. Curtis.

"Bibliographical note," p.7-8.

Sketches, partly biographical, partly critical.

Poe, Edgar Allan.

Literati; Autography; ed. by J. A. Harrison. 1902.

(Complete works, v.15.)

The same. 1902. (Complete works, v.15.).

Bound with his "Essays and miscellanies."

Shelley, Henry Charles.

Literary by-paths in old England. 1906. Little.

928 P74

Crowell.

814 P74

928 $54

Contents: In Spenser's footsteps.-The home of Sir Philip Sidney.-Memorials of William Penn.-The birthplace of Gray's Elegy.-Gilbert White's Selborne.-Goldsmith's "Deserted village."-Burns in Ayrshire.-Keats and his circle.-In Carlyle's country. Thomas Hood's homes and friends.-Royal Winchester.

"He refreshes vague memories and supplies fresh clues at almost every turn, and his is exactly the book one would like to take along on a pilgrimage to poetic shrines... The plates are beautiful, and there are exactly one hundred and twenty-five of them, mostly reproduced from photographs of the author's own." Atlantic monthly, 1907.

Strachey, Lionel, & Littlefield, Walter, ed.

928 S89 Love letters of famous poets and novelists; selected by Lionel Strachey and prefaced with descriptive sketches by Walter Littlefield. 1909. McBride.

Contents: Byron with Lady Caroline Lamb, Anna Milbanke, Jane Clairmont and the countess Guiccioli.-Poe to Mrs Whitman.-Congreve to Mrs Hunt.-Victor Hugo with Adèle Foucher, Juliette Drouet and Claire.-Goethe with Augusta zu Stolberg, Frau von Stein and Bettina Brentano.-Scott from Charlotte Carpenter.-Mérimée to the "Unknown."-Sterne to Elizabeth Lumley, Catherine Fourmantel, Lady Percy and Mrs. Draper.-Heine to the "Fly."-Balzac to Madame Hanska.-Pope to the Blount sisters. -Lamartine from Madame Charles.-Lytton and Rosina Wheeler.-Schiller and Charlotte von Lengefeld.-Keats to Fanny Brawne.-George Sand and Alfred de Musset.Burns with Ellison Begbie and "Clarinda."

Thorne, William Henry.

928 T41

Modern idols; studies in biography and criticism. 1887. Lippincott. Contents: Matthew Arnold.- Robert Browning.- Ole Bull. Robert Burns.Thomas Carlyle.-George Eliot.-George Sand.

Vincent, George Edgar.

928 V34

Some Italian authors and their works. 1887. Lothrop.

Contents: Introductory.-Cato, the censor.-Cicero, the orator.-Virgil, the poet.Horace, the satirist.-Pliny, the younger.-Juvenal, the satirist.-Tacitus, the historian. -Dante, the poet.-Petrarch, the poet.-Machiavelli, the diplomatist.-Alfieri.