* Ashe, Thomas, The Rev. (1836). He has published Poems, 1859; The Sorrows of Hypsipyle (Drama), 1867; Edith, 1873; Songs Now and Then, 1876; Poems, 1886.

* AUSTIN, ALFRED (1835). Born at Headingley near Leeds, and as both his parents were Roman Catholics he was educated at Stonyhurst College, and afterwards at St. Mary's College, Oscott, and took his degree at the University of London in 1853. Educated for the law, he was called to the bar of the Inner Temple in 1857; but in 1861 he abandoned that profession to devote himself entirely to literature. He acted for considerable time as leader writer and correspondent of The Standard, and as a Conservative in politics made two unsuccessful attempts to enter Parliament, for Taunton in 1865, and for Dewsbury in 1880. He is at present one of the editors of The National Review, which was founded as a Conservative publication in 1883. He has published Randolph, 1854; The Season, a Satire, 1861; My Satire and its Censors, 1861; The Human Tragedy, 1862, which was reissued considerably amended and altered in 1876; The Golden Age, a Satire, 1871; Interludes, 1872; Rome or Death, 1873; The Tower of Babel (Drama), 1874; Leszko, the Bastard: a Tale of Polish Grief, 1877; Savonarola, 1881; Soliloquies in Song, 1882; At the Gate of the Convent, 1885. He is also the author of three novels and several political letters and essays.

* BLIND, MATHILDE. Miss Blind is a step-daughter of Karl Blind, and has achieved considerable reputation as editor and critic of Shelley's works. She has published Poems, 1867; The Prophecy of St. Oran and other Poems, 1881.

*BUCHANAN, ROBERT (1841). Born at Caverswall, Staffordshire, and son of a socialist lecturer and editor. He was educated at Glasgow University, where his intimate friend and companion was the poet David Gray, with whom he occupied the same lodgings in London for a short time in 1860. In 1872 his essay, The Fleshly School of Poetry, published in The Contemporary Review, an attack on the poems of Dante G. Rossetti, led to a bitter controversy with that author, in which Mr. Swinburne became subsequently involved. Mr. Buchanan

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subsequently retracted some of his charges, and in a letter written to Mr. T. Hall Caine after Rossetti's death, frankly admitted that his attack on the latter was unjust, and expressed regret that the controversy should ever have taken place. In 1874 his comedy A Madcap Prince was produced at the Haymarket, and he has since that time established for himself a reputation of being a very clever playwright. In 1876 he published his first novel, The Shadow of the Sword. He has been for many years closely connected with The Contemporary Review. In 1870 he was awarded a pension of £100 per annum from the Civil List in consideration of his literary merit as a poet. He has published Undertones, 1860; Idyls and Legends of Inverburn, 1865; London Poems, 1866; North Coast Poems, 1867; The Book of Orm, 1870; Napoleon Fallen (a lyrical drama), 1871; The Drama of Kings, 1871; St. Abe, 1871; White Rose and Red, a Love Story, 1873. A collected edition of his poetical works was published in 1874.

COLLINS, MORTIMER (1827-1876). Born at Plymouth, and connected during his life with various newspapers, and especially with the London Globe. He was, in addition to being a journalist and poet, a very successful novelist. His first novel, Who is He? was published in 1865. His volumes of verse are: Summer Songs, 1860; Idyls and Rhymes, 1865; The Inn of Strange Meetings, and other Poems, 1871.

*DOBSON, HENRY AUSTIN (1840). Born at Plymouth, and at the age of eight or nine taken by his parents to Holyhead, in the island of Anglesea. He received a desultory education in Wales and Germany. Originally intended for an engineer, it was finally decided that he should enter the Civil Service, and in 1856 he was appointed to a clerkship in the Board of Trade, where he has remained ever since, having risen to the position of a FirstClass clerk. To Mr. Dobson belongs the credit of being among the first to introduce into English poetry the French form of verse, the rondeau, ballade, villanelle, etc., which have now become so popular. He has published Vignettes in Rhyme and Vers de Société, 1873; Proverbs in Porcelain, 1877; Old World Idylls, 1883; At the Sign of the Lyre, 1885.

*Evans, SEBASTIAN, LL.D. (1830). Born at Market Bosworth, Leicestershire, and educated at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, from which he graduated B.A. in 1853, M.A. in 1857, and LL.D. in 1868. In 1857 he became manager of the artistic department in Messrs. Chance Brothers & Co.'s glass works, and nine years later editor of The Birmingham Daily Gazette. He resigned the editorship of this paper in 1870, and three years afterwards was called to the bar, joining the Oxford Circuit. In 1878 he removed from Birmingham to London, where he took an active part in the organization of the Conservative party in connection with the National Union of Conservative Associations, and in 1881 he became the editor of The People, a Sunday newspaper, and one of the official organs of the Conservative party. He has published Brother Fabian's MS. and other Poems, 1865; In the Studio; a Decade of Poems, 1875.

