ABBOTT, REV.  EDWIN ABBOTT, D.D. (1838).—­Writer on Biblical and literary subjects. Shakespearian Grammar (1870), ed. of Bacon’s Essays (1876), Bacon and Essex (1877), Francis Bacon ... his Life and Works (1885), Flatland, a Romance of Many Dimensions (1884), St. Thomas of Canterbury (1898), Paradosis (1904), Johannine Vocabulary (1905), Silanus the Christian (1906), etc.

ALLEN, JAMES LANE (1849).—­American novelist. A Kentucky Cardinal, The Choir Invisible, A Summer in Arcady, Blue Grass Region of Kentucky, The Increasing Purpose, Aftermath, part ii. of A Kentucky Cardinal, The Mettle of the Pasture, The Reign of Law.

ANSON, SIR WILLIAM REYNELL, BART., D.C.L. (1843).—­Legaland constitutional writer, etc., Law and Custom of the Constitution, ed. Memoirs of the third Duke of Grafton, etc.

ANSTEY, F., (see GUTHRIE).

ARBER, EDWARD, D.Litt.—­Literary antiquary.  Has issued many reprints of rare books. English Reprints, English Scholars’ Library, ed. An English Garner (1880-83), British Anthologies (1899-1901), A Christian Library (1907).

ARCHER, WILLIAM (1856).—­Writer on the drama and translator of Ibsen; ed.  Ibsen’s Prose Dramas, 5 vols., Collected Works of Ibsen, 11 vols., translated with his brother, Major Chas. A., Ibsen’s Peer Gynt, Life of Macready, Masks or Faces, Study and Stage, Real Conversations (1904), etc.

ARNIM, COUNTESS VON (BEAUCHAMP).—­Elizabeth and her German Garden, A Solitary Summer, The April Baby’s Book of Tunes, The Benefactress, Elizabeth’s Adventures in Ruegen, Fraulein Schmidt and Mr. Anstruther.

ASHTON, JOHN (1834).—­Literary antiquary, etc. History of Chap-books of Eighteenth Century (1882), Humour, Wit, and Satire of Seventeenth Century (ed. 1883), Adventures and Discoveries of Capt.  John Smith (1884), Romances of Chivalry (1886), Social England under the Regency (1890), etc.

AUSTIN, ALFRED (1835).—­Poet Laureate 1896. The Human Tragedy, Lyrical Poems, Narrative Poems, Fortunatus the Pessimist, Alfred the Great, Flodden Field:  a Tragedy (1903), etc.  Prose works include The Garden that I Love, In Veronica’s Garden, Lamia’s Winter Quarters, Sacred and Profane Love (1908).

AVEBURY, JOHN LUBBOCK, 1ST LORD, P.C., D.C.L., etc. (1834).—­Miscellaneous writer. Use of Life, Beauties of Nature, Pleasures of Life (two parts), British Wild Flowers considered in relation to Insects, Ants, Bees, and Wasps, The Origin of Civilisation, and many other works on Natural History, Sociology, and Economics.