WEDMORE, FREDERICK (1844).—­Writer on art, etc. Pastorals of France, Renunciations, English Episodes, Orgeas and Miradou, Studies in English Art, Meryon, Etching in England, Whistler’s Etchings, Fine Prints, On Books and Arts, The Collapse of the Penitent (novel), etc.

WELLS, HERBERT GEORGE, B.Sc., etc. (1866).—­Novelist. Select Conversations with an Uncle (1895), The Time Machine (1895), The Stolen Bacillus (1895), The Wonderful Visit, The Wheels of Chance, The Island of Dr. Moreau (1896), The Invisible Man (1897), The War of the Worlds (1898), When the Sleeper Wakes (1899), The First Men in the Moon (1901), Mankind in the Making (1903), The Food of the Gods (1904), A Modern Utopia (1905), The War in the Air (1908), Tono-Bungay, Ann Veronica (1909), etc.

WENDELL, BARRETT (1855).—­American critic, etc. William Shakespeare (1894), A Literary History of America (1900), Raleigh in Guiana, etc. (1902), The Temper of the Seventeenth Century in English Literature (1904), The France of To-day (1907), etc.

WERNER, ALICE (1859).—­Miscellaneous writer. A Time and Times (poems) (1886), O’Driscoll’s Weird (1892), The Humour of Italy (1892), The Humour of Holland (1893), The Captain of the Locusts (1899), Chapinga’s While Man (1901), Native Races of British Central Africa (1906).

WEYMAN, STANLEY JOHN (1855).—­Novelist. The House of the Wolf (1890), Francis Cludde (1891), A Gentleman of France (1893), Under the Red Robe (1894), My Lady Rotha (1894), The Red Cockade (1895), The Man in Black (1896), Shrewsbury (1897), The Castle Inn (1898), Sophia (1900), The Long Night (1903), The Abbess of Vlaye (1904), Starvecrow Farm (1905), Laid up in Lavender (1907).

WHARTON, EDITH (JONES) (1862).—­American novelist. The Great Inclination (1889), A Gift from the Grave, Crucial Instances (1901), The Valley of Decision (1902), Sanctuary (1903), Italian Backgrounds (1905), The House of Mirth (1905), Madame de Treymes (1907), The Fruit of the Tree (1907).

WHIBLEY, CHARLES.—­Critic and reviewer. A Book of Scoundrels, Studies in Frankness, The Pageantry of Life, Thackeray (1903), William Pitt (1906).

WHISHAW, FRED.—­Novelist. The Emperor’s Englishman, Out of Doors in Tsarland, Boris the Bear-Hunter, The Romance of the Woods, Harold the Norseman (1896), The White Witch (1897), A Race for Life (1898), The Diamond of Evil (1902), A Splendid Impostor (1903), The Great Green God (1906), The Secret Syndicate (1907).