* Gosse, EDMUND WILLIAM (1849). Born in London, and educated at Devonshire. In 1867 he was appointed assistant librarian at the British Museum, and in 1875 became Translator to the Board of Trade. Prior to receiving the last appointment he spent two years in Norway, Denmark, and Sweden, and afterwards considerable time in Holland, for the purpose of studying the language and literature of those countries, where he gathered the material for his Northern Studies, a volume of essays on Scandinavian, Dutch, and German literature. In the spring of 1884 he was elected Clark Lecturer in English Literature at Trinity College, Cambridge; and in the fall of the same year visited America at the invitation of the Lowell Institute, Boston, where he delivered a course of lectures upon the rise of classical poetry in England, subsequently repeated before the Johns Hopkins University, Yale College, and elsewhere. In 1886 his The Masque of Painters was performed by the Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colors. He has published, in conjunction with a friend, Madrigals, Songs, and Sonnets, 1870; On Viol and Flute, 1873; King Erik (Drama), 1876; The Unknown Lover (Drama), 1878; New Poems, 1879; Firdausi in Exile and other Poems, 1886. He is also the author of several essays, and the editor of a complete edition of the works of Gray.

* HAKE, THOMAS GORDON, M.D. (1819). He has published Parables and Tales; New Symbols; Legends of the Morrow; Madeline; Maiden Ecstasy.

*KING, HARRIET ELEANOR HAMILTON (1840). Daughter of Admiral W. A. B. Hamilton, and in 1863 married Mr. Henry S. King, the banker and publisher. She has published Aspromonte, 1869; The Disciples, 1873; Book of Dreams, 1883.

*LANG, ANDREW (1844). Born at Selkirk, and educated at St. Andrew's University and Balliol College, Oxford, and in 1868 elected Fellow of Merton College of the latter University. He is connected with The Daily News, and a constant contributor to current periodicals. He is remarkable for the versatility of his attainments, having distinguished himself both by his graceful and humorous articles on ephemeral subjects and his scholarly contributions to French literature and the science of comparative mythology. His volumes of verse are: Ballads and Lyrics of Old France, 1872; Ballades in Blue China, 1881; Helen of Troy, 1882; Rhymes à la Mode, 1884. There was also an authorized collection of some of his poems published in America, under the title Ballades and Verses Vain.

* LOCKER-LAMPSON, FREDERICK (1821). For many years in the Admiralty as Précis Writer. He is a contributor of prose and verse to the various English periodicals, and also known for his collection of drawings by the Old Masters and his library of rare Elizabethan literature. His second wife was the daughter of Sir Curtis Lampson, Bart. of Rowfant, after whose death Mr. Locker added the name of Lampson to his own. He has published London Lyrics, 1862; Patchwork, (prose and verse), 1879.

*LYTTON, THE RIGHT HON. EDWARD ROBERT BULWERLYTTON, EARL OF, G. C. B. (1831). The only son of the novelist, and educated at Harrow. In 1849 he entered the diplomatic service, and served as an attaché to various embassies, the earliest being that at Washington. In 1863 he was promoted to be Secretary of Legation at Copenhagen, and the following

year married the daughter of the Hon. Edward Villiers. In 1874 he was appointed Minister to Lisbon, and in 1876 Viceroy of India. During his Viceroyalty he presided at the Delhi durbar, at which Queen Victoria was proclaimed Empress of India, and in 1879 a mad Eurasian made an attempt to assassinate him. In 1877 the Queen conferred upon him the Grand Cross of the Civil Division of the Order of the Bath. In 1880 he was made Earl of Lytton, of Lytton in the county of Derby, and Viscount Knebworth, of Knebworth in the county of Herts, and that same year resigned his Viceroyalty. He has published Clytemnestra and other Poems, 1855; The Wanderer: a Collection of Poems in Many Lands, 1858; Lucile, 1860; in conjunction with Neville Temple' (Mr. Julian Fane), Tannhäuser, or the Battle of the Bards, 1861; Chronicles aud Characters, 1868; Orval, or the Fool of Time, 1869; Fables in Song, 1874; Glenaveril, or the Metamorphoses, 1885.

MARSTON, PHILIP BOURKE (1850-1887). Born in London, and son of Dr. Westland Marston, the dramatist. When quite a child he received an accidental blow in the eye, which eventually produced total blindness. From the age of twenty his life was almost tragic in the personal losses which he sustained. His sister Eleanor was the wife of the poet Arthur O'Shaughnessy, and he himself numbered among his intimate friends many of the younger generation of London poets. He was a frequent contributor to the American magazines and monthlies. Marston was the subject of Mrs. Craik's Philip my King, whose godson he was. He published Song-Tide, 1870; All in All, 1875; Wind Voices, 1883.

*MERIVALE, HERMAN CHARLES (1839). Born in London, and educated at Harrow and at Balliol College, Oxford, where he graduated B.A. in 1861. Three years later he was called to the bar at the Inner Temple, but in 1879 was obliged to give up his profession on account of ill health, since which time he has devoted himself almost entirely to literature. His poetical works are: The White Pilgrim and other Poems, 1883; Florien and other Poems, 1884. He is also known as a successful playwright.