QUILLER-COUCH, ARTHUR THOMAS ("Q”) (1863).—­Novelist. Dead Man’s Rock (1887), Troy Town (1888), The Splendid Spur (1889), The Blue Pavilions (1891), The Golden Pomp (1895), The Ship of Stars (1899), Shining Ferry (1905), finished R.L.  Stevenson’s St. Ives, etc.

“RAIMOND, C.E.,” (see ROBINS, ELIZABETH).

RALEIGH, WALTER (1861).—­Biographer and critic. The English Novel (1894), Robert Louis Stevenson (1895), Style (1897), books on Shakespeare, Milton, and Wordsworth, etc.

REEVES, MRS. H., (see MATHERS, HELEN).

RHYS, ERNEST (1859).—­Poet, novelist, etc. A London Rose (verse), The Fiddler of Carne (1896), Welsh Ballads (1898), The Whistling Maid (1900), The Man at Odds, Gwenevere (play); has ed. the Camelot Series (1886-91), Dekker’s Plays in Mermaid Series, etc.

RHYS, MRS. GRACE (1865).—­Novelist and essayist. Mary Dominic (1898), The Wooing of Sheila (1901), The Bride (1909), Five Beads on a String (essays) (1907), etc.

RHYS, SIR JOHN, D.Litt. (1840).—­Celtic philologist. Celtic Britain (1882), Studies in the Arthurian Legend (1891), Celtic Folklore (1901), etc.

RIDGE, WILLIAM PETT.—­Novelist. A Clever Wife (1895), Mord Em’ly (1898), A Son of the State (1899), Erb (1903), Mrs. Galer’s Business (1905), The Wickhamses (1906), Name of Garland (1907), etc.

RILEY, JAMES WHITCOMB (1858).—­American poet and humorist. The Old Swimmin’ Hole (1883), Pipes o’ Pan at Zekesbury (1887), Rhymes of Childhood (1889), Old-fashioned Roses (1891), Green Fields and Running Brooks (1893), A Child World (1896), While the Heart beats Young (1906), etc.

RITCHIE, MRS. ANNE ISABELLA (THACKERAY) (1837).—­Novelist, etc. The Story of Elizabeth (1863), The Village on the Cliff (1865), To Esther (1869), Old Kensington (1873), Blue Beard’s Keys (1874), Miss Angel (1875), Mrs. Dymond (1885), etc.

ROBERTS, CHARLES GEORGE DOUGLAS (1860).—­Canadian poet and naturalist.  In verse, Orion (1880), In Divers Tones (1887), Songs of the Common Day (1893), New York Nocturnes (1898), Book of the Rose (1903); prose, The Raid from Beausejour (1894), Around the Camp Fire (1896), The Forge in the Forest (1897), The Kindred of the Wild (1902), Haunters of the Silences (1907), etc.

ROBERTSON, JOHN MACKINNON (1856).—­Critic, etc. Buckle and his Critics, Montaigne and Shakespeare, The Dynamics of Religion, History of Free Thought, Christianity and Mythology, Introduction to English Politics, Short History of Christianity, Essays in Ethics and Sociology, etc.