A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 822 pages of information about A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature.

A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 822 pages of information about A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature.

LOCKYER, SIR JOSEPH NORMAN, K.C.B., F.R.S. (1836).—­Astronomer. Elementary Lessons in Astronomy (1870), Studies in Spectrum Analysis (1878), Star-gazing, Past and Present (1878), Chemistry of the Sun (1887), Dawn of Astronomy (1894), The Sun’s Place in Nature (1897), Stonehenge and other British Stone Monuments Astronomically Considered (1906-1907), etc.

LODGE, SIR OLIVER JOSEPH, F.R.S., LL.D. (1851).—­Scientist and psychologist. Elementary Mechanics (1881), Modern Views of Electricity (1888, 1892, 1907), Signalling through Space without Wires (1894), Life and Matter:  A Short Treatise on Fundamental Problems (1905), Electrons, or the Nature of Negative Electricity (1906), The Substance of Faith (1907), Man and the Universe:  A Study of the Influence of Modern Discoveries on our Conception of Christianity (1908), The Ether of Space (1909), Survival of Man:  A Study in Unrecognised Human Faculty (1909), etc.

LODGE, RICHARD, LL.D., etc. (1855).—­Historian. Students’ Modern Europe, Richelieu (Foreign Statesmen Series), The Close of the Middle Ages, etc.

LONDON, JACK (1876).—­American novelist. The Son of the Wolf (1900), The God of his Fathers, Children of the Frost, People of the Abyss, Call of the Wild, Tales of the Fish Patrol (1905), The Road (1908), etc.

LOW, SIDNEY JAMES.—­Journalist and miscellaneous writer. The Governance of England (1904), A Vision of India (1906), Dictionary of English History, etc.

LUCAS, EDWARD VERALL (1868).—­Novelist.  Ed. of Lamb, etc. The Open Road (1899), Old-fashioned Tales (1905), The Friendly Town (1905), Forgotten Tales of Long Ago (1906); ed. Works of Charles and Mary Lamb, Life of C. Lamb (1905), books for children, etc.

LYALL, SIR ALFRED COMYN, K.C.B., etc. (1835).—­Poet and biographer. Verses written in India, British Dominion in India, Asiatic Studies, Lives of Warren Hastings, Lord Dufferin, etc.

M’CARTHY, JUSTIN (1830).—­Novelist and historian.  Novels, Miss Misanthrope, Dear Lady Disdain, Maid of Athens, Red Diamonds, Mononia, etc.; historical works, History of our Own Times, Four Georges and William IV., Modern England, Reign of Queen Anne, Lives of Sir R. Peel, Pope, etc., Reminiscences, etc.

MCCARTHY, JUSTIN HUNTLY (1860).—­Novelist and dramatist.  Novels, Dolly, Marjorie, Flower of France, Needles and Pins, etc.; Ireland since the Union; plays, The candidate, My Friend the Prince, If I were King, etc.

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