SEAMAN, OWEN (1861).—­Parodist, etc. Oedipus and the Wreck (1888), Horace at Cambridge (1894), In Cap and Bells (1899), A Harvest of Chaff (1904), etc.  Ed. of Punch since 1906.

SECCOMBE, THOMAS (1866).—­Miscellaneous writer. Twelve Bad Men (1894), The Age of Johnson (1900), The Age of Shakespeare (with J.W.  Allen, 1903), Bookman History of English Literature (1905-6), In Praise of Oxford, etc.; was assistant ed. of The Dictionary of National Biography.

SETON, ERNEST THOMPSON ("SETON THOMPSON”) (1860).—­Naturalist. Wild Animals I have Known (1898), Biography of a Grizzly, Two Little Savages, books on natural history of Manitoba, etc.

SHAW, GEORGE BERNARD (1856).—­Novelist, critic, and dramatist.  Novels, The Irrational Knot, Cashel Byron’s Profession, etc.; Plays Pleasant and Unpleasant (1898), Three Plays for Puritans (1900), Man and Superman (1903), The Doctor’s Dilemma (1906), The Devil’s Disciple (1907), etc.

SHIEL, MATTHEW PHIPPS (1865).—­Novelist. The Rajah’s Sapphire, Shapes in the Fire, The Yellow Danger, Unto the Third Generation, etc.

SHORTER, CLEMENT KING (1858).—­Journalist and biographer. Charlotte Bronte and her Circle (1896), Sixty Years of Victorian Literature (1897), Charlotte Bronte and her Sisters (1905), The Brontes and their Correspondents (1907), Life of George Borrow (1907); is ed. of the Sphere.

SHORTER, DORA SIGERSON.—­Poetess. The Fairy Changeling and other Poems (1897), Ballads and Poems (1899), The Father Confessor (1900), As the Sparks Fly Upward (1904), Through Wintry Terrors (1907), etc.

SIMS, GEORGE ROBERT (1847).—­Novelist and dramatist, etc. The Dagonet Ballads, Memoirs of Mary Jane, Ten Commandments, Once upon a Christmas Time (1898), Joyce Pleasantry, etc.; plays, Crutch and Tooth-pick, Mother-in-Law, The Lights o’ London, Harbour Lights, etc.

SINCLAIR, MISS MAY.—­Novelist, etc. Nakietas and other Poems, Audrey Craven, Two Sides of a Question, The Divine Fire, The Helpmate, etc.

SKEAT, REV.  WALTER WILLIAM, Litt.D., LL.D. (1835).—­Philologist and Early English scholar; has ed.  Langland’s Piers Plowman, The Lay of Havelock, Barbour’s Bruce, and other early English texts, a complete ed. of Chaucer, 6 vols. (1894), and of many of his works separately, and is author of An Etymological Dictionary of the English Language, Principles of English Etymology, and books on the place-names of the counties of Cambridge, Huntingdon, Herts, and Bedford, etc.