WALLACE, ALFRED RUSSEL, F.R.S., LL.D., etc. (1823).—­Naturalist and evolutionist. Travels on the Amazon (1853), Palm Trees of the Amazon (1853), The Malay Archipelago (1869), Natural Selection (1870), The Geographical Distribution of Animals (1876), Tropical Nature (1878), Australasia (1879), Island Life (1880), Darwinism (1889), Studies Scientific and Social (1900), Man’s Place in the Universe (1903), My Life (1905), etc.

WARD, ADOLPHUS WILLIAM, Litt.D., LL.D. (1837).—­Historian and critic. The House of Austria in the Thirty Years’ War (1869), A History of English Dramatic Literature to the Death of Queen Anne (1875), Lives of Chaucer (1880) and Dickens (1882) (English Men of Letters Series), The Counter Reformation (1888), translated Curtius’s History of Greece, ed.  Pope’s poetical works (Globe), Poems of John Byrom, and various other works, etc.

WARD, MRS. HUMPHREY (ARNOLD) (1851).—­Novelist. Milly and Olly (1881), Miss Bretherton (1886), Robert Elsmere (1888), The History of David Grieve (1892), Marcella (1894), Sir George Tressady (1896), Helbeck of Bannisdale (1898), Lady Rose’s Daughter (1903), The Marriage of William Ashe (1905) Fenwick’s Career (1906); plays, Eleanor (1902), Agatha (1905), etc.

WATSON, HENRY BRERETON MARRIOTT (1863).—­Novelist, etc. Lady Faintheart (1890), The Web of the Spider (1891), Diogenes of London (1893), At the First Corner (1895), The Heart of Miranda (1897), The Princess Xenia (1899), The House Divided (1901), Captain Fortune (1904), Twisted Eglantine (1905), The Privateers (1907), etc.

WATSON, WILLIAM, LL.D. (1858).—­Poet. The Prince’s Quest (1880), Epigrams of Art, Life and Nature (1884), Wordsworth’s Grave (1890), Lachrymae Musarum (1892), Lyric Love (1892), The Eloping Angels (1893), Excursions in Criticism (1893), Odes and other Poems (1894), The Father of the Forest (1895), The Purple East (1896), The Year of Shame (1896), The Hope of the World (1897), Collected Poems (1898), Ode on the Coronation of King Edward VII. (1902), For England (1903), and New Poems (1909).

WATTS-DUNTON, THEODORE (1832).—­Poet, novelist, and critic. The Coming of Love, Rhona Boswell’s Story (1897), Aylwin (1898), Christmas at the Mermaid, The Renascence of Wonder (1903), ed.  Borrow’s Lavengro and Romany Rye; article Poetry in Encyclopaedia Britannica, and many other articles in the same.

WAUGH, ARTHUR (1866).—­Critic. Alfred, Lord Tennyson, a Study (1892), Robert Browning (in Westminster Biographies), has ed.  Johnson’s Lives of the Poets, Dickens, Milton, Lamb, Tennyson, etc.